Show ER ATTEMPT TO 10 DISCREDIT COOK Seattle Wash Sept SS P Beech or of Wash rash who accompanied Dr Frederick A Cook In his Mount expedition alleges that the doctor did not make the tho us as ascent cent as claimed Beecher said In an I Interview toda today that none of the tho eight men IDen employed on the expedition was wa paid except the photographer Walter Waltor WalterP P Miller who withhold the until he received his money mone Nr Mr Beecher continued Cook dl did not set got to Lo the top of Mount McKinley All of the photo photographs graphs used to his book boole could read readily 11 be Identified as views or of I lower levels He took with him a small camera which he could himself and pretended to bring back backa I Ia a sot act of pictures to prove ho he had gone gono I I II to the top In his first stor story when ho sot got back ho said Mid that the tho was wa covered with snow but bul his alleged plc pic tures of the peak show rocks and soft drift sums snow In which foot prints can be recognized There Is not nol a picture l that Mr Ir or could I not recognize as having been taken at al a 1000 foot Coot level Before Cool took loOk I and marI made his alleged trip fO o othe the tho summit h he divided his party varl Mr lr MIller anti and Print Printa were sent up the I riVer rier while Brown and t I went up the river to wait valt for Cooks return At Old Knik at al the head of Knik I Arm I met mel a party or of five minors miners who had just como come down the tho III a row boat They reported that thc they had Dr Cook and Barrill headed beaded up the river In a launch The week that these miners reported having met I Cook was tho time timo he says SIlS he malo mado his trip to the tho summit of Mount Mc Ic KInley Instead or of being on a trip to the tho peak he was peacefully travel fn lag up the river In a launch It would have been beon a physical Im ImpossIbility possIbility for anybody to reach the tho top tOl of Mount McKinley during tho week he says ho he made the tho ascent ascenti i There was not enough between the tho meeting or of the five ve minors miners all and Cook on the tho rIver and Cooks return to have made an any attempt to reach the tho top of oC course there is no means of knowing what Cooks plan was we weare are arc convinced that lie he the tho party and took with h hIm m be because because cause he had to have one companion and one was vas safer to trust with a fake stor than the party part |