The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 23, 1909, Image 3
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COOK REPLIES.
Talks of Peary's Charges and Declares
that His Records
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WILL PROVE HIS CLAIM
On Board the Steamer Which is
bringing Him Hoim the Brooklyn
Explorer Talks Freeljr About
IVary's Denial of His Claim and
the Looting of His Stores.
"Tell the people of America to
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nave too xunesi vuuuueu^ m j
conquest of the pole. I have records
of observations made by me which
will prove my claims. I shall be
glad again to set my foot on American
soil."
This was the brief wireless message
Dr. Frederick A. Cook Friday
asked the Associated Press to give
to his countrymen as he nears home
on the steamer Oscar II, due to arrive
at New York today.
Dr. Cook discussed freely with the
Associated Press oorrespondent the
assertions of Commander Peary that
he (Cook) had never reached the
North Pole.
When he departed for the North,
rv.r?ir oniH ho lftft a deoot of pro
visions at Annatok, north of Etah,
In charge of Rudolph Fraucke and
several Eskimos. Francke had Instructions
to go South aboard a
whaler and return later. This he
did, but missed the returning vessel,
owing to a slight illness. He
was then taken aboard Peary's ship,
the Roosevelt, and proceeded North.
"Commander Peary found my supply
depot at Annatok," Dr. Cook continued,
"and the Eskimos in charge
told him that I was dead, which they
then believed to be true.
"Peary placed two men in charge
of the depot, Boatswain Murphy and
another. Harry Whitney, the New
Haven hunter, also remained there.
Murphy had orders not to search
for me, but was told he could send
l' Eskimos northward in the spring
for relief work.
"When I returned from the pole
unexpectedly Harry Whitney was the
first to aee me and to tell me what
had occurred. Whitney was placed
tn possesion of the facts concerning
my journey to the pole on the
condition that he would not Inform
Commander Peary or his men of
them. At the same time, the Eskimos
who had acoompanled me north
were told to maintain the strictest
^-fiilence.
"When I went Into the depot there
j was a dispute between myself and
Murphy, who delivered to me written
instructions he had received from
Peary, although he could neither read
nor write. These instructions showed
that he was making a trading statlon
of my depot, the contents of
which had been used In trading for
furs and skins.
"On one occasion Murphy asked
me abruptly, "have you been beyond
87?" But I was determined not to
let Peary know of my movements and
replied evasively that I had been
^ v much farther North. From this
statement has been concocted the
declaration that I had said I had
not reached the pole."
Dr. Cook declared that meithei
Harry Whitney nor his (Cook's)
, records are on board the steamei
Roosevelt, and that, therefore, Pea
ry's Information concerning him
emanated from Boatswain Murphy
who knew nothing of his movements
Dr. Cook said also that he had made
arrangements for two Eskimos, whe
went with him to the pole, and
Kotd Rasmussen, whom be met ir
Greenland, to go to New York and
confirm the story of his discovery.
Dr. Cook is thoroughly enjoying
his rest aboard ship, after the stren
uous days at Copenhagen. He spends
a long time daily In writing and ir
conversation with the American pas
sengers, who all have been formallj
presented to him by Benjamin True
blood, president of the Amerlcar
Peace Society, of Boston.
All the passengers are impressed
v by the sincerity of Dr. Cook as in
dlcated by his conversation with then
In regard to his discovery of th<
pole. He said that he is now pre
prepared to lay these proofs before s
competent body of America.
In a lecture In the saloon of th<
steamer Dr. Cook, with the aid o
a map drawn by an engineer, gavi
an outline of his route to the pole
"The Journey was nothing reall;
wonderful," he said. "I used n<
^ devices or inventions. I had, how
ever, every necessary instrument, bu
kept these to pure necessities.
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DISPUTE TAKES NEW TURN
PEARY'S CAIIIN BOY MAKES INTERESTING
ADMISSION.
