Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 348, Ed. 1, Saturday, October 23, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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BROWXSVH.TJE DAILY HERALD
THE BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD
OR. COOK SLOW
IN ANSWERING
Reliability Durability Simply Perfect
Perfectly Simple. Nothing to do but Ride
A J A
V T1D PC WRAPPED
QUESTIONERS GET FEW
TlilKS TO QUERIES.
UK-
Admits Facsimile of Signature of
Harrili to Affidavit Saying Cook
Xevcr Scaled Mountain Looks Gen-
uine Evasive in Other Things.
the explorer ordered him. Barrill ; fill T!j Fl A 1fST
to stop writing his diary and to write oUU I fl UAsU I A
at Dr. Cook's dictation Dr. Cook'
said last night that this part of the AMf) I OTTER I
swnrn orntompnr was nhsnlnttlv i fct llafcJ BwW 3 8 nil I
Best in the World. GUARANTEED
for 5000 MILES and a Square Deal
WESTCHESTER DIAMOND BATTERIES
Once used always used. More mileage and longer life than any other
battery on the market.
BURT E. HINKLEY 2
for Cameron
Starr Counties
I
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lab
Trade Your Old Buggy or Harness
Iu on a new one. I will allow von all it is worth
and save yon money
I Have the Variety ana the Price
T at will make your visit to my place worth while. Come and look over my
stock of Vehicles Saddles Harness Combs Brushes etc.
Satisfaction Guaranteed HY. B. VERHELLE
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sFtD
Our customers are
repeaters tliey buy their
made-to -order clothes
from us season after
season.
The reason? we have
trie orders filled by
Ed. V. Price & Co.
of Chicago largest tailors
in the world of GOOD
made-to-order clotries.
$20 to $40
Ask to see their nandsome
Eall and Winter Woolens
and be measured TODAY.
Fa&oa No. 593 Eidcihe tol rprwlJr of
Tlree Button NoTtltj Sck ED. T. PEICE 8 C0UPAST. Urnlm T.il. CiicH
OXIOX GROWERS SUED.
John E. Rutledge
Brownsville Texa7
DO YOUR EYES BURN? DOES YOUR HEAD ACHE?
When you rv.nl lines the print run together ami hlur? If it does con-
vnlt Mr Reed our graduate optician. He will examine your eye?
free of "charge. He will honestly advise you. Our prices are rea
sonable. Kvery pair of glasses warranted.
REED JEWELRY & OPTICAL COMPANY
IJoy Campbell Summoned llefore a
Federal Court to Explain.
San Antonio Oct. 21. Roy Camp-
bell .sales agent for the South Tex-
as Onion Growers Association re-
turned to San Antonio Wednesday
morning from New York where he
had been summoned before a Federal
court on the question of an ad va
lorem tariff duty claimed by the
government.
The South Texas Onion Growers
Association was recently assessed a
fine of $1551 to satisfy an ad valo-
rem tariff auty said to be uue the
government of the United States.
The association buys its Bermuda
onion seed at Teneriffe Bermuda
and supplies it to its membership
through its sales agent department.
The difference in duty results from
what the government holds is the
difference in the price paid by the
association to the Teneriffe dealers
An agent of the Internal Revenue
Department testified before the New
York judge that he had increased
the price of onion seed from SO cents
to 1 and $1.25 per pound. The im
portation of onion seed amounted to
eight tons.
Mr. Campbell said upon his ar
rival here that no decision had been
readied by tne court at the time he
left New York City but he was of
ti.e opinion that the South Texas
Onion Growers Association would be
compelled to pay the fine.
"The whole thing was brought
about by the underpricing of seed
ami nothing wrong was done by the
association intentionally" said ..r.
Campbell.
ARTESIAN IRRIGATION'
lk i acres miles northwest of j
RatnondviUe (Teniente Ranch j
i - i .lores in cultivation 2 years:
JlfU-io trees 25 year.- old. full oi ;
f ' This was never i
tyhtvl lv overflow. Thirty-foot well
rr-th water. 1 lenty for 100 head
sto? TOO ft artesian well near
t'owod past 4 years: not an acre
VwasV land. $11.56 per acre long
I terms Take 5 or thousand in
j &ooJ trade.
! R. R. Redus siotoH.Ts
KATTMANN &KNEELAKDTENT GO
TENTS
Awnings Tarpaulins
Wagon Covers Etc.
Mitt Made to Order
Depot lor Mildew Preventative j
t 1212 FranKun Avenue
phone Preston 83 1 Houston Texas
OA
about what you're
selling but take a tip
brother you'll break
ear drums not pocket
books.
