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THE GUIS OF
ISSUESLONGPROMISED STATE
MENT IN NORTH POLE
DISPUTE.
GIVES STORY OF THE ESKIMOS
Tho Statement la Signed by Peary,
BartleU, McMillan, Borup and Hen
on of the Roosevelt Party Eski
mo Doys Closely Questioned bv All.
(Entered according to Act of Congress.
In the year 1309, by ttio Peary Arctic Club,
In tho odlco of Uio Librarian of Congress,
at Washington, D. C.)
Now York, Oot 12. Tho
following statement of Command
er Robert E-. Peary, which ho
submitted, together with tho accom
panying map, to tho Peary Arctic club
In support of his contention that Dr.
Cook did not roach tho north polo,
Is now mado public for tho first time.
Tho statement and map have been
copyrighted by the Peary Arctic club.
INTRODUCTION BY PEARY.
Some of my reasons for saying that
Sr. Cook did not go to tho north polo
will bo understood by thoso who read
tho following statements of tho two
Eskimo boys who wont with him, and
who told mo and others of my party
where ho did so. Several Eskimos
who started with Dr. Cook from An-
orntok In Fobruary, 1908, wcro at
Etnh when I arrived thore In August,
1908. Thoy told mo that Dr. Cook had
with him, after thoy left, two Eskimo
boys, or young men, two sledges and
somo twenty uogs. Tho hoys wcro
I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I had
known them from their childhood.
Ono was about eighteen and tho other
about nineteen years of age.
On my return from Capo Sheridan
and at tho very flret settlement I
touched (Nerke, near Capo Chalon) In
August, 1909, and nlno days beforo
reaching Etah, the Eskimos told mo,
In a general way, whoro Dr. Cook had
been; that ho had wintered In Jones
Sound, and that ho had told tho whlto
men nt Elab that ho had been n long
way north, but that tho boys who wore
with him, I-took-a-Bhoo and Ah-pe-lah,
said thnt this was not so. Tho Eski
mos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On
reaching Etah. I talked with the Es
Jtlmos thcro and with tho two boys
and asked them to describe Dr. Cook's
Journey to members of my party and
myself. This they did in tho manner
stated 'below.
l(Slgned) It. E. PEARY.
Signed -Statement of Peary, Bartlett,
McMillan, Borup and Henson, In Re
gard to Testimony of Cook's Two
Eskimo Boyo.
Tho two Eskimo boys, I-took-a-shoo
and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied Dr.
Cook whilo'ho was away from Anorn
tok In 1908 and 1909, wero questioned
separately and independently, and
wero corroborated by Panlkpah, tho
father of ono of them (I-took-a-shoo),
who wob personally familiar with tho
first third and the last third of their
journoy, and who said that tho routo
for tho remaining third, as shown by
thorn, was as described to him by his
con after his return with Dr. Cook.
To go more into details: Ono of
the boys wad called In, and, with a
chart on tho table beforo him, was
asked to bLow .whoro ho had gono
with Dr. Cook. This ho did, pointing
out with his finger on tho map, but
uot making any marks upon it.
As ho went out, tho other boy camo
In and was asked to show whero ho
had gone with Dr. Cook. This ho did
also without making any marks, and
indicated tho Bamo routo and tho
same details as did tho first boy.
When ho was through, Panlkpah
tho father of I-took-a-shoo, a very In
telllgent man, who was In tho party
of Eskimos that camo back from Dr
Cook from tho northorn end of Nan
sen's strait, who la familiar as a hunt
er with tho Jones Sound region, and
who has, been in Commander Peary's
various expeditions for somo fifteen
years, camo in and Indicated tho same
localities and details as the two boys
Then the first boy was brought in
again, and with a pencil ho traced on
the map their routo, members of our
party writing upon tho chart whero
according to tho boy's statement, thoy
had ldlled deer, bear, somo of their
dogs, seal, walrus and musk oxen.
Tho second boy was then called in
and tho two went over tho churt to
cottier, tho second boy suggesting
somo changes as noted herenftor.
During tho taking of this testimony,
Trained Eagles for Aviation.
Ono of tho most fanatic ballooning
projects of tho past was that of an
Austrian who suggested, nearly n cen
tury ago, that balloons might be
guided in any desired direction with
the old of trained eagles.
Long Delayed Tribute.
