The Indianola Enterprise. (Indianola, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 22, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Ckla Histori
cal So-
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THE INDIANOLA
VOL. 6 NO. 4.
COOK NOT
AT
POLE,
-PEARY
letter from Dr Cook to Francke,
dated the seventeenth of March. The
;wo men rejoined the other four men
who had been left behind, and the six
returned to Anoratok. arriving May 7.
i This information was obtained not
from the two Kskimo boys, but from
! ihe six men who returned and from
| Francke himself, and was known to
i us In the summer of 1908. when the
| Roosevelt first arrived at Ktah. The
I information is Inserted here as supple-
— " | mentary to the narrative of the two
Naval Commander!"""
INDIANOLA, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1WM>
8,on, north we*' eoa., of H-** \«l > ' ""
WHOLE NO. 263
Sternly Refutes
Claims Made by
the Doctor.
TESTIMONY OF THE ESKIMOS
Aiter si.
. turned ba
Long and Carefully Prepared State*
ment Given to the Public Amounts
to Direct Questioning of Or. Cook's
Veracity—Is Signed by All the
Principals of the Roosevelt Party
New York, Oct. 12—The following
statement or Commander Robert E.
I'eary, which he submitted, together
with the accompanying map. to tho
Peary Arctic club in support of his , ~.
contention that Dr. Cook did not reach i not take mor
the north pole, is now made public for '
the first time. The statement and
map have been copyrighted by the
Peary Arctic club.
I nan sleeping at the camp where
| the last two Eskimos turned back, Dr.
Cook and the two boys went in a
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two sledges and twenty-odd dogs,
one or more march, when they en-
countered rough Ice and a lead of open
water. They did not enter this rough
ice, nor cross the lead, but turned
westward or southwestward a short
distance and returned to Heiberg Land
at a point west of where they had left
the cache and where the lour men had
k
Here they remained four or five
sleeps, and during that time I-took-a-
| shoo went back to the cache and got
I his gun. which he had left there, and
| a few items of supplies.
f When asked why only a few sup-
f plies were tak 'ti from 'lie cache, the
i boys replied that only a small amount
! of provisions had been used in the
few days since they left the cache,
j and that their sledges still had all
they could carry, so that they could
I U -
Land to a point indicated on the map
tSverdrup's Cape Northwest).
From here they went west across
the ice, which was level and covered
with snow, offering good going, to a
low island which they had seen from
the shore of Heiberg I .and at Cape
Northwest. On this island they
camped for one sleep.
The size anil position of this island,
as drawn by the ilrst boy, was criti-
cised by the second boy as being too
large and too far to the west, the sec-
ond boy calling the attention of the
first to the fact that the position of
the island was more nearly in line
with the point where they had lelt
Heiberg I .a lid (Cape Northwest) and
the channel between Amund Hingnes
Land and KUef Ringnes Land.
From this Island they could see two
lands beyond tSverdrup's Kllef Ring
nes and Amund Ringnes Lands). From
the island they Journeyed toward the
drups chart; then southwest U> Hell's
Gate and Simmon's peninsula.
Here for the first time during thai
entire Journey, except as already.
noted off Cape Thomas II Hubbard.,
tbey encountered open water. On this 1
point the boys were clear, emphatic,
and unshakable. They spent a good
deal of time in this region, and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sledge,
took to their boat, crossed Hell's Gate
to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet,
then back along Ihe north coast of
Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape \ era.
where they obtained fresh eider duck
eggs Here they cut the remaining
sledge off. that is shortened it; as it
was awkward to transport with the
boat, and near here they killed a ".al-
ms.
The statement in regard to the fresh
eider duck eggs permits the approxl
mate determination of the dnte at this
time as about the first of July. (This
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
From All Over The New State
_ | A. M. E. Conference.
