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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, 3IONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1909. PEARY PRE-EMPTS PEARY IS SAID TO BOTTOM'S DROPPED OUT. October Delineator on Sale October Patterns on Sale E E -EVIDENCE 00k SOWNHQUS HHV Secretary of Peary Club Says Explorer Will Back Up All His Statements. COOK'S TALE FABRICATED? Contended Latter May Hare Heard From Eskimos of Pole's Discovery and Got Together His Story. Peary on Way to Hi Home. SYDNEY, N. 8.. Sept. J2. Plenty of evidence, designed to beck up hla state ment that Dr. Cook did not reach the North Pole, Is In the hands of Com mander Peary, according to assertions' made here tonight. This view Is taken by a large number of explorer, scien tist and others, who ar here to greet the explorer. "Commander Peary will have with him Incontestable proofs to support every statement he has made In connection with Dr. Cook's trip to the Arctic," said Herbert L. Brldgeman, secretary of the Peary Club. "Everyone who knows Peary realises he never makes statements unless he can prove them absolutely. When the proper time arrives, and that will be when Dr. Cook has made his statement over his signature, the truth will be forthcoming. Cook Might Have Heard Discovery. " "I'll agree with President Hubbard, of the Peary Club, that Dr. Cook might have learned weeks ago In Greenland of r Commander Peary's discovery ana mai In the Interim he wove the story of his discovery of the North Pole. News, you know, travels fast among the Eskimos, and it Is oulte likely Dr. Cook heard of what Peary had done." Sydney Is putting on a holiday appear ance for the coming of Peary. United State flags are displayed everywhere, and the headquaters of the welcoming party Is besieged with visitors. Inquiring for the latest news. The French frigate Isly Is here, and probably will remain in the harbor to aid in the welcome of Peary. No British warship is expected. Peary likely will remain here two days and then go. with his family, to his home In Casco Bay. Maine, where he will rest for a day or two, proceeding thence to Washington to make his official report to the Government. Commander Peary Is moving southward In the same precise manner that char acterized his methodical and well-calculated dash for the Pole. The Roosevelt is betng overhauled and painted at As sises Harbor, near Battle Harbor, and her commander haa orders that every Injury sustained In her long stay In the Ice cradle of Cape Sheridan shall be re moved beore she sails for this port. CANADA LAYS CLAIM TO POLK Looks on All Land Xorth of United States as Own. OTTAWA. Ont., Sept. li Canada claims all land directly north of the American continent, as far as the Pole, upon which it would be possible to nail a flag. This position will be taken. It was seml-officlally stated today. In re ply to a question asked In the British House of Commons as to the ownership of the North Pole when the results of the Cook and Peary explorations became known. Canada's answer. In effect, will be that all territory between the American boundary and the North Pole must be recognized as Canada's hinterland. The Islands. It is maintained, have been formally taken possession of by Captain Bernier. Canada's Arctic explorer, who Is row lost In the Far North. TARR DOCBTS COOKS STORY Cornell Professor Confident. How ever, Peary Reached Pole. SEATTLE. Sept. 12. "I credit In every particular the report of Commander Peary, who declares he found the North Pole. I do not want to go on record at this time as crediting or discrediting the report of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, claim ing a previous discovery of the Pole. I know both explorers well, but before say ing anything about Dr. Cook's claim I prefer to have the controversy settled." declared Professor R. S. Tarr. the noted geologfst of Cornell University, who ar rived In Seattle from Alaska today. With Professor Lawrence Martin, of the University of Wisconsin. Professor Tarr headed the first expedition ever sent out by the National Geographic So ciety to study the glaciers of Alaska. Professor Martin said that he was sur prised at the unanimity of opinion that prevails among all Alaskans he met that Dr. Cook did not reach the summit of Mount McKinley. and both he and Pro fessor Tarr predict that the Mount Mc Kinley Incident will take an Important part in the Polar controversy. New Accusation Found. TRONDHJEM. Norway. Sept. 12. The Dagsposten accuses Dr. Cook of appro priating the plans and route for reaching the North Pole devised by- Captain Bau mann. of the Last expedition and pub lished In 1S. CUT BENEFITS OREGON (Continued