Show TO DESCRIBE COOKS TRIP Mont SelL SeIt lh er 1 DI A Cook scaled scaler the heights of Mount or taIled 11 to 10 do so Ed Bd who was was a guill with lilt the tho Cook a rl r refuses ps to 10 s siy y when seen here hore t hy by a ive of tIn 1111 Associated 1 11 Iress 1169 decried lime tho emit cont lilt Into 1 wll which ieh Jk Cool Cook a fluid Comma nd I Pa Peary 1 lIa have 0 entangled mind ho he especially 51 the n action of the lie oilier 1 of the tho Cook ol party on tho ho lount trl for time the the they have havo made mado In relation to I that l or of course coune was tIme the only man with lm 11 Cook at time time In question and the tho statements by br other mom memo hers bels of the party part regarding the as ascent ascent cent of tIme leak arc nrc not made mado of their theiron on personal knowledge But I 1 dont see what that lint trip lias to 10 do with him tIme the North Polo Pole Whether Dr Cook did or did not nol climb Mount Ie not nol prove whether lie ho discovered time polo pole or not J I do not care to he drawn Into this controversy at this line but at lie proper propel limo I will make m 1113 statement time the Mutual lount McKInley I nm pro pre paring this statement now from the tho Illar diary which just what durin each do day of time the trip statement nt I propose to put into tho form or of m an affidavit and when Dr Cook Coo conies comes back to the tho United States I will give this statement to the pith lie Until that time limo J I have no state stale mont ment to make |