Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 120, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. XI. NO 120
VINITA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 190!)
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
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EXPLORERS
PRAISE DR. COOK
STATEMENT FROM FINANCIAL
BACKER OF EXPEDITION.
TOOK MOST FEASIBLE ROUTE
Trip to Pole Remarkable For Utiliza-
tion of Practical Plan As Well
As For Results.
WEBB BROTHERS BUT
RIDDLE LIVERY BARN
By Associated Press.
New York Sept. 2. John R.Brad
ley the financial backer of Dr Cook
explained today that the explorer's
success was not due in such a great
extent to chance. "This was no hap
hazard expedition" be said "we
went about it quietly and studied out
the mistakes of others and you see
the result."
- Washington D. C Sept. 2. Dr
Thomas Deterick who was surgeon for
Peary on an arctic expedition twice
said today that Dr. Frederick A.
Cook in reaching the Pole by the west
coast of Ellesmere Land had chosen
the most feasible routt. "Dr. Cook'3
polar expedition is remarkable not
only for results" said Deterick '"but
for it's utilization of a most practical
plan." .
London Sept. 2. Dr. Cook's per-
sonal announcement that he had
reached the North Pole has done
much to dispel the uncertainity here
but the Information is too uncertain
to convince the bardened skeptics.
The livery stable of C. A. Riddle
on South Wilson street was today
purchased by Lee and James Webb
who took immediate possession and
will conduct the business in the fu-
ture. Both of the Webbs are well
known here Lee Webb having been
chief of police for the last two years
retiring last spring. Jim Webb was
formerly in the livery business here
and has many friends who will wel-
come him back to the city. He has
been living near Chandler in Lincoln
county for two years.
Mr. Riddle will remain in the city
but does not know what business he
will engage In. He may take a trip
to Seattle soon.
SECRETARY OF WAR
IN POLICE COURT
By Associated PresB.
Nashville Tenn. Sept. 2. This
morning Secretary of War Dickinson
appeared in the city court on behalf
of his chauffeur charged with exceed
ing the speed limit. It was shown
that the automobile was making twenty-eight
miles an hour with the secre
tary on his way to the custom bouse
on official business and the case was
dismissed.
NEW Till
SQUAR
GLE OF 30000
E RULES OF LAUD
American Explorer in Signed Statement Tells
of His Experience in1 Arctic Regions-Old
Glory Floated to Breezes at Point Where
Every Way You Tamed Was South-
Three Men and Twenty Six Dogs
Reach Goal Sought for Centuries
Paris Sept. 2. The Paris edition of scouting parties being sent over the
the New York Herald this morning American shores to explore tue way
publishes a signed statement from Dr. and seek game haunts. Their mus
Frederick A. Cook dated "Hans sion was only partly successful be-
CONTRACTORS NOTIFIED
CONTRACTS ARE ILLEGAL
ALLEGED BURGLAR
Christiana Norway Sept. 2. Cap
tain Roald Amundson the Norwegian
arctic explorer after praising the per
severing and energetic personality of
Dr. Cook said that Cook's achieve
ment would not interfere with his
other trips to the Pole. He will start
soon for the north on an oceano-
graphic polar expedition.
SUPPOSED BEAD 111
ViAS SEEN AT SEATTLE
Mont Robinson who recently return-
ed from a trip to Seattle declared re-
cently to a well known eitUen -of Yln-
ita that he had seen Roy Radburn
the Muskogee man whose bones it
was supposed were found near that
place several montlis ago alive and
well in Seattle. Radburn is reported
to have failed In business and then tlit;
finding of the decomposed body
caused the report of his death to be
circulated.
HEAVY RAINS REPORTED
HEAR KANSAS CITY
s
ESCAPE FROM JAIL
Two Men in Same Cell Charged With
Murder Refuse Chance to
Escape.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City Mo. Sept. 2. Heavy
rains fell last night throughout north-
west Missouri and northeastern Kan-
sas the first in weeks and will do
much toward saving corn in most
parts and decidedly is beneficial to
pasture land. Topeka reports an inch
and a half of rain during the last
twelve hours. Baker Kans. reports
two and three-tenths inches in twenty
four hours.