Confront***] with a Wireless Message
Confesses Dr. Cook Told Him Ho
Had Reached the Pole.
A dispatch from Battle Harbor,
Labrador, says one of the men on the
steamer Roosevelt at least knew long
ago that Dr. Frederick A. Cook had
claimed to have reached the pole.
He is Wm. Pritchard, cabin boy and
assistant cook on the Roosevelt, who
remained at Annatook with Boatswain
Murphy to guard the stores.
Pritchard had not spoken to anyone
on board of Dr. Cook*9 achievement,
but when confronted a few days ago,
just prior to the sailing of the Roosevelt
from Battle Harbor, with a
wireless message from midocean that i
Dr. Cook said that Pritchard knew
the whole story of his dash for tho
pole, the youth admitted that he had
learned from Dr. Cook the details
of the final march, and that Dr.
Cook had explained to him the route
followed.
Whether Boatswain Murphy also
was informed of Dr. Cook's success,
Pritchard did not know, but unquestionably
Harry Whitney, who was
at the store house when Dr. Cook
returned from his dash with the
two Eskimos, is conversant with all
the facts. Whitney did not disclose
this Interesting piece of news to Commander
Peary, and Pritchard kept it
from Peary during the entire voyage
of the Roosevelt to Battle Harbor.
Prltchnrd said t?hat he was at the
house as Annatook with Whitney
and Cook, while Murphy was at Etah.
He heard Dr. Cook describe to the
New Haven sportsman how he went
to the pole and remained there two
days. He could not remember whether
Dr. Cook said he remained there
April 21 and 2 2. or whether it was
April 2 2 and 22. Dr. Cook used
a map to illustrate the route followed.
Asked why he had not repeated
this on board the Roosevelt. Pritchard
said that Dr. Cook had told him
to say nothing about his having been
at the pole until the Roosevelt reached
civilization. *
29 LIVES LOST AT SEA.
Graphic Story of Marine Disaster
Reaches Mobile.
A graphic story of a marine disaster,
which cost the lives of 29
persons, when the steamer Nicholas
Castania, en route from Havana to
Cienfuegos, foundered off the coast
of the Isle of Pines on the night of
August 23, last, reached Mobile a
few days ago. Meagre news of the
disaster was given by the Associated
Press August 31.
The crew numbered twenty-seven
officers and sailors. Eighteen human
bodies have been recovered. The
missing eleven are believed to have
become the victims of sharks. All
the bodies recovered were in a terrible
decomposed state and identlfi
cation was impossible.
A government commission, after
examination, reported that the immediate
cause of the wreck was the
simultaneous explosion of the steamer's
battery of boilers, combined with
a violent concusion of the steamer
on the rocks, whither she had been
thrown by the gale and tidal wave
The crew and passenger list ol
the Nicholas Castania shows nc
names of women, hut among the personal
effects which showed the wear
and tear of use were a number ol
feminine articles of wearing appare
and children's shoes. <
Kindness Rewarded.
Mrs. Geo. Bramer, of Methuen
Mass., has received word from attor
neys in the Cilly Islands that R. J
Ribstock, a man whom she and hei
mother befriended in Bermuda, hac
willed her about $1,000,000 in rail
road stocks and bonds. When Mrs
Rramer met Mr JHhntr?r>k In rtnrmn
r da, she then wag unmarried an(
. with her mother did many litth
t kindnesses for him in his old age
He was eighty at the time.
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"The reason for my success is tha
\ I returned to the primitive lif?- ?
in fact hecamo a savage, sacrifice<
- all comforts (to ithe race for th'
i pole."
J The long winter night was uttlize<
9 by Dr. Cook in writing. He use<
f a primitive stone writing desk am
9 lay prone while at work with hi
i. ; manuscript. Meanwhile the Eskimo
y sewed and sang. The temperatur
9 in the snow hut was rarely abov
- the freezing pbint. Holar bear
t abounded, making exits from the hu
* dangerous.
