Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — SCALES MOUNT M’KINLEY [ARTICLE]

SCALES MOUNT M’KINLEY

Professor Parker Reaches Summit, Says Letter of His Companion. Seattle. Wash., June 25.—That Prof. Herschel Parker of Columbia university, New York, has reached the summit of Mount McKinley, America’s highest peak, and hitherto unsealed, and now is on his way |o tell the rest of the world of bis success, is the word received by Mrs. George Browne of Tacoma, mother erf Be!more Browne, Professor. Parker’s companion. The letter, mailed April 15. said that at that time the party was on the summit and had bul little difficulty and would reach Cook’s Inlet on its way outside before July 1.