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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09

Frank McVeagh took the chair Of
Office this afternoon and entered upon
the duties as Secretary Of the Treas
ury at the conclusion of the cere-
mony. Retiring Secretary Cortelyou
was presented on behalf Of the of6c-
ials Of the department with large
silver loving cup Of classic design.
Cortelyou, late in the present month
in New York, became president Of
the Consolidated Gas Company Of
that city.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
coWARDLY SWEETHEART.

BALTIMORE, March 8.-Jennie
Reed, q years old, was murdered to-
night by a highwayman at Mount
Washington She was talking to
Mueller, her sweetheart. when they
were held up, Mueller surrendered to
the thief a valuable necklace and the
girl then slapped the face of the
highwayman. The murderer escaped.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
PRESENTED IN COURT.

! WASHINGTON, D. G., March g.
Attorney-General Wickershaf was to-
day formally presented to the su-
preme court Of the United States BY
Solicitor-rGenerai Hoyt. The cere-
money was simple.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
APPEAL, or COURSE.

SEATTLE, March 8-James P.
Holt was sentenced for life today for
the murder Of Henry Z. Johnson, at
Fort Worden Military Reservation,
last year. He will appeal.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09

amount of property destroyed BY the
tornado which swept Arkansas late
tonight. The entire town of BrinkIey
was destroyed, il Is reported, and
eikht killed and others hurt Fire
followed the tornado and latest adj
vices show the destruction Of the
town to be complete Communication
with many places cut off.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
ONLY FIFTY MILLIONS.

NEW YORK, March S-Plans for
the extension Of rapid transit sys-
tenn in this city which will cost 50
millions, are being prepared BY en-
gineers for the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09

the old rates will be restored by the
railroads in Missouri as the result of
Judge McPherson's decision in the
United States district court today at
Kansas City is not definitely decided,
according to railroad officials with
headquarters in St, Louis It is the
impression Of Assistant Passenger
Agent Fenwick Of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, that the old rates
will ultimately Be restored in event
that Judge McPherson's decision
stands.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
ARKANSAS TORNADO.

LITTLE ROCK Arkb March g.
A number Of persons are reported
killed and injured and an immense
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
ROOSEVELT RESTS At
OYSTER BAY
HAS A GOOD TIME REVIEWING
THINGS SAID ABOUT HIM,
HIS LETTERS AND TRAVELS

OYSTER BAY, March S.-The at
tention OF ex-President Roosevelt was
called today to the publication Of a
portion Of a letter which he was said
to have written to Sir Harry John
ston, British author and explorer,
last December, in which he is quoted
as saying "that the United States
ought to have interviewed in Hayti
during the last revolution there, and
also in Venezuela and Central
America"
Roosevelt, is reply to questions
about the letter, said; "As general
thing, when a private letter has been
divulged as this one has been, it is
pretty sure the more or less garbled,"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09

The ex-Presidcnt was greatly anus
ed at the reported prediction of Prof
fessor Starr Of the University of
Chicago, who declared that if the
former President carries out his pro-
posed itinerary in Africa, he will not
come out alive, Roosevelt laughed
when he read the statement, and
again, when he read that Of Professor
okeley, Of the Columbian Museum,
declaring that Roosevelt will be as
safe in Africa as in the United
States. He declared he would leave
the controversy 10 be sought out be-
tween the professors
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
SPOKANE TALKS OF
ENTERING SUIT
FOR REBATES AGGREGATING
s2sO,OOo ON ACCOUNT OF IL
LEGAL r. r. RATES.

SPOKANE, March 5. Twenty
seven members of the Industrial
Workers of the World, each Of whom
broke police rules yesterday, by max
ing speeches in the streets, were Civ
en- the limit and were sentenced to.
pay Sl00 and costs and 80 days on
the rockpile by Judge Mann today,
Five of the 27 can speak English. Not
one had cent in his pocket when
arrested Six orators were arrested
yesterday and refused to work on
the rockpile and are on the bread
and water diet. Organizer WALSH,
the leader Of the /. w, W., was the
only one able to furnish bail
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09
LUMBER TARIFFS
TO Be CUT
This Decision Reached, Sub
ject to Later ReVisIOH--Hides
to the Free List II Is Said
LUMBERMEN FIGHTING IT

