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16 PAGES J tot., xxxvii. MIMIII.It 82. PRICE: 40 CENTS \_t_sfs UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN REJECTS CLAIMS OF EXPLORER COOK INDEX OF THE HERALD'S NEWS TODAY FORECAST For Los Angeles and vicinity: Cloudy Wednesday, probably showers; moderate south . winds. Maximum temperature yesterday, 55 degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. f r ' LOCAL Nine-year-old girl crushed to death be neath wheels of big truck. PAOIB » Realty men hold banquet In honor of Mayor Mott of Oakland, president of Mtato Realty federation, PAGE 0 Hundreds paid for receiving hospital * rent without return Is report of city auditor to council. I'.USK * Hints that fraud was practiced made In report on limn, ,II lire hexes. PAGE tl McCrossan. preacher-broker, lined $4000 and sent back in county Jail. PAQB 16 Stories clash when Witness*! are put on •tend in trial of Willis Kni.tinK for murder. PAOB 16 Machinist suffers shock and burns while making- electric repairs. I'AUB 6 Soul culture advocated for elty schools by Dr. Grant Karr in address before Teachers' Institute. PAGE 9 Famous actress, nlea Nethcrsole, offers big prizes through 'lb* Herald for best answers to big questions. \ PAGE i 1 Council confirms mayor's appointments to public utilities and harbor boards. PACE 8 > Editorial. Letter box, Haiktn's letter. , r PAGE 4 Society. PAOB 11 Campaign debt of Good Government "i ganization may be urs„*i out by ..mail contributions. PAGE l | President of state realty board la feted by Los Angeles organization. PAGE £► Rugby rivals from two big high schools clasp hands at Y. M. 0, A. banquet board. PAGE 12 - ■ ' , SOUTH CALIFORNIA | i _______________ I ' Traffic deal at Han Pedro Is being 11,►■,<> tiated that Is Interesting shipping cir cles. ■ PAGE 14 > Carlos Wright returns with tale which Is expected will lead to sensation. PAGE 1 . v, C. T. 11. will participate In coming Tournament of Itoses at Pasadena. . . PAGE 14 COAST *■ J; Corpse on track at Kara City; murder Is suspected. PAGE 8 1.-,..—— .IIH.II-- ■■■!_■ .-1..— I —,_.— ■■ ..I. ■ - ■ j EASTERN i'-:):'.r Arlsonans «r« a unit for statehood, says Go.. Sloan of territory, and says they are undent they will got It from the present congress. PAGE 11 Indiana woman accused of giving hus band three kinds of poison for four days, and man Anally succumbs. PAGE I Preslilent Taft now urges broadest In quiry be made In liallinger-Pinchot controversy, believing criticisms against general land office duo to plot to hurt administration. PAGE 3 Two lads confess to highway robbery and burglary In St. Louis; both hall from Pueblo, Colo. PAGE 11 ■ ■I! !■■■■■■ . -a—,- r.l ,■____■ .in FOREIGN University of Copenhagen rejects data of Cook as Insufficient to establish his claims to have discovered north pole. PAGE 1 Rebels defeat Zelaya'H troops In fierce battle at Kama, Nicaragua, many of government soldiers being killed. PAGE l Prime Minister VI of Korea ls stabbed fatally. PAGE 12 MINING - Palmer Oil company suffers from stock manipulation. PAGE 10 New well on Clarence Berry property In Section 36 flows 2000 barrels a day. ... *. PA9B 10 Altar district. Sonora, Mexico, Is re ported as being In flourishing condl- . ditlon. PAGE 10 yellow Tiger and Elks Consolidated en ter merger. I'AGE 10 OH Supplies company will award prizes for best business. PAGE 10 SPORTS ' Ad Wolgaat fails to knock out Picato In ten rounds of llerce milling at Nnud Junc tion, but gets decision. PAGE 12 Roller gats purse when Ebyaoka falls to se cure falls within stipulated time. PAGE 11 All Star and St. Vincent's football teams practicing dally (or Christmas struggle at Fiesta park. PAGE 12 Field day will feature McCormlck-Occl dcntal baseball game. PAGE 12 Race results and . entries of California!.. Mexican and Florida tracks, I'AGE 11 KOREAN PREMIER FATALLY STABBED SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 22.