Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-11
PAPER oPEpLY SAYS COOK LIES
London Chronicle Sure Advertised
Book is lmposture. "vain for
Spurious Fame,

London, Sept. 9.--The Paris edition
of New York newspaper contains an
advertisement asking offers for DR..
Cooks manuscript for exclusive publ
cation and stating that 100000 words
are ready, with ample illustrative pho
togra phs.
The London Chronicle says:
This volume, we venture to think,
should it ever appear. will be number
ed among the curosities of literature,
and will find a niche In the library Of
imposture. We can conceive no pur-
pose that 1t will serve except as an ex
ample of the lengths to which man
may be driven by vanity and appetite
for spurious fame"
The Chronicle renews it's general at
tack on Cook with increased bitterness
and concludes:
1--WE now charge Cook with having
fabricated all the statements of any
significance with which he has sup
ported his claim to have reached the
pole. We charge him with attempting
an imposture upon the world and with
The knowledge that he could not long
sustain the pretense. In doing this. and
it is not the least item to his discredit,
he has betrayed the trust Of gener-
Gus people and outraged their hospital
ity."
Other Papers are Hostile.
The direct challenger to Dr. Cooks
story that he reached the north pole on
April Fl, 1908. cabled from Indian Har-
Dor by Commander Peary, has given a
marked impetus to the growing tend
ency in scientific as well as popular
newspaper circles to regard the claims
of the earlier arrival from the polar re-
gions with more than suspicion
This dramatic message from Com
mander Peary," says the Evenins
Standard, which throws down in the
most emphatic manner the fabric SO
deliberately built up by DR. Cook. prob
ably is the beginning of a dispute
which will become historic
The Westminster Gazette says:
Commander Peary's statemen,
brings the whole dispute to an acute
crisis and the atmosphere of the NORTH
pole is becoming decidedly sultry, with
| stormy complications. DR.. Cooks lee
ture delivered at Copenhagen last
night was not altogether convincing"
| Pail Mall Gazette Takes Hand.
! Anticipating the controversy which
| is bound to rage around the claims OF
! the rival explorers, the Pail Mall Gaz
/ cite remarks:
so far as Peary is concerned, there
| is no question whatever OF the accur-
acy of his statements. The veteran ex-
| pioier ls DeleNed IN MS WORD. EVERY
bcdy feels that he has merely succeed
ed in setting the crown of complete.
| ness to the long and tpatient work o.
| his life. In the meanwhile Dr. Cook. n
| his lecture last night, did not supper
his story with any proof whatever"
In an editorial article the Evenin,
STANDARD is even more outspoken thar
in its news columns. Referring to thu
drastic character of the bombshel
/ thrown by Commander Peary, it de
clares:
"Peary has sent a word to shatte
the pretenses of imposture, for that Il
the only meaning Of his quite imam
biguous message This Peary has don
because he is convinced of the truth o
his own assertion and because he feel
that the honorable page of arctic ex
] ploration must at once be cleared d
lpretenseS that could only dishonor it,