Disbarment. C vil Process. oklahoma conference of the
The Oklahoma s'^LTf , Afrioan M. K. Church will meet In
day revoked the 1 icense.of Virgil com„UM|c|ng (>c, Three
Bigger* to practice law in in bishops will preside and we.ve.nil hun-
of Oklahoma. sustaining the d . . visiting minister* are expected,
ment proceedings brought In th.it
court on the grounds that lilggers
, . , „f mo lands I Statement also serves, if Indeed any-
left-ham o e . passing a 1 thing more than the inherent straight-
, Amund ''^didTv "fsU ' forwardness .no detail of their nan a-
small island which tl ev did | ^ ^ m,(.dod ,() ,uhBtantiate the
Arriving at the shore accuracy and truthfulness of the boys
Ringnes Land, the Eskimos killed a Thta ,(K.atlon of Vera
deer as indicated on the charL mentioned in Sverdiup's narrative
The above portion of the suue I ag the place where during his stay in
ment of the Eskimo "'yg j that region be obtained eider duck
the period of time in which Dr. Cook
had confessed that he had been
gulltv of receiving bribes while ooun-
tv atorney of Pottawatomie count>.
" Biggers' claimed that he could not
be debarred by reason of tlw mi-
ni unit v clause of the constitution.
The syllabus of the court, however,
date at this J-**-,'*
granting Immunity from prosecution
for anv matter concerning which a
person may be compelled to testlfj.
relates onh to a criminal action and
not to civil proceeding in such trans-
actions may lie Involved, and that
under the Oklahoma law disbarment
is a civil proceeding.
F. B. Swank in Lawton.
F. B. Swank, formerly private sec-
retary to Congressman Scott Ferris,
came In from Chickasha .-vaturday
and entered th... U firm of Fain &
Youtitf.
After being informed of the boys
narrative thus far, Commander Peary
suggested a series of questions to be
put to the boys in regard to this trip
from the land out and back to It.
These questious and answers were
as follows:
Did they cross many open leads or
much open water during this time?
Ans. None.
Did they make any caches out on :
the ice? Ans. No. |
Did they kill any bear or seal while
out on the ice north of Cape Thomas
Hubbard? Ans No
—mm hey" kill or lose any of their
dogs while ou' on ihe ice? Ans No
With how many sledges did they
start? Ans. Two.
How many dogs did they have. Ans.
Do not remember exactly, but some-
thing over twenty
How many sledges did they have
when they got back to land? Ans.
Did they have any provisions left on
Commander Peary's Introduction.
Some of my reasons for saying that
T)r. Cook did not go to the north pole
will be understood by those who read
the following statements of the two
Eskimo boys who went with him, and
who told me and others of my party
where he did go. Several Eskimos
who started with Dr. Cook from An
oratok in February, 1908, were at
Etah when I arrived there in August,
1908. Tliey told me that Dr. Cook had
with him, after they left, two Eskimo
boys, or young men, two sledges and
some twenty dogs. The boys, were
I-took-a-shoo and Ali-pc lab. 1 had
known them from their childhood.
One was about eighteen and the other
about nineteen years of age.
On my return from Cape Sheridan
and at the very first settlement I ",a ^'Twhen'they came back to
touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon) in th _ t[ie s[edges still had
August. 1909, and nine days before land- a . carry so ,hey
reaching Etah. the Eskimos told me about ai ^ ^ ^ & few thlngs
in a general way. where Dr. Cook had , cache
that he had wintered in Jones j fnmthe cache.
claims to have gone to the pole and
back, and the entire time during
which he could possibly have made
unv attempts to go to it
If it is .suggested that perhaps Dr
Cook got mixed and that he reached
the pole, or thought he did. between
the time of leaving ti e northwest
coast of Heiberg Land at rape North-
west, and his arrival at Ringnes Land,
where the\ killed the deer, we must
then add to the date of Dr. Cook's let-
ter of March 17. at or near Cape
Thomas Hubbard, the subsequent four
or five sleeps at that point, and the
number of days required to march
from Cape Thomas Hubbird to Cape
Northwest ta distance of some sixty
nautical miles), which would advance
his date of departure from the land
! to at least the 2.".th of March, and be
prepared to accept the claim that Dr.