—Premier VI, the head of the Korean cabinet, was stabbed and fatally wounded today by a Korean, Vie Chain) Yog. The attack occurred at 10 o'clock in the morning. Tho assailant, a young Christian, for many years lived in the United States, The premier was rid ing In his jinricksha, when the assas sin came up with a long kitchen knife in his hand. He drove this twice into the abdomen of the premier and once into his lung. ''.' . Thd assassin then turned on . the premier's Jinricksha nan, 'whom he stabbed and instantly killed. The as sassin was immediately arrested. He is 20 years old 'and is believed to be a member of a political secret society. The premier was removed to the hos pital. VI was always credited with fostering anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea. He bitterly opposed the fac tion among the Koreans that favored annexation to Japan and refused to present a petition for annexation to the Korean emperor. Notwithstanding Yl's known sentiments in regard to the relations between Japan and Korea, Marquis Ito regarded Vi as an honest patriot and refused to listen to the pre mier's repeated requests that ' he be allowed to resign hiS office. It Is believed that the assassination Is the result of political intrigue LOS ANGELES HERALD FORMER FEDERAL OFFICIAL, COUNSEL FOR SUGAR TRUST JT' 1""1 """" *^L. _____'Mi____. 'livmiif! __W _Wx3_W*Wß_W- ___W _taa____t." _2________*i__7 SSJW— a. fflHvlt pnfr * /£ i _fe ' ' jj-_w* twata. ss^4_Snl rii HE American Sugar Refining com. I pany in its battle with the gov i _1_ ernment has drawn Into its serv. ice some of the ablest lawyers In the United States. James M. Beck has recently been appointed senior counsel for the trust and, It is understood, will hereafter conduct the defense of the r big organization. John E. Parsons, i former chief counsel, will retire. Mr. Beck was assistant attorney general o. the United States from 1900 to 1903, and has argued some of the biggest trust cases before the supreme court in recent years. It Is announced that , sensational developments may be ex. pected In the sugar Investigation at ! any time. WRIGHT RETURNS WITH ODD TALE PASADENA YOUTH TELLS AN IMPROBABLE STORY It Is Believed That Developments Within a Short Time Will Prove a Great Sen. sation [Special to The Herald.] PASADENA, Dec. 21. —- Carlos Wright, the young man who disap peared from the Lincoln Avenue Meth odist church a week ago Sunday, turned up unexpectedly at " o'clock this afternoon, alighting from a short lino car at Colorado street and Ray mond avenue as though nothing had happened, and from developments this evening it Is believed that one of the greatest sensations in the history of the city will come from tho case with in the next twenty-four hours. Immediately upon dismounting from tin car Wright told one of the most remarkable and Improbable stories which has ever come to the attention of the authorities here. He said that after he left the Lincoln Avenue Meth odist church Sunday evening, when he remarked to the janitor that he had a bad nosebleed, he walled to the Altadena car and got off oppo site the Catholic cemetery. He stated that be knew ot men who bold a grudge against him and that as ho was crossing the cemetery he became aware that he was being followed. Because of his knowledge of this grudge, he says, he carried a gun. Feeling that he was being followed and fearing for bis life, he throw away his overcoat and started to run, draw in,,' his gun as he did so. He says that he then started to fire his re volver at his pursuers in.l that his weapon tailed to work, j ?,; Story of Encounter At this the men following him each took a shot, and he claims that both bullets struck him In the left leg, but that he continued to limp along i not withstanding. According to his story tin* men then caught him and after a hard fight overpowered him, threw him in the tonneau of a high power automobile and proceeded at top speed from the scene. After many hours of terrible pain he chillis that the car reached San Francisco, and then he was taken to Oakland, where he wa3 placed In a hospital under guard. Wright says that he knows both the Pasadena men and knows that they are both In Pasadena. He says that as soon as he was permitted to do so he. wired his mother from San Fran cisco the mysterious message about his being well and about his writing later. Then he remained In the hospital for a week, being allowed to write to his people on three occasions. Becoming restless and . want^ig to get back home Wright says he watched for his chance and yesterday escaped from the hospital, where he was prac tically a" prisoner, reaching Los An geles today, where he says his wounds were dressed, and then, taking a short line car for his home city. That is his story of the affair.. ' Coming Is Unexpected As soon as Wright reached Pasadena he was helped to the curbstone, where he sat with his head between his hands, as though he did not know what to do. He was approached by friends, who placed him in an auto and asked him if he wanted to be taken to his father's home on Moun tain View avenue, Altadena. He said he did not, but would prefer to go to the home of his uncle, William ' D. (Contluued on l'asa Five) *_,'_- ■•_■ t .