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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
COOK BACK WITH
TALK IN POCKET
Hands Out Typewriter Interview
and Avoids North Pole
Matter
TAKES EXPENSIVE ROOMS
Explorer Causes Bitter Row
Among Passengers on
Steamer
rAasoclated Press ]

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--Dr. Frederick
A. Cook came back to his native land
today on the steamship George Wash
ingtun as calmly as If there had never
been a north pole controversy. He said
little. A typewriter interview, handed
to reporters, embraced all that he had
to say, with the exception of the neces-
sary formalitieS of conversation thrust
on him by interviewers. OF far more
dramatic interest was heated contro-
Versy among the steamship passengers
concerning the impression he had made
on them.
The doctor asserted that he believed
he was at the pole. His statement IN
part follows:
"I have no statement to make other
than that which l carefully prepared.
Any interview l might give would nee
essarily be fragmentary and doubtless
misleading also. so shall not now give
out any interviews, and any purporting
to come from me will not be authorized
| spent weeks carefully preparing my
story, and | have frankly said in II all
there is to say. Every charge against
me Is taken up and answered IN It's
proper place in my narrative.
Il do not know what my plans for
the future will be. | have not returned
to America with the intention of max
ing money out OF my Arctic expert
ences Money did not prompt the writ
ing of my story, as l have seen suG-
gested in certain newspapers. AS
have said, | have come back solely Tor
the purpose of rehabilitating myself
and my family by setting matters right
with my countrymen.'
PASSENGERS ARGUE
The argument among the steamers
passengers arose when the doctor S
sympathizers aboard wished it under
stood that he was received with no
shadow of discrimination among the
passengers. His enemies wished il made
clear that he had been stunned. The
minute the reporters, VINO had gone
down the harbor on a revenue cutter.
stepped into the saloon representatives
of both sides assailed them. Persons
who in ordinary circumstances dodge
publicity as they would the plague, but
tonholed the reporters in their eager
ness to present their case first.
Men elbowed one another, trampled
on toes, shook their fingers in one an
others faces and shouted unqualified
contradictions. Women gave up pour
ing tea to stand on the brocaded cnalrs
and peer over the ring of men into the
vortex of discussion.
Cook was spared the embarrassment
of this hubbub. He met the reporters
at the ladder when they boarded the
ship, perfectly poised. 1t was the same
DR.. Cook, a little less tanned and worn,
but with the same lock of hair hanging
down over his forehead, the same reti-
cent half smile and the same stubby
mustache.
From the steamer he went directly
to the Waldorf Astoria, where he stayed
on his welcome home from Copenhagen.
Mrs. Cook and the children. he said,
were still in France, where the children
were going to school.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
u. S. ARMY IN PURSUIT
OF REBELLI0US MAN0B0S
Perpetrators of 0utrages on
Planters Being Punished

MANILA, Dec. 22.--The army is en-
ergetically pursuing the rebellious
Manobos tribesmen in Mindanao ISL
ands. Troops of the Second cavalry
are furnishing the perpetrators of the
outrages on the planters in the Davao
district.
Brig. Gen. Pershing, commanding the
department of Mindanao, has arrived
here and assumed command of the
arr of the Phllippl.-~~ pending the
arrival of the recently appointed COM
mander, Maj. Gen. Bell.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
.FOOTPADS BEAT MAN
At DOOR OF HIS HOME
Visitor Here from Death Valley Is
Knocked Unconscious and
Robbed of $500

Two highwaymen armed with black
Jacks held up James Armour. cook
for the Smith Borax company at Death
Valley, at 80 o'clock last night. just
as he was entering the hall of the
Wyckoff hotel at 1926 Boyd street, where
he is living, beat him into insensibility,
then robbed him of $780, overlooking
$50 which the victim carried in an in
side pocket.
Armour staggered into the office of
the Merchants Fire Dispatch at 81
Wall street and told his story to E. w.
Egnew, night manager of the watch
service, who took the injured man TO
the receiving hospital.
According to Armour, he had just
entered the place when n tan and a
short man accosted him and ordered
him to hold up his hands. Before he
could comply with the order the tall
man struck him in the face with a
blackjack and he fell to the floor un-
conscious. When he regained his
senses a few minutes later he found
that wallet containing $500 had been
taken.
The police surgeons stitched two deep
decorations in the scalp of Armour.
The attack on Armour occurred just
three blocks from Main street and
there were several persons passing
along Boyd street when the victim en-
tered the rooming house.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
19 FIRE VICTIMS
TAKEN FROM RUINS
Blaze at Morris Plant in Chicago
Breaks Out Afresh After
All Day Fight
Continued from Page one,

