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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

Picturesque among the men who made
the march to the pole with Peary is
Matthew Henson, his black bodyEuard.
Although OF only moderate height ana
weight, Henson has WONDERFUL endur-
ance. and his devotion to his master ~
unbounded.
Peary ran across Henson in Nicaragua
IN 1856, when PeaTy was trying TO sur~
vey a route for a Nicaraguar canal ana
Henson, a boy Of Is, applied to him for
work. Henson has remained with him
ever since.
Henson is frequently sent out in charge
Of small hunting and exploring pHrtiess
as he has gained wide knowledge OF
arctic conditions. When Peary made hiS
last desperate attempt 20 reach tho pole
In 1905 by forced mercnss over the last
few hundred miles. he let man after
man drop behind. But he kept black Ma
Hen on By his side to the last
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

President Taft could not have done a
more polite and yet a wiser thing than
make a tour OF the country just now.
II should. do much 10 Draw the states
closer 10 the government. and bring va
rious interests into cooperation for the
c0untry's good. The people will well
come the president because he is the
president. regardless Of party lines; but
they win also receive him as their friend
ard win feel certain proprietorship In
him
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
RefectionS of a Bachelor
New York Press.

Flirting is second nature to most wo-
men, and first to the rest.
Girls need lots of exercise. except at
helping mother around the house.
The average man is your very good
friend till he has a chance to prove It.
A woman likes to go on tour, If it's
only across the street to ask how a neigh
boris baby Is.
A woman can have absolute faith In
her prayers to keep her from harm and
vet climb up on a table to say them
when she thinks a mouse Is In the
closet
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

Any nan who view the matter dispassionately
realizes just comparisons be made by taking arbitrary
periods of the administration Of each
Those refuse anything like new era in the
else of the pardonng well protest that the present
has been distributing emency rather freely and
that there remains and nine months in which
be still further exercised
Certain that the present ratio is kept Governor
loose three hundred and prisoners
before his expires which would certainly mark new era
in Georgia it would be new era' of quite different
kind that which his misguided followers have attempted
to use the cheapest of political thunder.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Her Satisfaction
London Daily News.

took Mt that bicycle" sGid lady as she
identified her badly damaged machine IN a
cloakTOOm.
';Ycs. mn'aIn, I've been looking Mt it," said
the railway official
'Weu, what do you propose 10 do about ~
I'm report II 10 the foreman, ma am, and
he'll repcrt II to the stationmaster the station
master t. the general manager. and he 10 the
board ~ directors and In three or four years
n solicitor VIII call upon YOU 10 ask why you
didn't travel with your bicycle IN properly
made case. That is the way we do"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Thought They Had Cause
Chicago News.

$50 you rode that toothpick salesman out o.
town on a ran7" Intercepted the tourist IN
the mining town.
''By George. yesl'' thundrede the mayor IN
the covhide boots and red shirt When he
tried 10 sell us toothpicks with our names on
them he almost started a fight, but when he
asked us II we wanted them favored with OLD
rose or tutti-fruttl that more than We
could stand 50 the boys Just pitched into MIN.
The old bowie-knife Is the only kind OF tosth-
pick we need In these diggings."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
No Angels in Trousers


4 snci~ty unma1 On sUfng for . divorce from
hrr husband on fae ground that he fails L
rpaiiEe her Ideal OF masculine angp.hOod." ne
Na4siEu frarTler "a man under the haIlucI-
II ton that she Is getting "a sngeI should re
granted 3 diVntcc insfautcr-f0r her own yuod.
Tor the good n her husband. and tire good -
pesterity. an angel IN trousers T. something
which reve- has and never viii exist. ana fnt
woa.Lr who thinks 50 doesn't deserve a real
man Tor husband.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

terest except the extreme precision with
which he gives his latitude as determined
by his sextant namely, 50 degrees 81
minutes 46 seconds, which would give his
distance from the pole equal to LOO feet,
or only so feet more than quarter Of q
mile. II is perhaps superf1ucus TO add
that no portable transit instrument or
sextant would be capable or giving that
degree of precision. even by a long series
Of observations.
In conclusion, 1t appears that Or Cooks
observations show that he was really $50
miles from the pole when ne claims to
have been only 2S4 miles from that point.
HIS observations. show discrepancy OF
316 miles.
The conclusions arrived at In this pa
per are based upon the assumption that
the newspaper reports giving April as
the date of midnight sunrise are correct
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Not as It Used to Be