From First Page.) rate to enable them to break even on the reduced revenue. The railroad men soon abandoned this contention, realizing that -the shipper, not the carrier, fixes the delivery point, and that the shippers will order their grain to the better market. Irrespective of whether It be Portland or Puget Sound, and so long as rates are identi cal the ahlpper will have no concern in whether the railroad is making a long or a short haul, a cheap or an expensive one. It is expected here the Northern Pa caflc will take an appeal to the courts before obeying the order. Chairman Falrchlld said: "Appeal in my opinion will be use less, our findings have been carefully drawn after long and exhaustive inves tigation, any court will be impressed by the absolute fairness of the finding and the conclusions that necessarily follow. The fact cannot be escaped that the Northern Pacific on state business alone made, in addition to a 7 per cent profit, more than Jl.000.000 excess reve nue during the year. This year the net revenues will be much greater. The only effect of appeal to the courts will 'be to -delay the time at which the new ! reduced rates go Into effect." : Captain Swift Believes What Explorer Says. MOUNT WI'KINLEY ASCENDED Navigator Recounts Proposal Made to Him to Climb Height, Which He Declined Because of Dan ger, bnt Believes In Ascent. SEATTLE, Wash., ept. 12 Captain E. A. Swift, of the Vvarie Neptune, which arrived In port today, declares he has faith In Dr. Cook, and not only believes he discovered the North Pole. but. also that he ascended Mount KcKInley. "Dr. Cook waa brave, fearless; and a born leader of men," said Captain Swift. "At the time he entered Alaska he talked of ascending Mount McKinley, and he made a proposition to me that 'I refused because of Its danger. I was running the Caswell, on the Susitana and Yentna rivers, which flow out of the mountain. I hauled gasoline for Dr. Cook's launch, and in this way first met the explorer. He told me he would climb Mount McKinley, and proposed I take him up the Chulitna Rapids, through the Box Canyon, In his- launch. I had never seen the rapids, but had talked with miners enough to know that the water ran over the sharp rocks with a speed of 13 miles an hour, and that the ascent was very dangerous. "I declined to make the trip, but Dr. Cook took two men and went through the rapids. Afterward I met a miner, who told me he had seen the launch in the canyon, with full power on. making slow but sure headway up stream. "After Dr. Cook ascended the rapids he landed at the base of the mountain, on the south side, where he followed beaten tracks of animals up the moun tain. This he told me afterwards, and I knew him well enough to be certain that he ascended Mount McKinley at that time, aa he claimed." CRT FOR ARBITRATION RISES Prince Roland Bonaparte Believes France Should Be Umpire. PARIS. Sept. 12. French scientists are beginning to favor the submission by Dr. Cook and Commander Peary of their rec ords to an impartial International scien tific trlbuna.1. Prince Roland Bonaparte, president of the Paris Geographical So ciety, believes that France Is the logical arbiter. "The recitals given are Inconclusive." he said today. "They contain plenty of literary effect, but small detail, and they lack exact information. Personally, I think both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook should be asked to produce their proofs, maps and diaries, i "Until that la done, the scientific world fhas the right to entertain scientific doubt. This does not Imply distrust, but it is proper a demonstration should be given. It is impossible both Dr. Cook and Cora ander Peary reached the Pole, but why one ratfier than the other? "I think all documents should be sub mitted to a commission composed of ex plorers, astronomers, navigators and Polar experts. Every document should be produced In order that the conclusion may be definite. The commission shoild have the rtght to summon witnesses and cross-examine them. "In the United States the scientists, according to their sympathies, are di vided Into Cookists and Pearyists. There fore, an American verdict would convince no one. England should also be excluded as an arbitrator, as the two countries are bound by ties of blood. Besides, the English countrymen have displayed some Jealousy." COOK HAS PAPERS IN RESERVE Important In Controversy Wallace . to Hunt South Pole. