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VOL. IX. GUIDE AND PHOTOGRAPHER SAY COOK NEVER REACHED MOUNT M' KIN LEY'S SUMMIT Missed It by 14 Miles, Barrill Says in Corroborated Affidavits—The Pictures and Diary Were Faked, He Says. | | ■""EXPLORER DOCTORED ENTRIES ON RECORD “That Would Make a Good Top,” Doctor Is Alleged to Have Said, Using Camera—Photos Were Printed. (By Asaocistvd Press) NEW YORK. Oct. 14—Tbe Globe thia afternoon prints a copy of the affidavit made by Edwin N. Barrill. who accom panied Dr. Frederick A. Cook at the time he announced hla reaching the summit of amount McKinley. The affidavit was made before a notary public at Tacoma, Wash., oa Octot»r 4. and has just been received fa New York. Barrill'■ affidavit states in effect that ho was the only person present with Dr. Cook on the date when he claims to have reached the summit of Mount Me Kinley; that they did not tn fact reach the ranaiit, and the nearest point to the summit reached was at least 14 miles distant from the summit of that mountain, the elevation at no time ex eeodlng WJ.OOO feet. Barri H’s affidavit also brings into question a number of the photographs which Dr. Cook has given a» representing the summit and other high altitudes of Mount McKinley. Barrill’s affidavit says at the outset that be was born in But alo, in ISM, and now resides at Darby. Montaap. He says he was the only party present with Dr. Cook when he claims to have reacted the sum mit of Mount McKinley, and that he is the party referred to as Barrille. or Ed ward Barrtlle. in Dr. Cook s book enti tled “To the Top of the Continent." bearing upon the expedition to Mount Mc- Kinley. He details hfs first meeting with Dr. Cook at Missoula, where the latter was accompanied by Professor Parker, of Columbia uniersity: R. W. Porter, and others. TELLS OF EXPEDITION. The eaganlMtion of the Mount McKln- MF «a®»<jt-vi. is explained, the members •MHlMtag es Prod Prints, a guide; Bel more Wawn. an artist and naturalist, of Taeoma; Walter Miller, a photographer. -of Seattle; Samuel Beecher, who acted as 000 k for the party, and Barrill. The party sailed from Seattle May 17, 1904 . Barrill recounts that at the start of the he prepared to keep an exact diay forth that uu* diary, marked ex hibit A. attached to the affidavit, "Is a pocket diary kept by me during all the time that Dr. Cook and I were together near Mount McKinley, and the same la a truthful record, with the exception of the entries and changes made by me therein kinder the orders of Dr. Cook.” •The diary referred to by Barrill as at tached to the affidavit is now in poeses slon of the New York Globe. The affidavit then proceeds as follows: BARRILL 8 AFFIDAVIT. ”On the evening of September 9,19 M. Dr. Cook and I started alone for the pur pose of exploring Mount McKinley. He Informed me before starting that his pur pose was to find away for ascending the mountain, as he and Professor Parker intended to climb the mountain the fol lowing year. “As shown by the diary, we took to the ice on September 9. From and including the 9th. down to and including the 18th of September. all writings in my diary are by me. but were ffii.de under the di rection of Dr. Cook. I also changed the dates during this*time under his direction. The figures 12.000 on the date of Septem ber 12. were changed by me at the dicta tion of Dr. Cook. On September 12. Dr. Cook directed me to stop keeping my diary and leave the pages therein blank. I cannot now remember the exact dates or figures which I had in my diary, before I was so directed to change them, but I 'know the elevation under what now ap pears September 12 was not to exceed 9,000. and I think it was 8.000. "We quit any further attempts towards ascending the mountain upon September 15 and returned to the boat, a gasoline launch nameo Boelshey, which lay in the water at the foot of the glacier. We reached the launch on September 19, hav ing traveled M mile « or more on the top of the glacier, from the place we quit climbing, on September 15. COOK ORDERED CHANGES. "On September 14, when at our first * eamp returning from the glacier, I doc tored and changed the entries there'n from and including September 9, down and Including September 12. These chang es were made under the orders of Dr Book From the 12th to the 14th. was written at the first camp returning on the night of the l€th and from the 18th to and including the 18th, was written in our last camp returning on the evening of the 19th, and written solely under the direction of Dr. Cook, and just as he sai l From and including September 19 down tq the end es the diary on November 3, the entries therein are my own. They cover the actual facts and were not dic tated to me by anyone. ' “Dr. Cock first told me to stop my diary on September 12. when we were in our fifth camp going up the glacier, and at or near the point which Dr. Cook Claimed as the top of Mount McKinley ffi- This point was within sight of us at the " time. Dr. Cook stated at this time and place that the same conditions existed there as did exist an the top of Mount McKinley and directed me to stop my dia ry until farther orders. At this time he had been to the top of the point claimed by the doctor as the top of the mountain, and the doctor had taken a photograpn of the point with me standing on the tep thereof, with the American flag In my hand I "The photograph to which I refer is shown opposite page TT. of the doctors book, entitled To the top of the conti nent,. before mentioned The jagged marks on the top of the ap-x of snow in that picture, and shown ft m the bo.