-•'.. . / WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1900. TAFT URGES BROADEST INQUIRY MADE Wants Pinchot - Ballinger Cotroversy Probed Mercilessly THINKS PLOT IS LAID President Believes Criticisms Intended to Injure Administration 1 Associated Press] WASHINGTON, Dee. 21.— doubt that the whole force of the Taft administration Is to be behind tin- Investigation demanded, by both sides of the so-called Ballln ger-Pinehot controversy was dispelled by events in and out of congress to day. There Is now no question the presi dent himself is as eager for the mer ciless probing of the whole matter as hitherto ha has been reluctant to ad mit the necessity for It. A motive much deeper than willing ness to do Justice to Secretary Hal linger is ascribed to President Taft by senator., representatives and others active In politics. . Men In a position to know the senti i ments of Mr. Tuft declared tonight he ■ has at last become convinced of the truth of what his friends have been telling him for many weeks—of what he has hitherto laughed that there lies behind the attach on Mr. Ballinger a more or less definitely organized movement to discredit, the Taft admin istration, especially by spreading the impression that the so-called "Roose velt policies" are In unfriendly hands; that Mr- Ballings* was made the tar get only on the theory ho offered the most vulnerable point In the adminis tration. Taft Loath to Believe Rumors Because ha was loath to believe such 1 a propaganda was under way Mr. Taft I opposed every suggestion from Mr. I Ballinger or his friends that attacks on the land ofllce should be met with i a determination to reach and expose those responsible. Though slow to come to a decision, it is known Mr. Taft is now inclined to believe the criticisms which have cropped out In many widely separated localities are a part of a deliberate determination to make trouble, which amounts prac tically to a conspiracy. ._• • -** The first step in paving the way for a congressional investigation was taken today. Senator Flint introduced a resolution In the senate directing the attorney general to send to the senate all the papers in his possession relat ing to the case. These papers include the report of It. R. Glavls, dismissed special agent of the general land office, who sought to connect Mr. Ballinger with the Cunningham coal land cases In a manner reflecting on his Integ rity. These records are the ones on which the president based his exoner ation of the secretary of the interior. Flint Resolution Adopted The Flint resolution waa adopted, and some time later it was learned it h_»d been drafted by Attorney General Wickersham, and it was one of the matters considered at the White House conference yesterday, when the attor ney general, Mr. Halllnger and Post master General Hitchcock discussed with the president the advisability of Continued on Page Two MAY WIPE OUT CAMPAIGN DEBT IF CITIZENS RESPOND TO CALL IN order to wipe out the $5000 debt . which still hangs over the Good Government organization as a re sult of the recent campaign, a "dollar campaign has been suggested by James A. Williams, a grocer at 2426 West Ninth street. Mr. Williams' plan is to have all who supported and voted for the Good Government candidates contribute $1 or more, as they see fit, thus becoming active members of the organization and aiding In a worthy cause It is not right from any standpoint that a few rich men should wipe out the 'debt. This is the way of machine politicians. Such a method gives the donors great power and allows them to ask, • with every expectation of re ceiving, favors of all sorts from the candidates who are elected with money furnished by the few. When all the people contribute a small amount it gives nobody sepcial leverage, but it gives nobody special leverage, but conduct -of public officials,' more so . a great deal than they would have from merely voting for winning candidates. Membership in the Good Government organization is not predicated upon fees or dues. All subscriptions to tbe funds with which the affairs of the organ ization are conducted are voluntary. However, if all the men who voted for the Good Government ticket should send in their names to Lucian- J. Clarke, secretary, 320 Los Angeles Trust building, and accompany their application with a check for from $1 upward, It would not only strengthen the organization, but it would also clear It of all debts and tend to- re establish the organization In the faith of the people. . The position in the matter taken by General Wood, President Taft's Choice for Chief of the Army, and Mrs. Wood _^t*ymwm'um^immW^ __» *_§& B_JBmj^______________________________________________Bl^__B fri ™" TMsffwl-ff^^^^BwMßßP -"fifth* 'II . SMIS..' f? > rflJtJSf^Bßtffrßßf^Wi ] i ■''■ff - -tii HMifrOT f. 