V 4 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOAtSB:! 8 i i i - ' - . " " " ..... 1 ' ' I ii himiimi in inrr ainwiBiinnriTYT m i C 1 THE COLUMBIAN. BI.OOMSBURG, I'A. THURSDAY, SEPTEMIJKU 0. li)0! POLAR DISCOVERER RETURNED. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brook lyn, the discoverer of the North Pole, returned from his Arctic jour ney last Saturday, landing at Co penhagen, where he was royally received. When his vessel was sighted, craft of all kinds went out to meet him. The Crown Prince of Denmark escorted him ashore and took him to the hotel in which he is the guest of the government. Royalty has covered him with many honors. The king sent for him almost immediately after he landed, and received him in an old suit of clothes borrowed from a sea man, atid later in the day the King's tailor provided the explorer with evening clothes in which to attend a banquet given in his honor. Scores of scientists have called upon him to offer congratulations, and thousands of people have rush ed to get a passing glimpse of him. On Sunday Dr. Cook dined with the King and the royal family at the palace, and entertained them with his accounts of the Polar re gions. He expects to visit Brussels, lec ture in Paris, and possibly in other cities, after which he will return to Copenhagen, and theuce to New York. Dr. Cook, in an interview with a roup of reporters at his hotel, told many interesting facts. "This time we had started out to reach the Pole, and everything else was of secondary consideration. It was not possible to carry certain apparatus, and it was impossible also to study the deep sea or take Soundings. "We carried all necessary simple instruments for astronomical obser vations and we were very lucky to obtain observations virtually every day. The positions noted must have been nearly correct. We had three chronometers, one watch, compasses and pedometers. All were carefully controlled by each other from time to time. The watch, however, got out of order. "We had all the modern instru ments which other explorers have had, including thermometers, bar ometers and sextants of the latest models. It is possible tlv t our ob servations were better thnn those of earlier days, but I do not assert that I am perfectly iamiliar with making astronomical observations, especially in the polar regians. I think that all explorers will be sat isfied with my data. "The daily distance covered on '.he northward trip was slightly less than fifteen mnes: on the south vard tri o it was ten miles. This is not an abnormal distance for Eski mos on the ice. They often travel ifty or sixty miles with clogs. One f the greatest advantages of our :rip was that I did not take a fam ne route. We had game for a long .ime, perhaps for a hundred miles We fed our dogs well throughout .he winter m Greenland and ran .hem 400 miles, giving them fresh meat every day. Thus we brought ;hem to the Polar Sea fat and well. Ate had the best men and the best logs. "We lived entirely on dried meat ind beef tallow, reducing the food iroblcm to a science. The last trace of animals we saw was a bear rack at 83 degrees. Afterwards ve did not even see life in the wa- er except Algae. "The drift of the ice during the .ntire southern trip was slightly .outh of east; the direction of the vind was generally south of west. .Ve found several of Pverdrup's old amps. The reason we utilized silk lents on some occasions was that we vere so exhausted that we hadn't trength to build a snow shed. We tad carefully figured and planned verything, so that there was no urplus weight to carry. We did not run short exc?pt when we went astray. "During the expedition we ate all kinds of meat. 1 like musk ox best, but we would eat bear or fox if the other was not obtainable. Everything tastes good when one is starving. We brought ten dogs back with us, the others having ! been eaten by their companions. We used the lasso, traps and bows and arrows to catch game. It took two months to learn how to trap a moose. One of the men shot an eider duck with arrows. "On the return trip our provis ions became entirely exhausted. No animal life was visible, and for three days we had nothing to eat. Then in a crevice of the ice we caught sight of several walruses. "I had only a few cartridges left. I