TACOMA is just loaded up with celebrities this week. There's Doc Cook, and Gentleman Jim Corbett — and — and — Gosh! That's all we've seen so far; but this is only Tuesday, isn't it? WOMAN VICTIM OF BRIGANDS COLD STORAGE PUNT GETS BOOST The municipal cold storage plant got a big boost tills morn ing when Engineer J. C. Corbln of Seattle attended a conference with the city commission. Corbin said Seattle had about 1,000,000 cubic feet of storage. Taroinn has less than 150,000. Over half the wares of laconia requiring cold storage are sent to Seattle. Corbin told the council the city ought to be able to make a good profit and reduce the cost of living here with a municipal plant. Practical argument was put up by J. C. Eggers, the fish man. Eggerg sells an eight-pound sal mon for 25 cents when salmon are running. The rest of the time the people here pay 8 and 10 cents a pound. "If the city will put In a mu nicipal cold storage plant I will carry over 150,000 of these fish and supply them at from 2 5 to 35 cents each the year around," said Eggers. This is hitting the high cost of living in the solar plexus. Eggerg says he now stores thousands of pounds of fish at Seattle because there is no place here. He also has lots at Port land. He would bring it all here if the city puts in its plant. "It looks to me like a darned good idea,'' wrote Frank B. Cole to the mayor. COMPANY TO HAVE NEW CARS The street car company Is really going to get new cars. "They got some truclts and motors this morning, I saw them," says Special Officer D. O. Smith. The coach bodies are expected to be coming along soon now. The company is also making ar rangements to increase the serv ice on the cnble. "They are In itialling a 210 horse power dyna mo and will run the cable by elc tricity In the future. Tlipy nre building two cars now that will be out in probably six weeks," says Smith. The cable gave out last night for a while and traffic was Btopi;ed for half an hour. HUMANE SOCIETY TO HOLD MEETING The Tacoma humane society will hold its annual meeting at the council chamber Thursday evening. F. H. Murray will de liver the president's annual ad dress; F. C. Calkins will talk on inspection of milk and dairies and care of horses; Mrs. H. J. Mc- Gregor will speak on "Home Training of Children"; Ed. J. Baskin, organizer of the team sters' union, W. Van Voris and C. E. Murkier will also talk. (By United Press Leased Wire.) M \KSII\I.I.TOU \, lowa, Jan. 21.—Joseph Tuffree, who would have been 103 years old in less than a month, in dead liin today. Tuffree in said to have been the oldest member of the Order of Klkn in the world, having Joined the organization on hit) moth birthdny annlvcrsury. OLD DOC COOK—HE TELLS ABOUT THAT NORTH POLE BUSINESS BY ROBERT MANSFIELD. Three thousand people crammed into Pantages thea ter at the two performances last night to hear and see and judge Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer and claimant of the discovery of the north pole. It has been known since Dr. Cook began appearing with his tabloid lecture In vaudeville, that he was reserving some of his very special ammunition in his famoiiß controversy with Explorer Peary, to be uncorked in Tacoma. And judging from the way thai Dr. Ctfck was overwhelm ed with cheers and wild ap- TheTacoma Times EIGHT WOMEN SIT IN PETER MILLER JURY Peter Miller, freshly shaven and dressed in a suit of natty brown, is today on trial In Judge Clifford's court for a crime of burglary which he is alleged to have committed In Seattle nearly four years ago. Miller is accused of robbing the Fred B. Fisher home of Se attle, April 2G, 1909. During the morning, while his attorney and that of the stare questioned the jurors who are to determine his guilt or innocence, Miller eat quietly facing the Jury box, little emotion showing in his features. In stature Miller is little short of a giant. His face, although somewhat palo, is a mass of strong lines. When noon ended the session of court there were eight women and four men sitting on the Jury. These were all open to challenge by both attorneys, however. Dur ing the examination of S. Gillen of Buckley, one of the Jurors, he admitted that he had forgotten his age. Miller's attorney during the trial will probably expose the "third degree" and the horrors of the "black hole," which Mil ler is said to have endured while Seattle officials were attempting to force hia confession. DANISH STEAMER WITH CREW, LOST (By Vnitod Press Leased Wire.) CHARLESTON, S. C, Jan. 21. —With her entire crew, a large Danish tramp steamer believed to be the Ivar, went down about 50 miles off Plymouth, Dec. 2G, ac cording to Captain Ree of the Dutch steamer Pheeda, who Is here with his vessel today. LANE ELECTED. (By United Press leased Wire.) SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21.—Harry Lane was elected United States senator from Oregon by the leg islature in separate session at noon today, receiving 2 8 votes in the senate and 59 votes In tlie house. plause by the people In Pan tages last ntglit— "Old Doc Cook" wins— hands down! After his usual vaudeville lecture, Dr. Cook declared that he lias been made a victim of a jealous conspiracy headed by Peary. All of the attacks made upon him, Dr. Cook said, were in spired by Peary and all were groundless. "Thirty well known, recog nized Arctic explorers have recognized me discoverer of the north pole," he said. "Among these are Amuadsen, who re cently reached the south pole, Lieut. Shackleton, the British Antarctic explorer. Gen. Oree VOL. X. NO. 27. 