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Leonard Wood, com mander of the department of the east, Is President's Taft choice for chief of staff of the army to succeed Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, whose detail is soon to expire, has caused no end of talk in army circles. When he assumes his exalted post General Wood will have established an almost unparalleled record for rapid promotion. In twelve RAISIN POOL CONTRACTS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 3 FRteSNO, Dec. 21.— a mass meet ing of raisin growers today It wa.3 voted to extend the raisin pool con tracts to January 3. This Is done In the hope that a three-cent offer will be made. The rejected offer was 2% cents a pound. The - Kearney estate crop of 800 tons recently brought three cents and growers believe that the 7000 --ton block will bring as good a price. officers of the organization Is that merely voting is not enough. They de clare that all citizens will benefit as a result of the campaign and election, and therefore should bear some of the burdens Incident to the race. Meyer Lissner, who has accepted an appointment on the public utilities commission, has resigned as president of the organization. In an interview last night he stated that although he is no longer officially connected with the organization he is morally bound to it and will do all in his power to aid in lifting the-debt. Books Are Open "I feel more than ordinary respon sibility in this case," said Mr. Llssner. "It was I who ordered the expendi tures and I feel I should do a great deal in wiping out the debts. I though up to a few days before election that we would have enough money to defray all our expenses. But one can never tell about political campaigns. At the last moment there are all sorts of expenses of a legitimate character. The books of the organization are open to inspection to prove where our money went to. I want, to see. the debts wiped out at once. • While my public position will not permit of my. per sonally undertaking ; a money-raising campaign I will do all I can to for ward any legitimate Idea along that line. I think Mr. Williams' Idea an excellent one and I trust it will meet with hearty support from all the citi zens of Los Angeles." In Mr. Williams' letter, sent to Sec retary Clarke of the Good Government organization, he has the' following to say: ' >V »;.■'; - "The burden of conducting a cam paign should not be borne by a few men. It is the people's movement and the people should bear whatever noc- years he will have risen from assist, ant, surgeon with the rank of captain to the head of the army. • Here is General Wood's record: June, 1884, graduated from Harvard Medical school; in 1886 appointed from civil life to lieutenant and assistant sur geon, U. S. A.; January, 1891, pro. moted to captain and assistant sur. geon; May, 1898, appointed colonel of the First cavalry, United States volun teers, known as the Rough Riders; July 8, 1898, promoted to be brigadier general for services at Las Guaslmas EIGHTEEN ARRESTS OF , STRANGERS ARE MADE ST. LOUIS. Dec. 21.—Eighteen ar rests of strangers who were unable to account satisfactorily for their pres ence in Belleville, 111., were made there this morning. It is thought the men walked from East St. Louis after the failure of a mob of 150 to reach the town earlier by street car. Despite the developments of last night It is not expected that militia will be needed. essary expense attached to the con duct of the campaign. ; '.v., "Many of the best citizens of Los Angeles imagine that they have done their full duty as citizens If they go to the polls and vote for the right sort of men. Undoubtedly they would help finance the campaign if properly ap pealed to. But through indifference of one sort or another they neglect this important duty. The result is that the whole burden must be shoul dred by a few patriotic citizens. It isn't right. '■-.'