Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 27, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 April 1912 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DO A NE, Publisher. JASPER INDIANA

rä Just now 'Ith pons. pennants are being won Mexico seems to bo full of professional revolutionists. China's revolution begins to resemble its historic predecessors. A wire screen may yet navs to be greeted along the Mexican border. We fear the worst for the roses that disport themselves at Medicine Hat Suggestion to baseball scribes: "Why not predict a pennant winning team? Getting a kiss printed on a card Is about as satisfactory as getting one by wire. The only way to live 'long the Mexican border & cyclone cellar. in security Is to live in New York is to have story building, but, will away from heaven. a new Still bo 30far Uneasy lies the head that is trying to figure some way to pay for friend wife's Easter hat. Printing kisses on cards may be all tight, but It seems like a waste of the 'country's natural resources. A vornan fashion dictator tells us that men ought to wear corsets. Evidently trying to reform moro man. In the glad springtime no team fln ishes last. In the fall season it is found that some team muit do so. Luther Burbnnk says that cactus Is bound to become popular, as food. Many a man has bocomo stuck on it Thin men will bo in fashion this year, according to tho tailors, butfnt men wllh fat bankrolls will bo pass abto. Sixty per cont. of tho world's diamond output is absorbed In thin oountry. And this is truo of other luxuriei, Hookworm vlctlnm in tho outli are helng cured for $1.27 a hoad. but it costs moro than that to euro tho fishing fever. If th woathor man koops up his batting streak it will bo safe to tako ofT ono's hoavios in tlmo to celebrate tho Fourth of July. The doposod emperor of China gots $2,000,000 a year, thereby ronderlng it unnecessary for him to becomo an ap prentice in a laundry. Inhabitants of Mars, wo aro told, havo hugo heads and splndlo logs. They ''.o not differ materially from a good many earth beings. A St. Louis scientist found nearly 5,000,000 bacteria in a supposedly fresh egg. An egg, it seems, is Innocent until It is proven guilty. New York has "a dead line" that crooks must not cross, and every other town will soon need one in order to keep up with tho procession. Butter Is made directly from grass, says a scientist Some that wo are getting theso days tastes as though it were made directly from excelsior. Horse flesh, according to a French savant, is the proper diet for tubercular patients, but we suspect that he Is merely indulging In a little horse play. Tho hens and the baseball players nro all optimistic at this season of the year. Wireless messages, are now radiograms. But they will coutinuo to cost iust as much. A New York woman died after a complexion treatment, but what the women want to know is whether the treatment really benefited her com plexion. That Americans keep their flats too Tvarm is tho complaint of another visiting Briton, who thus secures tho hearty approbation of tho landlords and janitors. The ninth husband of an -Oregon woman has filed a cross suit for divorce, alleging that his wife already ought to be convinced how that woman Is fickle-minded. A Judge In Philadelphia holds that a woman has a right to go through her husband's pockets. We are led to suspect that the judge is either unmarried or henpecked. One of the uplifters of the drama Is endeavoring to establish a theater where tea will be served between the tacts. It Is expected that no actor or actorette who Is unable to make 'fudge will be permitted to defile tha stage by appearing upon it Seven kings were discovered in a poker game at Niagara Falls and the 'only result was the arrest of one man on the complaint of another and the fining of both for gambling. Wouldn't that make a westerner

