Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — Page 8

Country Correspondence

BT OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

REMINGTON. REMINGTON R, R. TIMK TABLE. BAST, | TRAINS WEST. '"S:M a m Local passenger 6:40 pm •:04 am Pass’r*r (Sun.only) B:2lpm 11:28 am Mail and Passenger B:23am

J. M. Ott was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Miss Emma Landon went to Kokomo Wednesday to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Ochs are visiting his mother at Bloomington, 111. Fred Griffin of Monticello was here on business Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Effie Wallace of Monticello, visited the family of J- M. Ott list week. Miss Edna Mertz of Loraine, Ohio, Is visiting the York family at this writing. Matthew Parks and two daughters of Sandwich, 111., are visiting relatives here. William Hallihan and wife were called to Wing, 111., Friday by the death of his father. F. R. Curtis, a former resident of Remington, was here from Bluffton on business last we£k. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hicks were in Indianapolis last week visiting the family of the latter’s brother, Steve Yeoman. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson left last Tuesday for a few weeks visit with relatives and friends in Kansas and Missouri. A large number of our people are figuring on taking In the Horse Show at Rensselaer this week if the weather is good. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Gray and Miss Carrie Detrick visited Mr. Gray’s brother George and family in Chicago a few days last week. There was a meeting of th? directors of Fountain Park held here last Tuesday and the same old officers were re-elected for another yearMr. and Mrs. Charles Campbell of Englewood, 111., former residents of Gilboa tp„ of the long ago, are visiting relatives in this vicinity at present. Court note In Benton Review: Della Brooks vs. Howard Brooks. Cause dismissed. The parties have settled their differences out of court and we are Informed that they are living together again. Ellis Jones, .John Taylor, Chet Dexter, Tom Shew, Simeon Tyler and Bert Courtright went to the Dakotas last week to file on the lands that are now being opened there. Mrs. James Hoover of Greentown, visited relatives in Gilboa last week. Mr. Hoover sold his farm near Kokomo and he and his son Homer are now engaged in the grocery business at Greentown. ' According to the Goodland Herald Jake Klouse of this place was given a fine of |1 and costs in Justice Baer’s court at Goodland last week one day for looking too frequently into the bowl that cheers. H. B. Patton of Bloomington, 111., and J. A. Patton of Kankakee were called here Saturday by the serious illness of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Patton, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Emma Million, on South Main street. J. A. Patton Is just out of the hospital where he was operated upon two weeks ago for appendicitis.—Monticello Journal. Earl Park Department in Benton Review: Mr. and Mrs. Perry Washburn, residing north of town, celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary Saturday, Oct. 2. Mr. Washburn is held in the highest esteem and is greatly respected by all his his neighbors and friends. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Kentland, Ind , and has been a resident of this county for 45 years. About thirty relatives from far and near gathered at their country home Saturday and spent the day feasting and visiting. Mr. Washburn is hale and hearty at the age of 79 and Mrs. Washburn is 71 years of age. We wish them many more happy and prosperous years.

If people with symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble could realize their danger they would without loss of time commence taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy, inis great remedy stops the pain and the irregularities, strengthens and builds up these organs and there is no danger of Bright’s disease or other serious disorder. Do not disregard the early symtoms. A. F. Long.

NEWLAND. A few farmers will begin husking corn this week. W. N. Jordan worked for T. M. Callahan Thursday. E. E. Kennedy was in Medaryville Saturday on business. Wm. Folgar. our trustee, was seen on our streets Saturday. Mrs. Beedy, mother of Geo. Beedy, is visitng him for a few days. Tillman Watson of Pleasant Grove was here on business Sunday. Theodore Smith and Silas Toombs are puttng in tile for Gifford. Quite a few from here attended church at Gifford Saturday night. Ed Walker and Newt Bowman are moving a barn for T. M. Callahan. Ed Oliver went to Hammond Friday and bought a new potato digger. James Snlder't(nd Wm. Martin were in Wheatfield on business Thursday. Geo. Johnson loaded three cars of hay for Geo. Stemble of Wheatfield, here thia week. Charles and Victor Walker are hauling their onions to Alf Donnelly’s, near Rensselaer.

