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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-06-12

drinking, and no doubt you will won,
der what became of your kidney
trouble and backache. BY all means
have your physician examine your
kidneys at least twice = year. TO
be obtained from Corner Drug and
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Hunter POstpOnes Talk

The talk on the price of wheat, to
have been delivered tomorrow at the
chamber of commerce meeting by
Professor Byron Hunter, has been
postponed until the following We'd
nesday, because of Mr.. Hunter being
called out of the city. There will be
a number of out-of-town speakers
present, tomorrow, however, and an
interesting session is assured.
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Jad Salts is inexpensive: cannot I'm
jure; makes delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink, which everyone
should take now and then to help
keep their kidneys clean and active.
Try this; also keep up the water
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COUNTY RECORDS.

942O1 Articles of Incorporation
Chi Beta Psi Sorority.
942O2 Rels.: John OtnesS to w. D.
McGregor, $1,000 r-m dated 6-16-2O-
942O9 NIL: Clemens A. Yelle and
Ella Chamberlin pullman, Wash.)
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RIDING A WILLING HORSE TO
DEATH.

The news that 10000 union painters
in New York have decided to strike
for $40 day and a five-day week
comes very appropriately on the heels
of the recent announcement that
building projects totaling 100000
in New York and SIS 100000 in Chica-
go have been held up Indefinitely by
high costs. The situation confronts
both labor and capital with ques-
ton, not so much of Justice as of rea-
son.
Building construction is now being
checked by high costs.
Both workmen and dealers in build
ing supplies must face these facts.
1t rests with them to wreck or main
tain the building boom. Perhaps by
striking they can get their desired
scale But if at the same time, and
because of that scale, they discourage
building, they will find themselves
earning nothing. Far sighted labor
leadership will realize this danger
and will counsel it's membership not
to ride the willing horse to DEATH
Pend d'Oreille Review.
IA "a "a
IT'S EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS.
In call for a national wheat con-
ference to be held in Chicago, June
10 and 20, the statement is made that
in this country ten million men, wo-
men and children are directly inter
ested in the production of wheat. 1t
might, with greater truth, have been
said that eleven or twelve times this
number of Americans are directly in
terested in the wheat problem, be-
cause this is a wheat bread country.
Ten million producers have the first
claim to consideration because rails
ing wheat should, like any other in
dustry, be profitable to those who
grow 1t. The farmers are entitled to
fair profit just as is the producer
OF any other article. The other hun
bred million, who are to be classed
as purchasers. want to buy wheat pro-
ducts at reasonable cost, and they
should recognize the fundamental
principle that the man who is doing
always a liability. And the condi-
tfons that apply to wheat are equally |
applicable to every other product of |
the farm-Caldwe1l News.
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MY Percheron stallion, LennOx No.
2S09, will stand at Jabbora's barn on
Tuesdays and Saturdays. ]. F.
Papineau. zlo-z4z
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FOR SALEHNEW ALFALFA HAY
in shock, $500 ton. j. o. Hill.
Phone 916X3. 214-219
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FOR SALE-CUT FLOWERS, PEON-
les and other flowers. Call 277J.
Of n
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DRESSMAKING

Mrs. May Williamson. Phone 13L.
214-241
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CLASSIFIED ADS
FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE+A HOUSE, BARN, AND
garage in the best part of Moscow.
Write 1923 So. Polk 2O3-23O
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FOR SALE SINGER SEWING MA
chine, used a short time, like new
Call 4OR. 216-221
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FOR SALEHFRESH EGGS FOR
packing. Phone 1866. A. r. F1eiger.
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FOR SALE - FLOCK PUREBRED
Golden Campines. Phone 458-Y.
211-216
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FOR SALE-MisceIlaneous

FOR SALEHNEW WHITE SEWING
machine cheap. Phone 383Y.
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FOR SALE=NEARLY NEW, HACK
would trade for COW. Phone 905X3
211-21f
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FOR SALEAMOWING MACHINE
Mccormick, TT. cut. Phone $3.50
o14-21t
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FOR SALEANETTED GEM POTA
toes, 75c. sack delivered. Matt
Horrigan. Phone 902X2. 211-21
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FOR SALEAA SEIARPLESS SEPAR
ator at bargain. Phone 191-Y.
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FOR SALEAG OOSEBERRIES. Phon
1897. T. G. Dowdy. 216-22
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FOR SALE+A FIVE PASSENGER
Oakland car. Phone 277J. 216-22'
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BOY ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL
this fall wants position in or near
town doing chores and odd jobs this
summer and work for board and room
this winter. Phone 393 216-217
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-06-12

