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mlvitvs nveiv«Ml tu iv. Oornuiny i> {<•>
paring to nish propanitios to t y ifc
l»orniaa> uccussod of violations of lie
. la as. (icimany will send comm -
dinners t«> F.nyland and Franco to taVe
t* st inony.
AMERICAN
RELEASE!
NEW YORK. IVb.. 20— Wilsjn
Welsh Adams, American mine sup*
int«ndent. has been released by the
Mexican bandit* who kMnuppeil Ii m
and held him for a ransom of $25,000.
It is unknown if Mexico paid the ran
,om or not. It is believed here Mex*
can troops forced Adams release.
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FRISCO BOHEMIAN CLl'B
IKSTAL1 IN'. \ PIPE ORGAN
IN GROVE OF REDWOODS
SAX FRANCISCO. Feb.. 20—
Bohemian Club of San Francisco, an
organization of literary men, art'sts
and pat ions of the fine arts, is hav*nu
one of the largest pipe organs in the
United States installed in its' famous
grove of giant redwoods.
The only other out i?oor organ is
at San Diego, Cal., it is said.
The organ, protected by a stand oi
steel and concrete, will be ready for
the annual forest play of the club next
summer, it is expected.
NO SIC \R SHORTAGE
REPORTED IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Feb., 20- Thor* i*
no shortage of sugar at present ii
Mexico and the government is taking
measures to prevent such a situation.
Secretary of the Treasury Cabn *a
has stated that the exportation of su
gar from the republic is prohibit 'd,
the only exception being in rare cases
where commission merchants h: v •
large supplies of foreign sugar on
hand upon whu h they would lose mon
ey if forced to ^ell it in Mexico.
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WANTS NAMES OK DEBS
AND JOHNSON ON BALLOT
LANSING. Mich.. Feb.. 20— Peti
tions asking that th»* names of Eugene
Debs and Hiram Johnson be placed on
the Presidential ballot have been •< -
ceived here properly signed.
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DIES ON SFB CHASER
BREMERTON. Feb., 20— Andr* .•
Vuhas, sailor, is dead, and three othe; >
are ill as the result of gas poisoning
in the hold of a submarine chaser in
the local navy yards. It is believed im
proper ventilation was the cause.
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.Mrs. Venet a F. Pugh, widow of the
late collector of customs, has been ar>
pointed deputy clerk of the court at
Juneau.
DAMS. Feb., 20— Steamship Dan
ube struck a mine in the Black Sea
yesterday afternoon, near the on
trance of the Bosphorus. Thirteen
we; * kill d. The Danube succeeded in
roa< bin? Constantinople in a bad!v
dam ap'd and leaking condition this
afternoon.
WOBBLY TRIAL
HALTED TODAY
MON'TKSAXO. Fob.. 20— The Wob
biy trial was halted today on account
of th«» il’nvss of Edward Parr, a juror.
Physicians say Parr’s fever is hig i
and that it is unsafe for him to at
tend court. An alternate juror will bo
substitute! if Pair’s illness causes a
long delay.
MOXTESAXO. Fob., 20— Eleven
alleged wobble's charged with criminal
syndicalism under the state of Wash
ington statutes, wpi-e this afternoon
convicted by a jury. The t»*ial ha.
been nmning the same time as the
Wohh’v massacre trial. Thirteen we; *
originally charged with syndicalism.
One was distressed for lack of evid-mr'
and another dismissed on account of
dlness. The thirteen were arrested in
southwest Washington shortly after
the Ontralia shooting.
POISON r.AS FOR RFRCI.ARS
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb., 20— An
apparatus that gives considerable pio
mise of being the safe-burglar’s v » t
cn‘*m\ is reported to have been invem
ed here. It is simple, and consists of
a vial containing poison gases witv»»*
a safe, prepared and timed to explode
upon the violent opening of the safe
and scattering th*» poisonous fumes
about so thoroughly and quickly as to
overcome the burglars.
The gas employed is not of the
killing var#*ty, hut is said to be a com
bination of “tear gas" and of an a*'
phyxiating gas The idea came from
the use of* poisonous gases in the ?•
«em war.
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DOG IS SMUGGLER
JUAREZ,.Mexico, Feb., 20— Do
teeted as he was swimming across tie*
Rio Grande with four bottles of “te
quila." the powerful Mexican int *x i *
cant, strapped to his body, a canine
smuggler has been captured here.
The dog evidently was trained to carry
liquor from Juarez to FI Paso, since
for two months he showed remarkable
craft in dodging the custom house
guards on both sides of the river.
Finally, however, the Mexican
“fiscales" caught him.