Cook went from Cape Northwest
(about latitude eighty and a half de-
grees north) to the pole, a distance of
five hundred and seventy geographical
miles, in twenty-seven days.
After killing the deer they then trav-
eled south along the east side of Ring-
ties Land-to the point indicated 011 the
^ ....-. i/HIeH .mother deer.
eggs.)
Mrs. Ida Bertram Dead
Mrs. Ida eRrtnuti, aged W years,
died at her home near Kingfisher
during the past week. She was af-
flicted with rheumatism, which caus-
ed her death.
Prominent Business Man Dead.
<; 11. Krble, a prominent shoentan
old resident or Kingfisher, died
'during the last week from an at-
lack of epilepsy. Hi* death occur-
red very suddenly while lie was at
his place of business
Hugh McCleary Injured.
Hugh McCreary, who was employ-
ed ill the mine of the Oklahoma
Coal and Milling Com putty at Henry-
eider duck | ADpea|B Delay Executions.
In cases of conviction for crime
From Cape Vera they went on down j J* There'"the
Into the southwest angle of Jones foi 'ot bailable, the appeaU
Sound, where they killed a ! ^3°suspend execution' pending final
thence east along the south coast of *md the defendant. I v ihii mm * «••••• -—• -
the sound, killing three bears at the j ** imprisoned. in the mean , etta. was fatally injured d •
point noted on the map. to the penln- 1 lson, and sjcl. a premature explos ot of !*>'
sula known as Cape Spuria, on the is no, repugnant to the that he was fixing to put off a shot
map. about midway on the Bouth side o^^oma constitution. 1 ni ie lli n' •
' «. r
writ is denied. Haikey was potnniercial Club of Kingfisher to
ed to life imprisonment tor "u" , ,lU, tll raising funds for the
committed November 1 . • • f mr,M>He „f improving the roads in
appealed to the criminal coutt ° . township. The farmers have
appeals. Pending appeal he_w ^ t e ,
(Signed)
been; uui u.*** — —
Sound, and that he had told the white
men at Etah that he had been a long
way north, but that the boys who were
with him, I-took-a-shoo and A-pe-lah,
said that this was not so. The Eski-
mos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On
reaching Etah. 1 talked with the Es-
kimos there and with the two boys
and asked them to describe Dr. Cook s
journey to members of my party and
myself. This they did in the manner ,
stated below.
(Signed.) R E. PEARY. I
Signed Statement of Peary, Bartlett, ]
McMillan, Dorup and Henson, in Re-
gard to Testimony of Cook's Two
Eskimo Boys-
The two Eskimo boys, I-took-a-shoo
and Ah-pe-lah. who accompanied Dr.
Cook while he was away from Anora-
tok In 1908 and 1909, were questioned
separately and independently and
were corroborated by 1 anikpah,
father of one of them (I-took-a-shoo),
•who was personally familiar with the
first third and the last third of their
Journey, and who said that the route
for the remaining third as shown by
them, was as described to him by his
son after his return with Dr. Cook.
The narrative of these Eskimos is
as follows-.
They, with Dr. Cook, Francke and
nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok,
crossed Smith's Sound to Cape Sabine,
slept la Commander Peary's old house
in Payer Harbor, then went through
Klce strait to Buchanan bay. After a
few marches Francke and three Eski-
mos returned to Anoratok.
Dr Cook, with the others, then pro
ceeded up Flagler bay, a branch of
Iluchanan bay. and crossed Ellea
mere Land through the valley pass at
the head of Flagler bay, indicated by
Commander Peary in 1898..and utilizeid
by Srerdrup in 1899, to the head of
Sverdrup's "Bay Fiord" ou the
side of Eltesmere Land.