time a meeting was held at the Chicago
club and wealthy business men start
ed a relief fund. Theater managers
also prepared to hold benefit perform
ances.
Commissioner Of Public Works Null
aney late tonight took $50 city laborers
to the Morris plant to relieve exhausted
flremen and pipemen who could no
longer keep on their feet. Commits
sioner Mulaney remains at the fire to
direct these men in the search for
bodies of the missing.
Coroner Hoffman arrived early and
impaneled a jury, which sat watching
the flames.
AS the bodies were brought out the
jurors Joined the bands of civilians who
were aiding the firemen.
Out in her Ashland boulevard home
Mrs. Horan wife of the marshal, was
told she was a widow, and did not be-
lieve it until assured by the news
paper reporters, when she sWooned
She has required medical attention.
A Wrecking engine Of the Chicago
&, Eastern Illinois railroad brought a
derrick, toppling obstructing box cars
into the ditch as 1t came.
DEBRIS sCOoPED OUT
A road scraper attached to one of the
cables scooped up great masses OF
bricks, and scorched tiremen savagely
pushed the great scoop into the bricks
in hopes of reaching the sufferers
whose groans could be heard.
Long before noon Assistant Marshal
Seyferlich, on his rounds of the fire
area, began to md here and there
men who ad fallen from exhaustion
and their companions who had been
unable to aid tea. Some, recovering.
started In anew to stay the progress
of the flames.
Mayor Busse, who had gone to the
fire and was sorrowfully discussing
the death of "Jim" Horan with Assis-
tant Marshal Seyferlich, had narrow
escape. An explosion from ammonia
pipes threw bricks, beams and frozen
meat in a shower about them.
SeyferlicE threw himself in front of
the mayor, and then, graspinG him by
the arm, pushed him away TO safety.
BY IL o'clock the news had gone TO
all the tiremen of the loss of their
chief, who was very popular in the de-
partment. Wearied men sobbed as they
continued their fight against the fire.
A crushe helmet was brought up in
a scoop of the big scraper Soon the
front piece of tho helmet came upon
another load. 1t was that of Assis-
tant Burrows.
The buildings totally destroyed in
cluded the beef house Of Morris & Co,
with loss to building and stock of $60O,-
900; warehouse No. s. loss to building
and stock, $500, 700; refrigerator storage
shed, $4,000.
Several other buildings were atire,
but it was believed the flames soon
would be under control.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
FRENCH AVIAT0RS HANGING
UP NEW WORLDS MARKS
Cross Country Run with a Pas
Senqer Wrested from American

PARIS, Dec. 22.-French aviators are
hanging up new worlds records. Lieut..
Cameran established today a new
mark for the longest cross-country
flight with a passenger, covering 147
miles in hours and minutes, there
by winning the $4,000 prize offered by
Lazare Weller. the head of the French
syndicate which purchased the rights
in France to the Wright patents.
The former record was held by Henry
Weyman. the American, who on Sep
tember II. In an unsuccessful attempt
for the Michelin prize, made a nom
stop passenger run of 1869 miles.
Mile Helen Dutrieu, who increased
the woman's cross-country record from
65 to 167 l1ilometers Q04.70 miles), will
be awarded the Coupe Femina.
NJ. Laurens won the Deeper Dussin
cup today by fl. ing 100 kilomters
(621 miles) in 70 minutes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
FIGHT, ARREST, COLLISION
ENLlVEN CHICKEN THIEF
Owner Recognizes Stolen Fowl.
Cue for Trouble
Especial to The Herald