Sane advertising in
this paper makes
thinking people buy.
If you're not in the
ad. van isn't it time
you took a flyer?
You have our word
.you'll never regret it
Didn't Want to Buy Dr. Cook.
St Paul Dispatch to New York
World.
If Dr. Cook finds any more poles
he will be as rich as Rockefeller
soon.
Cook is earning at least $2000
per night for lecturing on the one
pole he found it is reported. (
On the other hand it seems the
pole has not brought a penny's profit
to Peary.
Dr. Cook comes high as a lec-
turer. John A. Cavanaugh and
Henry E. Warner wired him asking
for early dates for lectures here and
in Minneapolis. They got this ans-
wer promptly:
"Can give you October 23 Minne-
apolis; 24 St. Paul. Will sell both
for 6000 if accepted today. Answer
Hollenden Cleveland. W. M. Gray
manager."
The St. Paul Pulman replied col-
lect: "Dear Gray: We don't want
to buy Dr. Cook; we only want to
rent the use of him for a night or
two."
While Dr. Frederick A. Cook af-
ter a short absence from the city
was at the City Hall yesterday af
ternoon receiving the freedom of the
city on the invitation of the Hoard
of Aldermen he let it bo known
that he would receive all newspa-
per hecklers at the Waldorf at ten
minutes to 6 o'clock last evening to
answer any questious they wished
to ask regarding the recent stories
about his achievements at Mount
McKinley or his discovery of the
North Pole says theXew York Suu.
The hecklers went to the Waldorf
with facsimiles of the signatures to
a sworn statement by Barrill the
guide who was the only man with
Dr. Cook on the Mount McKinley
trip over which this companion
swears that the most noteworthy
parts of the doctor's book are false.
The doctor already has said iu in-
terviews and he repeated the state-
ment last night that ho "always
had every confidence in Barrill" but
has added that he cannot believe
Barrill made the affidavit published
over his signature. When the photo-
graphic reproduction of Barrill's sis-
nature on the affidavit was exhibi-
ted Dr. Cook reluctantly admitted:
"It looks like Barrill's signature."
The questioning of Dr. Cook was
a disappointment. He had offered
to meet the newspaper men of his
own accord. When they gathered
about him he was a bit reluctant
about answering questions. As the
questions came faster and faster he
finally decided to hurry bac to his
apartments. He was told that there
were a few more questions which in
view of the public interest in his
discoveries should be answered but
he declined to say any more. It was
the impression of the newspaper men
who have talked almost daily with
the explorer when he has been in
New York that his dislike to ans-
wer questions was more noticeable
last evening than at any interview-
since he landed here.
After twenty or twenty-five min-
utes of preliminary buttonholing
the explorer when he finally con-
sented to be interviewed turned on
his heel at the end of the first ques-
tion and went back to his apart-
ments with one of his staff before
answering this first question. The
question was whether or not he
would recognize the handwriting of
his guide Barrill if a sample of it
were shown him.
t the end of ten minutes Dr.
Cook again came out of his apart
ments with his friend and the ques
tion again was put to him.
"I'm not sure that 1 woulu know
Barrill's handwriting" answered the
doctor. He was shown several re-
productions of photographic pages
from the diary kept by Barrill dur-
ing the Mount McKinley trip. The
explorer looked at them for a few
moments with an expression of in-
decision. "Probably you could tell better if
you saw Mr. Barrill's signature. '
somebody suggested.
"Yes 1 think I could tell better
from that" agreed the doctor.
When the photographic reproduc-
tion of Barrill's signature at the end
of the sworn statement was shown
Dr. Cook looked at it for a while
and did not answer. When he was
pressed for an opinion he said:
"Well."
The explorer studied the signature
for a moment or two longer.
"I really shouldn't like to say
offhand that this is his signature
he said after a time "without hav
ing some of his original writing be-
fore me."
"Does it look like his writing?"
was the next question.
"Yes" answered Dr. Cook after a
time "I should say that it looks like
his signature."
Another questioner here broke in
with the statement that the guide
KBarrill is in the neighborhood of
New York and soon win ue asKea
U tell what he knows about the
Mount McKinley trip before a meet
ing of the Explorers Club. It was
even said that Barrill had undergone
a preliminary questioning before the
club on Thursday eveing. Dr. Cook
was then a'tked whether he too
would care tb v appear before the
club. He said tlnU if fit! were cal-
led upon he would on so.
