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SAN FRANCISCO CALL'SNEWS TODAY
VOLUME CVI-—NO: 97.
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TATTERED EXPLORER LANDSIN COPENHAGEN LEANINGON CROWN PRINCE'S ARM
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DIRTY CASETO BOLSTERTHEMSELVES
\u25a0I'Ea>ct^ man-pho says thai the graft prosecutionlshould stop .'-knows I-in his heart jhat it- would -be.San
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"When Washington and his ragged army were fighting the battles of the revolution there were men who \u25a0
cried! 'This war must stop. -It is hurting business.* ''\u25a0"*'
?; "During the civil,war there were men whoicried,:r'l\amforiheunion,butthiswaris lasting 100 long.
It'is hurting business. AndIdon't like the. methods of General Grant. He'iiiwinning too many battles.' ",
EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF FRANCISJ.HENEY:
Campaign LaunchedasWelcome HomeCROWD CHEERS FOR HENEY
LEADING FOE OFGRAFTERS GIVENGREAT OVATION TAFT CONGRATULATES DOCTOR COOK ON
SUCCESS OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION
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1 M *L J r> 1 TT 'i.Danish Monarch and People Unite inPaying Honor to Intrepid American
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mWho Discovered the North Pole andBrilliant Banquet Marks Welcome
Discoverer Answers All Questions RegardingNorthern Trip and Says Data AVillBe EnoughTo Satisfy Scientific Men as to the Truth ofHis? Actually Reaching the Boreal Center
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"COPENHAGEN, Sept. 4—The President. White House,Washington, D. C.:.Ihave the honor to report to the chiefmagistrate" of the United .States that Ihave returned, havingreached the north pole. FREDERICK A. COOK."
"BEVERLY, Mass., Sept. 4.—Frederick A. Cook, Copen-hagen, Denmark: Your dispatch received. Your report thatyou have reached the north pole calls for my heartiest congrat-ulations, and stirs the pride of all Americans that this feat,which has so long baffled the world, has been accomplished bythe, intelligent ;energy and wonderful endurance of^a fellowcountryman. -WILLIAMH. TAFT."
PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES DR. COOK
GOVERNOR OFSTATEBEATS BELL BOY
•:'''m^ffi'ptis:!i-j^jHEiNEv::
FATAL SHOOTINGRESULTS IN RIOT
LOST BABY FOUNDDEAD IN DITCH
NEW OPwLEANS, Sept. 4.—
Governor
Jared Y. Sanders of Louisiana will be
charged with assaulting and .young Hogan," a bellboy In the Dene-
chand hotel Monday morning in the
first city criminal court unless friendsof the governor manage to get the boy
to change his mind. . . -Sanders has been stopping
at the Denechaud hotel for some time
and yesterday morning called for- a
bellboy. Hogan was sent. He helped
pack a grip for the state executive, butplaced some wrong articles In it.where-upon the governor became angry. Hathen struck Hogan and knocked him to
the floor.' \u25a0 T-* .
Hogan' said tonight that the governor
kicked hinv after- he. had fallen to thefloor and that he had made up his mindto prosecute him justthe same as if hewas.any kind,of individual. The gover-
nor would not talk of the charge.
