Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-14
Scraps and facts.
The following statement has been

crop of the south Will be snort TINS
year, and especially the Louisiana
crop. 1t is also evident that II the
crop is rushed to market and sold as
fast as ginned a small price will nee
essarily obtain, while gradual, slow
marketing crop will secure better
prices. The farmers should there
fore sell slowly and just as the mills
need 1t, selling only when the price Is
high and withdrawing their cotton
from sale entirely on all depressions.
This plan of marketing should be fol-
lowed by every cotton grower OF the
SOUTH"
On Monday Of last week, the mu-
tilated remains of young woman
were found in two sacks in Ecorse
creek, Detroit, Mich, and were later
Identified as those Of Miss Mabel Mill
man. The police having decided that
the dismemberment Of the body
showed signs of professional skill, be-
gan to hunt for doctor. They hnal-
ly arrested q DR.. Fritch and apparent
" have him fastened. The authori-
ties are holding the doctor on charge
of murder, following criminal oper-
alton on the person Of Miss Millman.
DR.. Fritch gained considerable noto-
riety in 1907 in connection with the
death of a Miss Perry, proofreader or
the Michigan senate, who was also
the victim Of a criminal operation.
The Cook-Peary controversy over
the discovery Of the pole continues TO
rage with unabated fury. For the
time being, the great achievement II
self Is somewhat obscured, II not lost,
in the intensity Of feeling which mas
been aroused over the personal aspect
of two conflicting parties. command command
er Peary's latest dispatch challenging
Cooks claim and characterizing II as
"a gold brick" has added fuel to the
already fierce charges and counter
charges. Each explorer has his camp
of loyal champions and defenders
centering in the various polar organl-
cations with which they have been
Identified, but ramifying throughout
scientific and public circles generally,
In these opinions divided. plans are
being formed on a prodig1ous scale
for the welcome to be accorded TO the
two claimants for polar honors and as
present plans indicate that both ex-
plorers will arrive at the same time,
the demonstrations greeting them
promise to bring to climax the pres
ent intense feeling OF approval ana
disapproval.
New Orleans, September IL: w.
B. Thompson. president or the new.
Orleans cotton exchange and head OF
the cotton firm of w. B. Thompson q
Co.. Of this city, has issued circular
letter to farmers, wherein he offers
new plan for the marketing or the
cotton crop. He urges farmers TO
market their crops at the rate or ten
per cent a month. According TO MT
Thompson this would create stable
market for both buyer and seller. MT
Thompson says in part: Let the
producer Of cotton market ten per
cent Of his crop each month Tor ten
months. An instant Of reflection Will
convince any thoughtful man tnat'
whether the crop on the market De
large or small and whether a hundred
planters or hundred thousand en-
ploy the method, the result will be
better than If the crop were sold at
once or the attempt made to hold 1t
all. II the plan is good for one plant
er. Il is good for all, and IL all or any
great number Of planters adopt II,
the problem of marketing the crop Is
solved"
One of the last men to talk with
Edward II. Hartman before the re-
lapse Of last Sunday that ended In his
death, was ]. p. Morgan. The imam
cier went to Arden house Thursday OF
last week when encouraging improve
ment noted In Mr.. Harriman's condi-
tion was at its height, and in spite Of
his bodily weakness the head of the
Union Pacific system was as well
fitted to discuss business as at any
time in his life. For nearly two hours
the two leaders Of American finance
sat on the porch in the sun. 1t Is be-
lieved that at this conference plans
were laid to support the financial mar
ket in the event of Harriman's death
or in case his health forced him to
abandon all business activity. When
this conference occurred Hartman
knew he was a dying man, although
he kept this information from his
family and steadily encouraged their
belief that he would get we'll. No one
saw more clearly than Hartman what
would probably happen when he died.
For the sake Of thousands Of railroad
stockholders as we'll as for his own
interests, he knew that unless the
strongest money power in the coun-
try Got under" the market, the effect
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Copenhagen, September II: A re-
markable letter, giving DR.. Frederick
A. Cooks version Of the trouble with
Commander Peary over supplies, ap-
pears in the newspaper Politiken. The
letter was written by DR.. Norman
Hansen, q prominent Danish physi-
clan, who several times visited Green
land to study eye diseases, which he
has made q speciality of. DR.. Cook told
practically the same story to one Of
his closest American friends just a
week ago, before Commander Peary
reappeared but said that he did not In
tend to make 1t public. DR.. Hansen
was with Cook for some time in Green
land and returned with him on the
Danish government steamer Hans
Egede. In his letter he says: Now
that DR.. Cook has gone am no lon
ger under any obligation to keep ST.
lence, and will exercise my right to
publish the story about the house in
Annatok, a story which DR.. Cook him
self had too much delicacy to relate to
the world. l write 1t according to my
memory, in the same manner that DR..
Cook in Egedesminde told IL to me, and
I am fully convinced that In no details
are my recollections wrong. DR.. Cook
had built his house for stores in An
DdIOk, HOTln VI CSltii, IL was tiiio
depot which he started to reach in
February, 1909, crossing Smith sound.
1t was a pretty large house, the walls
being built Of heavily filled provision
boxes, so that DR.. Cook knew that
when this important point was reach
ed everything was safe. He had be-
fore the start, arranged with a young
friend named Whitney that he have
the right to use the house while
hunting musk oxen for sport, in the
winter Of 190S-09. When DR.. Cook
and his two EsquimauX, exhausted
and half starved, came within a shots
distance Of the house in Annatok,
young Whitney came out to bid him
welcome, but inside the house was a
stranger, a giant Newfoundland boat
swain on watch. This man had been
placed in Dr. Cooks house by Peary
when the latter passed Etah with his
ship bound north. Peary had given
the boatswain a written order, which
commenced with the following words:
This house belongs to DR.. Frederick
A. Cook. but DR.. Cook is long ago
dead, and there is no use to search
after him. Therefore, l, Comman-