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PEITY_SPITE Peary Refused to Allow Dr. Cook's Records Aboard His Steamer i THEY WERE LEFT AT ETAH This Li What Whitney Cables to I>r. Cook in New York, Who Says it Does Not Matter as lie Has a Duplicate, Which Will Suffice. Commander Kobert K. Peary, refused absolutely to allow any of + Vi rk r/\a nw/la r\ r Inctrnmantc r\ f TY f VUD 1 U^UI VIM V? IUC7VI UUIVUWU VI VI | Frederick A. Cook to be brought abroad the steamer Roosevelt aud was thus Instrumental In causing these records to remain in a cache at Etah, Greenland, according to Harry Whitney, the New Haven sport&man, in a dispatch received in New York by Dr. Cook on Sunday. | The message, which came as response to one from Dr. Cook, 1b as follows: "Strathcona, via India Harbor and Cape Hay, N. F., Sept. 25. "Dr. F. A. Cook , Waldorf, Now York. "Started for homo Roorevelt. K n lsv?* *v> Hon r i; A1UVU1U)5 oi II VU pv/l 114' . I V J would allow nothing belonging to you on board. Said to leave everything in cache at Ktah. Met Cupt. 8am, North Star. Did not go back after going schooner bound St. John's. Take steamer home. Hope you well. See you soon. Explain all. Good shooting. "Harry Whitney." Dr. Cook was questioned as to his view of the situation created by the action ascribed to Commander Peary, but he declined to aay anything derogatory of his rival. "It may be that the instruments will arrive this year after all," he said, "and as for the records and observations, their non-arrival here makes no difference whatever, as 1 have complete duplicates, so that there will be no delay in compiling my story with all its details." Dr. Cook denied tho report that he was to bring suit for slander against Peary. "There is no truth in the report," he said. "I havo no Intention of bringing suit. Naturally 1 am taking measures to have j ' everything in order in case of necessity; but 1 have never even thought of filing a suit, and I wish to contradict such reports at once." If they are still at Etah, Dr. Cook's instruments may not arrive j in New York until the wprfing ; months of 1910. There is a porsl-j billty, however, of their roaohing' here this year, as another vobsoI may have touched at Etah after the Roosevelt left. A dispatch from Portland, Mo., ^ eays it was learned from a source close to Commander Peary that the j -commander Justifies his action in refusing to allow Dr. Frederick A. Cook's instruments or records on board the homeward bound steamer Roosevelt on the theory that ho had been aware for some time of Cook's Intention to claim tljo diiscovery of the North Pole and that Peary, therefore, would sanction nothing to aid thin nroiect. Gen. Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic CluK, makoa a different excuse from the above for Peary'3 littleness. He says that Peary did ^ not mention any such circumatanco to him during the conference with the Arctic explorer last Thursday. Gen. Hubbard said that undoubtedly Peary felt that inasmuch as Dr. Cook had intrusted the data to Mr. Whitney, it was Important that Mr. Whitney should retain sole custody of it. Gen. Hubbard left it to be assumed by his remarks that Commander Peary did not desire to have custody of the records which would play so Important a part in a controversy with Dr. Cook. All hands on board tho Roosevelt were instructed not to talk about the controversy. Mat Ilonaon, the n otrrn orvnl/ tnhn n/nn \i/ If V* t)^?i nw I n i v wv/n, " my " uo w i tii a rai j in his final dash north, said that he had talked with every Eskimo who wont up with Cook and knew every one of them but was not at liberty to reveal what he had loarned. Ilenson said, further, that Cook had practically no experience when ho went North; that he knew nothing about building sledges and was absolutely Inexperienced in driving Eskimo 4. ?dogs. Henson said that he was of |the opinion that Cook could not even harness a do? correctely. This is the kind of testimony Peary expects to convict Cook on. It is totally unreliable. > r "ii i s . White Man to llang. ? At Baxley, Ga., on Saturday, Pate Taylor, a white man, was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung. Taylor after a trival quarrel shot f from ambush W. A. Belcher, a near neighbor. SUBSG1 > : k PROMPTLY LYNCHED XKGKO HANCKI) AT PKKKY, FLA., FOK KILLING OFFICER. He Was Hwang I'p in Front of HU Shop Where the Murder Wjw Committed. Swinging from a limb in front of hla shoe reparing ahop at Perry, Taylor county, Fla., the dead body of I Charley Anderaon, colored, waa found early Sunday morning, a mob having impoaed the death penalty us a reward for the bullet ho went Into the heart of Marshal Hawkins of Perry Saturday night. The place of the lynching was almost at the spot where Marshal Huwkins was slain, the otllcer having been in the act of placing Anderson under arrest when he met his death at the hands of the m.in he meant to make a