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THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY .18, 19.10. DR. COOK LIES. NG IN WA (MISS TELLS NOT WELL, BUT ELL SIDE OF CASE Nerves said to Be Shattered and Says Ho Worked Out His Own Prob lems Rcnardlno Flylny ati'J That Wrights Aro Trying To Hon Credit. Mind Is in Danger From Mel ancholiaIn German Hospital. '8 e hi . FRANKFORT, Germany, Jnn. IS Dr. Frederick A. Cook, tho dis credited Arctic explorer, lies criti cnlly ill in a sanitarium n6nr llcidcl burfj, according to n statement pub lished in tho cZitunR todny. "Cook's nerves nre said to be &ml tere'd, and his mind in danger of do ranRement from melancholia. He has suffered a serious physical col lapse, tho Zcitungfs correspondent declared. It also was reported that Dr. Cook's wifo is with hira at tho san itarium, but this could not be con firmed. The Zeitung stated that it is pledged not to make public Cook's retreat. HEIDELBURG, Germany, Jan. IS. A search of tho sanitariums and hospitals in and around this place, following tho publication in tho Zei tung of Frankfort today of an ar ticlo staling that Dr. Frederick Cook, tho American explorer, is in hiding near here, was unproductive of re suits. v Many places denied absolutely thnt Cook was among their patients. Others refused to deny or confirm the report, somo of them not being averse to the publicity that would follow their refusal to discuss it. PHYSICIANS FIND THAT MAN WAS POISONED i KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 18. Physicians who examined the stom ach of Col. Thomns Saoi. th-? Kan sas City millionaire who died Octob er 13, under mysterious circum stances declared today that they found evidences of strychnine. Swope's nephew, Christian Swope, died December 2. It was established leyond all doubt that tetaro was poi son in his stomach. It Is suspected that both men wero poisoned by someone who hoped to receive a por tion of the Swope fortune after their removal. mm WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. IS. Tho national conference of govern ors of the various states today bo camo an adjunct of tho national conference on uniform legislation through lengthy discussion of the laws of their various states. Plans ' for the unification of civil Jaws were discussed by 30 governors who are attending tho conference. Asido from uniform legislation, tho governors nro in meeting princi pally to further n congressional campaign for general interstate com merce legislation. The house com mittee on ititerstnto and foreign commerce held its first meeting and will probably receive a committee from the governors embodying the suggestion brought out at the puber- Mntnrinl rnnfpreneo. At the conclusion of tho rooming session of the governors tlioy hail a luncheon at tho Metropolitan club and later called upon President Tnft to pay their official respects. The governors will dino tonight with John Hays Hammond, the mining en gineer, and will then attend a recep tion at the white house. AVIATION MEET WILL CLOSE NEXT THURSDAY AVIATION FIELDS, Los Angele, Cal., Jan. 18. It was officially given out today by Courtlandt Field Bishop, president of tho Aero club of America, that tho Los Angeles aviation meet would bo brought to an official end Thursday afternoon at the conclusion of tho day's aero plane flights. This announcement was made in view of the fact that several publi cations reported that tho meet would be continued to include next Sunday RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR IMMENSE COMPANY CLEVELAND, 0., Jnn. IS. Gen eral Georgo A. Garretson, president of tho Bank of Commerce of this city, and S. II. Shane, general man ager of tho Gilchrist Transportation company, were appointed by a local court receivers for tho Gilchrist com pany, a $10,000,000 corporation. The Gilchrist company owns 57 steamers and four barges plying on the Great Lakes. Recently it nego tiated heavy loans to increase the fleet. The court's notion was taken nt the request of Frank W. Gilchrist of Alpcnn, Mich., who alleged that tho company owes $2,500,000. Poor business is announced as the cause fortho failure. BUTTE FALLS BASKET BALL TEAM WINNER After walking from Bulto Falls to Eagle Point, riding to Medford on the Pacific & Eastern nnd fin ishing tho trip on tho H. R. V. rail way to Jacksonville, the Butto Falls basketball tenm had still enough vim L03 ANOELISS, Jan. 18 Follow ing tho announcement of Dr. Chanuto, "tho fathor ot aeronaut ten" In Now York yesterday to tho offoct that tho Wrights wero not tho first to iIIhcov er tho principle by which It Is pobmI bio to balliuco (lying machines, Qlonn H. CurttRS, ngnlnt whom tho Wrights secured an injunction nt Ilutfnlo for alleged Inrrlngemimt ut tho Wright patents, said today: "I don't boo what contentions tho WrightH could poHslhly tunko that would placo mo In a position warrant ing nn order tor mo to Htup (lights bnsod upon lu(rlngomonts of Wrlght'H claims. Wright is simply, ono nmong mnnk who have rend, studlod nnd ex perimental in tho direction o( perfect ing hcnvler-thnu-ntr machines. "Wright uttcd the snmo books nil of us have used. Farman gave flights boforo Wright, nlthough Wright claims thnt ho gave prlvato flights at tho tlmo Farmun was giving exhi bitions. For thnt matter I was work ing along tho snmo lines hundreds ot miles nwny from tho Wrights. I did not know what they woro doing, nei ther did they know what I was doing. We wero nil working independently nlong lines laid down by I.nngloy, Dr. Chnnuto, Llllonthnl, Hiram Mnxlm and other men who did tho ptoneor work and who unttelflohly gnvo us tho benefits of their experiments, through splendidly' written books on aeronaut ics." Curtis thon went Into details, tech nical in character, claiming thnt each and ovory ono of tho Wright conten tions had been disproved by actual experiments. 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