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
Chief Executive of LouisianaMay 'Be Charged With
Batter^ by Lad
•;;BAKESFIELD,.Sept. 4.—Bessie. T the,12!month old'daughter.of Patrick Prin-deville,'a.driver employed~in the^ streetdepartment, was drowned in an"irriga'rtion '^ditcn. last night.in 12'iiiches ofwater.;. The babe's:-, body was discov-ered early this :m6rning ;after rscores ofsearchers \had ?spent .the greater partof the "night searching. for;the child.- .;Earlyyin the levening: Prihdeville and
his j wife 'called, on some 'friends. "Laterthe two .families-adjourned "to*a nearbycafe and when T.the iPrindeyillesJstartedhome
-the v.father :and- mother' in /some
way"became separated, \u25a0/i.the : womanreaching home soon afterward. : ;':- Becoming alarmediat;the>nonappear-ance of .the % father-;; and -.the jtwo jchil-dren.V Mrs.? Prlndeville »began fa search, jiwhich resulted Tin; the discovery of;herhusband* *. wandering aimlessly .'aboutwith =the baby carriage /and 5 the elder
igirl, but unable to "account for -\u25a0 the'younger child.; -.'/ ',*\u25a0/,\u25a0 \u25a0
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v Prindeville ,and \u25a0 the child were wetthrough and the man was unable to ex-plain;what -had -.happened or; to accountin^ny^. way.for,the missing child.. Prindeville'ls in jail.-He Is the fatherof six children.' \u25a0-.-\u25a0\u25a0 . .'•
Father Loses Infant •From Go=cart and LittleOne Perishes ,
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Every" person ;who attempted toleave .was halted and every.wagon! wassearched; for the men who had.startedthe riot. 'Finally, -after, a conference,Colonel^ J.,E.,.'Allen, commanding theSecond regiment, and, local officers, ac-companied 'iby 'soldiers, searched : thebuilding"and ,in. the- top' story% foundthe^nien "huddled together. They wereall;. placed; under; arrest and^- taken "tojaiij.which; is';being uardedHonightibythe: soldiers 'to prevent the guiity;peo-ple from being lynched. ',--''\u25a0 \u25a0
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;| The ."house- was almost shot Uo .piecesby 'soldlers-in- trying to gain- anVen-1trance .after 1
-their comrade ?had -been;
killed..'For:more . than .an '\u25a0 hour .* the ?1S
men,held{the. fort againt the /regiment;and" the residents of that.' section- ofthe"city fled tocellars for safety. • l
...FRANKFORT, Ky.,.,Sept. 4.—
In - a
fierce riot between _ militiamen ;and
civilians Sergeant -Ingram. Tate of Som-. \u25a0
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a civilian, were • killed tonight,, whileWiilfa'mNichols, Joe Conway and Alex-'ander. McNally. were fatally shot.*
The' riot \ began \u25a0 In a tenderloin r'sa-1:
loon^followinga brawl.- Privates' Wll-!liam-iPhillips' and' C.: PL Toadeyine,:members', '-J. of /company G, who'werestanding near.Tate, when he was killed,
identified* Joe Nichols, as the man| whofired "the ''fatal 'shot{;|' Nichols rid*;lß'iothers' were .' arrested. \u0084.' ..* . -.?:,'
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Militiamen in Bloody BattleWith Civilians After Sol*> dier Dies From Bullet
(PASADENA, Sept.* 4.—
The Pasadenahumane -society, addressed .the statehumane 'society
'today, recommending 'aresolution Topposing the.; plan
'to enter-
tain President Taft.;with a ball fight
when*
he ;meets President Diaz , atJuarez, Mex.
'The resolution asks that the people
of Mexico,be requested to.proA-ide^someother}form of amusement., ,-
\u25a0 It is held 'to-be wJßrt3lgnined for the,president, to participate^- in*a bull" fight
even asia rpectator^ a.nd, the', sport i3arraigned by.the resolution as. a "most-barbaric"and inhuman practice." \
Loud, in ProtestPasadena Humane Society Is
OPPOSES BULL FIGHTr TO ENTERTAIN TAFT
Spanish Kings-Mother; AssistsHis? Destitute Subject
t; SAN ;SEBASTIAN,'Sept/^.-^A^desti-
tute'rSvorkman;dropped fainting • in.tliestreet today after sheer starvation 7just
as the queen mother was passing.1"Stop-
ping /her'; carriage, the, queen .;mother^assisted r-.th'e /.workman;-; giving jhim fallthe. money; in \u25a0lier:pocketbook. v V ,
sTARyiNd workman;'
? FAINTS^ BEFORE QUEEN
ASUIT which the defendants do'
not hesitate to charaqterize as
•a filibustering fight" Kased oncharges which are stamped as ;
"only wind"—
"a dirty case," in the
words of Adolph Spreckels—
was com-
menced yesterday by Rudolph and
«"laus Augustus Spreckels, executors of
the Claus Spreckels estate, for the pur-pose of having the Union trust com-pany removed as trustee of the Oceanicsteamship company and another trusteeappointed by the superior court.