"Tho experienced reporter Is a
model of courtesy," acknowledged a
Philadelphia proachor. First bouquet
of that kind In years and years.
Cleveland Loader.
EXPLORER
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MAP SHOWING WHAT
2:
It dovolopod that Dr. Cook had told i
theso boys, as ho told Mr. Whitney
nnd Billy Prltchnrd, tho cabin boy,
that thoy must not tell Commander
Peary or any of us anything about
their Journoy, and tho boys stated Dr.
Cook had threatened them If they
should toll anything.
Tho narratlvo of theso Eskimos is
as follows:
They, with Dr. Cook, Francko nnd
nlno other Eskimos, left Anoratok,
crossed Smith's Sound to Capo Sablno,
Blept In Coramandor Peary's old house
In Payer Harbor, then went through
IUco strnlt to Buchanan bny. After a
few marches Francko and three Eski
mos returned to Anoratok.
Dr. Cook, with tho others, then pro
ceeded up Flagler bay, n branch of
Buchanan hay, and crossed Elles
mero Land through tho valley pass at
the head of Flagler bay, Indicated by
Comtnandor Peary In 1898, nnd utilized
by Svcrdrup In 1899, to the head of
Sverdrup's "Day Fiord" on tho wost
sldo of Elloamero Land.
Tholr routo then lay out through
this (lord, thonco north through Sver
drup's "Houorka Sound'' and Nansen
strait.
On tholr way thoy killed musk oxen
and bear, and mado caches, arriving
eventually at a point on tho west side
of Nnnscn strait (shoro of Axel Hoi
berg Land of Svcrdrup), south of
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed hero nnd the
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootlngwah and
Inughito, wont on ono more march
with Dr. Cook nnd tho two boys,
helped to build tho snow Igloo, then
returned without sleeping.
(Theso two Eskimos brought back
a letter from Dr. Cook to Francko,
dated tho seventeenth of march. Tho
two mon rejoined tho other four ,mon
who hnd been left bohlnd, nnd tho six
returned to Anoratok, arriving May 7.
This information was , obtnlnod not
from the two Eskimo boys, but from
tho bIx men who returned and from
Francko himself, and was known to
us In tho summer of 1908, when tho
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah, Tho
information Is Insorted hero as supple
mentary to tho narnttlvo of tho two
boys.)
After sleeping at the camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back, Dr.
Cook and the two boys went In a
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two 6ledges and twenty-odd dogs,
one or more march, when they en
countered rough Ice and a lead of open
water. They did not enter this rough
Ice, nor cross the lead, but turned
westward or southwestward a short
distance and returned to Helberg Land
at a point west of where they had left
the cache and where the four men had
turned back.
Suggestion as to Clothing.
Clothing ought to bo mado with tho
soft ancient Egyptian or modern Chi
nese buttons. Maybo removable ones
are better still. If It wero not for
buttons most laundering could bo done
by machinery. New York Press.
Salt Whale.
Already qulto a trade Is done with
Japan In canned and saltod whale
meat It Is said to bo mora tendor
than beef and to tastb lilto a. Na
tional Food Magazine.
PEARY CLAIMS IS ROUTE TRAVELED BY DR. COOK
After being Informed of the boys' i
narrative thus far, Commander Peary
suggested a series of questions to be
put to tho boys In regard to this trip
from the land out and back to It.
Did they cross' many open leads, or
much open water during this time?
Ans. None.
Did they make any caches out on
tho Ice? Ans. No.
With how many sledges did they
start? Anp. Two.
How many dogs did they have? Ans.
Did not remember exactly, but some
thing over twenty. ,
How many sledges did they have
when they got back to land? Ans.
Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back to
land? Ans. Yes; the sledgeS still had
about all they could carry, so they
were able to take but a few things
from the cache.
From here they went -southwest
along the northwest coast of Helberg
Land to a point Indicated on the map
(Sverdrup's Cape Northweit).
From here they went west across
the Ice, which was level and covered
with snow, offering good going, to a
low Island which they had seen from
the shore of Helberg Land at Cape
Northwest. On this Island they
camped for one sleep.
From this Island they could see two
lands beyond (Sverdrup's Ellef Ring
nes and Amund Rlngnes Lands). From
the Island they Journeyed toward the
left-hand one of these two lands
(Amund Rlnges Land), passing a
small Island which they did not visit.
Arriving at the shore of Amund
Rlngnes Land, the Eskimos killed a
deer as Indicated on the chart.