-..• "My suggestion is that a dollar cam paign be started. Many persons hesi tate about contributing because they feel they are expected to give a greater amount. Let those who can afford to give but $1 give that sum. Let those who are able to contribute $5 or $10, or even more, send that sum with their names to Good Government head quarters. A dollar even from every citizen of Los Angeles who advocates clean government would easily suffice to run any campaign that might bo undertaken. Let's all get together and do our duty as citizens and advocates of good government by contributing something, thus lifting the debt at once. The longer the debt hangs the harder it is to pay lt off. "I was not a member of the organ ization before or during the campaign. I voted for Mayor Alexander and 'all the other Good Government men from a patriotic sense. I am sending you my dollar contribution realizing that I shall be repaid a thousand times over by the honest and efficient * ad ministration I shall enjoy for the next two years. "I believe that all right-thinking men of Los Angeles are at heart mem bers of the Good Government organ ization. Let them clinch this senti ment with application for member bership, sending In a check of from $1 upwards to bind the bargain." (•IV/'I Ii 1 _'_•_>__..•■_• DAILY, Jot*SUNDAY, Ba hirS.-il-Ij (Atl 1 IV*. . OX TRAINS, B CUNTS and San Juan Hill; December 7, 1898, promoted to be major general. United States volunteers; April 13, 1898, hon. orably discharged from the volunteers organized to meet the emergency of the Spanish.American war and the same day reappointed to the special organization of volunteers necessitated by the Philippine uprising as a briga dier .general; December 5, 1899, made major general of volunteers; February 4, 1901, appointed brigadier general, U. S. A.; August 8, 1903, appointed | major general, U. S. A. INSANE PATIENTS LOOSED BY FIRE NORTH WING OF BIG ILLINOIS ASYLUM BURNED Woman. Patients Found Sitting on Curbstones After First Panic. All Not Accounted For JACKSONVILLE, 111., Dec. 21.—Flre In the Central Hospital for the Insane tonight destroyed the north wing of the institution, threatened destruction of other portions for hours, and for a time caused much anxiety among asylum officials In preventing panic and escape among patients. It is be lieved a few inmates are at large. When the flre broke out In 'he north annex, -soon after 8 o'clock, some of the patients escaped, but the asylum authorities systematized the removal of the Inmates from the burning wing to another part of the hospital. The flre In the north wing burned fiercely, and the tire department fought it with difficulty until midnight, sev eral firemen being injured by falling walls In the first half hour. Most of the patients separated from the burning Section were escorted by guards and volunteers to the south wing. The fire, however, so alarmed patients all through the asylum that the situation became threatening and citizens were asked to aid In prevent ing further disorder. Patients freed from the burning section gave the guards and volunteers concern. Several men and women escaped, some being found in the outlying streets. Some women, thinly clad, were found sitting on curbstones half a mile from the asylum. It is rumored that a number of patients still are In the burned portion of the asylum, including women who are reported to have climbed to the attic. They may have perished. There is no certainty regarding the number of patients in the building. The fire started In the roof of the wing. The cause is not known. Flames spread rapidly to the fourth floor, where sev eral hundred woman patients were kept. • •■; ■ Their cries created a terrific din, which aroused the other patients. Santa Clara College Burns SAN JOSE, Dec. 21.—A telephone message Just -received here says the Santa Clara college building is on fire. 2* CENTS RECORDS OF TRAVELER FAIL IN PROOF Doctor's Title to Discovery of Pole is Shattered Completely DENMARK CHAGRINED Noted Institution to Take Away Degree Conferred on Arctic Voyager COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21.