The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 4, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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last bivouac of their lost associates
■succeeded In scaling ti)'' ftttM summit. £
sun :n ISv' ami 1890 (liat Signer Sella mai-
hls visits, combining. like Decliy, photography
with exploration. yd
mid r-'M .iriiiR that superb < ollcction of views
later used in collaboration with Mr. Freshfietd
doubtless th. must impressive of ull
Cau< ai ian giants in its aspiring graudeur is
th.- double-towered Cshla. so stationed on the
watershed of two continents that
peaks is Ir. Europe and the other in Asia Th
former was climbed in 1S8R by Mr. Cockli
A ('.), who thai 4iinc year vanquished
Shkara and Janga. and later, 1n 1890. Adai-
Khokb and two other high peaks. in 1S93 yet
other?, but in !SS.". was foiled In his attempt
shall b<
ordfd lo those wh
bring to •« t!*€• knov
o of the world's rays
lu'ifctitH. wo must
nalder not only t ho in
boreal difficult!®* offered
by the tyji. of mountain
usreodod. but its remote-
from civil feat ion
;lit* character of the coun
trv to be traversed
UinK its base, th*
height of snow line. th
liinate. whether temper
ite or affording such
ontrast* U9 those report
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on the southern tower of Ushba. Tins
was Feeured in 1903, after a repulse
Dtur>
nk left
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Arkoma Townsite Sold.
Xrkoma, the .new addition to Fori
Smith, which is located in EaFior
County, wis ti old last week to J. E
Hopkins, a real estate dealer of
I T ilsa. who represented a company
{ The town promise.-? a : right future.
2s i' Is destined to become Fort
Smith's manufacturing d.strict.
j Hitched i nEgg Case.
lohn Jones of Mehan has a chic!
i i'ii on exhibition in bis store thai
was hatched in an ess case. On
opening his store one morning r<
ceritl.- he hear a young chicken. Af-
ter a diligent search it was disco-.
,-rrd in nn cgi: case that was rend*
for shipment The little chicken
a pet. _____
Robinson Crueso Island.
What is known as Robinson Crusoe
Island, about sixty miles in extern
In located In Grand river, lust below
the Missouri Pacific Railroad brliV-v
on the western boundary or Wn
Gibson. The place where Jim Rob
inson once rc.-iiied near the eon.- -
or the island is now deser ed and
sad looking. Stime of the old build
lugs remain in a desolate condition,
decayed and rotting down.
L i: f > >; K A 1 * n 1 > •
cx p hunt luii
has proved
f a situating
during the
last half
century
Lufty mouiiUlns in the
various quarter- uf our
globe pn stilt u great
field Modem moun
taioci ring dates fron.
t lie Bri-t aacer.t of
Mont lUanc, in ITXC
and for murt tlian
half a century ascents
of importance were
confined almost exclu
sively to the Alps A not ti < i epoch
making date was 1 Sf.T. in which yeai
waa founded tb<- English Alpine club.
destined to become the prototyp< of
more than eight score similar organ-
isation*. represented In nearly e> cry
clvllUcd land. societies whose lead-
ers generally turned to "the play
ground of Europe for the enjoyment
of their chuseu recreation. Ileum it
strange that in the next quarter of a i
8w lUcrlat'.d and Tyrol had beccut.
neyed, with, scarcely an important jmn
un climbed
lu D6* ilifirs Frt shlicld, Tucker and
M<iore. of the Eni;llsh Alpine dub, vlslt'-d the
Caucasus and made the Un.' ascent of Elbruz
(18.447) at the westerly and of husbek
(IC.i4ti) at the •asterly end of the great cen
tral chain Tbey may perhaps be regarded
as the pioneers of a different type of moun
tain exploration and certainly us lb' reveal
era. If not discoverers, of a new playground"
on tfce coblUiua uf Europe and \siii. d> tlned
to -witness iu the last two decades of tin ecu-
tury the coming of expert* of different tin
tkiltallties, who soon would leave, us in the
Alps, no remote valley uuvlsiled and uo proud
a'lipmlt untanquiahed
• A glance at the l>up of the world shows
upon tha several continents vast systems of
tuoutitaln ranges or strikUig instances of !«<•
lated peaks. Tc note only the principal oues,
we have here upon our western hemisphere
that belt of varying width which, rising to
markedly iliffereut altitudes, extends from the
Arctic ocran to Capo tloin a dlstunce of
hardly less than 10.Out! tulles In Alaska It
attaliia 18.100 feet ill Mount St tfllas, about
19.000 In Mount Iaigan, a comparatively near
neighbor, and over 20.000 in Mouut MeKluley,
aome degrees nearer the Arctic i In It*. In
boutli America, from the equator southward,
It soars yet higher in auch giants as Chimb,
raxo. Huascatan. Soratu aud Aconcagua. It
la here that the western continent reuches its
culminating altitudes.