President Insists Upon Tax on In
heritances and This VIII Probably
b eConceded-Tax on Shoes to be
Sharply Reduced.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-09

Plans are being considered here for
a huge suit BY the Spokane jobbers
to secure rebates on freight charges
which it is thought may aggregate
$250,0O0, the claim being based on the
recent ruling of the Interstate Com
merce Commission declaring the
freight rates of this city as unreason-
able and ordering reductions. The
theory is advanced that rebates may
be demanded on excess charges paid
since suit was filed two years ago.
The Washington times., 1909-09-11

been a hard one in fighting almost i'm
pasSabie ice. and one can only help
put feel that the last two years have
been exceptional ones. both in the case
OF DR., Cook and Commander Peary,
and that the smooth ice which made
their success possible did not exist for
previous expeditions.
so much depends on conditions in
the arctic For instance. Commander
Parry, of the English navy, reached
= degrees a. minutes in 1927, after an
aWiui experience OF hard work. He
ana mis- men dragged the boats over
ridges OF ice which we're intersected by
numerous channels on which the boats
had TO be launched. and be drawn up
agaln on the opposite shore. and thus
mad 10 be continually unloaded and
loaded. As this journey was made in
the summer time, the snow was soft
ened by the high temperature, and the
sailors sailors sank into it up to their waists.
While they were straining every nerve
TO make the northern record. the ice
was hoating with them at tile rate Of
-FOUR miles per day TO the south. The
latitude he reached. Of 81 degrees IS
tinlnules' remained for many years the
highest attained.
How Conditions Change
A few years ago the Duke Of Orleans,
comfortably seated on the deck Of his
steamer. passed over this same ground
where Peary had his heart breaking
experience, steaming in practically open
water. Though the Duke OF Orleans did
not reach the high latitude that Peary
did, still it will serve as an illustration
as to how conditions change in the
Arctic
After considering these other exDlor
ers and the hard experience that they
have had anG thinking of Peary's own
disappointment on previous occasions,
we cannot help think that the capture
of the Pole means more because OF
these three hundred years of previous
effort
You must admire the men tSat Pesry
had with him and the natives with
whose help his success was made possi-
bile These wild children of the North,
who followed their leader without dues-
which did not seem to be any different
from any other place on the ice after
all their effort and harlwork to get
there: even to the natives. their easy
success seemed so strange. In Peary's
description he tells of how Ootah sat
Eskimo.
The devil is asleep or in trouble with
his wife, or we never should have come
back SO easily"
When the party reached Cape Column
Dia, PeaTy tells Of how the EskimOs
helpless; I'm fact they acted as If they
had gone crazy. They had a right to-
They had gone from the Pole TO land
from 90 degrees north to about * de-
grSes-in sixteen days. Never has there
been travel like that before on the
II, the sledge expedition of Command
er Peary TO the Pole and back will al
ways stand as one of the quickest trims
ever made in the north.
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
By ANTHONY FIALA,

I'VE talk about our homes; our return
to our country Oh. how the future
smiles on US, We so out into he open
air. the thermometer indiCates 50 de-
grees below zero, but. nevertheless. I
see for the first time the guides walk
ing uD and down after their soup. They
are talking of their county OF their
country. where at this r7r nent the
meadows appear covered with verdure
after their long rest under t7.e white
mantle of winter. We all 1erIin out
side for a long time, our minds en-
chanted BY our ErU at happiness; we
have reached the end Of all our fatigues.
Our return seems to US now an excur-
sion. our ewes turn nc more with eager
ness toward the north. but 10 the south,
where beyond so much ice. beyond the
cold sea. and the rugged mountains of
Scandinavia and farther on again our
loved ones are waiting for US.
The air is very clear. Bet Ween the
northeast and northwest there stand out
some sharply pointed, others
rounded, dark or blue and white, often
with strange shapes. the innumera bic
pinnacles OF the great blocks of ice
raised by the pressure. Farther away
again on the bright horizon. in a chain
from east TO west. is a great azure wall
which from afar seems Insurmountable
II is our 'terrae ultima thuler"
Dr.. Nansen's Experience.
Dr. hansen en- April S. 1905. said in his
journal:
The ice grew worse and worse and
we got no way. Ridge after ridge. and
nothing but rubble TO travel over. We
made a start at o'clock this morning
and kept at it as long as we could,
lifting the sledges all the time, but it
grew too bad at last. I went on a good
way ahead on snow shoes, nut saw no
reasonable prospect or advance, and
from the highest hummocEs only the
same kind of ice could b., seen. It was
a veritable chaos of ice blccKs. stretch
ing as far as the horizon. Tlt-e is not
much sense in keeping on longer. We
are sacrificing valuable tine and doing
little. II there be much moe ice be-
tween here and Franz Josef Lana, we
shall indeed. want all the time we have.
therefore determined 70 stop and
shape our course for Cape Fl. sely."
DR.. Nansen's latitude was then SIS de-
grees Il minutes, while Captain Cagni
had reached IS degrees "a lli=utes. In
both cases they were troubleS on their
return march by bad ice conditions.
and Captain Cagni and his party had
nearly lost their lives througs starva-
ton by being carried away on the drift
ing ice
Pearys own history in the past has
The Washington times., 1909-09-11

