The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
DR.. COOKS STORY.
The Most Exciting Narrative of Mod
ern Times.

1t Is safe to say that no recent
narrative of exploration and adven-
ture has ever excited the intense in
terest as that of the personal story
written by Dr. Cook covering his
thrilling adventures, hairbreadths es-
capes, terrible sufferings on his way
to find the North Pole and return
therefrom.
This story was written during the
long arctic night covering 11S days
and nights.
This story is now being published
by the New York Herald which has
copyrighted it and for which the
State Journal has made exclusive ar
rangement with the Herald for pub
lication in Topeka.
Four installments of this story have
been printed.
The fifth instalIment appears today.
The sixth will appear Wednesday, the
seventh Thursday, the eighth Friday,
the ninth Saturday, the tenth, eleventh
and twelfth Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week.
The State Journal has printed four
of the articles. two on Saturday. two
on Monday and one, the fifth, today on
rage ten.
Any regular subscriber by mail or
carrier who has failed to receive the
+afly articles ab.1e named giving DR..
Cooks story, 1.-THE Conquest of the
I'Ole," will be supplied a paper con-
taiEing the articles already Printed if
REQUEST is made by mail or in person
through the carrier. within a day or
two.
The State Journal had expected to
complete the entire story this week.
but the New York Herald wires this
paper today that they cannot send the
last installment until Friday of this
week. This throws the last portions of
the story into next week The last six
installments will each cover twice the
space in pictures and texts given to
each article so far. each one of the last
six installments covering a page in
large type and with copyrighted pic
lures made from photographs taken by
DR.. Cook.
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TIERS.
copyright, 1909, by the New York
Herald Company]
[Registered in Canada in accordance
with the Copyright Act.]
copyright in Mexico under the laws of
the Republic of Mexico
[All rights reserved.l
In the first instalIment of his thrill
ing story, THE Conquest of the Pole"
printed in the State Journal, october 2,
Doctor Frederick A. Cook told of the
start from Gloucester on the Bradley,
Of the voyage to the polar seas and of
the overhauling en- route of the equip
ment needed for +he dash to the pole.
In graphic manner the discoverer
wrote story of Eskimo life that new
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est. He told of the home life, the
tragedy and comedy that mingled in
the dreary existence of the dWellerS
in the Arctic, and of the childlike Gag
erness of the natives to trade their
valuable furs and worries for the sim
plest things of civilization.
The yacht, her owner, Mr.. John r.
Bradley, the explorer and his party
were pictured in their preliminary
work for the final dash.
Finally, after describing the various
places visited in Greenland in search
of guides and information as to con-
ditions farther north, Doctor Cook
wrote of trip across Inglef1eld Gulf,
past Cape Auckland and on toward
Cape Robertson.
Here the discoverer closed the first
part of his narrative, with Etah and
Annootok. the last points of call,
looming in the icy distance.
In the second installment. Doctor Cook
describes the voyage to Etah and then on
to Annootok, the place of plenty, which
he selected as the base for his dash to
the pole.
He describes the work OF preparing his
winter quarters, closing with graphic
description of a narwhal hunt
In the third installment Doctor. Cook
describes the approach of the long Arctic
night which caused his party at Annootok
to become very active in preparing for the
dash to the pole. Doctor Coolx told of the
actual start on February 49, 1908, and
described the equipment he took for his
great final dash.
In the fourth installment the discoverer
told of the first progress of his little
party and the last sight of land, and the
adventures on the perilous trip w,rn the
two Eskimos who went to the pole with
him.
In the 5th insta1lment, printed on the 10th |
page of this paper, Doctor Cook told of
the actual start on February 19, 1909, and |
described the equipment he took for his |