DENSE PACfC-lC ROSS SEA CAPE 4DAAE ELLINGTON W ."ZEALAND CAPT. SCOT! TELLS OF ANTARCTIC PERILS Members of British Party Had Many Escape From Death, FACE STORM ON ICE FLOE Crevasses Open In Sea Ico to Swallow Ponies and Doos Hurricanes Add to Danger Explorer Pushes on In Search of the South Pole. Hpf.olnl Nol loo. OnH Hill Itohort K, St'Olt'H imrrittlvu of hh cxplorittluiiH In I lit Anhuotlo, ImiIjIIhIhmJ bolow, wan iHHiunl by Svw York Tlmoi vouiptiiiv yontohiuy hh m iutik( Uuiy mi tonal fcir Copyright ami pulilli'ly niiumul Ur twin, tho mn holiiK Itn tm ptttlltn I ton niuwlioru In tin) worlil. Hh rcproiluiMliiii In (IiIn mnv.Hpnpor h of coui'Mu ünly Hiithurlxud. 1 1 m ropiodutHlon vIhowhom In Um Uultoil Siuto In imy rmui oxctpt by iwiulHHlon from tliu Nuw York Tlmoj cum puny Ih forhlililon, THI under which Mio imrntlUo la copyrighted: "Oapt, Hoot I'm Htory-'I'r.MiiK l3xnrloncoH Ml rHciiioiiH KMeiipoN -Diirln Winter OpiMHtlonn Valuuhlo Hclontlfli WnU I'Mrnt Anütietle Tolo phono IHHtallod -Motor HJcnIko Did (iood Work --UlniMuatoKiaph lüeordn TrIjimi -ICxpmlltlon Hloudlly Apprunehlng t'ulu Wlun UaKt Hoard From. Copyright, mis, y t,o New York TIiuoh unpauy, (all rlghtH roKorvodi, CopyrlKhlud In tho t'nltod Kingdom by th fontrnl Nowh, Ltd., London. KoulHtcriMl In tho Dopurtmont of Asrleultnro, copyriKlit brnnoh, Dominion of Gumtda, by tho Contra I Nowh, Ltd., London. Akaroa, New Zealand. Capt. Robert F. Seott's Antarctic steamer Terra Nova arrived here with news of the British polar expedition. Captain Scott wroto a narrative of his experiences expressly for tho Nfew York Times. When last heard from lie was making a final effort to reach the polo. Tho whole party was reported in excellent condition. Lieutenant Bennell. commander of the Terra Nova, expresses confidence in the success of the expedition. Captain Scott will remain another year in the antarctic to complete his important scientific expedition and with the hope of attaining the pole. Captain Scott relates a story .!' frightful experiences in which he and most of his party narrowly escaped death; the story is plainly told, but pictures to men's minds adventures such as few have passed through. At one time Captain Scott found his camp floating away, the plaything or the moving broken floes. Tin; striking story begins with the expedition in winter quarters at McMurdo sound In October, 1911. They returned there on October 30 and rested, after a most unlucky start southWard, in which they lost most of their dogs and Manchuiian ponies, upon which, next to his motor sledges. bcott had placed most dependence, j Scott says: j "Shortly after the departure from Cape Evans of the party who were es-1 tablishing depots for the journey j south the ice broke south of the cape, j severing communication. Because of i Üie heavy weight which had to be transported to the depots, the party i consisting of twelve men, eight ponies and two dog teams, occupied until January 30 in establishing the base camp on the ice barriers near Hut Point. Has Narrow Escape. "The surface or the snow was soft. The work was terribly hard for the ponies and a heavy blizzard, which lasted three days, was a further severe trial for the animals, which were not in good condition. "On February s we proceeded south, marching at night and resting in the daytime. Tho weather was exceptionally bad, but the surface of the ice improved. Nevertheless three of our ponies which wero caught in a blizzard succumbed. On February IB we reached 79M degrees of latitude, south, and there we determined to make a depot, to leave a ton of stores and return to the base camp, and we did so Vvith the dog teams. "But on the way the entire party feli Intc a crevasse except Mears and I. (C. II. Mears was in charge or the dogs and ponies.) He and I were on the sledge, which was miraculously ueld-up on f. part of a bridge over the j

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P -I-AWU VC HACKL AMUNDSEN S Z. 88 5 cd. SCOTT'S ROUTE TOWARD THE SOUTH crevasse on which wo were traveling. The two dog teams hung by the har ness and wero extricated with diltlcul ty. Some were badly injured. Alter our arrival at the camp tho storm raged for three days. The enormous accumulation of snow, car riod hero and thero by tho wind, baf fled all efforts that we mado to shelter tho ponios by building wails or snow. So wo decided to return to Hut Point, seven miles away. 1 remained behind with two others to save one pony which was suiTorlng from tho blizzard. On nourlng Hut Point tho others or tho party encountered cracks in tho ico which wore working and enlarging. Hastily they marchod south four nilloa. At hair past four in tho morning they round that tho noa ico had broken all around and that (ho camp wuu moving umlor a heavy son swell. One pony vanished In a ciack from tho lino whoro . (hoy had boon picketed. With inllnito llftlnilty vo dragged tho ponios, Jumping from floo to loo towards tho barrier, but found that It was ImpoBfllblo to climb (hat Ico wall, "The swell was churning up tho Ico and crushing tho heaviest floon against tho face or the harr?aro. One or tho party eventually hoisted