The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-19
COMMANDER pEARY SAYS THAT
QUARTET OF NORTHERN MA
TIvEs WERE WITH HIM.
ROOSEVELT TO SYDNEY
Arctic Steamship Sails From Battle
Harbor and Viii Arrive on Tuesday
Explorer Tells Of What He Would
Have Done Had He Been Taken IN
at the North Pole.

Battle Harpur, by MarC1ni Wireless,
via Care Ray, y. F., Sept, 1s.--Thc
Arctic steamer Roosevelt. with COM
mander Peary aboard, sailed from
here at s p. IN. today for Sydney.
Captain Bartlett received orders from
Commander Peary to have the Roose-
welt ready on Saturday morning for
the voyage to Sydney and also to
time his arrival at the port so that
they may reach there about ii o'clock
on Tuesday morning.
Acting under instructions from II.
l.. Bridgman. secretary of the Peary
Arctic club. Commander peary before
leaving turned over to the Grenfell
hospital all the remaining provisions
of his expedition. Commander Peary
was asked before his departure what
he would have done If he had fallen
Ill at the pole. with no one in the
exploring party capable of taking an
observation. To this he replied:
To Leave Record.
My last moments would have been
devoted to taking observations. in
order to leave the record. l would
not permit anything to Interfere with
that important duty and / would have
handed the records to the Eskimos
to take to Mrs. Peary, If had died
within sight OF the pole would have
had to depend on my Eskimos to tell
how far they Travelled from the last
supporting party. or on my observa-
tions. a-.
My records are very complete and
most carefully kept. They are sealed
In skins and parchments. so that if
thrown on the ice or in the water they
probably would drift for years without
sinking or without being damaged and
would eventually ba found. This
priceless package will not be opened
until | arrive in New York"
Commander Peary, confirms the
statement that -four Eskimos wcr.
with him at the pole. He SAYS that
he has made 40 statement different
from this.
Bartlett Talks.
Would you become an American
citizen If you we're offered command
of the Roosevelt to go to Behring
sea-? was question which Captain
Bartlett was asked and to which he
replied:
You bet | would
Captain Bartlett intends to appiy
Tor an American masters certificate.
The only man on the Roosevelt who
met DIR, Cook in Greenland was the
boatswain. John Murphy. who was
lett "a Ftah when the Roosevelt went
into her winter quarters.
What Murphy knows about the al
legged taking Of DIR. Cooks supplies
he has not disclosed to anyone. with
the possible exception of Commander
Peary. Commander Peary adhers to
his determination not to disclose the
proofs he says he has against DIR.
Cook until the main proposition, the
airect claim OF DIR. Cook. with his rec
ords. is submitted. The commander
was shown a dispatch from Washing
ton that tho geographical society
would like 10 acknowledge both polar
claims. but in view of the dispute
must technically decline to accept
either until the matter has been in
and he said:
That suits me-
Whitney Coming.
Harry Whitney. who fs on the
schooner JEANNE. is likely to arrive in
ouch with civilization any DAY row.
rom his polar bear hunt on the coast
II Greenland. He is reported lo nave
Or. Cooks records in his possession
md ii is said here that Whitney has
stated that DR.. Cook told him he had
been at the pole II is said also that
Whitney is going 10 South America
with DR.. Cook on Il hunting expedI-
ion
North Pole Romance.
One Of the passengers of the Roose-
'elt, must have been Dan Cupid and
he first north pole romance in the
worlds history is told by Commander
Peary, IL concerns one of the four
Eskimos who were with Peary at the
north pole. 0okesah by name. and
-swaloo. an attractive fs-year-old Es-
Simo girl.
E9aloo's mother died and her IA
her, Ikwah, married again and
swaloo was not happy with her step
mother. She fell in love with Coke
fah and they wished to get 10 house
Ieeping in their snow IgIoo, but Ikwah
When the Roosevelt ar
lived Commander Peary told the as
'embled natives that four men would
se chosen TO 60 10 the highest lati-
ade, 1t Was his intention. he said.
I they reached the pole. to give To
'aeh Of the four. guns and ammuni-
ion. tent cloth, lumber and complete