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 12. (Special.) Samuel P. Orth, of Cleveland, who ac companied Dr. Cook in 1894 on his ill fated Miranda expedition to Greenland, as botanist of the expedition, told to day of secret papers now deposited in a .safety deposit vault in Brooklyn. N. Y. He says these papers were brought back from the Arctic regions by Francke, who was with the Cook expe dition, and who cams back from Etah , COOK'SIRDMEN on the Jcannie, the Peary relief ship, last year. These documents were given Dillon Wallace, a noted Labrador ex plorer, and to pirs. Cook. Mr. Orth says: "It is believed these documents may have an important bearing on the con troversy between Cook and Peary, and they will not be produced until both are hack In the United States and until the proper time comes. You notice that Mrs. Cook Is silent. That is signifi cant. Part vor the secret documents pertain to stolen pelts and supplies." Through Mr. Orth it was learned for the first time that Dillon Wallace has declared his intention of starting a search for the earth's Antarctic apex. A letter was received by Mr. Orth Friday bearing 'this news. In the letter Mr. Wallace rejoices over Dr. Cook's and Peary's discovery of the North Pole, and declares his own intentions to seek Antarctic honors. Mr. Orth pays trib ute to Dr. Cook. - Scott to Seek South Pole. LONDON, Sept. 12 Captain R. Scott, who commanded the "Discovery" expe dition in 1901, will start next July on his Antarctic expedition. Captain Scott said today his plan Included the use of three methods, sledge, traction by ponies and dogs and motor sled. SHIPPERS GET REBATE? SENSATIONAL CHARGES AGAINST ATLANTIC LINES. Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Probe and Gives Data to Attorney-General. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. In official circles here more than ordinary interest Is excited over the Investigation in New York Into the alleged Illegal operations of some of the trans-Atlantic steamship lines, especially the Holland-American line. The charges that these lines have en tered Into conspiracy with certain Ameri can railroad lines in restraint of trade that rebates have been paid them by some, railroads and that they have laid them' selves, liable to prosecution under the terms of the Sherman anti-trust act did not surprise those who had followed the proceedings in what was known as the Cosmopolitan shipping cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission dismissed the case on the ground that It had no authority to act. The evidence was turned over to the Department of Justice. Wade H. Ellis, assistant to the Attorney-General, ex pressed surprise that the matter had be come public and declined-to discuss it. RETURNS EVIL FOR GOOD W. R. Beckett Robbed by Man He Thrice Befriended W. R. Beckett, the building contractor of 974 East Nineteenth street North, who was held up by four men as he entered Oregon City In an automobile Saturday night, returned to Portland last night and says he recognized the leader of the robbers as a man' who had begged meals from him on three different occasions and always obtained them. He states that he has seen the man between Ore gon City and Portland many times within the last two years. I Twice In Portland and once In Oregon City, Mr. Beckett says, he gave the man food or money to obtain food. The robbers, who were unmasked, took 120 and a coat. Mr. Beckett stopped in Oregon City Saturday night and later found the coat near the road. The pockets were rifted of a package of bachelor buttons, their only contents. The man recognized by Mr. Beckett is small and wears a heavy coat. Another was a burly fellow with a striped white and blue shirt. All carried revolver. "I am going back In the morning to hunt for those men at the Salem fair." said Mr. Beckett, last night. "I believe they are professional crooks and that they will be hanging around the fair. Two of the men I could recognize, but I could not be so sure of the other two." MAN MAKES BED IN RIVER Neighbors Rush to Rescue Before He Takes Final Sleep. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) Stephen Smith, aged 70, of Brush Prairie, went to bed In Salmon Creek today in an attempt to drown himself. Neighbors saw him lie down and, rushing to his assistance, kept him from going to his final sleep. The water was too shal low. Smith was brought to Vancouver and will be tried as to his sanity tomorrow. . L Press Dispatch Boat Can't Lo cate Explorer. ROOSEVELT STILL AT SEA Arctic Explorer's Vessel Believed to Be Somewhere Off Coast of Lab- rador and Steaming to the Southward. BONNE BAT, N. F., Sept. 12. After a run of 270 miles front Sydney, N. 8 the tug Thomas H. Douglass, chartered by the Associated Press, arrived at this port early today and departed again at noon toward Battle Harbor, Labrador, to meet Commander Peary. The Douglass had a rough trip from Sydney. All Saturday night a high sea broke over the tug's bow and stern. Inquiry here as to whether Peary's ship, the Roosevelt, was still at Battle Harbor met with conflicting replies and no reliable information could be obtained. GL'XS OF FORT SALUTE COOK King Haakon Orders Special Honors .