The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-12-23
DR.. COOK
RETURNS TO
A: AMERICA.
STILL BELIEVES THAT EE
DISCOVERED THE
NORTH POLE
(By Associated Press. J.

(By Associated Pressl,
New York, Dec. 23.--Df. frederick
a. Cook came back TO America on the
.camslip George Washington, as
calmly as II there never hal been a
NClsh Pole controversy He said lit.
te. A typewriter interview handed
20 reporters, embraced all that he had
e say with the exception of the ne
srssary lErmalHies Of conversation
thrust upon HIN by interyiewers.
or far more dramatic interest was
a heated controversy among the
steamship passengers concerning the
oppression he had made on them
The doctor asserted that he believed
he was at the pole. His statement
in part follows:
Il have no statement to make 9th
er than that which carefully pre-
pared. Any interview / might give
would necessarily be fragmentary and
doubtless misleading also, SO shall
not now give out any irteryiews. and
any purporting to come from me will
not be authorized. spent weeks of
careful preparation OF my story, and
! have frankly said In II all that there
IS e. say. Every charge against me
Is taken up and answered in its prop
or place in my narrative.
Il do not know what my plans for
The future will be. have not return
ed to America with the intention OF
making money out of my Arctic ex.
periences. Money did not prompt the
writing OF my story, as have seen
suggested in certain newspapers. AS
have said. have come back solely
fer the purpose OF rehabilitating my.
SELF and my family by setting matters
right with my countrymen."
Reporters were Persistent.
The typewriter interview did not
satisfy the reporters. They piled him
With questions, but TO almost all of
them he parried: That has already
been covered in the statement, | shall
answer that In full later
Then you will not submit to cross.
examination on what you have pub
lished?" was asked.
So" said the Goctor firnlis. and
then qualified it. Sat least not now,
and only in my own time and way,
he added.
You have written. doctor. After
mature thought 90 lot know abso-
irtely whether | reached the Pole or
not Do Won believe that you did?"
4 still believe it."
Does your uncertainty at all ex-
tend to your ascent of Mount McKin.
ley?"
viii Reply to Parker.
Not in the least | shall have a re-
ply to make to Professor Herschel c.
arker's latest attack on my ascent of
Mount Mckinley in few days"
Did you still believe in your rec
orfs when YOU sent them to the Uni.
Nersity of Copenhagenu?"
"Oh, certainly
Then why did YOU call Captain Au-
siIstus w. Loose to aid you in compil-
ing them?"
THAT will be answered In the next
You have also written: Most posi-
lively and emphatically, | am not al
thief. Most certainly there was no
llan to hoax the world to my own
financial profit But II YOU now adj
init DOUBT OF what you spoke from
the platform II Your lectures, how
can YOU keep the admission fees
You received"
That also will be answered in the
next statement"
Why did you choose to make this
statement to the public for money,
through the medium of magazine
rather than to the University OF Cop
cnhagen, which had honored YOU with
a degree"
4 wanted medium that would bel
free from bias
Yet you accepted the verdict OF
The university"
Yes. think VIC have accepted
that"
And you believe that Perry got to
The pole?"
Il have never questioned it.
Won't Debate With perry.
Shall you enter into any debate
with him?'
Impossible. That Is not my man
ler.1
DO you intend to take part in any
polar or antartic expendition?"
No. I've come to stoy This com
munity is to be my home. an
through with exploration. There is mol
other point on the globe where | pan
ticularly wish to go"
The doctor said that what he in
.ended to do with the Instruments
md records which he says are at
ttah would be told later. He was
emphatic that they were as correct
rs any explorers instruments, and
hat mo polar proofs are positive.
He reiterated that although he vas
not mariner. DE was competent 10
axe observations to determine has
position.
From the steamer he went directly
70 the Waldorf-Astoria, where he
stayed on his welcome home from
Copenhagen Mrs Cook and the chill
ha .atI IA.