- tom of the picture up to the granite roc* forming the top of the point, are my fcotnfarks and those of Dr. Cook My best recollections of this are as follow - TOOK A PICTURE. "Dr. Cook and I went to the top of ' this point together, and he said ‘We wili go back down and get a picture of this. We did not take our tags to the top of the point with us. having left them , down in the saddle of the glacier. We Atlant it So nmal ♦ Barrill Not Paid in Full, ♦ Says Dr. Cook of Affidavit ♦ ♦ PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 14. ♦ ♦ Dr. Cook, asked to reply to the ♦ ♦ Barrill affidavit, said he would not ♦ w discuss it until Barrill comes east. ♦ <♦ He said by an oversight Barrill ♦ ♦ was not paid in full for his serv- ♦ e- ices on the Mount McKinley climb, ♦ ♦ but that he does not think that ♦ ♦ oversight would make Barrill vin- ♦ ♦ dictive. ♦ ♦ Cook said he has sufficient evi- ♦ ♦ dence to prove that he had been ♦ e- to the summit of Mount Me- ♦ ♦ Kin'ey. w ♦ ♦ ' ♦ then both went down from tbe point tu where our bags had been left. The doctor took the American flag out of one of th* bags and handed it to me. and sent me back to the top of the point, and told me to hold it there on the end of the Ice axe. which I did. •The doctor then with his camera, took the picture shown opposite page 227, which nfeture is there designated as "The Sum mit of Mount McKinley," in bls work, ’To the Top of the Continent.” SUMMIT 30 MILES AWAY. "The truth being that the summit of Mount McKinley was over 20 miles distant tn an air line from the point where my picture was so taken, according to the scale on Dr. Cook's map shown between pages 152 and 153 tn the book referred to above. I then came down with the flag to where Dr. Cook was standing with his camera, and I made the remark that the eight peaks on the other side of this point where I had been photographed would probably show in the picture, and he said that he had taken the picture at such an angle that those peaks would not show. The peaks to which I refer are sketched by me in my diary and are marked I to 8 inclusive, and are shown in said diary on the page just preceding the date appearing therein as September 9 and on the pages following September 12. Those peaks were so sketched and num bered by me when I was in the camps op posite them, where I could have a fine view of them. The camps where I so sketched the peaks are the camps mark ed upon my drawing ‘Exhibit C,’ hereun to attached, as the sixth and eighth camps when we were going up the gla cier. ‘When we were in the saddle near the point where I was photographed, I made a drawing of what I named •Glacier point-’ At the same time and point I made a drawing of Mount McKinley as I could see tbe top of Mount McKinley off to the northeast and. I should say, at least 20 miles away, his drawing of gla 'ler point and Mount McKinley shown In ny dairy, on the fourth and fifth pages »f the aketcr.es therein, represents conat ions as they appeared to me upon the (round. Dr. Cook stood by my side when was making these sketches, using his nstruments for the purpose of taking emperatures, elevations and the Ilka We •malued on the saddle after I was pho tographed on the point for about one half hour, during which I sketched as above stated, and the doctor used his In struments. "When I came down from the point and handed the doctor the flag, in addition to what I stated above, he made several other remarks and there was more or lees talking done which I do not new re call; but whether at that place or there after between the 12th and 16th cf the month when my diary was doetored to fit the conditions that this point was the top. he stated to me as follows: •WOULD MAKE GOOD TOP.” " ‘That point would make a good top for Mount McKinley. It looks just about ’ike the gun sight peak would look on Mount McKinley,' which we had been looking at from the saddle. "In about half an hour after the pic tures were taken we fixed up our packs and at about 10:30 or 11 o'clock on Sep tember 13. we started down and arrived on -ie place designa teu in Exiuu.c O as sixth camp, the doctor saying that he wished to go around there in order to get farther up on the main glacier, so as to get a good view of the northeast ridge leading up to the summit of Mount Mc- Kinley, so as to ascertain if that ridge was connected solid with the top of tbe mountain, so that it would have an ap pearance similar to the description that he would have to give in his writings; as the doctor had seen the moutnaln from all sides, excepting this sloe, and as this was the side where be proposed to claim that he had climbed it. he wished to know the nature of the ridge leading up to the