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p IS COOK A FIXER ? DAMAGIM. CIIAW.K M \ 1 >I BY MT. McKIMl V tiUlDF. Id win S. Harri: 1. Vi ho Wsa Dr. Cook ? Hole Companion on Trip Up Ml. McKinley. Make* Affidavit That Twcy Never Benched Summit of Mountain ami That Dr. Cook Delllr eratrly Faked Records and Made False Statement* In HI* Hook. New York. Oct. 14 ? The Olobe this afternoon print* a copy of the affida? vit made by K lwin N. tiarrlll. who accompanied Lr. Frederick A. Cook at the time he announced his reach? ing the summit of Mount McKinley. The affidavit was made before a no? tary public at Tacoma. Wash., on Oc? tober 4. and has Just been received in New York. Barrlll'a affidavit states la affect that he was the only person t with Dr. Cook on the date a he claima to have reached the salt of Mount McKlnlej; that they did not la fact reach the summit, and the nearest point to tie summit | reached waa at leaat 14 miles distant ( from the summit of that mountain, the elevation at no time exceeding 18.800 feet. Barrllls aft davit also | bv brings Into question a number of the . photos?aphe which Dr. Cook has 1 given as representing the summit and other high altitudes of Mount McKin? ley. Barrlll | affidavit says at the outset . that he was born In Buffalo In 1884 and now resides at Darby, Mont. He he was the only pa ty present with Dr. Cook when he claims to have reached the summit of Mo int McKin? ley and that he la the party referred I to as Barrllle or Edward Barrllle In Dr. Cook'a book entitled "To the Top f the Continent." bearing on the ex? pedition to Mount McKtnloy. He de? tails hut f.rst meeting with Dr. Cook at Mlsaoula. where the latter was ne> oomnanled by Prof. Parker, of Co? lumbia university. R. W. Porter and ot here The organisation of Mount McKin expedition ia explained, the mem? bers consisting of Fred Prints, a galde, Belmore Brown, sn artist and natorillst of Tacoma; Walter Miller, a photographer of Seattle; Samuel i Baseler, who acted as cook tor the ^art> and Barrlll. The party sailed Brom Seattle May 17. 190?. Barrlll re 'counts that at the start of the trip he prepared to keep an exact diary and sots forth that hla diary, marked Ex hlbl A. attached to the affidavit, "Is a pocket dltry kept by me during all |tfcs time ?hat Dr. Cok and I were to Pvethe* near Mount McKinley and the same is a truthful record, with the exception of the entires and changes made by me therein um\er the order of I>t OevJuV The diary referred to by Barrlll as attached to the afflda fceit Is now In possession of the Nev. rTsrk Globe. The affidavit then proceeds ss fol? lows: "On the even...g of September 9. 1908. Dr. Cook and 1 started alone for the purpose of exploring Mount Mc ^Klnley. He Informed me before start ring that hm purpose was to find a way for aacending the mountain, a? he and Prof. Parker intended to climb th* mountain the following year. "As shown by my diary, we took to the Ice on September 9. From and Including the 9th down to and includ hing the 18th of September, all writ Hnga In my disry are by me, but were made under the direction of Dr. Cook. I also changed the dates during this time under his direction. The figures lt.OOe on the date of September 12 were changed by me at the dlrectljn fcy?f Dr. Cook. On September 12 Dr. ^Cook directed me to stop keeping my diary snd lesve the pages therein blank. I can not now remember the exact dates or figures which l had In my diary, before I was so directed to ? hange them, but I know the elev ? - Qpon under what now appears Septem? ber 11 whs not exceeding 9,000, and I think it was 8.000. "We quit any further attempts to? wards ascending the mountain upon Septem be r 15 and returned to the ytoat. a gasolln?- launch, nam.-d 15?.t *ehey. which lay In the water at the foot of the glSOief. We reached the launch on pt. mb.r 1 :?. having tra\ sled 18 mibs or more on the 'op of the glachr from the piece we qu't climbing on September I a "On Septem? ff 1?. when at our *flr*t tamp returning fr<?ir tin* glaeitr. i do< ? mi. aaaged ihe sa tries therein from and including September ? down and Including s? p ?mher I .. These changes wer.