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VOL. BAKirVELL. S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER1909 FOUND AT LAST ~ii. ~ ---- —- - The North Polo Retched by Dr. Frederick Cook. IAN AMERICAN TELLS HIS WIFE OP THE GREAT DISCOVERY HE HAS MADE BY CABLE. The Intrepid Explorer Had Not Been - ‘ Heard From In Over a Year Un- Add resa Co t ram Sent From Ler- 'ired That the Success i Been Accompllfhed e- Ago and That the His Way Home. ] The Paris edition of the New York Herald \Vednesday morning publish ed a signed statement from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, which is dated •‘Hansegede, Lerwick, Wednesday, on his experience in the Arctic re gions. “After a prolonged fight yith fam ine and frost,” says Dr. Cook, "we have at last succeeded in reaching the North Pole. COOK’S STORY. Ha Describes His Journey to and From the Much SOUGHT NORTH POLE DREAM WAS TRUE A LADY IV ATLANTA DREAMED SHE SAW RELATIVES til Wednesday. “Successful. Well penhagen.” Full of meaning, if “successful” were interpreted to indicate that he had reached the North Pole, the foregoing cable message, exasperat ing in its briefness, w r as received in New York Wednesday from Dr. Fred erick A. Cook, the American explor er, whom Xhe latest cable advices credit with having accomplished what no man ever did. The message was sent not to any scientific society, nor to any of his associates interested In his expedi tion from a scientific viewpoint, but to his wife who has been counting the days and hours and praying for ‘As I Was Sitting at the Pole I Could Not Help Smiling at Un people Who, on My Return, Would Call the Whole Expedition a Humbug.” at SOME WHO TRIED To Do What Cook Has Dona But Failed to Do so. A new highway, his safety since his departure from ♦ with an Interesting strip of animat ed nature, has been explored, and big game haunts located, which will delight sportsmen and extend the Eskimo horizon. “Land has been discovered New York on July 4, 1907. Put by chance Mrs. Cook was not at her Brooklyn home, hut spending the summer at Harpswell, Me., so the dispatch was received by Dr. j R. T. Davidson, a personal friend on of the explorer, who made its con- x A ... I tents known, then flashed the good which rest the earth s northernmost . . i news on to Mrs. Cook. rocks. A triangle of 30,000 square miles has been cut out of the ter- restial unknown. The expedition Brief as it tras, it was the first news that she had had from her intrepid husband since March 17, Cl 1 Vi iX « was the outcome of a summer cruise j jgog, when he wrote from Cape in the Arctic seas on the schooner Hubbard on the edge of the Polar Bradley, which arrived at the limits 1 1( . e s< . a on the northW e 8t side of of navigation in Smith Sound late In : Ellesmere Land. August, 1907. Here couditions were At lhat tlnle he adv |sed his corn- found to launch a venture to the j )a nion. Rudolph Frank#, then sta- pole. J. R. Bradley liberally sup-| tioned at Et;ih Greenland wtlb sup plied from his vessel suitable pro- pIlefti t0 wail there unti | June for visions for local use. My own ! hls returnt but ln the evcnt of 1)r equipment for emergencies served Cook’s failure to appear to procee well for every purpose in the Arctic ! to America. “Many Esqulmauxs had gathered ; Franke waited as instructed, on the Greenland shores at Annato- as Cook fail(?d to C0Jlie at for the winter bear hunt. Im-i he caught the Peary auxilie mense quantities of meat had been j an d reached New York *" collected, and about the camp were sj nce that I)r coo' Ilenty of Strong dogs. The com-, a i )OUtg havp Wpn a r blnatlon was lucky, for there was good material for equipment. All that was required was carefully ar ranged for a point only seven hun dred miles from the Boreal centre.” A special dispatch received London from Skagen says: “As the steamer Hansegede steam ed by I caught through my glasses a vision of a small man in a dark suit and peaked cap shading his eyes with his hands, as if straining to see the welcome civilization after years in Icy exile. It was Dr. Cook, the explorer, whose name is on every tongue. He was chatting with the captain on the bridge, now smiling, now waving his hand. I was al lowed to board the Hansegede. “Somebody gave Dr. Cook a bou quet. Tears dimmed his eyes as he burled his face in their fragrance. ‘It’s years since I have seen flowers,’ said the explorer with a quiver of emotion in hls voice. “When he smiled one noticed the loss of two teeth. ‘A fight with ' Polar hear did that,’ he said. " ‘You can tell the world.’ explorer continued, ‘that I am ter condition than at any look forward with an a the festivities that are r My dinner has been p< few years and I shaP up for it.’ Who Were Two Thousand Miles Away Killed in Auto Accident and - 44 Proved True. Once again the busy, mechanical world, intricate in material mechan ism and occupied with physical en vironment, is forced to acknowledge that silent, subtle factor that comes like a flash and flees like the mist— Clairvoyance. The following story is published by the Atlanta Journal: Relatives of the Ralph Colvin fam ily have received copies of news papers printed at Seattel, Wash., showing that it was not little Miss Agnes Colvin, of Atlanta, who whas killed in the terrible auto accident Thursday, August 19, at "Dead Man’s Curve,” near Seattle, but a young women named Agnes Cowan, who happened, by a strange coinci dence, to be the sister of Mrs. James Colvin, who also met death in the smash-up. Mrs. A. E. M. Boyton, 124 Fo r avenue, a relative of the family, sprang from her ror, not three i»inut'' cident actual!^ scribed the TOOK COOK YEARS NAMES OF BANKS HAVING ON DEPOHIT MONEY OF STATE DISPENSARY. But He Has Acroniplished n Great Work and the World is Anxiously Awaiting Full Particulars of Hls j Wonderful Discoveries in the Snow Begions of the North. The dream of finding the North Pole for centuries lured explorers, scientists, and daring advenutrers. jFhis ream apparently has now be come a reality by the achievemen* of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, ' ' lyn. Dr. Cooke cable'’ sage from Lerw’ whence he gen The Cash to Scattered Among Many Banks In Various Parts of the State for Safe Keeping. Dr. W\ J. Murray, the chairman of the State dispensary commission has made public a statement of the deposits made In the various hanks in the State. The commission shows that about $81,000 is In the hands of the State treasurer and this mon ey is deposited at the discretion of that official. The rest o' •‘ ,,a ' the-total being abo'-'' distributed amo- of tb SIX HmtfrsC im i. -CROPS DES Awful Floods on . the Java Drowned Six H People and Destroyed M erty and Rained the «, Grea^ Many Farmers. to unde ’ fcr"“ "Dr. his io> Cn MATCH MADE IN COURT. 9 a to Female Negro Prisoner Wins Hus band at Last. Charity Bacon, of Atlanta, for forty odd summers has retained her ‘ . , taking sii maiden name and for half as many i ^ years has taken In washing "fob 1 , SlHH'lcW da white folks,” the while yearning j, 0>Wt for a man "an” some chilluhs.” At ( night Charity's yearnings produced ' j , a peculiar nervousness and she was . ‘ i won’t to walk the streets aimleessly A few days ago she was arraigned • Id the City Court of Atlanta charged with loitering. Frankly Charity made answer io 1 the charges against her. “I was dat | lonesome.” she told the Court, ”be- kase I haln’t got no husband I wurks all day at de wash tub an’ haln’t got no husban’ an’ no chll- lun, nuther. Use a hard wurkin’ ‘oman, Jedge. an’ sholy would make some man a mighty good wife.” ‘V From far hack in the Court Room negro arose, walking up to ge’s bench and evclaie ’ I -- though members of the In New York, were tnol that he had reache' spite hls long sile There was, of present probabili ished and It wii relief ship • ! where she ’ month. T, Jeanie, left two weeks pose of se h la of , jht, and : bOUl. ! assn, •^Id piping. After iBiu few years he came u» to the Chronicle one night sad told them to announce that he was goiag to move to Aiken and opea a law office. There