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A BITTER FIGHT
la the Republican Party is Predicted as
Result of Speech
ON THE TARIFF BY TAFT
At Wlaon*, Minn., for the Control
of the Congressional Elections
i
Next Year?By Excluding Re pub- |
11 cans Who Oppose Tariff Bill
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Excommunicated Party in West.
An open split In the Republican (
party and a bitter fight for control
at the congressional elections next
N'oVPmhpr hatWAAM th?? npnnrnoclvno
anil the old line members of the party,
Is the outcome predicted as a
result of President Taft'a tariff
speech at W4nona Friday night, says
a special dispatch from Minneapolis,
Minn., to the Atlanta Journal.
This Is the view taken by the Republican
press of Minneapolis and
St. Paul, and politicians generally
agree with It. It is a curious fact
that no one seems particularly surprised
over the president's utterances,
and it is equally curious that
there is little bitterness or animosity
displayed toward himm.
His reception in the Twin Cities
Saturday was by no means enthusiastic.
but that is attributed more
to the fact that Governor Johnson
lies at the point of death than that
the president has adopted a stand
on the tariff question that is diametrically
opposed to the views of the
majority of the people.
Wherever the president went
there were crowds, but his welcome
was limited to hand clasping and the
waving of handkerchlefs-riand flags,
with spasmodic cheers.
Practically the only demonstration
that was accorded him was at the
auditorium in St. Paul, where 3,000
people cheered him for several minutes.
hut then the president deliveredjm
eloquent tribute to the stricken
governor.
The general opinion with regard to
the Winona speech is that Mr. Taft
went too far. It was expected that
he would rally to the assistance of
his friend Tawney, who is hard beset
by his enemies among the low tariff
representatives.
That was expected of a stalwart,
manly friend, and it was also expected
that the president, having signed
the Payne bill, would not stultify
himself by attempting to crawl out
of the position in which he had placed
himself by his own act.
But when, by inference, and broadly
at that, the president in his remarks
about party solidity, read out
of the party all the Republicans who
opposed the bill, the simple truth is
that he excommunicated a majority
of the Republicans of the middle
West.
MAKE LARCH PROFITS.
Fire ami Life Insurance Did Well
in This State.
Yncnranen I
>uQui uut.v v/vutiuio9iuuri lUUitiasii'r
. has just finished his semi-annual
statement of Teceipts from insur
ance companies doing business in
. this State. This statement will form
) part of the annual report to the
legislature,
t The statement shows that the net
premium receipts from the insuri
ance companies for the six month
. ending June 30 were $912,429.08;
f life insurance companies, $1,621,>
125.25; miscellaneous companies,
. $140,652.03.
The additional license fees as
I authorized under the recent act of
1 the legislature show collections as
> follows: Fire insurance companies,
$17,340.04; life, $30,051.94; miscellaneous,
$2,693.52.
The first inspection tax collected
. only the fire insurance companies
- amounted to $1,833.91. *
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, Need Not Face Vicious Dogs.
A Washington dispatch says mail
carriers are not required to deliver
. mail at residences where vicious dogs
j are permitted to run at large. As
3 a protection to mail carriers the fol
lowing regulation nas ueen adopted
by the postoftlce department: "Carriers
are not required to deliver mail
at residences where vicious dogs are
* 'permitted to run at large. Persons
keeping such dogs must call at the
* postoffice for their mail." This is
5 a sensible ruling, and 110 one can
object to it.
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j Where Is Havlland?
s Henry Haviland, a former Boston
s man, last heard from nearly twentye
five years ago in the vicinity of New
e York, is sought by a firm of lawyers
s in Boston as the heir to an estate
I
it left in the'hands of trustees by Hav*
Hand's wife when she died in 1886.
IW TO
HAS NOT PAID FEE
THIRTY CORPORATIONS SAID TO
DE DELINQUENT.
These Concerns Are Reported m
I)ne the State Half Million I)ollars
Penalty.
