THE WEATHER FridiylSair treAther will prevail with moderate westerly winds and nearly stationary temperature; and on Saturday fair. , C P 5 K" tf I? t? If f P fT C K K" f J Semi-Weekly Founded 5 k 1908 -J V, j Weekly Founded, 1844 j J j & & & J jt j , & jx & J J Jt tthcti K'jrjotc'K'jc'irjf'j'Pjrjf'jOjf'tfjPiPtr Wayne County Organ j of the REPUBLICAN PARTY 2 s 1-5 66th YEAR. HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1909. NO. 78 ABSOLVES PEARY. Whitney Says Commander Was Not to Blame. COOK WOULD HAVE DONE SAME Former Knew Absolutely Nothing About What Had Been Left With Young Sportsman by Brooklyn Explorer. New York, Sept. 30. Absolving Com mander Robert E. Peury from all blame In refusing to bring Dr. Frcder lck A. Cook's effoets to New York from Etah, Harry Whitney, the young mil lionaire sportsman now on bis way here on the steamer Jennie, has sent the following dispatch to the newspa pers: "So many questions are being asked of me by different papers that I de sire to make the following statement: My reasons for not going back to Etah after Dr. Cook's tilings were that the engine In the Jeuule, one of the small est boats" that ever went to the north arctic, was not working satisfactorily and we were depending partly on sails, which later we hud to do entirely. "There was no reason why the' Jea nle could not have gone back, but not knowing that Dr. Cook's things left with mo were of such Importance as they have since turned to be, I did not return. "In addition, I had promised the Es kimos, who were with me after musk oxen In Ellsmcre Land, certain things which I expected on the ship coming for me, but they were not aboard the Jeanie, and I did not want to return and disappoint the men. Another rea son was that I wanted to prolong my hunting trip, which I was able to do by not going back, but by cutting across Smith sound from North Star bay and following the edge of the Ice south. . "I do not believe that either Dr. Cook or Commander Peary If placed In my position would have done any dif ferently than I did, nor would they, having started south for civilization, have turned back. "I had never seen Dr. Cook until I met him in the arctic. He told me he had been to the north pole, and I was pledged not to reveal this fact to Commander Peary, but I could say that he had gone farther north than Peary in 1000. "Commander Peary, to my knowl edge, knew absolutely nothing about what lind been left with me by Dr. Cook except that I mentioned instru ments, clothes and furs and nlso a narwhal horn. Dr. Cook's belongings left in my charge wero placed in boxes which were nailed up. Then I saw the Eskimos cover them with rocks. "No one could have been kinder to mo or shown mo more consideration than Commander Peary did while I was on the Roosevelt, and he said he would be very glad to have mo rcmnlr aboard and return with him instead 01 joining the Jeanie." EXPLORERS ORDER INQUIRY. Club Will Investigate Cook's Claim That He Ascended Mount McKinley. New York, Sept. 30. By a vote of 5 to 3 the Explorers' club has ordered an Inquiry into Dr. Cook's assertion that ho ascended Mount McKinley in 1000. The directors of the club have al ready made extensive inquiries rela tive to Dr. Cook's Mount McKinley trip by correspondence and personal interview, nnd they have obtained In formation concerning It which lias not hitherto been made public. Commander Peary is president of the Explorers' club and Dr. Cook a former president. In deciding to look up the matter of Dr. Cook's nsccnt of Mount McKinley the club decided to call off a banquet which had been planned in Dr. Cook's honor. COLONEL W. R. MORRISON DIES. He 8erved Twelve Terms In Congress nd Framed Tariff Bill. Waterloo, 111., Sept. 30. Colonel Wil liam R. Morrison, a veteran Demo cratic leader, died suddenly at his home here of heart disease, aged eighty, five. He served twelve terms in congress and whllo chairman of the house ways and means commltteo introduced tho tariff measure known as the "horizon tal" or "Morrison" bill. Ho retired from congress in 1887 nnd was placed on tho interstate com merce commission by President Cleve land, remaining in that