. .' ' ' ' . THE MORXING OREGOXIAy, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1900. ' USED GRAFTER TO GATCH GRAFTER Loeb Defends His System of Granting Immunity to Informers. CONDEMNED BY JUDGE Customs Officers Who Testify Arainst Musicas Retain Jobs and I-oeb Says Necessary to Break I'p the Gang. NKW YORK. O-t. 27. "It takes arrafter to cat-h a grafter in the United States Customs Service." says William Ieb. Jr.. collector of tlie Port of New York, In an official statement issued to nlzht. Notwithstanding Federal Judge. Holt oinIn. the four weighers who confessed and testified in the trial of the Musicas cheese importers, which was con cluded today, will hold their jobs. Judge Holt, before disposing of the case today, which resulted In the father- ac quittal ar.d the son's incarceration in the Tombs for sentence, denounced the reten tion of the four weighers as a discredit to the Government and an injustice to the honest men of the service. Mr. Ieb quickly said in reply: Imperative Mi Break Vp CJanfr. "The views of euch ft distinguished Jurtge are entitled to the highest respect, and it is not my purpose to make the aubiect one of controversy, but It seems to me Judge Holt can hardly have under stood the situation. "It was deemed imperative to break Into this combination, to get the truth from somebody on the inside who knew; to get in an entering wedge and break down tills system. It was then decided to secure the testimony of several weighers by promising them Immunity tand reten tion In the service. "It was not a question of choice be tween having all honest men In the Go. ernment service and keeping fotir men admittedly dishonest in the service, but the choice was between keeping four dis honest men in J.he service where they could be easily watched and allowing a great many dishonest men to Yenialn In the service and have them and all the corrupt merchants who had bribed them escape punishment at the hands of the criminal law. The administration decided on the former course and its decision was . based upon the highest motives. "It Is deemed only Just to the adminis tration that the public should have this statement when it reads Judge Holt's opinion." . Judge Holt's Condemnation. judge Holt in commenting on the case said: "I wish to express my strong dis approval of continuing such men In the Government service. I say it is a discredit to the Government to do so. I say further that It is wrong to com pel honest men to act in the company of men who have confessed to such frauds." SWINDLE NETS HIM $2000 John Woolton Wanted for Defraud ing British Columbia Bank. NELSON". B. C. Oct. 27. The imperial bank here has been swindled out of $2000 by an American forger, who gave the name f John Woolton. Woolton came here from Seattle, was introduced by a . local rancher named H. S. Johnston, and deposited a certified check on a Seattle bank for 12000. He drew JH 00 at once, and shortly afterward $1900, the latter in payment for a fruit rancli he said he purchased. I Then Woolton went to Rossland, and was traced to Revelstoke. from which point he traveled east and disappeared. The bank was advised from Seattle that the certifying stamp was forged and the check worthless. In Woolton's valise, found at Rassland by the po lice, were a number of stamps for use in marking checks, and it is thought thaf Woolton was one of a gang that has done some extensive swindling in the West lately. MELLEN BUYS NO LOBBY Hartford Road Xot Spending Money for Influence In Laws. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Oct. 27. The stockholders of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company . today re-elected the present board of flirectors and chose John L. Billiard, of Meriden. Conn., as director to All a vacancy in the board. At a special meeting the board of di rectors was authorized to issue $50,000, 000 of new capital stock, making the total capitalization $171,000,000. "Not one dollar of the charge for legal expenditures In the annual report 1 was expended for lobby, for the use of : the so-called third house, or for pay ments to politicians," was the deolar . atlon of President Charles Mellen at the meeting of the stockholders, reply) lng to a question of a stockholder as to the reports current In Hartford that . the road had maintained a lobby, at the last sesion of the General Assembly. JAP TARS REJECT PRAYER Oriental Xaval Men Don't Want Re ligious Service at Xight. SANTA BARBARA. Cal., Oct. 27. The Japanese cruiser Idzuml arrived here from Monterey today to remain until Fri day, when she will sail for San Diego. The warship was greeted here by several hundred Japanese, who gathered from three counties. California souvenirs were presented to the officers and 700 men and' the latter were entertained at luncheon at tiie Japa nese tea garden. The programme for the officers includes several receptions. Captain Takeshlta will entertain at din ner on board tomorrow evening.