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"iii 1 .-xr.T xtt nprr.nv FPTnAV ST'TTTTiT,.Ti 1009. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XLIX.-NO. 15,216. imv, " ' ' WILL DICTATED BY A0KI CHILD TO COOK WILL HAUL PEARY INTO COURT IN STORE FE ROAD TO POLE'S ANNEXATION SPIRITS PROBATED KNOW NO WHITES ASKED TO PA! OP POLE FINDER ENTER SPEED WAR ARCHDEACON EMERY'S DAUGH TER DECLARES HER LOVE. MEDItJMS WIN CONTEST OVER CALIFORNIAN'S ESTATE. WHAT ABOUT THOSE FOXSKIXS SHIPPED FROM ETAH? ' I 1 BANK DIRECTORATE i - i 1010115 SANTA FOR ALREADY PLANNED Arctic Continent Part of United States. CONSTITUTION FOLLOWS FLAG Wickersham Says Question of Citizenship Raised. IF POLE IS INHABITED Attornej-General Would Defend Flag at Earth's Summit Truth of Cook's Story Affirmed by Chief Geographer. NEW YORK, Sept. I. That the flag planted by Dr. Cook on the new Arctic continent will be defended by the United States was the opinion expressed by Attorney-General Wickersham at Lawrence Beach. L. I., his summer home, tonight. "The Constitution will follow the flag ff the new land discovered by Cook proves to be of any value." said Mr. Wickersham. v The new territory may perhaps not prove a very valuable acquisition, but If human beings can live there, if there re native races living there, a serious question of citizenship will have to be considered. However, before taking any position In the matter 1 prefer to wait for Information of a little more definite character." Cyrus C. Adams, chief geographical ex pert of the American Geographical So ' clety. said tonight that his examination of Dr. Cook's narrative had ' convinced him that the explorer's claims to the discovery of the pole are genuine and will stand. "If Is Inevitable." said Mr. Adams, that the data which Dr. Cook will pres ently submit to the scientific world will be subjected to the closest scrutiny. No sane man with experience in such mat ters could hope for an Instant to produce a false' log wlfh false astronomical and magnetic observations for such a period as was covered In this remarkable .trip to the pole. "The story of Dr. Cook's expedition as It has reached us contains no Improbabili ties. He found. In accordance with the belief of experienced explorers, that once beyond the great Ice ridges which stretch for 100 miles out from fhe coast of north ern seas the Ice Is smooth and clear and, the road easy." DON'T AXXEX ALL DISCOVKRF.D Americans Hare Found New Conti nents Near Both Polls. WASHINGTON. Sept. 2 State De partment officials belfeve It Is of little consequence to the TTnited States what lands Dr. Cook has discovered on his way to the North Pole, so far as actual territorial possession Is concerned. It Is recalled by the Department offi cials that ever since 18JS American ex plorers In both the Arctic and Antarc tic have discovered vast areaa of land to which no claims ever were made. An American named Wilkes found In the Antarctic a land of more than 200.000 square miles In area, and Dr. Kane made large discoveries in the Arctic, but no effort has been made by the United States to assert Its rights. General Greeley some years ago lo cated lands that never before were known to exist. Many of the world's greatest navi gators have from time to time made discoveries to which no claim was ever made. The principal reason for this, however. Is said to be that the lands were almost Inaccessible and absolute ly of no value. As to the particular territory which Dr. Cook Is said to have discovered. It was asserted that it was quite prob able teat these lands would be found to "be an extension of the mainland of Greenland, and, if so. they belong- to Denmark. At any rate, it is extremely Improbable. It Is said, that the United States would attempt to assert sover eignty over them. ESKIMOS TRUST LIVES TO COOK At First Refuse, Then Consent, to Dash for Pole. GOTHENBURG. Sweden. Sept. I. Dr. Otto N. Nordenskjold. the explorer, who has Just returned from an Arctic voyage, describes an Interview he had with Knud Rasmussen. the Danish student, In Greenland,, who passed the Winter with the Cape York Esqulmos together with Dr. Cook. I Rasmussen told Dr. Nordenskjold that the Esqulmos at first absolutely declined to follow Dr. Cook because of the risk. At last some of the young men declared themselves willing to aid him in his attempt to reach the pole, and at the moment of starting several highly experienced men Joined the party, saying they would not leave their sons and would not forsake this man who had trusted them. COOK'S STORY CORROBORATED Minister Esr&n Quotes Greenland Of ficial In His Support. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Maurice F. Egan, United States Minister at Copen- ( Concluded en Pass 4.) Discoverer of Pole Aceuses His Rival or Robbing Stores and Open-, ing- Letter. NEW YORK. Sept. 1 (Speclal.V-Hob-ert E. Peary may be called on to answer charges of having taken valuable fox skins belonging to Dr. Cook, according to Captain B. 8. Osborn. secretary of the Arctic Club of America. "There will be lots doing when Dr. Cook returns." said CapHain Osborn today. "There will be a reception, of course, and dinners and all sorts of celebrations. Then, too. there will be another matter to settle, and It will bring on a fight with Peary, and I am going to be in the fight, too. and I will tell what I know. -The fight .will be about the way Peary has acted over a store of blue foxskins, worth thousands of dollars, which Dr. Cook left at his supply station to help defray the expenses of his return trip. We have the affidavits of three men, and we have traced Peary's mysterious con signment of boxes from Etah through the Custom-house and to a warehouse In Brooklyn. We will ask him what became of all those valuable skins belonging to Dr. Cook. "Then we will want to know why Dr. Cook's letter to his wife was opened and read. It was Intended for her eyes alone and waa written by Dr. Cook Just before he passed beyond all communication with the outside world. "We would have given out all these facts before, but Mrs. Cook asked us to wait until Dr. Cook returned, so he eould conduct his own fight, and he is a good fighter." TAFT WILL VISIT ALASKA Announces Plans to Governor. Knox Says Annex Pole. BEVERLY. Mass.. Sept. 2President Taft. in bidding good-bye today to Walter Ely Clark, who is to be Inaugurated at Juneau aa Governor of Alaska, October L announced he probably would visit the far Northwest territory next Summer. It is reported that, if the President should go to Alaska next year, he may extend his trip to Include the Hawaiian Islands. Neither the President nor Secretary Knox would discuss Dr. Cook's discovery of the North Pole. When the Secretary was asked what the State Department ought to do with the Pole, he laughingly replied:. "Annex it, of course." The President has a touch of sciatica that may keep him off the olf links for the remainder of the week. EARL GREY SEEING FAIR Canadian Governor-General and Party at Seattle. SEATTLE, Sept. J. Earl Grey. Governor-General of Canada. Lady Grey, Lady Sybil Grey and Lady Edith, Grey, daughters of the Earl; Viscount Las celles. his aide de camp. Captain Fife, and Mr. Gower. arrived here this after noon on the Canadian government steamer Quadra, and will remain until noon Saturday. They will visit the Exposition tonight, where the Canad ian government has a building. , The Governor-General and his party during their stay In Seattle will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hill, at the hotel Perry. COMPROMISERS BROACHED Bartholt Would Favor Hawaii and Subsidize Mall Liners. HONOLULU". Sept. 2. At the luncheon which will be tendered to the Congres sional delegation tomorrow by the Ha waiian Merchants' Association, the pass age of a ship subsidy bill or the suspen sion of the coastwise navigation regula tions in order to allow foreign vessels to handle traffic between island points and the mainland will be strongly urged. Congressman Richard A. Bartholt. of Missouri, today said that he favored the removal of the coastwise restrictions so far as Hawaii is concerned, but that he doubted if Congress would subsidize any ships other than mail liners. t RUSSIANS TO EE IMPORTED Hawaii Believes They Will Solve Labor Problem In Islands. HONOLULU, Sept. 2. The Territorial Board of Immigration has decided to at tempt the solution of the labor problem in the Hawaiian group by the importa tion of Russian families from Manchuria. L. C. Atkinson, agent of the board, sailed for Harbin today on the liner Si beria, and is expected to make arrange ments for -the Immigration of 60 such