TITE MORNING OREGONIAX. MONDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1910.
DP,. COOK SCORES
EXPLORER BRANDED BY THE DISCREDITED DR. COOK AS
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Brooklyn Makes Scathing Re
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OWN NARRATIVE DEFENDED
Discredited Seeker of Xorth I'olo
! Other Bear Him IU-WUX
Because of Snob He Va
Forced to Administer.
rir torr. nc. IS. Br Implies
lion accusing Knud Rwrnown. the
Danish explorer, of -stnopinar t the
ipths of a literary mocirmr m
h'lo attention." Ir. Frsdsriek A.
Cook, the BrokIyn Pior. save ont
rp!r tonla-bt to Ramussn r-
a'ta-a: an Cook, which waa published
on S"Tmlr last.
Ini-ldental to his defenw of his own
rarratlve of Ar-H- esploratton. Ir.
Cook aye that, by RimuB'i meth
4a of Investlaatlon. Robert K. rsrr
rou!d. with equal ease, bo dls-redlted.
but declares tnat ha "will ttke Mr.
Psarra word la preference to either
that of Rasmuescn or the Kaklmos In
.tha matter of hl own a.-coropHsh-ments."
ItasmsiMra Send "Report.
Riimuim'i attack on Cook waa
snt by him to hla wife In Copenhagen,
and by her made public It contained
what purported to be staterr.enta from
Cook a two t'skimo rompaniona In hla
north polar quest. Itukuauk and Apl
lak. TSasm'iss.-n a!d he did not per
sonally talk with the Eskimos, but
their statements were taken by two
tnlrslonartea who were working In the
rouatry from which Dr. Cook said ha
atart-d for tha pole.
These stories were. In brief: Tha Ka
klmos left Annatnk with Cook with
eight sledcea In February, slept once
en tha Ice on tha way to K.llsmereland.
nd took four days to cross that land.
Two Faklmne ltrauain.
CtMeen days out all but tha two
KsSlm.- boya left. Tha nineteenth day
tnay chanavd their course westward.
Later Apllak ranw upon Cook drawlna:
a map. lie naked him whoso route he
waa drawlna;.
-hty ten." said the eaplorer. "but
that." the atatemant mak.e tha boy aay.
wU a He. barauae he drew the map
a lore way out at e-a. where he had
never been."
The i:lmo's statement continued
that the party eventually rearbed Cape
fWddoa and wintered there; that Cook
spent moat of tha Uma wrltlnc. and at
first slant of the aun they started
home: that tha explorer promised them
a good reward, but "we did not ft
tha guns he promised us. lie gave us
only a knife, some matches and a ass
ies s boat-
llcport Anthrntk-, Sara Pane?.
Commenting en this report. Rasmus
sen aald:
"1 regard the report as absolutely
authentic."
In his statement given out tonight
Cook anawera categorically the state
men ta Imputed to tha Kaklmo boya de
nying each In turn and giving reasons
why ha thlnka ther ahould be consid
ered false; declares that Rearnuseen
has reaaoa to dislike Mm; saya
no effort was made to get at the
truth In the alleged examination of the
two boya but that, on the contrary,
they were plied with leading queattons
aalgned to evolve the answers desired,
aad points oat what ha tsrma the well-kne-a
tendency of all Indians to give
answers which they believe will please
their querttonera. (
Dane's Reputation Slurred.
Cook saya Raamuseen'a reputation
as aa A ret to sledge traveler rests
upon a Journey from Tassuasak to Cape
Tor.
This trip." he says, "wsa but a
step in my return voyage, occupying
only three and one-half days, and It
la covered by one sentence ending my
narrative."
Rasmusaen's reason to be hoetlle to
him. Cook flnda In a snub which he
was compelled to admlntatar to the
Pane In 10T. when the yacht Bradley
arrived la North eiar Bay. Raamuaaen
cants aboard, ha says, dressed In old.
greaay furs snd exuding a strong
stench of oil. lie and the Dane became
"r taummy" at once, and he anld to Mr.