was a perfect howl of protest. The crowd did aot want him to leave Augusta. They told him that the man who left Geor gia left God s country, and that the move to Aiken was to bury him self and to give up all thought of a career in the law. However, John Gary had thought it over, and next morning the Chronicle contained * personal item something R*® “Mr. John Gary Kv»*'; < ,»Vsman ular and talente^fag ] aw tll thr who haH^je-jSsT two years, has de city ^teTreturn to hls native State of -wttith Carolina. Mr. Evans will hang out his shingle In Aiken, and we bespeak for him the eonfldence of the people in his new home.’ John Gary Evans was the young est solon of the house of Gary. His uncle, Geperal Mart W. Gary, had been a power in Edgefield during the early days of Democracy, hut for some reaeon he did not train with tts political school of - Hampton. Butler. Hagood. Richardson and oth ers. The other uncle. Major Wil liam T. Gary, had moved to Au gusta Just after the war. and was practicing law. Ha was later Judge of the A'ugusCa circuit; wae’a mem ber of the legislature from Rich mond county, and was appointed lygr Bi'etes -rUstrlct attorney bv Resident Cleveland. Ha also had a good practice in South Carolina, and It waa probably by hla advlc- that the ‘"young nephew returned to Aiken. Very Frequently a plain farmer from Edgefield used to come to the Chronicle oJOIce. . He llytjl ft “Rop- ora,” Booth Carolina, which was a poatofflee it Bdgefield county. Reach ing the dty ,he would climb’ the hick Maps principally to eee the Hon. t Walsh, who -was the editor ut> loug Vlgu oi iu# s ai talking politics, gossiping .:oout persons and things—discussing the grandeur that was Greece and the glory that was Rome." Ben .illman was remarkably well read; John Gery Evans was classic and Jelicete sad McSweoaey was a very quiet man who talked but little, jut wee looked upon »» • rlend aid a deeervin* fellow. 1 d# .ot recall that theae aieu ever me ^ . They may heive a ,hat done SO If they ,M 7 r“don’t rem«®t**r that they lin- ‘ rtrJC d t*»ch other. Their lives mov- entirely different spheres, heir ages and professions sent them ir apart. Well, time changes anu J the great crucible of politics those nea after a while got together, tea Tillmai continued to write hi-; .ftlclee. Hls factlou became a ma :orlty party. I well remember the .ight h« was elected governor. He ume over to the Chronicle office as isual aud sat by the desk of the lews editor. The Chronicle received specials from all parts of the State and Ben TIUmaji read, hut from the telegraph ticker, the news of h.s riumph. Pretty soon the office was Oiled with Edgefield people and Car- jilniane geowaily,. eongrntulattug Ciptsin Tillman,” or "Governor tillman,” which should it be? "Boy*, eall me Ben," said the lead er, and it was generally that way. anyhow. I don't recall that John t3*ry Evans or MeSweeneycame In ihat night. If they were in town hey did. I remembef that some body wanted to set up champagne over Tlllman'e election, but he re- j fused it, aaylng that he didn't like it—never drank it, and that aa for % raw oyater, he couldn't touch one ii/ u . - Fairfield . . • . Florence . . . 112.000 Gooryetown . . . . . . 2t?2.onn Greenville . . • . .. 897.000 Or.eeawood . • • . .. 137,000 Hampton • • • • .. 3 2.000 Horry Kershaw . . 114.000 I^ancaater . . • • • 67.000 Laurens 666,000 I.ee • ... 40,460 Lexington . ._ . . . . 28,000 Marion . . . . . . . . 1.296.000 Marlboro ... . . . . . 1 24,000 Newberry . . 163,000 Oconee .. . . 33.000 Orangeburg .. . . . . 136.300 Pickens . .. 116.000 Richland 420,300 Saluda . ... 5,000 Spartanburg . . .. . 283,700 Sumter . . . . . . . . 332,600 Union . .. 368,000 Williamsburg . . , .. 37,000 York . . . . 