The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 30, 1909, Image 5
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
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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.
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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.
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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>
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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
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| 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
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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
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Woodwkle Mill Village Near (ir?*eni
ville and There Were Only Hniall i
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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
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111 "i i i j iiuucvd in iruiui ujf Jiril-I
' teclion." I
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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