LONG BEACH, Dec. ed. Cum
mings, who says he is travelling sales
man, pleaded guilty this morning be-
fore Justice Underwood to d charge of
chicken stealing. His appearance in
court was the climax of series of en-
livening events beginning with l.. E.
Fishers recognition of his old one
eyed gobblber in Cummings buggy
north Of town last night.
Fisher fired his revolver when Cum
mings tried to drive away. The bullet
hit the buggy and Cummings leaped
from the buggy, as did Bennle Bail, a
newsboy who was with Cummings, and
who tainted as he sprang to the ground
A hand -to-hand fight ensued, in which
Fisher struck the otiler man on the
nose and behind one ear with his re-
volver. Cummings broke away and
ran across field to Elftman station, a
mile away, where James Branch and
George CLANCY caught him and held
him until Fisher and deputy constable
arrived.
Chief of Police Meyer and Detective
ORourke, while bringing the prisoner
to town in an automobile, collided with
a milk wagon driven by A. II. Erksine
ut Iona Vista drive and Magnolia aV-
enue, and Cummings, who was hand
cuffed, was thrown out on his head.
The milkman's rig was wrecked.
Bail said at police headquarters that
Cummings had taken him with him on
several trips to different beaches and
other towns, paying him 81 a trip to
accompany him. The boy said that on
several occasions Cummings stopped
along the road and caught chickens,
but that that did not seem to be his
regular employment. Balls mother
took him to Los Angeles today.
Cummings was attended by physi-
clan last night, and this morning was
taken to the county Jail. His horse and
buggy are at local livery stable. In
the buggy were two turkeys and two
chickens, said to belong to Fisher and
n neighbor. There have been frequent
and mysterious chicken thefts north.
west of town for months.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
MAN KILLED IN RUNAWAY

HANFORD, Dec 22.-Aaron L. Dicks.
a middle-aged farmer, who came here
recently from Oregon, was almost de-
capitated today when he was thrown
from a hay wagon, struck on a barbed
wire fence and was dragged several
feet by runaway team. His wind
pipe and jugular vein were severed,
causing instant death.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
PEARY is TO SUBMIT
HIS PROOFS TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22-After sew
eraI months of persistent refusal on the
ground of interference with contracts
with publishers, Capt. Robert Il. Peary
has promised to furnish congress the
proofs on which he relies to show that
he discovered the north pole.
The assurance has been comnunl-
Gated Indirectly to some of his advo-
Gates at the capitol in connection with
the bill to reward him with a rear ad-
miralship on the staff in recognition OF
the Arctic achievements.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
.LAUCK DENIES STATE
INTERFERENCE AT FRESNO
Asserts He Is Taking No Hand in
Industrial Workers Row

SACRAMENTO. Dec. 22.-Adiutan.
General Lauck denies the report com
ing from Fresno yesterday to the ef-
feet that the first state interfer ,nce in
the trouble between the city of Fresno
an Industrial Workers Of the World
occurred yesterday when Captain Bald
win, aide to the adiutant general, held
q conference with Mayor Roweil, Sher-
iff Chittenden and other Fresno officials
in regard to the recent mob outrage
which resulted In driving out the In
duStrialiSts,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
TRAIN CRASHES INTO WRECK
OF OTHERS; THREE KILLED
Pennsylvania Railroad Employees
Lose Lives in Collision

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Three en-
ployes lost their lives and one passen-
ger was injured on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Milestone Junction, near
New Brunswick. n. j., today when two
freight trains, westbound, coilided and
a passenger train, bound for Philadel-
phia, crashed into the wreckage.
Mrs Dora Ravalo of Philadelphia
was the only passenger badly hurt.
After being taken to the hospital at
New Brunswick she gave birth to q
child.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
BY STATE AUDITORS
Fresno to Be Next Meeting Place
of Organization

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 22,-The State
Association of Auditors, organized here
yesterday, met this morning and elect
ed the following officers:
President, L. P. Williams, Sacra-
mento; vice president, E. f. Garrison,
Oakland; secretary treasurer, r. p.
Wallace, Yolo county.
A legislative committee Of five was
appointed to bring matters affecting
the auditors offices of the state before
the legislature. Fresno was chosen as
the next meeting place.
Regular sessions will be held BIZ
ennially.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
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HENRY M. WEIR BURIED

Funeral SERVICES were held yester-
day over the body of Henry M. Weir
at the family home. 1924 South Flower
street, the Rev. G. C. Pierce officiating.
NJ. Weir is survived by his widow, two
sons, A. C. Weir and Harry M. Weir,
both of Los Angeles, and a nephew,
Joseph Sartori
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23