NEW YORK, Sept. LIN an inter
view today. Anthony Fiala, the Arctic
explorer. declared that DR.. Cook was
the rrst man 20 reach the North Pole,
and that his claims are given much
weight by the subsequent statements II
Commander Peary, that the conditions
he found at the Pole were exactly as
those described by DR.. Cook.
In addition. he declared that unless
DR.. Cook is = past-3master in the art OF
using scientific instruments. he could
not possibly fake" observations that
would stand any kind iw . scientific
test.
"Dr. Cook has not sufficient tech
nfcal knowledge. I think, 20 fake a
series Of observations that would pass
muster. When Or. hansen returned
IRON the polar regions his figures.
when submitted 10 experts, proved 70
be correct. and when they were care
FULLY figured out IL was found that
DR.. hansen had gotten one-sixtieth Of
one degree closer 10 the Pole than he
himself had thought When Captain
Cagnis figures were examined he was
given a mile more than he had figured
himself.
"A scientist can sit back IN his easy
chair and riddle faxed figures. II
Cooks figures prove 80 be what he
thinks they are. they cannot be proven
fakes. His observations will speak
for themselves.
II thank Pearys story substantiates
Cooks. II Pearv had found d noun
faip-er land, or life At the North Pole,
Cook might have been discredited- But
ne did not. he found just what Cook
found. People DOUBTED COOK s fast
progress across tho Ice. This is con-
frmed BY Peary's even faster time
"Peary SAYS he can discredit Cook,
but lsere has been nothing in his
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
PEARY AGAIN CALLS
COOK AN IMPOSTOR

NEW YORK. Sept. u.-Commander
.Peary affrms his previous statements
that Dr. Frederick Albert Cook has
never been near the North Pole. and
asserts that at the proper time he will
bring forward proof TO back UP his
statement that the Brooklyn physician
is an impostor
Commander Peary is still with the
Roosevelt at Battle Harbor, Labrador.
and from that point the following
eaoiegrams were received by the United
Press today:
BATTLE HARBOR. Labrador f,is
dafeoni Wireless TO Cape RAY. Nova
Scoua), Sept u.-Accept my thanks for
your KIND telegram of congratulations
Replying 10 your injuries found no
trace of Cook at the Pole. AS a mater
OF fact, Cook had not been at the Pole
1pIu Il. lsuS, or at any other time
MS statement is made advisedly. and
time. DIT sSpTg
In supplementary cablegram to the
United Press under the same date. Com
mander Pesry states:
See my Washington kilograms to
White House, State Department. Navy
Department, and Coast Survey, and also
my kilograms to President Schurman.
OF Cornell University "PEARY.''
Later In the day the following cable
gram was received by the United Press:
Battle HarboT, via Marconi Wireless,
via Cape Ray, y. r, Sept. II.
AT this time and distance l have no
further comments to make on Cooks
alleged work PEARY."
The New York Times, which has a
contract 10 publish Commander Peary s
newspaper narratives of his dash to the
Pole, today publishes an additional cable
2 HfnH.
the Roosevelt is being held Up at Battle
Harbor for three or four days TO coal
and overhaul the ship, and that he does
not expect to arrive at sydney y. s.
until September -. IN this cable Peary
declares that as soon as Cook makes
his clans as a discOverer of the Pole
before a reputable geographical or sci
entific society, he (Peary) viii he I'm
position TO furnish material that may
pro- distinctly interesting reading for
the public
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
Died,

