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HEWS OF THE WEEK.
Senator and former Presidential candidate, Robert M.LaFollette.
died in Washington, D.C., June 18th. He contracted a severe cold
several weeks ago which developed into asthma and death is attrib
uted to angina pectoris from which he had long suffered. He was
70 years old on June 14th. He said just before he died: "I think
I have earned a long rest”. Before the end came Senator LaFollette
mustered his waning strength in a vain effort to murmer a last
word to those at his bedside. His wife, two sons and daughters
were colse about him through the morning and until death came.
At the request of Governor Blaine, the body lay in state in the
Capitol Building in Madison, Wisconsin, over Sunday and was buried
Monday.
John T.Scopes, who goes on trial July IGth. , told the repor
ters: "I am a Christian and believe the Bible was Divinely inspire
and that Jesus Christ did exist”. He also reiterated his belief
that man evolved from lower animals and pointed to the Bible say
ing God created man in His own image but not exactly. He applied
last week for reappointment, but School Superintendent White an
nounced he would recommend none but a Fundamental!st.
Letters expressing the wish that the Bible would be burned and
never taught and a mass of unsolicited correspondence is coming to
the desk of Judge Raulston, who will preside at the trial of Pro
fessor Scopes. Attorney General Stev/art ’ s mail box is overloaded
with applications of lawyers from all over the country for permis
sion to appear on one side or the other.
Expedition of Amundsen fails to reach North Pole. The entire
Amundsen party reached Spitzbergen in one plane. The party did
not return to King's Bay by the plane but were picked up by a fisu
ing boat and conveyed there. The expedition reports having reache'
88 degrees and 80 minutes. Amundsen has planned a new attempt to
reach the Pole.
A strange malady has broken out among the Indians on the upper
Koyukuk River and has been reported to Governor George A. Parks
who has ordered a physician from Fairbanks to proceed by air plane
to affected district. The epidemic first attacks children and
later adults and the nurse at Episcopal Mission at Alatna is una
ble to diagnose the ailment, there being no physician nearer than
Fairbanks. The symptoms are headache, vomiting, convulsions and
dysentery.
The motorship Charles D.Brower, departed last Wednesday from
Nome for the Arctic, destination Herschel Island. The ship carried
Edna Wallace, writer, who spent a year between Wainwright and
Barrow with Earl C.Rossman, cameraman, one year ago. Miss Wallace
said she would winter at Barrow gathering material for a book*
U.S.Senator Edwin Freemont Ladd, of Fargo, North Dakota, died
in a hospital in Baltimore, Md., last Monday. He retained consci
ousness almost to the end,, recognized his wife who arrived one
hour before his death. Complications of kidney troubles caused
his death. Senator Ladd was a non partisan Republican.