prltoner. The negro's body was allowed to hang until late in the day when It was taken down and shipped to Live Ooak. The killing of the Perry ofllcer occurred at 8 o'clock Saturday night. Anderson was wanted for a minor offense, it is said, and was in his shoe shop when the officer went to arrest him. Hawkins was at the door of the shop when tho negro appeared, armed with a pistol, find )w>fnvt> .. vy. V V VUtVV I \y\f UIV1 UVI Villi Hi in h<% 1 f shot him to death. zAnderson escaped for a time, but was caught several hours later and at 12 o'clock was In the hands of the crowd of men that pursued him. He was returned to his shoo shop and In front of It a rope was placed about his neck and he was swung into the air. Hullets were tired into his body and he was left swinging. FA KM Kit HID HIS MONKV. After Fifty Years Tells Where It Was Hidden Away. There was deposited In the First National bank of Logan, W. Va., Friday the sum of $6,620. ThiR specific deposit has a history as strange and Interesting as ev?*r shadowed romance or figured in the tales told of the old-time misers. Milton Mulllns, an aged man who lived at Kolfo postoffice In Logan county, \V. Va.t in I the owner of this small fortune and the sum deposited represents the savings of BO years. When (juite a young man Mullins began hoarding his savings. At every opportunity he would exchange silver and greenbacks for gold and two or three times a year he would go to l the treasure crypt in the rear of his ! house and make i\ deposit of gold I OaI II V oo ? O #?/??? ^ " ..... i -.1. ^ * I vwi.t. I'm niit-1 MSir ll?J WI1LUUUU | the pile -Kven before the War Between the State he was reported to have had a considerable sum of money hidden on his premises and bands of marauders often tried to compel his to disclose Its hiding t place during the war, but those nt tempts were never successful and the secret remained his own until two days ago. A few days ago Mullins' wife died and he, feeling that ho could not ! long survive her, decided that it would bo better to disclose at once j the hiding place of the treasure j which represented the slow but reg| ular accumulation of f>0 years. ' Summoning J. M. Perry, a grandson, and some other near relatives, he related the story of his hoardings and gave them directions how to find the money. They went and dug in the yard as directed and found even $f>,000 in gold and $20 in silver. Then they proceeded to the barn, where in the exact spot Indicated hv the nifnrt teen Umv illuenvornd $1,000 In $20 bills making $6,020 in all. j HEAD or THE THK080PHISTS Claims That Hhe Has Lived In Different Periods, At Cleveland, Ohio, Intimate friends of Mrs. Annie IIoasant, president of the Theosophlcal Society of the World, declared that their leader had confided to them that she was a reincarnation of Ilypatia and Giordano Bruno. "It is certain that Mrs. Bessant has been Ilypatia and Bruno," snid Mrs. E. O. Peets, president of j the Cleveland Theosophlcal Society. 1 "She remembers all?every day of her existance as those characters." j Mrs. Bessant told her adherents that one of the Htronireqt nrnnfs of ? __ ? ?? , ( her claims that she is a reincarnation of the two characters is that she has been persecuted throughout her life. Sho avers her former selves have Just been revealed to i her after twenty years of hard study in England and India in an effort to clear her past. During the time of Confusing, Mrs. Bezant says she lived ns different characters, but can not recall their names. She predicts that she will live again. AIBE NO) A DOUM CRIME A Greenville Man Kills His Wife and Blows Out His Own Brains. MAN USED A SHOT GUN The Took Place in the I Woodwkle Mill Village Near (ir?*eni ville and There Were Only Hniall i ? tt. n J ?? * ? - v luiurcn in uio iiouso When it Was Kuocted. A despatch from Qreenvllle to The State says one of the moat horrible ] domoHtlo. tragedies that has ever i taken placo near that city in a num ber of years, occurred at Wood side ! village Friday morning when Q. W. Gallaway, a mill employe, shot and instantly killed his wife, and then 1 blew his brains out with the same weapon, a double-barreled breech loading shotgun. The crime was committed about 5 o'clock, and there were no wilnesees, save two small children, who can not give a coherent account of the terrible happenings. It is supposed that Gallaway and his wife had on unfriendly terms for a long time, having had Hharp words about their son, Hen. There is also a rumor that the husband was suspicious of bin wife. When found by Deputy Justice of the village the two bodies wore lying cuddled up on the bed, side by ,.1 .1 ~ oiur, The woman wa? shot through the back of tho head and tho entire faco of tho man hud boon blown into a mass of bloody flesh. In the arm of the man lay tho weapon which had been tho Instrument of thn tragedy. a short double-barreled breech loading shotgun, in which