Followingas it does closely on 'theheels of the action brought by John D.and Adolph Spreckels to test the va-lidityof the trust clause of the willoftheir father. Claus Spreckels, the suitwhich was filed yesterday Is regardedby John D. Spreckels and AdolphPpreckels, against whom it is directed,
as an effort on the part of Rudolph
and Claus A. Spreckels to counteractthe effect of- the attack upon the sugar
magnate's wilL"They are simply trying to bolster up
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their position in the will case." said !Adolph Spreckels yesterday. "It cer- ;talnly looks like a matter of spite," ;
said Attorney A. F. Morrison, "due tothe resentment of Rudolph and ClausAugustus Spreckels because John D.and Adolph Spreckels have seen- fit to'question the trust clause of theirfathers will."
One of ih<- numerotiK charge** con-tained In the complaint ia tbat John D.>|irrrki-ls and Adolph *>preckel« areseeking, with the aid of the L'nlontrust company, to depreciate the valueof the outxtandlng hondn of the Oceanicuteamiiblp company by waiving defaultIn the payment of the Interent on thebond*. Thin allegation Ik met by theatatement of V. S. Muniicl». manager ofthe John D. Spreckeln A. BrOH. com-pany, that at the time of the firnt de-fault of fntereot In June. ifM)T, ClausSpreckela hlmnclf nl^ncd the waiverafter Rudolph bad rcfuneri and Clan*Ausruntna had Kent word to John I).
£preek«"l« that ••from now on It in warto the knife between him and we."
Voluminous Complaint ?The complaint filed yesterday by Ru-
dolph and Claus A.-Spreckels as execu-tors of the willof Claus Spreckels anddirected against the Union Irust com-pany and the Oceanic steamship com-pany, is a document of 29 typewrittenpages drawn by Attorneys Sullivan &Sullivan & Roche. It was assigned byPresiding Judge Cabaniss to department'_' of the superior court, over whichJudge Murasky presides.
The complaint alleges that at a meet-ingof the stock holders of the Oceanicsteamship company held June 2. 1899,a bonded indebtedness of $2,500,000 wasautht rized and that thereafter the di-rectors of the company issued 2,500bonds of the par value of SI,OOO andhearing interest at the rate of 5 per«ent per annum. The directors also, inpursuance of the will of the shareholders, executed a first mortgage andtrust agreement to the Union trustcompany. This agreement covered* allthe property of the Oceanic steamshipcompany. Including the steamshipsAustralia, Alameda, Maripdsa, Zea-landia and the sailing vessels W. H.Dimond. William G. Irwin, Consueloand 3ohn D. Spreckels.
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In .1900 Claus Spreckels. the complaintalleges, purchased 609 of thpse bond'sand held them until his death. Theyare now In the possession of the execu-
Regarding InterestItis further alleged that the Oceanic
eteataship^company has not' paid the in-tcTest on these 609 bonds, which \ras dueJanuary I,1909. and -July 1. 1909, andthat the Union trust company, "hasneglected its duty as such. trustee andhas committed negligent, willfuland-In-tentional breaches of the said trust tothe great injury and- prejudice of theholder of• said bonds."