In the complete diary. kept by Bar-
IXCLE SAM WILL W.HTRIIUTE
i.-tlM0) ACISKS.
Drawing Held at Abenle- Enough
to Give 1400 Honiov.ouders 1GO
Acres Each Most of the Land
Tillable.
false.
Barrill's affidavit about the pho
tographs in Dr. Cook's book where- '
in Barrill swears that the captions
in the book under the photographs
are untrue so far as the altitude at j
which they wero taken is concerned I
likewise according to Dr. Cook '
last night is a lie. Spwa to The HeralJ
"But" it was explained to Dr. j Sioux paii s. I)..
cook wno had just remarked that
the controversy wns merely a ques-
tion of believing man against man
"as Gen. Hubbard is quoted as
saying today it is not a question
of one man's word against yours: a
false atlidavit by your guide isa crim-
inal offence. Are you going to take
legal action against Barrill?"
"I can't answer that "just at pres
ent." answered Dr. Cook after some
thought. "In fact" he added with
his ever present smile "I hnen't
taken the Mount McKinley question
seriously."
While on the question of taking
criminal action against Harrili. Mil-
Cncle Sam's last great
by which 2 :0000' acre-
cultural and grating 1.-'
distributed among he
eager houieseekers win
swarming to the promts-
all over the country. .
end today so far as rn.
concerned. The regis
of the anous towns
immediately to Aberdet-1.
drawing will commeiuv
This will b- under th
Judge James Wltten. wit
past few years has ond
government land drawing-
has made a sreat re on!
ler the photographer of the Mount .Ul0r tno dnuviii lnt. ).
numbers up to the ml.
McKinley expedition and others w ho
have made sworn statements against
Dr. Cook's Mount .McKinley asser-
tions someone asked Dr. Cok wheth-
er he had a lawyer here. He ans-
wered that he had. He said that his
attorney is t-awyer Henry Wack or
.Monroe. X. Y.
"Do you believe your otllclal pho-
tographer Miller who has made a
sworn statement that Barrill some
time ago told him the things that
Barrill now swears to against you
is trustworthy?" the explorer was
asked.
"Miller is hostile to me" replied
the doctor. "I have nothing against
his integrity" commented the ex-
plorer in answer to further questions
on the subject "but he is hostile to
me."
"You engaged him. didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Why did he become hostile to
you and when?"
"I dou't know why" replied the
explorer. "His hostility began I
think toward the end of our Mount
McKinley trip."
"After the trip?"
"Yes."
"Did you tell Barrill not to tell
of what happened while you and he
were on the mountain as the guide
swears you did?"
"No" answered the doctor. ' Bar-
rill told many persons about our
trip to the summit many of his
neighbors in Montana and others.'
Somebody here asked Dr. Cook
whether he could tell the names of
any one that Barrill had told about
reaching the top of Monut McKinley
and whether any steps had been
taken to get affidavits from these
persons. The doctor could not tell
who these persons were but said
that the taking of their affida its
was "being considered."
"Dr. Cook where is your own
diary of the Mount McKinley trip?"
was the next question asked.
Dr. Cook said at first that he
couldn't tell just where it was. . .ien
he again started toward his apart-
ments with a remark that he has had
a number of things stored for some
time and didn't know just where to
reach them at the moment. He ad-
ded that he couldn't see what use
there would be in producing the
diary just now anyway.
It was urged upon the doctor then
tnat his original diary with entries
and sketches made on the spot dur-
ing the ten days that Barrill swears
the doctor was insisting upon Bar-
rill making false entries would have
much weight in overthrowing the
testimony of Barrill.
"I am no sure where the diary
I kept is" was the doctor's answer.
He wa snow half way back toward
the door of his apartments and it
was only by persuasion that he could
be induced to talk longer to his in-
terviewers. "Anyway" he said upon
further questioning "I think the
statements in my book more import-
ant than the diary I kept on the
trip."
The statement published yesterday
signed by Mr. Armstrong one of
the Cook party and a brother of
Paul Armstrong the playwright
wherein Armstrong had hard things
to say about Dr. Cook and his Mount
McKinley experiences was brought
to the explorer's attention. He dis-
missed Armstrong at the door lead-
ing to his apartment by saying that'
he is "just a miner of no great im
portance who wanted to go with us.-"
A typewritten list of questions
still to be asked went unanswered
here owing to the explorer's state-
ment at this point that he did not
care to answer any more questions
whereupon he retired to hi sapart-
ments.