were two discharged shells. A lamp was burning in tho kitchen. Tiny clots of blood and brains were scattered over the bod and over both l>odio8. Neighbors heard two shots in the early morning, ono within minute or two of the other. No notice was taken of them, however, until about 8 o'clock, when the older daughter of the Gallaway's came frightened and crying to Deputy Justice saying that her father and mother were The officer Immediately wont to the house, took In the situation, and notified the coroner. * IIODIK8 FOUND ON HIIOKK. From ClotliliiK Kinck^rs Judged Men Had IkH'n Bailors. Section hands on the Louisville und .Nashville railroad found the bodies of 3a sailors and llsheruien near Dunbar Station, La., Saturday. This brings the total number of dead resulting from last Monday's hurricane up to approximately 200. The bodies were badly decomposed and were buried near Old Track bed, without identification. Dunbar is u small station on the lA'uiHviue anu jNasnviiie railroad between New Orleans and Hay St. Louis. It la not far from the Rigoleta, which connect Lake Borgne, an arm of the Oulf of Mexico, with Lake Ponchartrain. During the hurricane many light draught Hailing vessels, heading for the inland water, were swept ashore in this section. From day to day the body of a drowned sailor or fisherman from some of these wrecked schooners has been found and estimates on the total number of dead have been based on the former rate at which these bodies have been discovered. When thirty-six bodies were found in one place at one time, all former estimates as to the number of persons who lost their llvo9 in the gulf coast hurrieano were completely upset. m:ii/ry of grafting. <\>lleoted Money From Various Disorderly Houses. At Giticago Police Inspector Edward McOhbm, charged with "grafting," was found guilty by a jury which reported in Judge Barnes' court Friday. Sentence was not pronounced and will not be until after the hearing of arguments for a new trial. The law provides an indeterminate sentence in prison. The charges against the inspector in charge of the Dos Plains Htreet district wore the mo?>t sensational I aimed at a police official In years. ! Stato's Attorney Wayman stated that "graft" aggregating many thousands had been collectod from disAaJA.Io I ? utMM * II 111 "i i i j iiuucvd in iruiui ujf Jiril-I ' teclion." I H TO FRAUD ALLEGED AGAINST THK IK)KCI1KHTKK 1IOAIID OF KKG1STHATION. Governor Ansel Makt?? ltigld Investigation and Ksuos un Order to Show Cause. Charged with malfesanco In office, general misconduct and negligence, the board of registration of l)orcheater county has been summoned by Mov. Ansel to appear In Columbia to show cause why they should not bo removed. A dispatch to The State from St. George gives the following about the matter: The board of canvassers took cognizance of the discrepancy and made a report of their findings to the governor. As tho result of this report Solicitor Hlldebrand, at the request of Gov. Ansel, came down to 8t George a couple of days later In order to conduct an Investigation Into the affair, llo made a thorough and complete examination, going through all of the records In the matter and his report confirmed that of the hoard of canvassers. One day this week Mr. W. H. Towsend of Columbia, former assistant attorney general, was here for tho purpose of further looking Into the matter. lie secured a number of affidavits as to the handling of the books Immediately prior and after the election. Immedlntolv nftor ? Mr. Townsend returned to Columbia the summons wore sent to Sheriff Owens for service find they were sered on Wednesday of last week. The hoard of registration Is composed of Ellas Doar of Summervllle, Hunk Elmehouse of lleech 11111 and A. W. Humph of (Jrover, the first named being chairman. Mr. Doar is cashier of the Hank of Dorchester and Mr. Idmohouse Is a prosperous farmer. Mr. Rumph, who la about 7 0 years of nge, Is an ex-Confederate soldier. An effort was made to secure an Interview from Mr. Doar over long distance phone but he could not be got on account of the fact that the wires between St. Oeorge and Summervllle are down. The alleged false entries are supposed to have been made on the first Monday In August, this being the last regular meeting of the board before the prohibition elect Ion. At this meeting Mr. IdmoliouRc was not present and Mr. Rumph, according to some of the affidavits, authorized O. R. Llmehouso to act In his place. Mr. Doar, It Is claimed, was the only member of the hoard In position to Issue the certificates. It Is claimed that the majority of the additional names were negroes and that they did not appear in person to get the certificates as Is required by law, but that they were secured \. .. 