- in ?de under the orders al 1? Cook. From th* 12th to the lfth was written at Ihe href kesmp returning on Ihs nlghi ol i?th and from the 16th t<? and in. lud the iKth was written in OUf l i t camp returning on the .evenin- .f Ihe lsth. and wnit.n solely under the d: of l?r Cook und Just ih hj hlMV l i ..m and Including September IV? iPWtl |0 the end of the diary on Novcmb? i ?.?. the entrlee therein are my own. Tin y ' cover the actual facts, and sysfl not dictated to me by any one. I?r ?'...-k first told gf| t.. stop gtf diary on S?-pt. iiiImt I .*. when vs.- v\. i ? In our fifth camp going up the glaOtOT, snd st or near the pol it which Dr. Cook claimed as the top of Mount Me Klnle). This point was within sight of us at the time. Dr. Cook stated at this time and place that the same condition existed there as did exist on the top of Mount McKinley and di? rected me to stop my diary until fur? ther orders. At this time he had heen to the top of point claimed hy the doctor as the top of the mountain and the doctor had taken a photograph of the point with me standing on the top thereof, with the American Hag in my hand. The photograph to which I refer is shown opposite page 227 of the doctor's hook, entitled "To tho Top of jhe Continent,, before men? tioned. The Jagged marks on the apex of the snow in that picture, and shown from the bottom of the plctur? up to the granite rock form? ing the top of the point are my foot? marks and those of Dr. Cook. My best recollections of this are as fol? lows: Dr. Cook and I went to the top of this point together and he said, 'We will go back down and get a pic? ture of this.' We did not take our < bags with us to the top of the point, havina left them down in the saddle above the glacier. We then both went down from the point to where our bags and had been left. The doctor took the American flag out of one of the bags and handed it to me and i .*ent me back to the top of the point, | and tcld me to hold It here on end of the ice axe. which I did. "The doctor then with his camera took the picture shown opopslte page 227. which picture is there designated as "The Summit of Mount McKinley* in his work, 'To the Top of the Con tlnert.' The truth being that the sum? mit of Mount McKinley was over 20 miles distant In an air line from the point where my picture was so taken, according to the scale on Dr. Cook's map shown between pages 152 and 153 in the book referred to above. I then came- down with the flag to where Dr. Cook was standing with his camera, and I made the remark that the eight peaks on the other side of point where I had been photogranhed would probably show in the picture, nnd he said that he had taken the picture at auch an angle that those peaks would not show. The peaks to which I refer are sketched by me in my diary on the page Just preceding the date appearing therein as Septem* ber 9. and on the pages following September 12. Those peaks were so sketched and numbered by me when I was in the camps opposite them where I could have a fine view, of them. The camps where I so sketch? ed the peaks are the camps marked upon my drawing 'Exhibit C here? unto attached, as the sixth and eighth camps when we were going up the glacier. "When we were In the saddle near Ihe p<ont where I was photographed I mads a drawing of what I named I >'l ?<?:. i Point.' At the name time and ? nt 1 made a drawing of Mount Mc Kn ley as 1 could see the top of M unit McKinley off to the northwest, ami. I should say. at least 10 miles away. This drawing of Glacier Point and Mount McKinley shown In diary. SP] the fourth and fifth pages of the ?1.etches therein, represents condi? tions as they appeared to me upon the ground. Dr Cook stood by my side when I was making these sketches, using his instruments for the purpose of taking temperature, ? ?I vations and the like. We remain? ed on the saddle after I was photo? graphed on the point for about one half hour, during which I sketched as Share stated, and the doctor used his instruments. "A'hen I came down from the point and handed the doctor the flag in ad? dition to what I stated above, he made several other remarks and there was more or less talking done which I do not now recall; but whether at that e place or thereafter between the 12th and 16th of the month when my diary w is dOClorad to fit the conditions