Bradley: "We must Invite Rasmussen
to dinner."
Bradley, he says, replied:
"No. for Gods sake, no; I will get
ssaskk from that odor."
Result Is Held Snub.
The result was. Cook says, that hs
asked the raptnln to take the Dane to
Ms mesa, snd Rasmussen has good rea
son to take thla treatment aa a snub.
"In 10." says tha atatemant. "Rae
mossen saw relatives snd friends of the
Eskimo boys who had been with me.
and from thsm gathered Information
which convinced him that I had been
to tha pole. lie haa no other Informa
tion now. but for reasons best known
to himself, hs comes to an opposite
opinion,
"Now. 1st us examine Rasmusaen's
lateat chargea He atarts out by say
ing. 'Already In 1909 there existed
grave doubts as to whether Dr. Cook
really had reached the pole.' If this
Is a true ststement- then Rasmussen
eenvtcts himself of a falae opinion at
the very start- for without a word of
Inatruction he came out In vigorous and
volumlnnua reports In my drfense. Why
did he jump Into the Cook bandwagon
and shout If he had doubts?
Story Is Kevlcwrxl.
"In tfie story which it Is alleged came
through two missionaries, Raamuaaen
puts the two following phrsses into the
mouths of my Kikimo boys:
"'We traveled from Annatok with
eight sledgea In company with Dr.
Cook.' There ware 11 sledirs. false
statement No. l. 'From there to
Kllsrnereland we alept only once.' We
alept several nlchts before wa reached
Flagler Bay. (False statement No. II.
"Eighteen dave out our companions
left us' The laat companion! left us
XI days out. (False statement No. J )
"The nineteenth day we changed our
course westward.' (To bare done ao
would have necessitated crossing the
Impaasabls mountains of Ice and rock
ef Hlberg Island. (False statement No.
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land llase on Horison.
"We stopped at open water near land.
If so. the returning Eskimos would
have reported It. The nearest water to
land was at the big lead 100 miles off.
whsre the land waa but a blue hase t
en the h orison. 'False statement No. f
"All these falae statements." says the
doctor, "would have bean found false by
' putting a few questions to the older
zoea at the supporting fertr, but lta
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was not done, although there ware a
dosen men who could have affirmed or
denied the story. Ivsn Pesry s state
men:." says Cook, "contradicted these
assertions
-The Eskimos believe In a rial earin.
.i t. .nnnt un-
ronunun vw, ' " . 1 ' .
derstand a map of the mid-polar basin,
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wnere an menoians . -
good map makers of familiar hunting
grounds of small area a but that la all.
Slur" Is Denied.
He continues:
"The meaneat slur which Rasmusssn
throws is that of cheating the boya
They ware promised a knife and a
gun." They were paid before we stat-.-ed.
Therefore, Rasmusaen's charge is
as false as the whole fabric of Imag
inary weaving, but Instsad of keeping
to my promise I gave them many more
things and Instructed air. Whitney to
turn over all my belongings to them
when he left,
"It la therefore. In the power of
Whitney to say whether I cheated the
Eskimos or not. And If Rasmusssn Is
wrong on this baseless charge can be
be bel'eved In anything else?"
Dr. Cook, turning hla attention to
the missionaries through whom. It is
alleged. Rasmussen obtained the Es
kimo boys' statement, explains that
they were half-breed Eskimo Chris
tiana who were quite unable to make
themselves understood by the Eskimos
to whom they preached, and yet these
same m'aslonarles are credited with
sufficient Intelligence to cross-examine
the Eskimo boys about something
which ther themaelvee do not under
stand. Rasmassen Abused Peary, Alleged.
Dr. Cook In conclusion says:
"During all of last Winter Rasmus
sen traveled through Denmark on a
lecture tour, and in his discourse ne
haa vigorously defended Peary. For
yeara Rasmussen haa heaped all kinds
of abuse on Peary, most of It not fit
to print. There Is something Irrational
about Rasmussen's public utterances.
