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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
AMERICANS TO PASS
ON PEARY'S PROOFS
Explorer Formally Accepts Geo.
graphic SOCiety's Offer,

Washington, Oct. 49, Commander
Peary has formally notified the Ma
tional Geographic society of his &C
ceptance of its offer to examine and
pass upon the records of his polar ex-
plorations. Notice to this effect came
to Professor Willis l.. Moore, president
OF the society, in telegram from
Commander Peary in New York, read
ing as follows:
Copy of society's resolution just re-
ceived. | am not only willing but de-
sire to submit my records and data to
a commission of American scientists
that is impartially selected"
On Oct. 1 the board of managers of
the National Geographic society sent
to both Commander Peary and to DR..
Cook resolution, the last paragraph
of which was as follows:
THE National Geographic society
urges Commander Peary and DR.. Cook
speedily to submit all their observa-
tions, notes and data to competent
scientific commission in the United
States"
So far the society has heard nothing
from DR.. Cook in answer to this invi
tation save through the public prints.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
BUSINESS is
RISING HIGHER
Government Figures Show Con
tinued Activity.

Washington, Oct Continued i'm
provement in the Industrial situation
of the United States Is indicated by re-
ports received during August by the
bureau of statistics Of the department
OF commerce and labor.
Unusually large movements OF soft
coal. coke and iron ore, and large ship
ments Of lumber are indicated.
Traffic activity of railroads is shown
by the large number of cars in ser
vice. For the first time the cars in
service show a larger total than for
the corresponding month OF 1907
Grain receipts during August, at III
teen primary interior markets. aggre
gated 77.390.S60 bushels, which com
pares favorably with 70,329449 bush
els for the same month in 1908 and
72537.039 bushels in August of 1907
All classes of grain with the excep-
ton of barley, show larger monthly re-
ceipts than year ago.
Receipts for the twelve months Of
the crop season ending in August ag-
gregated 753,S30,314 bushels, compared
with 759,8S233l in 1908. and S3S.921.-
900 bushels in the 1907 crop season.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
HEARST NAMED FOR
MAYOR OF NEW YORK
Nominated Despite Statement
He Wouldn't Be Candidate.

New York, Oct. 7.-William Ran
dolph Hearst once defeated for mayor
of this city by George B. Mcclellan
and later defeated by Charles E.
Hughes for governor of the state. was
nominated for mayor at a mass meet
ing of 1000 of his admirers at Cooper
Union. This action was taken despite
his authoritative statement that he
would not be a candidate. Resolutions
were adopted directing that a commit
tee of five be appointed to take steps
for the naming of an entire city. coun-
ty and borough ticket, which will be
placed in nomination by petition.
No indications as to what Hearst's
attitude would be toward the action of
the meeting was received before ad.
journment was taken, but the leaders
and speakers expressed confidence
that 1t would be impossible for him to
refuse. The third party which is thus
suddenly projected into New York's
municipal campaign will not be known
as the Independence League but will
probably bear the title Citizens par
ty" or some similar designation.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
ALLEGES THERE WAS
S4OO,OOO IN GRAFT
Charges Made Against Cour1
Officers in Wilkes Barre.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Oct 7.--District
Attorney Salisbury announced that he
is preparing warrants for the arrest
Of seventeen county officers, employees
and contractors in connection with
the recent exposure of grating and
reckless expenditure Of public money
in the erection of a new $4,000, 000
courthouse. He will cause the arrest
of County Commissioners Smith, Jones
and MeAvoy and County Comptroller
James NJ Norris on charges OF NAL
feasance in Office and of the others on
charges OF conspiracy TO defraud the
county. The warrants, he says, will be
served early next week and the cases
will be presented to the grand jury
which will meet in November. He ex
poets indictments in all the cases, as
one grand jury has already recon
mended the criminal prosecution of all
the accused.
1t is estimated that the graft on the
new courthouse amounted to 100000
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
ESKIMO KILLED AND
ATE HIS CHILD
Beat or heighbOTs Who At
tackled Him and Fled.

