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THE NOME NUGGET
ALASKA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1024.
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KKKLRTONS OF FOUR MEN
FOUND ON HERALD
ISLAND BY SCH. HERMAN
Following is pn interview ob
tained by the Nugget from Sydney
A. Snow of the Snow African Wild
Came Moving Picture Company, of
Oakland. California, who waa a
member of the motorship Herman
party, which returned this week
from a cruise in Arctic waters and
Herald Island, which is in the vic
inity of Wrangell Island. Capt.
Louis Lane reports that this was j
the worst trip in Arctic waters j
he has ever experienced. Mr.;
Snow tells of their trip and finding 1
of the four skeletons of human be
ings on Herald Island and the re
markable capture alive of a mam
moth Polar Bear, the largest ever
taken alive.
The remains of the four men
found on the island it is presumed
were former members of the Stef
anason-Canadian Arctic Expedition,
being members of the ill-fated Kar
Ink expedition. The names of the
four men who deserted from the
main party ofter the wreck of the
Karluk and known as the Doctor’s
party, are as follows: Dr. A. For
bes Mackay, James Murray, H.
Beuchat and 8. S. Morris. They
addressed a letter to Captain Bart
let as follows:
Canadian-Arctic Expedition.
Sunday Feb. 1st. 1914.
Captain Robert Bartlett, ,
We the undersigned, in consider
ation of the present critical situa
tion, desire to make an attempt to
reach the land. Wo ask you to as
sist us by issuing to us from the
general stores all necessary sledg
ing and camping provisions and
-epuipnie;nt for the proposed jour
ney as per partite requisition al
ready handed to you. On the un
derstanding that you do so and
continue as heretofore to supply
us with our proportional share of
provisions while we remain in
camp, and in the event of our find
ing it necessary to return to camp,
we declare that we undertake the
journey on our own initiative and
absolve you from any responsibil
ity whatever in the mutter.
Signed by the four above-men
tioned men.
-These four men were outfitted
by Capt. Bartlett and each., man
pulling a sled with his outfit by
means of a rope or harness over
his shoulders started for Wrnn
gel Island but never reaehed there
having met with storms and open
leads. It has been presumed all
these years that they perished on
the ice, but Capt. Louis Lane be
lieves that the remains found
showed that they had reaehed Her
ald Island.
The Summer the Karluk surviv
ors were rescued from Wrangel Is
land the Motorship King and Wing
the Cutter Bear and the Steamer
Corwin all maneuvered around
Herald Island looking for signs of
life, but to no avail, due to heavy
ice and the lateness of the season
the vessels were compelled to sail
back to Nome without being able
to put a landing party ashore.
D. M. Labordafs, formerly sec
retory to Stefansson. made the trip
north on the Herman with the ob
ject of procuring first hand Infor
mation for a book which he ex
pects to pnbllsh later.
Following Is the story obtained
from Mr. Snow:
"After leaving Nome and bound
for the Arctic ocean the Herman
ran into head seas and storms
from the northeast. This made
Captain Lane abandon his hope
of salvaging the motorship Lady
Kindersley and we left Cape Lls
bourne and headed for Wrangell
and Herald Islands. We had a
conple days good weather and It
was on the second of these good
days that we came upon our first
Polar bear. He was a big brute
weighing, I should say, about one
thousand pounds and all bear.
Captain Lane granted to know
what I wanted to do and I took
the whale boat -but wanted him
to act as my gunman and keep
me out of the reach of that big
brute’s black-clawed, shaggy white
foreleg. We had the boat manned
by white and Eskimo crew and
took after him. I sat up in tbe
bow of the boat and shot scenes
of him swimming, climbing ont
on the ice and running over It
•Hr to dive In at the farther
Bide. We stayed pretty close to
him and after about twenty min
utes chase he decided to charge.
The schooner Herman came up
close and he picked the smaller
of the two boats and I think, me
in particular. His swimming
was fast and furious and in the
next two or three seconds of film
which would be two or three feet
£ got on the silver emulsion s
determined a charge as a bei-.r
ever put up in the Arctic ocean.
