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STUCK M COOK
Archdeacon Stuck, who is Bishop
Howe's representative in interior
Alaska, insists that l)r. Cook did not
climb Mt. McKinley. The New York
Evening Post Prints the following
from Hie prelate:
When I reached Fairbanks a couple
of weeks ago. on my usual winter
journey, one of the newspapers of
that place had a leading article re
ferring to a liook recently published
by Mr. Edwin Swift Mulch, of Phila
delphia. in which an attempt is made
to revive Dr. Cook’s claim to have
■ climbed to the top of Denali, or Mt.
. McKinley, and the paper was urgent
; that I he "interviewed" on the sub
j ject. lint I had not seen the bookj
' and cannot possibly see it until the
!! summer, and I declined to say anything
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whatever. As I have traveled along
since then and have revolved the mat
ter In my mind, I have decided, how
ever, to write a few lines for your
paper, if you should see lit to publish
them, in view of the many months that
must elapse ere I can receive and ex
amine this book.
And first I would say that as my
party was glad to bring down con
firmation of the pioneer or “sour
dough" ascent of the north peak, dis
cerning the flag staff that had escaped
the searcli of Professor Parker and
Mr. Belmore Brown, so we would just
as readily have announced my con
firmation that had discoverd itself to
us of Dr. Cook's ascent. 1 had read
Dr. Cook’s book when it first appeared,
had read it again shortly before my
ascent of the mountain, and yet again,
with special attention to the chapter
in which be describes his attainment
of the summit, upon my return there
from.
It must not be forgotten that Dr.
Cook unquestionably knows more
about Denali up to an altitude of 10,
000 feet than any other man. He has
circumambulated the entire massive of
the two great companion peaks. Den
ali and Denali's Wife—the Mount Mc
Kinley and Mount Foraker of the pres
ent maps—and he has attempted the
ascent of the former from the south,
from the northwest and from the
north. All that may be described of
the upper regions from an elevation I
of about 10,000 feet (at which the rent;
difficulties of the ascent begin) he has
thus described from at least three dif
ferent points of view. And the des
criptions in his book are clear and
definite up to that limit. He may be
followed camp by camp, almost step
by step. But in the chapter in which
the ascent to the summit is narrated
is nothing clear or definite at all—the
whole chapter Is a rhapsody of “icy
infernos" and “heaven-kissed granite"
and I have forgotten what extrava
gances of turgid rhetoric. The
w hole chapter is just such a chapter as
a man would write who knew the lower
levels, but was ignorant of the
heights; he could not be more definite
without danger, his vagueness leaves
a lophole for defence. When I re-read
that chapter on my return from the
mountain I wns positively convinced
that it wjjs not written by a man who
had climbed to its summit or had been
much above 10,000 feet of It.
If Mr. Took, approaching the moun
tain from the south, climbed to the
summit hy the northeast arreate (al
though my recollection Is that the
hook is vague even on this cardinal
point), he must have crossed at least
two and probably three lofty icy ridges
themselves high mountains, ascend
ing to their crests, descending thous
ands of feet to the glaciers below, ana
ascending the opposite sides, a task
the mere physical distance and labor
of which would be utterly out of the
question In the two or three days he
gives to whole ascent. Ho could not
reach the northeast arreate at all save
from one or other of the arms of the
Muldrow glacier, and the northeast ar
rente is Hie only path to the summit of
the mountain.
No one, the summer through, with
the most powerful glasses, has ever
detected the slightest sullying of the
snows of the summit, such ns the
presence of naked granite slabs would
cause; thus the one definite state
merit touching the top of the moun
tain to which Dr. Cook commits him
self would seem to betray him. We
found what had every apppearance
of everlasting snow not only at the
toi>, but for the last 1,500 feet of the
ascent.
If McEdwin Swift Baich can con
vince the councils of the Alpine clubs
and the Geographical societies that
Dr. Cook reached the top of Denali,
1 shall cheerfully relinquish a claim to
priority to which I have never at
tached much importance. I desired
to climb the mountain; that desire has
been gratified, and I care little more
whether or not it were climbed before
than I do haw many times it may ue
climbed again. Yesterday, as I jour
neyed to this place, where I lie over
Sunday on my way to Iditarod, I saw
the groat mountain from its most
picturesque side, not more than sixty
or seventy miles away, dazzlingly
splendid in the winter sun, and it
seemed a shame that it should be the
subject of controversy, that accusa
tions of fraud and falsehood should
center around its immaculate head. I
protest, so far as my own claim to
the first ascent is concerned, I would
not trouble to put pen to paper in
defense of it. I am very much more
interested in securing the restoration
of the native names of these moun
tains than in the matter of the first
ascent.