—1n an inter view tonight Knud Itasmussen said! "The university would not call me at first, because 1 wit. one of Dr. Cook's strongest supporters. Later, however, I was invited to the investigation and when I saw the observations, I realized it was a scandal. "My confidence In Cook has been based on personal Impressions, on reports that I had received, and also on the testi mony of the Eskimos when they all said that he had made the trip from Cape Spnrlio to Etah. But the papers which Cook sent to Copenhagen university are inns* impudent. Any school boy could muko such calculations. It ls a most childish attempt at cheating. Cook has killed himself by his own foolish acts." fAssoclated Press] COPENHAGEN. Dec. 21.—The report COPENHAGEN, Dec. '-'I.—The report , of the special, committee of scien tists which the University of Co penhagen appointed to Investigate Dr. Frederick Cook's claims that lio, h%l discovered the north pole was sub mitted to the consistory of the Univer sity of Copenhagen this morning, in dorsed and given to the public. The report shatters completely, al most contemptuously, the American ex plorer's title to such discovery and fills officials and people of Denmark with chagrin at the figure Denmark is mad • to assume In the eyes of the scientific world. The public was prepared for a ver dict of "not proven," but did not ex pect Its recent hero to be branded a_ an Impostor. Many still cling to tho belief that Cook acted in good faith, but harbored a delusion. Explorers and scientists have almost entirely lost faith in Cook's honesty, while one of his warmest supporters, Knurl Rasmussen, helped to frame tho report. Evening papers, attack Cook and severely reproach him for hiding. which they regard as a sign of a guilty conscience. Will Withdraw Cook's Degree The rector of the university. Dr. Sal monson, when questioned as to the pos sibility of the university cancelling the degree which it conferred on Dr. Cook, said that no decision bad been reached, but he thought that the degree would be withdrawn. Commodore Custav Holm, Arctic ex plorer and a member of tho committee, said: . . " "Cook's claim he made the observa tion 89 degree, 59 minutes, 46 seconds, near the pole proved immediately that he was a bad observer, but nothing in dicated that he wan a swindler. Now, his papers convict him of being a. swindler. We agree unanimously that Cook's observations were worthless." Prof. Olufson, secretary of the Danish Geographical society, said: "It is the saddest event in my life. As an explorer there seems to be no doubt that Cook is absolutely unre liable." The National Tidende, while deploring that the university conferred the de gree,-finds consolation in the fact that others honored Cook. "The president of his own country and its envoy at Copenhagen," says the paper, "were the guarantors of him. Denmark did not blunder alone." Care Used In Review The committee appointed by the uni versity to examine Cook's records re cently, presented Its report to the con sistory of the university, which re viewed the deductions of the experts with the greatest care and discussed the findings from every standpoint. That both the committee and the consistory were disappointed was soon known. •- The consistory met today and adopt ed a written report to the effect the alleged records submitted for exam ination by Cook failed to prove his claim. The report of the committee, of which Professor Stromgren was chair man, as presented to the consistory, states Cook's papers are without any value; that his report to the University of Copenhagen is virtually the same as that published in the New York Her ald on his return from his Arctic ex pedition. The copies of his notebook submit ted, says the committee, contain no original calculations of observations, but only results thereof. Accordingly, the committee concludes, he affords no proof of having reached the pole. There was produced before the com mittee a letter from Cook postmarked Marseilles, December 14. This letter lends color to the earlier report that Cook sailed from New York for a Med iterranean port. Documents Submitted The documents submitted for exami nation are: "', ■;*, First—A typewritten report prepared by Cook's secretary, Walter Lonsdale, and covering sixty-one pages of fools cap. vnmti-. ■ Second —A typewritten copy made by Lonsdale from Cook's note books. This occupies sixteen pages of foolscap and Includes a description of the period from March 18, 1908, to June IS, 1908, during which, according to the state ment, Cook Journeyed from Svartevog to the north pole, and returned to a (Continued on Fag* Tare*/