The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-10-07
PEARY'S REASONS
COMMANDER PEARY Specific
ALLYSTATES WHY HE DIS
CREDITS COOK
DISTANCE FAR TOO GREAT
NO MAN COULD COVER SEVEN
TEEN HUNDRED MILES IN
SLEDGlNG SEASON

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Robert E. Peary a reporter for the
New York Herald obtained this after
noon a forecast of the indictment he
and General Thomas Hubbard will
draw against DR.. Frederick A. Cook in
the North Pole case.
Mr.. Peary's statement will embrace
the technical points on which he hopes
to disprove all DR.. Cooks claims.
1t will be submitted as proof not
only that DR.. Cook was not at the pole
but that Mr.. peary himself is the only
one entitled to be called the discover
er of the goal that has been sought for
three centuries.
Nh. PEARY'S CHARGES.
There are fourteen points raised by
Mr.. Peary, and as outlined by MIN are
as follows:
First, That Mr.. Peary and Matt
| Henson, either individually or together
talked with every member Of the
Smith Sound tribe of Eskimos and OBJ
tanned testimony that corroborates
that of E-Tuck-A-Shoe and A-Pel-Lah,
the Eskimos, who accompanied DR..
Cook, that DR.. Cook had not been out
of sight Of land.
Second, That in violation OF a Gus
tom of Arctic exploration, Dr.. Cook
has not brought back records left in
| cairns at points he asserts he had
reached, notably those left at Cape
| Thomas Hubbard in 1906 by MI Peary.
Third, That DR.. Cooks stery that
he travelled from Annotok to The pole
| and then back to Jones Sound. a dis
lance of more than twenty-five and
| one-half degrees, or about seventeen
hundred miles in one ~sledgins season
is impossible. He points out that t IL
is more than twice the best previous
record of eleven degrees, and Mr..
Peary's best record of this year of
fourteen degrees.
Fourth, That his general equip
| ment was such that 1t would De physi-
cal impossibility to have accomplish
ed the feat.
EQUIPMENT CARRI1D.
Fifth, That DR.. Cook maintains
he carried a glass mercuria horizon
on his trip of seventeen bundled miles,
whereas Mr.. Peary used a east iron
horizon sa hat it would moi only be
saved from being broken, hut could
be heated when the mercury froze.
This is necessary sometimes, Mr.. FeaTy
contends, as mercury freezesa at minus
35. Cook reports finding as cold
as minus 73 degrees.
Sixth, That Professor Marvin
brought back from 1888 Duplicate rec
ords of Mr.. Peary's march and of his
own to prove absolutely that Mr.. Peary
reached that latitude.
Seventh, That Captain Bartlett
brought back from s7.4S DUPLICATE rec
ords OF Mr.. Peary's march md o. his
own to prove absolutely that Mr..
Peary reached that latitude.
Eighth, That the sledge of DR..
| Cooks was of such q type, not built
on the lines of any arctic Explorers
| sledge, that 1t could no possibly have
lasted for a march OF a day with a
| standard load of five or si hundred
pounds.
Ninth, That DIR. Cooks slow shoes
were of an impracticable tyie for use
in the Arctic and were not the kind
| that would conduce to speed
THE WHITNEY CASE.
Tenth, That DR.. Cooks Having of
his records at Etah was aisheme on
his part by which he couldlchim they
were lost or destroyed ami SO could
escape being forced to prodtcs them to
substantiate his claims.
Eleventh, That 10 mar who had
carried the American flag b the Pole
would leave such a slight and easily
transported article In the aarge of a
perfect stranger.
Twelfth. That DIR. Cooh did have
fresh dog teams from Etahand could
have carried his burdens to D%pernavik.
Thirteenth. That when Hrry Whit
ney went on board the Jeaie he did
not take time to go bacA tt Etah ana
get the articles he must hive known
were valuable to DR.. Cook.
Fourteenth, That II DR.. Cook did
leave such priceless articlesat the Es-
kimo village yar. Whitney phld have
been anxious to have rushd them t.
the United States"