But everybody knows that much else
is concerned; everybody knows that
the establishment of this claim is
sought mere ns the vantage ground for
the establishment of a far more im
portant claim; and as I see It, it be
comes my duty to offer my very decid
ed and deliberate opinion that this
claim is not founded on Tact. The
opinion must go for what it is worth;
it is not my place to weigh it against
the opinion of the "arm-chair” geog
raphers, as George Vancouver used to
call them. But I will venture with
all confidence this, that any man who
having read Dr. Cook's book, shall
himself climb to the top of the moun
many more times, or, having climbed
many more times-, or, having climbed
the mountain, shall read Dr. Cook's
i JAPANESE ENVOY TO BIG FAIR.
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Photo by American Press Association.
Admiral Huron Shtjfeto Hewn, the mikado's representative to the Panama
Pacific exposition, with Hear Admiral Nathaniel It. Usher of the Brooklyn
navy yurd Admiral Dewa la at the left of the picture
book, will never be convinced by all
the special pleading in the world that
the man who wrote that book had
climbed where he climbed and stook
where he stood.
HUDSON STUCK
Archdeacon of the Yukon
Lake Mlnchumlna, Alaska. Quadra
gesima, 1916.
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FIRST CENSUS TAKEN
SHIP CREEK TOWN
The first censue tins boon taken of
Ship Creek by Keith McCullough, for
merly of Cordova, who has evidently
grasped a knowledge of the fact that
people everywhere want to know ex
actly how the now famous town is
coming out. Mr. McCullough says
that numerous good-sized log buildings
are nearing completion, but most of
tho homos are tents.
The following persons have located
and built cabins at Ship Creek up to
April 1, 1916.
A. G. Dickenson, A Jensen, C. L.
Cole. Ike McCullough. T. J. Robert
son, Jake Young, ('has. IMnkston, A.
Morlette, Thomas Patterson, Murdock
McLean, L. N. Markle, Tex Jones,
Robertson Matlieson, Louis Jensen,
Alex Frazer, Robert Small, Ray Un
ion, Ceo. Wagner. Robt. Speck, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Dixon and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McCullough, Mr
ami Mrs. Charles Jones, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. I). (Bud)
Whitney, Mrs. White, Fred Kincaid.
A. Wise, Joe Curtain, Morton D. Mc
Mahon, Hank O’Connell, Joe Prairie,
John Oleson, John Workman, Edward
Krause, Peter Sennatt, Billy Murray,
Fred Carlson, Thomas Blackburn,
W. H. Kirkpatrick, W. S. Perkins
Elmer Dortt, Ceo. Bales. Fred Wright,
John Collins, Paul Klams, Ralph
Smith, A1 Carlson, James Dunphy,
Ed. Taggart, Albert Clarno, Charley
Gilbert, Clarence Atkinson, H. Molen,
Henry McKinnon, Edward Nichelson,
Al. Ainsley, Mike Reilly and partner,
A. Beet. George (Skookum) Johnson,
Keith McCullough, P. S. Barbay
Frank Sramlell, Steve Bismark, David
C. Mahoney, A. II. Madsen, W. M.
Johnson.
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MANY OUTFITS IN
There is a friendly rivalry in the
Broad Pass country in an effort to
locate a ledge found last fall by Ben
Thrasher. Trasher discovered a big
lode, took samples, but did not lo
locate any claims. He told friends
of his find, although did not reveal
the exact location, as he intended to
locate it himself should the assays
show values. The outcrop showed
a yellowish stain, caused by arsenic.
As is \*ell known, the chief values in
the Broad Pass ores are in the arsen
ides.
Thrasher, while enroute to the
ritates, was stricken and died at Val
lez. An assay from one of the sam
i>!es, gave a return of $28 in gold per
on. Hence the eagerness to find
he lost lode. It is believed to be
somewhere on Ohio Creek.
The following persons, with outfits,
ire in the Broad Pass country:
W. E. Dunkle, mining engineer, rep
resenting the Guggenheims, and sev- J
»ral men. ]
The Wells Brothers and Coffey, orlg- ]
nal discoverers. |
ltowker Brothers, P. C. O'Donnell,
Taulman & Haley, D. J. H. McPallie,
l.enfors & Peterson, Don S. Rue. A.
J. Sampson, Smith & Benson, Martin
dale & Denny, Frisbie & Murray,
Fourchier & Hicks, William Stewart,
Laugel & Miller, Paton & Grant, Ken
yon At Spaulding. Nelson & Wilson,
George Wolf, Gus Johnson, Kelly &
Uydell, Stroubstradter party.
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