The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-10-01
COOK An |MPOSIER
DECLARES PEARY. WHO TALKS
ABOUT GOLD BRICK.
SAYS HE WtL PROVE IT
Public Has Hard Time Keeping Up
With Wireless Messages Sent
by North Pole Diseoverer.

New York, Special Commander
Peary affirms his previous statements
TO the United Press that DR.. +. A.
Cook has never been near the north
pole, and asserts that at the proper
time he will bring forward proof TO
Lack up his statement that the Brook
Ign physician is an impostor.
Commander Peary is still with the
Roosevelt at Battle Harbor, Labrador.
and from that point the following ca
Diagrams were received by the United
Press:
Battle Harbor. via Marconi wire
less TO Cape Ray. n. c. 10.-Accept
my thanks for your kind telegram OF
congratulations. Replying to your in
quiries | found no trace OF Cook at
the pole. AS a matter OF fact, Cook
has not been at the pole April 2l,
1908. or at any other time. This
statement is made advisedly and will
be backed up by proof at the proper
time PEARY."
In a supplementary cablegram TO
the United Press under the same date.
Commander Peary cables: See my
Washington kilograms 10 White
House, state department navy de-
partment and coast survey and also
my telegram to President Schurman.
of Cornell University"
The New York Times. which has
contract to publish Commander
Peary's newspaper narratives of his
dash for the pole. has issued an ad
ditional cable from the explorer in
which she declares the Roosevelt is
being held up at Battle Harbor for
three or four days TO coal and over
| haul ship, and that he does not expect
to arrive at Sydney until September
Is. In this cable Peary says that as
soon as Cook makes his claim as a
discoverer of the pole before a rep
utable geographical or scientific ;
ciety. he (PearyD will be in position
to furnish material that may prove
distinctly interesting reading for the
public"
The following cable was received at
the Peary Arctic Club in Brooklyn:
Battle Harbor (via Cape Ray
Sept. 3.
III L. Bridgman. Brooklyn. n y:
Roosevelt will remain here three
/ or four days coaling Expect to
reach sydney about the 5th. Have
\ one hundred walrus skins. on board
for the club Your letters per whaler
and the Jeanne received You are the
logical candidate for the polar com
mission. PEARY."
Mr. Bridgman is now az Sydney
with Mrs. Peary waiting TO meet Com
mander Peary The significance OF
the last sentence is not known at the
Peary Arctic Club.
Commander Peary's first official no
| tidcation TO the navy department d.
rect OF his return and of his discov-
cry of the north pole. came TO the de-
partment at Washington Saturday in
the following dispatch sent by him
from Battle Harbor II read as fol-
lows:
Respectfully report my return !;
hoisted navy ensign on north pole
April 6. PEARY."
The following message has been re-
| ceived at the state department from
Commander Peary
Battle Harbor. Sept 10. 1909.
Hon. Secretary of State, Washing
ton. ID. c.
Respectfully report hoisted Stars
and Stripes on north pole. April 6.
and formally took possession that en-
tire region and adjacent for and in
name OF President of the United
States America Record and United
States flag left in possession.
"PEARY."
Acting Secretary Adee. of the state
department. in answer to inquiries
said that the state department had
no comment whatever TO make. as
there was no question before him.
Responding TO Commander Peary's
dispatch. Acting Secretary Winthrop
sent the following telegram OF con
graduation:
ITO Commander Peary Battle Har-
Dor. Labrador:
Your telegraphic report received
Navy department extends hearty con-
gratulations on your successful at
tempt TO reach the north pole.
WINTHROP"
uOnAN TlIMpC MIN Kim