families to Hawaii. If the experiment proves successful, It it probable that many more Russian families will be Induced to settle in the islands. HAMMOND IS BUYING MINE Take Option in Mexico by Paying $200,000 Cash. MEXICO CITY. Sept. 2. (Special.) A deposit of $y.0OO has been made In a bank here by John Hays Hammond to bind an option on the Santa Gertrude mine. In the Pachuca district of Hidalgo. The proposed purchase price is $9,000,000, Mexican money. Hammond and associates are also ne gotiating for the purchase of the La Blanca mine. In the same district, for $6,000,000, Mexican money. - Denmark Has No Doubt He Reached Pole. WARSHIPS WILL WELCOME HiM Greenland Official Has Full Faith in Explorer. JOHN BULL STILL DOUBTS Wants Proof Before Believing Cook. , Admits He Is Greatest of Explor ers if Reached Pole, but Must Be Shown. COPENHAGEN. Sept. 2. Dr. Fred erick A. Cook's credit stands so high with Danish polar explorers that the first message announcing his success in reach ing the North Pole, meagre as it was, was accepted as conclusive. Commo dore Hovgaard said today: "I believe the message is true, because Dr. Cook la most trustworthy and op posed to all exaggeration." C. A. Nielsen, an official of the Gree land administration department, said: Xo Doubt of Discovery. "When Dr. Cook says that he reached the North Pole, there can be no doubt about it. His scientific discoveries will prove that." A committee under the presidency of the Minister of Commerce has been formed to arrange a fitting reception to Dr. Cook on his arrival at Copenhagen. Dr. Maurice F. Eagan, the American Minister, will be aboard a special steamer that will be sent by the Royal Geograph ical Society tomorrow to meet Dr. Cook, who Is on his way here In the steamer Hans Egede. Torpedoboat to Meet Him. The Danish government tonight dis patched the torpedoboat Jutland from Aarhus to meet Dr. Cook and the Jut land will probably come across tho Hans Egede off The Skaw. ' The commander will convey congratu lations to the explorer in behalf of the government. The special committee of the Royal Geographical Society will In vite Dr. Cook to be the society's guest during his stay in Copenhagen. JOHN BULL SAYS "SHOW ME" Newspapers and Scientists Want Proof Cook Reached Pole. LONDON. Sept. 3. Dr. Cook's narra tive of his thrilling- Journey to the North Pole, while it has not removed the doubts raised as to his having ac complished the feat, has at least quashed the improbable suggestions ad vanced In some quarters yesterday that he had attained, not the North Pole, but the magnetic pole. Captain Roald Amundsen In an in terview at Christian on this point says: "Such a position is nonsense. The magnetlo pole Is situated on the Ameri can side and it Is quite impossible that Dr.' Cook could have been driven so far from his planned route. I feel cer tain that Dr. Cook has expressed noth ing definitely about the result. I know (Concluded on Page 3.) EFFECT Admires Oriental Husband and Will Continue to Live in Squalid Bellevue Colony. - SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. (Special.) Recovered frrnn a serious illness inciden tal to" "the recent birth of a daughter, Mrs. Gunjiro Aoki, formerly Mies Gladys Emory, daughter of Archdeacon John Emory, of the Episcopal Church, in a letter- to friends has renewed her pro testations of admiration for her Oriental husband and his race, and declares her Intention to raise her offspring in . their present home colony of Bellevue, Wash., where the associations are such that the child will not encounter the jibes of chil dren of white parents. Bellevue, a colony composed ' entirely of Japanese who have married white women. Is 15 miles east of Seattle on tho shores of Lake Washlngtdn and con sists of a few squalid shacks. For neighbor Mrs. Aokl has Mrs. "Jimmie" TanasakI, formerly daughter of John Potter, a wealthy Washington farmer, in whose home the daugh -r's name is never mentioned, and Mrs. Haraguchl, who deserted a wealthy husband for her present soul-mate. FOREST FIRES ARE SERIOUS Heavy Damage Threatened at Points East of Kelso. KELSO, Wash., Sept. 2. (Special.) Though the fire wardens are working hard several large fires are filling the air with smoke. It Is reported that a large fire is raging around Carrol ton Mountains, five miles