position ten years. Caponl Beats Thunderbolt 8mlth. Columbus, O., Sept. 30. Tony Ca ponl of Chicago was declared tho win ner of a six round bout hero with Thunderbolt Ed Smith of Columbus. KILLED IN PAST AUTO RACE. Mechanician Meets Death While Run ning In Long Island Derby. RIverhead, N. Y., Sept. 30. Thu smashing of every existing American record for automobile racing on the open road and a fatal spill which cost the life of one man and serious In juries to another marked the running of the Long Island automobile Derby over twenty-two miles of hitherto un tried road nt the eastern extremity of Long Island, between RIverhead and Mattltuck. The casualties were caused by the skidding of the Aperson car, driven by Herbert Lytle, the veteran Vanderbllt cup driver. The big sixty horsepower machine was going at a rate of sixty five miles an hour when It overturned. Lytle shot clear oS the car and land ed twenty feet away on his back. His mechanician, James Bates, clung to the car and was crushed under it as It turned turtle. He died an hour later. Lytle is In the hospital, and there Is hope of his recovery. The racing throughout was the fast est ever witnessed in open road con tests in this country. Louis Chevrolet in a Bulck made 113.75 miles in 1 hour 37 minutes 30 3-10 seconds, breaking all records for the class. COMET ON EARTH'S PLANE. Astronomer Says This Planet Will Be Swept by "Star Dust." Providence, R. I., Sept. 30. Frank E. Seagrnve, the astronomer whose calcu lations relative to Hnlley's comet have attracted widespread attention, an nounces that Hie comot In May 10, 1010, will reach the same plane as the earth In Its orbit, and the tall of the comet will sweep across this plane. Earth and comet will meet on the same plane, but not in the samo path. There will bo 13.000,000 miles between the two. The fan of the comet's tall will spread out, nnd for a short period the earth will ilnd Itself swept by "star dust" brought from many millions of miles beyond the farthest known com et. "There need be no scare over the ap proaching event," said Mr. Seagrave. "The end of the world will not come. The nearest the comet can cyne ,to the earth Is 6,235,000 miles." GEN. GRANT NOT TO BLAME. In Talk With Secretary of War He Justifies His Action at Chicago. Washington, Sept. 30. General Fred erick D. Grant, commanding the de partment of the lakes, nnd Secretary of War Dickinson discussed nt the war department the criticism directed at the former because ho appeared In the uniform of his rank at the head of a prohibition parade In Chicago. General Grant justified his action in appearing in the parade on the ground that It was a demonstration in favor of good government and was not a temperance parade. Inasmuch ns no orders were Issued to General Grant to march in the pa rade, Secretary Dickinson holds that the former's presence therein cannot be regarded as an olllclal action or as giving the government's stamp of ap proval to the object of the demon stration, lie considers that no blame attaches to General Grant. MORSE TO GO BACK TO JAIL. Must Stay In Tombs Two Days Before Court of Appeals Sits. New York, Sept. 30. Charles W. Morse, the convicted financier, will have to go back to the Tombs owing to a lapse of two days between the expiration on Oct. 0 of his bail bond of $125,000 and the calling of his case before the United States circuit court of appeals on Oct. 11. Mr. Morse and his lawyers spent several hours in the federal building, i where conferences were held with Judge Lacombe and representatives of I the United Stntes district attorney's olllco in an effort to have his ball ex tended. It was said, however, that only the United States court of ap peals could grant such a request and that court does not meet until Oct. 11. It Is expected, therefore, that Morse will surrender himself on Oct. 0. TWO AUT0M0BILISTS KILLED. Newspaper Owner and Friend Were Towing In Leo Stevens' Balloon. Mlneola, N. Y., Sept. 30. Parker Norton, owner of tho Mlneola Press, and his friend, Edward Baker, proprie tor of the Mlneola garage, were in stantly killed in an automobile acci dent near here. Tho two men wero returning to