Marion Maddox and Chas. Webb
were the first Vinitans to go prairl
chicken hunting since the open sea-
son began September 1. Yesterday
they went to near Big Cabin and bag-
ged thirteen chickens.
Unlocking the door to the cell in
which they were confined in some un-
known way and sawing the bars over
a back window Tom Starr and Jack
Wilson charged with burglary made
their escape from the federal Jail
(now the county Jail) last night. The
fugitives were arrested several weeks
ago charged with robbing a Katy
work train.
This is the first escape and first
known attempt to escape from this
Jail. How the jail breakers managed
to unlock the cell door and where they
got the saw with which they sawed
themselves to freedom is a matter of
conjecture. Since the removal of the
state convicts it has not been deem
ed necessary to closely guard the jail
as before and it is supposed the two
escaped prisoners received outside aid
In the same cell with Starr and Wil
son were two men charged with mur
der but they refused to accept free
dom under these circumstances and
remained in their cell. These two
prisoners are M. E. Sheehan charged
with killing a man near Welch sever-
al months ago and Charlie Starr said
to be a cousin of the notorious Henry
Starr who is also confined on a charge
of murder. Friends of Starr are try-
ing to arrange bail for him today.
JOPLIN m IS NO
UIi'DEB SUSF10N
y Associated Presa.
Pittsburg Kans. Sept. 2. A white
man said to have come here from
Joplin is suspected now by the police
authorities as knowing something of
the murder of Mrs. Nellie Lukes
whose body was found in a clump of
weeds here last Monday. Three ne-
gro suppects are still held by the
police.
Egede Lerwick Wednesday" of his
experiences in the arctic regions.
After a prolonged fight with fam
ine and. frost" says Dr. Cook 'we
have at last succeeded in reaching
the North Pole. The new nignway
with an interesting bit of animated
nature has been explored and big
game haunts located which will de-
light sportsmen and extend th-j Es-
quimo horizon.
"Land has been discovered oil
which rests the earth's northeriimo.st
rocks; a triangle of 30000 square
miles has been cut out of terresf.iitl
unknown.
"The expedition was the outcome
of a summer cruise in the actic seas
on the schooner Bradley which J-r
rived at the limits of navigation it
Smith Sound late in August 190S
Here conditions were favorable for a
launching venture to the pole. J. R
Bradlev liberally supplied from bif
vessel suitable provisions for loca
use. -My own equipment for emer
gencies served well for every p'.'.r
pose In the arctic."
"Many Esquimaux had been gather
ed on Greenland shored at Annatoal
for the winter bear hunt. Immense
quantities of meat had been collectei
and in camp were plenty of stroni
dogs. The combination was lucky fo
there was plenty of good material fo
equipment.
"All that was required was con
veniently arranged for at a point onl
seven hundred miles from the boreal
center. The house and worksho
were built of packing boxes by will
ing hands and this northermost tribe
of 250 people set themselves to the
problem of devising a suitable outfit.
Before the end of the long winter
night we were ready for the enter
prise and plans had matured to force
a new route over Grinnell Land
northward along its west coast out
onto the Polar sea.
"The campaign opened with a few
CHIEFTAIN AGAIN
TRIUMPHS OVER
ALL COMPETITION.