himsoir up tho barrier's surface by wedging his ski stick In a crack." Ponies Are Lost. After relating this remarkable adventure Captain Scott goes on to describe how ho joined tho party when tho drifting packs stopped temporarily and tho men on it were rescued without difficulty by means of Alpine ropes. But three of the strongest surviving ponies wore lost before the party was finally housed at Hut Point. He goes on: "On March 15 the geological party returned, bringing our number up to 1G. The western party had passed six Capt. Robert F. Scott, weeks in a close survey of the dry valley of the low Ferrar and Kettlitz glacier regions. Meanwhile the depot arrangements for the coming season had been completed. The temperature on the barrier had fallen to minus 40. Ice had again formed over the sea but strong winds drove it north. Huge land ice falls on the slopes of Mount Erebus prevented the possibility of returning to Cape Evans but, because the bays were freezing, I decided to reach that station over the sea ice. "With eight companions I started on April 11 and reached Cape Evans on April 13. All the news given me by tho men I had left there was good except that we had lost the nine remaining ponies." The party then returned to Hut Point and decided to settle down there for the four winter months in the temperature of minus 50. Captain Scott's graphic recital continues: "Everyone was fully occupied with the duties of the station, with CMa tiflc work and in exercising the ani-

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WEDDfLL ETON'S 'farthest SOUTH 23' JAN. 9- 1909 PACK ICE tNDEREY LAND POLE. mals tha? were left to us. However. t oiganizeü a series ,of lectures. To a rntLr mm?8 W? 'tP !01 J' 16(1 SP1- Tho remaining i v n Z'0Vd, . ! Pn?iU?" s,loaain,! i 1 ' ' ,'3 m,d"w " Gr' 8QVOial Of IIS atartod nn n alnflcrn OL US Started on a slorlcrn journey to Capo Crozier to observe tho incubation of tho emperor penguins at. their rookery. Tho temperature was then minus 70. Tho party Hpent three days in a snow hut behind a land ridgo on tho ßlopoa of Mount Terror to avoid a storm and exportencod groat dilllculty in ranching the rookery as the twilight was very dim. Few birds woro found thoro but they had begun to lay eggs, which should glvo considerable Information about the ainbryology of birds. Engines Got Too Hot. "Wo loft Hut Point on November 2. marched Iho night, resting In tho daytlmo and gavo tho ponioa tho bonoflt of tho warmer day tomporaturo. Wo followed (ho Crack of tho motorn (10 nilioH, then found tho machines abandoned on account of tho heavy surfaces. 1 doc Id od to march IG mlloß only evory night and maintained this paco for eight nights, when wo found tho motor party which had conn hr. foro waiting for us in latitude 80. They disabused my mind as to tho cause of abandoning tho motors, Tho only cause was tho overheating of tho air cooled engines. "Tho machines dragged heavy loads over the worst part of tho barriers' surfacos and crossed several crevasses. Considering the inadequate trial given to them their success has been remarkable. With the exnerienco wo have gained reliable traction cars could be constructed which could travel anywhere in this region and cans savo tho sacrißce of so animals. many "On December 10 we wero in latitude S3.S7 ' south. As we proceeded the weather grew worse. The snow storms were frequent. Land was rare ly visible. It was difficult to keep a straight course and maintain steady marches. We came within twenty miles of Mount Hope on December 4, then we were delayed for four days by a gale during which we were occupied continually in -digging the ponies out of the snow. To my knowledge no such long storm has ever been recorded in December in these regions. We could not have advanced at all had not the leading pony worn snow shoes and been hauled along by men oi. skis. It took- 14 hours for us to do eight miles. "On December 21 in latitude S5.7 we were four miles west of Mount Darwin. -It was very difficult to proceed because of the soft snow. The runner surface of the sledges was Inadequate. Öfter they sank to the cross bars. For four d gled through this icy morass at the rate of live miles a day. It was difficult even to pitch a camp or to lead the sledges on such a surface. This portion of the glacier contains more crevasses than any other. Is Pushing Forward. "On January 3, latitude 87.32, after leaving the upper glacier depot south from Mount Darwin, we started southwest, but could not clear the crevasses. But on the fourth day, because we were at such an altitude, we got a splendid view of the distribution of the land and of the masses of ice that fringed it and of the arrangement of the ice falls. Since then we have averaged 15 miles a day. "On Christmas day we wre close to me eiBu-y-üiAin parallel. On New. j ears eve we were in latitude S6.5G. There we fitted our sledges with new, short runners. This remarkable piece of work was performed by the seamen of the party, under the most adverse conditions. "We were now wlthlr. 