Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-09-16 | Page 13 | Cook's Backer after Records of Explorer

COOK'S BACKER AFTER RECORDS OF EXPLORER COPENHAGEN. Sept. 15. Tho Danish Dan-ish steamer Hans Eeue arrived here today to-day with the news that John H. Bradley, Brad-ley, the financial backer of Dr. Frederick Freder-ick A. Cook's north pole expedition, was on bis way to Etah tot secure tho much-talked of records and instruments which Cook has said he left at that Eskimo Es-kimo settlement northeast of Greenland. Green-land. The captain of the schooner thinks that Cook is -with Bradley, but gives no particular reason for this belief. be-lief. The Hans Eccde, which is the vessel on which the explorer traveled to civilization, civili-zation, fell in with a yacht at Godhaven. a Danish settlement on tho south coast of Disco island, Greenland, and in the course of exchanges between the masters mas-ters learned that Bradley was aboard the other craft. The polar hunt promoter admitted his identity and explained that ho was bound for Eeth to recover whatever had been Jeft there by Dr. Cook. Ho refused, re-fused, however, to either deny or confirm con-firm the report that ho was accompanied by tho explorer. The government vessel, also brings the information that two missionaries, who are working among the Eskimos who accompanied Cook on this expedition say that these Eskimos insist that the doctor doc-tor reached tho north pole, as he claims, prior to its discovery by Commander Peary.