In Aala a similarly Irregular and much in
terrupted chaiu runs lu a general southeast
erly direttlun from near the black sea lie
ginning with the Caucasus and passing b>
way of Urn Elburr mountains. -e\eial minor
ranges and the Hindu Kusli to the mighty
Himalayas, which for a distance of over
1,500 uiUps form the frontier of India, it ex
teuiU to the sources of the Brahmaputra and
the lrawadl; great spurs like the Kuen l.un
mountains and the trans-lliiualayan range,
lately expiured by Sven IIihIIii. strike east-
ward from it This system has a reach of
perhaps 4.uoo uiiles aud in it lis It in Mount
Kverest, 29,00.1 feet, or some loftier peak. |mis
sibly caught sight of oun or twice 1>> men of
the Occident?! Wt have the crown of tin-
world Yet farther north, in ceutral Asia, an
other notable rang--, very recently explored,
must also be tueatioued. for iu it i ise peaks
of truly Hn.ialayan prop«un'M> ih< Tiaii
Bhau mountains with Kban Tengii. < m J '.
<0u feet ill altltuili
Compares! with these great systems such
limited regions as the European Alpa sink
Into Insignificance and >et for inspiiiux grau
deur and tariitj aud lieauty of foiiu also as
a school for the art of t liuibiug ou crag and
■nows. Uu-se readily aot>slble )>eaks will
always retain thilr pi -i ,i
The vast continent of Ifrfca presents no
correspond-ii|i tnountslu ,-> -leui 't he Vilas
range In the north is of minor importance,
for. while its sumuiita surpa « l' lHto feel,they
are devoid of alpine features Yet almos'.
up«n the equator, east of tue median line of
the contlnvut and lu the neighborhood of the
great lakes at the sources of the Nile, a corn
plex of snowy peaks, Ruweniorl, aud yet far
thtr east and south isolated giauts lik Renin
and Killinsnjsro rise to altitudes far surpass
Ing Europe's long boasted monarih of moun
tains." Mont lllatic measure* 15.7M fe«l
above the sea Renia is 1!>.020 feet Kiliuiau
Jatu lV.titO, while nine of the chl« f summits
of Ruweiitorl mtasuie between K..S00 and
lti.Sli laet.
The isles of the sea sre not without their
claimants for hotior If. In our extreme def
•renee for crowns of snow we puss by the
Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea (13, 5S), prl
Bate of the peaks of the Faclflc, and KuJI San
(IS.SSf.). the sacred mountain o( Japan, and
He compeers, we shall find on the southern
laland of New Zealand, at a latitude of Its
hemisphere about that of pur White Moun
To Operate Oi I Refinery.
Members of tho 1'iicle Sam Com
pauq. after an inspection of the ve
finery at Tulsa of that company, buili
three years ago, but never operated
slated Sunday that the plant -will
be put in operation to full capacity
immediate! a' er a thorough ovei
hauling now completed. For a sup
1 plv of crude oil :i pi| ■ line has been
I laid to the K A. Baker lease,
the Red Fork field, a distance
six miles.
in
; Gravel Eusiners at Fort Gibson.
The gravel business: at Fort Gibson
; is assuming larye proportion. It is
j expected that within a few days
i 1< " car loa:.s or more will be taken
out Tfct Mi stHiri, Kar.sas and Te>
■ .is Haiiroad Co- ipany will inata 1
| 'ts large steam shovel in a fev;
I da -. wi.h a ea .acily of loadi/.s 7"
' or SO car or more a day. The grav
; .-l " ill he used over the track from
I Ci.-i'o. vilie. Kan., to Little Rock. Ark.,
and will employ about 200 men for
the work.