The only rational explanation for
Rasmussen s Irrational course Is to
credit him with an ambition to get
Into the limelight, for he Jumps with
out Invitation first on the Cook band
wagon; when the music stops, he Joins
the rebound of the shouting press;
then, out of a Job, he runs to the
Peary bandwagon: again, when the
muslo stops, he Joins the noisy enti
res ry knockers. I hope the outcome
haa given him the publicity which he
has aimed for. But need an explorer
stoop to ths depths of a literary muck
raker to get public attention?"
STORK IS OUTWITTED
rillllSTMAS GIFT TO GIRLS IS
FIXE ADOPTED BROTHEIl.
Cottage Grovo Parents, Warning
Son, Find Roy of FJght at Boj'
and Girls' Aid Society.
Most unusual of all Christmas pres
ents was that received yesterday
morning by the three daughters of
Mrs. A. E. Ballsy, of Cottage Grove.
It was a diminutive but exceedingly
brisk bundle of humanity 8-year-old
Fred, from the Boys' and Girls' Aid
Society, of Portland.
trnr veara Mra. Tftaliev'e three daueh-
ters had been wanting a brother. They i
said there were altogether too many ,
girls In the family. The proverbial i
stork failed to visit the Bailey boms I
with a son. however. I
The girls had all but given up their
dreams of a brothsr whan their mother
hit upon a plan. She decided to take
edvaotage of the unwise old bird which
often leaves boys whers they aren't
wanted and can"t be taken care of. Vn-
uei uiv piTiiua, vi uu -. .i .
to Portland and nought out . Superln- 1
tendent Cardnar, of the Boys' and Girls'
Aid Society.
Now the Bailey daughters had never
gone into details as to the particular
kind of brother they wanted. So Mrs.
ralley was left to exercise her own
taste and Judgment which would
have been obviously impossible undsr
ordinary circumstances.
When Mr. Gardner went ovsr the list
of avallables. Mra Bailey picked out a
blue-eyed, flaxen-haired youth of t,
known among his playmatss as Fred.
The lad ssld he was glad enough of the
chance of a good home and the ar
rangements for his sdoption ware
speedily completed.
Not wishing to taka any chances ef
spoiling ths surprlss on her daughtara
Mra Bailey had the unique present
taken to Cottage Grove by oca of the
attendanta of the society.
Seattle Autotsla Go Over Cliff.
SANTA BARBARA. Cel.. Dec ,-n
automobile In which four persons, mem
bers of a Seattle family that arrived
yesterday on a tour of the etste. went
over a la-foot cliff on the seashore rosd
four miles west of this city today, par
liapa fatally tnjuting Mra N. Johns,
while her two sons. M. J. and H. a
Johns aad the letter's wife are suffering
severely Xroia sAocX acA bxuiaaa
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WIFE WINS BUTTLE
Pardon of Chris Evans Ex
pected, After 17 Years.
CHILDREN NOW YOUNG WEN
Montavllla Horn Made. Glad bjf
Kcwa That California Board Will
Consider Onre-Fimoni Case.
Woman Keeps Her Faith.
After 17 yesrs of unswerving effort.
Importuning every Incoming Governor
of California. Mra Chris Evans, of 4SI
East Seventy-eighth street, at last sees
a ray of hope in her struggle for the
pardon of her husband, a life prisoner
at Folsom. who with John Bontag for
11 months stood off ths whole state of
California In a bushwhacking fight ri
valing In dramatlu situation that car
ried on by Harry Tracy.
While Chris Evana with one eye and
one hand shot away, has been slowly
dying In his cell almost two decades,
his pluoky wife, left resource less with
four young children, has fought her
way through, first at tha wash-tub,
end then, as her boys grew older. In
esslsr ways, nsvsr forgetting the Im
prisoned father and husband, spending
all her surplus In efforts to make his
burden easier and to secure his re
lease. jrewe Cringe Joy.