- He de nied the request from the Christian En deavor Seamen's Association for permis sion to hold song and prayer service on board Thursday night, on the ground that the men must go to bed early. Hatchery Hcs Better Results. WOODLAND. Wash.. Oct. 27. Special.) John M. Crawford, general superintend ent of the State Fish Hatcheries of the State of Washington, yesterday inspected the hatchery established last year on Johnson Creek, about seven miles above Woodland. He reports that while condi tions are not as favorable as could be wished, the season Is much .better than last year at this time. ! COUPLE WHOSE OBSERVATIONS AT - MOUNT M'KINLEY j pnTTS attott OP COOK'S DETRACTORS. i xiJ v w w MRS. WAITMAX WADE. WU,l.-"llUiiU CLAIM GIVEN LIE Companion Says Cook Did Not Scale McKinley. PARTY TRIED AND FAILED Then Cook and Barrill Started and Soon Returned, Boasting of Suc cess w Discrepancies ' In Cook's Story. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Oct. 27. (Suecial.) Belmore Brown, or Tacoma, son of George Brown, secretary of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, does not believe Dr. Cook ascended Mount McKinley in 1S06. and has gone to New York to present his version of the affair to the New York Geographical Soclet-. On his trip he met O. A. Fetcher. president of the Yakima Valiey R nk and to him told the story of his meeting with Cook in Alaska. Mr. Brown 'is a painter and hunter of 1 big game and a millionaire, so has no J financial interest in the controversy, 1906 he was Independently touring in Alaska and running across1 the Cook partv was invited to join. According to the story he told Mr. Fetcher. the entire party made one at tempt to pcale the mountain and was turred beck by Impassable barriers and forced to give it up for that year.' Some days later, while all except Cook and Bamll were away, Cook, and Barrill started up the Sushltan River in a launch to explore. Taking up Mr. Brown's statement Mr. Fecher says: "Later, so Mr. Brown says. Djr. Cook and Barrill returned to camp and an nounced that they had scaled the moun tain all alone. They returned in a time more brief than that which would have been necessary for them to reach the top. as far as the party ntl Mr. Brown could Judge. Other discrepancies were also found in their statements. - "Dr. Cook said he had reached an alti tude of 20.000 feet, but the instruments that he carried would not register above 18,000. Dr. Cook said that he also would never have succeeded In reaching the summit Jiad It not been for a hair rope that he carried. Mr. Brown avers that the only hair rope in the equipment had been rendered useless in the first attempt .made to scale the mountain. "According to Mr. Brown's statement to me, the picture that was supposed to represent the pinnacle of the mountain was taken on a lower ridge than had been reached by the original party. These and many other interesting details led Mr. Brown to believe that Dr. Cook had never reached the summit of the mountain-, as he alleged." WILL BRING ESKIMOS SOUTH Cook Says Rasmussen and His Agent Will Go to Etah. MISSOULA. Mont., Oct. 27. Dr. Fred erick A. Cook, his private secretary. Morton Lonsdale, and his confidential agent arrived in Missoula at' 11:05 o'clock tonight. The doctor was greeted at the station by a small but enthu siastic crowd representing the business men of the city. The doctor had a quiet trip from St. aul to Missoula, the only demonstrations of consequence being at Butte and on his arrival here. Dr. Cook declined to discuss the Polar or tne Mount McKinley contro versy, asserting that what he has to say ' about these matters he will say in his lectures at Hamilton tomorrow night and Missoula Friday night. : He announces through his private agent, however, that arrangements have been completed for the expedition to bring back the Eskimos- who were with him on the Polar Journey. Knud Rasmus sen and the doctor's special agent will head the party, which will sail for Etah In May of next year. It is planned that Xhe par'y shall be back by September of tl.e same year. COOK'S CLAIM IS UPHELD IContlnued From First Pace.) saw nor- heard of Dr. Cook or his party until they reached Knik on. Cook's Inlet, September IS. Here they learned that. Dr. Cook had abandoned his attempt to as cend Mount McKinley on the southwest ern slope and had gone down the Kah litna River In canoes with his party. Up on reaching CUurchill's Station, at the Junction of the Yentna and Shushitna Rivers. Dr. Cook resorted to other tactics. Repairing the broken rudder of the1 launch he had moored at Churchill Sta tion Dr. Cook and party boarded the craft and moved up the Shushltna River to the extreme navigable point. From that point they ventured over It Walt ran n Wade. land, according to reports madej to the Wade party, toward the southeastern slope of Mount McKinley in a northwest erly direction from the point where, the party had left the