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f-'i -i f.x , -wo "M 0f , . .., . V I-J, r 11 1: ii a i Ij y j o v it n a l i Tvo Cents a Copy Kurt dn Journal S crnisi or 15 -jit wrr-k, for Dally and Sunday Jour nnl, tiy carrier, delife-rcd. tTT-rr-3r- rrr, - ,Trrr-r-; ' Tho Weather Fair tonight and Wednesday; easterly winds. '' Journal, circulation ' YESTl'IIl) 1Y WAS VOL. VIII. NO. 249. PORTLAND,- OREGON, TUESDAY . EVENING, DECEMBER 21, : 1909. TWENTY-TWO , PAGES. , PRICE, TWO CENTS. "htPcl r " : r . . J . . -i LL . . -I JL, ; ' ' ' "'" ',' ;; ,', ' 'ij. ! ,, t PO - , COMMIT TEE M COPENHAGEN ShYS EXPWRER'StCLMMNOl 'CONFIRMED OBSERVATIONS WORTHLESS IS QUICKVERDICT Consistory vof ; the. University . Adopts Report of Investiga '. tors ' in Few Minutes - and ' Danes Are Chagrined. - ' tt'nlUd Prsse LeiiM Wire.) V. ' . Copenhagen, , Dec. 21. The committee which has been inves tiratintr the data of Dr. Frederick A. Cook today officially reported to tne consistory .01 inc. univer sity of Copenhagen that Dr, Cook's records and obesrvations were wnouy .insiuiiciciu iq war : rant a verdict that he discovered the North Pole. The consistory of thf university adopted the report ot the commit tec, thereby flatly- rejecting Dr. Cook's clai ms and ihrowing out his records and observations. ,, Cook's data, according, to the report, is no more convincing than. was (lie. newspaper account,.. Dr," Cook' private secretary, Lons dale, who repiesented the explorer here, is bitterly disappointed at the verdict. If is making an effort to induce the consistory to withhold flnaf Judgment until the whole of Dr. Cook's data can bo presented. ,' - Ho Attention Paid to XoiiLal: Lonsdale told tha Committee that miss ing data, which are part of Dr.. Cook's . original documents, were Sent here from America py a route different from that , by which the roeords already examined were brought.', lie said this additional . data would arrive In a few, days. . :, . The private secretary said the method of sending . the data by two different . routes was adopted for purposes of pro- - The consistory refuses to pay any at- ' tentlon to ' Ixinsdale appeal - and the - flndfrifs announced today are final so far as the consistory is concerned. . ' The discrediting, of Dr. Cook was a serere blow to the Danish scientists, who had stood firmly by him And given Mm support under the charges made by Commander Peary. The great reception given Dr. Cook upon his arrival here and the honors that were paid him by Wgh and low. Including the king, are recalled with somewhat openly displayed " Chagrin..,;. , X V'- .t'i 'Verdict Appar . Conolnatra. . It is known that Danish experts were personally Inclined to favor Dr. Cook, most of them . already having coma out In statements tending to sub , stantlat his claims. -' Therefore the ab- : - (Continued on Page Poor.) COOK'S FIRST NEWS V , ' OF HIS "DISCOVERY" - a -. jffb Xj' ; fill - r ' ' i- .... i Ml - fcfc--i-stun- imr ii, in ii 1 1 inn. .... .a-, i -im yww- j - - "mr I 11 -- - r tit- BMSM.TO SERVE UNEXPIRED PRISON SENTENCE Ex-Army Lieutenant Who Passed Worthless Checks - on Portlanders .Must , Do Time at Salem. -4 j TRIED TO BLAME: HIS . WIFE FOR DOWNFALL Selfish Desire to Shine as Great Man Caused Culprit to Commit Crimes. ; Doctor' Cook and His Wife. i The I'ictnr Was Taken on His Arrival in New York. COOK'S FIRST PRIZE WAS ' - $25,000 FROM NEWSPAPERS i ,v j ' - 1 1 -" t ' ' Doctor Frederick' Cook, was clever enough to make $26,000. out of two newspaper'a almost 1 before he ha,rl reached New York, On his arrival a$ Denmark agents ot two prominent. English and American newspapers approached him and entered Into negotiation for hla ex- 1 elusive"' story of the discovery of the North Pole, i Cook took up the Joint offer of these two newspapers and later the serial of his con quest of the pole was sent forth to gullible subscribers all over the United .States. Among the newspapers that refused to take haphaz ard Judgment of Cook's unsupported but Interesting - tale was The Oregon ;DaiIy Journal. I ! The story 'as, related bore more : or less the earmarks of a fake. It dilated upon aches and pains of Arctic travel rather than upon ob servations and facts