Musical boxes, playing ?, and 6
tunes, $3.50 to $3.50.
Drums, 25c to SO.
Horns, 25c and more.
Pianos finished in white and mahog-
any, 75c to $3.50.
Grocery stores and markets fitted
with scales, counters, shelves and filled
with rnake-believe merchandise, $3.50
and higher.
Dolls bath and toilet sets with
sponge, wash cloths, soap dish, etc.
25c to $3.50.
Blocks of all llinds-church, wagon,
carriage and house builders-25c to IS.
Color cubes, 25c to $3.50.
(Fourth Floor,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
ALWAYS

Agent-1his speedometer will enable
you to know how fast you are 60
ing.
Otto Feend-I don't need one. My
bank balance tells me that just as
well.-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23

"pld you get the raise In salary you de-
manded?"
mot exactly. But in recognition Of my
valued services the boss agreed to supply me
with a roll-top desk and have my name printed
on the oor."--Detroit Free Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23

Picture Blocks-all sizes-25c to SIS.
Dolls trunks with leather straps and
brass trimmings, $3.50 and higher.
irish Mails with steel gears and
wheels, heavy rubber tires and well
built throughout, 1915, $3.50 and IS;
sizes for two to ride. $3.50 to SO.
Automobiles with steel gears and
wheels, good tires, brass steering
wheels, horns. lamps, etc, s6.75; with
out lamps and horn, SIS.
Steel express wagons. 25c to 1925.
Tricycles, $3.50 to $40.
"Shoo-flies." neatly upholstered. and
with pretty horses-well made and 7-
ished-s1.25 to 81.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
R66qss.gs@zs'Fe'@F qs.ss; g e:
Store Open This Evening
and Saturday evening" too, of course.
American Express branch office main floor
Decisive Reductions
on Mems Furnishings

prce-cu the very thing anxious
a Christmas gift.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23

ENVY@ though Christmas is but two days away
~ ~ of and dolls which any
might proud show the BEGINNING of the
ayeaound Toy Store merely Christ
rnas-tme side
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23

75c Outing Flannel Night Shirts 5Uc
$500 Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes S375
$3.50 Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes $685.
$1,000 Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes. $3.50
$1,000 Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes. 5000
$500 Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes. ......$1125
$500 Smoking Jackets and Bath Robes. Sl8I5
(Jus Entrance)
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27
OLD VESSEL NOW A CHURCH
Place of Worship and Home for Sail ors on the Pacific Coast Near
 San Pedro.

It would be difficult to find a great CT oddity in church architecture than the Seaman's Bethel, on Rattlesnake island, close to the port of San Pedro, off the coast of California. It is the decayed and weather beaten hulk of seas. Becoming unseaworthy it was beached. made fast with cables and transformed into church.
 The Seaman's Bethel is a mission church that come into San Pedro har Dor and of the fishermen of Rattle. snake island. All the machinery and seagoing fixtures have been removed from the old hulk and the rooms amid ships that used to open into the en- zine room have been combined into the assembly hall.
 The after deck has been bearded room. Tables and chairs, with many books, magazines and newspapers, give the place homelike appearance, and here the sailors of the Seven Seas, with human dereltcts from many lands, congregate in the afternoons and evenings to find out what is going on in the great world.
 Really the Seaman's Bethel is sort of institutional church. The aft CT part of the hold has been fitted up as a gymnasium. Here also is bowl ing alley and in another corner are bathtubs and water heater. Anoth- CT part of the hold is fitted up with hunks. where the sailor who finds him. self "broke" between voyages is made welcome to spend the night-or as many nights as he pleases.
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27
Mir. William A. Radford will answer ouateIv inc bt

Mir. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide eNpe- rience as Editor, Author and Manufac- turer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave, Chicago, H.. and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
 Architects are applying themselves assiduously to the problem of sup plying the demand for moderate cost homes. In all parts of the country more houses of what might be called the middle class are being built than other styles. The designs show orig inality and in every case there is evident the effort to make housekeep ing easier, in fact, a pleasure. Too often it is found that interior con venience is sacrificed to exterior orna- mentation. Many times more effort is given to mere show than to utility and convenience.
 The days of the old parlor are past The old parlor was room shut off from all the other rooms and it was opened only when the minister called, when sister got married, or when the sewing society met It was a room jealously protected against invasion by the youngsters of the household, and if one of the boys ventured across the dead line at the doorway there was nothing short of tragedy
 But theSpeople have outgrown this. Now, if a parlor exists it is lived in just like any other part of the house. The houses built now, even if they are supplied with a parlor, are intended to be lived in all over. This is a sign that proves the home, always the bull wark of civilization, is growing still nearer to the hearts of the people. It is the surest indication of the sta bility of uur institutions. Even the summer tourist who travels the coun- try over in search of pleasure, and wis its all the resorts, when he comes to
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27
Deafness Cannot Be
 Cured