T rain.
laius of
New Eng
land a
s P I e udid
range of
S I it e I e r
b e a r I n g
peaks, tile
S «> ii t la ern
Alps. eul-
■uiiiating iu
M o ii n t
Cook or
\ o r a u g I
H2.S49I, a
iiilgliiy pin-
nacle of
rock and
ice O n
tho Island
of New Guinea also then are. mountains of
oven greater height, a peak of the Charles
la-uis range. In the Put h dominions, being
credited with an elc\atlon of 14,730 feet. In
the Atlantic the Pico de Teyde. on the Island
of Tcnellffe. lifts the summit of Its graceful
volcanic cone 12.182 feet. Spitsbergen, in the
\rctl<. with its peaks rising 3.000 to 4.000
fe-t. one of which was climbed l>y Scoresby
in lMs. bat Invited several able climber*
silica iS9li
I tut uiosl recent geographical news presents
the polar regions themselves as a Held foi
alpinism. I'eary, In his last expedition (lW.'il,
ascended a low peak (2,0.'iOI and now among
the Interesting details of l.ieut Shuckleton's
lemsikable explorations In the Antarctic we
linn of the discovery. In near proximity to
lhe pole, of a lofty plateau upon which his
part attained an altitude of 10,f>00'a«d In
feired that the southern end of the axis of
our planet is in this (able land.
To the average render, un'.nniliar with the
climber's craft, mere altitude is likely to be
the impressive fact in a comparative appreci
atlon of the difficulty and danger of mountain
ascents; yet a table of heights by uo means
conveys adequate Information upon these
IKilnts V-ijJe from the serious hardship oc
easioued to nearly all persons at great altl
ludes, apparently by the diminished quantity
of oxygen, even the lollies', summits might
prove of comparatively easy access, once the
base feere readied. Judging from its outline
and snows, as shown iu Signor Selln's tele
photographic view of the peak from llic Chun
Jertua'pss* Mouut Everest itself would be set
dow it as an easy mountain: that Is. as offer
hid iio serious technical difficulties to the
skilled climber. Mont Blanc was first climbed
by an untrained Chamoliix peasant, alone. In
.i two days' trip. For difficulty and danger,
this monarch of the Alps Is far surpassed ty
many lesser peaks nn>. by several of the
aiguilles" lneedles) of Its own neighborhood
the Hlaltiere, tiratuls Charmos. I>ru, tiiepoti
and Humes Anglalses: yet these crags are
only from 11.300 to 12.SOO feet high, with their
hsses kis'i up on the outreachlng spurs of the
great vhite mountain.
It was as lute as 1901. seven years after his
remarkable campaign In which he had accom-
plished in one month eight of the most diffi-
cult climbing feat* of the Alps, four years
after his conquest of Mount St Ellas, and the
year follow ir.g his notable success In securing
the 'farthest north" for his polar expedition,
that Prince l.ulgi of Savoy made the tlrst as
cent of the second in height of the Hames
Anglalses and christened it "Yolanda Peak."
l-ater he made the tltst ascent of thji Aiguille
Sans Noui It was with HImbs of this type
in mind that the historiographer of the Mas-
kan expedition could say concerning thi* as-
iviit of Mount St. Ellas, whose conquest re-
quired nearly 40 days' Journey o\er glaciers
and ne\e nearly the entire distance from the
shore of an inhospitable sea to the altitude of
IS.10U feet, that "if the sinning of St. Ellas
only meant the ascent of the terminal cone
It might be compared with many of
tlie easier climbs in our owu ."^s."
In determining then, from a tootideratloa
of the bardtbif aud sacrifice, what compara
T^B St A TrtPrtORrt
ed by Hr and Mrs Woikmau on the occasion
of their recent climbing tl906) In the Nun
Kun Himalayas, where, at an altitude of over
21,300 feet, the mercury iu the tube of the
solar thermometer fell from 193 F. to 4 de-
crees below /ero within 15 hours, or auiid
such comfortless surroundings as those of Hr.