that, would. prove the. explorer's claims; it reiter ated the old. old story of the midnight sun and told us what Melville and others had in tomes almost forgotten of how to crack pemmicaa with n ax. v The; Eskimo' dog and- his method of keeping his nose - warm, known , to every musher in Alaska, was part of the much heralded Cook letters. , The value rot kerosene as a power for heating a tent was in the long typedrawn story. . In fact, all the accumulated data of a century's records of Arctic exploration were repeated with veri similitude pecessary to an otherwise bald and uninteresting narrative.: But Cook Is lost; his cause, is lost and that 125,000, and its trail of dupes who "bit," will how pass into history with Munchausen, the author of the battle of Ping Yang and the town liar. PEARY SAYS HIS I'iKSOiDED iijuiiiioi (DdhIiI IMiMteh to Tt. Jnaraal. Denver, Dec 2 L Lieutenant Betah Smith was taken to Salem today to nerve an 18 year unexpired sentence for forgery. Betah Smith was arrested at Denver on ' charge of forgery. He was a lieu tenant of the Seventh Infantry when 'he was courtmartialed at Boise eight years ago for -non payment of debts. : He was discharged - from the service and since then had a varied career. He secured work in Bolee as driver of a bakery wagon. He then disappeared, and was next heard of , when arrested at Portland for forgery. . , Herbert L. Bridgman Declares 4 He's ! Glad Danes Have , Found Something Rotten in Denmark. (United Preae LeaMd Wlra.) Washington, Dec. 21. When shown today's dispatch from Copenhagen, Com mander Robert Peary said: "Three months ago, from Labrador, I sounded, explicitly and ., deliberately a. worded warning to the world, based upon, complete and' accurate Information regarding the claims of Dr. Cook. , In doing so I accepted the responsibility devolving on me, and fulfilled my duty to the world and myselff ' , . BRADLEY AftGRY - OF DOCTOR COOK , Here Is the original New Tork 4 newspaper special' dispatch tell- Ing of the alleged ' discovery of the North Pole by , Dr. "Cook. ' which the today news from Co penhagen has rendered a' farce: BruBsela, Sept. 1. The . gov ernment observatory ' hero re ceived tonight the -following-dis patch, dated. Lerwick, In - the Shetland islands, from Dr. Fred- erlck Cook. the . -Brooklyn ex- 4 plorer: . -r ' -- -' "Reached North Pole AprU II; , 1908. Discovered land far north. Return to Copenhagen by steam- 4 r Hans Eade. - -FREDERICK COOK.", 'Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept 1. 4 The thrilling news that Dr. a Frederick A. Cook had discovered the North Fole, and ma already reached clvlllaatlon on Ma re- -tum trip, was received hers to- . day-' - - S The mrormation came in a dis- patch to the colonial office from 4 an Inspector of the Greenland goverrment, aboard the steamer Hans Kged, oa which the Brook- Ira explorer Is nearlng Copen- e) ha gen. It was dated Lerwick. where the vessel touched to put U axhora It read: - Sj "AVs hare on board the Amer- lean traveler. Dr. Cook;- who reached the North Tole April 11, i0. Ir. Cook arrived at Upr nfvlk (the northernmost Danish - . : . - ' : ' ; settlement in ureeniana. on an .Island off the west coast Is May of lo. from Cape Tork tin the northwest part f Greenland, on Baffin bay. The K-klmoa of Cape Vork confirm Dr. Cook's Story ef Ma loamey." - Ir. Cook wired Ms wife yes terday at her former aM's la Urexklvn. I Ma mwmt: 'Lerwk-k. e)n alarnis, - Hi- I- Vr- Tr-rlerkk A. Cork, No. I rvt.' k aea. ITTvtk lrn. N. T. n"rer' a4 we;t Wire aHree to C-ir '- New Tork, Dec Jl.-r-The significance of the la tervlew-with -John R. Bradley last Saturday In which he eaid that, he was "through with Cook," is being quot ed today as evidence that I Bradley, .who fitted out the Cook expedition at his own expense, had early Information from pri vate sou re e a that Cook had been discred ited.. ' '. - .. ' -., Last Saturday afternoon Bradley waa quoted as having- aaid: - - . I am sick and tired . of this whole Cook matter. I lost interest, In It weeks ago." . - c , nvhere la Dr. Cook at the present time?" Mr. Bradley was asked. He answered with a burst of laughter "I-wlsh I knew. lie dla not sea fit to take ma Jnto his confidence. He