AfcElhOn UIODe.
How ideals are changingl few years ago
the ideal wife worried II her husband didn Z
Geat fearing he was sick, and worried IL be
ate heartily. fearing he was eating too much.
Now, she Is 80 busy counting her own elbows
that she doesn't even see him, and II he speakA
she doesn't answer until sla has counted S. On
bread and 15s on meat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

President Taft and Ty Cobb were on
yesterday the cynosure Of all eyes at
baseball games. Considering the boots
and yeils Cobb gOt we believe we would
rather have been the president for the
tine being. that IS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Scientific Farming

Washington Herald.
Isl whiffletree believes In scientific farm
ing"
'4What's be doneF'
''Hred q quartet 10 sing and two actors from
a rural Ilay to talk dialect. He's simply
turning away the summer boarders."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Crowded Out

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
II is said that Booth Harrington is going
to leave Indiana.
Those novelists and poets increase rapidly
in the Hoosier state that II Is no wonder one
Of them occasionally gets crowded out.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Thinks It a Good Thing

Chicago Record Herald.
ado you know. my dear. that me bills you re
run fsr this nonth amount 20 just So more
than my income viii b. -
DO theyf Dear me- How proud n mss
make yea 10 know that Jour credit -
good-thst our leading merchants lave such
canfldence IN you."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
BY JOHN \. sToCKwELL, An.
| PHD

Noted Astronomer and Author.
When a man announces to the world
that he has done some great thing, 1t is
the province and duty Of men of science
to apply to his account Of his deed all
the tests provided by the learning of man
kind.
In the matter of the north pole, science
in many Of her departments provides such
tests. Astronomy is a branch Of science
It's tests to the data furnished by DR..
Cook, Lieutenant Peary or any other man
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

A French author declares Robert Full
ton got his inspiration from France. This
may be true. but he developed Il In
America
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
South Against the North
Herald.

Washington Herald.
A Massachusetts minister advocates Sunday
baseball and an Alabama minister wants 10
make IL crilnlnal1y illegal. And yet the New
England conscience has generally btsen consid-
cred 10 have the southern conscience beat q
thousand miles for narrowness.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Bases His Argument Upon the
Statement by the Explorer
That April 7 Was Marked by
the Swinging of the Midnight
Sun Over the Northern Ice.

EDITORS NOTE.-John Nelson Stock
well, A NJ, Ph. D., has attracted world
wide attention as the author Of scientific
papers attacking the nebular hypothesis, and
of otner works which have earned him
commanding place In science. He Is the
author Of Memoir of the Secular Varia-
tions Of the Planetary Orbits" in the
Smithsonian Institutions contributions to
knowledge, and Theory Of the Mutual Per-
turbatlons OF Planets Moving at the same
inKs adI the Constitution OF Saturn's Rings
and the Cosmogony CT Laplace."
Besides many lectures and papers. be Is
best known as a muster Of statistics as ap-
piled TO practical astronomy.
Professor stockwell, In preparing the pa
per published below, had no animus otner
than TO apply the tests Of the science OF
which he is a master to DIR. Cooks data.
He has disregarded, for the main purpose
Of his argument, all data secured BY the
use Of instruments, and takes only the sin
gle physical fact--when did Cook first see
the midnight sun?
Prof. Stockwell believes that DR.. Cook
could not be mistaken either In the fact OF
seeing the sun at midnight, or In the day
Of the month he saw 1t. II he did not see
the sun at midnight until April 4 1908,
then the astronomer Is certain that the ex-
plorer's calculations as TO hts whereabouts
must be In error by more than 800 miles.
In publishing this statement, The Journal
does not take sides In the CoOk-Peary con-
troversy. DR.. Cook may be able to settle
Professor Stockwell's doubts in q word. We
hope he will be able to DO so.-Editor.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

with cotton above Il cents. there is no
reason why nearly everybody In Geor-
TIA shouldn't be here during automobile
week.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

Minister Wa says the Chinese found
the pole 5000 years ago. That's ell right,
n they can produce their Eskimo witt
nansek.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Tuesday, September Il, 1909.

