Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — Page 4

COOK IS IN DOUBT ABOUT POLE CLAIM

Explorer Confesses He May Have Made Mistake Dr. F, A. Cook, the explorer, confesses in an article whicir will be published in Hampton s Magazine tha: he does not know whether he reached the north pole. Dr. Cook, who has been in hiding longer than a year, has informed the editors of the magazine publishing his story that Ee will return to the United States with his wife and children Dec. 22, to pass Christmas here. Dr. Cook in his story deals with the psychology of his adventure and says: “Did I get to the north pole? Perhaps I made a mistake in thinking I did. Perhaps I did not make a mistake. After, mature thought I ,confess I do not know absolutely whether I reached the pole or not This may come as an amazing statement, but I am willing to startle the world if by so doing, I can get a chance to present my case. “By my case I mean not my case as a geographical discoverer, but my case as a man. Much as the attainment of the north pole meant to me. the sympathy and confidence of my fellow-men mean more.

“Fully, freely and frankly I shall tell you everything,—tell you everything and leave the decision with you. If, after reading my story, you say: ‘Cook is sincere and honest; half-crazed by months of isolation and hunger, he believed he reached the pole ; he is. not a faker,’ then I shall be satisfied. Dr. Cook tells the story of bis life and pictures what he calls the overpowering ambition for exploration that beset him until it culminated in his effort to reach the north pole. He declares that at the time he convinced himself that he had discovered the pole he was half mad. He devoted two years to the quest and during that time endured hunger and* privation which, he says, would uhhalapce any mind. The explorer asserts that it would be impossible for any man o demonstrate beyond question that he had been at the north pole. He describes the region as one of insanity, where ore cannot believe the evidences gathered by one’s own eye. He says he has always looked upon the discovery of the pole as an achievement for his own personal satiafa tlon '■—for the satisfaction of a craving and desire that was greater than aify ether factor in his life. When he found how tremendous a sensation his statement that he had attained the pole caused he was overcome With bewilderment.

INDICTS 4 IN RAIL GRAFT

Grand Jury at Chicago Acts in the IHincis Central Case. At Chicago, Friday, Frank B. Harriman, John SI. Taylor. Charles L. Ewing and Joseph E. Buker were Indicted by the grand jury on the charee of conspiracy in connection with car repair frauds said to have been practiced against the Illinois Central railroad. The indictments charge conspiracy to obtain money from the Illinois Central railroad by means of false pretenses. Two counts in a blanket indictment also, contain charges of a confidence game. Each defendant s tond is fixed a: S2O 000. Dec. 10, 1909, is the date set up in the indictment, which alleges that the Illinois Central railroad was defrauded out of $4,825,650 by the four persons under indictment.

EDISON INVENTS AEROPLANE

Wizard of Very Modest in Referring to Machine. Thomas A. Edison admits he has invented a heavier than air flying machine. “I admit that I have a little patent along aeroplane lines, but please don’t say much about it, fop really I have too much to do to become interested in the navigation of the air It te a simple little things that I sent along to Washington with some other patents a long time ago,” Briefly described, the invention consists of a basket hung on a vertical shaft, on the upper end of which re- * volve box kites or other form of aeroplares at sufficient speed to lift the whole affair. Its chief merit is that the center of gravity being low, keeps the machine in automatic balance

FIFTEEN DIE IN FIRE

Scores of Others Are Hurt in a Blazing Box Factory. At Newark, N. J., at least fifteen persona are thought to be dead in a fire which started in the factory of the Newark Paper Box company, at 216 Hich street Eleven bodies had been taken from the building up to 11 o'clock. Several scores Of persons were injured. When the fire started it trapped fifty girls employed on one of the upper floors. A panic ensued and many of the girls leaped from the windows to the street below. There was an engine house next door to the factory, but before the firemen could give assistance .at least twenty of the girls had leaped to the

DR. F. A. COOK.

Who Publishes a Most Remarkable Statement in a Magazine.