97,800 tn t anner's Hotu*, t h f* , un; Gen. Julian S. Carr, of North A dispatch from fftarep ro, Ga.. ” uiI< oa and many other dlstln says tracked from the burning home Caro^ Merd/i Ifendtffrks. a wet, thy stands and Immediately irroundlng the main stage were the 'dies of the Daughters of the Con trary and visitors w ho were glvea Ha to enter. There has rarely, iver, been seen In South Carolina j-ti a large assembly of beautiful and young girls, and woman l„ber ahare of tribute. It is to man that the State is responsible the preserving of true facts of ptory. Woman has made possible the lieautiful monuments to war imes. the Daughters of the Ameri ca! Revolution were untiring In thei r clbfts to get a monument at King’s Mountain, and finally L, U l v . W*il, John Gary Evans ploddad along in Aiken. 1 he Garyv All Join- el the Tillman movement, end first thin# ate ikenew little John Gary bad been elected to the senate—the aame pale-faced, delicate little chap who need to etnA tenor and make hls re markable speeches in the Justice court. Then, after Ben ^Iflmin, he e*|a,nominate^ end ell#*d fo^ i by tbe"Umer». He became -president of the consti tutional convention which pyut dis pensary, negro disfranchisement and non-divorce in the organic law of South Carolina. His career was meteoric. No one in Augusta dream ed of it.- But Bob Tillman went to th« United States senata* and John Gary went to the executive office in Columbia But truth is atranger than fiction, in -come, way .. Mc&weenay—quiet, plodding, popular—had broken Into »he legislature. He, too, was a Tlll- :rsn man. Finally he went to the senate and then became lieutenant - ive-cor. During hls term of office, a 9 f r ond in command, Governor El- 1«- ee died and McSweeney actually 1 ame governor of South Carolina. This accounts for all three of fhe Chronicle visitors. McSweeney d the' other day—the quiet and careful printer. John Evans la living in Spartanburg, rich and successful In his law pract and Ben Tillman la senatbr and 1 turer, making about aa much on t] an kn art*— of Mert/I 1 fend iff cks, a wealthy farmer of that county. Jack Mescs;. a negro, was caught by bloodhounds a few days ago and Is locked up. charged with arson The home and stables of Hendricks were burned. The fire began at 3 o'clock Wednes day morning, the family being arous ed Just In time to stagger to safely through the smoke and flames. The bloodhounds were put on the trail at the hmtee and followed without losing the trail to Mercer’s house, quantity of corn, the barn, stables residence, all were burned. and Courier re.-fes iu „ of a i ,. . r. strange suicide. My home Is in hell J L and my body will be found In the bottom of the creek,” Is the way a uot« read, which was pasted on a _ Ate her of th* board. The agent naoMhf ' I a very latge amount and also stated jL j at a prominent insurance man 6i * — - tha of Lawson's Fork, „ _ . ^ - v < • joLi i mMuc mail Oi - — ^ . TTiiiva* war a B1 kHJ on ^ I , r . . . . . . *. .. ... # ^ .. . i [ the T le lmont flection had subflcrib- \ aliee, which was found on the bank .... . . H..-W nwir White s! H<1 to . th<, . snmp amount and was a ..uavrutiV nuU . ui m., ii rm i v> nue s | . . . , , . U1M , . member cf the advisory board. Mill. The name signed to the note ,. .. , ... x . .. At the time Mr. Cathcart was Eula 1 oeter. Near the valise i . .. - A aud Trains <'olllde. One passenger was killed outright and thirty-five persona were injured, four probably fatally, In a collision between a gpecial, taking home sever al hundred excursionists who had /been attending the Utate flair 'in Springfield, 111., and a regular pas- senge rtrain on the Illinois Central at Parnell, 111. Child Hangs. | loul regiment from this State, At Saginaw. Mich./ George of the fnllnwlnr ry Rambo, seventeen months old. akciifentaHy hsnged himself while playing in a swing at a naighbor'e succeeded. Tie battle heroes will never bo for got as long as the women live to commemorate their deeds of valor. God bless the women” was the sen timent In men's hearts at this un- telling, as always. As a fitting feature of the cele- brstlon the soldiery of this State aud of North Carolina were represented. CCl. Lewis, commanded the provis- nt from this Sfate, com- ■poisd of the following companies: Greenville, Cornwell. Rock Hill, Co lumbia, Camden. Fort Mill and