Comptroller General Jones Friday
reported to pay their corporation
license tax of h alf a mill on the
capital paid in. A special act of
the legislature provides a penalty of
$500 and $100 a day for each day
of failure. The tax was due the
first of April, making the bunch of
30 due the State in penalties half
a million dollars iu round figures.
Of course, says the Columbia
Record, there is no likelihood of
the State collecting oven a small
amount of these penalties, for In
practically all of tho delinquencies
the capital paid in is extremely small,
and in many cases the companies
have long since gone out of business,
although the law makes no allowance
for this unless dissolution notice
is served ou tho secretary of
state.
Mr. Jones said a few days ago
that he would recommend a change
in the law by the legislature next
spring so as to make tho penalties
reasnoable and provide for their collection
by execution through the
sheriffs. Mr. Jones' letter follows:
Dear Sir: By virtu re of an act
"To require the payment of annual
license fees in this State and reports
to the comptroller general,"
I beg to advise you that tho followI
n cr r\ n rti net i/? oAiM\/\ro Hrv?\ ? V*.-* ?'"
...n uw.nvui.it. v.w i |m/i av iuii.1 Lin t L" uruiler
made their annual <|orporation
license reports, nor paid the annual
license fee, as directed by section
11 of said act:
Htshopville Oil Mill, Rishopville.
Artificial Stone and Supply Company,
North Augusta, S. C.
Anderson Stone and Supply Company,
Anderson.
Townvllle Mercantile Company,
Townville.
Wllliamston Grocery Company,
Wflliamston.
Hoffman & Walker, Allendale.
Hear Furniture Company, Charleston.
Citizens' Electric Company, Charleston.
Goldsmith Manufacturing Company,
Charleston.
Heriot Wall Paper Company,
Charleston.
Frank M. Petit Amusement Company,
Charleston.
Wallace-Mallony Agricultural Company,
Charleston.
Young Farmers' Union, John's
Island.
Chester Wholesale Grocery Comr
pany, Chester.
Florence Infirmary, Florence.
Loyall, McConnell Company,
Georgetown.
Parnell's Furniture Company,
Georgetown.
I CrnnTl 11A T> An H .? ? .. .1 T* .
vi? wm t ?iic xvcau; aUU JL 1 U31 L/UIII"
pany, Greenville.
Greenwood Granite and Construction
Company, Greenwood.
Rivers, Folk & Hughes Company,
Brunson.
The Cooler Company, Conway.
Acme Grocery Company, Bishopvllle.
Bishopville Coca Cola Bottling
Company, Bishopville.
Richardson Lumber Company,
Seneca.
Colored Investment Company Orangeburg.
W. P. Dukes & Son, Rowesville.
City Security and Loan Company,
Columbia.
"The following have made their
bnnual corporation Jicemse Report,
but have not paid the annual license
fee:
Sumter Nursery Company, Sumter,
$5.
| Cross Hill Oil Mill, Cross Hill,
j *5.50.
J C. L. Pace & Bro., Brltton'a Neck,
$5.
j "You are therefore requested to
Institute proceedings to recover such
penalty and annual fee or fees as
may be recovered by an action in
the name of the State.
Yours very truly,
"A. W. Jones,
"Comptroller General." *
Poured Out Liquor.
At Birmingham, Ala., the first destruction
of liquors under the new
Fuller bill was made late Saturday
, afternoon by the shriff, under or~e
T.. -1 iir T."? " - -
ucid *_>i juufit; w. rj. r ore. A. lotai
, of 250 quarts of whiskey and eight
casks of beer was poured Into the
sanitary sewer.
Serious Wreck.
A eerious wreck occurred at 6
o'clock Saturday night on the At!
lantlc Coast Line near Winston,
1 Fla., when passenger train No. 89
from Jacksonville Jumped a frog,
' turning the engine completely over,
injuring five persons.