ST. Johns, N. F., Oct. 4-Tragedy in
the far north formed the burden of
che news brought to port by the Hud'
son Bay company's steamer Adven'
Sure, which arrived with the crew of
the lost Dundee whaler Paradox, and
the story of an Eskimo. who, driven to
scannibalism by starvation. ate his own
child, and shooting several neighbors
who attempted summary punishment,
ted into the traekless wilderness of
ice.
The Paradox, one of the fleet Of
Whalers, met the fate of her compan-
ION ship, the Snow Drop, when she was
crunched in the ice foes off Bafiin
Land. early in August a year ago The
crew, with scanty provisions, made
eheir way over the broken ice towards
She mainland and we're picked up this
GALL by the steamer.
The Hudson bay mounted police re-
sort, through dispatches brought by
the Adventure, the cannibalism of the
starving Eskimo. The mans fishing
and hunting season had been fail
are and driven mad by hunger he
x1 the throat of one of his children
snG then ate the little victim.
When the mans neighbors learned
81 che horrible crime they attacked
arm according to the primitive law of
Their race. The outcast beat off all as
saults, shot down several Of the at
backing party and escaped into the
Wilderness. His fate is unknown.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
WOMAN IN TRANCE
LASTING A WEEK
Doctors. Can't Revive Her and
Say IT'S Quiet Hyslerla.

Pittsburg Oct. IA week ago Mrs.
Kate Manessohn went into q trance
at her home in this city. and after her
condition had bafled all the physicians
in the neighborhood she was removed
to the Passavant hospital She has
been In Q comatose state ever since
save for awakening once and looking
about her then becoming unconscious
again
Mrs Manessohn hao placed tooth
acheremedy ir an aching tooth shortly
before she lapsed into eomatose con
dition The physicians say the medi
cine had nothing to dc with her odd
case. They ascribe the disorder to
hysteria, but it is hysteria of the quiet
kind
II the trance continues 1T will be
necessary to operate so as to supply
food directly TO the stomach.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
This LOVER BOUND
To HAVE HIS GIRL
ChIOrOfOrmed Mother in Bed
and Carried Her Off.

Boston. Oct GA curious case of
determination by a lover to have his
girl, and the lengths TO which he dared
go, was reported to the police.
John H. Burnham, aged twenty two,
chloroformed his sweetheart's mother
as she slept and carried the girl of
from her side. A sum of money also
disappeared.
At least this Is the charge brought
against him by Mrs Florence " Hig-
gins. with whose daughter Mildred be
had been keeping company.
She told the police the girl must
have given Burnham the keys to her
house in the Jamaica Plains district
and so enabled him TO enter 1t.
II is presumed she went away with
him voluntarily. No trace of them
has been found
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
AT LEAST so DEAD
IN MINE EXPLOSION
Sixty Men EntOnlbed in British
Columbia COlIiery.

Nanaimo, B. c.. Oct 6.-Thirty lives
are known to have been lost in an ex-
plosion that entombed sixty men in
the extension mine of the Wellington
Colliery company here.
Twenty-Five of the imprisoned men
were rescued, but the rapidly spread
ing fire prevented the rescuers from
completing their work. Eight bodies
were recovered and the workers are
making every effort to force further
entrance into the two levels affected
by the explosion in an effort to save
any who may be living and to recover
the bodies of the dead before they are
consumed.
The fire is constantly gaining head
way. and while 1t continues there is
little hope of the rescuers being able
to reach the imprisoned men.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
Chinese Kill Two Germans.

Berlin, Oct IA dramatic narrative
of the killing of Messrs Brunhuber
and Schmidt, the leaders of German
exploring expedition in China, near the
Burmese frontier some months ago. is
contained 10 letter from Missionary
G. Monbeig. Eyewitness related to
the missionary that the two scientists
had pitched their tents on the bank
of the river Salwin Schmidt was
asleep and Brunhuber wes writing al
a table when the nati,es attacked
Brunhuber arose, and as ne did so
lance struck him in the b last, and he
also received several saber cuts. He
ran out of the tent and jumped into
the river Schmidt was killed while
he was sleeping.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
LOSE MILLl0NAIRE'S WILL
Heirs Notify Register Not to Probate
MISSING Testament.