the village with the balloon of Leo Ste vens, tho aeronaut, which had just de scended from a long flight across Now York city and Long Island. With tho deflated Stovens balloon packed in tho bottom of the car Wil liam Watson, the chauffeur, turned out for a farmer's wagon. His ma chine struck a deep rut and swerved into a telegraph pole. All three wero thrown out, but Watson's Injuries are not serious. A1RSHIPFLICHTS. Baldwin and Tomlinson Fall on Way to Albany. FORMER ALIGHTS IN HUDSON. Wilbur Wright Circles the Statue of Liberty In Three Successful At tempts, and Curtiss Makes a Brief Trip. C New York, Sept. 30. Wilbur Wright circled the great Statue of Liberty In his aeroplane here, while In the upper part of tho city two huge dirigible bal loons fell itigloriously ou wuter and land. Both Wright nnd Glenn II. Curtiss soared successfully from the aero drome on Governors island In their motor propelled biplanes. Both great dirigibles, manned by Captnln Thomas Baldwin nnd George L. Tomlinson re spectively and entered In the $10,000 New York to Albany race, were forced to descend because of mechanical dif ficulties before they were well uudei way. Wilbur Wright made three sensation al flights, and Curtiss made one brief though successful test flight of thirty seconds' duration. Baldwin with his dirigible descended in the Hudson river BALDWIN'S AIRSHIP FALLING. less than an hour after the start, while Tomlinson after remaining in the nh two hours earno to earth near White Plains, N. Y., twenty-two miles from his starting point. Neither of the dlrl gllile pilots was injured nor was eithei craft seriously damaged. In his first flight Wilbur Wright went around Governors island and remained In the air for seven minutes. After an hour's rest Wright again went aloft, this time remaining In the nir for six minutes and thirty seconds, attaining a speed estimated at fifty miles an hour, and with a glorious sweep out over the bay passed entirely around the great emblem of liberty on Bed loe's Island. In ills third flight the Dayton aviator executed two complete circles In the nir, then made nn excellent landing, while tho crowd, including his rival, Curtiss, commented on tho ease with which ho manipulated his craft. Although the start of tho dirigible balloon race to Albany was considera ble of a fiasco, it is announced that tho balloons will be made ready for an other flight without delay. Tomlinson was the first to start on the trip which ho hoped would end at Albany. Surrounded by n great cheer ing crowd, ho got away and headed north on the easterly side of the Hud son. Baldwin arose fifteen minutes later, shot out directly over tho mid son nnd began traveling toward the stato capital, almost over the middle of the river. In a few moments ho was lost to view in tho slight mist which hung over tho river, but in his elevated seat he was being bothered by cross air currents. A puff of wind snapped oue of his rudder ropes, and he was forced to begin his descent on the water, 250 feet off the Jersey shore and opposite One Hundred nnd Nine tieth street. The balloon came down easily, Cap tain Baldwin threw out dragnets and sailors from the battleships Rhode Island, New Jersey and North Caro lina, who saw his plight, swarmed to bis rescue in launches. They seized tho dragnets and managed to hold up the balloon so that only the motor was wet. Baldwin swung himself into a bont without getting wet A gang of Bailors then pushed tho big bag ashore, where it was loaded In a wagon and returned to the starting point. Bald win's maximum height was 800 feet. Tomlinson in the meantime, at a height of about 300 feet, had been go ing northward over land when both his gasoline nnd oil tanks began leaking. Fearing nn explosion, he was forced to come to enrth on a country estate near White Plains. This feat he accom plished without mishap. Tomlinson was fouud sitting calmly In his seat trying to stop the flow of oil nnd gaso line from their tanks. He was unln lured. BASEBALLRESULTS. Games Played In National, American and Eastern Leagues, NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburg New York. 6: Pittsburg, i. Batteries Drucke and Wilson; Maddox, Camnltz, Gibson and Simon. At Cincinnati Cincinnati, 7; Brooklyn, t. Batteries Fromme and Clarke; WI1 hclm and Marshall. At St. Louis St. Louts, 2; Boston, 1. Batteries Hlgglns and Bliss; Curtis and Smith. At Chicago Chicago, 6; Philadelphia, 4. Batteries Pfelster and Moran; McQuillan and Dooin. Second game Chicago, 0; Philadelphia, 3. Batteries Raybrown and Moran; Moren and Dooln. STANDING OP THE CLUBS. w. Ij. p.c. w. i P.C. Plttsburg.lOG 39 .731 Phlla'phla70 76 .473 Chicago... 