30c A MONTH. THAT "SILENCE TREATMENT" IS A GRAND DISCOVERY PETER MILLER KING PETER A SICK MAN (By United I'ress I.chspA Wire.) LONDON, Jan. 21. —King Pe ter of Servia is seriously ill, ac cording to dispatches received here today from Sofia. The king, it is said, is suffering from a se vere case of nervous exhaustion. ISSUED SIGNED STATEMENTS Andy Gunderson and Hans Pe derson, both Issued STgned state ments this morning at the city hall to defend Gunderson of tlie suspicion of drawing pay from both the contractor and the city at the same time. They insist that after Gunderson was appoint ed by Nick Lawson as assistant city electrician, he ceased to Tie employed by Hans Pederson. ley and the late Rear Admiral Schley." "And those whom Peary has aligned against me are three governmental experts who never saw a piece of polar ice In all their lives; men who don't know the dlference be tween the north pole and a barber's pole." AHof these charges which Peary has hurled against him to discredit his claims. Dr. Cook stoutly maintains, are no more truthful than the alleged 'confession' of Edward "Burrlll, the guide whom Dr. Cook de clares was his sole companion when he climbed Mt. MeKinley In Alaska. BurriU made pub lic an affidavit coon after Cook aud Peary returned to clvillza THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA TACOMA, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1913. JAIL WOMAN IN MURRAY CASE As the last step in clinching their case against Attorney J. Matthew Murray, the county at torney's office has toflay jailed Helen Cummings, a woman who will be used as a witness for the state in the attempt to prove the perjury charges against Tom Gooden and K. J. Gordon, and the alleged subornation of per jury by Matthew Murray. The Cummins woman, accord ing to Deputy Prosecutor Askren participated in the alleged re hearsal of the testimony before it presented by the defense when Gooden was on trial for attempt ed burglary. She is a negross and a friend of Gooden's. It was in her house that the supposed rehearsal took place. Askren denied today Murray's statement that he was being made the victim of a plot to place him in the penitentiary. MEXICANS SLAY FOUR (H.v I'nited Press Leased Wire.) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21. — Killing four employes and ab ducting several women, rebels raided the ranch of .1. 11. Gleason, an American, near Chiatumpam, Tlaxacala state, according to re ports here today. CREDIT MEN ARE TO MEET The Tacoma Association of Credit Men will hold their an nual meeting and banquet tomor row evening at the Commercial club. The report for the year will be read after which the elec tion of officers win take place. Three new trustees are to be chosen. TWKXTY-SKVKN NAMED Twenty-seven Tacoma mer cantile nouses are named In % petition for an Injunction filed by the city today in superior court In an effort to quash the use of green trading stamps. WANTS HUSRANO CITKI) FOR CONTKMM Lena Griffith, divorced wife Of Daniel Griffith, has today asked that her husband be cited for contempt of court for his alleged failure to remit alimony nrfini ntl v tlon —each claiming to have found the north pole—ln whtcb Burrlll swears that Dr. Cook did not reach the summit of Mt. MeKinley. Dr. Cook last night stated from the stage that Hurrlll was promised a bribe of $25, --000 for this alleged false affi davit; that an advance payment of $1,500 was made in $100 bills in a Tacoma bank and that all of these negotiations were made with Burrlll by General James M. Ashton of this city. During this rather highly seasoned talk from the stage, Marshall K. Snail rose in his seat and started to challenge Dr. Cook to something or other. The crowd howled glee fully at the prospect of a row; VOLCANO ACTIVE THOUSAND FLEE MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21.—The volca no Colima is vomiting enormous quantities of lava, sand and poi sonous gases, and has sent inhabitants of (several villages flee ling in terror, accord ling to 'advices re sreived here today. So Htgrf?as~ known here, there have been no | fatalities, but hun dreds of cattle and ! other livestock are I ! dead. LOGGER KILLED Gus Hughes, a logger, em ployed by liis brother-in-law who operates the Hufilics Lumber Co., was instantly killed this after noon at the concern's plant in (iaidenville, near Puyallup. A heavy log rolled on the victim. Coroner Ashton went to tlie icene of the tragedy to view the remains. LEX fJKTS .TOH (Ity I'ntt'd Press Leased Wile.) WASHINGTON, D. 0., .lan. 11. —President Taft today nominat ed William Lee to be United Stales district attorney for Idaho. PINDUDTON, Ore., Jan. 21. — On account of the heavy snows In eastern Oregon, Oregon-Washing ton trains are being routed to Spokane by way of Umatilla. .<<§>>'3><> « FOUND I>KAI) IX BKD. <$> 9 Louis Herflung, aged C", ♦ <$> wag found dead In his bed «* at 1504 South I street, <$> * shortly after noon today. time, suffering rrom a com- body was removed to the ♦ <,*> Mellinger undertaking par- <*> <* lors. but a small, pale and very de termined Pantages usher put the lid on Snell. "All I want is the truth," cried I>r. Cook n* ho closed. "I don't want any iiumljils or any honor* or any pension or title*, all I want is the plain, square Aral that every citizen of thin country haft a right to expect. l.ti us have a nutionai Investi gation of this I'eary-und-Oook business—and that will settle everything. The crowd cheered wildly and men all over the down stairs part of the theater cried "You"re all right. Cook," "We're for you Cook" and «o on. It may be that Dr. Cook la the most collossal liar anfl HOME EDITION PASTOR DESERTED YOUNG BRIDE; ACCUSED, HE FLEES AFTER HIDING IN CHURCH Mrs. Kva I)e Tovrea—Frank Horn, (he accused minister, and Ills