TAFT DEMANDS A CUT Says Estimates for the Departments Are Too High. President Taft informed his cabinet officers at a meeting of the cabinet, as ter scrutinizing the final draft of the estimates of the various departments for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1511, that there must be a further and deeper cut in them; that they would not do in their present form. In response to the urgent demands of the president, the heads of the several departments already had held the estimates down to what they com sidered rock borom figures. The president. however, pointed out a number of places where he declared the prunyta knife could te tsed to much advantage. The president went into the details of each department

REBELLION IN MACAO

Soldiers and Sailors Win Con* cessions by Force. • - * At Macao, Island of Macao, in China. the Portuguese troops at the local garrison and the crew of the Portuguese gur/tcat Patria revolted and, taking possession ot the city, proceeeded to enforce cerate charges in the administration of the affairs of this dependency of PcrtugaL The rebels drove all the nuns from the convent and -then marched to the government house, in front of which they mounted a connon. An in-erview with the governor was reques’ed and when the officers at the government house interfered they were silenced at the point of the bayonet. The gOvernmen- was compelled to hear the demands, which were for the expulsion of the religious orders, increased pay for the army and navy, suppression of the newspaper Vida Nova, and the righting of alleged wrongs suffered by the soldiers and sailors. Under threat, the government granted every demand. The rebels still cop-, trol the ci y.

TRAIN ROBBER IS KILLED

Negro Bandit Shot While Robbing Passengers on Train. Jack Thomas, a colored man, living at Blytheville, Ark.,' was shot and almost irstantly killed while robbing passengers of the Memphis-St. Louis Frisco train. M. B Walton, a watchman. employed by the Frisco, terminated the negro’s aspirations to be a real Jesse James- The rate had jest started across the Missisippi river bridge at Memphis when Thomas entered the smoking compartment Immediately behind the section assigned to negroes and held up the passengers. “Hands up; I mean business, don’t move, or I’ll plug you sure." warned Thomas The negro then proceeded to go through the pcckets of the passengers and had relieved a number of them of money and valuables when Walton, gun in hand, dashed back through the cars until he reached the smoker. As he appeared in the door Thomas pointed his weapon at the watchman. Walton fired once, striking Thomas directly over the heart, killing him instantly.

TO PROBE WATER THEFTS

Kalamazoo Business Men Charged With Defrauding the City. As the result of the probe being made at Kalamazoo, Mich., into the water thefts by the city council a grand jury may be called While the inquiry has continued only two days, it is declared that sufficient evidence has been secured to convict a number of the leading men of the city on charges of stealing water. Mains supposed to be used for fire purposes only, it is stated, have been tapped by factories in dozens of places. City officials figure that in the last two or three years Kalamazoo has lost over w" . "* ~ - w f a * a • . “ _

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Presents for Hen A full line of the best Clothing made —Suits, Overcoats, Sweater Coats, Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, Silk Suspenders, Shirts, Silk Half Hose, Combination Tie and Suspenders to match. The famous Tiger and Champion Hats, Fur and Cloth Caps, Gloves, Cuff Links,- Pins, Silk and Linen Initial Handkerchiefs, Ties and Mufflers of every description. Presents for Women A complete assortment of nice Dress Goods in Worsteds and Silks, Persian Silk Waist Patterns, Fancy Table Linen Patterns with Napkins to match, Sweater Coats, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Mittens of all kinds, Fur Scarfs with Muff to match in Coney, Lynx, Marmot and fine Musk sets.