south of town, rendering the .county road at some points almost im passable. At Mullholland Creek, 14 miles east of Kelso, a disastrous fire is destroying the timber in the vicinity of the Alger Log ging Company's camp, and for several days the camp crew has been fighting fire and all cables and apparatus have been brought from the woods. FALLS IN FAINT, DROWNS Farmer's Head Drops in Shallow Water Near Bank. MARTSVILLE. Cat., Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) James Buchanan, an aged farmer living near here, fell in a faint while standing at the edge of the river yes terday afternoon. His head fell in the shallow water at the river's edge and he was drowned before assistance could reach him. - - He had crossed the river during the day with some produce and on his re turn last evening was tying his boat when he was attacked with a fainting spell. CHARGE MAYBE SUSTAINED Federal Agent Said to Have Found Peonage at Car Plant. PITTSBURG, Sept. 2. Special Gov ernment Agent H. W. Hoagland, who has been Investigating charges of al leged peonage at the car plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company at Schoen ville, is said to . have found new evi dence today tending to substantiate the charges. He refused to make a state ment. MANY LOST IN JAVA FLOOD Death Estimate Placed at 600. Property Damage Is Great. BAT AVI A, Java, Sept. 2. It is esti mated that 600 natives have perished in the floods in Southeastern Java. The damage to property and crops has been enormous. OF TOO MUCH "IMPURE" AGITATION. Run Fast Train to Catch Mail Contract. AFTER PRIZE OF $1,250,000 Spreads Alarm Among Rivals by Aggressive Move. WORRIES HARRIMAN LINES Transcontinental Speed Race Started by Hill Extends to Southern California! Wants to Get Whole Melon. CHICAGO, Sept. 2. (Special.) The management of the Santa Fe Railroad has about decided to put into operation a new fast mall and express train to run between Kansas City and Los Angeles, with a view to capturing the bulk of the Southern California mall. This adds another speed war to that recently declared by the Hill roads In the mall, express and passenger traffic to the Pacific Coast, affecting a different territory between the East and California. Official Confirms Report. This intention became known in Western railway circles today and caused great excitement. A conference of competing lines was called, and, after long discussion, E. O. McCormlck, assistant traffic director of the Harrl man lines, was delegated to find out what plans the Santa Fe had in mind. Mr. McCormlck and C. T. Nicholson, vice-president of the Santa Fe, spent the greater portion of the afternoon to gether, but all that' could be learned was that the new fast mail train prob ably would be put on within a month. After the conference Mr. Nicholson admitted for publication that his com pany was considering a new train which would make a material cut in the present running time of 60 hours between Kansas City and Los Angeles. The entire Southern California mall is involved in the move, and this is said to bring about $1,250,000 annual revenue to the railroads. The Santa Fe and Rock Island, in connection with the Southern Pacific, now have this business about equally divided. Santa Fe Once Had Monopoly. The bulk of this mail comes from the St. Louis gateway by the Missouri Pa cific. The reweighing period for all the territory west of the Missouri River and west of St. Paul begins next February and on this account every road In that territory is urging the disposition of the mails for the yearly period following the 10 days' weighing by the Government. Formerly the Santa Fe carried the bulk of the Southern California mail, but sev eral years ago the Missouri Pacific put on a fast train which captured the mail out of St. Louis and the Rock Island put on Its Golden State Limited, which left Kansas City Just after the arrival of the Eastern mails. At that time the Santa Fe was not In a position to change Its schedule to wait for the malls, and per mitted the Rock Island to take some of the tonnage away from It. It is known that the Rock Island and (Concluded on Page 4.) Heirs Charged That Robert Craw ford Smith Was Unduly Influ- . enced by Fakers in Last Days. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) Judge Rives, of the Probate Court, handed down a decision' today admitting to probate the will of the late Robert Crawford Smith, who left the greater part of his estate to asso ciates of the last few years of his life, with whom he had been interested as a believer in the physical manifestations of spirits. In the long court fight it became known that a large part of the will was dictated by spirits. Mrs. Dora Barnett,'a medium, was the chief beneficiary of the will. She received a bequest of $10,000. Mrs. Leotta Swilling, another alleged medium, was willed $2000, and Miss Lottie Livington, of Pasadena, a school teacher, came in for a $5000 slice of the property. Heirs at law of the aged Mr. Smith contested the will. They charged that Smith was unduly influenced by his spiritualistic friends, testimony tend ing to show the alleged influence ot. "fake" mediumship upon the mind of the aged man. BAN PLACED ON HOG MEAT North Yakima Packers Infected With Typhoid Germs. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 2. (Special.) The puzzling epidemic that has already killed close to 400 prime hogs in the Yakima Valley was today diag nosed by J. Nywening, City Health Offi cer, as typhoid fever. Cultures made from diseased animals show the presence of typhoid bacillus and post-mortem examinations show ul ceration of the Intestines. As a result all sale or purchase of hogs has been Interdicted and families have been warned not to eat pork foods. The disease has not yet spread to other stock, but there is a strong belief in med ical circles that many recent cases of typhoid which have heretofore been blamed on water, were due to eating of diseased meat before quarantine was made. Of the recent fatal cases of typhoid, several have been young children, older people seeming able to resist the infec tion. ' COOKE ESTATE $10,000,000 Croesus of Hawaii Leaves All His Wealth to Family. HONOLULU, Sept. 2. The will of the late Charles M. Cooke, capitalist and financier, disposes of but little property, the bulk of his holding being the corpora tion of C. M. Cooke, Limited. Everything Is bequeathed to the family of the de ceased. The will asks that the property be not appraised, that no bond be required and that the administration do 'not publish an inventor of the estate. This latter provision has been declared illegal by Attorney-General Hemenway, owing to the requirements of the inheri tance tax law. Some estimates place the value of the estate at $10,000,000. FjARBOR QUEEN HITS RAFT Grays Harbor Vessel Hits Boomstick in Hoquiam River. HOQUIAM, Wash:. Sept. 2. The pas senger steamer Harbor Queen, Captain -Henry. Foster.' struck a boomstick in the Hoqulam River tonight and soon began filling with water. The crew saved themselves by lowering a lifeboat; while others jumped off on a raft oflogs, against which the damaged craft floated. The steamer later tipped over and floated two miles down the bay before finally picked up by the tug Pilot, which responded to her call for help. An at tempt is being made to beach the Queen. FALL KILLS BIKE CHAMPION Hugh ' McLean, Middle Distance Rider, Fractures Skull. BOSTON, Sept. 2. Hugh McLean, champion middle distance bicycle, rider of the world, died tonight from a com pound fracture of the skull, suffered this afternoon at the cycle track, where he was practicing for a 20-mlle race with Elmer Collins for next Saturday night. GREAT DISASTER IN JAVA Volcano Erupts, Earth Quakes and Hundreds Are Killed. THE HAGUE, Sept. 2. Dispatches re ceived here report ah eruption of the volcano Smeru in Java, causing great havoc and a terrible earthquake with hundreds of fatalities in the Besouki district. MOURNED BY 38 CHILDREN Hoosier Who Has Outlived Four Wives, Dies Aged 96. INDIANA, Pa., Sept. 2. Thirty -eight children mourn the death of their father, John W. Miller, aged 96 years, who died today. Mr. Miller was married four times. Oregon Trust Affairs Near Climax. DEMAND IS MADE BY RECEIVER Civil Suit Threatened Unless Board Advances Cash. . BOOKS WILL BE EXPERTED T. C. Devlin and S. G. Reed Seek to Fix Responsibility of Director to Force Redemption of Their Securities. Directors of the defunct Oregon Trust & Savings Bank have been requested by T. C. Devlin, receiver of that institu tion, inynediately to pay Into the re ceivership their Indebtedness. Falling