Ik Loop City Northwester! J W Bl'IlUSCR. Publisher LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON •e COMPASSED. lUiT EVENTS URL HENTIONED H»n Ml Foreign Intelligence Cory IMMI Into Two eng Four Line Paragraphs. The arbitration treaties failed In the Senate as or .* i call)' drafted The Mil jiaoaed the house granting Aseor^jt ritisetiahtp to Porto Ri< ana hermarj Nagel urged enactment of oral piecer-tiaa hai before foreign ra hUuo committee. Senate democratic members of finance eotn*:ttee decided to stand by hoiw steel tar.IT retision bill Senator Kenyon denounced meth ods aitleged to hare been used in eiertioa of Senator Stephenson of Wis Srnaior Perry announced tbal no •w-.d mah* a tii!fwn to senate In rwgnfin- t«. UiMMppi W»1»ur«'s (rmiii that fee rulfn The bouse unanimously passed the MtlctiM for ieventigmtion of th* alk|rd sh.pp.ng trust by tbe mer cbut airair committee. The garden seed approprin tic* .8 the agricultural bill «a* de pK-.wd ts debut* in the bou-e hr “gruff by opponents of the Itnr Representative Barnett declared that tf battleship appropriations were restored to the democratic program killed and two •cure it; ired Is hr wiwh of a Wa hawk Jtmlted trait ia Indian* la a Mu letter to Frank A. Vunary, fninatl ttutetni narott the uuti irr«oM. that be la an artful dodper Georg* H Perkins visited Mr. Hu»r.ei: at sagamore, carryuig a I--r^ tram JUupr Ilium. Itrl UbIm) coarirted of bat ins attack** a laut'.l girl. was wo life imprisonment at Newton, la. The acuate |a*wd the arbitration tranG*n>. bat iacurjwrate* an atuend Imw which require* further action. Senator HrSe'.oo * hill for pr.-*tden la. i-rotrraac* primaries In the D»s lort vt t oinahu an Adverse !r re port** Iruat the »--aat* taaalro- on the AMlrict. Ylirna'r suffrage trill he submitted to Ohio nmra at a nejmrate measure when the rothaa* draft of the const! tsuos la voted Upon PW cattMruw of the P H Gilpin hu*m Handle factor* a: GraetMotra. Fa were k-JSOd an* one iaj wed *.en the bailor eaploded and w rerk* d the plant " The near terntii nary and nil! tarj bills. *hrh are to be discussed by the mchetag this wwwiori bare bn CMoptetrl) a rafted and sub autfd to (be federal council Secretary Wileun laoued a formal pus or hay in the natural state f*«ii be wtsed until the department COS lb*«-w*-rate the recent pur* food order* relating IO thane produr* from Iniiatk to New (urban* an* tram Kaaaas City to New lurk, are la Washington to confer wtth «fhc*al* of the department of ^rtroltaro ac the recent ruling* re latinc to Mtlphanac of oats and slop Major Grhtcri Arthur Murray U. S. A- nrnimnlHTUT d*e neater;, division, has been ordered from WaFbingtoa to at* piaitwn at Swn Franciacu. The house unaalmoaaly passed a mots:Maw oillaf for aa investigation of the alloded “afcipping truM” by the committee ua awrebaa! marine and with th* interstate min* ion alledlac the Topeka A Santa Me and mg east of Crawford introduced a bill tSt.dM for interim tkm tbo coot of Hring prole killed and eleven train mm* sreek «Kb a freight train jppiSJps fVsJT L. C. Ohsenreiter, the Dubuque, la., I business man who is on a twenty-day fast, passed the fifteenth day. The president sent to the senate the nomination of Ricard Sloan to be l:nited States district judge for Ari zona. California is to be a battle ground between Taft and Roosevelt, i There ir a prospect that Omaha may become an arch Catholic diocese. In an address at Chicago Secretary Stimson declared himself for Taft. William Haskins, a well known horseman, is dead at Oskaloosa. la. The Massachusetts house defeated ■ the bill to abolish capital punishment. Both houses of congress interested themselves in the Lawrence strike sitoation. A hot fight is expected in congress over the sugar tariff and income tax 1 bill. The home rule bill is not to be in ! traduced into the bouse of commons j t*etore Raster. Senator Norris Brown led off in ad vocacy of the ratification ot the arbi tration treaties. Hugh Webster or Ames won the an nual contest of the Iowa state oratori cal association. There was a mutiny of soldiers at | Peking, and the city was given over to pillage and bunting. The belief at Tokio is that interna tional interference is necessary to re store order in China. v»iu ui v. uiout'i awot'cii aic resurrected in an attempt to allow the i inconsistency of his position. President Madero will attempt to ! placate Mexican insurrectos by mak ing changes in the cabinet. Theodore Roosevelt contends his Columbus speech was simply a plea fdr more power for the people. Directors of the l.ake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad company declared an extra dividend of 6 per cent. A draft of a uniform drainage and ; levee law was completed by a commit tee of the National Drainage congress in session at St. Louis. Thirty-one cities in Prussia, includ ing Berlin and other large centers, have been affected by the strike of : :h*.0O» men's tailors. California wine producers protested ' to the judiciary committee against the I j bill to prohibit liquor shipments from , wet into dry states. Congress passed the bill authorizing ■ that a commission of ensign be given to midshipmen upon graduation from j the naval academy. , Rattlesnake venom has been