The above portion of the state
ment of the Eskimo boys covers
the period of time In which Dr. Cook
claims to have gone to the pole and
back, and the entire time during
which he could possibly have made
any attempts to go to It.
If it Is suggested that perhaps Dr.
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did, between
the time of leaving the northwest
coast of Helberg Land at Cape North
west, and his arrival at Rlngnes Land,
where they killed the deer, we must
then add to the date of Dr. Cook's let
ter of March 17th, at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number of days required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbard to Cape
Northwest (a distance of some sixty
nautical miles), which would advance
his date of departure from the land
to at least the 25th of March, and be
prepared to accept the claim that Dr.
Cook went from Cape Northwest
(about latitude eighty and a half de
grees north) to the pole, a distance of
Damage Done by Brown Rat.
Tho brown or Norway rat Is re
garded by tho Unltod States depart
ment of ngrloulturo as "tho worst
mammal pest In tho United States, the
losses from Its depredations amount
ing to many millions of dollars year
ly." Peculiar Florida River.
Tho St. John's rlvor In Florida Is
tho only navlgablo rlvor In tho coun
try that flows In a gonorally north
erly direction Into an ocean.
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, In twenty-seven days.
After killing tho deer thoy then trav
eled south njong tho cast sldo of Rlng
nes Land to tho point indicated on uio
chart, whoro thoy killed another door.
They then wont cast across tho
south pnrt of Crown Prlnco Gustnv
sea to tho south end of Helberg Lnnd,
then down through Norwegian bay,
whoro thoy secured somo benrs, but
not until after thoy had killed somo of
their dogs, to tho oast sldo of Gra
ham Island; then eastward to tho lit
tle bay marked "Eld'a Fiord" on Sver
drup's chart; then southwest to Holl's
Gato and Simmon's peninsula.
. Horo for tho first time during tho
entlro Journoy, oxcept as already
noted oft Capo Thomas II. Hubbard,
thoy encountered open water. On this
point tho boys wero clear, emphaUc,
nnd unshakable. Thoy spont n good
deal of tlmo In this region, and finally
abnndoncd their dogs and ono Blodgo,
took to tholr boat, crossed Hell's Gato
to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet,
then back nlong tho north coast of
Colin Archor Peninsula to Capo Vora,
whero thoy obtained fresh older duck
eggs. Horo thoy cut tho remaining
sledge off, that is shortened it, as it
was awkward to transport with tho
boat, and near horo thoy killed a wal
rus. From Capo Vera they went on down
Into tho Bouthwcst unglo of Jones
Sound, whoro they killed a seal;
thence cast along tho south coast of
tho sound, killing thrco bears at tho
point noted on the map, to tho ponln
sula known as Capo Sparbo on tho
map, about midway on tho south sldo
of Jones Sound. Horo thoy killed
somo musk-oxen and, continuing cust,
killed four moro at tho placo Indl
cated on tho chart, nnd woro finally
stopped by tho pack lco at tho mouth
of Jones Sound. From horo thoy
turned back to Capo Sparbo, whoro
thoy wintered nnd killed mnny musk'
oxen.
After tho Bun returned In 1909 thoy
started, pushing tholr sledgo, across
Jones Sound to Capo TennyBon; thonco
along tho coast to Claronco Head;
(pnsBlng Inside of two small islands
not shown on tho chart, but drawn on
it by tho boys), whoro they killed n
bear; thence across tho broad bight
In tho coast to Cadogan Fiord; thonco
nroilnd Capo Isabella and up to Com
mandcr Penry's old housd In Payor
Harbor near Capo Sablno, whoro thoy
found a seal cached for thorn by Pan
Ikpah, I-took-n-shoo'n fathur, From
horo thoy crossed Smith Sound on tho
lco, arriving nt Anoratok.
(Signed) It. K. PEARY, U. B. N.
ROUF.HT A. HARTLETT,
Mustnr 8. S. Itoouovolt.
D. R. M'MILLAN,
ClEOnOE HORUP,
MATTHEW A. IIKNSON.
WOO D)
8ad.
Two Uttlo girls woro out walking
when they passed tho big brick build
Ing of an orphan asylum. "That, Mln
nle," said Rosy, nnxlous to Impart her
knowlcdgo to hor younger sister,
whoro tho little orphans Hvo. Mr.
and Mrs. Orphan aro both dead."