Cook aud his single companion, passing the
last night of their four days' ascent of Mount
MeKinlcy In a cavity stamped out In the deep
snow slope, with a themiouietrlc reading of
II degrees below zero. Then there are such
dangers as the risks from savage or ill-dis-
posed nathes, a* in some of the * alleys of
the Cnurusus and beyond the English sphere
of inlluenie iu the Himalayas, or insidious
fever aud the deadly "slsepiug slekuess" of
the forests of equatorial Africa, to say noth
ing of the yexatlous problems arising from
the necessities of transportation of supplies
by undisciplined porters.
Some of the names of the \letors recur sev-
eial times in the annals of conquest. We have
umncd ihe pioneers of 1 hks. members of the
\lplne club Moore, of that party, returned
with F C. Grove and others of the club In
1ST4 and scaled with them the western, slight-
ly higher, of the twin domes of Elbmt
(18,4701, like its fellow un easy mountain.
Dec by, a Hungarian alpinist and expert <ho-
tographer. came tlrst in 1S84. then in the
three following years devoting his efforts ra
ther to the claeiers and passe* jhan to the
high summit* aud procuring the remarkable
view* that udom his recently published vol-
umes Dent came ngaiu with Donkin in 1 " S6
and climbed tlestola tlT'.S 3il. They both re
turned In issa with Fox sdded to their part)'.
A fortanate indisposition detained IHnt.
while Fox nd Donkin went on U> climb Don-
gosorun (14.5471 aud then to Sittack the
strorgho'id of koshtanlau Here they and their
guide perished; Ju*t how we shall never know
To so've the sad mystery Dent returned a
year Is' rr with Freshfield, II. Wooley. the
present president of the Alpine club, and oth-
ers. and found high up on the graad peak the
thai nearly rosy him his life, by Heir
A. Schulxe with others.
Germany was also represented a.-
early as 1SSI by Herren Purtscheller
and Merzbacher. of whom the former
had climbed Kilimanjaro in 18S7 and
the latter was to distinguish himself
a pioneer in the Tian-Shan moun-
tains.
If the keen interest that had attend-
ed the continued revelations from this
semi-adjacent region to the Caucasus
was beginning to wane at the end of
th*1 eighties, new mutter eaiue pouring
in from various quarters to whet the
appetite for alpine grandeurs. The
Rev \V. S. Green (A. C.) had visited
New Zealand in 1S82 and ascended
Mount Cook (Aorangi). *-hitU attains
an altitud -f i2.:!49 feet A pioneer
th. re at the antipodes, stimulating the
ambition of the young men of that
new country and exciting other emu-
lation nearer home, he shortly direct-
ed his steps to the freshly opened
mountain region of British Columbia,
and here, too. became Ihe forerunner
of a new generation of alpinists, bring-
!ng out the first mountaineering book
'or this new Switzerland.
A New Zealand Alpine club was
formed in 1891,. and not only its ow n
periodical but also the pages of the
Alpine Journal have since brought out
numerous articles descriptive of the
noble scenerj and stirring adventures
among these Southern Alps. Of Its
members one of the most active has
been Mr. G E. Mannering. author of
■ With Axe and Itope In the New Zea-
land Alps" (lxingnians, 1891). Doubt-
less the most exciting of the works
that deal with this region is that of
y|r. E.A.Fitzgerald, who lu 1S95 made
several brilliant ascents, including the Silver-
horn, Sefton and Cook. Among the episodes
the story of his slip on Sefton and hanging
in mid air supported only by the rope in the
bauds of Zurbriggen. himself but insecurely
placed, is one of the sort calculated to make
the heart < veu of the experienced climber
stand still.
Returning row to Cue western continent, it
may be in order to say a few words concern-
ing the development of mountaineering as «
sport on this side of the Atlantic
The far west, and especially the PaciUc
;l«pe of our continent, offers a much h« tter
held; yet even here, at least In the l-nlted
States proper, distnu tly alpine features are
for the greater part absent. That vigorous
societies have arisen here is not strange: the
Sieira club in San Francisco (1S92) and the
Macainas I1S94I In Portland. Ore. The for
m« r finds a grand field for rock climbing In
the high Sierra, the latter makes exhilarating
and Inspiring snow- excursions to the summits
of the extinct volcanoes of the Cascade range
These beautiful snow-covered domes. Shasta
(14,440), Hood (11,22".), St. Helena (10,000),
Adams (12,470! and Rainier (14,394). present
no serious technical difficulties, as may be
Judged from the fact that large parties of
30 to 40 of both sex< s not infrequently make
their summits. This is not true of Mount
Baker tlO.S27). which a selected party of Ma
xamas found almost beyond their power* in
i9 7
Mount Ritter 113.156) was ascended by John
Mulr in the early seventies; Mount Whilney
114,499). the highest summit in the I'rlted
States proper, by Bengole, Eucas and Johnson
in 1873, and Mount \bboU (13.700). whoa*
"forbidding summit ... Is one of the only
two great Sierra ptua* which has not been
ascended* iso wiote Prof. J N. Ls Conte to
190"). was conquered In 1908 by that leading
authority on the Sierra Nevada, to whose
camera we owe our picture of Its precipitous
npper stores.