Need I mention that the f'aptain ;
saved my life just as I was pre
paring to make a picture of a
bear climbing into a whale boat?
“I hardly got my magazines re
loaded with film when bear No. 2,
which hereafter will be known as
Sid Wrangell, went strolling along
the main pack, unconscious that
his tormentors were close at hand
It. took a bit of clever maneuvei -
ing of the Herman by the Captain
and we were again on the wak
of a polar bear whose scarred and
scratched old face hooded about
eighteen hundred- or two thousand
pounds of the toughest and strong- i
est flesh and hide that swims the!
Arctic waters. This old fehow
proved to be the wonder diving!
bear so far seen in the Arctic,
according to the Captain, who is
by far the. critic on animal life
in the Arctic Ocean.
! "Footage soon ran into the hun
dreds and as he tired a bit we
pulled up close to him and soon
a clever throw by the skipper
held him fast, the lasso a copper
cable came fast around the groio
and after many a tug and puil
the crew on the end of the line
got him fast to the capstan. A
net was lowered and in two hours
and a little over we lowered him
into the cage, which took ns
nearly a month ‘..o build while we
lay in Y;«ba<j* waiting the
arrival of otl'f m w ' crankshaft.
Then if was that rnv heart sank,
for the hour was lat- and the
evenings in the Arctic darken
quickly at this time of the year
also my cage seined to be made
of burned niandles and it took
my efforts and the mate's to keep
that bear from breaking free
[again. We kept him from break
j ing out by maWng him turn from
one side to the other. T thought
many a tint*- that the Captain
would have to kill him to save
both our lives as we three were
about all that were left on the
deck. When we finally got the
cage down and on the level, you
can b«*t we strengthened it with
four by fours, chains and wire.
Skeleton* of l our Men Pound on
Herald Island
“For days again we tossed
around in winds and swell and
finally got into Herald Island
where we layed at anchor two
days before we got ashore and
raised the flag for the United
States. The wind subsiding, we
went from the southeastern end
of the island to the southwestern
and It was while going in this di
rection that the Captain sighted
what appeared to be the skeleton
of a sleigh. We went ashore and
there on the sand spit of that
lonely and far off 'friendly arctic.’
isle and we found the rema’ps of
>»♦. least four white men who by
the rutflt we knew to In* the lost
party, or part of th-?-»» of the 1
flefanson-Canadian Exp» - ,
vMtion ship Ka^Iuk, whch was
lost in 1914 in command of Oapt.
Bartlett, who it will' be recalled. ;
was in Nome on the Coast C-unrd f
Cutter Bear this year.
“It was a clear day and I took t
four or live hundred feet of film ,
picturing the whole thing. Four
lower jaws were found, two guns,
a watch, compass, all badly spoiled
by time, a dog sleigh and plenty
of food remained and by the
looks of the camp and other
things, we judged that they had
not been there over a month at
the time of their death, and most
likely came there in a state of
terrible frost-bitten feet and
hands. No sign of any carrion
was to be found. We left that
Island and rolled around 'Some
more. A week later we returned
[o get some protection from an
other northwester and here this
time we had a Are at twelve at
light. The Captain still hunted
tor whales but the old strife iced
I
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(Continued o^Pa*e Seven)
LATE TtUGRAPH BREVITIES
Santa Anna, Oct. 16. (AP)—The
Shenandoah passed here at eleven
fifteen escorted by six airplanes,
bound for San Francisco.
SHENANDOAH RUCKING WINDS
ABOARD SHENANDOAH. Oct.