SUIT FILED TO OUST THE SUGAR TRUST

Action Briught UiKtir Shsrman Anti-trust Act. United States Attorney Wise has filed in the United States circuit court in New York city the long expected bill of complaint in the government’s suit to dissolve the sugar trust under the Sherman anti-trust law. The suit, like that against the Standard Oil, is a proceeding in equity in which the government asks the court to deck re upon the facts alleged that a combination and conspiracy exists for the monopoly of the sugar business and to restrain the American company, the National Sugar Refining company aid the Western Sugar Retiring company from engaging in interstate commerce in sugar and to restrain any cne from voting on the stock of the ccmpan:a< mentioned in the bill. The bill, to which are attached copies of. agieement as far back as the original trrst agreement of ISSi. makes up a bock of 237 pages It vas drawn by Mr. Wise under the direction of Attorney General Wickersham anti names as defendants thirty sugar companies alleged to be part of the trust, together with their officers, and also i the executors of the will of H. O. Havemeyer, bead of the American Sugar Refining company, under whose direction the al’eged monopoly was formed. The principal companies named as defendants, are besides the America, the Westfern Sugar Refining comrany. the National and the California Cane Sugar Refining company, in which tha American bolds one-half of the stock. Among the individual defendants named are Washington B. Thomas, Charles H. Allen, former assistant secretary of the treasury 7 and lately elected treasurer of the trust; John D. Spreckels, Adolph B. Spreckels and John D. Spreckels, Jr., and Joseph F. Smith of Utah, head of the Mormon church. The bill recites the history of the company, beginning with the original trust agreement in 1887, when seventeen of the twenty-three existing sugar companies entered into a combination under the name of the Sugar Refineries company, controlling 90 per cent of the industry. Within the next two yean, it is alleged, thirteen of the refineries then combined were closed up and the remainder were combined into four large refineries. / In order to acquire the beet sugar companies, the American, the bill recites. sent out large quantities of sugar to the middle west, on which it ob-

Presents for Boys A nice new Suit or Overcoat, Fur Mittens, Gloves, Sweater Coats, Ties, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, toys of every description, such as Locomotive and Cars, Drums, Games, Banks, Mechanical Toys and Story Books. Presents for Girls Dolls, Sweater Coats, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Mittens, Ribbons, a nice new Dress or Coat, a box of Writing Paper, Picture Books, Building Blocks, Toy Furniture, Bottle Perfume. Nothing nicer than a comfortable pair of Slippers. We have them in all kinds and styles for everybody. Hosiery—plain or fancy in fancy boxes.

dropped the price below cost and when they had weakened these companies It began to acquire them. It is alleged that it purchased ore-half of the common stock of the American Beet Sugar company .and put it under contract not to compete and exacted one quarter of a cent per pound for all sugar sold by that compahy. A battle is reported to have taken place at Chihuahua between 600 federal troops and 400 Maderists, in which the rebels were routed with a loss of thirteen killed and many wounded. A number of federate were wounded, including one officer. The rebels were driven into the mountains.

MICHAEL CUDAHY DEAD

Well Known Chicago Packer Succumbs to Pneumonia. | 1 "T-_ 3Micheal Cudahy, founder of the packing company bearing his name, died in Chicago of pneumonia after an illness of five days. Mr. Cudahy was born in Ireland, Dec. 7, 1841. He attracted the attention of the late Phillip D. Armour and at his solicitation came to Chicago. In 1873 he was made a partner in the firm of Armour & Co., and continued in this connection until 1890, when he aided in organizing the Cudahy Packing company, of which he was made president.

BARBER RETURNS TO HOME

Missing Cadillac Man, Believed Murdered, Was Looking for Job. Frank Barber, who left Cadillac, Mich., in a way indicating there was some mystery about it, and for whom the sheriffs of a half dozen counties have since been looking, has returned. Instead of being disappointed in love or leaving his financial affairs in a tangle. Barber merely went away to look up a new job. He had followed a lead that he was not, sure about and found that it was a false one. Having had considerable money when he left, the family feared he had become the victim of a highway robber or worse, and his return has occasioned much renter to his home.

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Lost—Friday night, a new cadet size tan-colored glove. Finder please leave at Democrat office. For Rent—lo acre tract with six room house, a good barn. Opposite Riverside Park,* Inquire of Mary Goetz, phone 519 E. Wanted—Man past 30 with horse and buggy to sell stock condition powder in Jasper county. Salary S7O per month. Address 301 Unity Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana. The Moler Barber College of Chicago, 111., wants men to learn barber trade. They offer splendid inducements and a short term completes. They mail free a beautiful catalogue and ask all our readers to send for it. For Sale Cheap—Good 6-room house, 2 blocks south and one east of depot, with 3 large well improved lots. Terms Cash.—W. L. FRYE, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—The Erhardt Wuerthner farms in Newton tp. For particulars apply to J. M. SAUSER, on the John Goetz farm.