Word has been received In Portland
that the case of Evans has at last
been taken up by the State Board of
pardons, with every proapect that the
prisoner will be restored to citizenship
within the present holiday season.
There Is Joy In ths Montavllla home,
wher a wife, prematurely aged, and
four stalwart sons, all occupying posi
tions of trust In Portland, will wel
come the released prisoner.
During 17 years, Mrs. Evana has vis
ited the prison at Folsom aa often as
her circumstances allowed, and never
haa a new Governor been inaugurated
In Callforania that ahs has not gone
and laid her plea before him. Senti
ment and prejudice, however, have
been so strong that all her prayers
have been unavailing until now.
Ths faot that the wife of Evans had
been living In this city for ten years
did not become public until last May,
when George Sontag. half brother of
Evans' companion snd the -original
causa of all the tronble. came to Port
land showing moving plcturaa and de
livering a highly moral lecture bassd
upon the grsat fight. The Evans boys
went to him and begged him not to
offer his performance in this city, but
he Ignored their requests with
brusouensss. Thsn they appealed to
Constable Wagnar, who forced the
show to close, undor an Oregon statute
forbidding the presentation of Crimea
on the stage.
Wife Retains Faith.
Mra Evans declares that a better
man never lived thsn her husband, and
denies stoutly that he ever was guilty
of crime other than resisting the offi
cers after he fled to the' brush. She
says that John Bontag had worked. for
her husband for a long time, when one
day his half brother, George, came to
visit him. Soon afterward officers ap
peared to arrest the visitor, and In
the mslee that followed, Evans, think
ing his houss was attacked, rushed on
the scene with a rifle and Joined In
the fight
Then he and John Bontag took to the
hills and for it months battled with
posse after posse. George Sontag meek
lv -surrendered and served IS yeara
John Sontag waa killed In tha field,
and Evans was captured and sentenced
for life. He Is said to be very de
crepit, which Is one of the reasons for
ths pardon that Is now expected.
STEEL MEN IN REBELLION
Independents Resent Price Control
and Make Cuts.
NEW TORK. Dee. S. The rebellion In
the steel trade last week against tha
policy of restricting competition and
maintaining rigid prices waa expressed
In concessions of tl a ton or more In
prices of steel bars, structural shapes,
plates snd at el pipe by some of the Inde
pendents In the Interior and by exesn
tiooslly low prices on fabricated steel tn
the Eastern territory.
The holldsy spirit, however, ts
against sny importsnt expansion In the
business.
Reynolds Is Reappointed.
SALEM. Or.. Dec JS. (Speclal.V
Lloyd T. Reynolda. of Salem, was reap
pointed a member of the State Board of
Horticulture by the Governor today. His
lira continues for three years.
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HARMONY
SOUGHT
Stubbs to Be Asked to Con
sider Vice-Presidency.
CURTIS TO MAKE OFFER
Senator to Urge Progressiva "Lender
to Accept Nomination With Taft
Heading; Ticket Effort Is
to Sidetrack Kanan.
tadpl a xr a h Upr. 55-SDeclal.)
Senator Curtis and Representative An
thony, the new leading ana-pur, i
the Kansas delegation, are hurrying
. ti ..Htnv.nn n narticloate In a
conference here to conaider the advisa
bility of throwing tne siana-pai
strength in Kansas to Governor Stubba
. ,.i...DHM.iit This matter has
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been under serious consideration 01
friends of Senator Curtis, and he haa
been advised to feel tne wasninsxon
pulse and report at the conference.
tv. nrnnnitinn that Kansas Repub
licans "get together' and support Gov
ernor BtUDDS tor vio-i-riuiiw
Taft as the head of the ticket, has.
however, several strings to iu
bm. i wmiM ha neeessarv to tret
the Governor's oonsent to turn upon
the progressive faction of the party,
of which he Is the recognised leader
in this state, and to declare for a man
whose policies he has consistently op
posed for more than a year.