In support -of this charge it.is^ al-leged that the bonds contain a pro-
vision that if default shall be made Inthe payment of iKerest on the bonds,
and If, after demand for!the, payment
has been 1made In writing,Itshall' notfoe made within six months, "the wholeamount of the principal \u25a0 shall
-berome
The Elder Claus Spreckels Him-self Twice Signed Waivers
of Default on Interest
Allegations Regarding Misman-agement of Steamship Com-
pany Shown toBe False
Charges John D. arid Adolph
Spreckels Have Conspiracy
to Depreciate Bonds
R. and C. A. Spreckels Sue toRemove Union Trust Com-
pany as Oceanic Trustee
—ADOLPH SPRECKELS
Continued on Page -4, rColunin \u25a01
TELEPHONE KEARXY 88
. SUXDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,,1909
WEATHER CONDITIONSYESTERDAY
—W"eet wind:: cloudy; maximum
tomp^rature. SS; minimum. 30.FORECAST FOR TODAY—Cloudy; moderate
west wind. . PaieM
EDITORIALI/>s ADgeler raakM awful threats. Page 28
Senator Flint's lofty aspirations. Page 2STaking the measure of Cannon. '- - Page 28
Censorship at the state uniVersity/ Pose 28
POLITIGALTim Sulliran Is firmly seated on the political
throne iv complete control.* I'aige 33
NORTH POLE' •
Danish monarch and people unite in payingtribute to Dr. Cook. Pajfe 17
Dr.- Cook mts data will prove truth of-northpole discovery. Page 17
Explorer Cook siren a jmagnificent /receptionon hfs arrival at Copenhagen. \u25a0 Pace 17
Kins Frederick congratulates dlscoTcrcr ofnorth pole on his achieTement. Pafir1
*IN
Arctic explorer mobbed by enthusiastic thou-sands on landing at Copenhagen. Page IS
CITYSuit brought by Rudolph and C. A. Spreckels
to oust Union trust company as trustee ofOceanic steamship ' company characterized as"dirty case."' <\u25a0" P»K* 17
Attorney asks the Judges to remember theirante^U>ctlon promises to expedite litigation Inwhich the poor are concerned. Pane SO
F. E. Mason may b« the jubilee monarch ofSehuetzen Tereln general competition. Page 21
Yotiny Texan at St. Francis planned to take,
life with chloroform. ,\u25a0 Page 311Captain Alexander Nicolson. who sailed from
this port 35 years, succumbs to heartdisease.' Page 32
Thrones bid adieu to Portola girls on startof northern trip. Page 40
Organized labor expects to hare 50,000 mon inthe Treat parade tomorrow morning. Page 4£:
San Jose will liaTe the bijrjrest celebration\ Admission day ever seen in the ;Garden1City. Pace 32
Friends of Edward Livermore repudiate charsesmade by William
-Stein, the man who \u25a0
killed him. -v Page 40
United Railroads sued by.victims of accidentsfor damapes aggregating J125.500. Page 32
Mexican colony raisin; funds in. aid of theflood sufferer*, i S P«g« 24
Series of chamber music concerts planned byCalifornia Conservatory^ of Music for the sea-son.
• .Page 37Wife and mother arrested for being drunk
and neglecting children given freedom upon herpromise to reform. .Page 24
Spanish fete with special music to add to joyof Portola week.
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First and second squadrons '.of Pacific fleetto leave the harbor \u25a0 today on cruise -tofar east.
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Nobles of Mystic Shrine to cavort on baseball(iiamond to decide tupremacj- of All-Islams orpatrol. Page 48SUBURBAN
Two pensioners .secure licenses to wed afterdrawing allowances as war veterans.
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.Several tnlsmated couples apply to Alamedacounty divorce court for release from!Kallin?bonds. 'Page 22
V. N*. Knss dloß after long illness and.Masonswillpay honor at funeral Tuesday. .Page 23
Aged watchman is heir' to million dollarestate.
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Labor day and Its . meaning made theme*of sermons to be delivered by Oaklandpastors. Page 22
City of Oakland to Improve outlet of. LakeMerritt with better grade crossing and. Venetian,
ornaments. \u2666 Page 22House movers attempt to carry off bam and
are put to rout. \u25a0». . Page 22Automobile strikes Elmhurst man's rig, throw-
ing driver through glass wind shield and causingserious hemorrhage. _ \u25a0 Page 22COAST
Father loses Infant from gocart In some. wayand little one perishes in a ditch. . Page 17,
Indians complain of 111 treatment and memberof federal .board comes .to rectify •
allegedwrongs. '
,Page 1tf*San Jose begins celebration of Labor day with
open air dance and carnival. Page 24Hunk officials fear loss of loan and ask re-
ceiver for brick company. Page 19State convention of spiritualists elects officers
and wIITadjourn tolay at San Jose. Page 19Kfm>n Sbibusawa makes notable address at
the Seattle fair. Page 21Larkspur ready for booster day, which will
commence with crowning of Forest .Queen to-morrow morning. Page 32
Valuations of assessors found low In-lft coun-ties and equalizers may Increase San Francisco's
jrate, but yet reduce taxes. \u25a0• Page 21Chief Forester Pinchot
'predicts .battle for
water power rights in next congress. Page 40
Pasadena humane society • adopts; resolutionprotesting against bull fight ag part of Tartentertainment in Mexico. . \u25a0 Page 17
EASTERNFatal shooting bring* bloody battle beweeen
militiamen and <ltlr.<ji«. . • .. i';\ne \~Governor of Louisiana 'may face charge, of,
ln-at iiipr bellboy.*-"
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#Blobdhonnds put on trail of wreckers of Royal.