Mr. Bryan probably reJoiees that he IL
spared the wear and tear OF n.ooo-mile
3annt on the steam cars.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

Already the demand for 'possums has
set IN. showing that the president is
disposed 20 help along southern in
dustry.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

Savannah wiz charge 80 q plate for
the Taft banquet This ought TO breax
Savannah. II IL doesn't the solid south.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
A PARALLEL OF PARDON RECORDS.

The misguided partisans of Governor Brown who seized
his action pardon misdemeanor convict
that had been established Georgia the exercise
of the paonng have discovered much to their own
confusion the embarrassment of the chief executive that
in agtang this question they have prayed for rain and
brought freshet.'
We repeat here what have said occasion when
have discussed this matter that Governor Brown quite
right in refusing pardon Communication to Mitchell and he
entitled to due credit for it.
But that little tribe of politicians who know
when let we'll enough alone and have to make campaign
document of ng incident have done much to rob
him of the credit which his administration would be entitled
when the facts the far from showing that he
has established any new era in the exercise of the pardonng
power.
On the contrary the boot quite the other foot and the
facts taken the official records show that Governor Brown
has pardoned hundred prisoners during
Office, Smith did during
pondng period.
Governor Brown inauguratd June &C. of the
when Saturday September H. he issued
conditional pardons in daywhch made ten in two days
he had been in office exactly eleven weeks
During that period he had issued pardonS conditional
dOns Communication present service thirty eight prs
eight of whom had been charged with murder four with
manslaughte two with rape with infanticde and nine
with burglary.
Rather grewsome sort of record, ISM tH
Now during the first eleven weeks that Governor Smith
Office he pardoned COMMITTED present service -
the parole law having been adopted total of seventeen
prisoners among whom there murderer rapts
any criminals Of the type except two burglars
Or necessary draw diagram in order that
these noisy little partisans be convinced against their will
In order to make the matter perfectly clear them and for
the convenience of the reader the record
in the deadly parallel" showing the facts during the
first eleven weeks of each administration with the higher
each instance fairly compared by of capital letters
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

TIE power OF the Alabama court In
junction win be fully tested when IL goes
Nd against those two beer watts in Mo-
bile.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

Fight has been started on the cattle
tick. II is just as well to let animals
share IN the general hygienic betterment-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21
Washington Herald.
In n coftaue IA All very nice

love in a cottage is all very nice"
@WellTT
"But wlIan a girl has been used to an En-
pensive touring car. can she be contented with
life In a runaboutr
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

DR.. Cook, approaching the pole (marked ''S' J
was going toward q place where the sYa would
be- visible at midnight. He says he saw the
midnight sun marked al" and ''2") on April
Z, and was at the point marked "a" 2S4 miles
from the pole.
Professor stoolxwell says that the midnight
that II Cook didn't see it until April he
must have been on that date at the point mark
ed IS" $50 miles from the POLE In other
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

FIRST IL WEEKS UNDER BROWN.
July 7-Bud Cooper. MURDER.
July s-Robert Haywood. gaming.
July s-Frank Myers. stealing ride on train.
July s--Bob Floyd, larceny.
July 1e-L. ". Patton, blind tiger.
July I'D. C. Finch. blind tiger.
July n-Lace Simpson, MURDER.
July 25-Gus Pease, MURDER.
July 2s-o'Meigs Powell MANsLAUGHTEk.
July 9--Montgomery, BURGLARY.
July So-lleywocd Powell, BURGLARY.
Aug. s-R. L. vanderford. RAPE.
Aug. s-H. Hoffman, BIGAMY.
Aug. I-JAmes Reed. MURDER
Aug. s-Richard Allen, BURGLARY.
Aug. fisherman Brewer, BURGLARY.
Aug. 6-Norman Jackson, yOLU NTARY
NANSLAU0BTER.
% Aug. &C. Pickelheimer, MURDER.
Aug. CIV. L. Jaughin, assault TO murder.
Aug. Oscar Alereen, BURGLARY.
Aug. Riley Walton. BURGLARY.
Aug. 7-Gordon simmons blind tiger.
Aug. s-Eulaee Wallace, larceny after trust
Aug. s-Walker Barentine. NoLUNIAAI
MANsLAUGHTER.
Aug. s--Alf Hall, BURGLARY.
Aug. s--Gcorge Cooper, larceny after trust.
Aug. lO-Ed Knox. MURDER.
Aug. ls-ChsrlcS Hudson, blind tiger.
Aug. 2s-LouIss lindsey. INFANTICIDE.
Sept. 1o-Ben Gadsden, BURGLARY.
Sept. 1n--Gnbert Matthews, RAPE.
Sept. 10-Frank Jarvis, misderneanor.
Sept. 11--Tom Evans, larceny.
Sept I1--Tom Anderson. MURDER.
Sept. Il--snow Allen, BURGLARY.
Sept. lie. McCleun, MURDER.
Sept. 1i-Tol Cannon, larceny.
Sept lt-John Biekers, BURGLARY.
Sept. Nv. A. Maxwell. VOLUNTARY
MANsLAUGHTER.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-21