Second. It would be necessary to this
"harmony" arrangsment to semi re a
pledge from Governor Stubbs that he
will not be a candidate for United
States Senator to succeed Senator Cur-
Third, It would be expected of the
Kanaas Governor to pull Senator Bris
tow Victor Murdock, William Allen
White and all his Insurgent followers
over Into the "harmony" campaign,
which would mean a chance for Btubba
for Vice-President and the re-election
of Curtis to the Senate. And that Is
really what it all means the side
tracking of Stubbs primarily, and the
halp it would bring to President Taft
in the meantime, giving Curtis a six
years' lease of official life.
Stubbs Is the logical, candidate for
United States 8enator against Curtis,
and none of his friends believe he would
consider the Vice-Presidential candid
acy with Taft aa the candidate for
President
OLIVE-DRAB IS CRITICISED
Army 6urceoi Say Uniforms Are
Xol Good for Service in Tropics.
WASHINGTON. Dec. J5 After years
of experiments, having evolved In the
ollve-drab uniform what appeared the
Ideal raiment for troops in all climates,
bat espsclallx 'a the tropics, the Ajrntr
By Buying From the
Manufacturer Direct
Prices That Positively Cannot Be Duplicated Elsewhere
CORBETT BLDG.
quartermasters are now confronted by
a report made to the Surgeon-General
by the Army board for the study of
tropical diseases, showing that the fab
ric Is not a good one for use in time of
peace.
It is true that the olive drab is more
nearly Invisible than any other eolor;
that it withstands better the bleschlng
effects of the tropical sun. aad that It
Is more agreeable than the khaki which
it replaced. But the Army surgeons,
after experiments In the Philippines,
say that the khakl Is much cooler, al
though not nearly so cool as white
drilling-, which Is not suuauie xor gar
rison use.
Any further changes to bs made in
the uniform, the surgeons say. should
be In the direction of a lighter shade,
rather than a darker one.
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ARMS SENT TO AFGHANS
Japanese Shipping Gnna Used in
I .ate War to Natives.
VICTORIA, Dec. 25 Large quantities
of old rifles, bought by Japanese follow-
shipped Into Afghanistan and ths north
ern boundaries or lnoia Dy ine jxea wa
and the Persian Gulf, according to ad
vices brought by the steamship Keemun.
The Asahi. of Tokio, eays that It has
learned that arrangements are being
made to ahlp 600 tons of rifles and ammu
nition to DJiboutll In January, and calls
upon the Japanese government to make
Investigations concerning the Illicit ex
portation of ftrearma.
The Toklo paper says J00.000 stands of
arms have been shipped to various places
lines th war, the majority going to
Afghan and other native points, and
many to China
MARSHAL SHOOTS THREE
Attacked by Brothers, He Kill Two,
Fatally Wounds Third.
tvttot iw nm T"w- sr. Marshal Eras-
tus E. Bartleld yesterday afternoon shot
and killed-two inigpen
fatally injured a third.
Raffield was sppolnted Marshal Thurs
day after another Marshal had been run
from the community. This afternoon the
Thlgpen brothers called on bin and noti
fied him he would have to leave ths
county or be locked In Jail. A fight sn
sued snd, when ons of the brothers
reached for his pistol. Baffleld began
firing. No arrests havs been mads.
HOXEY OUTFLIES BIRDS
(Contlnned Prom First Page)
for two hours and forty-three minutes.
Willard tied Latham In tha bomb
throwing contest. In which each scored
eight polnta They dropped oranges at
ths deck plan of a battleship marked
out on ths course. The tie will be de
cided tomorrow.
The first accident of the meet oc
curred this morning, when C." F. Pay, a
Lob Angeles flyer, turned his machine
aithnusrh the blclane fell upon
Day,' he was not seriously hurt
A hlgn wina aisaniea n
chlnes before they could leave the
.. mnji t Vi ci- .Are nenalized for not
contesting. The amateurs were afraid
to face the wind, but it was officially
announced that the machlnea were disabled.