launch in the Shushltna River. Dr. Cook and his party then as cended the gradual slope of the mountain, which the Wade party had observed a few weeks before. "While we did not see Dr. Cook on the mountain I am satisfied he could have made the ascent from this point with no Teat difficulty," said Mr. Wade last night. "I am absolutely satisfied in my own mind that Dr. Cook made the ascent. I talked to him personally Just before he made the attempt to ascend the west side of the mountain. He was very anxious to reach the summit. The fact that he exercised so . much tact and diplomacy In cheering his men and guides on to that end made his eagerness to ac complish his goal very apparent. Mrs. Wade and I with Tom Harrap and Jim St. Clair, both of whom are now in Alaska, formed a party of prospectors, who, according to assertions of Indians and miners, were the first party that ever attempted to explore the wilds at the foot of Mount McKinley at a point nearly 100 miles from the Tokashltna to the Middle Fork rivers. Suter Is Contradicted. "As to the statement made by one Jacob Suter. of Bellingham, Wash., to the effect that he1 waa prospecting in the gulches at the base of Mount McKinley t the time Dr. Cook and his party ar rived on Dutch Creek when he attempted to ascend the westerly slope, it is Incon ceivable to me to see how Mr. Suter touldhave witnessed Dr. Cook's 'futile attempt to scale the mountain, in nm first place It would have been necessary for Suter to accompany Dr. Cook and the party in the ascent. In the next place. It would have been necesasry for him to travel more than 100 miles about the southern base of the mountain after be first saw the Cook party near tne westerly side of Mount McKinley. "It would have been an utter Impossi- biiitv for Suter to cover the distance from Dutch Creek to the southeastern slope of Mount McKinley in time to see the Cook party make ius ascent a few weeks after he first saw. the party. No man could have made such a trip and packed pro visions on his back. I was the onlv man who had horses .east of the Tokashltna River that Summer, except Dr. Cook, ac cording to the assertions of the natives. Airship Xot Required. "As for Suter or anyone else making the assertion that it was an impossibility to "reach the summit of Mount McKinley except in an airship," in my Judgment anyone making such an assertion must not have had much experience in moun tain climbing, or, at least, never saw the southeastern slope' of Mount McKinley Both Mr. and Mrs. Wade sympathize with Dr. Cook in his apparent failure to establish the truth of his statements in reference to his ascension of Mount Mo Klnley. Mrs. Wade, a keen little woman. said: . . ' "There is no reason in the world to believe that Dr. Cook did not reach the summit. I talked with the doctor while he and his party were camped on Dutch Creek. He impressed me as being straightforward man and very enthusias tic in his efforts to reach his goal. After our party had left we pressed on to the east where we eventually camped on the Tokashltna River, and we could plainly see the gradual slope on the southeastern side of Mount McKinley. I was enthu siastic and wanted to make the ascent, We had begun to form plans for Jhe ascent, which could have easslly Been made, but were compelled to change them NUbaeauently. "I kept a diary all the time and ne- member dlst nctly of talking witn ur. Cook about the approximate altitude of Mount McKinley. He told me "about five miles. After we returned to the States I ascertained througli the Har pers, by whom he was engaged, that hi. reservations were 20.450 feet. The effort on the part of some people to make Dr. Cook appear to be a de ceitful person is ridiculous. He is en titled to honor rather than criticism. "Yes. I'm satisfied Dr. Cook accom- .. i' T - - - !. " -f plished the discovery of the Pole, too I never doubted it tor a moment, nn . . 1 .. . nrA.'fmia Vl I - D llCPnl nf Moiint McKinley and his tenacity in clinging to his purpose only strengthen my be lief that he discovered the Pole. ' Mr. Wade is engaged in tne rea estate business, with orrices in i the Swetland building. He has resided in Oregon 30 years and is an expert moun taineer and guide, tie ana .Mrs. au int thoir hnma at Sumntpr In Easter Oregon In May. 1906. and prospected a . . . . . i .... nt. ill mat summer at tne oast; ui .muiii. Kln ev. . Thev returned to !