A Foolish Notion.
Most of tho mon who think tho
world Is against thorn aro so Inslgnlfl
cant that tho world has never noticed
them.
IBB IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOU8 SECTIONS.
ftLL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration,
Tho town of Valley has lot tho con
tract for ii systout of waterworks. '
Most Doatrlco schools, closed for a
tlmo because uf diphtheria, havo.ro
uumed. A groat tomporanco pnrado planned
for Omaha has boon called off for tho
prosont
Poncn Is busy with improvement,
tho city council having ordered much
work to bo dono.
Saloons of Arapahoe endorse tho 8
o'clock closing law, declaring It n
good measure for all tho pooplo.
Tho potato crop of Cuming county,
now being harvested, Is good. Thoy
nro being sold nt 59 cents a bushel.
Presbyterians of Deavor City will
erect a $7,000 church on tho ground
occupied by tho structure somo tlmo
ago burnod.
John McClung, n woll known sport
ing chnractor of Indlnnoln, was found
dead In bod nt tho l'nhuor hotel In
McCook. Death was duo to hoart dls
case.
Tho stnto railway commission
granted tho Farmers' Co-operatlvo
Telophono company of Jnnsen author
lty to Incroaso Its capital stock by
?500, making a total of $10,500.
Miss Altco Everett of Lyons ous
talncd n broken shoulder whlto play
lng basket ball. Sho In teaching
school near Sioux City and wns tnkon
to her homo on account of tho nccl
dent
Bishop Bonacum of tho dloccso of
Lincoln confirmed a clnss of flfty-flvo
In St. Patrick's church at McCook.
It was tho first visit of tho bishop
thoro In his capacity for sovcral
yoars.
Governor Shnllonbergcr honored i
requisition from tho govornor of 1111
nols for tho rotum to that stato of
Frank Grant, who Is accused of lar
ceny. Grant Is now undor arrest at
Red Cloud.
Tho Dodgo County Poultry associa
tion hns decided to add an exhibition
of dogs nnd cats to tho regular show,
which will bo hold at Fremont In Do-
combor. Thoro nVo a humbor of kon
nels of blooded dogs In thnt vicinity
which it is oxpocted will probably bo
shown.
Tho Wright & Hoard ranchos In
Banner county, comprising 8,360 ncros
of land, hnvo been sold at auction for
$101,400, or nn avorngo prlco por aero
of $12.13. Tho land Is to bo out urt
Into thirty-four different tracts nnd
each trato sold soparatcly to tho high
est blddor. ,
Frank Martin, sontonccd to twolvo
yoars on tho chargo of assnult to kill,
declares ho was not in Dawes county
at tho time of tho assault, Novomher
12, 190?. Evldcnco was prcsontcd to
tho govornor and ho took tho enso
undor ndvlsoment, Martin filing a plea
for clemency.
With n complaint of assault nnd
battery filed against him and charges
of bootlogglng und robbery hold In
aboyanco, William Cnrron, alias "Rod"
Kennoy, 1b kooplng himself clear of
tho locality about Central City Just
now. Thoro is a warrant out for him,
but ho appears to hnvo mado u good
getaway.
Congressman G. W. Norris mndo a
short nddross to tho students of tho
high school nnd eighth grndo nt Su
porlor on tho Panama canal. Tho
congressman was In town n Uttlo ovor
nu hour between trains, but Suporln
tondont Stnloy took advantngo of tho
tlmo ho did hnvo to got u talk from
him.
Tho Inst hospital rooprt from tho
state ponltontlnry shows that two pa
tlonts afflicted with tuberculosis nro
constantly rocolvlng treatment In tho
penitentiary hospital and that tholr
condition Is ho bad that thoy aro n
monaco to tho othor prlsonors. Tho
two prlsonors will probubly ho re
leased under tho law passed by tho
laBt legislature.
Tho pollco of Fromont nt daylight
tho othor morning found Mrs. Ell
Itondy sobbing pitifully outside tho
window of tho city Jail, whero hor
husband Is confined on u fifteen days'
sentence for beating her. Mrs. Ready
naked a snckful of banainiH. n nack.
ugu of chewing tobacco and a now
pipe und somo smoking tobacco
through tho barn to her husband
Holl ho in a good physical condition
for moro beating when ho gots out
In pursuance of tho order of tho
court ordorlng tho destruction of nil
tho liquor found In tho possession of
Illicit selleri! convicted during tho last
yenr, Shorlff Her of Morrlck county
emptied two barrels and ono cuso of
boor Into tho sower. Thoro hns been
n general clounlng up of nil boozo
Joints In the county during tho last
eighteen months und ovor $2,000 has
been imposed In flues nnd ono party
given a long torm In tho county Jnll
Recont ralnH in Nebraska hnvo
grontly helped winter wheat.