THE HI
CHARGED WITH MURDER
MYSTKKY OF M1W. BIGHAM'H
PKATII TO BK CLKAHKI) Cl\
Prominent Witn?we? to Contradict
Version of Tragedy Given Out by
Her Husband's Companion.
Strangely mysterious la the alleged
accidental killing a (ew days ago
at Murrell's inlet, in Georgetown
county, of Mrs. Ruth Crisp Iligharn,
wife of Dr. G. C. lltgham, of Florence
county, by W. H. Avaut, near Mr.
Avant's home. There Is the intens681
sort of interest in the case throuout
the State, and the trial at Georgetown,
both men having been indict
> o ?
eu ior muraor, promises to develop
some highly sensational testimony.
Mrs. Bingham was shot and almost
instanly killed about dark, near the
Avaut home. The two men claim
that they saw a ilguro making its
way through the dark, and that they
followed, and after calling to it
without getting an answer, Mr. Avani
fired at Dr. Bigham's suggestion
Mrs. Higham died without regaining
consciousness. But three prominent
men have been summoned by the
State who will contradict this state
ment as to the physical facts regard
ing the degree of darkness at tin
time, etc.
Florence people visiting Columbia
recently say that Dr. Higham bore i
good reputation there, as did hit
wife, although she was not particu
larly well known, having been a resi
dent of that section of the State onlj
a short while. She graduated fron
Chicora College, in Greenville, ii
1907, and after teaching a year me
and married Dr. Higham at her olt
home in Mountville, Laurens county
where Dr. Higham was practicing a
tho time.
Mrs. Bigham was back at honn
visiting only a few weeks ago, ac
cording to Laurens county people
coming to Columbia this past week
As Miss Crisp, she was very popular
and she comes from one of the bes
families in that section. She was j
daughter of Matthew B. Crisp
Laurens people do not hesitate t<
say they do not believe tho accoun
of tho killing given out by Mr. Avant
In the investigation at Mountvilb
and Waterloo, it is understood 01
good authority, facts were brough
to light that will tend to show un
happy martial relations. This is bas
ed on the fact that Mrs. Bigham
when at her old homo some fe\
weeks ago on a visit and receivini
letters and telegrams from her hue
band to return home at once, ex
pressed reluctance at the idea of go
ing and even wept when she, pres
sed with the letters and telegram*
realized that she must return t
her hsuband.
Upon investigation this correspoii
dent finds that L)r. Brigham was no
well thought of at Mountville by
great many people. Ho reside
there for a short time while practic
ing his profession. The story of th
killing as related by Bigham an
Avant is not generally accepted a
Mountville nor Laurens. Peopl
who know Mrs. Bigham best declar
that sho was very timid and espe<
ially of the dark; that she would nc
venture out of the house after nigh
fall. No one seems to believe thi
any act of hers justified the kil
in g.
BITTEN BY DEADLY SNAKE.
Prevented Serious Consequences I
Sucking Wound.
At Anderson Miss Ramelle Nicho
son was bitten on the right wrii
by what is supposed to have bee
a highland mocdasin. The snaV
clung to the wound; seemed to 1
unable to free Itself, and the chil
was unable to shake It off. Final
she placed her foot on the tall <
the reptile and literally tore tl
fangs from the wound In her art
I A physician was summoned and a
' rived within less than half an hou
He prescribed some medicine for tl
bite and the next day the child wei
to school as usual, little the won
for her experience. The girl hs
gone Into the garden and was picl
ing beans when the snake struck he
As soon as possible she wiped tl
surface of the wouud with her dree
sucked out the poison, and It is vei
probable that because of this tl
bite did not prove more serious.
Katcn by Wild Animals.
William Johns, an Amoriean na
uralist, and R. (Jentruch, a Swed
are believed to have been attack*
and devoured by wild animals
Costa Rica, according to a cabl
gram Just received. Soon after tl
two men, who were exploring tl
I island disappeared, a search w
made for them and the hat and i
, fle of one of them was found ne
, newly made tracks of wild ai
1 mala.