-eame jc tnhpr 6 -of the same vear. Since that time Mrs. Wade has contributed a, num ber of interesting stories of her expert ences to .eastern magazines. SUTER'S FRIENDS ARE FIRM Insist Wade,Misread Statement Made by Prospector. BEIJ.INGHAM. Wash.. Oct. 27. W. T. Wade's statement is all about something hich Joseph Suter, of this city, did not state in his affidavit relating to look s "ascent" of Mount McKinley.. says a friend of Suter. The prospector tells exactly where he stood when he saw Cook try to gain the top of the peak after failing to make the trip up the Yetna River and when he went up the Shushltna River and made the start from Shushltna Station. This was Cdok's last and final attempt in 1S;6, says Suter. and the miner makes no pretense of witnessing both attempts to "gain the top ot the continent," by Cook and his party. Suter's affidavit contains 500 words and tells how he stood on one of the peaks In the Lake Creek Ridge of mountains. bout four miles in an air line from Cook, and watched Cook's party through a field glass and saw him distinctly when he tried to scale a wall of ice about two thirds of the way to the top, and says Suter, he saw Cook turn back at an alti tude of about 9000 feet. . - Suter clearly states that he was camped In a gorge at the head of the Shushltna River on the side of McKinley during the Summer of 190? and makes no allusion to being In the Yetna Valley. Many well known friends of the miner in this city say they have known him for years and know that he has traveled all the big mountains of, the West and that he is not given to relating his adventures a length. FUND FOR DYNAMITERS REWARD OF $10,000 TO BE PAID FOR CONVICTION. Indianapolis Employers Up in Arms. Unions Blame Nonqnlon Men for Crimes. INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 27. Frank H. Wheeler, a manfacturer, today started with $1000 a fund of $10,000 to be made up by business men as a reward for the conviction of the persons who dynamited several buildings last Sunday . night. The buildings destroyed or damaged were be ing erected by Albert von Spreckelsen, who has been having difficulties with the labor unions. The Building Trades Council and Cen tral Labor Union have each contributed ,$100 to the reward, asserting today that the dynamiting was the work of imported nonunion men discharged by Von Spreck elsen. The Trades Council also issued a de mand on Von Spreckelsen to discharge the nonunion men employed by him on the Shrlner temple and theater buildings. Von Spreckelsen. backed by fellow-contractors, will refuse. PREACHER'S WIFE ' SUES Woman Tires of Minister's Failure to Provide Properly, i SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. Charging desertion and failure to support her prop erly, Mrs. Jennie Gay Du Moulin, for merly a 'church choir singer, brought suit for divorce here today against her husband, the Rev. Walter G. DuMoulin, who was connected at different times with St. Paul's and St. John's Episcopal churches of this city. The Rev. Mr. Du Moulin Is the son of the Right Rev. John Philip Du Moulin, Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Niagara, Ontario, Canada. A brother is dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland. Since their marriage in 1902 the couple have lived in Spearfish, S. D.; Holland. Mich., and Fort Morgan, Colo. Rev. Air. DuMoulin has preached in Den ver. Fort Morgan, Colo., and Blaine, Wash. VANCOUVER GETS FACTORY Building Rented In Which to Make Washing Machines. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) The Pacific Washer Company, re cently organized here, met last evening and decided to rent the old Buchanan mill at the foot of Main street, and fit it up for a factory. The company ex pects to begin the manufacture of wash ing machines within the next 30 days. The first carload of castings from Chi cago will arrive within a few days. The following officers of the company were elected at the meeting last evening: President, William B. Du Bois; vice-president, C. S, Voorhees; secretary, J. M. Reeves; treasurer, Donald McMasters. Tha lanital atoclr of the POITlDanV iS $7000. fully paid up. Besides the officers, the stockholders Include I w. anumway, ur. N. J. Taylor and D. T. Rullman. PHONE SERVICE EXTENDED Right to Lay Cable Across Lower Columbia Is Asked. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 27, (Special.) The Pacific States Telephone Company Is arranging for the construction of additional long-distance leinpuuiio uuoa s u i - nu CoauMe nnd also from this city to Hammond, Fort Stevens and to. llwaco. . .. , t nAn1lnir lipfnrp the A 1HJ UO.ll is liwn (OIIU...O - War Department for permission to lay . . , M I. t a caDle across tne mer num uv Stevens, and as soon" as the petition is granted the construction work is to be taken up. All Physicians Must prescribe some of the In gredients that are contained In Hood's Sarsaparllla for all trou bles of the blood, stomach, kid neys and liver. They include sareaparilla, stillingia, yellow dock, gentian, wild cherry bark, mandrake, dandelion, juniper berries, pipsissewa, etc. The combination and proportion are our own formula and give power to cure beyond the reach of any other prescrip tion or substitute. That's why it is wise to get Hood's and .only Hood's. FLIES WITH WRIGHT Mrs. Van Deman First Woman Aviator in America. SENSATION DELIGHTS HER Having Taught Two Army Officers Art of Flying, Wilbur Has Woman as His Passenger for Four Minutes in Aeroplane. rni.i.ET.E PARK. Md.. Oct. 27. Mrs. Van Deman. wife of Captain Ralph C. Van Deman, Twenty-first Infantry. U. S. A., occupied the passenger s seat De- side Wilbur Wright when he ascended in the Government aeroplane here to dny. For four minutes she experienced the sensation of soaring in the air. sometimes as high as 60 feet above the . .. . . j This was the first time a woman mui ,i kcav0r.t1nn.Air ma chine in the United States, the Wright . . n n.,,lt(t,tHA nrotners raving reaiMru of feminine Importunities for aerial ex cursions. "Oh," exclaimed Mrs. an ueman, when she had returned to the ground, . . . 