All our FURS and FUR GARMENTS are modeled from
complete unpieced skins. No poorly matched seams, such
as are found in Eastern, hurried shop-made FURS, and
handled as a side line, with no dependable guarantee.
rjrjjg . j v P C Has for 46 years been
House of 0 LlC PCS QElO. providing FURS from
' ' Trapper to Wearer" and satisfying customers whose
knowledge of FURS and FUR VALUES is fax above the
average. These facts constitute the best kind of GUARAN
TEE of dependability and fair pricing of LIEBES' FURS.
Fur Neckwear
Fur Muffs
Fur Sets
Fur Coats
Fur-Lined
JL P. PLAGEMANN, MGR.
EaW Skins and Furs Wanted Highest Market Price Paid Largest and
Oldest Manpf actnring Furriers in the Northwest. Send for Price List.
DANCE DEALS DEATH
Christmas Celebration Ended
by Powder Explosion.
CIGARETTE BUTT CAUSE
A Result of Carelessness or Venge
ance, 3 Persons -re Dead, 8
Arc Dying and 10 More
Are in Hospital.
OREEXSBURG, Pa., Dee. 15 Three
persona are dead, eight In danger of
death from their Injuries, and ten more
are in the Westmoreland hospital with
serious burns as penalty for some
body's carelessness or somebody's ven
geance, while miners were holding a
Christmas celebration at Keystone
shaft, near here, late laat night.
The aocldent occurred at ths home of
Michael Wilding while he waa enter
taining a party of about 25 men and
women.
It is believed that one of the men,
while a dance was In progress, care
lessly threw a cigarette butt under the
stairway. Twenty-five pounds of black
mining powdsr are said to have been
stored there In an open can. Flames
from ' the powder shot through the
room an'd the acrid smoke blinded the
dancers as they tried to escape.
The clothing of nearly all the
dancers took fire from the explosion,
and although the room was burned and
blackened, the house was not seriously
damaged. Men In adjoining houses
rushed in with blankets and wrapped
them about the burning women, Bay
ing many from death.
A special train brought the injured
to this city.
Salem Society Couple Wedded.
SALEM, Or., Deo. 35. SpeclaL) At
ons of the most elaborate functions of
the year here, Miss Irma Linnet Coop
er, of Salem, became the bride ef Wal
ter B. Minler at the First Methodist
Church today, Rev. Avison. performing
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the ceremony. There were over 159 ln
vlted guesta The young people left
for Portland this afternoon.
THOMPSON'S
KRYPT01
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1T1 she JSV.-rf"VI8ION.i
Lens
The first thoughts of one who ex
amines tha new lens will turn to
admiration of the ingenious ap
plication of optical laws and to ap
plause for the heautiful, artistic
workmanship that produced a
thing so fine. After experience
in wearing them, still greater
praise will bs accorded to their
marvelously easy, youth-renewing
qualities', they allow the eye
a great range of undisturbed
vision, and prove to be a constant,
unfailing delight.
We Are Headquarters In tbe
State of Orrcoa for the Gens.
Ine KRYPTOK Lensea. We Do
All Our Own Grinding;- Broken
Lenses Replaced While Yon Walt
THOMPSON
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Fifth and Morrison.
DONTDOITYOURSELF
You are sure to rnak a blunder of It
and maybe spoil Bomethlnj. Besides, you
will !os more time than you can afford in
trying to clean or press your own Clothes.
Send them to ua and the job will be done
easily, quickly, thoroughly and economic
ally. Besides, It will be en by your
frlenda that it was done by a professional
and not an amateur. la not that worth,
something T
THE VIENNA STEAM CLEANING
AND DYEING WORKS '
Mall Orders Receive Prompt Attention.
Phones Main 14SS; A S4S0.
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