Miss Nettle Jordan of Rockford, 111., is visiting her parents west of Newland for a few days. The steam shovel which has been working at McCoysburg, passed through here Sunday going to the north end to work for a few days. William Marlon and Geo. Beedy, who have been working at Wheatfield, returned home Thursday and are now plowing for T. M. Callahan.

Mr. F. G. Fritz, Oneonta, N. Y., writes; “My little girl was greatly benefltted by taking Foley’s Orino Laxative, and I think it is the best remedy for constipation and liver trouble.’’ Foley’s Orino Laxative is mild, pleasant and effective, and cures habitual constipation. A. F. Long.

IROQUOIS VALLEY. Corn husking will soon be the order of the day. Jim Stanley spent Saturday night with Walter Smith. Philip Durant has been digging a ditch for Barney Koluoff. Mrs. Barney Kolhoff and daughters were Rensselaer goers last week. George Davisson passed through our locality on business last week. Say, Mark, what’s tne matter with your auto? Is It on the sick list also? Ben Price spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Price. J. W. Marlatt and family spent Sunday with Ancel Potts and lamily. Geo. Meyers of Rensselaer was seen in our vicinity Saturday evening. Mrs. Emmet Pullins and children spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Saidlal. Quite a few of our neighborhood took in the “World’s Fair” at Parr Saturday. Marimon Tudor’s fine residence is progressing nicely and will soon be completed. George McElfresh and Samuel Holmes are off duty until the next term of court. Hurry up, farmers, and get your potatoes dug or Jack Frost will codk them for you. The lost was found, rewards received, and the girls, E. H. and K. M., made happy. Newton Jenkins, Vilas and Cleveland Price called on the former’s brother Ed last week. Mrs. Chris Morgenegg and daughters, Lucy and Anna, were Rensselaer goers last Friday. Roland and Herbert Elb returned from Dakota last week where they have been visiting their sister. Wm. McElfresh, who has been on the sick list for some time was able to be out to hie farms Saturday. Charley Pullins’ new barn is getting along nicely. Say, Charley, make it warm for those premium colts. . Joe Pullins returned home from South Dakota Tuesday, where he was visiting his sister, Mrs. Robert Shook. Those that took in the excursion Sunday from our vicinity were Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes. Lou McCoy, who formerly lived in Jasper county, but some time ago moved to Plano, 111., has decided that Jasper is the best after all and has moved his family back. They are now visiting Mrs. McCoy’s father, Wm. Green.

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FARMS FOR SALE. 56 Acres, eight miles out, 4 acres timber, remainder cultivated; large tile through farm for outlet; near gravel road; all clay subsoil; five room house, fair outbuildings, good orchard and well. Price SSO. 100 Acres, fair buildings, considerable tile with good outlet on farm, good neighborhood, clay loam soil. Price SSO. 140 Acres, good clay loam soil, 8 miles out, gravel road, fair buildings, two good orchards, 60 acres in clover, some wheat sown, fairly well tiled with large tile outlet through farm- Price $55. 160 Acres, nice level land, mostly black loam soil, near gravel road and school, good pasture or corn land. This place has no buildings on it. Ten miles from court house. Price $25. 240 Acres, well located, mostly black loam soil, about one-third timber which is light and affords good pasture, 30 acres cultivated, orchard, well, but uo buildings. Price $25. 370 Acres, 9 miles from court house. On dredge ditch, good house and barn, cribs, orchard, well, some tile, 40 acres timber, remainder cultivated and in pasture. Owner will sell on easy terms or take half in trade. Price SSO. 90 Acres, 4 miles from court house large house and barn ard other outbuildings, well, windmill, tanks, good orchard, well tiled and a first-class corn, wheat and clover land. Price

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PEARY’S AGAINST.

