Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-14
MORE DOUBT
CAST ON COOK
BYPEARY'S men
FROM BATTLE HARRoR COMES
REiTERATloN OF ASSERTION
THAT NO TRACE OF HIM WAS
FOUND AT THE POLE.
DANES CHEER AS
EXPLORER SAILS

NOTABLE COMPANY SEES COOK
ABOARD SHIP ON RETURN TO
THIS COUNTRY; PEARY READY
TO START.
Battle Harbor Labrador, Sept IL
The steamer Roosevelt with Peary on
board is still at Battle Harbor today.
Preparations are being made for the
departure for North Sydney, B. G.
Members of the expedition say the
pole Is in appearance like other parts
Of the Arctic sea and that an attempt
to get sounding was without sue
cess. Nothing was seen at the pole of
Cooks reported presence there and
Cooks story Of his discovery of the
pole is not believed here. The party
sledged All miles each way to the
pole.
Peary Notifies Government.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 1.-THE
state department has received the fol-
lowing from Peary, dated Battle Har-
Dor:
Respectfully report hoisted stars
and stripes on the north pole April 6
and formally took possession of that
entire region and adjacent territory for
and in the name of the president of the
United States of America. Record and
United States flag left in possession"
Peary's first official notification to
the navy department direct on his re-
turn and discovery of the pole came
to the department this morning in the
following sent from Battle Harbor
yesterday:
Respectfully report my return.
Hoisted navy ensign on north pole
! April 6.
"Peary."
Cook Travels on Oscar II.
| Christiansand, Norway Sept. IL
| The steamer Oscar II with DIR. Cook,
| the American explorer aboard left
| at noon today for New York. Cook ar
rived here from Copenhagen on board
the steamer Melchior. The municipal
authorities boarded the vessel and
the burgomaster delivered a speech of
welcome in which he congratulated
the explorer on his achievement
| Cook was then transferred to the Os-
car ii.
| Cook cheered on Departure.
| Manager Director Cold of the Scan
dinavian-American Steamship COM
pany accompanied DR.. Cook on the
trip from Copenhagen to board the
steamer. He said the Oscar II could
reach New York Monday, Sept. 20.
Peary Took Cooks Provisions.
! st. Johns, N. F., Sept 1.-THE
| Peary-Cook controversy is of intense
interest throughout Newfoundland.
Today Capt Moses Bartlett of Brigus,
who commanded DR.. Cooks schooner,
John r. Bradley, which was fitted out
at Gloucester, Mass. in 1907, issued a
public statement as follows:
/ Cook is correct in stating that
/ Peary took his provisions after the
steamer Erik returned to Brigus last
fall. Three of her crew told me. when
Peary arrived at Etah he took all the
stores | left there the previous fall
for Cook for his return from the north
This supply consisted of two dory
loads Of stores, food and kerosene
which our crew piled on the beach and
then placed the dories over. bottom
up, piling stones around and avoce
At Attanook, three miles north, where
Cook landed, / had previously put
ashore two years supplies for Cool
and five tons of hard coal. Our vesse
i was laden with stores and ten tons Of
. hard coal
Peary had no provisions.
when Cook landed we gave hin
half the coal and stores except wha
we required to bring us home. Cool
| c3o icin ho
cause Peary had none on the coast
having used UP all the provisions lief
there by previous expeditions in hi
1905,06 trip"
Richard Pike. chief engineer of the
; steamer Erik. which last year con
veyed stores of coal to Etah to supple
ment those on the Roosevelt, said:
"Peary left two men on the Roose
. welt with an immense accumulation o
/. supplies he left at Etah when thu
: Roosevelt went north and the Eril
. came south. These men apparently il
, mistake took some of Cooks store
that were also left there
Another member of the Erik crey
said Cooks assistant Francke. CAV,
the stores in part payment for hi
passage from Etah to the Unite'
I States.
Questioned concerning the repor
r that the yacht Bradley, which cor
S veyed Cook to Greenland, be in tn
! Hudson-Fulton parade, Bridgman sal
: it had been sold but could be entere
] by the new owners. He declared, how
d ever, if the Cook yacht was in the pc
e rade the Roosevelt certainly would no
$ participate.
e Peary Receives Rich Offers.
n Sydney, Sept. 11.-Secretary Birds
man of the Peary Arctic club, has re
ceived many kilograms offering Pear
large sums for magazine articles
$ books, lectures. etc. One magazin
Il tells the explorer to name his ow
? | price. Secretary Grosvenor is arran;