top of the mountain so that he could write about it as it appeared. In ■ doing this, we put in the balance of the 113th and all of the 14th and 15th days ! of September, and at the eighth camp, on 1 September 15. Dr. Cook made his ob servations of the ridge. We then turned back from this camp for the reason that we had both fallen through crevasses as subsequently stated In the diary, and we considered it too dangerous to proceed further without snowshoes, as the doctor had obtained a good view of the ridge, which was what he wanted. "I was with Dr. Cook continuously every day during the time which he was trying to ascend the mountain tn the year 1904. and the nearest point to the sum mit of Mount McKinley which we reach ed was at least 14 miles distant from thj summit of that, mountain, and at no tinw did we reach an elevation in excess of 10.000 feet, and the doctor told me when we were at the place where my picture was taken that we were not over 8,000 feet high. I neglected to state that on September 14 and on the evening of September 9, Dr. Cook asked me if I I was willing to stay with him. I said. Yes.* when he salu: T will see you get 8200 extra for doing so.* TOriK FAKE x “The photograph opposite page 171 in Dr. Cook’s book above mentioned, and • described therein as ‘the eastern cliffs of Mount McKinley,' are not such cliffs, but are a part of the easter: slope of the eighth peak of the peaks above men tioned, and drawn by me in my diary at tached thereto “The photograp.. opposite page 192 in Dr. Cook’s book was taken on the even ing of the same day that he took me with the flag at what he claims as the top of Mount McKinley, and was taken , at camp 4, shown on attached Exhibits C and D. The camp in this picture Is noted therein to be at 6,000 feet. This being so. the point where my picture was taken with the flag should not ex ceed 7.000 feet as the S.'XO feet camp wes established from six to eight hours after my picture was so taken. •The drawing shown opposite page 204 of Dr. Cook 1 , book, above mentioned, is [ entirely false, as we never built a snow ; house on the trip, although the diary, as dictated by the doctor, says so; nor did STARVATION FACES VICTIMSOF STORM Key Went Mayor Announces That Immediate Assistance Is Neces sary to Carry on Work for Re lief of Survivors. KEY WEST, Fla., Oct. 14.—Immedi ate assistance from the outside world 18 necessary to carry on the work of cleaning up the city and eating for the victims of the hurricane which left more than half of Key West In total ruins last Monday. This state ment was made today by Mayor Fo garty, in announcing that the city was forced to suspend work because of lack of funds. Great distress and suffering already is reported among the employes of the large toba<ico factories which suf fered heavily By the storm. Hundreds are on the point of starvation, it is declared. Today, the only work in progress is being carried on by private corporations and the large shipping interests. Many streets have been left impassable, filled with the wreckage of houses and uprooted trees. Sewers are broken and clogged throughout the town an J unless they can be repaired shortly, it is feared an epidemic of sickness will result. Twelve Lives Are Lost As Tugs Sank in Gale MIAMI, Fla. Oct. 14.—News reached here late yesterday of the sinking of the tugs Sybil and Sadie at Bahia Honda dur ing Monday's hurricane and the loss of the 11 members of the crew of the Sybil, including Captain Parker. The loss of life on the tug Sybil in cludes, besides Captain Parker, Engineer Fox, Pilot Whitmere, Engineer Peterson and seven deck hands. The crew of the Sadie escaped. Revenue Gutter Ashore off Dock at Key West PENSACOLA, Fla. Oct. 14.—The wire less station here at 10;9u received the fol lowing message: "A revenue cutter is ashore off the Mal lory dock at Key West. The triangle buoy is gone. The sea buoy is out of po sition about a mile to the westward, and ■the shoal buoy has drifted about one-half mile to west of the shoals. Channel Is unsafe at night on account of submerged wreckage.” Savannah Storm Flags May Stop Oircus Crowds SAVANNAH. Ga.. Oct. 14.-Shall ?l vannahians go to a circus with the hurri cane signals in the air? is the question that is nut to them today. A circus is here and is billed to give two performances, one in the afternoon and tbe other at night. The parade was given tatey. bnt not under the most promising auspices. Steamer Momus Safe; Outsailed Hurricane NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14.