used j j successfully as a cure for tuberculo- ! | sis. according to a report to the Mary land state board of health. No decision of the question of Pana ma canal tolls was reached at the ■ meeting of the bouse committee on j interstate and foreign commerce. A meeting of labor leaders, which, j according to reports from Chicago j | early in February was to have been j held at Kansas City, has been post poned indefinitely. Chairman Adamson of the house I I commerce committee introduced a ‘ill providing for a physical valuation j of all of the common carriers of the | i I'ni'.ed States hr the Intel j»taJe Com- j j merce commission. The department of justice has or dered the United States marshal in | -astern Oklahoma to enforce the fed | eral prohibition law in the old Indian j erritory the same as prior to state ! hoed. Where a father has lost control of j his children through a divorce suit, lie may not claim the right to attend ; *he fna- ral of one of them, according j o a decision handed down in the su j preme court of Iowa. Cairman Sulzer of the foreign af ! fairs committee, after a talk with i President Taft and officials of the state department said that he was op ,« red to any intervention whatever in Mexico by United States troops. Public buildings committee will i give hearings *» fore subcommittee on ! one public building bill for each con ' gee? - man. but an appropriation bill I f jr buildings probably will not be I brought lorward this season. Orders have been issued requiring | all flags of the United States, all uni ons of the national tn-ign and all union ack.- to contain forty-eight stars because of the admission on February 14 of Arizona as a state. The national Roosevelt headquar i t< rs made public a statement disput ing the claim of the national Taft bu reau that President Taft, in his candi dacy for the renoniinaticn. has the support of Governor Hooper of Ten nessee, Governor Oddie of Nevada and Governor Deneen of Illinois. Person*'. Roosevelt headquarters have been opened in Washington. Five men who refused to reveal their identity made a call on Roose velt. Governor Aldrich of Nebraska, says official* who falter in duty perform ance must retire. Speaker Champ Clark was the re j cipient of tributes and congratulations on his *i*ty-second birthday. Senator Hitchcock discussed what (he said was the unlawful acquirement of the Panama canal zone. Woodrow Wilson is in favor of a I presidential preference primary. Santiago Iglesias. president of the American Federation of Labor in Porto Rico, sailed for New York. Students of London have started a counter demonstration to suffragettes. Chairman McKinley, of the Taft headquarters, issued an optimistic statement. Colonel Roosevelt justifies his pres ent stand when letters written in the past are brought before him. A favorable report was made by the senate judiciary committee on the nomination of Chancellor PitCey. President Taft has taken the initia tive In calling a conference of busi ness to consider national questions. Oklahoma sent a split delegation to the Baltimore convention equally di vided between Wilson and Clark. Representative Clark, of Florida, failed la an effort to abolish the office of solicitor of the agriculture depart ment. August Belmont has again made his appearance la politics after several yuan, when be was nominated at Min tote. N. Y- as a delegate of the demo cratic state convention from Nassau i county SOUTH POLE RACE The Norwegian Explorer Tells of His Antarctic Dash. GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE TRIP Captain Amundsen’s Own Narrative of His Attainment of the South Pole December 14, 17, 1911. (By Roald Amundsen. Copyright 1912, by The N. Y. Times Co. All rights reserved.) Hobart, Tasmania, March 8.—At 2 a. m. on the 10th day of February, 1911. we commenced to work our way toward the south, front that day to the 11th of April, establishing three depots, which in all contained a quantity of provisions of about 3,000 kilos, including 1.1U0 kilos of seal meat, were cached in 80 degrees, 700 kilos in 81 degrees and 800 kilos in 82 degrees south latitude. As no land marks were to be seen these depots were marked with flags, seven kilometers on each side in the easterly anil westerly directions. The ground and the state of the barrier were of the best and special ly well adapted to driving with dogs. On February 15, we had thus travel ed about 100 kilometers. The weight of the sledges was 300 kilos, and the number of dogs was six for each sledge. The surface of the barrier was smooth and fine with no sastrugi. The crevices were very local and were found dangerous in only two places. For the rest long, smooth undla uons. The weather was excellent, calm or a light breeze. The lowest tem perature on these depot trips was minus 45 Celsius or centigrade, (49 degrees below zero, fahrenheit.! On the 4th of March, on our return from the first trip beginning on the loth of February, we found out that the Fram. had already left us. With pride and delight we heard that her smart captain had succeeded in sailing her furthest south and there hoisting the colors of his coun try. a glorious moment, for him and his comrades, the furthest north and the furthest