11y in utM pari iok. The precincts whore the Irregularities are alleged to have occurred are all in the lower section of the county. The affair has cseated no little Interest In Dorchester county and the action of the governor, It is understood, will employ attorneys In order to defend themselves against the charges preferred against them All three members maintain their Innocence. CillKAT TIMKS IN NKW YORK. Fifteen-Mile Procession of Worships a Fiwituw. Tho boom of sunrise guns aboard tho warships In North river awoke Now York Saturday morning to the ilrst. day of tho celebration which honors tho deeds of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. The liver that Hudson found and where Fulton set his steamboat was the place toward which the eyes of 5,000,000 persons turned Saturday for the most impressive pageant that ever floated in tho Now York harbor. A thousand vessels, including warships from the powors of the world, were present, making a column fifteen miles long. The Half Moon and the Clermont will remain at the foot of 110th street. New York is so overrun with visitors that many ships are being used as hotels to house them. The celebration will last several days and will bo witnessed by inilllonH of people. Burned to Death. At Redding Cal., Mrs. J. E. Harding, nurse, was burned to dea\fc and MIhb Constant Rains-berry, the matron, was seriously Injured In a Are that destroyed the St. Carolina I Hospital Sunday. Seven patients ! joij pun no.ut?ui oqi ,cf| ponnsoi o.iom assistant, Miss Bertha Lampkln. Now in Jail. Young Watson Burnettc, tho man charged with embezzling the bank at Cranltevllle and who was arrested, In Chattanooga, was brought back land landed In Alkcn jail. VIIF IIA I He HU REFUNDREBATES Tbc Bembein Distilling Company of Looisrillc, Ky.f MAKES RESTILUTION Concern, Once by Farnuin Agmw to I*ay to the W Incline-Up OonuuiMiion ^ilOtO(K), Although the Commission Has no * \ v/wrviuirj(rH, The Columbia correspondent of Tho News and Courier HayB following a conference lant week between the winding-up commlHHion of the old State dispensary nnd the representatives of the Hornhelm Distilling Conipany, of Louisville, Ky., the company Monday auuounccd that It will refund to tho State overcharges on liquor amounting to $30,000. The company, which was represented before the old State board of control by Jatnes S. Farnum, acquitted Saturday of bribing Jos. 11. Wylle, then a member of the purchasing board, to give tho concerns represented by Farnum the preference In purchasing liquors, admits the overcharges ami says It is willing to tnuko good this much of the Stato's loss. The refund is voluntary on the part of tho company, us the old State dispensary board of control had effected a comnlete ??????? ...? ? ^.v w.viiii it w n nil tho concern before the winding-tip commission took charge of tho affair of the dispeusary when tho Institution was legislated out of existance, and tho company never has put in a claim for money duo it for tho liquors sold to tho dispensary, as has boon done by many of tho other houses, which had been uwarded contracts for liquors. Attorney General Lyons was asked about tho matter. Ho said that tho facts in tho case wore that tho Hernhelm Distilling Company had offered to tho dispensary commission $110, 000, and that tho money is on deposit in tho Louisville banks. Tho fact that this company wished to turn over this large sum of money came over tho telephone from tho Atlanta 11 rm of Anderson, Folder, Kountree & Wilson. It is understood, though not obtained ollicially, that the Atlanta firm secured tho settlement, but it also appears that the money comes voluntary. The matter is settled now, and tho money belongs to tho State of South Carolina. Tlie remarkable part of the wholo transaction Is ?that tho Horn helm tlrm had no claim against tho State of South Carolina. The money that the State owod this firm had been previously paid up and tho books were closed. To offer $3 0,000 and then to turn the money over is clearly an admission that there were overcharges. Although there had been a general understanding that some of the whis Key nr?ns might possibly "cough up" thin transaction is u new one in 11h nature. It i? known JamoH S. Farnum represented tho Bernheim firm here during the daya of the State dispensary. In the recent trial of Mr. Farnum it was mentioned in the testimony that this wa? one of the firms that he represented. The payment of $30,000 to tho State is taken as an admlt-relon tnat tin; State was overcharged at least this much and that rebates wore paid. This is the only dlfforenco that can bo drawn. Aslilo from tho fact that tho money has been tendered tho State, it was very difficult to obtain any official information. It was known recently that there was a secret meeting of tho dispensary commission and very probably this matter came up at the time. There In speculation uk to what effect that $'.