—Wireless messages from the Morgan line steamer Momus, bound from New York to New Orleans, were picked up here "Today. Ths Momflr reports al! passengers well and will dock here on time this afternoon. Up to the time that these wireless mes sages were received, nothing had been heard from the Momus since the hurri cane two days ago. In some quarters the fear was entertained that the Momus had met a similar fate to her sister ship, the Antilles, ashore off the Bahama Islands. Savannah Wireless Warns Ships at Sea SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 14—Everything possible was done at this port yester day to warn ships at sea that there was a hurricane going up the Atlantic coast from Key West. Fla. The wireless opera tor here sent messages broadcast into the air and succeeded in catching many ships ar.d telling them of the oncoming winds. The steamship City of Atlanta, which was en route from New York to Savan nah was notified of the probability of meeting the storm. It was believed the captain would increase his speed to try to beat the storm to this vicinity, but the ship did not arrive until this morning, coming in on time. The steamship Momus, a Southern Pacific liner, bound from New York to New Orleans, which left New York Saturday, was notified to be ready to weather the gale, and similar advices were sent to the Mohawk, of the Clyde line, bound from Charleston to Jackson ville, and th»» steamship Saratoga, a Ward liner, bonnd from New York to Ha vana. and which was expected to run into the center rs the storm. Savannah Shipping Fears Coming Storm SAVANNAH. Ga., Oct. 14.—Savannah expects to get the worst of the Florida- Cuba storm this afternoon or tonight. Last night there were indications that there wax much trouble tn the vicinity, and today there has been every indication that Savannah will probably get a stiff blow before the night is gone. Fortunate ly. the port is ready to weather a storm. The weather bureau has giver, ample warning of the fact that a hurricane is in the south and shipping has prepared for it. Vessels in port have been well pro tected with extra lines and other means known to the mariner, and those that are at quarantine or in Tybe roads have sought more adequate shelter. If the storm comes it will probably do a great deal of damage to the surroundinc coun try. which is low and flat and cosily in undated. we shake hands or have any other simi lar ceremonies as stated in the diary. ‘‘The drawing opposite page 203 of the doctor’s book is also false. We nevei climbed anything half as steep as there shown and we never established any camp nor slept as there shown. We slept every night upon comparatively level spots. "The photograph opposite page 224 in the doctor’s book, entitled Tn the Silent Glory and Snowy Wonder of the Upper World, 15.400 feet.’ was taken two or three hours before the taking of my picture with the flag and was taken in the am phitheatre about one mile northeasterly of the point where I was so photo graphed.” Cook’s Photographer Also Says Cook Never Saw Summit SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 14.—Waiter P. Miller, of this city, photographer of Dr. Cook's Mount McKinley expedition, has made an affidavit corroborating that of Barrill in every detail. When ohown Bar rtll’s etory today he said that it was cor rect. Miller says he has photographs and maps that fully confirm the statement of Barrill. The affidavits of Barrill, Miller and oth ers were sworn to In the office of James M. Ashton, an attorney of Tacoma, who was retained by certain interests in New York, said to be the Peary Arctic club, to investigate the alleged ascent of the great Alaska peak by Dr. Cook. ATLANTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1909. WU MEETS SPIRITS AGAIN; GEJS MESSAGES FROM HIS MOTHER AND M’KINLEY Conversation Is Carried on in Chinese Through Indian Girl Medium, and Latter Touche.* Shoulder of the Minister. (By ARtootetod Free*.} WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-Dr. Wu Ting Fang, who is about to retire from the post of minister of Cirina to the United States, pursued still .further last night his personal Investigation into the esoteric mysteries of spiritism as demonstrated by Washington authorities. Last night he went again, this time to a smaller seance at a private house. The woman medium who officiated brought to him messages purporting to come from the late McKinley, who was an intimate friend of Dr. Wu, and also from the minister's own mother. The latter was the more startling because apparently delivered in tbe Chinese language. The messages are claimed by the spirit ualists to be brought to the medium in trance by the spirit of a 16-year-old Amer ican Indian girl, under whose “control” she speaks but broken English; yet the conversation between Dr. Wu and the me dium, while ostensibly under this "con trol” was somewhat, axtensive, lasting ful ly five minutes and seemed to be in the Chinese vernacular; question and answer, unintelligible to the auditors, passing back and forth with considerable freedom. UNDERST'f/D HI3 MOTHER. There was every evidence that the dip lomat perfectly understood the communi cation which purported to come from the spirit of Dr. Wu’jb own mother. It was asserted that the medium and her Indian “control” are both absolutely ignorant of the Chinese language. Before the conversation between Dr. Wu and the medium, purporting to con vey messages from the martyred presi dent, the woman in her "trance” had told Dr. Wu that her "cpntrol” foresaw terri ble trouble In the Chinese empire, in which the distinguished diplomat would occupy a place of great importance and influence, and It was tn connection with this prediction that she brought what she claimed