Their route then lay out through
this fiord thence north through Sver-
diup's lleuerka Sound' and Nansen
"on'their way tbey killed musk oxen
and bear, and made caches, arrlvi"K
eventually at a point on the west side
of Nansen strait (shore of Axel Hei-
berg Land of Sverdrup), south of
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others. Koolootingwah and
Inughlto. went on one more march
with Dr. Cook and the two by.
helped to build the snow igloo, then
returned without sleeping.
two Eskimos brought back
ties l.aii'i hi |.w,.
chart, wlVeiv they billed another deer
They then went east across the
si nth part of Crown Prince Uustav
Sei to the south end of Heiberg Land,
then down through Norwegian bay.
where thev secured some bears, but
not until after they had killed some of
their dogs, to the east side of Gra-
ham Island; then eastward to the lit-
JHWsl^G^WHlTTETRYTLATl^Rolrfi TAKENJYD^CUW
here they went southwest
uf Jones Sound. Here they killed
some musk-oxen and, continuing east,
killed four more at the place indi- ,
cated on the chart, and were finally ,
stopped by the pack ice at the mouth |
of Jones Sound. From here they
turned hack to Cape Sparbo, where
they wintered.
After the sun returned in 1909 they
started, pushing their sledge, across
jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; thence
along the coast to Clarence Head;
(passing inside of two small islands
not sho\ i on the chart, but drawn on
it by the boys), where they killed a
bear' thence across the broad bight
in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence
around Cape Isabella and up to Com-
mander Peary's old house In Payer
Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they
found a seal cached for them by Pan-
ikpah. 1-took-a shoo's father. From
here they crossed Smith Sound on the
ice. arriving at Anoratok.
H. E. PEARY, ti- 8. N-.
ROBERT A. BARTLETT,
Master S. S. Roosevelt
D B. M'MIU.AN.
<*GORGE BORUP.
MATTHEW A. HENSON.
appfttin. 1 v. • iVw'U
moved from the county Jail of .
county lo the state penitent.ary ut
McAlester.
Can Try Territorial Cases.
The supreme court Monday over-
ruled a motion or A. H. Byers asking
that his case, in which he war. con-
victed Of killing his Wife in Kiowa
countv in 1904 and sentenced to fif-
teen vears in the penitentiary, and
In Which sentence was affirmed by
,he criminal court of appeals on
March is. last, -be transferred back
to the docket of the supreme couit
and decided bv it.
This action was asked by a,,orn^'®
for Byers on the contention that the
criminal court of appeals has jurlj-
diction only over coses appealed to It
from the territorial courts.
(MM D)
raised ft suui of money.
Child Hurt During Circus Para(J*'
During tho street parade of King
ling Bros.' clcus at Hobart during
the past week the ti yeewjld son of
T E Carruthers fell from the side-
walk, crushing the bon« in bis
lower left limb and ankle he waa
taken to the hospital, where it was
necessary to perform an operation.
Game Warden Busy.
The ofpre of William Redder.
Game Warden at El Reno, has been
rrowded during the l a t week.
Ixx-a! s|K>rtsmeu aw on the hunt
for duck and geese, which are said
b" '''opens'1 Nov T R-Menr s
shooting license is $1.25, while non-
residents must pay
OtfTt
HOfTWEG/
Zoological Garden for Lawton.
On suggestion of members of the
fl-e department at lawton, where a
large collection of animals has been
made by Chief Sim Sheppard, a well
defined movement for the establish-
ment of a 7-oologlcal garden of ani-
mals found in this vlc,nlty
ihe Wichita Mountains has been
started, and it is pobable that at the
Hext meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce definite act on will lie tak
mi toward looking after a de\elO[i
ment of the scheme.
To Study Cotton Culture.