99 47 .673 St. Louis. 60 91 .835 New York 88 5G .611 Brooklyn . 51 94 .852 Cincinnati 75 72 .510 Boston.... 39 103 .275 AMERICAN LEAGUE. At New York New York. 6; St. Louis, 2. Batteries Lake and Blair; Rose and Kil llfer. Second game New York, 11; St. Louis, 0 (called by darkness end of eighth In ning). Batteries Hughes and Sweeney; McCor'ry, Smith and Kllllfor. At Boston Detroit, 5; Boston, 0. Bat terleB Kllllan and Schmidt; Arellanes, Karger and Carrlgan. Second game Detroit, 8; Boston, 3. Batteries Kllllan and Schmidt; Clcotte and Donohue. At PhlladeSphla-Chlcago, 2; Phlladel phla, 1 (10 Innings). Batteries Walsh and Payne; Plank nnd Lapp. Second game Philadelphia, 10; Chicago, 1. Batteries Bender and Lapp; White and Sullivan. At Washington Washington, 7; Cleve land, 3. Batteries Groome and Slattery; Winchell nnd Illgglns. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P.C. w. It, P.C. Detroit.... 97 52 .052 NeWYork71 7fl .4S3 Phllu'phla 93 55 .028 Cleveland. 70 79 .470 Boston.... i5 02 .578 St. Louis. 00 SO .411 Chicago... 75 73 .507 Wush'ton. 40 108 .270 PANAMA LIBEL SUIT UP. Court In Indianapolis Refuses GoVern ment Plea For Further Delay. Indianapolis, Ind!, Sept. 30. Judge Anderson of tho United Stntes district court refused an application by the de partment of justice for further delay iu the preliminary hearing of Delavnn Smith and Charles R. Williams, pro prietors of tho Iudlanapolls News, who are under Indictment by tho fed eral grand jury of the District of Co lumbia charged with having criminal ly libeled Theodora Roosevelt, Douglas Robinson, William Nelson Cromwell, Charles P. Tnft and others by Intimat ing in published articles that there was corruption in the purchase of the Panama canal zone by the United States from the French companies. Tlie government, through United Stntes District Attorney Miller, nsked for a rocontlnuanco until after the trial of the publishers of tho New York World on a similar charge, which is set for Oct. 20 in New York city. Attorneys for Smith and Williams, who are opposing their removal to the District of Columbia for triaj, pro tested against further delay in the pro ceedings, and the court uphold them. JEFFRIES LOSING FLESH. American Heavyweight In Training Near Paris to Meet Johnson. Paris, Sept. 30. James J. Jeffries, the American heavyweight lighter, is doing his work at Jim Pratt's quar ters at Neullly, on tho Seine, a suburb of Paris, preparatory to his meeting with Jack Johnson, tho colored cham pion. Jim Pratt, who has followed the fighters for years, considers Jeffries in the pink of condition and ready to en ter the ring with Johnson. "Jeffries is as quick as lightning," ho said. "The treatment which ho underwent at Narlenbad has reduced his superfluous fat, and his waist line has fallen away practically to normal. His weight is about 225 pounds. All that Jeffries needs now Is to get his muscles in trim, nnd I nni sorry that his train ing, which was confined largely to punching the bag and skipping tho rone, has been interruuted." To Go For Instruments Next Year. St. John's, N. F., Sept. 30. Members of tho stenm schooner Jeanie, on which Harry Whitney arrived here from In dian Harbor, say that when Mr. Whit ney learned In Labrador of the lmppr tant bearing Dr. Cook's instruments havo on the polar controversy he en gaged Captain Sam Bartlett and his vessel to go up next year and recover Dr. Cook's belongings at Etah. Astronomer's Library to College. New York, Sept. 30. Tho library of Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, who dlod in Washington last summer, has been presented to tbe College of the City of New York by John