WANTED-TO TEACH PUPILS ON
cornet, trombone and other brass
instruments. c. w. Horsington, 80
Elm ST. 216-22f
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FOR RENT ROOMS WITH BOARD
or without. 327 East First. Phone
1887. 2O7-21S
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WANTED INVALIDS WHEEL, CHAIR.
Phone Moscow Clinic 177J. 215-16
s ROOM HOUSE FOR RENT, $40 s.
Washington st. Phone 941x4.
115-220
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LOST-AN ARMY blanket RE
turn to Star-Mirror Reward
215-216
Evening star., 1923-06-03

covered later was half Eskimo. but
highly educated and extremely hand
some, spoke a little French. little
German. and a very little English.
In a mixture of these three tongues
we understood each other, helped out
by the young Dane. who was Peter
Freuken. a we'll known traveller in
the arctic regions, and a very good
* * x
MRS. RASMUSSEN was friendly
Nl and amused. She told me it was
true her husband was a great friend
of Dr. Cook, and that he was the last
man who had seen him before he
went toward the north pole. Fer
that reason she wanted to be one of
the first TO greet him. A launch, or
tug. belonging to the director of the
Danish Greenland Company, had
made ready to go down the Cattegat
TO meet the Hans Egede with DR..
Cook on board, and she had hoped to
make that journey. But the fog had
spoiled everything, and the launch
would leave in the morning instead
at a very early hour. 1t was very
Disappointing!
Surely l said, "if you really want
to 60 1t would be excellent to travel
to Elsinore tonight, put up at a hotel,
and get on board the launch at dawn.
If you would allow me to accompany
you-
Mrs. Rasmussen laughed at my ad
venturous plan.
According to her. the last train
had gone to Elsinore.
Let US have a taxi and drive
there"
She told me that no motor car was
allowed to drive at night beyond
certain distance from Copenhagen.
1t would mean a fine. or imprison-
ment, for the driver without special
license.
1t seemed Incredible.
summoned my ifriendly young
waiter, and asked him TO bring in a
taxi driver. In less than a minute
burly fellow stood before me, cap
in hand. Through the waiter 1 asked
him how much he wanted to drive a
party that night to Elsinore. He
shook his head. and, according to the
waiter. replied that he could not risk
the journey, as he might be heavily
fined.
How much, including the finer l
asked.
If he had demanded fifty pounds
should have Maid -If-with Daily
Chronicle money.
To my amazement, he asked the
modest sum of IS, including the fine.
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Quaint Festival.

THE spring festival Of Pontresina.
l. a lovely village in the Grisons,
Switzerland, $50 feet above the sea.
traces its origin back to the days
when this part of Switzerland was
under Roman influence, and records
indicate that spring in that early
period actually came into the land
around the 1st of March. Spring to
the children of those at that time
very solitary alpine realms naturally
meant liberation from indoors; the
joys of winter sport were not known
as yet and everybody was anxiously
awaiting the glorious season of ma
ture's reawakening.
AS practically all the boys of that
region belonged to peasant homes.
the arrival of spring, moreover, sug-
gested to them the approaching de-
parture for those blossom -bestrewn
pastures higher up, where the cattle
under the supervision of their owners
spent the summer months.
The Pontresina spring festival to.
day still expresses the same idea. All
the boys of the village gather early in
the morning. Some of them are clad
others content themselves with varied
fancy decorations and cowbells. and
cne of the tallest boys is chosen as
leader of the procession. and is meant
to represent the Swiss cowkeeper.
This boisterously happy crowd of
youngsters marches from door to door
and their joyous greetings that
Spring has arrived" are acknowl-
edged with many substantial gifts.
Sausages. pies, cakes, apples, nuts
and other delicacies appreciated by
the proverbial hungry boy" are
handed over to them at every home.
and these manifold gifts are later in
the day shared with the girls In true
banquet style with the donors look
ing on and celebrating in a somewhat
more quiet manner.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