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Eskimo boys were suggested by Commander Peary to some Of us, and were put by ns to the Eskimo boys. Still later, Commander Peary asked the Eskimo boys two or three casual questions on minor points that had occurred to him. During the taking of this testimony. It developed that Dr. Cook had told these boys, as he told Mr. Whitney and Billy Pritchard, the cabin boy, that they must not tell Commander Peary or any of us anything about their journey, and the boys stated Dr. Cook had threatened them if they should tell anything. Tbe narrative of these Eskimos is as follows: They, with Dr. Cook, Francke and nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok, crossed Smith’s Sound to Cape Sabine, slept In Commander Peary’s old house In Payer Harbor, then went through Rice Strait to Buchanan Bay. After a few marches Francke and three Eskimos returned to Anoratok. Dr. Cook, with the others, then proceeded up Flagler Bay, a branch of Buchanan Bay, and crossed Ellesmere Land through the valley pass at tbe head of Flagler Bay, indicated by Commander Peary in 1898, and utilized by Sverdrup in 1899, to the head of Sverdrup’s “Bay Fiord’’ on the west side of Ellesmere Land. Their route then lay out through this fiord, thence north through Sverdrup’s “Heuerka Sound” and Nansen Strait. On their way they killed musk-oxen and bear, and made caches, arriving eventually at a point on the west side of Nansen Strait (shone, of Axel Heiberg Land of Sverdrup), south of Cape Thomas Hubbard. A cache was formed here and the four Eskimos did not go beyond this point. Two others, Koolootingwah and Inughito, went on one more march with Dr. Cook and the two boys, helped to build the snow Igloo, then returned without sleeping. (These two Eskimos brought back a

The accompanying map is reproduced exactly from the original submitted *by Commander Teary with his official statement by which he hopes to prove that Dr. Frederick A. Cook never reached the north pole. The map purports to have been traced out in the presence of the two Eskimos who were -with Dr. Cook and, according to Peary, is based upon their actual statements as to Cook's entire journey. The dotted lines In the small map in the upper left hand corner is the route which Dr. Cook says he took on his journey to and from the pole after leaving Cape Thomas Hubbard. The irregular line extending northeast from Isachsen Land is the edge of the land ice. tar-mH which. Peary declares. Dr. Cook did not venture.

letter from Dr. Cook to Francke, dated the 17tb of March. The two men rejoined the other four men who had been left behind, and the six returned to Anoratok, arriving May "th. This information was obtained not from the two Eskimo boys, but from the six men who returned and from Francke himself, and was known to us in the summer of 1908, when the RrwsereM first arrived at Etah. The information is Inserted here as supplementary to the narrative of the two boys.) After sleeping at the camp where the

last two Eskimos turned back, Dr. Cook and tbe two boys went in a northerly or northwesterly direction with two sledges and twenty odd dogs, one more march, when they encountered rough ice and a lead of open water. They did not enter this rough ice, nor cross the lead, but turned westward or southwestward a short distance and returned to Heiberg Land at a point west of where they had left the cache and where the four men had turned back. Here they remained four or five sleeps, and during that time I-took-a-shoo went back to the cache and got his gun which he had left there, and a few items of supplies. When asked why only a few supplies were taken from the cache, the boys replied that only a small amount of provisions had been used in the few days since they left the cache, and that the Jr sledges still had all they could carry, so that they could not take more. After being informed of the boys’ narrative thus far, Commander Peary suggested a series of questions to be put to the boys in regard to this trip from the land out and back to it. These questions and answers were as follows: Did they cross many open leads or much open water during this time? Ans. None. Did they make any caches out on the ice? Ans. No. Did they kill any bear or seal while out on the ice north of Cape Thomaa Hubbard? Ans. No. Did they kill or lose any of their dogs while out on the ice? Ans. No. With how many sledges did they start? Ans. Two. How many dogs did they have? Ans.

Did not remember exactly, but , something over twenty. How many sledges did they have when they got back to land? Ana. Two. Did they have any provisions left on their sledges when they came back to land? Ans. Yes: the sledges still had about all they could carry, so they were able to take but a few things from the cache.

From here they then went southwest along the northwest coast of Heiberg Land to a point indicated on the map (Sverdrup's Cape Northwest). From here they went west across the ice, which was level and covered with snow, offering good going, to a low island which they had seen from the shore of Heiberg Land at Cape Northwest. On this island they camp eu for one sleep. The size and position of this island, as drawn by tbe first boy, was criticised by the second boy as being too large and too far to the west, the second boy-calling the attention of the 1 first to tbe fact that the position of the island was more nearly in line with the point where they had left Heiberg Land (Cape Northwest) and the channel between Amund Ringnes Land and Elie; Ringnes Land. This criticism and correction was accepted by the first boy, who started to change the position of the island, but was stopped, as Commander Peary-had given instructions that no changes or erasures were to be made in the route as drawn by the Eskimos on the chart From this island they could see two lands beyond (Sverdrup’s Ellef Ringnes and Amund Ringnes Lands). From the island they journeyed toward the left hand one of these two lands (Amund Ringnes Land), passing a small island which they did not visit. Arriving at the shore of Amund Ringnes Land, the Eskimos killed a deer as indicated on the chart. The above italicised portion of tbe statement of the Eskimo boys covers the period of time in which Dr. Cook claims to have gone to the Pole and

