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Show Alaska Miner Butts Into Controversy, Bellingham, Wash. Jacob Suter, a former Alaska miner aud mountaineer, mount-aineer, has issued a statement in which he says Dr. Cook never reached the top of Mount McKinley, and that the explorer was farced to abandon his attempt to gain the summit after climbing eight thousand feet, a wall of ice barring his further ascent. Suter Su-ter claims to have witnessed Cook's performance through a pair of field glasses, and he says that Mount McKinley Mc-Kinley can never be ascended. |