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Show ALASKAN MINER SAYS COOK FAKED STORY SEATTLE. Ian. o. A . T. Burton, an Alaskan prospector, who has just arrived ar-rived from the north and whom Or Frederick A. Cook according to a magazine mag-azine article published some time ago, alleged he rescued from, a. bear, said today to-day thai the story was untrue. "The year of Dr. Cook's last trip lo Alaska I saw ISdwanl Rarrlll at Howard, and ns he was an old friend. 1 gave him a photograph of myself." said Burton today. to-day. "Later I had an experience with a. hear that raifte near ending my life and was chewed up pretty severely. "I was greatly surprised when the Cook magazine article was published after aft-er he returned lo this country to see in it my picture and the story of my experience ex-perience with the bear. Conk told how Ills parte had rescued me from the jaws of death. As a matter of fact Cook was not within IfiO mllo of me nt the time the bear and I mlNcd In that magar.lne also was a picture of my struggle with the bear, whleh of course was a fake.'' |