Blue'
limited on Baltimore and-Ohio'rafl-fWLd.
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FOREIGNIncreased navy with many, ships of Dread-
nought type favored by Japanese. • ' Page 24China and Japan sign;agreement "and Nip-
pon Is to \u25a0 withdraw fr»m ChSentao - dis-trict. Page 21
SPORTSMercenary motives .may enter into. American
amateur :athletics.- -'"J .. •' ' Page 33
Historic Stanford stake won In handy, style byS. B. Wright's Easter. ; Page S3
Olympics defeat* California' frcthmVn;; 8 to 0,and varsity wins from ,« Reliance club, 39* to *0,|In opening Rugby battles of season. "
Page 83.Eugby, football to play Importantpart,In •sporting events "until
'cud.of •Norem-
bcr.- .' ;
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Coming werk willbe busy one for;yachtsmen,as many cruises are being planned. ,. Page 35, Ketchel ,begins active,, training in-New \-,Yorktor fight with Sam Langford.
'> Page 35Great >Heavens "wins L*urier. handlcap/at
the opening day ;of Montreal Jockey / clubmeet.* .-. - r -
« » Page 34'Coast league scores— Oakland: 4, Ixw Angelea 1
3; Vernon -\u25a0 6, Portland 5;. Sacramento^ 5, -SanFrancisco 0.
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. State; league scores— Oakland 3, Stockton -,2;!Sacramento 'Jl,'" Fresno 1. 'Page 34
Jack Johnson- figures' to cave all the.sbolter of.
it In the 'next big fight..'-..'- \u25a0 : V -HPageSflJack- (Twin) 'Sullivan and Frank Mantell'hp'ad
North:End.club's show. tomorrow.' , ''I*oge3s
MARINEv't-'. _' \:^'-r\ \-\ yiK;Cruiser ;Aib«nyf
;FtJII;wearing, white,? retunTufrom;Bremerton';; and:- will'-sail-, tomorrow; with'SC I/ouIs"for"Santa 'Monica. Page 39LABOR : v /"
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.The-Jonrneymen ,barbers .expect ;to,have, an-In-.
tereMingT session' at thelnternatiobal;conv>n-tion
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The O'Farrell street piayhouse wasliterally packed to the doors. Every
seat was filled long before 8, o'clock.The side aisles were . jammed.
'The
lobby, was so crowded, that the doors
could only swing* outward. The cal-cium light galleries over the main en-trance were fllled. The stage waspacked from wall to wall and from
the footlights to the back wall. V Thepolice managed -to keep the' center
aisles free, but in so doing were com- ipelled to disappoint hundreds who wereunable ~to force their way past thelobby doors.- . .Seriousness Is Keynote; Itwas a political meeting, but wholly
unlike the conventional campaign gath-
ering. Itwas a. popular reception, .butwholly^unlike the 'conventional recep-
tion. -The big crowd 'was enthusiastic ito the last degree, but serious "in thatenthusiasm. Indeed, seriousness wasthe keynote of. the unique meeting.
The» 2,000 men and -women came early.They waved American flags 'tiled withwhite ribbon bearing the.He'ney leaguemotto," "Equality before the law." They
cheered flag and motto. They, cheeredfor.Heriey, for Langdon, for the men be-hind .the graft prosecution. Theycheered Hiram W. Johnson and John W.Sweeney. They -cheered Sweeney's
strictures upon .Fickert and the menbehind his candidacy. They, hissed thename of the Chronicle and the, gutterweeklies, and finally they refused toconsider the meeting at an end untilLangdon
"secured the' co-operation of
the'band to enforce
vhis declaration
that "this meeting stands adjourned."H'eney's speech was an'unimpassioned
recital- of-the
-history of the graft
prosecution and. the 'necessity for: itscontinuance. It frequently becameearnest dialogue .between me speakerand audience. It was less than halfthe expected length.\l Tlie .warmth ofthe reception accorded him was*' toomuch for Heney. lie was compelledto admit that, for.the" first; time 'in,hislife,:he_was, unable to accede Ttof hisauditors' demand for ''more." , • '\u0084' ;
The passions of.th'eblg audience wereplayed upon and brought out: by JohnW. Sweeney, former .;president; of/thelabor . council, /'who.- heaped chargesupon .Charles M. Fickert and his* sup-porters, -from
'cowardice- to
embezzlement.