Claflln. It consists of 0,000 volumes and about 3,000 rare pamphlets. IT MARCH 25,000 In Land Parade In Hudson-Fulton Fete. WEST POINT CADETS IN LINE. United States Regular Troops, Na tional Guard Regiments and Sailors From American and Foreign Warships Join. Now York, Sept. 30. The fourth of the great open air pageants in the Hudson-Fulton celebration was a great military parade, in which more than 25,000 took part. The line of march was six miles, along Fifth avenue. Fifty-ninth street and Central Park West. Such Immense crowds of spectators were massed along both sides of the streets through which the parade passed that It required more than 0,000 policemen, two-thirds of the en tire force, to maintain the lino lntnct. In nil there were something like forty policemen to every block nnd other men nt the Intersection of streets used by trolley lines. Tho West Point cadets, a splendid body of yojng men. were accorded a position in tho column immediately preceding the regular troops. Tho ca dets came down from West Point on tho steamer Plymouth and landed at the West One Hundred nnd Twenty ninth street pier nt 11 o'clock. Major General Charles F. Roe was the grand marshal, with Lieutenant Colonel George Albert Wlngnte as his chief of staff. The first three divisions wore made up of the segulars and the sailors nnd marines from the war ships. The fourth division, under commnhd 'of Brigadier General George Moore 'Smith, comprised the vnrious compa nies of the national guard, including Squadron C, the Twenty-second regi ment, engineers; First bnttallon, field artillery; the field hospital corps, the coast artillery corps of tho Ninth. Eighth and Thirteenth nrtillery dis tricts. Brigadier General David E. Austen commanding; the First bri gade, under command of Colonel Dan iel Appleton and comprising the First company, slgnnl corps, nnd the Sev enth, Twelfth, Seventy-first and Seventy-fourth regiments, infantry, nnd tho Second brigade. Colonel John G. Eddy commanding, comprising tho Second compnny, signal corps, nnd the Twenty-third, Fourteenth nnd Forty seventh regiments. The fifth division of the parade con tained tho two battalions of the naval militia, the sixth, the Albany burgess corps, the Old Guard and the Blythe wood light Infantry; the seventh divi sion, the Spanish war veterans, and the eighth, various semlinllltnry or ganizations. Along the lino of march there were fourteen police signal stations, twenty eight police patrol telephone boxes in charge of competent operators who could get In touch with headquarters or any part of the parade at any mo ment, eleven ambulance stations nnd twenty-one patrol wagons. Seven pa trol wagons were held In reserve. At the end of the parade a policeman wns assigned to each division of for eign snilors and marines to escort tliom to the landings whence they went nboard their ships. MRS. THAW'S BROTHER HELD. Arrested on Charge of Trying to Pawn Glass Rings as Diamonds. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 30. How ard Nesbit, brother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who when first placed In cus tody gave the, name of Campbell, was arrested In n pawnshop hero while try ing to dispose of a ring which he rep resented as being a diamond for $33. An examination by the pawnbroker proved the stone to be glass. A search of Nesbit's room In a hotel here brought to light six more glass rings. Ho admitted to tho police that ho had attempted to dispose of some of the rings in Bridgeport, but at four places they refused to make a loan on them. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call was 2V4 per cent; time money and mercantile paper unchanged In rates. Closing prices of stocks were: Amal. Copper... 83 Norf. & West... 96 Atchison 123V4 Northwestern ..19GH B. & 0 119 Penn. IU It 160 Brooklyn It. T.. 80 Reading 169 Ches. &Ohlo.... 86 Rock Island. 39 C. ,C..C.&St.L.. 76 St. Paul 162 D. &H 193V4 Southern Pae...l34 Erie 83W Southern ny.... El Gen. Electric. ..167 South. Ry. pf... 70 111. Central 154 Sugar 134 Int.-Met HT4 Texas Pacific... 35 Louis. & Nosh.. 153 Union Pacific. I0SVI Manhattan 142 U. 8. Steel 89 Missouri Pac... 69VS U. S. Steel pf...l!0 N. Y. Central. ...137 West. Union.... 