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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"
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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
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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
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FIVE CENTS FROhl
ELECTRICS FARES
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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
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- - (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 '. '
baa I-h n reselneI r,-,;
broe. dltrM t i i
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