Drinking Ci.pr
No action Ii. h be- it tr.'-'- n . / the
Oklahoma Corporation Comm.'iion
in regard to 'lie cm ; de started i:.
a number of other States a;ai'.tst
the public drlnliirg cups oil the
trains. In several of the Stati -
the cups nr. t- be naio.ed by 8ept
1, in co:i ef:ui*!ice of protests of etat
authorities, v. i,o regard them as t
menace to Valtb on accoutl
the ease in which they can trans-
mit disease germs, and It has beea
reported that sujik- of the road
will remove tlieni from the cars iu
ibis State. W'iiere this is done wa-
ter will be furnished, but passe;
sers must provide their own cups
Much rejoicing was had at Ada
upon the receipt of Ihe information
I hat Judge Ralph E. Campbell of Hk
I'rsit d States District Court for the
Eastern Distrie of Oklahoma, a;
Muskogee, bad s jsfained the demui
r.-is to the thirty orfort;. thousand
lits filed u> the Federal Govera-
ment to clear the tit'.te to lands in
ihe old Incian Territory part of th.
new state. Thousands of dollars had
been honestly Invested in "dead In
dian claims" :n<5 other Indian lands
in this part of the State, and th.
decision of Judge Csmp'oell practical
ly clears t'ae title thereto as far li-
the Cnitec States Government, or th.
Department of the Interior ls con
ccrned. Thesr suits filed by tie
Government have been a great bur-
den to Cie honest Investor, and a
?reat "booger-hoo" to the would c
ettlcr, and as a result, few im-
provements have teen placid on th
farming anil i.razin.t lands cf thi-.
iPontotool County. However, great
tildes wir. now be taken at once for
ihe improvnucnt of all the fariuiiiv
hinds In hte extern part of the ne^-
Siate, and an influx of active set
tiers from the old States is expected,
ani. is respectfully invited. Faint-
ing lands ranne froai five to twen
ty dollars per acre, and gracing lands
three to ten doPars.
\(
Bridye oCnt-act Let.
The coutracl tor th" new bridg
northwest of Texhoaia 'as let the
first of the week to i\y .orson Br^s .
-if Eldorn-'o. Kan., who.- • hid wu-
t2,147. This bridge will lie the larg-
st In Tcxascounty and will fill a
long felt wani. us it will be of vast'
benefit to thousands llvitu; in West
Texas and Cimarron counties whr
make Texhoma their trading point
New Postmaster Wanted.
Bob oRdgers. who tendered his res
i nation a- pistmaster of Augusta
evcral utoiitlis ago,'has received no
lies from ihe department that Levi
Johnson has been appointed to (he
place. As soon as necessary papers
nrrlve from Wa.hinton Mr. John
son will as iiine charge.
Indians (o Join Celebration.
Repres. n;atlve« of the half doxen
Indian tribes who are to engage in
great stomp dance ,ind barbecue fes-
tivities as a part of the entertain-
ment for !.awton's birthday celebra-
tion. Aug. t> and 7, are Iwginalng to
arrive, and before the close of an
other day. something near 2,00o
of them will be enee.niped on grounds
adjoining lawton.
Waterworks Bonds Voted.
By a vote of 09 to 1 the clttxens
of Ralston at a special election, have
carried the proposition for wuter
works and electric lights, for which
123,000 Is to be expended.
« -
Lost Nineteen Steers.
Eugene Hay* of Elgin lost nine-
teen steers duriug a recent thunder
storm by a single stroke of light-
ning They were standing In a cor
ner against a wire felice and the
lightning hit the f«nce and th# catlle
fell over
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