- Paid to Explorer. ON BOARD STEAMER OSCAR II. by wireless telegraph, via Chrlstlansand, Sept. 12. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, whose arrival Saturday at Christlansand and who was greeted by a salute of seven guns of the fort by a special order of King Haakon, was given a notable rare well when the Oscar li steamed out of the port. He was welcomed aboard the Scandin avian liner by more than 1000 passengers, who crowded her decks, headed by Cap tain Moller and Captain Hempel, with all the ship's officers in full uniform. The Oscar II sailed out of the harbor, escorted by a number of excursion steam ers, with bands, playing the National an them. At lunch Dr. Cook Joined freely In the conversation regarding his Polar trip. He told of a report current among the Eskimos last year that a dirigible bal loon had sailed over Greenland, and it was thought that Walter Wellman had made a start for the Pole. The Eskimos, he said, described a cigar-shaped balloon with comparative accuracy, but nothing of her had since been heard. . BOMB CASES ON TRIAL SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES ARE PROMISED TO CHICAGO. Conviction on Arson Charge Means 29 Years in Illinois Peni tentiary for Guilty. CHICAGO. Sept. 12. (Special.) Sensa tional disclosures are promised In the trial of. Vincent A. and Joseph Altman, charged with malicious mischief and arson. The case will be heard before Judge Scanlon tomorrow in the Criminal Court building. A score of witnesses will be brought by the state - in an attempt to prove that both were guilty of causing the explosion and fire whioh wrecked Oe Standard Sash & Door Company's plant, May 2S, 1908. and their testimony, it is claimed, will throw considerable light on the entire series ff bomb outrages which have taken place in Chicago in the last two years. Secretary John J. Brittain, of the Amalgamated Carpenters' Union, said today that members of the union would do all In their power to aid the de fense. Assistant State's Attorney Benjamin J. Short, who will have charge of the prosecution, said that the reason the "Bomb 31" case would not be rreard first was that State's Attorney Wayman be lieved it was not as Important a case as that of the Standard Sash & Door Company's explosion and fire and that the penalty was not so great. "Conviction in the case to be tried first means a penalty of 29 years' Imprison ment," he said, "while in the 'Bomb 31' case there is no arson charge and the penalty for the offense is only ten years." . EH IT DCATED Latter Has Even to Beg His Own Supplies From Guard Stationed by Commander. NEW YORKER IS SILENT Danish Paper Publishes Account of High-Handed Action of Peary, Who Leaves Note Saying Rival Dead, "o Use to Search. (Continued From First Page.) some time In Greenland and returned with him on the Danish government steamer Hans Egede. "Now that Dr. Cook has gone." he writes. "I am no longer under any obliga tion to keep silent and will exercise my right to publish the story about the house in Annatook, a story which Dr. Cook himself had too much delicacy to relate to the world. I write it from memory, as Dr. Cook told it to me. and I am fully convinced that In no details are my recollections wrong. House Built for Stores. VDr. Cook had built his house for stores In Annatook, north of Etah, and It was this depot which he started to reach in February, 1909, crossing Smith Sound. It was a pretty large house, the walls being built f heavily filled provi sion boxes, so thar Dr. Cook knew that when this important point was reached everything was safe. He had before the start given permission to a young friend named Whitney to use the house while hunting musk-oxen for sport In the Win ter of 1908-09. Cook Reaches Place Half Starved. "When Dr. Cook and his two Eskimos, exhausted and half-starved, came within a short distance of the house in Anna took, young Whitney came out to bid hjm welcome, but Inside the house was a stranger, a giant Newfoundland boat swain, on watch. This man had been placed In Dr. Cook's house by Peary, when the latter . passed Etah with his ship bound north. Peary had given the boatswain a written order which com menced with the following words: Peary Installs His Man. " 'This houss belongs to Dr. Frederick A. Cook, but Dr. Cook is long ago dead and there is no use to search after him. Therefore. I. Commander Robert E. Peary, Install my boatswain In .this de serted house." "TWs