crept along the ice on my stom ach, approaching the animals slow ly, so as not to scare them. I ex pended all my cartridges, and as a result secured two of the walruses. Our lives were saved. "We then broke up our only sledge and made bows and arrows of the wood, as do the Eskimos, and secured game with these arms. "Again near Cape York we were virtually on the point of starvation when we found a young seal sleep ing 011 the ice. At Cape York we found traces of musk oxen, which we tracked and killed." "Concerning the ice around the Pole, so far as I could see, it was slightly more active there than at one or t.vo degrees .south. It drift ed somewhat mo-e to the south and east. Its general character is not ery different from that at other places. We stayed around the Pole for two days, making many obser- ations. "I do not claim to have put my finger on the exact spot; I do not claim to have put my foot on it, but personally, I think we have been at the spot. When the cbser- ations have been figured out again : is possible that' there will be found slight errors and differences, but I am certain that a gunshot fired from where we were would have passed over the Pole. "We planted the Stars and stripes at what we believed to be the Pole, but did not leave the flag with a staff. Instead, I placed a small silk flag in a cylinder with my card and the record of the journey with the date. "The drift ice may carry the flag away, but to me tnat is a matter ot indifference. I should have been very glad to have found land there. discovered two hitherto unknown islands." ss. ;tate of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath hat he is senior partner of the firm f F. J. Cheney & Co., doing bus less in the City of Toledo, County nd State aforesaid, and that said rm will pay the sum of ONE tUNDRED DOLLARS for each nd every case of Catarrh that annot be cured by the use of lall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney Sworn to before me and sub .-ribed in my presence, this 6th ay of December, A. I). 1886. A. W. Gi.kason, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in arnally, and acts directly on the lood and mucous surfaces of the ysteui. Send for testimonials free. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Oil Proves a Nuisance. Now Material on Rondi it Tracked Into Homei. Although satisfaction has been expressed by contractors and others interested in the experiment of in troducing oil into macadamized roads for the prevention of dust, there is a decided differeu e of opiuion throughout Overbrook, near Philadelphia where the inno vation has been in progress all during the summer. Iu fact, a number of residents of that fashion able suburb are considering getting up a petition to discover why a nuisance which has accompanied the advance of the work, and from which many of them have greatly suffered, cannot be abated. Practically all of the roads of Overbrook-the majority of them originally macadamized-are being reconstructed, and while it is not denied that the oil has done away with the old dust problem, it would appear that conditions which have kept pace with the advance of the work, fully justify the universal indignation that has been aroused. There are heveral stages in the laying of the new roads, but it is only while the steam rollers are at work upon thein that they are kept closed to traffic. Three layers of different materials are being placed to make up the new macadam, the experimental oils being spread on thick between. The latter is tech nically known as tarvae, and while it is claimed not to be tor or pitch, it has all the properties and odor of the latter and that it is most de structive and disagreeable in its effects will be vouched for by the residents along the lines of the new experiment whose homes, clothes and furniture have suffered to no small extent. The most objectionable feature of the "nuisance" which has caused the discussion seems to be that after the oil is squirted from heated barrels upon the successive A Terrible Crime. REGISTER S NOTICE Notice is heroin Riven to all legatees, creditors and other parsons interested in the estates of the respective decedents and minors that the following adminis trator's executor's and guardian's ac counts have been filed in the