Show to fiGS sensational STORY friend of explorer cook accuse accuses j peary of taking possession of he his rivals arctic retreat copenhagen the iken publishes a remarkable letter giving dr frederick A cooke cooks version ot at the with commander peary over au aplies tupp lles the letter was written by hr dr clansen a prominent danish physician who several times visited greenland to study eye die eases now that dr cook has gone he writes I 1 am no louger longer under an obligations to keep silent and will exer also my right to publish the stor about the bouse house in ahnatook Anna took a story w which dr cook himself had too much dell delicacy cacy to relate to tho the world I 1 write it from memory as dr cook told it to me and I 1 am fully con vinced that in no detail are my decol sections wrong dr cook had built hia his house for stores in ahnatook Anna took north of etah and it waa was this depot which he started to re reich retch in february 1909 crossing smith sound it waa was a pretty largo large bouse house the walls being built of heavily filled tilled provision boxes so that dr cook knew know that when this important point waa was reached everything was sate lie ile had before the start given elon sion to a young friend named whit I 1 ney to use the house while hunting musk oxen for sport in the winter of 1908 1900 when dr cook and his two eckl moi maj exhausted and half starved came within a short distance of the bouse house in ahnatook Anna took young whitney came out to bid him welcome but inside the house was a stranger a giant newfoundland found land boatswain on an watch this man had bee been n p paced lac ed la in or dr C cooks 00 k Is house by peary when the latter passed etah with his ship bound north peary had given tho the boatswain a written order which commenced with the following words this house belongs to dr fred erick A cook but dr cook Is long ago dead and there Is no use to search aaker him therefore 1 I commander hobert robert 11 peary install my boatswain la in this deserted house nis paper the boatswain who coid neither read nor write exhibited to dr cook and the latter took a copy thi this copy however he does not in tend to publish if course courso does not force him to do so dr cook gave me a lively account of how the young millionaire whitney during the whole winter was treated like a dog by the boats boatswain aln and how he ie had witnessed the sailor bartering dr coal cooks a provision provisions for to fox and bear skins for him self dr cook also had to put a good faco face on the unpleasant situation ho ile hid had to beg to get into his own house and bad had to make a compromise with the boats boatswain aln |