ALASKA ON
WAY N ORTH
SKA lTtU:, Vcb., 20— Stcamci
Alaska sailed for Alaska ports at 0
o'clock this morning with 180 passen
gers aboard, 'ihe following are pass
« agars tor Seward:
C. A. El wing
Carl Carlson
.1. Xelson
A. Lunquist
Charles Carlson
S. Anderson
J. Steen
Harry Steen
Clans E. Anderson
A. .Mutheson
S. Swanberg
M. J. Rogers
William Mirny
J. .1. ivieKeiiiion and wife
K. A. Hartgan
J. E. Beattie
Austin Homer
C. B. Atwell
Mrs. I. V. Conrad
(). \V. Grankhite
R. A. Drury
Steve Leaks
F. Garke
Swen Anderson
C. A. Anderson
Fred Knowlton
Alex Wendell
H. Capp
U. Cassily
Mrs. W. W. Butts
J. C. Murry
Mrs. L. Wilson
Alfred Strandberg
Frank R. Martin and wife.
H. C. Palmer
A. Pienan
J. H. Dodson
A. Sklara
A. D. Smith
W. H. Barnhill
E. C. Howard
B. F. Brand ford
H. L. Lane
C. W. Bazant
F. B. Stanley
J. H. Copeland
Twenty three steerage.
WATSON DTE TONIGHT
According to advices received ’> *
the Radio station, the Admiral Wat
son is expected to arrive in port to
n ed’t at 10 o’clock on the way south
bound. Agent Blue, at the time of go
"’<g to press, had received no advice.
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CIVIL WAR VETERAN DEAD
SEATTLE. Feb., 20— Robert F.
IcOuMough, aged 74. employee of the
Railway mad sendee since 1806, and .i
civil war veteran, died here this mown
ii'g. Mr McCullough joined the rail
way man service when it was first or
ganized.
FIRE IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Feb., 20— Fire last
night destroyed the sewer pipe plant
M the Denny Renton Clay Company,
near Georgetown. The estimate loss is
$80,000. The fire started in the dry
kilm.
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SOLDIERS USE ARMORED
CARS IN AN IRISH RAID
DUBLIN, Feb., 20— Soldiers last
night used two armored cars in a rai 1
on Sinn Feincrs on Grafton street.
Several arrests were made. The raid
followed fights between civilians and
the police. One constable was killed.
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SEATTLE. Feb., 20— James Dun
can begins his campaign for mayor to
night with a down town mass meeting.
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WASHINGTON, Feb., 20— R :p
Admiral R >b< rt E. Peary, U. S. X
Arctic cap.o.er, died this morning •>!
pernicious unemca. The famous mci
has submitted t*> “» blood transfusion*
within the past two years.
A naval funeral is being planned,
Explorer Peary was born in Cros
son, Pa., in 18." 6.
It was on the afternoon of Scpteir
her 6, 1000 that the following few
words reported to the civilized worM
for the first time this crowning"achie
vrtment of three centuries of effort:
-INDIAN HARROR, Via Cape R
\. September 6th. To the Asso a i
ed Press, New York.
“Sfars nn<l Stripes Nailed to No th
Polo.
“PEARY”
re ary s actual attainment o‘ the
Polo had been just five months hofo c\
on April 6, 1909.
When this dispatch came, the woF1
was, quite unknown to Peary, already
praising Dr. Frederick A. Cook as the
discoverer. Only four days previous lo
the Peary announcement, Cook, who
was on his way back to Copenhagen
on board a Danish steamer, had tv! •
graphed the claim that he reached the
Pole on Ap'-il 21, 1908- nearly a
year ahead of Peary.
While Dr. Cook’s claim did not gi
unquestioned from the first, he had
for days at least been widely acclaim
ed as the discoverer of the Pole. With
Peary’s message there arose one of
the greatest conti oversies of all ages
over the honor of actual first discov
ery. There can he no one who has fot
gotton the dispute. Peary’s assertion?
were not seriously questioned, but
among newspaper readers there came
to b' two great camps, for and against
Cook.
Peary with his record of seven suc
cessful trips to the Arctic, his official
standing in the United States Navy
and in scientific circles, easily liobl
the commanding position in the con
troversy. Put it was only after th<
scientific bodies one by one had sifted
the evidence and pronounced Cook’s
claims unfounded that Peary’s title as
discoverer of the Pole was really won.
The bitterness of this episode in
only one item in the price which Peary
paid for the immortal fame that is
now acknowledged to be his. He sp* -nf
practically all he had in money, gave
all that was in him for hard work, and
suffered all that the human fram?
could endure from hunger, cold and
disappointment. He made eight jour
neys into the Arctic, spent upwards of
half a million dollars and several
times he barely escaped the deat 1
which in various forms had been the
fate of more than 700 explorers before
him.
The first step that led Pearv to
ward the Pole was taken in Washing
ton one day when he walked into a
book store to browse nnd picked un a
fugitive account of Greenland. He be
came an insatiable reader on the sub
ject of the Arctic.
He was then -10 years old. His f. •
thcr died when lie was three yeaws . *: * I.
and his mother took him to Porltav. 1,
.Me., where he spent his boyho; t,
roaming about Ga.co Pay. He w< nt if
IJowdoin College, won fame th*».«* a*
a runner anti jumpc., and stood in 1!
honor colutnn of scholarship. It was
a little later that he had gone 'a*
Washington to work as a draught~
man in the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey offices. Hi* spent Ids spare tin *
studying civil engineering and parsed
in that branch into the naval servic .
He became nontenant Peary, U. S. X.
His first assignment was J » th *
tropics. He was a leader of the * »r
veying for the Nicaraguan canal rout *.
It was when he returned to Wasldr •*
ton that he fell upon the book aln t
Greenland, and thereafter virtually
consecrated himself to polar explo ra
tion.
Obtaining leave from the naval
service he led an expedition into
Greenland, to determine the extent o
this mysterious land. He determ n* <!
its insularity, discovered and nam
many Arctic points which today .nr
familiar names- such as Ind p i
donee Bay, Melville Land, and II ilp; ii
Land, and in one of his later voyag
he discovered the famous mctcoritie,
which he brought back to civilization.
One of them, weighing 80 tons, is the
wonder of visitors to the Museum o:
Natural History in New York.
Between voyages Peary resorted lo
the lecture platform to raise funds foj
further exploration. In one instance Ju
de! ivored 16S lectures in 06 days; rais
ing $13,000.
On his sixth voyage, with the Pol •
in view, he had to give up because both
of his feet became frozen. Although ho
had ’'cached the most northerly land
in the world — naming it Cape Moi i>
K. Jessup at the tip of Greenland —
and had also attained Lat. 81.17, the
northcrmost record in the Wos* rn
world, he was still in great despair.
He wrote in his diary:
“ The game is off. My dream >f
sixteen years is ended. 1 have ma» c
the best fight I knew. I believe it was
a good one. But I cannot accomplish
the impossible.”
By the time Peary reached civilisa
tion; however, he had decided upon
still another trip. With the specially
designed ship Roosevelt, Peary drove
further into the frozen ocean than na
Vigators had ever been before. Or.
foot he advanced until his record for
this seventh trip stood at 86.6, where
starvation and cold again checked Ihc
party.
The explorer was 52 years old when
in duly 1008 ho set out on his eighta
and successful invasion of the Polar
i-egion.
Captain Bartlett, the veteran na
vigator for Peary, shouted to Col.
Roosevelt as the ship was leaving its
wharf at New York: “its the Pole or
bust this time, Mr. President.”
The method of attacking the Pole
was in five detachments, pushing
north in the manner of a telescope. At
SOME STENT TO
BEAT THE II. < . L.
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STOC KTON, Eal.. Feb., 20— Fif
teen high school instructors arc
today wearing corduroy trousers
to reduce the cost of living. Many
others in the white collar profes
sions are joining the corduroy
* club.
the KKtli parallel Peary parted with
Captain Paitlett, in charpe of the 4th
detachment, and he with one member
of his crew and four eskimos made tie*
final dash, 'l hey covered the 135 mPo.*
in five days.
Thirty hours from April <> t-> <
were spent at and around the Polo
agreat tract of frozen sea - none
of lie kind Which Dr. Cook reported.
The weather was cloudless and flaw
!c s. The temperature ranged from
I) *!ow to 12. b ow. Where open places
permitted s< undings, 11,000 feet cf
• hieh was all that Peary had
failed t > touch the bottom.
When he got hack to civilizatv »
i* *: ; v.—s sun.•* sod to find such a
fiv rcc controversy raging over him
and his rival, Dr. Cook, but he easily
established his claim before scientific
bodies throughout the world. He was
>a:s d to the rank of Rear Admiral ,*f
the Cnited States Navy and retired on
pay; Congress voted him its thanks
:n a special act and gold medals, de
clarations a-fd honors of many kinds
weie showered upon him.
A scientific and popular narative of
his success he wove into a book '’alle 1
“The North Pole’*, while his other ex
pedit’ons are described in detail in hi j
“Northward over the Great Ice,” atic
“Nearest the Pole.”
Peary's closing years were spent in
well-earned rest, living for a la**g.»
part of the time with his family of
three-wife, daughter and son
on Engle Island, off the roast from
Portland, Me. Mrs. Peary was former
ly Josephine Dieb’tsch, of Washing
ton. D. C., marrying the explorer :r
1388. She frequently accompani m1
her husband on his northward jou’*
noys, and on one of these trips Marie
Ahnighito Peary, was bom and bear
the distinction of having been ham
farther north than any other white
child in the world. She is popular’;*
known as “The Snow Baby.”
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CAR NOW
Tiio Cateway City limited, opera'cd
between Seward and Anchorage, on
the government railroad, is giaduaPy
caking on transcontinental airs.
The new buffet and chair car “Sew
a'd^ has come out fiom the shop* and
will be connected with the train op
erated out ton.01 row morning.
A buffet luncheon will be served
aboard the “Seward” and reservation
can he made for the chairs. At present
there arc sixteen chairs in the car. >t
Seward, Agent Sweek is the official
to connect with if one wants *pec.d
reservations on the “Seward.” The car
is to be attached to all regular passen
ger trains operated in and out of Sew
ard.
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COLD WAVE REPORTED
HELENA, Fob., 20— The cold wave
is spreading generally over Montana.
It is ten below zero here and the mer
cury is going down.
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