office of the Register of Wills of Columbia County and will le presented lor confirmation nnd allowance in the Orphan's Court ti. be held at Bioomsburg. on Monday, September 87th. A. D. 1000 at a o'clock p. m. of said day. No. 1 First and final account of C. W. McCnslin, administrator of the estate of William Jones, deceased, late of Mt, Pleasant township, Pa. No. 2 First and finat account of W. H, Gable and W. A. Gable, administrat ors of the estate oi H. H. Gable, deceas ed, late of Locust township, Fa. No. 3 First and final account of W. C. Oliver, administrator of the estate of Alice .Viller, deceased, late of Locust township, l'a. No. 4 First and final account of Clyde C. Creveling, administrator of the estate of Benson H. Creveling, deceased, late of Scott townshin. Pa. I No. 5 First and final account of ; Clyde C. Creveling, administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of the estate of Dorothy A. ; Creveling, deceased, late of Scott town ' ship, Pa. I No. 6 First and final account of C. D. i Bowers, administrator of the estate of i Catharine Bowers, deceased, late of i Catawissa borough, Pa. 1 No. 7 First and final account of ' Isaiah W. Ilelwig. administrator of the ' estate of Emma HcKvig, deceased, late , of Locust township. Pa. I No. 8 First and partial account of M. A. Markle and D. A. Markle, adminis trators of the estate of Susan U. Markle, deceased, late of Berwick borough, Pa. No. ( First aud final account of David H. Walsh, administrator of the 1 estate of Honora Burke, deceased, late ' of Centralis. Pa. 1 No. 10 First and final account of Alice A. Kichart and Lester L. Ricliai t, administrators of the estate of W. Clark Richart, deceased, late of Bioomsburg, Pa. 1 No. 11 First and final account of : John M. Welsh and Archibald Patterson, executors of the estate of Abncr Welsh, deceased, late of Orange township. Pa. No. 12 First and partial account of i.Cora Conner, administrator c. t. a. and , L. Creasy Conner, administrator of C. ; A, Conner, deceased, who was the ad I ministrator c. t. a. of the estate of George 1 Conner.deceased, late of Bioomsburg, Pa. I No. 11 First and final account of 1 William P. Vanderslice, administrator of the estate of Clara A. Vanderslice, de ceased, late of Mt. Pleasant township, Pa. i No. 14 First and finat account of Scott, administrator of the estate deceased, late of layers of macadam it practically of Lydia Remaley, remains iu its liaui 1 state, which Center townshin. Pa. condition is made more acute by a No. i First and final account of hot sun- nnrl the stuff is carried ' Arthur B. Naylor, executor of the estate not sun, and ttie stun is carriea, of wmi.tm w . Barrel, deceased, late of siu.it.iug upuu suues, miu iuc houses in the vicinity. GRANGERS AT CENTRE HALL. For the Patrons of Husbandry Exhi bition at Centre Hall, Pa., September 1 1 to 17, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell special excursion tick ets to Centre Hall from stations in Penn sylvania, and from Baltimore and Elmi ra at reduced rates (mimimum rate 25 cents). Tickets will be sold September 10 to 17; good to return until September 30, inclusive. One of the worst crimes in the criminal annals of Northumberland county occurred in the woods sev eral miles from Mt. Carmel, on Thursday afternoon, and the full details are too shocking to be plac ed in print. William Becker, aged twenty-eight years, a young man residing at Mt. Carmel, and who is regarded as one of the most honor able and upright Christian young men of the town, left that place on Ihursday morning on a trip through the woods over the moun tain to secure some wild grapes. About two o'clock in the afternoon while returning, when he reached Midvalley he was held up ior the purpose of robbery by two unknown Italians. Becker did not show any resistance and the two foreigners searched his pockets for money. After completing their search through his clothing aud failing to find any money, cursing and swear ing at him they brutally knocked him down and taking a knife they cut him and mutilated him in such a terrible manner that his intestines protruded from the wounds made and after committing the awful deed they ran away and made their escape. Suffering untold agony the young man retained his presence of mind, and incredible as it may seem, took a piece of rope and by tying it as tightly as he could around his body succeeded in stopping the flow of blood and then walked the entire distance to his home at Mt. Carmel, and told the story of his brutal as sault. Physicians were immediately summoned to care for him and an examination disclosed most appall ing injuries. He is in an extreme ly critical condition aud is unable to give a description of his assailants. On account of the lack of water, the rolling mill of the American Car and Foundry Company at Ber wick was forced to close down last Thursday, throwing five hundred men out of employment. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a writ of Fieri Farias is sued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, Pa., and to me di rected, there will be sold .it public sale at the Sheriff's Office, in the Court House at Bioomsburg, county and state aforesaid, on SATURDAY, SEPT. 25th, 1905, de- at 10 o'clock a. m., the following scribed real estate: All that certain piece, parcel and tract of land situate in the Town of Biooms burg. in the County of Columbia, and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and de scribed as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone in liae of lands formerly of B. F. Sharpless and C. R. Kressler. thence by land of C. R. Kress ler and other lands of the said E. B. Tustin, south seventy-eight and three- fourth degrees west, seven hundred and twenty-nine and one-half feet to a stone in line of lands of the Rosemot Ceme tery Compmy, thence by the same south sixteen and one-half degrees east six hundred and twenty-five feet to a stone, thence south twenty-three degrees east six hundred and thirteen and eight-tenth feet to a stone in line of lands of Lyrera Creveling, thence by same north Seventy-one and one-fourth degre js east seven hundred ana htty teet to a stone in line of lands formerly of B: F. Sharpless, thence by the same north twenty-two degrees west eleven hundred and seventy-two feet to a stone, the place of be ginning, containing TWENTY ACRES OF LAND, strict measure. Seized, taken into execution at the suit of Permelia E. Hulshizer vs. E. B Tustin. and to be sold as the property of E. B. Tustin. CHARLES B. ENT. Clinton Herring, Sheriff, Attorney. 9-2-4L Seal) Admires a Peach. Editor Fosnot of the Watsontown Record, although he is somewhat of a veteran, still admires beauty when he sees it. ' He recently gave utterance to the following: "We have been asked to give our serious opinion on the peach basket hat. Well, we must confess that we do not like 'em, but if there is a real peach beneath 'em, we will not kick about the hat." The following letters are held at the Bioomsburg Pa., Post Office. Miss Annie Bower, Mr. Juo. Spitz. Bloomsbursr. Pa. No. 16 First and final account of W. E. Geiger and Isaiah B. Geiger, execut ors of the estate of Samuel Geiger, deceased, late of Bioomsburg, Pa. No, 17 First and final account of L. B. Knorr. administrator of the estate of Samuel Knorr, deceased, late of Briar- creek township, Pa. No. 18 First' and final account of Joe. W. Helwig, administrator c. t. a. of the estate of Jacob Fetterman. deceased, late ot Roarinecreek township. Pa, No. 10 First and final account of Frank Ikeler, trustee, to make sale of the real estate of Delilah Cramer, deceas ed, late of Bioomsburg, Pa. No. 20 First and partial account of Elizabeth Parker, executrix of the estate of Wm. U. Parker, deceased, late of Greenwood township. Pa. No. 21 First and final account of Anna Elizabeth Marsch (now Mrs. Perry Swisher) administratrix of the estate of Elmira Marsch, deceased, late of Biooms burg, Pa. No. 22 First and partial account of F. A. Witman. executor of the estate of Tames M. Seesholtz, deceased, late of Berwick, Pa. No. 23 First and final account of William Mensch, executor of the estate of Hester J. Barton, deceased, late of Bioomsburg, Pa. No. 24 V irst account of the Com monwealth Title Insurance & Trust Company and Elizabeth Johnston, trus ..,. ...,.1,,.. . u .. ...in ,.c viy,nm if T,.i,., bwa uiiuvi lug win vi , iiiiuii. ii. jwuu- ston, deceased, late of Bioomsburg, Pa. , as stated by the Commonwealth Title Insurance & I rust Company, surviving trustee. No. 25. First and final account of W, II. Maust and