By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin- ing of the Eustachian Tube When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to it's normal condition, hea ri ng will be destroyed forever; nine out of ten cases are caused by Catarrh, which is notn- ing but an inflamed co ,dition of the mucous surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness tcaused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
 F. J. CHENEY & Co.,, Toledo, 0.
 Sold by Druggists 75c.
 Take Halls Family ills for constipation
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27
The Lash of a Fiend

would have been about as wei
 come to A. Cooper of Oswego N
 Y, as a merciless lung racking cough that defed all remedies for years. 1t was most trouble. some at night" he writes, moth ing helped me till 1 used Dr
 Kings New Discovery which cured me completely. 1 never cough at night now. Millions know its matchless merit for stubborn colds, sore lungs, obst1. nate coughs, lagrippe, asthma, hemorrhage, croup, whoopilg cough, or hayfever. It relieves quickly and never fails to satis- ty. A trial convinces. soc, $1.OO. Trial bottle free. Its positively guaranted by all druggists i
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27
REAL SPORT FOR FISHERMEN
Harpooned-Put Up Good Fight.

The shark fishing season is on here now and furnishes quite a pastime for those addicted to such dangerous sports. The sharks seem to be bolder than usual, very large ones coming into the bay, while generally they keep out toward the entrance.
 Yesterday quite a large one was caught from one of the piers. It measured over two meters in length and caused quite an exciting battle before the fishermen got the second harpoon into it. This morning an- other much larger one was caught by some fishermen in boat. It was only subdued after hard struggle and finally lowed alongside the sea wall and hoiSted out with a derrick. The animal was near three meters long and was still alive after being hoistad out onto the dock and it slashed around at a lively rate, causing the crowd that had gathered to see it 10 scatter in all directions to avoid it's enormous tail. After being killed the animals liver was removed and :t measured more than three feet in length. This furnishes a very fine transparent oil that is used for many purposes. Vera Cruz Correspondence. Merican Herald.
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27

analyze his feelings comes to the con clusion that the greatest pleasure he has in going away from home is the pleasure lie has of returning to it. We do not know how much we love home till we have been away from it.
 So this little cottage is shown here as type of the homes that are be- ing built. Some will call it bunga- low, and 1t will pass under that name with many. But the term cottage" will be more familiar to the masses. You will notice that this cottage is in harmony with its surroundings. It sits in a large lot and on that account all it's lines are effective and beautiful. Unfortunately in many cases home builders are compelled to build on lots that are too small to display ade-
Holbrook argus., 1910-09-27
RIVERS THAT r :: DAMASCUS
uninhabitabIe Were It. Not for These Two Streams.

The situation of Damascus Is re- markable-she stands isolated on an oasis of the vast desert which every. where hens her in. You may see from Damascus the sunset frs touch with purple the low western hills 25 miles away. These hills mark the beginning of the great desert-beyond them there is nothing but a rolling waste and the long roads to Palmyra and Bagdad. The permanence and prosperity of Damascus are due to the presence of two rivers. which have converted this spot of the dreary
 desolate and uninhabited desert into 8 smiling and we'll watered plain. The Pharpar approaches only within seven miles of Damascus. but by means of canals and aQueducts sends its life giving waters to the gardens of the city. The Abana is the stream from which the city's main supply of water is obtained. Minerva like, It springs full born from the base of a perpen. dicular rock at Ain Fijih, in the heart of the Anti=Lebanons, and runs 2 course of ten miles in a gorge, large river 20 to 30 feet wide and four feet deep, its waters always fresh and Ice cold, casting out branches every where, permeating every nook and corner of the city, until, as one has said: Literally, there Is scarce street, bazaar, khan, courtyard or dwelling house which has not its mar be or stone fountain constantly filled with running water supplied directly by the Abana itself" Thus, the Aba na, not fruitlessly wasting her waters on that thirsty land, saves them in Ter narrow gorge till she can fling them we'll out on the desert, and ex- bends all her life at once in the crea. ton of single city.-Biblical World.