WilkesBarre. Pa, Oct z.-When
search was made for the will OF
Charles d. Foster millionaire Of this
city, who died last Wednesday, it could
not be found, and 1t is not known
whether 1t has been stolen or mislaid.
1t was believed by Mrs. Foster and
Attorney John McGahren to be in
safe in Fosters Office, but it is not
Il ere. and Register of Wills Smith was
at once notified of the fact and asked
not to probate any will not offered by
the proper parties.
Foster left about s1,500.000, much.
it is said, to charity. He is survived
by bis wife and one daughter, the wife
OF DR. Frank Thornton jenkins, OF
Philadelphia.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
THE PERFECT MAN
Physician Has New Plan of Produc.
ina One.

Physician Has a New Plan of Produc.
ing One.
Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 7.--Dr. M. A.
Schultz, of Long Beach, believes he
can produce perfect man, and to that
end he has equipped farm and has
assembled orphan babies of various ma
tionalities and colors to rear and, ulti
mately through artificial s. elton, tc
attempt the achievement Of the ideal
human.
DIR. Schultz now has American girls
little Mexicans. Portuguese, japanese
and Indians. and hopes to obtain
healthy specimens of Africans and
Figi Islanders.
These he will train mentally, NOR.
ally and physically and then try his
theory of intermarriage.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
NEGRESS HAD LOST CHILD
whlre Baby, Rescued Almost From the
Grave. Cared For Tenderiy.

Denver, Colo, Oct. z. - Marguerite
fink. the white child rescued almost
from the grave and cared for during
abe last -four years by Mrs Marie Fink
a negress. has been given into the
custody of her mother Mrs. Charles
Backof, of Chicago.
Mrs Backoff arrived in Denver Sun
day after learning that the child whom
ahe had mourned as dead since the
r5Tae of birth was alive and had grown
lato a healthy beautiful little girl
when Judge Lindsey, in the juvenile
9aGTt, gave his decision little Margue-
,f9te screamed and begged to be allow
30 to stay with the colored woman.
The mother is given custody OF the
child only as guardian and must pay
tne gegress $500 as recompense for the
9zlJy's thee2.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
BEAR FIGHTS FARMERS
Was Killed In Swamp After Running
Battle of Mile.

Port Jeryis. N. Y, Oct. 6.-ln dea'
perate encounter big bear was killed
at McKane farm, back of Shonola, Pike
county. Pa, by George and Cleveland
McKane, father and son The bear was
eating apples in the orchard. The elder
McKane put bullet in the { asts
neck. and then a running fight waa
kept up for a mile to a swamp In the
swamp the beast charged the elder
McKane, disarmed him and tore a
sleeve from his coat Young McKane
fired bullet into the beasts brain,
killing it. The carcass weighed 400
pounds. 1t measured six feet.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
Aaruss. Stage Scene Ever Painted.

The largest scene ever painted was
recently fnsshed at the Twelfth regi-
aren't armory for the New theater IN
New York c8ty. 1t is sky back
..cound. 300 by lit feet, designed a. a
-ycloramic drop 70 be hung next to the
sIack wall. 1t can be raised or lowered
10 obtain any sky effect desired. The
top Of the canvas will show deep in
iiigo blue shading TO nearly white at
fhe bottom. The scene weighs 1924
lsoslnds. and it took twenty-one paint
SITS 20 lay the color.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
chIcaqo GERMANS ceIebrate.

Chicago, Oct. 4.-The Germans OF
Chicago celebrated the anniversary of
the hanging OF the German pilgrim
Fathers' and the founding of German
town. Pa, on Oct. s, 1888. The cele-
bration was opened with a parade, in
which more than $4,000 Germans par
ticipated and 500 societies were repre-
sented.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
Was Killed in Wreck and Sick
Wife Kept in Ignorance.
SEES SPIRIT RECKONING
Sick Woman Awoke Screaming, and II
Was Some Time Before She Could
Be Quieted--ie Was Bringing Medi-
cine to Her When He Met Death.