150 miles of the pole. "I am going forward with five men, sending three back under Lieutenant Evans with this data. "The advance party consists or rayself, Dr. WI2son, the chief of the scientific staff; Captain Oates of the lnnlskilling dragoons, In charge of the ponies and mules; Lieutenant Bowers of the Royal Indian marines, the commisslarat officer, and Petty Officer Evans of the Royal navy, in charge of

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WHOLE MILWAUKEE SOCIALIST PARTY BEATEN AT POLLS. Dr. Badina, Republican, Elected Mayor, on Fusion Ticket, by Biggest Vota Ever Cast In City. Milwaukee, April 3.-Dr. Gerhard A. Bading, Republican, was elected mayor of Milwaukee on a Fusion ticket, on which his associates were J. P. Carney and Louis M. Kotecki. for treasurer and city controller, respectively, both Democrats. This marks the downfall of SocS.1ism by the biggest vote ever cast in any election in Milwaukee. The Fusion ticket, with eight aldermen-at-large, and a majority of the ward aldermen, is carried into office by a majority over the Socialists of over 1S,000. All the aldermen, like the candidate for the three city offices, are divided between the Republicans and the Democrats and each is pledged to take no part in a party campaign while in office, thus marking the end of the national party as a factor in a Milwaukee election. The result follows the most violent city campaign in Milwaukee history, as evidenced by the fact that 80 000 votes were polled, out of a total registration of 90,000, and as compared with 60,000 votes for the highest previous record of any election. The "issue of the campaign wah largely Socialism vs. the anti's. with tho Stars and strings ininnfftd nn nn Irqh iv eniunni the campaign. Saturday night tho Socialists tf,ed to bl.eak ft p , ftllondod by 7.000 excited Fuslonists. by walkIne 0,lt noslly 'l.en Congress vt . . .. niun ury rnißeu an American nag. Tho following night at the end of tho Socialist campaign, a visiting speaker declared that Lincoln and Jefferson woro not patriots and tho anti-Socialist press retorted to those demonstratlons by appearing with the slogan: Americanism vs. Socialism. Ono local impor, noted for Its conservatism., startled the town by appearing with its first pago placarded wllh tho two flags In colors, labeling thorn tho Issue, tho stars and Htrlpes vo. tho rod flag or Socialism. This Ihhuq, whether artificial or not, put tho city In a furoro of oxol!?mont, RAFFLE FOUR SENATE SEATS Lottery Is Used to Choose Places Nowly-Elected Members of Upper House, for Washington, April 3. Four senate aeats wero rafllod with all the dignity of tho nation's highest leglolativo body. Galleries which wero crowded to their limit and a double row of ropSenator Marcus A. Smith. iuidmtb wno surrounaea the Benate floor watched what may be tho last drawing of the national lottery which started with the first American congress. The winners were Henry F. Asnurst, Arizona, Democrat, six-year term; Thomas B. Catron, New Mexico, Republican, six-year term; Marcus A. Smith, Arizona, Democrat, four-year term; Albert B. Fall, New Mexico, Republican, two-year term. The lottery was entirely satisfactory to the four holding tickets in the form of election certificates. 85, DIES AS HE IS ELECTED Michigan Candidate for Justice of the Peace Passes Away as Returns Are Being Counted. Lapeer, Mich., April 3. John Wright, S5 years old, candidate for reelection as justice of the peace, received a majority of the votes cast here, but died before the returns were all in. Mr. Wright has been ill for several weeks and, although his recovery was considered doubtful, his name wa3 placed on the ticket as a mark of respect. Minnesota Towns to Organize. Makato. Minn.. April 3. Delegates from about sixty cities will organize the Southern Minnesota Development association here. Honduran Ruler IN. New Orleans. La., April 3. -Manuel Bonllla. president of Honduras. Is said to be critically Ü1 with Bright'! dlMftg.