Flays.Fickert SeverelyVWhoVis it:that ,theVinterests-hav'e
named as their candidate^ for districtattorney"?'' cried'Sweeiiey.' "A- creatureguilty of"downright 'cowardice— a vic-itim of 'cold' feet,', who \ was' dubbed ;byhis college mates vColdfoof Fickert;a ;mari who "never-won 'a
'case fin his
brlef '-. ei^h t;. years \u25a0 of'
practice. Theyhave", named a man who was \u25a0\u25a0 removedfrom the United States -district' attor-ney's ofHce for Incompetence 'by Attor-ney General .Bonaparte— -removed ;be-cause; He' got,a \smuggling ;'case ;mixed 1
up , with a violation(of the ''.quarantinelaws;' a man tied < in knots ; by\;SamShortridge, \u25a0 'who -asked the '\u25a0 court ;ftotake an adjournment fso that Mr.Fick-
|crt could: _cqil6ct',hlmself :*and hisi notes."When "the school \board -essayed to
remove adult Japanese from associa-on with- wliite :chiIdren:in:the public
schools 'the Japanese ;government iwas\u25a0noh, Interested. A:'scab' ,Japanese/ law-yer^associated himself with-'Cold *Feet'
*FFtickert. ; They. ;made.' a disturbancewhich ;compelled; the*.Japanese govern-rnenttojtake notice of;the incident- toprevent"; a 'revolution^ at homV. .'.-:•\u25a0';";:*:y.:...Vint 1901 this^.candidate ::for,districtattorney,t,wltivf HJJ other? Stanford >stu"-'dents.vt; 'scabbed';;. in-\;the 'teamsters',
strike^f Hejbeat -a little^boy/ and 'againshowed cold;feet Jwiien ar few^tiußklesarrl yedion\ tlie "scene. ".If?J t \were i|not"
FPwANCIS J.-HEXEY was welcomedhome arid his campaign for,districtattorney was launched last night
by a mass meeting of representativemen and women who fllled tl'e Novelty
theater asit had never been filled be-fore.
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Immense Gathering Hears Fick-erfs Record Exposed by
John Wi Sweeney
Seriousness of Purpose;; MostNotable Aespect of Greeting
for Candidate
pBANKER:A^SinCIDE^-lronwood;*Mich^;Sept.'4f—Former 3President IHerman f;F.t? JabnlofI'tlia'First iNationall1Bank :of ;committed
*siil-
rlde today;b.vishooting Uiimwlf throughIthe heart. 1?The bank. failed in June;" .'-•-;
•;• 'Ajc6tton;Rin; has :been installed at XlCehtro and^M t lie crop picked this ryearwill l>e^ handled there.': -; Contracts for•-
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..-., • • _'... -v: -.-.-"_\u25a0\u25a0.- • ~ . -.. .-,--. .. .picking have been mrfrte,at .SO; cents per;ioo|p6unds.v It^is'saldUhatlthe^profitsCi«f' -.->\u25a0 ,:ji»Ein\u25a0\u25a0•:-<-'' —as,-**'':. '..-\u25a0 •\u25a0;\u25a0:.>\u25a0\u25a0=-< \u25a0
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to^thejgrowersjthisiseason fwill=be*from'$50 to;|7s an acre, \u25a0 '\u25a0-
tion.^ yt-r,yt-r, \u25a0\u0084\u25a0'.''-'- \u25a0'.- "~ \ '\u25a0'*-, :
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r '\u25a0' '\u25a0-' ,':VThe present crop, covers, about 1,500
acres vand? those jxvho vhave -been" fol-lowing tlie
rexperiment 'predict that cot-
ton vwill-/become 'one. of r the,- most • Im-portant; products. of the Imperial -valley.