back, and the entire time during which he could possibly iiave made any attempts to go to it. The answers of the Eskimo boys to Commander Peary’s series of independentquestions, showing that they killed no game, made no caches, lost no dogs, and returned to the land with loaded sledges, makes their attainment

of the Pole bn the trip North of Cape Thomas Hubbard a physical and mathematical impossibility, as it would demand the subsistence of three men and over twenty dogs during a journey of ten hundred and forty geograpbical miles on less than two sledge loads of supplies. If it is suggested that perhaps Dr. Cook got mixed and that he reached the Pole, or thought he did, between the time of leaving the northwest coast of Heiberg Land at Cape Northwest, and his arrival at Ringnes Land, where they killed the deer, we must then add to the date of Dr. Cook’s letter of.' March 17th, at or near Cape Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four or five sleeps at that point, and the number of days required to march from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape Northwest (a distance of some sixty nautical miles), which would advance his date of departure from the land to at least the 25th of March, and be prepared to accept the claim that Dr. Cook went from Cape Northwest (about latitude eighty and a half degrees North) to the Pole, a distance of five hundred and seventy geographical miles, in twenty-seven days.

After killing the deer they then travelled south along the east side of Ringnes Land to the point Indicated on the chart, where they killed another deer. They then went east across the south part of Crown Prince Gustav Sea to the south end of Heiberg Land, then down through Norwegian Bay, where they secured some bears, but not until after they had killed some of their dogs, to the east side of Graham Island; then eastward to the little bay marked “Eld’s Fiord” on Sverdrup’* chart; then southwest to Hell’s Gate and Simmon’s Peninsula. Here for the first time during the entire journey, except as already noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard, they encountered open water. On this point the boys were clear, emphatic, and unshakable. They spent a good deal of time in this region, and finally abandoned their dogs and one sledge, took to their boat, crossed Hell’s Gate to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet, then back along the north coast of Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera, where they obtained fresh elder duck eggs. Here they cut the remaining sledge off, tnat is shortened it, as It was awkward to transport with the boat, and near here they killed a walrus. The statement in regard to the fresh elder duck eggs permits the approximate determination of the date at this time as about the first of July. (This statement also serves, if indeed anything more than the inherent straightforwardness and detail of their narrative were needed, to substantiate the accuracy and truthfulness of the boys’ statement. This locality of Cape Vera is mentioned tn Sverdrup’s narrative as the place where during his stay in that region he obtained ducks’ eggs.) From Cape Vera they went on down into the southwest angle of Jones Sound, where they killed a seal; thence east along the south coast of the Sound, killing three bears at the point noted on the map, to the peninsula known as Cape Sparbo on the map, about midway on the south side of Jones Soupd. Here they killed some musk-oxen and, continuing east, killed four more at the place indicated on the chart, and were finally stopped by the pack ice at the mouth of Jones Sound. From here they turned back to Cape Sparbo, where they wintered and killed many musk-oxen. After the sun returned in 1909 they started, pushing, their sledge, across Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; thence along the coast to Clarence Head (passing Inside of two small islands not shown on the chart, but drawn on It by the boys), where they killed a bear; thence across the broad bight in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence around Cape Isabella and up to Commander Peary’s old house in Payer Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they found 4 seal cached for 'them by Panikpah, I-took-a-shoo’s father. From here they crossed Smith Sound on the ice, arriving at Anoratok.’ (Signed) R. E. PNary, U. S. N. Robert A. Bartlett. Master S.S. Roosevelt. D. B. McMillan, Georoe Borup. Matthew A. Henson.

Seattle Express Office Looted.

Seattle, Oct. 12.—After binding and gagging a chief clerk and his assistant and carrying them to an unoccupied part of the building, a robber stoW sacks of gold and silver money and a large quantity of bills from the office of the Great Northern Express company. The amount missing runs into thousands.

Cracksmen Escape With $6,000.

Dallas, Tex., Oct. 12.—Cracksmen opened the safe of the First National bank of Lewisville and escaped with $6,000.