Show EXPLORERS CLUB crops DROPS C OOK COOK holds that alleged discoverer of pole practiced fraud on public new york the board of governors of the explorers club met last friday In executive session and standing in fir silence voted with bowed heads dr frederick A cook willbe will be dropped from the rolls of the club for frauds fraud practiced on its members and on the public i Com coming ingbard hard upon tile the beels of the e rushing crushing verdict lately rendered bythe bye university of copenhagen the action of the explorers club friday Is the result of independent investigation which in no lie way touch upon the polar controversy and the weight or of its disapproval thus becomes cumulative preliminary to tie its vote of the board met to pass upon the report of its committee that has been investigating ti the validity of dr cooks assertion that lie he reached the summit of nit mt mckinley this committee in concluding an exhaustive report reel recommended om that dr cooks claims that he ascended to the summit of mt alt mckinley in 1906 be rejected by bv the explore explorers club Rs ns not worthy of credence strike soon to be settled st paul doth both tile the railroads ani the men are now sanguine of an early seti settlement lement of the strike difficulties governor eberhardt through whose efforts the strikers and the railroads were enabled to reopen negotiations 4 and W ho was the first to suggest aref a reference of the quest loni involved to the chicago conference de declares lareR that the outlook tor for an immediate settlement isan is leht the engineers aut firemen have now presented demands demand sr for an ail increase of 15 to 40 per cent in wages |