LaBt year thrcshlug machine com
panics agreed not to exhibit at stato
(airs and tho agreement was kept so
far ad known. Seeretnry Mollor of
tho stato board of agrlculturo has re
colved ono application for a threshing
mnchlno company for spneo on tho
stato fair groundB next year. Mr. Mel
lor has not replied to tho uppllcn
Hon, but will probably confer with
ofllcors of stnto fairs In other stntos
as to whothor or not there Is Hkoly
to bo room for such exhibits noxt
DICKINSON GETS A MED AC
Secretary of War Is Rewarded for
Saving the Life of a Detroit (
Lawyer. J
Washington. An almost forgotten'
incident in which Secretary ot War
Jacob M. Dickinson heroically res
cued Jnmes F. Joy, n Detroit lawyor,
from tho Detroit river 14 years ago,
wns recalled when n hnndsomo solid
gold mcdnl, suspended from a ribbon
held In tho benk of nn American
caglo wob presented to Mr. Dickinson
on behalf of tho United States gov
ernment Tho modal, approved by President
Tnft beforo his departuro oh his trip
and commemorating tho courago ot
Secretary of War Dickinson.
tho wnr secretary In saving tho llfo
ot n fellow man, was presented by
Assistant Secretary ot tho Treasury
IIIllcs.
"In testimony of heroic deeds in
saving Hvcb" rend tho Inscription on
tho mcdnl, which also boro n laurel
held aloft by a woman. Touched
deeply by tho unexpected recognition
of IiIb net. tho secretary of war, with,
characteristic modesty, merely said:
"I did not hnvo much tlmo to con
sider what was best to bo dono when
Joy fell Into tho river nnd If I hnd I
might hnvo dono what Rip Van
Wlnklo told hlB wlfo Grctchort he
would do In enso sho fell into tho wa
ter, 'Go homo nnd think It over.' "
Ho added that ho did not know he
had dono anything romnrkablo.
Dickinson probubly owes his Bent
In President Tnft's cabinet ns Bccro
tnry of war to tho act of heroism.
GEN. BELL A MOUNTAINEER
Chief of Staff of tho Army Makes a
Difficult Ascent In the Grand
Canyon.
Los Angelas. During his rocont
visit In tho Grand canyon, on his way.
east from tho coast, Gen. J. Franklin
Boll, chief or staff or tho Unltod
Stntcs army, demonstrated thnt ho
is a stronuous tnountaiucor.
Tho gonornl and his aid, Capt. F. W.
Sladcn, Miss May Chandlor ot Los An
guoB, J. II. Fleming, mentor of trulls,
horses and wheeled vohlclos at El
Tovar, nnd a guldo, composod a party
which negotiated tho ontlro Bright
Angol trail. Tho gonoral gallantly act
ed ns Miss Chandlor's special escort
Tho picturesque wondoro ot tho
mighty chasm woro vlowod from
Gen. J. Franklin Bell.
every avallablo point on this steep
path from tho rim to the' bottom,
Gen. Holl's conspicuous oncrgy was.
not exhausted In overcoming tho hard,
ships of tho Bright Angol trail, so ho
proceeded, with a guide, to climb a
mountain 1,000 foot high which rises
up from tho depths ot tho canyon neat
tho root of thu trail.
Tho sides or tho mountain nro woll
nigh perpendicular, making tho task
achieved a most tollsomo ono, From
tho side or this mountain Hows a liv
ing spring, creating a splondld pool ot
pure water ut tho bottom.
Gen. Boll nnd nldo proceedod oast,
continuing tho general's oillclnl army
Inspecting tour, while tho Los Angeles1
party, which Included Miss Chandlor,
lier mother, Mis. Harry Chandlor, and
tho tatter's rather, Gen. Harrison
Gray Otis, roturned to ttio city.
Slow Growth of Australia.
At thu beginning or tho present
year thu population of Australia was
4,276,000.
vear.