to be a communication from the former president expressing the ear nest desire tor peace. At first the spirirtof a Chinaman, who gave his name, came to Dr. Wu. The mediumistic "control” said the spirit had left the earthly lift eome 20 years ago but it knew D>*. Wu and would like to talk to him. "Mlnnta.” the London “con trol,” remarked through the medium that this Chinese was not a great Chinaman like the “big chief” (as the Indian girl always calls a mast df high standing), but had been a common Chinaman. CHINAMAN WHO “TALKEE.” "He no like you, big chief,” said the In dian g;rl to the diplomat “he used to be a waahee, washee, washes; you great Chinaman who talkee, talkee, talkee, heap much talkee alia time.” Suddenly the medium made a most profound salaam before Dr. Wu and "Minnie” informed higi that his mother was there and wished to give him a message. "Ask her to speak said Dr. Wu. At that request the medium uttered, as If with great difficulty, a sentence in the Chinese language, or a« near to It as it might be possible for an Indian girl, able to speak only the most broken English, to repeat to an American that difficult foreign tongue, this In turning passing from the lips of another woman necessar ily would be somewhat imperfect, but STORY OF STORM’S RUIN TOLD BY EYE-WITNESS Collector Browne, of Key West, Gives Full Account of Hurricane That Swept Through Florida City, Leaving Devastation in Its Path—Cyclonic Gale Struck City From Three Directions at Force of Ninety Miles—Nearly Nine Inches of Rain Fell. KEY WEST. Fla., Oct. 13.-Hon. Jef ferson B. Browne, collector of the port of Key West, Fla., has given the Associated Press the following account of Monday’s hurricane which visited that section: "Old citizens of Key West date every thing from the hurricane of 1846, that be ing the date of the severest one that ever visited Key West. October 11, 1909, how ever, broke that record and the one of that date was the severest one that ever struck Key West. "For several days the weather had been threatening, but not until Sunday night did the barometer begin to fall sufficiently to Indicate the proximity of a hurricane. This accounts for a great deal of the loss to shipping, as our peo ple had gone to their beds with no warn ing and boats were lying at their usual moorings and not moored for a hurricane BAROMETER FELL FAST. "At « a. m., the 11th, the barometer stood at 29.12 and fell rapidly until it reached the minimum, 28.42, at 11:30 a.’ m During Sunday night the wind was mod erate, at about 16 miles, but at 6 a. m.. Monday, It suddenly Increased to a gale and by 9 a. m., had reached hurricane force. The wind blew steadily at about 76 miles per hour, but In the gusts which are characteristic of West Indian cy clones, it reached over 90 miles. The gusts increased in frequency and force until about noon, wnen the wind went to northwest and began to moderate, and by 2 p. m. the storm was over. The wind blew first from southeast, then went to northeast, at which point we were nearest the center of the storm, which, however, did not pass over Key West. "When the storm first broke over Key West, it was traveling north, but before the center reached here it veered to the northeast, which accounts for the. three directions from which the wind blew. The rainfall was unprecedented. 8 12-100 Inches in five hours. There were only two lives lost, Frank Gray, a young photog rapher, who was drowned trying to save his boat, and Andrew Cooper, second mate on the schooner Medford, who was struck on the head by the falling of the coal hoist at the naval station. BUILDINGS' DESTROYED. "The following buildings were wholly de stroyed: Ruy Dopes cigar factory, Mar tinez cigar factory, George W. Nichols ci gar factory, Aurelia Torres cigar factory. St. Paul’s Episcopal chureh, Sparks chap el. English Wesleyan church, Bethel A. M. E. church. No. 1. engine room, Woolf son’s building at Green and Simonton, recentlly occupied by Reedy's furniture store, Marovitz Five and Ten-Cent store, beil tower on Division street, condensing plant and pumping station at barracks and many sin ail structures. Nearly all buildings with metal roofs were unroofed, among which was the Hotel Jefferson which sustained a loss of about $5,000. in cluding the damage to furniture, etc. “Gangs of carpenters, brick masons, line men and laborers are at work repairing HE SEES SPIRITS MimSTER WU. Distinguished Chinaman repeats his adventure with spiritualists. Dr. Wu apparently understood portions of the message repeated to him. and an swered in Chinese. The first sentence wm in the nature of a salutation, and in reply the statesman questioned the “spirit” in Chinese, receiv ing an aswer which seemed undoubtedly to be in Chinese, and the conversation continued fully five minutes. Through the medium the Indian “control” occasionally remarked that Dr. Wu did not fully un derstand what the medium was trying to say to him, owing to the third-hand man ner, so to speak, in which the Chinese was reaching him. PATTED WU ON SHOULDER. During the conveyance of the message purporting to come from Dr. Wu’s moth er, the medium stood close to