PiItsburg, Oct. 7.-While under the
influence of an opiate at the Presby-
terrain hospital. Mrs. Martin D'Rourke
dreamed that her husband was dead
and that his spirit entered her room,
beckoning to her. She awoke scream
ing, and II was some time before she
could be quoted. The shock was such
that her condition is growing rapidly
worse and her life is despaired of.
While Mrs. oRourke dreamed that
her husband was dead, she did not
know that he really was in his coffin
and Borrowing friends were In the
aouse at the time she awoke from her
horrible vision.
Martin O'Rourke was one of the vic.
tins of the Chislett street car wreck
last Sunday. He died shortly after be-
ing taken from the car, which turned
turtle. At the time he was on his way
to bis home with medicine. His wife
was then at the O'Rourke residence.
and her condition was such that 1t
was deemed advisable to keep her In
ignorance of his death. She was re.
moved to the hospital with her three
ereeks-old infant
Mrs. O'Rourke had continually call.
I'D for her husband. knowing that he
would be by her bedside If nothing
had happened to him. His continued
absence has alarmed her. and her i'm
aginings plunged her into an extreme
nervous stare. This no doubt was re.
sponsible for the dream which robbed
her OF strength and made her condi-
ton so serious that her death is ex-
Rected at any time
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
PLEADED GUILTY TO MURDER
Colored Man Who Saved County Elk
pense of Trial Got Life Sentence.

Wilmington. Del, Oct. William
Mccoy. colored, saved New Castle
county the expense of trial when he
pleaded guilty to committing murder
In the second degree, and Immediately
he was given life sentence. He killed
Isaiah Lester. colored, in a fight over
a crap game in this city May II.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
Bird Lines Nest With six.

Darby, Pa, Oct. 5.--A silver thinl-
bic, several pieces of silk, 10-cent
piece and great mass of silk floss
were found In birds nest by Richard
Purdy of Tenth and Main streets
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09
Deoree For Whitelaw Reid.

London, Oct. 5. - Whitelaw Reid,
American ambassador, received the
honorary degree of LII. d. from the
University of Manchester.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-09

Cook Records Go to Denmark First.
Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct 6.-Pro-
fessor Torp, the rector of the univer-
sity here, has received the following
cablegram from DR. Cook "The press
reports are incorrect. My records will
go to you first"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
LLOYD g.. GRkJCOW ]

p1enipotentiary to Persia. He was ap
pointed United States minister to
Japan December 16, 1902, serving in
that country until January 20, 1906,
when he was appointed ambassador to
Brazil. His next appointment was to
the Italian ambassadorship.
Mr.. Griscom was admitted to the
New York bar in 1896. During the
Spanish-American war he served as
captain and assistant quartermaster in
Cuba. At the time of being recon-
mended for promotion by Maj. Gen.
Wade he resigned to re-enter the dip
lomatic service.
Ambassador Griscom had charge of
the sad interests of the United States
in the scene of the recent Sicilian
disaster.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
Latest Kansas Events.
Farmers to Aid a =. M. c. A.

Salina is to have a new Y. NJ c. A
building and it is to be paid for in
novel way. 1t is estimated that the
building will cost from $4,000 to $780,
900 and the money is to be raised by
subscriptions. Several citizens of Sa-
lima and Saline county will give 81 a
month for three years The farmers
of the county are taking an interest
in the matter of a new Y. NJ. C. A.
building and many of them have said
that they would give literally toward
the cause. A farmers wife has sug-
gested that as many farmers as can
do SO select a little pig each spring
for three years. The pig is to be
raised and fattened and sold and the
entire amount of money the pig brings
is to be turned into the fund for the
building. The suggestion is popular
with the farmers and there is little
question that this method will be used.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
All Who
Would Enjoy

good health, with its blessings, must un-
derstand, quite clearly, that it involves the
question of right living with al the term
implies. With proper knowledge of what
is best, each hour of recreation, of enjoy
ment, of contemplation and of effort may
be made to contribute to living Alright.
Then the use of medicines may be dis
pensed with to advantage, but under or
binary conditions in many instances
simple, wholesome remedy may be invalu-
able if taken at the proper time and the
California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it ID
alike important to present the subject
truthfully and to supply the one perfect
laxative to those desiring it.
Consequently, the Company's Syrup Of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA gives general
satisfaction. To get its beneficial effects
buy the genuine, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale
by all leading druggists.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
Quickly Cured by cuticura.