For Sale- —3 good heating stoves, also 1 good kitchen range for wood or coal —MRS. J. W. WILLIAMS. For Sale Cheap—l 6-hole wood or coal cook stove, burned 1 season; 1 coal heater.—HAßßY MURRAY. Phone 400. For Sale-—Five good milk cows, part Jersey. Everyone guaranteed to be all right and good cream cows. Four yearling colts. Twelve shoats, average *IOO pounds.—RlLEY TULLIS, Phone 527-E. . For Rent—-Farm of 400 acres to man with at least three teams and experience in handling live stock. Also residence of four rooms.—Arthur H. Hopkins. \ For Sale—My property north of railroad; will sell cheap—MßS. MCCLINTOCK HARTMAN. Farm For Sale—Bo acres, on pike road, free mail route, telephone line, at head of dredge ditch and % mile to school; 70 acres in cultivation, remainder pasture. There Is a good five-room house, good barn, chicken house, milk bouse, good well and bearing orchard. This is a nice home and can t>e bought for $45. Terms $1,200 down and remainder long tlr"A -—45. F. Meters.

Presents for Baby Baby isn’t very particular, most anything nice will suit, and you won’t have much trouble in finding something that will be just the thing if you pick it from our stock. Pretty Bangle Rattlers, Colored Balls, Toy Animals, Picture Books, Jumping Jacks, Dolls and hundreds of others that cost all the way from 10c up. Presents for Everybody Everybody wants nice Handkerchiefs. You will never make a mis-, take if you select your gift from our stock. Plain, Hemstitched, Lace or Embroidered Edge, with or without fancy Initial. You can them as low as 2 for sc. Everybody likes gloves, some like Silk Lined Kid Gloves, some like Fur Gloves, some like Suede or Silk Lined Lisle Gloves. We have them all and you can buy them as cheap as 25c.

For sale—A pure bred Short Horn bull calf, 8 months old, dark red, extra large; bred from extra fine milking qualities. Also, to make room this month I will offer some of my '“best Barred P. Rock Cockerels at most reasonable prices. —D. A. BICKEL, Remington, Ind. ■ A For Sale or Rent—loo acres, improved, south of town, well tiled.— J, A. Isselstein, Repsselaer Indiana. For Sale—Small residence of four rooms, will sell on monthly payments.—Arthur H. Hopkins. For Sale—so high-grade Shropshire ewes at $6.50 per head—C. E. SAGE, Goodland, Ind. Wanted—To lease for from three to five years, a good eight room house, with bath, lights and city water, not more than five blocks of court house; possession wanted not later than March 1. Might buy if price is right.—F. Ei BABCOCK. Farm Loans—Money to loan ok arm property in any sums up to 10,000. iil P. HONAN. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per eent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts Money—Some loan companies are refusing to make farm loans at the present time. My company is still loaning at 5 per cent. If you are going to need a loan make application at once, as money is scarce.— JOHN A. DUNLAP, I. O. O. F. Building.

For Sale at a Bargain— l6o acres of sandy loam, 1% miles east of McCoys burg, Ind.; good improvements, large barn, 8-room house and large orchard, partly tiled. Will sell at a bargain if taken in 30 days. Reason for selling owner wants to gb to Florida for his health. Terms made satisfactory. Address all communications to BOX 10, McCoysburg, Ind. Farmers and Farmer Boys wanted to sell our new Reliable Trace Catch for buggies, etc. Slip on and off in a jiffy, prevent runaways, and sell at but 25 cents per pair. One man sold 1067 in 3 days; another made more money in a month than he made on the farm in a year. Every owner of a vehicle is interested. Write us today.—RELIABLE TRACE SNAP CO., 3738 Oakley Ave., Cincinnati, O. Send in your subscription renewal to /Hie Democrat and get the National Monthly a full year free gratis. ■ PARKER'S ' HAIR BALSAM Clrarm and beantifiee the hair. Promotea a luxuriant growth. Sever Faile to Bestore Gray Hair to ita Youthful Color. Corea pcalp d-aeaan hr hair tailing. Joe,and >lDoat