E. V, Maust, adminis trators of the estate of Joseph Maust, deceased, late of Madison township, Pa, f KAN K. W.AULLbK, Register's Office, Register. Bioomsburg, Pa. August 2S, 1900, NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the follow ing accounts have been filed in the office of the Prothonotary of Columbia County ana wm De presented to tne Lourt tor confirmation ni si on Monday, Septem ner 27, iqoq, ana unless exceptions are filed within four days thereafter, will be confirmed absolutely by the Prothono tary, namely: Ftrst and final account of the Berwick Savings and Trust Company, Trustee of the estate of Elijah Fullmer, dee'd. First and final account of M. C. Het ler. guardian of M. Alex. Lutz, dee'd. First and final account of T. J. Van dcrslice, Trustee of Jacob Moyer, dee'd. FREEZE QUICK, . Prothonotary. Bioomsburg. Pa., Sept 1, 1909. 9.2-4L TheR. E. Hartman Store Bioomsburg:, Pa. Summer Goods Greatly. Reduced !n order to open our Fall Stock with an entirely changed store, we are clos ing out everything in Sum mer Goods at prices most interesting to every buyer. Our new plan of doing bus iness is to sell to every buy er at the same price and to open every season with en tirely fresh stocks. No old goods at any time. Dime Stamps With Every Purchase The R, E, Hartman Store Bioomsburg, Pa. NOTICE IN PARTITION. In the Orptiam' Court of Columbia County. In the matter of the partition of the real estate of Abraham Stine, late of the Town of Bioomsburg. To the heirs, Mary btine, Bioomsburg, Pa., Sarah S. Billman, Liverpool, Perry County, Pa., Isabella Mourey, Mount Carmel. Northumberland County, Pa,, Edward Stine, 36 North 8th Street, Reading, Pa., Jane Chrisman, Biooms burg, Pa., Hattie Yeager, Bioomsburg, Pa., Mary Jones, Sagan, Northumber land County, Pa., Jessie E. Stine, Bioomsburg, Pa, Description of the premises in question is as follows : All that certain house and lot situated in the Town of Bioomsburg, Pa., beginning at the northwest corner of West First street, and Murry Alley, thence westwardly along said First street eighty-six feet to a corner, and land of J. II. Ueiger, tnence northwest along the said land, one hundred feet to the eastern bank of Fishing Creek, thence eastwardly along said creek one hundred feet, to the place of beginning, whereon are erected a Double Frame House aud out-buildings. Take notice, that in pursuance of an order of the Orphans Court of the Coun ty of Columbia, aforesaid, a writ of par tition has issued from said Court to the Sheriff of the said county, returnable on the 4th Monday of September Term of the said Court, being September 27th, 1909, and that the inquest will meet for the purpose of making partition of the real estate of the said decedent on Fri day, September 17th, 1909, at 10 o'clocK in the forenoon of said duy, upon the premises, at which time and place you are requested to be present, if you see proper, CHARLES B. ENT. Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Bloornsburg, Pa., Aug. 16, 1909. 8-19-4L Alexander Brothers & Co. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, and Confectionery. Pine Candies. Fresh Every Week. Z'eitist-s- Goods .a. SrPEci-A.xyi'ir. HAVE YOU SMOKED A S ROYAL BUCK or JEWEL CIGAR? ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THEM. ALEXANDER BROS. & CO., Bioomsburg, Pa. tl 0K IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF Carpets, Rugs, Hatting and Draperies, Oil Cloth and Window Curtains You Will Find a Nice Line at' W. B. BROWSE'S BLOOMSBURQ, PENN'A. ) Pennsylvania Railroad PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS NIAGARA FALLS September 22, and October 6, 1909 R0URatIP $7,30 From EAST BLOOMSBURG. Tickets Rood going on train leaving 11:45 A. M., connecting with SPECIAL TRAIN of Pullman Purlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day Coaches running via the PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE. Tickets good returning on regular trains within fiktekn days, including dale of excursion. Stop-off within limit allowed at Buffalo returning. Illustrated Booklet and full information may be obtained from Ticket Agents J. R. WOOD. GEO. VV. BOYD. Passenger Traffic Manager. 6-24-15t General Passenger .igoni. ; . . ... i ; ; .
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