to comply with the proposal of Mr. Devlin, suit will be Instituted against the former directors, to enforce settlement. The di rectors from whom an adjustment is demanded are: W. H. Moore, president of the bank; E. E. Lytle, vice-president; W. Cooper. Morris, treasurer, and Leo Friede. Shortly after the bank suspended Mr. Moore assigned to the receiver land la Eastern Oregon on which he placed an appraised value of $175,000. This property subsequently was listed in an inventory of the bank's assets at a valuation of $115,000. Mr. Moore has been requested to take the land off of the hands of the receivership for the consideration at which it has been listed by the receiver. Bonds to Be Redeemed. Mr. Lytle has been asked to take bonds) of the United Railways to the amount of $73,000, which are Included in the as sets of the suspended bank, and pay Into . the receivership that amount in cash. Mr. Friede is expected to meet his share of the claims of the creditors by paying into the institution about $00,000 and ac cepting in return Portland and Tacoma telephone bonds to that amount. S. Q. Reed, president of the German American Bank, and Receiver Devlin, of the defunct bank, also have demanded that Mr. Morris, former cashier of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank, make a settlement In discharge of his obligations. Mr. Morris is now residing in Tacoma, where it is reported he is assisting in the organization of another banking in stitution. "Ever since the German-American Bank was organized and took over the affairs of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank," said Mr. Reed yesterday, "Receiver Dev lin and myself have been devoting our time to effecting a settlement with sev eral of the large debtors of the suspend ed bank. In this we have been very successful and we now expect the di- ( Concluded on Page 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 84.8 degrees; minimum, 58.9. TODAY'S Fair, followed by showers and cooler; southerly winds. Discovery of North Pole. Denmark believes Cook's story and will give him royal welcome. Pass 1. x Zeppelin will continue preparations to fly to North Pole. Pare 4. Bradley tells how he equipped Cook. Page 5. Professor Bauer, of Carnegie Institute, says Cook can prove discovery Pago 4. Cook will sue Peary for stealing provisions from store Jn Greenland. Page 1. Dillon Wallace tells why Cook s story must be true. Page 4. British sclentlsta still doubt whether Cook really discovered Pole. Page 1. Wickersham says If polar continent worth holding. Government will annex It. Page 1. Admiral Melville calls Cook's story a fake. Page 5. Foreign. Curtlss goes up In balloon in France. Page More towna destroyed by Mexican floods. Page 8. Domestic. Will dictated by spirits probated In Los Angeles. Page 1. Sar,ta Fe road will join in speed contests for mall contracts. Page 1. Mrs. Aokl content In colony ct Japanned white women In Seattle. Page 1. Man In Pottsvllle. Pa., murders mother - under atrocious circumstances and com mits suicide. Page a. Lusttania breaks record serosa Atlantio. Page 3. Sports. Coast League scores: Vernon 1, Portland 0; Oakland 3, Los Angeles O; San Francisco 7, Sacramento 0. Pige 7. German yacht Hevelja wins third London yacht race. Page 7. Northwestern League scores: Portland 1. Spokane 6; Seattle 8. Aberdeen 0;'Van- couver 1. Tacoma 2. Page T. t Pacific Northwest. Bend people assured Oregon Trunk will build to their city. Pate 8. . Wedding of Governor Benson's son surprise even to his father. Page 9. Seattle has report log and lumber prices will be advanced. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. German hops advancing rapidly. Page 19. Chicago wheat market strong and higher. Page 19. Steamship M. S. Dollar clears with lumber cargo for North China. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Receiver Devlin calls on directors of Ore gon Trust to pay their Indebtedness. Page 1. Police will endeavor to send male parasites to penitentiary. Page 13. Mayor Simon establishes record In laying water main for city. Page 15. Knights Templars will engage special trains to take them to state conclave. Page 13. Many paving bids turned down because they are excessive. Page 14 Engineer Charles .1. Hague, steamboat man, divorced by his wife. Pass li