did not even bid me goodbya. - The last lima I aaw hint waa when ba was at the Waldoif. before he disappeared the first time and turned, up later at the Gramatan Inn In Bronxvllle." - . , Was. there any break In your rela- tieneT- '. "Well, hardly i that.', answered Mr. Bradley. "He lust sort of drbpped out of sight and did not call on me or send ma any sort or om or hava anyone convey to me his plans for the future. "Theft I lost interest In the Cook busi ness. I am Just aa sick of seeing so much about It In the papers aa every one else sterns to be. I have washed my hands of the whole busineea. I don't know anything about Dr. Cook's where abouts.: - LONDON DOUBTED T POLE Brooklyn, Dec. tl.: "Well Tm glad I the Danes have found the rottenness In Denmark, anyway." Thus Herbert L- Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arctic club, commented on the action of the Copenhagen scien tists In rejecting the Cook claims to the I discovery -of the Polei.- Bridgman de clared, that the former friendliness of i the Danes for. Dr. - Cook, precluded all possibility, Of their being unfair in their decision.- 1 - - .' Tragic End of Xoted Character. ' Colorado City, Colo,, Dec.. 21. Blanco advance from the ranks, it is said, that Word was .. received here some time ago that Betah Smith, at one time lieu tenant in the United States army, had been 'arrested in Denver- for fraudulent "high finance." and that as his offense constitutes a violation of' parole he would probably, be returned to the Ore gon state penitentiary to finish a term for forgery of which he waa, convicted more than three years ago. His wife will be relieved of a double burden; first, the living mads for he husband by working In a department store, and, second, his charges that her extravagances ruined him. , 1 " rsssed Forged Check. Smith, "discharged"! army officer, passed a check for $30, to which he had forged the name of Frank R. Kerr of Wadhama & Kerr Bros., on F. M- Good win of Dresaer A Co. Goodwin, finding by investigation that such a person as the James McOrath, to whom the check was mode payable, did not exist, and that , there was no money to the credit of Smith, filed an information against him. Smith at first pleaded not guilty, then ha pleaded guilty. December I, 1806, he- was given an indeterminate sentence In the Oregon state prison at Salem, ' and. was subsequently . released on parole. So much for the crime, but the stories which cluster around the man's per sonality reveal him. In the opinion of those who knew him, as the embodiment of weak selfishness and strong egotism.' Arrested in Dsnvsr. The message from Denver telling of Smith's arrest for Illegal high finance showed what Is said to be his chief characteristic, a disposition to hold oth ers responsible for - his wrongs. The message said that for Ms Denver trou ble he held his "wife's extravagance." and the treatment accorded him by West Point officers repsonsible. Thus, In his eyes, someone else was always at fault for, bis failures. . Took Advantage., , It was the advantage he took of his ACT CREATING 2 JUSTICES VALID: E SUPREME COURT V I f iii i i msA ' 'i ;:f.:::---. : 1 al : , . U i - " . - i 11 " , iii- I II V - ' ,f 1 I II it,. . . . - '..,.; I Ill j ill 1 II I , - I . tXT 4 ti ll CrAk? V J i i 1 ',. .,- .'. 1... '!" K ' 1 HJGH COURT LOPS FIVE CENTS FROhl ELECTRICS FARES 4 f 3- Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Lent Portland Straphangers Prof it Financially by Decision at Salem. . .-. PATRONS HOLDING OLD RECEIPTS GET REFUND Supreme .'Tribunal i Decidca Present Tariff Discrimi 'natory and IJnjust. Justice W. R.f King; " v Th e const! tutionality of his office was today upheld by the supreme court. Burton, SO years of age. was burned to? death early today in a fire that destroyed the cottage In which she had lived in seclusion for the past 11 years. The woman was a -well known character in the early, history of .the city. , : Stoie tccmn Jvtm V. Irih. - irle4 fVew ln WVe.1 Washtr.fton. Iw. 21. Prestlent Tafl inAny nominated Gorre stoae ss naval officer of rostorns at Pan; Fraaclaco succwllrg John p. Irish. " . Fan FYs n-l-. fe. XJ. General rJw-ae etwif. the ttonnine fir naval af fcr of