1. 1 23.
nU lottery.
' r'h agrl-
will be
. ..nds of
.it.ti been
tuud from
v to an
-! ration is
. ; T5 lists
. ti sent
-nere the
: Monday
.re tic.n oT
.lunng tne
d several
. and who
:!. work.
r- of the
i:: her of
t ti hoiue-
tt.e nunv
.ti n th j
:r of the
have
farms to be distributed .
steaders will he notified
her drawn ;ud the Jai-
shall appear ami make
1 t!0-aore farm which
drawn.
Enough Kor 1 IW.
The land opened will sufficient
iu quantity to furnish i. us f 169
acres each to about Jt'ii home-
steaders. All the land -.vest of
the Missouri Ulver. th- -er beins
the eastern boundary q: ihe Chey-
onne River and Standing Hock reser-
vations. The territory to be opened will &e
approximately one huntf-ed miles
long in the two State- and forty
miles wide. It is bord-- d on the
north by the Cannon Ball River ami
is divided into three sect ens by the
Grand and Moreau Ri-s The
southern section contain- ?ho noted
"Fox Ridge" country v m h is a
heavy loam in the cast :. ! changes
to a sandy character t :-ther west
Xorth of this is the M.-:;iu River
with its deep valley w : supplied
with timber und a ilea- running
stream. The valley is narrow and
the bluffs are high and -teop it be-
ing necessary at certain .outs to go
miles to find a practi' :.' roadway
down into the valley
Wheat (ira..
Xorth of the Moreau a broad
plateau whi.h grows -he native
"wheat gras'' which ' itself is
almost equal to oats u - r-ed and
in its growth shows w "'.at can be
done with th- iand wh; t is brok-
en and culthitted to .ar...n Norld
of this platen is the bro;t; and beau-
tiful valley of the Grand nier with
its gently undulatins h i.- tar ba'.u
from the riT on eitlK- side and
a somewhat sandy "oil .s uloag the
valley. Nonti of tne t--.i.d is an-
other plateau between t: at and the
Cannon Ban rier. which e.jual in
ft r' lity to the noted Mo:: County
i). laniN. whic h "i;. e during
th past fw vear . udued to
the piodut'iinn o iw M. h for
the State m which rhey - ..:&.
The territory to o; - nd covens
in South Dakota port it of t5.
counties ot Armstrong Kchnasse
Dewey and Corson and n North Da-
kota the iiiunty "' M ..n While
there is more or less ' oucr land in
the region to be pone 1 to settUv
inen: most of it tll.ble
While at present ther- but onv
railway line n .i th o; eratlon
across any portion of rie v.tst ter-
ritory to b- opened to white settle-
ment the Chicago. M:1. w.ikee &
St. Paul running through the north-
ern end of it by the xuf the set-
tlers are permitted to establish their
residence on the land thj will find
plenty of railway taiiliti.. for htt-
ling their goods .nd r sendktg
their products to Eastern markets.
rill d.'ring his trip all otxvhlch was
published yesterday in te Globe
the guide says that during Xc ten
days he was alone with Dr. C "ok
on the Mount McKinley expedition
Dissolution Xotice.
Xotice is hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing be
tween W. H. Shoemaker and T. S.
Simmons as the Eureka Plumbing
and Sheet Metal works has been dis
solved W. H. Shoemaker assuming
all indebtedness to date and receipt
ing for all bills.
W. H. SHOEMAKER.
Brownsville Tex. Oct. IS 190U.
10-lS-Ct.
The melancholy days are here
When sad we grow and weary
A-hearing Peary roasting Cook
And Cook parboiling Peary.
Philadelphia Star
Great Opportunities in Texas.
It is generally a; reed that large
as the shipment of cotton froia
Texas ports is today it will be great-
ly increased as soon as tho Panama
Canal is completed. There is going
to be an enormous increase from
now on and the question is this:
"Why should the raw cotton be sent
abroad to be manufactured and then
shipped back to us?
The great profit is not taken from
the raw product but from the man-
ufactured goods. The numerous
fortunes of mill men in Xevt Eng-
land and Old England prove this to
be true the failure of cotton raisers
over the South to jet more than
close living out -f their business
confirming the evidence.
There are grea- possibilities in
store for this part of the coualry
and one of the greatest of these is
to be found in manufacturing the
cotton hard ly tUr field n a'-i.Ti it
is raised Galvos . a Ve.
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Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 348, Ed. 1, Saturday, October 23, 1909, newspaper, October 23, 1909; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth148138/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .