Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1909 — HINTS PEARYITE PAID FOR GUIDE’S CHARGE [ARTICLE]

HINTS PEARYITE PAID FOR GUIDE’S CHARGE

Cook Says Organized Effort to Discredit Him Is Afoot New York. Oct. 15.—Dr. F. A. v Cook 6ays an organized effort to discredit him Is being made and that now that Commander Peary has fired his best gun in the pole controversy, the Peary adherents are attempting to convince the public that Cook did not reach the lop of Mount McKinley. The explorer referred particularly to an affidavit published in the New York Globe bearing the signature of Edwin Barrill who was the doctor’s guide on the Mount McKinley trip. Barrill is put in the position of swearing that the explorer missed reaching the top of the continent by twenty miles. Dr. Cook says: “J have always had the most complete confidence in Barrill and cannot comprehend why he should have sworn to such a story. The fact that Genera Hubbard, Peary’s champion, is propria* tor of the Globe, throws a light on the affair which was not previously appar>nt “It appears to me that there was money behind his statement. Barrill was perhaps annoyed that he had npt been paid his wages, but that was not toy fault, and I remedied the matter as spon as I got back from the pole.”