81 suffered from eczema on my
hands, arms and feet for about twelve
years, my hands and feet would swell,
sweat and itch, then would become
callous and get very dry, then peel
off and get raw. 1 tried most every
kind of salve and ointment without
success. 1 tried several doctors, but
at last gave up thinking there was a
cure for eczema. A friend of mine
insisted on my trying the Cuticura
Remedies, but I did not give them q
trial until 1 got so bad that 1 had to
do something. 1 secured a set and by
the time they were used 1 could see a
vast improvement and my hands and
feet were healed up in no time. I have
had no trouble since. Charles T..
Bauer, Volant. Pa, Mar. IL, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13

Laundry work at home would DO
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance. but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
or strength than other makes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
Kansas Alumni In Westminster.

Ex-students of the Kansas State Ag-
ricultura1 college, who are in Wash
ington, were entertained recently by
Mr.. and Mrs. David G. Fairchild at
their home, 1881 Connecticut avenue.
Mr.. Fairchild, who is in charge OF the
office of foreign seed and plant intro
duction of the department of agricul-
ture. is a son of the late President
Fairchild of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college. Mrs. Fairchild is
daughter of Prof. Graham Bell, invent
or of the telephone, and now one of
the widely known experimenters in
aeronautics. The school at Manhat-
tan is well represented in Washington
More than so of its alumni and ex-stu-
dents are in the national capital, and
the great majority of them are in the
service of the Department of Agri-
culture.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
LEWIS. -slnoLE slNoER.-

A handmade cigar fresh from the
table, wrapped in foil, thus keeping
fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar
made of good tobacco is the ideal
smoke. The old, well cured tobaccos
used are so rich in quality that many
who formerly smoked 10c cigars now
smoke Lewis Single Binder Straight
DC. Lewis Single Binder costs the
dealer some more than other SC cigars,
but the higher price enables this fac
tory to use extra quality tobacco.
There are many limitations; don't be
fooled. There is no substituted Tell
the dealer you want a Lewis Single
s.nder"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
THE PERUNA ALMANAC.

The druggists have already been sup
piled with the Peruna almanac for
1909. In addition to the regular astro-
nomical matter usually furnished in
almanacs, the articles on astrology
are very attractive to most people
The mental characteristics of each
sign are given with faithful accuracy
A list of lucky and unlucky days will
be furnished to those who have our
almanacs, free of charge Address The
Peruna Co., Columbus. O.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
Woman to Conduct Large Estate.

Mrs. Jennie L. Doane of Brockton,
Mass, has been appointed to admins
ter the half million dollar estate of the
late r. N. Packard and also to have
complete control of his large shoe fac
tory. Mr.. Packard died suddenly
without making a will His heirs were
a brother and two sisters, none of
whom knew anything about his bust
ness. Mrs. Doane had been in the
employ of Mr.. Packard for a number
of years and he had often spoken of
her ability to his relatives, declaring
that she had more brains than any
two men of his acquaintance. For
that reason his heirs asked to have
her appointed and put in full charge
of his business.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13

homestead and 100 at $500 per acre.
A vast rich country ar6 a contented pros
porous people-"-Exf-~ack from co11esborl7enee
Gf a National Editor. sohose Uist to Wesfe1H
Cana9a in @4sRzst. 1905. zns9frafion.
Many have paid the entire cost of then
farms and had a balance of from $1,000 to
$4,000 per acre as result of one crop.
Spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, barley,
fax and peas are the principal crops, while
the wild grasses bring to perfection the
best cattle that have ever been sold on
the Chicago market.
Splendid climate, schools and churches
in all localities. Railways touch most OF
the settled districts, and prices for produce
are always good. Lands may also be pur.
chascd from railway and land companies
For pamphlets, maps and information re-
garding low railway rates, apply to Superin-
tendent ofInnligration, Ottawa, Canada,
the authorized Canadian Government Agent:
Us. CRAWFORD.
10 LIS ". Ninth Street. Kansas City. Missouri