the diplo mat, at times holding his hand ar.d pat ting him on the shoulder. Finally she knelt in front of him, continuing talking in that position a couple of minutes. At the conclusion of this conversation the Indian girl told what she foresaw In the future In connection with the Chinese minister. F'rst of all. she saw "much fighting” in the far-away country from which he came. His native land was preparing, he said, for a great struggle. Shortly after this the medium said there came to her a spirit who gave to the medium the name of “William” and finally, after some hesitation, she uttered the last name as "McKinley.” Assuming a dignified atti tude the medium bowed reere-ritnlly to Dr. tVu and in the deep, river mascu line voice said: mckinley speaks. ”H»w are you, my friend? I am Wil liam McKinTfey, former. president of the United Statex I have just heard what the little Indian girl predicted to you about a great war for China. I sincerely hope that no such war will ever take place. I am for peace and I know alsq are for peace,, are you not?” “Yes,” said the Chinese statemau, '1 am for peace always. “I am sure you wilt do all you can to prevent this great war, my brother, and I, too. will continue to work for peace,’ said the medium. Thus ended lae com munication. I the town and our people are cheerful and [ not discouraged and in a short time will have fully recovered from their losses. “The Elks home was blown from its foundations and was damaged several thousand dollars and will ask for help from the other Elk lodges, else they will i be unable to raise the building and repair jit for occupancy." The United States army I pest sustained considerable damage but can readily be repaired. The principal in jury was the loss of the distilling plant, but as all the large cisterns are intact and full of water they will not suffer from this loss. Nearly every dock in the city is greatly damaged, several being al most totally destroyed. Crafts of every kind are jammed together or sunk along the water front. Many boats broke from their moorings and went crashing through other boats and docks. OTHER DAMAGE DONE. "At William Curry’s Sons, the dock is destroyed and the rooms and smoke stacks of the ice plant were carried away, but it is expected to have the plant in operation tonight. The Curry marine rail way is not damaged. The schooner Mag nolia was sunk at her dock. “At the P. & O. docks the port stor age buildings and store were destroyed. ; The dock and warehouse is practically without damage. At the Mallory dock the warehouse 's badly damaged and much merchandise ruined. The dock was not In juied and th? which arrived from New York Sunday left today for Tampa. The office was unroofed. At Tay .tor's dock the coal runs and warehouses i were badly damaged and two launches ' were lost. The schooner Frontenac, load ed with gravel, is aground, and may be a total loss. The coal conveyors at the naval station broke loose and plunged through the dock. There was a great deal of other damage done at the station. "The pile driver and plant of the Penn , Bridge company was ruined. The four i masted schooner George W. Wilson. load ed with coal, rode out the storm at her anchorage and Is all right. The schooner Medford. Captain Richardson, loaded with 2.0C0 tons of sand and gravel fcr the jPenn Bridge company, broke away from iher moorings at the government 'wharf I during the -storm and was blown about I five miles toward Sandy Key, where she [sank. When the coal conveyor of the i naval coal sheds broke Second Mate An- Idrew Cooper was struck on the h'ad and was killed. His body w’as washed over board. The crewd abandoned the schooner and were brought In by the Massasoit, having clung to the rigging all night. "The city is quiet and the people or derly. No Infractions of law have taken pla> e, and all seem equaully interested In ( the restoration of our city and preserving its good name. The civil authorities are In control and Mayor Fogarty has called out tliki local military company only as a precautionary measure. The report that the city is under martial law 13 an error, as the civil authorities are in compieu control." SAMPLE COPY. PRESIDENT MES AT GRAND CANYON Following Travel Through Desert, He Emerges on Rim of Beautiful Scenery—Makes Stage Trips to Various Points. (By Associated Press.) GRAND CANYON, Aris., Oct. 14.—After traveling over the deeerts practically all day yesterday and being enveloped in clouds of finely powdered rod dust. Presi dent Taft awoke today at tbe rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The air at this altitude was crisp and cool, and Mr. Taft looked forward to his day of rest and sightseeing with the greatest pleasure. The president arose early, with the de sire of spending as much time as possible about the rim of the vast abyss, which in places is more than a rahe deep, and thet he might see the color eliects of the sun rise. The president's original schedule did not call for his arrival here until 9 a. m., but the lay-over at Ashfork last night was cut in order to gain more time for the canyon trip. The president’s day was made up of morning and afternoon stage trips to vari ous points of interest about the rim of the canyon. The time Was too short for any attempt to go down the trail leading to the muddy waters of the Colorado river , at the bottom of the big cut. Luncheon j was served at the Hotel El Tovar, the I president being the guest of the Arizona committee. Postmaster General Hitchcock, who was making a strenuous trip through Arixona • horseback and who is sunburned and greatly improved in health, was in the , | party. i Taft Win See Goat Which Furnished Trousers SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 14.