paper the boatswain, who could neither read nor write,, exhibited to Dr. Cook and the latter took a copy. This copy, however, he does not Intend to publish If Peary's course does not force him to do so. "Dr. Cook gave me a lively account of how the young millionaire Whitney during the whole Winter was treated like a dog by the boatswain, and how he had witnessed the sailor bartering Dr. Cook's provisions for fox and bearskins for himself. Cook Begs Own Provisions. "Dr. Cook also had to put a good face on the unpleasant situation. He had to beg to get in his house and had to make a compromise with the boatswain. "Dr. Cook made a present of the house with all Its contents to his two faithful Eskimos, with the provision that Whit ney was to have the use of the house as long as his hunting trip lasted, but he was compelled to let the boatswain con tinue his watch. The boatswain, however, received strict orders not to exchange any more of the provisions or guns. Whitney Keeps Instruments. "To Mr. Whitney, Dr. Cook gave his Instruments and his observations, as he thought these precious things were safer there than on the long sledge trip in the Spring across Melville Bay, out all his note-book;! and soiled record-books which have beeif so closely written upon, he kept and carried with him. "To me, who undersland only very little astronomy, :he records written down so closely and in all directions were very MASTERY "lne years In Portland, two years In the leading eye clinics of Europe The eye Is so intricate in its mech anlsm. so delicate In its structure, so full of complexities, that it is under stood by few. Whatever can be pro vided by pactlcal experience, what ever can be done by minute and complex machinery, whatever may be yielded by careful and accurate testing is at your service the mo ment you enter my Institution. Be tween the old-fashioned ."spectacle fitting" and. modern optical service there is a very wide difference, and this difference counts In the pres ervation of sight.- My new method for Instantaneous sight testing; indorsed by the highest medical authorities. Two. years' instruction under the foremost physicians of Europe and eighteen years' practical experience In handling difficult cases ought to make some difference. Notwith standing the modern methods em nlo-red tn examining; the eyes, no extra charge la made for this serv ice. Glasses ay, so moderate in price that any one can afford them, and vou can rest assured they will not be recommended If you do not need them. THOMPSON The Internationally Indorsed SIGHT EXPERT, Second Floor Corbett Bide Fifth i and Morrison. Suite zov. 5 V MERCHANDISE OF MERIT ONLY Sale of Junior Suits at $1 8.65 Sale of New Fall Gapes $1 6.50 Sale of Nuns Veiling Waists, $2.98 Sale of French Felt Hats $3.75 Sale of Ostrich Tips 95c Sale of Children's School Apparel LaVida Corset Demonstration Sale of ' Number 2560 Corset Reg. $5.50, Today $2.98 This Corset is a perfect style reflection of what will be demanded by women this Fall Sale of Dress Materials Today Sale of School Supplies TO OUR LADY PATRONS " ' -V v. ' Vff V f - 1 - J FREE SEATS AT hHrd to reed, but what Is the record to us? The two men, Peary and Cook, their character, their conduct that is what in terests us. ,and every little item throwing: a ide-light uoon their natures is valu able." TWO KILLED WRECK Nine Injured in Collision on Bur lington Road. ' LINCOLN. Neb.. Sept. 12. Two persons were killed and nine injured by the colli If Dr. Cook, instead at the North Pole, had CTiyod old BOTTLED IN BONO. we would not have expected Peary to find it? 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MADAME YALE BEAUTY CULTURE MAINE TODAY, AT 2:15 BUNGALOW THEATER JUST A FEW SEATS LEFT First Come, first Served THE THEATER sion of a Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy passenger train with a freight near Burn ham today. The dead: W. L. Rohrerl Falls City, Neb. William Griffin, cook in the private car of Division Superintendent Lyman. Mike Donlin Discharged. NEW YORK, Sept. 12. Mike Donlin. the former New York baseball player, who was arrested here last night charged with assault, was discharged today in Police Court. " Edward Danforth, the complainant, failed to appear against him. of planting a brass tube left a bottle of inflammation set In, however, the content may i I f 1 H-k nl.lim.. ttlUS DC reiaincu iwr au uuuvuai -" . " re producing much pain and discomfort, or may ba expelled with abnormal frequency and bo the cauae of much Inconvenience and trouble. All of this may be relieved and finally cured by the use of GOLD MEDAL HAARLEM OIL CAP SULES. 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