waiter served me, and when 1 found
that he spoke English, 1 asked him
If Dr. Cook. the explorer, had arrived
In Copenhagen.
No" said the waiter He ought
to have been here at midday. But
there's a fog in the Cattegat and
his boat will not come in until to-
morrow morning. All Denmark is
waiting for him"
So he had not arrived! Well. I
might be in time after all. l looked
round for any journalist 1 might
know, but did not see familiar face.
cigarette. 1 perceived q suddenly
awakened interest among the people
in the cafe. 1t was due to the arrival
of a very pretty lady in a white fur
toQue, with white foxskin round
her neck, accompanied by another
with tousled hair. They took their
seats at the far end of the cafe.
The young waiter came up to me
and whispered with some excitement:
Did you see that beautiful lady?
That is Mrs. Rasmussen"
The name meant nothing to me. and
when 1 told him so he was shocked.
She's the wife of Knud Rasmus-
sen, the famous explorer. 1t was he
who provided DR.. Cook with his dogs
before he set out for the north pole.
They are great friends"
was aware that luck was be-
friending me. From that lady. IL
had the pluck to speak to her, ]
could at least find out something
about the mysterious DR.. Cook. and
perhaps get good story about him,
whether / could meet him or not.
1 struggled with my timidity. and
then went across the cafe and made
my bow to the pretty lady. explain
ing that i was a newspaper man from
London, who had come all the way to
interview DR.. Cook, who was, I un-
stood, a friend of her distinguished
husband. Could she tell me how to
find him?
Mrs. Rasmussen. who, as dis
Evening star., 1923-06-03

shrieked a wailling homage, whistles
blew. Bands on pleasure steamers
played See the Conquering Hero
Comes"
DIR. Cook. the hero. was hiding in
his cabin. He had to be almost drag
ged out by a tall and splendid Dane
named Norman Hansen, poet and ex-
plorer, who afterward constituted
himself DR.. Cooks champion and de-
clared himself my enemy, because OF
my accusations.
Dr. Cook came out of his cabin
with a livid look. almost green.
never saw guilt and fear more clearly
written on any human face. He could
hardly pull himself together when
the Crown Prince of Denmark board
ed his ship and offered the homage
of Denmark to his glorious achieve
ment.
But that was the only time in
which 1 saw Cook lose his nerve.
Landing on the quayside, I had to
fight my way through an immense surg
ing crowd which almost killed the object
of their alteration by the terrific pressure
of their mass. in which each individual
struggled to get near him. 1 heard
afterward that W. T. Stead, the famous
old Journalist of the Review Of Reviews,
which afterward i edited. flung his arms
round DIR. Cook, and called upon fellow
Journalists to form his body guard, lest
he should be crushed to death.
On the edge of the crowd I met the
first English journalist 1 had seen. II
was Alphonse Courlander, a very bril-
liant and amusing fellow. with whom
1 had a close friendship. When he
heard that I had been on Cooks ship
and had interviewed him for a couple
of hours, he had wistful look which
1 knew. was plea for me to impart
! my story. But this was one of the
few times when I played a lone hand
and / ran from him, and jumped in a
taxi in order to avoid the call of COM
radeship. 1 knew that had the story
of the world.
In a small hotel, distant from the
center of the city, 1 wrote 1t to the
extent Of seven columns, and the whole
of it amounted TO case of libel. making
a definite challenge to Cooks claim and
ridiculing the narrative which set forth
as he had told 1t TO me. When had
handed 1t into the telegraph office
knew that I had burned my boats, and
that my whole journalistic career would
be made or narred by this message.
During the time / had been writing
DR.. Cook had been interviewed by forty
Journalists in one assembly. w. T.
Stead, as doyen of the press. asked the
questions, and at the end Of the session
Evening star., 1923-06-03
oun6 Journalist Staked All on His Exposure of Dr. Cook