thia port. Is- tr-ldrit f the etate b-t anl foreel r-enrtUroaj. tC5oI Hwl Irth aa a s t4 Jr thm late ) t r;ii fi t Hhf-,t a Ivwrr.nl, t,e t-. offl-e IVi,;i V K ' " .' y ii H ,t t i- - - (United Press Leased Wlrsl) ' - London, Dec. 11. This city baa all along dpubted the claims of Dr. Cook. 1 09 . newspapers here are Issuing ' ex tras telling of - th failure' of the ex plorer, to. substantiate his claim to hav ing reached the pole. - About, two weeks ago 'a1 local' newspaper published what it purported to ba a story of the In sufficiency of "-the Cook observations and within the past two days All Eng land had grown mors and mora skep tical.'. . - . . .-' Whether Peary reached the pole Is HtlW FIRST Pill F . ....... Jt,.. ... !" " .. . . Opinlon for and against Peary is about evenly divided. : - ' - ' .' , ' led, to his dismissal from the army. His promotion was due to sheer effrontery and bravado, carefully . cloaked by a semblance of courage. Smith succeeded In borrowing small (Continued on Page 'Pour;) 8alen Boreas of The Journal.! Salem, Or.j.Dec, 21. Holding- that th fare of 10 cents between -Milwaukie and Portland is unjustly 'discriminatory and that therefore .the. railroad, commission has a right of .Jurisdiction thereover, the supreme -court today "In an opinion written by Chief Justice 'Moore directs that the 'Portland Rail wa v. IJuht . Power company must reduce its fares between these two points to - fi - crn.-M ano issue transfer tickets to all parts of the rt.ty of Portland where its lines ara in .operation, as the railroad com mission has ordered. ' - :, , The opinion .is. sweeolatf in It. .visions and is one of the most import ant and far reaching ever handed do w by the ; Oregon sunreme : eonrr Tn . similar opinion the fares from Oak Grov to Portland are reduced from 1 IB cent to 10 cents,' and the railroad commlHslort of Oregon declared to luive full power lor enforce its decrees in similar mat. tera. -.Thy-wrw twomcriarntn ruu pealed from a decree of Circuit Judi-e , William Gallo Wav - of Hfnrton rniinf t' mauac uiuit is ariirmeo. Reduce pares at Ones. The decision means not only, that th Portland Railway, Light & Power com pany must reduce Us fares at once, but must refund 5 cents to - eacft patron noiciing receipts ror 10 cent fares paid for rides ;between Milwaukie and Port- i land since April, 1908, and also to thoK who have paid IS cent fares for ride between Oak Grove, and -Portland sinca the same dale.-The street railway cor poration is under $5,0,000 bonds to mak i the refunds, which will, amount to eev- ! eral thousand dollara . .. . ; , i . Tlie principal facts upon which the opinion is based are thoee which show l that for nearly 20 years the PorMn,i nauway company or Its predecessors have carried passengers from the tnwn or Jents to Portland, a distance of 7.69 iniieo, Tor o cents, while 10 cents Is cnarged from Milwaukie to Pnrtlan,! distance of only 6.7X miles. The -rati- roao attorneys- argued that the Lents rare was the result of a contract en tered Into with the neonle of thnt trict, and also that between' Mil waukio less than 20 per cent of the business carriea petween Lents and Portland. ncverineieus me - court held that . conauionsiwere discriminatory from the mom wci mat a less far was charged to uents. ana . that the, law wb hein Commission Has Jurisdiction. iun tuu aeia mat a rar of in rni. to Milwaukie mlaht he iaa wuo- i ... A. . m - - - f in the State Supreme Court; the mission Jurisdiction and authority un- tJonstitutlODality of ills Office aer tne railroad act of I07 to cure that Justice W. T. Slater, W ho With Jus .Oregon Postmasters Confirmed. (Waahlnrtnn Boreas of The Journal.! Washington, Dec 21. The -senate to day, confirmed-nominations of - Oregon postmasters, as follows: Arthur Wheel- house, Arlington; Harvey & Buck, Sump-j ter;Walter F. Baker, Tillamook. UN AN ROSELAIR GUILTY: BDER III FIRST .DECREE VERDICT DISCOVERY FAKE WAS EXPOSED apertal MMtea te Iwwl HUNtx.ro. Or, Dec. II. A verdict of murder la the firvt degrea was returned this morning against Koeesalr, ater one hour's deliberation. ' Roelalr m ordered els wife with a salmon knife on the morning ot May la, lr. . They bad Quarreled ever th