OISHMAN-On Friday Septemter 10 1aoa q,
$50 a. M, after a brief illness, al his rest
county, Nd, CLARENCE W beloved ~
band Of Eva ". Dishnar (nee Punnbre,-,
aged forty-seven years
Funeral from CHAPEL u Frank C,ejAr.s
Cons, lllS Seventh street northwest. on
MONDAY, September u, at D. IN Inter-
ment (private), at Glenwood Cemetery.
Friends invited.
tMontrose. westmoreland county, Va. pa
pers please copy) It,
BERKLEY-On Friday. September 10 1909
ELSIE ELNoRA BERKLEY. aged one
year.
coHBN-on Friday. September 10 1909. a,
6:SS q m, ROBERT COHEN. husband OF
Mary E. Cohen.
HANENNER-On Thursday. September q
1913, az Providence Hospital HAROLD
HAVENNER, con Of Mary E. Havenner
and the late William D. Havenner
HowARD-On Friday. September 10. 1909.
at A. m, ANNIE l.. widow Of Joe H.
HOWARD.
HUCK-on Friday, September 10. 1903 at 4:s5
a. m, JACOB, husband Of Mamie E. Huck
tnee Won Derlebrl.
Mr. Huck was native of this city. and
was an enploye OF the Bureau Of EnErav-
INK and Printing. His death occurred sitter
short illness He Is survived by his v,ife
Mamie Huck. formerly Miss Won Derlshr
MePIKE-on Friday, September 10 1903. at
$40 a. m. HENRY A. McPIKE
Mr.. McPike was employee Of the Gov
eminent Printing once for many years
He was born IN Pennsylvania seventy-seven
years ago and at one time was a promi-
nent journalist He was one OF the found
CURED after a short Illness
REGGT. Es-On Friday, September 10, 1905. at
Louisa, Va, HELEN, daughter OF Mr. and
Mrs. G. ". Reggles.
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
GIVES REASONS FOR
HIS BELIEF IN PEARY
BY HERBERT L. BRIDGMAN,
Secretary Of the Peary Arctic Club.

SYDNEY. y. S. Sept LIN my opln-
ion, Commander Peary's statements. as
published yesterday and today. and mis-
clean-cut narrative. devoid OF any frills
or claptrap. is the best answer that has
yet been made TO the question OF who
did discover the Pole?"
have contended all along that there
was not the slightest excuse for con-
troversy IL the matter. that the facts
themselves would prove who is entitled
70 the honor Of discovery. Peary's
statements Of yesterday and today make
IL all the more evident to me that there
will be no need for a national cOntro-
versy Of the Sampson-Schley character
Even in brief newspaper account, IN
which the technical data must necss-
sarily be limited. Commander Peary has
presented facts which ! am sure VIII
convince the average man. II these
mere sketches carry conviction, the ac-
tual scientific data will certainly do
more
Personally. and speaking for the
Peary Arctic Club. / want 70 say I have
no controversy with DR.. Cook. I have
not even an opinion for the public as
10 the correctness Of his statements.
do say, however, that Commander Peary
has set a standard for the world in the
matter Of proof OF his achievements. I
believe that the American public will in
sist that DR.. Cook present equally valid
proof.
Commander Peary's account of his re-
lief expedition simply bear out my
statements in which ! expressed the be-
lief that Mat" Hansen. the negro, was
with Peary in his last dash. He IS a
skilled ice man. second 10 none and
with only him and the Eskimos I'm his
party, I can understand the rapid pro-
Eress Peary made during his final few
day after leaving S. degrees north.
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
TO REACH SYDNEY
BY SEPTEMBER rs

~BROOKLYN, n. Y. Sept. 1.-THE
following cablegramJ was received this
morning from Commander Robert e.
Peary:
RATTLE HARBOR Cvia cape Ray,
Newfoundlsnd). Sept. IL.
IL. L. Bridgman Brooklyn, y. Y.
Roosevelt win remain here three or
four days coaling and overhauiing ship
Expect arrive Sydney about ftfteenth.
Have 100 walrus skins on board Tor
ciub Your letters per Whaler and
Teanfe received. You are only logical
candidate for polar commission
The cablegram has been forwarded
Ia Bridgman at Sydney. Nova Scotia,
where he has gone 70 await Peary
a arrival
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
COOK FIRST AT POLE,
SAYS ANTHONY FIALA