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CHECKING FLOODS Votes $350,000 to Strengthen Mississippi Levees. 2,000 HOMELESS IN HICKMAN Exodus Starts From Cairo, MI., WhenNews Comes From Washington That River Will Rii Above Dikes. Washington, April 3. The senato and house gave a demonstration ot rapid legislation, vhen they by unanimous vote passed a bill appropriating1350,000 to be immediately available for the strengthening and the extension of the levees along the Mlsslsslpi pi river. The senate broke all precedents by passing the appropriation bill a TeW minutes after it had been reported to , that body under suspension of theruleB which require that all such measures be referred to a committee. The $350,000 appropriation will become availablo as soon as the president's signature Is affixed. In the house the bill was put on passage as soon as it was reporUd from the rivers and harbor committee. Tho committee acted Immediately on., receipt by the house of a message from President Taft urging an appropriation of 1500,000 for tho purpose. The entire delegation in congress from Louisiana had called on tho president and pointed out the dangerous situation of tho flood-swept valley of the Mississippi and urgod an appropriation. Money Is Sufficient Now. Tho appropriation of $350,000 instead of tho amount asked for by tho president, it was announced by ltopresoututivo Knnsdoll, who reported tho bill, was mado after consultation with tho war dopiirtmont and tho rocolpt of prlvato messages, which showod tho sum appropriated would bo sufficient for tho present. President Taft urged tho pasiaga of tho 1)111 In n mosoago to congress. Ic follows in part: "It Booms proper that tho govorn mont tako immodiato action to make tho Iobh impending as llttlo as possible, In viuw of tho character of tho emergency and tho safeguards surrounding tho expenditures mado under tho corps of engineers, I havo no hesitation in uHklng for nn appropriation of $500,000, as recommended by thesecretary of war." Thousands Are Homeless. Hickman, Ivy., April 3,Tho Hood waters or tho Mississippi nvor, whlcji broko tho West Hickman levee, havo poured a muddy current eight feet, deep through the business streets, the factory and tho tenement districts of -the town. Two thousand persons are homeless. The work of systematically caring for tho refugees was taken up and tents wero shipped in by the state military. Cairo People Flee. Cairo, 111., April 3. Cairo was thrown into a panic and a hnnw ov. odus from the city started, following the receipt of advices from Washington that the river would reach 5S feet. Many women and children were put on trains and more prepared to leave. All the levees are still holding. The local weather bureau received word of the breaking of the levee at New Madrid, Mo. The break Hooded about 100 square miles. This relieved conditions in Cairo somewhat and the city is now considered safe. New Record Stage at Memphis. Memphis. Tenn., April 3. The Mississippi river reached a stage of 41.9 feet, the highest ever recorded here. The predicted rise of 44 feet announced by the weather bureau will add greatly to the damage already done, though no new levee break! arereported. BARNES RE-ELECTED IN N. Y. Again Made -Chairman of Republican State Committee at its MeetIng in Metropolis. New York, April 3.Wiil!am Barnes, Jr., of Albany, was re-elected chairman of the newly elected Republican state committee, when it met here for organization as prescribed by the new primary law. Tho other officers also were re-elected. Nicholas Murray Butler will be temporary and permanent chairman of the state convention at Rochester April 9 and 10. A resolution that no candidate for public office bo indorsed by the state committee was unanimously adopted. WOMAN iN SEA AIRSHIP TRIP Aviatrioe Crosses the Channel From Hendon, Eng., With Aviator Hamei. London, England, April H first woirm to cross the channel I.oaa Eng land to France as a passenger in an aeroplane made the trip. She accompanied Gustave Harael, the aviator. who left Hendon afc 9:38, passed over Dover at an altitude of 2,000 feet at 10:50, and landed at Saint Inglevert. to the southeast of Cape Grisnez, at noon without Incident Will Give 20,000 MapI Trees. Altoona, Pa., April 3. To encourar the advancement of horticulture, William F. Gable of this city will distribute 20,000 silver maple tres unions; children of the public schools Uü

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