*0,000 "money" tender will have upon tho alleged graft trials. The effect upon the other can easily be guessed, though, that no immunity is guaranteed when tho commission accepts the $30,000. It might be added, however, that another good guess is that one of the Bernhelm people would he prosecuted. The proposition they advance is fair enough on Its face, a return to tho State of $30,000, when no claim is outstanding, and this in oomparlsion with a figuring upon the alleged rebate schelule that would look something like $40,000 for alleged overcharges. That looks pretty good for South Carolina. This case that Is brought today I?, hut one of the many matters that the State dispensary investigation has brought about. What the moral effect will be canr.ot be estimated, but the State of South Cttolina is $30,000 to the good. As brought out before the dispensary winding-up commission the Bernhelm Company was one of the trio Including niso thO Big Four noonln nnd (concern, all of which the commission was disposed to class as one concern. Hi GANG OF SWINDLERS I A VAHT OONft 1*1 RACY TO DKU FRAUD PEOPLE IH ALLEGED. Eighty-five Mm Indict^ In low* cm Charge of I wing MaJIm in 8hladling Operation*. At Council Muff. Iowa, James C. Mabruy and 84 alleged aseociatea, were ft few dnya ago Indicted by the t'liiit'u mates grand jury Tor the southern district of Iowa, charged with conspiracy to defraud by Illegal use of the United ritatos mails. With the exception of Mabray and three or four others, none of those Indicted are In cuatody and for that reason the names of the defendants were not made public. It was stated the list Included many persons known In criminal annals in all parts of the country and that nearly every name Is followed by from one to four aliases. Kach of these alleged confederates had a number, which Is given as one of the aliases according to the defendant. Although specific amounts are not mentioned In the Indictment, It is authoratlvoly stated that the amounts lont by the alleged victims of Ma foray and others named will exceed $.r>00,000. The minis lost run from $l,r?00 to $.10,000, the latter Hum having heen placed on fake horse races, according to the evidence at hand, foy a Missouri banker. Victims In IK States, the territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada are named in the Indictment, indicating the wide range of territory over which Maforay and his associates are alleged to have plied their vocation. As a basis of operation they used, according to the indictment, the cities of Council Bluff, Davenport and Burlington, Iowa; St. Louis, Little Hock, Seattle. Denver and New Orleans, to which places It Is alleged victims were taken foy the numerous steerors. In setting out the specific Instances In which violations of the postal laws are chargod, the Indictment Includes copies of many sensational letters said to have been exchanged between Maforay and his associates which refer to alleged "deals" and name various sums of money as having changed hands as a result of the operations of those mentioned In the Indictment. One of the letters Is datod from a New York hotel, and Invites "Friend John," who, it la alleged, la Mabray himaelf, to go to New York city, declaring "I have a town Tight across tho river from Now York In Jeraey, a swell track and abaoluto protection. Tho ahorlff and prosecutor and police; they will he absolutely right on the Job during working hours." It Is expected the trials will begin at Rod Oak, Iowa, during the November term of court or at Dos Moines In December. Sylvester It. Rush, special assistant to the attorney general of tho United States, at the Instance of tho deparmont of justice Is taking part In tho prosecution. DKATH OF A MIHKIl . With Money In llunk, IhH'dn in Vuult, ? Man Starves. One of the most remftrkal)le case? in the history of the coroner's office at Cincinnati, O., was reported late Saturday when the body of Christopher Kuhn, aged 68, a cabinetmaker, was discovered In his | squalid room at 1G22 Central avenue. The man had been dead since September 6, when, according to neighbors, he apparently died of starvation. Secreted in tha room where j ho was found were many thousand4* of dollars' worth of securities and deeds to the property in which his room was located and adjoining property along Central avenuo. There were keys to a fafoty deposit box in the city hall bank and a bank book bowing ho had on depoalt $1,100. Fatal Fight In a row at Willlamston ? few days ago Frank Young lilt Hub Duncan in the head with a brink a? a result, Puncan's skull Is fractured and It 1b possible that he will die. Young was arretted at Wlllimstott about to leave on a train. Saved From Storm. Tales of hardship and destruction of life and property continue to comn ! in from the Oulf storm of last week. In Grand Calllon, La., floating on a bit of plank was found a ninemonth-old baby, allvo after three days without food. In the present transaction a conference of attorney*, was held, and many other details which probably will | be brought out later, }ALD