79 TJFTilSEIITTLE President Sees Alaska Ex position and Likes It. MEETS AN OLD SWEETHEART. While Going Through Great Frr.;.t Region He Confesses He In herited a Fondness For Ap ples From His Uncle. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 30. President Taft Is having a most enthusiastic welcome here uud .will remain until to morrow, when he Teaves for Tacoma. Tho president nnd bis party were met at the Union station by a recep tion committee, who came in automo biles uud took him to the Rainier club, where a reception in honor of the pres ident was given by Mrs. Richard A. Baillnger, wife of the secretary of the interior. Great throngs gathered lu the streets through which the president passed, and there was cheering at every step of the way. A visit to tho Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc exposition followed. The president visited every portion of the grounds, inspected the principal exhibits and. expressed himself as delighted with the exposition. He made an nddresa In the National amphitheater and will also speak at a banquet in the exposi tion grounds tills evening. At North Ynklmn, on his way here, the president saw one of the oldest ir rigated fruit regions in the west. The great yield of apples especially attract ed his attention, nnd he said he was fond of them. "Iu fact," declared the president, "I am supposed to havo Inherited the taste of nn uncle of mine who is reput ed to have said that he would not put his mouth out of pucker with less than, a peek.'-' ,. Flowers strewn over pathway? spread before the"pre'sidcht',flsne rode through the streets of North Yakima, and deep throated men and women greeted him with wild cheers us he rose to address them In in the court house square. The ride had taken him through the Yakima valley, where more thousunds of acres of sage brush, land has been transformed Into golden, fruit soil by tho spread of the gospel of reclamation and into the president's ears lias been poured again those mar velous stories of progress. As a result of It all the president been mo Infected with that picturesque Imagery which he frequently referred to as a marked trait of the people of tho west. Mayor P. M. Armbruster of North Yakima presented him with a. basket of big red apples in behnlf oC the city. President Taft met an old sweet heart at North Ynklmn and proudly boasted of the fnct during his address at tho courthouse, nil hough he did not mention her name. He alluded to the fact as anotlwr bond between himself and the citizens of that region. The president referred to Mrs. Betty Hodges, formerly Miss Betty Evans. Twenty years ago Elizabeth Evans lived In Cincinnati near the home of the Tafts. She Is now Mrs. Betty Hodges and Is tho owner of nn orchard In Yakima valley. Mrs. Hodges called on the president in his car, and the two spent ten minutes talking of old Hums SPAIN CELEBRATES VICTORY. General Marina's Capture of Mount Gurugu Arouses Enthusiasm. Madrid, Sept. 30. Madrid and nil tho other cities in. Spain are enthusiastic ally celebrating General Marina's vic tory of tho Moors in the capture of Mount Gurugu. General Marina reports that ho di vided 00,000 men and sixty-eight can non into two columns. One column wns sent north to Capo Tres Forcas to prevent the possibility of n rear at tack, and the other was sent south ward. Both operations wore success ful, and after Nador and Zeluan were taken tho Moors found themselves out flanked nnd evacuated the territory. Tho Spanish forces scaled tho sides of the mountain nnd planted the flag on its summit. Shoots Sister and Brother, Ends Life. Woodstock, Conn., Sept. 30. In a flt of anger on falling to get an answer to a telephone call Constantino Brunn, a farmer of this place, shot and killed bis sister Frelda, fatally wounded hla brother, Dr. A. E. Brunn, and then, committed suicide. T. B. Wanamaker's Widow Weds Again Philadelphia, Sept. 30. Mrs. Thomas B. Wunamaker, widow of the lato Thomas B. Wanamaker, son of John Wanamakor, was married hero to Dr. Archibald G. Thomson of this city. Only a few relatives and friends were nespt