1 V.l-la now A Know wnai maivea no sing." Lieutenants I-ahm and Humphreys had so far progressed with their mas tery of the uovernment s aeroplane day that Just before the closing of the afternoon's work Wilbur Wright al lowed the two officers to oversee all details in the management 01 ins ma chine prior to their ascension, but after being in the air three minutes the ma chine descended rather suddenly in a remote part 01 ine ueiu. vnc m w supporting wires had given way and, upon hearing .it snap, the officers had promotly nulled the lever to make a landing. The damage was trifling. His pupils have progressed so tar that Mr. Wright has announced his in tenticit of abandoning them for sev eral days, allowing them to use the aeroplane their discretion. . JUST PUT OX WINGS AND FI-Y Jersey Professor Has Airy Way of Settling Question. NEW ERUXSWICK, X. J.. Oct. 27. At a meetinp- nf the N'pw Jersev State Bi ological Society, held at flutters College yesterday, Professor Julius Xel.on. stale biologist, in a lecture on aerial naviga tion, prophesied that within a few years any one would be able to ascend and descend in the air without the aid of aeroplanes or similar machines, but by the use of what he termed a "sky cycle." "Why not manufacture wings, some thing on the order of those of birds, and have them controlled by the leg muscles of the human being?" asked Professor Nelson. "Scientists have given this much thought and I prophesy that within a short time people will be able to go Into the air any time they want to. Just take the wings .put of your pocket and ascend. When you come down, fold them up and put them in your pocket." Kaytien Navy Launched. NF.W YORK. Oct. 27. With Madame Sjnnnn wife of H. Paulus Sannon, Haytien Minister to the United States, as the sponsor, the Haytien gunboat La. 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See display on 2d floor. vards in South Brooklyn, where the lit tle craft, formerly the steam yacht Earl King, has been undergoing conversion Into a war vessel. She will sail tomorrow for Port au Prince. Orville Sails for Home. PATVTTI A MDTV ("W. V? fYrvllle Wright, the American aviator, sailed for home today on the steamer Aoriaiic. Cable Fractures His Leg. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 27 (Special.) While at work this morning Carl Gul Hkson, a rigging rustler employed at .1 II.. ! T IKK.- Primmiiu' Cftmn. WU struck by the cable and his left leg badly fractured. Seek Body of Murdered Officer. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 27. The bottom of San Pedro Bay near the docks was Hear the popular Whitney Brothers Quartet Four brothers with voices so placed that they can assume the several parts in a male quartetl A rare' thing in itself, and the voices of the Whitney Brothers blend admirably and the selections are rendered in a most artistic manner. 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You Can Gel Information of wonderful opportunities by writing for our free map and official data regarding land, mines, climate, etc. FORT GEORGE Coming metropolis, on line of Grand Trunk Tacific Ry., half way between Prince Rupert and Edmonton. Fort George is the gateway to great Nechaao, Bulkley, Skoena, Peace River, Fraser and other fertile valleys, also to Carriboo and Yukon mining disricts. First offering of town lots Title guaranteed and insured by Government of British Columbia. Send your name and address today ii interested. . Natural Resources Security Co. 412 W liMJJ:! J3i-iJJUr., Ml Corsets for Nine Years dragged today for several houra In an effort to recover the body of W. "W . Dennis. Deputy Sheriff. wh is be lieved to have been slugged and robbed and his body thrown oft the wharf, but without result. The authorities are atill busy on the case. Crossed Wires Cause Blaze. Electric wires becoming crossed on the uew Arlington Club building, under course of construction at West Park and Salmon streets, caused a slight blase last evening shortly after 6 o'clock. Staging erected around the building being" used by the workmen caught fire. Little, dam- age was done. General Copptnger 111. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2T. Brigadier General John A. Copptnger. U. 8. A., retired, son-in-law of the late Jamea G Blaine. Is seriously ill with pneumoriU at his residence in this city. I i