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The Daily Chieftain
gave the news of the dis-
covery of the North Pole
to its readers sixteen
hours ahead of the next
papers received here con-
taining toe news. Again the
value of the membership
in the Associated Press
has been shown. The rep-
resentatives of this great
news gathering syndicate
were the first to herald
achievement of Dr. Fred-
erick A. Cook an achieve-
ment the lure of which
has cost nanny lives since
the f-earci for the Pole be-
gan. In three hours after
the Colonial office at Cop-
enhagen had received the
eventful telegram an ac-
count of the expedition
was in the forms of the
Chieftain and a short time
later was given to its
readers. Again this paper
has demonstrated its value
to the town and again has
cause of storms. At the sunrise of
il 908February 19tb the main ex
peditlon embarked on its voyage to
the pole. It consisted of 11 men and
103 dogs drawing 11 heavily laden
sledges. (
"We left the Greenland shore and
pushed westward over the troubled
ice of Smith Sound. The gloom of
the long night was relieved by only a
law hours of daylight. The chill of
tie winter was felt at its worst. As
we crossed the heights of Ellesmere
Sound to the Pacific eiope the temper-
ature sank to minus 83 centigrade.
Several dogs were frozen and the
men suffered severely but we soon
found game trails along which the
way was easy.
"We forced through Nansen Sound
to Land's End. In this march we se-
cured 101 muskoxen seven bears and
335 hares.
"We pushed out into the Polar sea
from the southern point of Herbert
(Continued on Page Two.)
Spokane Wash. Sept. 2 Contract-
ors with thousands of dollars tied up
in municipal work in Spokane have
been advised by their attorneys that
contracts recently awarded to them
by the board of public works are ille-
gal as two members of that body are
residents of the same ward a viola
tion of the amended city charter. Carl
W Tuerke a resident of the first ward
in whic.k Commissioner O'Brien lives
who was named by Mayor Pratt
claims that he complied with the law
by engaging a room In a down town
hotel the day ho was appointed and
that he had a right to resume his for-
mer domicile. He says also the cor
poration counsel had advised him that
the charter applies only at tho time
of the appointment and not to his ser
vice after he becomes connected with
the board. This Is new in legal juris
prudence In the Northwest if not in
the United States and it is likely the
highest court in the state will be asked
to rule on it.
DETECTIVE HAD LEARNED
TO LOVE THE CHILD
rfy Associated Press.
Topeka Kans. Sept. 2. Joseph
Gentry the alleged kidnapper of
Marian Bleakley expressed his be-
lief today that Mrs. James Barclay
will not give up her claim to the
child. "She loves the child better
than her own life." said Gentry
"Through her I learned to love the
child before ever seeing it. It was this
that prompted me to take part in this.
The money I was paid was only a
small consideration."
SPECIAL TERM OF
ICT
DSTR
COURT
Judge Carruthers of Hughes-Okfuskee
County District to Hear Sapulpa
Cases Next Week.
Guthrie Okla. Sept. 2. Chief Jus-
tice M. J. Kane lute last evening Is-
sued orders for special terms of dis-
trict courts Including the assigning
of District Judge Carruthers of the
Okfuskee-Hughes district to Sapulpa
to open a special term of court on Sep-
tember 6 to try the 191 indictments
secured by State Enforcement Attor-
ney Fred S. Caldwell two we(;ks ago
for violations of the prohibition law
in the Creek county capital city.
Justice Dunn who last week heard
arguments on Attorney Caldwell's mo-
tion to temporarily suspend County
Attorney L. B. Jackson of Creek
county from office pending trial on
charges of misconduct iu office to-
day announced that he would not pass
upon the application until the district
court at Sapulpa disposes of Jackson's
motion to set asido the accusations.
Other special terms of court were
set as follows: McAlester Septem
ber 2 containing three days; Eufaula
September 27 five days; Tecumset
September 20 two weeks; Lawton.
September 15 to October 23; Freder-
ick. October 25 to November 27; Al-
tus November 29 to December 23;
Atoka September 6 five weeks; New-
kirk September 1G to October 16;
Medford November 15 to December
11 ; Tulsa September 13 to December
22. Judge D. A. Richardson of the-
Sixth district is assigned to Eufaula
to hold court beginning September 27
and continuing five days concurrent
with the regular judge and Judge
John J. Carney is assigned to Beaver
county under a similar arrangement
October 4-16.
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Marrs, D. M. Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 120, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1909, newspaper, September 2, 1909; Vinita, Okla.. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc773415/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.