IMPERIAL,-Sept. V4J—-Two hundredMexicans ;have arrived to begin plckingthe first' cotton crop 'ever raised inCalifornia*;on a scale large enough* tobe :ia vsuccessful commercial'.- proposi-
PICKING THEfCOTTON »
IN IMPERIAL VALLEYProfits Expected yVillRun From""-
„ "SSO to $75 an /Acre * '\u25a0'"'
Cook -Is Honored .Guest'
Minister Esan sat at-I>octor Cook'sright.'with the mayor of Copenhagen
iand^Miss ,E?ran beyond. Mra.-Gamel. awealthyj Copenhagen woman, -who has
tor Cook~was the recipient of formalwelcomes at the
'hotel where he is
the government's guest. Then hepassed through the hands of tailors,
outfitters and barbers.Later, he lunched with Dr. Maurice
F. Egan. the American minister, bcinsplied incessantly for an hour withquestions. He went through hun-dreds of, telegrams, including con-gratulations from geographical socie-ties of several nations, explorers andfriends, offers of exploitation rangingfrom books to music hall engage-ments, and then hurried Jo the palaceand gave the king and other membersof the royal family a long account ofhis adventures.
Returning to his hotel he receiveda battalion of jorrespondents. whosubjected rjim for another to amerciless cross examination, demand-ing explanations of all criticisms thathave been levied against " his claims.These questions Doctor Cook an-swered frankly and fully.
Discovery Fully CreditedWhatever may be thought of Doc-
tor Cook elsewhere, he has impressedall who talked with \u25a0 him here as amodest, straightforward, and . ableman. Danish explorers— and Den-mark is the home of arctic pioneers-were the first to indorse Cook*3claims tcr the \u25a0 discovery of the poleand his" methods of getting to the goal.Their opinions .were based primarily
on'personal knowledge of Doctor Cook'scharacter -and former achievements.Only after consulting'" them confiden-tially and receiving the fullest pro-nouncement of their belief In the gen-uineness of his feat did the Danishgovernment give its official seal bytoday's reception to Doctor Cook's goodfaith. .
The^ banquet this evening was heldin the magnificent municipal buildings./Four hundred persons, many, of them,women, attended, while thousands con-"
Igregated .In the streets; in a drenehinV!rainstorm to catch sight of the ex-IploVert when he entered. -j
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i .There" was a preliminary "receptionIin-the lofty and spacious* entrance halL/. The company marched upstairs to th.elair. of-the "Star Spangled Banner.";("After ail had been seated the 'minister,?of commerce, .Johan .HansenA escortedDoctor. Cook to th» chair of honor amida demonstration which1caused him tocolor'deeply. r."
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/SOPEXHAGEX. Sept. 4.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook stepped from theI steamer "Hans Egede in Copenhagen harbor on the arm of the crown
prince of Denmark at 10 o'clock this morning, unshorn and looking-like^a sailor before the mast. He sat down to ..dinner at 8 o'clock this eveningin .the city hall, the guest- of a brilliant company of the capital's most dis-tinguished men and women, arrayed in evening dress, provided by the king's
tailor.. \u25a0•\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0"\u25a0\u25a0 . • ;V.• ?;\u25a0 '; '• "
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The -hour* between these events~
were the busiest of his life. Polarexploration never afforded anything half so crowded with
'variety and
excitement. .There were hours of speech/making, hand shaking, bowing toclamoring crowds, and then, after ad-dressing the people, who almost tore
him to pieces in, their eagerness to
see the discoverer of the pole. Doc-
IWVACO. r Terc:, Sept. . 4*—
rsaac Brock,
.who"« professed to haye-.;seen ,26. presi-
dents elected., is -dead .here ,'at7an%&ge
said ,t» l>e l-'T years.- According toBrock's • family-bible
'and
-other 'docu-
ments." ho .was- born in"Buncombe coun-ty,"North Carolina,^Alarcfri, 17SS, .
in--rlts TimeProfessed to Have Seerif26.Pres*
MANAI2I>YEARSjOLp^PASSES A\VAY IXVTEXAS
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