-Admiral Togo, the Angora goat from whose wool the trousers were made which were pre sented to President Taft before his inau ■ guratlon. has been brought to San Anto nio by his owner, Frank R. Landrum, a ranchman of Laguna, that the president may see the animal if he desires. Little Rock Delegation Will See Taft on Train LITTLE ROCK. Ark-, Oct. 14 —So that a delegation of Little Rock business men ! may meet President Taft it has been ar ranged that a special car with the dele gation aboard will be attached to the train of the president at Texarkana, Oc tober 14, en route from Dallas to St. ' Louis. >| Ten Trains Take Troops to Act As Taft’s Escort SANTONIO. Tex., Oct. 14.—Ten trains, 117 cars, left San Antonio this morn:-y for El Paso, bearing United States troops stationed at Fort Sam Houston, who will '■ pass in review before Presidents Taft and I Dias when the two executives meet at ' El Paso Saturday. I] Another t:ain, with two troops of the I Third cavalry aboard, left Fort Clark 'i'eafiy toflwy. Ta/t to Reach San Antonio Two Hours Ahead of Plans | SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Oct. 14,-Presi ' dent Taft is to arrive at San Antonio two II hours ahead of his original schedule, ac cording to the plans of the Southern Pa cific railroad. A change in the running time o£ the trains which will the president to El Paso provides for its arri val at San Antonio at 5:30 Sunday even ing next instead of at 7:20. After a brief rest in his hotel Presi dent Taft is to go to Fort Sam Houston at 8:30 to participate in the dedication of «' the post chapel. CROP CONDITIONS MIXED IN EUROPE I I n, miss “Crop Reporter’’ Gives a Sum mary of Conditions the World Over (By Associated Press.) WASHHINGTON, Oct. 14.—1 n its ro ’ view of foreign crop conditions, the I Crop Reporter, issued by the bureau of statistics of the department of agri culture, today states that the results of this year s harvest came well up to the expectations in Canada. In Europs the situation is somewhat mixed. Rus sia. Hungary- and the Balkan states experienced considerable disappointment in the actual yields, while in France, I and even more in Germany, where only J moderate returns were looked for, the >harvest much surpassed the hopes en i tertained a month ago. j The first estimates of yield from : Russia which appeared some weeks i ago, show about an average wheat • crop, but a very meager rye crop. The fact that the latter grain is the chief source of food for the country, it is declared, makes this shortage serious, from a national point of view. ; Recent official astimates fully confirm ’ the material extension of the 1909 wheat area in Great Britain and the serious contraction in the acreage of that grain in Roumania aaJ Germany. From the Argentine ministry of agri culture comes the surprisingly optimis tic report that, in spite of the severe | and prolonged drouth at the time of planting, the present wheat acreage. I while 5 per cent below that of 19O8 ( j is fully as large as two years ago, i when the banner crop was harvested. I Com in southern Europe is far from I satisfactory. From Italy, from Russia I and from the Balkans come serious I complaint of the damage, now believed Ito be irremedlal, inflicted by drouth. | Sugar beets In Germany- and Austria i Hungary are exceedingly light. “DISCIPLES OF JUDAS" TRIED TO FILCH CHURCH PROPERTY, IS TOLD CUMBERLAND SYNOD <By Auociated Frets.) CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Oct. 14—" Disc iples of Judas Iscariot, who have been scheming and waiting for 20 years for an opportunity to filch this valuable property from the Cumbei land church for the ben efit of the old piratical Northern Presby terian church.” This is the characterization of the man agement for the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., of the Cumberland Presbyterian publishing house at Nashville, In a state ment submitted today by R. L. Baskette, of Nashville, before the synod of Tennes see. of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, in session here. TAFT IELLS CRANE HE 'REGRETS’ Ml In Telegram to the Deposed Min ister to China, President Says He Regrets Having to Aocepi His Resignation. (By Axociated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. AU doubt i as to what action the president would take with respect to tbe resignation of Charles R. Crane. minister-dalegats I to China, was dispelled by the receipt ■ this morning of a dispatch from Pres ‘ ident Taft addressed to his secretary, Mr. Carpenter, directing him to convey to Mr. Crane announcement of the fart that his resignation had been accepted. Tne telegram was dated Prescott, Aris.. October 13 and reads as f»l- ! lows: TEXT OF TELEGRAM. ! “Convey to Mr. Crane following cpm : munication: "‘I concur in the letter under date i of October 12, which the secretary of ' state has addressed to yO’U mJ 1 greatly regret that the circumstance* found to exist by him make it necesaa i ry for me to accept your TAFT.’ ‘ Following the receipt of the president's message, through Secretary Carpenter, , Mr. Crane issued the following state- ■ ment: "RELIEVED,” SAY'S CRANE. I ”1 s*n greatly relieved by the president’s 1 decision. There has been no minute since ' I Earned the attitude of the department ' of state when I have not contemplated ' the vossibillty of a continuance of my of* I (ictal relations with the deepest repug nance. Nevertheless, I have felt that my obligation to the president was to permit him to decide the issue. "I have appreciated fully what would te Involved In a decision by him that I should continue. I have realised also th«» impossibility of his securing complete In fui mation at this time. He has chossn to oase his decision upon the eircutnstanoa.l found by the secretary of state. “I accepted the Chinese commission at his request am! solely because of assur ances that I could be and would be per mitted to be of service to the country in constructive work of the greatest impor tance to it, and of the greatest interest to me. It has been made perfectly clea:? that conditions here were not and are not such as to make this possible. "To demonstrate this has involved a per i sonal humiliation such as no self-respect ing man who is drafted into the public service should be called on to endure, but I am grateful, indeed, that I have ; had the test of official confidence and support here rather than in China ami now rather than at some real crisis in volving the honor or the interest of thu nation. HADN’T SEEN ARTICLE “I think I should state at this time that until I arrived here last Sunday I had ' never seen the newspaper article which |is made the excuse for my recall, not ■ had I heard that such an article had ; published, and at my interview with the secretary of state it was not shown Ui me. I accepted tbe description of itu character and consequences tnsn given hk, , me and assumed full' rv<-pv»**lWl’ty fir my connection with it. purely incidents! as that connection a as.” Mr. Crane will leave her* at 3 o'clodt over the Pennsylvania fur New York. ST. LOUIS BALLOON LANDS NEAR RICHMOND RICHMOND, Va.. Oct. 14.—Winning th4 Lahm cup for the longest flight made in a balloon under the auspices of the Aero club of America, and breaking all speed records for long distance flights, A- Hol land Forbes, of New York, and former Mayor Max Fleischmann, of Cincinnati, landed yesterday afternoon at 12:45 In Chestarfle'd county. 20 miles south cd Richmond. The trip was made In tb« balloon New York, in which Mr. Forbes won the duration contest in the Indianap olis contest. Starting from the gas works in St. Lou * at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon, the distance es 731 1-4 miles was made in 19 hours and 15 minutes, at an average rate of 38 miles an hour. Thirty minutes after ascending, the ba'- loon attained a height of 3.000 feet and I during the day yesterday an average of i 7,000 feet waa maintained, while a maxi mum of 8,000 feet was reached. Tie land ing was made at Beach. Va_, and the bal loon was at once shipped to New York. BARNESVILLE FARMER LOSES ARM IN SHREDDER BARNESVILLE, Ga.. Oct. 14.—Charles H. Matthews, one of the most successful young farmers of this community, lost his right arm in a corn shredder yester day afternoon. He was feeding the ma chine when his fingers were caught and his arm was drawn in and cut to pieces almost to the shoulder. Drs G. M. Mitchell, J. M. Anderaon and J. M Rogers were called. NORTH CAROLINA GIRL HURLS SELF IN WELL CHARLOTTE. N. C., Oct 14.—Despond ent. and weakened by illnesa. Miss Carrie Hunter, a prominent young lady of ; Wilkcstoro, near here, committed suicide today by jumping in a well. Members of the family arrived too late . to save her life. | ——— , ... was FREE DEAFNESS CURE I A remarkable offer by ore of the leaxl- I Ing ear specialists in this country, who . will send two months' medicine tree to prove his ability to cure Diseases. Head : Noises and Catarrh. Address Dr. G. M. IBranaman, 1248 Walnut St.. Kangas City, Mo. ••• 4 The report declares “The revenues of a ' church of Jesus Christ have been wasted 1 or confiscated,” and that “the Union ' Saints” show they are J&5.531.79 worse osf now than before they obtained charge of • the ec'ire publishing plant for ‘.he benefit of the Northern Presbyterian church. Other characterisations of the Preeby ' terlan church, U. S. A., and its repreeent ’ stives are. “a errcass of a church with • '■ the serpents of unionism in its bosom;” i "the general assembly of the betrayal;” ■ J “professional job hunter and ecclesiastical ,< politician;” "dead beats and parasites;” i "grafters,” etc. i Mr. Baskette was loudly cheered when be concluded. NO. 9.