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A FILTHY PRISON
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Awful Comfit ion in the State Penitentiary
at AHefbeoy, Pa.
VERMIN INFESTS CELLS
Mop? Than Thr?? Hundred Prisoner*
Arc Suffering From Tuberculoid*
and More Than Seventy-nine Cell*
Aw Now Occupied bjr Prisoner*
Showing Advanced Statges.
Conditions at the western penitentiary
of Pennsylvania at Allegheny
huve been found so distressing and
, so intolerable as to require the Im1
mediate removal of all Federal pris1
oners whose transfer Is practicable
, and to demand the most serious con- Alteration
of the proper public
; authorities. This is disclosed In
tho report of C. II. McGlasaon, of
' tho department of prison and prlson*
ers, to tho attorney general.
At tho direction of tho attorney
general, Wade Kills, acting head of
j the Department of Justice, made
known tho result of tho lnvestigation
which Mr. McClasson conducted
following tho reports published
J by thk? newspapers Several week*
ago, criticising the condition at the
penitentiary.
"The population on the 1st of this
j month was 1,301," says Mr. Kills la
^ his statement. "Of this number more
^ than half are at all times idle, and
j more than half are confined two In
a cell. The cells are unusually small
^ and the cots take almost the entire
length of each, the room for moving
about being a Bpaco eight feet
long and eighteen inches wide.
There are more than three hundred
prisoners suffering from tuberculosis,
and seventy-nine cells are now oc^
cupled by those showing advanced
stages of this disease. The prison
is lllled with vormln of all kinds,
although the ^officials are making
an effort to eradicate them. An unusually
large number of the prisonera
are of the lowest possible character,
mentally and morally, and
. there Is but ono goneral mess provided
for all. Almost universal complaint
Is made about the quality of
the food served, especially the
' meats."
v
"The attorney general does not, of
t course, assume that these unfortunate
conditions are known either
_ to the Governor of Pennsylvania, or
to other authorities having immediate
control of penal Institutions in
that State," continued Mr. Kills.
There are twenty-one Federal prisoners
confined at the western penltentlary
of Pennsylvania. A1I of'
these who can bo immediately trans&
a .
^ lenrea, except those wlyose terms
will shortly expire, will be removed
at once to Atlanta or Leavenworth.
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it Criticises Peary.
0 The Paris Temps severely criti0
cises Commander Peary's "broadcast
accusations" against I>r. Cook, as
well as his "general grandiloquent
attitude," saying of it: "Peary's
lf patriotic declaration about . taking
possession of the pole in the name of
the President of the United States
contrasts strongly with the commercial
spirit he displayed in copyrighting
the story."
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Forced Him to Confess.
^ A negro in Statesboro, Ga., ar
I i ny a moo, charged wt!h an
?t attempted awiault upon a young lady,
n was saved from lynching by his aged
to father pressing through the crowd
>o and forcing the boy to confess, after
Id which the mob melted away and the
ly officers took charge of the boy.
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Blew Open Safe.
At Macon, Ga., yeggmen at 3:3#
o'clock Saturday morning blew open
^ a &afe In the store of P. W. Smith,
within a stone's throw of the city
3o limits, and secured approximately
$700 In cash, a pistol, two diamonds
^ valued at $300, a number of notes
' and mortgages and other valuable
documents.
10
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ry Negro Lynched.
i? Two unknown negroes were killed
* by posses In the man hunt near
Sandy Point, Texas, Friday. The negro,
Steve Haynos, slayer of Armour
Munson, is surrounded in the lowe
lands, and capture or death is cer>d
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e. Yachtsman Drowned.
tie Ry the capsizing of a small yacht,
he in which he and R. H. Ripley were
as sailing, Frank Richardson, of Portari
mouth. Va.t was drowned in the
ar Elizabeth River Sunday. The tragil
edy was caused, It Is said, by swells
caused by a passing steamer.
ERALD