"Ey all means" he said, "and to
make things quite beyond doubt, we
will take two other witnesses-the
correspondent who issued the state
ment about the denial, and another of
established character"
The two other witnesses were a
French count, acting as the corre-
| spondent of a great French newspa-
| per-the Comte d'Hesdin-and the
representative of a news agency who
had issued the university statement,
and believed in it's truth.
| 1t was strange and exciting inter-
! time he refused to open his lips to
say a single word one way or the 9TH
er about the Cook case. He relented
slowly when w. T. Stead made an
eloquent plea on my behalf. and said
that my honor was at stake on his
word.
The correspondent who had pub
lished the denial of my interview
tried to intervene, speaking in rapid
German, which I could hardly follow,
endeavoring to persuade the rector to
gard to the university. But the Comte
d'Hesdin. acting as my second, as 1t
were, sternly bade him speak in Eng
lish or French, which all could under
stand, and to give me the right of
putting my questions. This was up
held by Stead.
1 put my question exactly word for
word as 1 had done in the first inter
view
Had DR.. Cook submitted any journal
of his travels to the university? II.
Had he submitted any astronomical
observations?
Had he presented any proof at all
of his claim to have reached the pole
The rector hesitated long before
answering each question in the mega
tive. The man was profoundly dis
turbed. Undoubtedly, as 1 knew later,
the university. with the king as it's
/ president, had deeply involved itself
by offering an honorary degree to
! Cook. AS it's chief representative.
this man was in a difficult and dan
| gerous position, if he turned down
! Cooks claim. 1t was at least five
minutes before he answered the last
question. Then, as an honest man, he
! answered. as he had done before
when l saw him alone. No.
I breathed a deep sigh of relief If
he had been a dishonest man. my
reputation and career would have
| been utterly ruined
| asked him TO sign the questions
Evening star., 1923-06-03
BY SIR PiIIL-x GIBBS.

n spite of my long and fairly sue
cessfur career as a journalist,
have rarely achieved what Is
known as "scoop"-that is TO
say, an exclusive story of sensational
interest.
The only important scoop" that l
can claim as far as l remember was
my discovery of DR.. Cook after his
pretended discovery of the north pole.
That was due to a lucky sequence
of events which led me by the hand
from first to last. The story is anus
ing for that reason and this is the
first time | have written the narra-
tive of my strange experiences in
that affair.
My first stroke of luck, strange
as it may seem. was my starting
twenty-four hours later than forty
other correspondents in search OF
the explorer at Copenhagen. If | had
started at the same time l should
have done what they did and per-
haps taken the same line as they
did. AS 1t was. | had to play lone
hand and form my own judgment.
1
icle Office from some country place
when L. a. Perris. the news editor,
now the managing editor, said in a
Sasual way:
There's a fellow named Dr.. Cook
who has discovered the north pole.
He may arrive at Copenhagen to-
morrow. Lots of other men have the
8
some kind of a story"
l uttered the usual Groan, obtained
a bag of sold from the cashier and
set out for Copenhagen by way of
the North sea. On a long and tire
some journey ] repeated the name
DIR. Cook lest l should forget it;
wondered IL l knew anything about
arctic exploration and decided 1
didn't. and accepted the probability
that I should be too late to find the
sreat explorer, and shouldn't know
what to ask him If I found him.
1 arrived in Copenhagen, dirty.
tired and headachy. in the evening.
! wanted above all things cup of
strong coffee and, with the German
language, communicated my desire
to q taxi driver. He took me to a
rather low-iooking cafe filled with
men and women and tobacco smoke.
That was my second stroke of luck,
for If l had not gone to that particu-
lar cafe l should never have met DIR.
Cook in the way that happened.
* x =
over my cup of coffee 1 looked at
" the Danish paper and could read
only two words. DR. Cook" A young
Evening star., 1923-06-03

Whitney, who would take them to
New York.
when will he get there?" l asked.
Next year" said DIR. Cook.
But surely" l said, still without
suspicion, you have brought your
journal with you? The essential
papers?"
81 have no papers," he said. and
his mouth hardened.
Perhaps 1 could see your astro-
nomical observationes?' I said, and
was rather pleased with that sug-
gestion.
Haven't 1 told you that 1 have
brought no papers?" he said.
He spoke with a sudden violence
of anger which startled me. Then
he said somthing which made sus-
picion leap into my brain.
You believe :Nansen," he said, land
Amundsen, and Sverdrup.- They had
only their story to tell. Whey don't
you believe me?"
had believed him. But at that
strange. excited protest and some un-
easy, almost guilty look about the
man, thought, "Hullo! What's
wrong? This man protests too much. y
From that moment 1 had grave
doubts. of him. I pressed him several
times about his papers. Surely he
was not coming to Europe, to claim
the greatest prize. of exploration.
without a scrap of his notes, or any
of his observations? He became more
and more angry with me. until, for
the sake of getting some narrative
from him, / abandoned that inter
rogation, and asked him for his per-
sonal adventures, the manner of his
journey, the weights of his sledges
the number of his dogs. and so on
AS 1 scribbled down his answers. the
story appeared to me more and more
fantastic. And he contradicted himself
several times, and hesitated over
many of his answers, like a man
building up delicate case of self
defense. BY intuition, rather than
evidence, by some quick instinct OF
facial expression, by some sensibility
to mental and moral dishonesty,
was convinced, absolutely, at the end
of an hour. that this man had not
been to the north pole, but was at
tempting to bluff the world.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