milk at the break fast table. Tt t-nrt et next Monday for imposing senteia. COXOKESS.ADJOriiXS. to JAxr.vnv i V'afclr ttr.t Iw, TL 0re . fr-jrw4 er!y iris aftmoca to TJiura- j, if .arj 4. Doctor Cook was not th first man to fake u.e discovery of the 4 North Pole. ' Sometime In the early f 0 s a certain Captain Webb e announced that ha had reached the pole. The , world waa as- . tounded.' W ebb was the hero ot ' the hour; he was feted and feast- -ed and afier bearing the hard- ships of receptions he went on ! tour as a lecturer. , I With a companion who bad served with Mm on the expedi- tlon Webb made thousands of dollars. '.Finally the comrade, a plain but naturally honest sailor, could stand the strain no longer and when called upon to tell his S) story verifying Wbb-s claims, he 4 before an audtenc of thousands s of people shouted. "It e a lie. I'm a liar and Webs never waa srear ' the role." s In a statement te the Aretlo a) club the sailor later told that the gnld plate given Webb by tha a rrub to bury at the pole could b 4 fnund at a rpot far from the In- ) r-r Arctic clrle. The lub sent 4 an expedition to the point demg- rtated by tha tar and proved that - Ms worda were trv and that Wetb ws a b-ambes- SEENOIEHE isfmgill; Declares He Will DoNo More Active Work Except on His - Autobiography Approves , Militant Suffragettes. 1 Was Tpheld. , ' : (Salem Boreas of Tb Jonmal. ) - JBalem. Or.. Dec 21. In a long opinion covering 25 pages, written by Associate Justice McBrlde, the act of the. legisla ture of last winter creating two Jus tices of tha supreme court is held valid by the supreme court -today, and the or ganUatlon of the court as It now stands Is held to ba legal. The two associate Justices, Will R. King and W. T. Slater, whose tenure of offlca was directly at tacked by Attorney Genera Crawford's motion, did not sit. the opinion being rendered unanimously by the three re maining Justices, Chief Justice Moore, Associate Justice Eakln 'and Associate ustlce McBrlde. Tha opinion covers In detail every point raised- by tha mora than 100 at torneys who filed briefs In tha ease. and exhausts every resource and every (Continued on Pars Four.) discrimination. "It is hot necessarv."' t-Mrta th i- lon, "that the rata should be unreason- ( Continued on Pag Four. LEOPOLD'SCOHRT NOTAilTIOOSM CROIVN FOR SOI JOURNAL ON LIST ;- TO GIVE CHILDREN CHRISTMAS CANDY But- Baroness Vaughan Will Not Let, Any of Those Mil lions Go Without a Fight Fortune Less Than Rec:rt: J fT1te rsa tinil Wlral - New Tork. Dec 11. Without the cus tomary Jest on bis Hps and complaining of 111 health. Mark Twain has returned from Bermuda, looking 111 and admitting it. To tha reporters who greeted fclra aa ba stpPd dowa he gangplank of the steamship Bermudas, tha humorist de clared b would do no mors act It work. Half a dnaea unfinished books will probably tiwer, receive attention. ' ins autobtograi Sr. of which lM.M words oat of-tha contemplated IM,M bsvs bn written, will be bis sole considera tion. Wbew aked bis attitude eonreralng woman suffrage, bo answered eerVxtslr: Tor ( years I hare advocated ft. As fr tha militant saffrttt, free- ts act to witheot a hr4 f.tfcL 1 ap prers f ttt vi f'-gkll-ng." Ns definite provialoa has yet been mad for furnish Ing the t boys and girls st Ue B-ys and Glrlr Aid society with tba customary tints and candles ft.' Christmas. Superintendent Gard ner estimate thst It will reulra ISO to famtaL the adjaoefn to th asoal Christa..-- ."evtiTitie. ' The attention of charitably t citnad parsons ts caJled to tl. 4flot and Tb Journal wiU h 4 the Ilt with a donatka of lift. Coatrary t ttia asxial ewstofn. th public Sckonl r-r lMre-n of t ,-, elty did not gtr ttiefr uci f. fertug te ti ewtety tan year end tt jr-ennteo-t t.s'tfr -a!M that ay cVn(Ior.S e-f tnn-X. Joi . t r pter nts HI fc. t ' k. folly -. revived br ths tra. mat H tb lt.iift,-". (TstM Prmrn Lm STiee Brusse-la, Iw. 21. Attnrriein r ; snl4Tg tii Prlrroes Louts !'-lr van ts pretarittlAi af im c-er a i . salt sh will bring saalnet the l'" Vaughan, consort of the late K t I -old. over tb d,tnhijti.i cf ht prortdM by k's will Form er r-era-er L 1 tn j 4 I '. 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