The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-10-09
MURPHY DENIES
COOKS STORY
Boatswain Of Peary's Ship
Gets Into Print.
LOANED COOK HIS, PANTS

Describes Explorers Return to Etah
. in Effort to Refute the Latter'e
Charge Of cruelty-Deciares Com
mander Peary Has Charts Made by
Brooklyn Mans Eskimos Showing
: He Did Not Reach the Pole.
: New York, Oct John Murphy of
Newfoundland was and is the boat
swain Of Commander Peary's ship, the
Roosevelt. He is the man who was
left at Etah in charge of the stores.
He is the man whom DR.: Cook has
charged with extreme cruelty. He Is
one of the men who received the sup
plies landed by Captain Joseph b
Eernier OF the Canadian patrol ship
Arctic and, if half he says is true,
there will be asudden upheaval in the
North pole controversy,
He is one of the three white men
who know what happened at Etah.
Dr., Cook has already made his state
ment.s Harry Whitney will not speak.
Regarding the charges of cruelty Muir
:rhy SAYS: a., p 49,. = =
Il have read in many papers that l.
would not take DR.. Cook into the hut
at Etah and that was cruel to him.
! will never believe that DR.. Cook
said these things, because we were
always the best of friends and we
parted the best Of friends. Why, the
day he got into Etah shaved him.
Cook Shakes Murphy's Hand.
"He had nothing but his heavy
sealskin pants and they are too heavy
to wear in the house because they are
so hot and uncomfortable. loaned
DR.. Cook my own pants and he wore
them in the house the five days he
was with me. Do you think if we
had been bad friends he would have
worn my pants? When it came time
for him to go away he shook hands
with me and said, Murphy, as long as
live will never forget you for your
kindness to me- That's what DR..
Cook said to me; his last word.
More important than all, Murphy
knows that Cook told Whitney and
another member of Peary's crew that
he had reached the North pole, but
he does not believe that Cook sue
ceeded.- He bases his testimony on
the, evidence given Peary by the two
Eskimos who were with Cook. Muir.
ply says that Commander Peary now
has in his possession charts OF the
Northern country On which the two
natives traced the route taken by
Dr.. Cook. = IA
Eskimos Mark Cooks Course.
'The commander had these two
'huskies' On board" Murphy contin-
ued, land questioned them about
where Cook had been. While they
talked they. took pencils and showed
on the chart just where they had been
with Cook. They say that he made
q two days Journey toward the north
and then camped. At the end of the
| first day he had encached heavy
gun. At the end of the second day
he ordered one of the huskies to 60
| back and get that gun. DR.. Cook
| waited two days for the man to come
up with the gun and then the three
men turned westward and that was
as far north as they. ever got. The
commander has those marked charts
now.
Il was in Etah when this man Ber-
nier came in with the ship Arctic
with supplies. Harry Whitney was
also at Etah. Whitney came to me
and asked me what to do, with the
supplies that were consigned to him.
said we would take them and see
that the huskies did not get at them.
So the supplies were landed and we
took care of them and they were there
when Dr. Cook got back" -