south, good old Fram the highest south latitude attained was TS degrees 41 minutes. Winter on the Ice Barrier. Before the arrival of winter we had 6,000 kilos of seal meat in the depots, enough for ourselves ami 110 dogs. Eight dog houses, a com bination of tents and snow huts were built. Having cared for the dogs the turn came to use our solid little hut. It was almost entirely covered with snow by the middle of April. First we had to get light and air. The I.ux lamp, which had a power 200 standard candles, gave ns a bril liant light and kept the temperature up ’o 20 degrees celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit t throughout the winter, our excellent ventilation system gave us all the air we wanted. In‘direct communication with the hut and dog houses on the Barrier were workshops, packing, rooms, cel lars for provisions, coal, wood and oil, a plain bath, a steam bath, and observatory. Titus we had everything within doors if the weather should be too cold an.i stormy. The sun left us on the 22nd of April and did not return until four mon'hs later. The winter was spent in changing our whole outfit, which on the depot trips was found to be too clumsv and solid for the smooth surface of the Barrier. Besides this, as much scientific work as possible was done, and some astonishing meteorological observations were taken. Open Water all Winter. There was very little snow, and there was open water close by throughout the winter. For the same reason higher temperature had been expected, but it remained very low. In five months there were observed temperatures between minus 50 and 60 degrees Celsius, (58 and 76 de grees below zero Fahrenheit! the lowest temperature on the 13th of August, being minus 59 degrees celsius. It was then calm. On the 1st of August the temperature was minus 58 degrees celsius, and there were six meters of wind. The mean temperature for the year was minus 26 degrees celsius. (14.8 below zero fahrenheit.) I had expected hurricane after hur ricane, but I observed only two mode rate seorms and many excellent auroras, in all directions. The sanitary conditions were of the best all the winter and when the sun returned on the 24th or August he met the men sound in mind and body ready to set about the task that had to l>e solved. Already the day before we had brought our sledges to the starting place for our march toward the south. Only In the beginning of Septembef did the temperature rise to such an extent that there was any question of setting out. First Start for the Pole. On the 8th of September eight men, with seven sledges, ninety dogs and provisions for four months started. The ground was perfect. The tem perature was not bad. The next day it appeared that we had started too early, as the temperature of the fol lowing days fell and was kept steady between minus' 50 and 60 Celsius (58 degrees and 76 degrees) below zero fahrenheit. Personally we did not suffer at all from this cold. Our good furs protected us. But with our dogs it was a different matter. It could easily be seen that they shrunk from day to day, and we understood pretty soon that they could not stand the long run to our depot at 80 degrees south. We agreed on returning and to wait for the arrival of spring. The provis ions were cached and off w« went for the hut. With the exception of the loss of a few dogs and a couple of frozen heels everything was all right. Only in the middle of October spring came in earnest. Seals and birds ap peared. The temperature was steady between 20 and 30 Celsius (6S degrees and 86 degrees fahrenheit). The original plan that all of us should go toward the south had been changed. Five men had to do this work, while the other three were to start for the east and visit King Ed ward VII land. This last mentioned trip was not Included in our pro gram, but owing to the fact that the English had not reached it, at least this summer, as was their intention, we agreed that the best thing to do was also to make this trip. On Ocober 20, the southern party started, five men, four sledges, fifty two dogs, and provisions for four months, everything- in excellent order. The Journey to the Pole. We had made up oar minds to take the first part of the trip as early as possible in order to give ourselves and the dogs a rational training, and on the 23rd we made our depot in SO degrees south. We went right ahead. In spite of the dense fog an error of two to three kilomeeers happened once in a while, but w'e were caught by the flagmarks, and found these on our way without difficulty. Having rested and ted the dogs on all the seal meat they were able to eat, we started again on the 26th. with the temperature steadily between minus 20 and 30 Celsius t4 degrees and 22 dgrees belowe zro, fahrenheit). From the start it was the intention not to drive more than 30 kilometers a day. but it appeared that this was too little for our strong, willing ani mals. At 80 degrees south we began to build snow cairns of a man's height, in order to have marks on our re turn trip. On the 31st we reached the depot at SI degrees, and stopped there one day and fed the dogs on as much pemmican as they wanted. We reached the depot at 82 degrees on the 5th of November, where the