FIRST II WEEKS UNDER SMITH.
July III. G. Williams, larceny.
July &c. ]. White, gambling house.
July III. L. Black. BURGLARY.
July 1s-Trank Russell, vagrancy.
Aug. i-Narcissa Reynolds, vsgraney.
Aug. 1-Camelia Roke, vagraney.
Aus. Ill. Drummond. assault TO murder.
Aug. FL Brooks, gaming.
Aug. iT-charles Collins. robbery.
Aug. 1T-JOhn Brown. assault and battery.
Aug. IA. T. Dnsher. larceny.
Aug. s4-LOuise Thomas. BURGLARY.
Aug. 24-Dozisr Lewis. larceny.
Aug. Al. ]. Carroll. larceny.
sept. t-B. Woodward, blind tiger
Sept. IA. McGuffey, misdemeanor.
Sept. Is-H. Pollard. assault to murder.
Sept. IA. ]. Posey. larceny.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-23
THRoNG FORCES DOORS AND
BREAKS WINDOWS TRYING
TO HEAR EVIDENCE.
MRS. HANCOCK EXPLAINS
Would Not Tell All She Knew on
Witness Stand Because Of Fear Of
Samuel Walker, Whom She Asserts
Made Threats Against Her Life.
Special to The Daily Missoulian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, Jan. PA riotous crowd
this evening broke up the coroner's in
quest which was inquiring into the
death of John Hancock, former pres
ident of the Helena Miners union
who was lured from his home a week
ago tonight and murdered. The wit
nesses had been examined and the ex-
animation of third had just started
when Coroner Flaherty, who had
threatened, If the noise did not cease
tc adjourn the inquest, made good
his threat. The crowd fingered around
the building for an hour afterwards.
At $50 the crowd began arriving,
and at nearly all the seats had been
taken. A little later the doors Of the
court room were closed At 1880
O'Clock extending from each of the
til. ee outside doors of the county
building was a stream of humanity a
block long with each artery being aug
mented by fresh arrivals every min
ute. When the inquest started the
crowd which packed the corridors be-
came boisterous and forced open one
of the doors. All surged in until no
more could get by and then it was i'm
possible to close the doors. Whenever
witness testified, the crowd outside
became noisy. Every few minutes a
shattered pane of glass interrupted the
proceedings.
The officers could do nothing with
the crowd, which simply swallowed
them up whenever they appeared. Cor.
oner Flaherty raped time and again
for quiet Then he said If the pro-
ceedings were interrupted once again
he would adjourn. This followed two
minutes afterwards.
Mike Quay and Jim Jennings testi-
fled they saw Walker in the Central
saloon between and 10 o'clock last
Friday. At e:45 Quay walked down
the street with Walker. The latter
talked intelligently, but said he was
drunk, and staggered. If he had not
staggered, the witness would not have
known he was drunk. County Attor-
ney Hepner said tonight he will re-
lease Mrs. Hancock tomorrow on her
own recognizance.
Mrs. Hancock stated that because Of
fear Of Samuel Walker. she was afraid
to go on the witness stand and tell
the truth; that threats had been made
against her life by Walker and be-
cause of her knowledge of alleged
thigh grading" operations conducted
by her husband and Walker at the
whitlatch NINE where they were leas-
ers prior to their estrangement.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-23
DRINK ALL CHAMPAGNE
TWO TOWNS POSSESS
Special to The Daily MissouIian.