and answers as 1 had written them
down, but for a long time he re-
fused to put his signature. Then he
signed, but as he handed me the
paper, he said: "Of course, that must
not be published in the newspapers"
! protested that in that case it was
useless, and both Stead and the Comte
d'Hesdin argued on my behalf. I had
the paper in my breast pocket. and
when the rector gave timorous con-
sent to it's publication, left the room
with deep words of thanks. and fair
ly ran out of the gates Of the uni
versity lest he should change his
mind, or the paper should be taken
from me. 1t was published in the
Daily Chronicle, and in hundreds of
other papers.
X X
a BANQUET was given to DR.. Cook
Hand I attended in the dress clothes
of my young friend, the waiter. 1t
was a historic evening, for, in the
middle of that dinner came the
famous message from Peary, in which
he announced his own arrival at the
pole and repudiated Cooks claim.
I stood close to DR.. Cook when that
message was handed to him. and am
bound to pay a tribute to his cool
nerve. He. read the message on the
bit of fimsy. handed it back, and
said: eff Peary says he reached the
pole, I believe him."
His manner at all times, after that
temporary breakdown on the Hans
Egede, was convincing. 1t was mar
velous on the day when the doctors
degree-the highest honor of the uni
versity-was conferred upon him. and
before all the learned men there he
assembled the pulpit of the university
chapel, and in solemn oration
stretched out his arms and said: 81
show you my hands-they are clean!'
At that moment I was tempted to
believe that Cook believed he had
been to the North pole. Sometimes,
remembering the manner of the man,
I am tempted to think so still-though
now there is mo doubt that he never
went anywhere near his goal.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

1 turned to Mrs. Rasmussen, Peter
Freuken and the ether lady, and in
vited them all to make the journey
in my" motor car.
They hesitated, laughed, whispered
to each other, and were, as I could
see. tempted by the lure of the ad-
venture.
But" said Mrs. Rasmussen, when
we get there supposing you were not
allowed on the launch by the direc-
tor OF the Danish-Greenland Com
pany? He is our friend. But you
are, after all, a stranger"
'I should have had an amusing
drive" ! said. 1T would be worth
while. Perhaps you would tell me
what DR.. Cook says when you re-
turn"
They laugted again, hesitated quite
a time, then accepted the invitation.
1t was arranged that we should start
at 10 o'clock. when few people would
be abroad outside the city. where we
should have to travel with lights out
to avoid the police. There still re-
manned an shour or so. We had din
ner. talked of DR.. Cook, and at 10
o'clock started out in the taxi, and 1
thought how incredible 1t was that I
should be sitting there, opposite a
beautiful lady with a white fox
around her throat, with laughing
girl by her side, and a young Danish
explorer next to the driver, riding
through Denmark with lights out, to
meet a man who had discovered the
North Pole, and whose name I had
never heard two days before. These
things only happen in journalism and
romance.
y r y
WE had not gone very far when
w driving through village, we
knocked over a man on a bicycle.
People came running UP through the
darkness. Peter Freuken leaped
down from his seat to pick up the
man, who seemed to1 be uninjured.
and there was a great chatter in the
Danish tongue, while kept on shout
ing to Freuken: How much to pay?''
After a while he resumed his seat and
Evening star., 1923-06-03


TT was in the saloon, however, that
i he delivered himself, unwillingly, 1
thought, into our hands. AS the two
or three young Danes knew but little
English, the interview was mainly
a dialogue between DR.. Cook and
myself. I had no suspicion of him,
no faint shadow of a thought that
all was not straightforward. Being
vastly ignorant of Arctic explora-
ton, I asked number Of simple
questions to extract his narrative;
and to save myself trouble and get
good copy" I asked very soon
whether he would allow me to see
his diary.
To my surprise, he replied with
strange defensive look that he had
no. diary. His papers had been put
on q yacht belonging to man named