that this point was the top, he said to me as follows: 'That point would make a good top for Mount McKinley. It looks Just about like the gunsight peak would look on Mount McKinley, which we had been looking at from Ihe saddle* "In about half an hour after the p|( lures w? re taken we fixed tip our packs Shd at about 10:30 or 11 o'clock OR September 13, we started down and arrived on the place desig? nated I.) exhibit as sixth camp. the I ? tor i tying lhat he wanted to go around there In order to gel farther U| 1 the main glacier, so as to get a l/lew of the X. E. ridge leading to the summll of Mount McKinley so i iscertalfl If that ridge was con ? ' nl with do- top of the mountain ?a thai it would have an appearance ml ST tO that he would have to give il In his writings. As the (lector had tie mountain from hi] sides ex eeptlng thol Side and as this was the where he proposed to claim* thai i ii climbed it. he wished lo know i iture .t Ihs ridge hading up to 1 top ol the mountain so that he could write al.t it as It appeared. In i his M S I ul In the balance of ihe 18th and all of the 14th and 18th days of Heptembej and al tin- eighth camp on September i", Dr. Coos' made his observations. Of the ridge* We then turneil back from this camp for the reason that we had b<nh fallen through crevasses as stated In the diary and we considered it too dang? erous to proceed further without snow shoes and the doctor had obtained a good view of the ridge, which was what he wanted. "I was with Dr. Cook continuously every day during the time which he was trying to ascend the mountain in the year 1906, and the nearest point to the summit we reached was at least 14 miles distant from the sum? mit of Mount McKinley and at no time did we reach an elevation in ex? cess of 10,000 feet and the doctor told me when were were at the place where my picture was taken that we were not over 8,000 feet high. I neg? lected to state that on the 16th of September and on the evening of Sep? tember 9, Dr. Cook asked me if I was willing to stay with him. I said, 'Yes,' when he said, 'I will see you get $200 extra for doing so. "The photograph opposite page 171 in Dr. Cook's book above mentioned and described therein as "The Eastern Ciffs of Mount McKinley* are not such cliffs, but are a part of the eastern slope of the eighth peak of the peaks above mentioned, and drawn by me in my diary attached hereto. "The photograph opposite page 192 in Dr. Cook's book was taken the evening of the same day that he took me with the flag at which he claims as the top of Mount McKinley and was taken at camp 6, shown on at? tached Exhibits C and D. The camp in this picture is noted therein to be at ' 5,000 feet. This being so, the point where my picture was taken with the flag should not exceed 7,000 feet as the 5,000 feet camp was estab? lished from six to eight hours after my picture was so taken. ? "The drawing shown opposite page 204 of Dr. Cook's book above men? tioned is entirely false, as we never built a snow house on the trip, al? though the diary, as dictated by the doctor, says so; nor did we shake hands or have any other similar cere? monies as stated in the diary. "The drawing opposite page 209 of the doctor's book Is also false. We never climbed anything half as steep as there shown and we never estab? lished any camp nor slept as there shown. We slept every night upon comparatively level spots. "The photograph opposite page 226 in the doctor's book, entitled, 'In the Silent Glory and Snowy Wonder of the Upper World, 15,400 Feet,' was taken two or three hours before the taking of my picture with the flag and was taken in the amphitheatre about one mile northeasterly of the point where I was photographed." . We offer One Hundred Dollars Re? ward for any cast* of Catarrh that cannot be* cur. d by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Wt\ the undei-sii;ned, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and ilnan eially abte to carry out any obliga? tions made by his firm. WALD I NO, KINN AN & MARVIN. Wholesade Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the systenx. TssUllUinlall sent tree. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. 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