Herr Bernard Dernberg, >ml,erl*1
secretary of colonial alfa.-s for the
Gem an government, accompanied t>
Dr Walter Busz. under secretary and
assistant general freight agent oi the
Santa Fe railroad, Bpent Sunday at
Ardmore Inspecting the cotton tleld^
The secretary has been sent over to
this country by his government to
«Uidy cotton growing with a view ot
introducing It In the African colonies.
Technical Error Fails.
That the omission of the WJ)!.
•the' before the words "State of Ok-
lahoma" is a harmless error and not
sufficient to invalidate an indlot.nent
or information is the holding of Pre-
■idlnz Judge Henry M. Furman of
criminal court of a,
finning the case of W. P. CapUi .
vlcted in Carter county of *8SBUI';
with intent to kill and stn.onced to
flva years' in^rlgonincnl
Suit for Many Millions.
Mrs S V. Jesse, of Guttifin. wife
of the Assistant State Reporter, was
notified by New York attorneys Sun-
day that suit had been brought to
enforce the provisions of the will of
her grandmother and that Mrs.
lease's share in tho estate would >.
$15,000,000 If the sunt i* successful.
There is a great excitement at
Sulphur over recent discoveries and
I developments in the new lead and
7.i„c mines in the Arbuckle Moun
tains In the western i>art of the
county. Many miners and capital
Ists tire in the mountains project
ing. The ores are paying from !■!'
to $30 per ton.
Oklahoma Charters.
Osage iJmd and I an Company,
of Oklahoma City; capttal stock
$23 000. Incorporators, James
Dunn John E. Van Cleve and J.
VV FraWdRe*l Estate Mid InvesUnent
Company, of Ardmore; capital stock
$2r>,000. Incorporators Charles
Eraiey, Henry A. Kembel and Errett
DUHoVdenvlile Grain and Producs
Company, of Holdenville, capital
$5,000. Incorporators. R. M.
lln, J. A. Chapmac and W. . *y
'°Hattie OU and O^s Oompany, ol
Bartlesville and
(amended articles. -
f^ennre T. Ba r of A'"'
five years mini '><"'"^"^-1———
-c TUp MirHT GLOVE K"""" ",ay n
CARE OF THE NIGH I 1>LUVC I hands and the gloves put on. ^
Important That They Should Be Kept
Clean and Very Thor-
oughly Aired.
When the hands need whitening
many women resort to gloves for
"a" good bleaching cream can be
made at home, into the yolk of a
fresh egg beat a teaspoonful of glycer-
ine and the same quantity of rice
flour, two tablespoonfuls of rosewater,
a teaspoonful of almond oil and
drops of tincture of benzoin. Ada
many women resort to gloves ior dropa Gf tincture oi otJU*u'"
sleeping compaLions. Then, because Uiese ingredient8 slowly, adding
they do not understand that "Just ] rjce flour last.
uiey uu uui
any" glove will not do, they do tneir
skin more harm than good.
A dirty pair of gloves that has seen
hard usage should never be ussed^
They are ruinous to the skin, anil
when the pores are opened by grease
may give serious trouble.
If you use a kid glove at all see see ulal c
that it is well cleaned with gasoline j knuckles and nails
or' as It makes small difference about
fading use soap and water, taking j
care to rinse. Better yet is an old
wash chamois glove that Is clean and
solt. ,
An unventllated glove Is bad. so cut
off the tips of the fingers and cut
small holes in the palm and back.
These gloves may either be thickly
coated on the Inside with some good
akin food, cold cream or cocoa butter,
UUUI loav.
l)o not use the cosmetic glove re-
peatedly without washing. Turn it
inside out each morning to air. Scale,
dirty grease is worse than none.
Before putting on the gloves wash
the hands well in hot water and a
good soap. Use a small nail brush and
see that there is no soil around tilti
New Belting.
White silk moire belting, embroi-
dered with colored dots the slxe of a
dime, is shown In the big shops, and la
very attractive for wear with white
linen skirts and separate lingerie
blousea.
The dots are In all colors, and are
matched up In the satin cravat to com-
plete the color scheme.
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