Special to The Daily Missoulian.
Helena, Jan. 22.-In the F'rankhau-
ser trial today witnesses for the gov
ernment told of the stay In Butte Of
F'rankhauser and Mcdonald. A wom-
an testified in regard to trip she and
another woman made with the al
legged train robbers to Salt Lake and
also to Spokane. A Butte detective
told of drinking with the men and q
Butte saloon keeper told of their ar
rest in that town on a disturbance
charge and how they were released the
following morning. A Bonners Ferry
saloon keeper recounted the story Of
the carousal of the two at his place
in october, 1907, and how they con-
sumed in three days all the cham
payne in his town and at Standpoint
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-23
SECRETARY OF STATE IS CHIEF
WITNESS BEFORE FEDERAL
GRAND JURY.
Mr.. KNOX ALSO TES1|F|fs
Prominent Officials Give Evidence IN
Libel Investigation But Decline 10
Furnish Any lntimation as to Na.
ture Of Their Testimony-Subpos-
macs Are Set Aside in New York.

Washington, Jan. 22.-T simply
brought my subpoena with me-" jocu-
larly remarked Secretary of State
| Elihu Root, who today was one of the
chief witnesses before the United
States grand jury in it's Investigations
of the alleged libel in connection
with the purchase of the Panama
canal The secretary made the re-
mark to newspapermen who sought
to interview him a few minutes be-
fore he went into the grand jury
room
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania and
Assistant Attorney General Charles
w. Russell also gave testimony. All
declined to throw any light on the ma
ture of their testimony. The grand
jury was in session about three hours
today and adjourned to meet tomor-
row morning.
The larger part of the morning was
taken up by the grand jury in lsten-
ing to the reading by Assistant
United States Attorney Mcnamara Of
the various alleged lbelous articles
which appeared in the New York
World and the Indianapolis News for
several weeks preceding the recent
presidential election.
A Busy Scene.
The district attorneys office pre-
sented busy scene today, a large
force of clerks being engaged in
marking for ready reference copies Of
the newspapers containing the alleged
libelous matters in connection with the
purchase of the Panama canal The
district attorney has been furnished
with copies of the New York World
and Indianapolis News.
Senator Knox Of Pennsylvania, ac-
companied by his private secretary.
appeared this morning and was
ushered into the district attorneys Of
fee. 1t was learned that the senator
had volunteered to appear before tle
grand jury, as it is not possible TO
subpoena a senator during a session Of
congress. He declined to state the
nature of his testimony
Secretary Root also appeared to-
day and conferred with the district at
torney.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-23
MUCH WANTED BANKER
CANNOT Be LOCATED

San Diego, Cal, Jan. 22.-Although
Sheriff Smith Of Lincoln county, New,
Is in this city with warrant for the
arrest of Homer G. Taber, former
president of the defunct Searchlight
bank, for whose return to Nevada
Governor Gillett has honored requi-
sition, he has not been able to serve
it. When Smith arrived he was met by
counsel for Taber, who informed the
sheriff that the bank president had
left the city, but agreed to surrender
him, provided the sheriff would not
smuggle the prisoner out of the coun-
ty or state until the courts had passed
on habeas corpus proceedings.
A rumor says Tabor is across the
Mexican boundary at Tia Juana.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-23
HOLDuP FOUND GUILTY.

Special to The Daily Missoulian
Butte, Jan, 22.-After trying for II
hours to arrive at an agreement as to
the punishment to be meted out to NJ
J. Meaney. self-confessed robber and
attempted murderer, the jury re-
turned into court this morning with
a verdict of guilty, leaving the pun
ishment to the court All of the ef-
forts of the defense was to have Il
men pronounce sentence instead Of the
judge and in this manner the defense
was defeated. Sentence will be pro-
nomced Tuesday morning.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-23
SHAHAN MAY SECURE
CATHOLIC RECTORSH|P

Washington, Jan. 22.-Rev. Thomas
]. Shahan of Hartford, Conn, it is
stated in ell-informed circles, has
been selected to succeed Bishop Den
mis- j. O'Connell as rector of the Cath
olic University of America. Bishop
Carol had originally been spoken of
for the position, but was unwilling to
give up his work in Montana. DR..
Shahan holds the chair of the church
history at the university. He is one
of the editors of the Catholic Encyclo-
pedia and is considered one of the
most scholarly men in the American
church.