statements so far that will dlscredit the
Brooklyn explorer,
Cook was stamped as an imposter
because there was no white man with
him at the Pole. Pearys last white
companion turned back when he was
$50 miles from the Pole, and Peary
kept on with four EskimOs and his
negro valet. Matt Hansen. While there
can be no discounting Hansen bravery,
he knows nothing of scientific instru-
ments So. 81 Cook IS solitary achieve
ment Is TO be doubted, what are we 20
say Of the value Of Pearys statement
''Peary returned from he Pole much
faster than Cook. Peary had left sup
ply. bases, Cook had none.
AT first ] was skeptical OF Cooks
NJ port Of mInUm 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
/ communicated with Willis L. Moore,
chief Of the Weather Bureau al Wash
inEton, and he told me there were Of
fetal records Of 1G7 degrees below in
Siberia.
There will be time enough to thresh
out the whole think when Harry Whit
ney comes back with Cooks records Of
his observations and the other scientific
data he collected"
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
SAYS COOKS MEDAL
WAS MADE FOR HIM

|. LONDON. sept II. - Lieut. Ernest
ShackletOn. the most successful OF
Antarctic explorers, said today the gold
medal which the Danish Geographical
Society gave TO DR.. Cook was the sane
medal that was 20 have been presented
to him.
shackleton had Intended going to
Copenhagen shortly TO receive the
medal, but DR.. Cook happened along
with the discovery OF the North Pole
20 his credit. The occasion FOR q medal
presentation offered by Cook was there
fore considered more urgent.
I'm have 20 wait now until October
before get a medal Shackleton said.
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
NORWEGIANS GIVE
OVATION TO COOK

CHRISTIANIA. Sweden, Sept. IL
Ecenes almost rivaling those that greet
ed DR.. Frederick A. Cook on his ar
rival IN Copenhagen a week ago were
presented here today when the steamer
Melchior. bearing the explorer. steamed
into the harbor.
Every craft and the town Was decked
IN flags. The mayor Of Christianla
headed the welcoming committee and
presented an address, TO the doctor. eX-
pressing the admiration and cOngratula-
Nons Of all Norwegians.
IN reply, Or. Cook expressed his re-
Sret that circumstances would cut short
his STAY here. as ne wishes to sail today
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
Rival Claims Compared

Cook caused Doubt by announcing
ain average speed Of sixteen miles a
day in the last $50 miles OF his polar
dash.
Cook found ice packs more ac-
tive" Ghan before) about the eighty
eighth parallel, and some cracks.
which were quickly healed by new
ice.
Cook found that in the last 100 miles
TO the Pole the ice was smooth and
the travelling easy.
Cook described the Pole as vast
sea OF purple snow and fee, no land.
no life"
Cook found temperature at the Fole
April p. 1908, was 90 degrees below
zero.
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
OHIOANS CARRY OFF
THE DRYDEN TROPHY
District Team and New York
ers Have Close Fight for
Fifth Place.

SEA GRIT, n. J. Sept. 1.-The Ohio
ans took the Dryden trophy with a
score of 1024,s the U. S. Marine Corps
was second with 1.012: and the Mary
landers got in third with 9S5.
The L. 5. Cavalry ranked fourth with
$50 and New York fifth 964, the District
team was beaten by New York by one
point but defeated the U. S. Infantry
by nine points.
The Jerseymen brought up the rear
with 935. High 1000 yard score for the
District was made by Lieutenant Holt
and Private Clauser. For top three
range score Holt and Clauser tied at
125. The score follows:
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
AMBASSADOR HONCRED.

PARIS. Sept. u.-President Fallieres
and Nine. Failieres paid Henry White,
the American ambassador, and Mrs
White an exceptional honor by visiting
them at their country place. So far as
Is known. this is the first occasion dur
ing the third republic when the Presi-
dent has visited an ambassador at his
country house
The Washington times., 1909-09-11
PRINCES SILVERwARE STOLE

CHICAGO. Sept. u.-Silverware val
ned at thous ands OF dollars was stolen
from the home Of Prince Nicholas w.
Engalitcheff. Russian vice consul, in
this city. but was recovered a few hours
later. following A revolver fight between
the police and two robbers. one Of the
pieces taken was a punch powI valued
at s.. 800.