Spar- i*ir -ru - V-—-1 •• _ ——VS k_7 C» l yi»yiu* tn a awing at a neighbor a ^burg The North Carolina com home The little fellow had toddled wag from Dallas Governor over to play with the neighboring ^tchin’s staff Shephard children; When hiti ■moth-”.:—. *' • - Rjnuiu » stan wap. pxfltafl-t-Ai fo4- chlldrooi When hiB -moth-“ loirs 7" Adjt Gen. J. F. Armfleld, er came for him she and Mrs. Shep- L(M t. Col. W. W. Pierce, Col. C. B. herd found the child dead, tangled ArB ,strong, Personal Aide Col. H. in the ropes of the swing. _ Montague. Major A. A Hicks. Col. was an umbrella. The find was made by two carpenters, who were recov ering the gin house of Mr. White. Seeing a young white woman walk through the woods towards the creek, they made an investigation and discovered the valise hanging on the limb of a tree with the note pasted on the outside. The deputy sheriff and others visited the scene' . w.vuv.a»t v told the agent that he was not willing to in. vest the amount named and he might consider the incident at an end The sgent informed Mr. Oathcjrt that he wag going V make Coin'--' bia his headquarters and would visit the various towns of the State, la order to sell stock In the company.' When the agent left Mr. Cathcart , addressed a letter to the well known 5^ “”V'“ uiutr “ V MUe ? insurance man In the up-country and „ C- and made a search, but the body has , ked h)m , f he hftd Bubgcrlbed , n ? not ten foun . amount of stock In the United Insurance Company, as named by the agent. The reply came that no such amount had been subscribed, and that the agent had “lied" when he made the statement. It was also stated by the up-country man that „ _ r^ A-A-jrr" r - - - Little Boy Killed. David Haulbrook, a boy of 6 years, was killed a few days ago at his father s home, near Walhalla. lie was shot In the breast and died in stantly. No one was present, but a brother, aged 8, heard the report of a gun. ^ Report* &r« meagre and details cannot be had. It Is not known whether it was accidental killing or homicide. Seven Mules Killed. -A-dispatch from Saramerton says i A A | M M nn » * • - m t' %* as v t f he had no Inlefeet In the company. Thih agent haa notjreturn.e4„ to kL?> CalhcArt.’ In the last Issne of one of tha best known and most substantial taiar. an re papers, mention is madf'c United Insurance <$»topa&y, that* It waa floodji .. lV7u Dfl w v 3 attractive circulars, the rains Tuesday night were th* they were able to heavleat known there for many yeara. klnda of InsursMto. H warn rvw^t tvi—v. t — Boa* Loet. ^ I The battle of Kings M dispatch aaya r»» fought in sham conllcf T R. Robertson. . ,—_ —j„ ,a. .vrusui. iu Bua.m comic? n J r rna all hope for the ’o*^*** schoonersThese manoeuvre* A’are un- Francis H., manned by a crew Boyd’a aupervtaion. eight, has been shsndonaA Kv tha <«.. i*kt. h.. b*,, by .b.’"^’,“„ 1 r;"" w ^"'” owner*, who bellev# that the veaaei the mountain s • nCani P« <J °n with all hand, went down la the #,*”^1“ “^,'^”./ ^ r ° yi1 Snlf hurricane on Soptomber 21. ff^r Beautiful weather"* IT* •' 1 ’ ^ful oceaalon. ' Not ' w the eun’a rayg. Ev An ATfrafe of eleven paraon* have vM^ rrlp(J Qut IM Imjured daily and on. peraon ^ killed wvery other day for the la*t stofcg on4i Ta ,_ J three month* by the Chicago •treet csto^ ^ aa.. V5 1 The wind was pretty high In some localltlee. It is reported that seven 1 mules, the property of Mr. O. C. | ^ Scarboro, were killed on hls farm *ight yeara, a by the shout eight miles from Summer- «• „„ — ' ton by the collapse of the barn altu-! Oreeasbor*- ated nv«r — ountein Benjamin -j ,01 me earn situ-, Greeusbor'' ated over hls seauvee, caused by thev, high wind. •' I of history, Florida Man Kills Himself. , At flt. Petersburg. Fla., W.| ’ . loud; Coleman. «0 year* of age, committed Mad euicide at the Pas^n Houae at k' ^ rdtof the pre- o'clock Wedneeday mdrulng by eboot- heocddalon. The Ing himself in the faetoA He was of the pAthanlng ?»end by hie wif*jAortly#ter ahoot- * sulficleflrtly- The lQ t himapif, an^Mfed ssKa ' — taad* kaHm’ ^ithn^