17, (AP) — Rucking a twenty mile
an hour head wind, the Dirigible
Shenandoah cut diagonally from
Point Argulla to Point Peidras
Blancas last night, sailing fifteen
hundred feet over the ocean as
steadily as if the moonlit night
were calm, making under thirty
miles an hour. Occasionally the
crew of the dirigible saw a ship on
the oce,an.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 17. (AP)
—The Dirigible Shenandoah was
delayed in a storm last night, ac
cording to a message to Mayor
Rolf. The message said that the
mammoth airship would not fly
over San Francisco until her re
IUJTLER SAYS REPUBLICANS
WILL COLLECT LOT MORE
CHICAGO. Oct. 18. (AP)—But
ler told Borah that the Committee
of Republicans expected to collect
one million three hundred thous
and more to carry the work of e!
ecting their Presidential and Con
gressional ticket.
CHICAGO. Oct. IS. (AP)—But
ler said that the sum to make up
the budget was three million dol
lars. which was decided on at the
outset of the campaign. He declar
ed that this sum was necessary for
a "vigorous campaign."
RECOMMEND ABOLITION OF
DEPARTMENT INTERIOR
CHICAGO. Oct. 18. (AP • -An
administrative order of the Amur
ican Engineering Council, in ses
sion here, recommended the aboli
tion of the present Federal Depart
ment of the Interior and the sub
stitution in its stead a Depart
ment of Public Works.
KOHIM.1T, famous FUKIJUIST
OKA I) IX WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. (API —
II. H. Kohlsaat, the famous Chica
go journalist and publicist, died at
the home of Herbert Hoover hero
Herman H. Kohlsaat was well
the with Chicago newspapers He
owned and edited at different
times the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Chicago Ttmes-Herald. Chicago
Record-Herald and Chicago Even
ing Post. For more than 30 years
he was active in the public affairs
of the city of Chicago both as an
editor and as a private citizen.
CHANG'S ARMY DRIVEN OUT
PEKING, Oct. 1S *AP*—Thai
official communique today said
that Chang’s army had been driven
beyond the great wall.
COST OF LIVING GONE UP
WASHINGTON. Octt. 18. lAP)
The Bureau of Labor has re
ported that the cost of living in
creased about two per cent from
August 15th., to September 15th.
['OOLIDGE8 HOST TO ACTORS
WASHINGTON. Oct. 18. (AP)—
['resident Coolidge was host at a ;
>reakfast today for forty actors
ind actresses who are members of .
:he Coolidge-Dawes Theatrical |
league.
»TEAMKR PRINCE ALBERT
LIBELLED FOR LARGE SUM
VICTORIA. Oct. 18. (AP)—The
teamer Prince Albert of the Grand
rrunk Pacific Steamship Lines,
tas been libeled for ninety thous
ind . dollars hv the Commercial
’able Company of New York. The
’able Company asserted that rum
tinners loading from the Prince
Hbert off San Francisco cut the
•acfflc Cable by using ft to catch
heir anchors.
STEP A NS80N SA3T8 RUSSIA’S
CLAIM VRANGEL WEAK |
NEW YORK. Oct. 18. (AP)~
Stefgnison declared here yesterday
that the Russian claim to Wran
gel Island is historically weak. He
Said Great Britain and the United
States alone had any show of title
to the Island. Leonard Baldwin,
attorney for the I^omen Reindeer
and Trading Corporation received
a telegram from >Jome giving the
Soviet version. Baldwin said that
the Island colony was a private
venture by Carl Lomen, undertak
en at the request of Stefansson.
He Raid that as far as he knew
neither Great Britain or the United
States ever promised protection to
any Wrange! Island colony.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 18. (AP) —
Officials today said that if the pro
moters of the Wrangei Island col
ony had sought the attitude of the
Government they would have been
tdvised against undertaking the
venture The officials are of the
• •pinion, judging from the treat
ment of Americans falling into
their hands at one time or anoth
er. will merely ship colonists out
NEW YORK. Oct. is. (AIM
Stefansson said today that Wells,
who was in charge of the colony
on Wrangei Island lived at Union
town. Pennsylvania, and declared
that Wells founded the colony for
the United States and not Great
Britain He said "This situation
is up to the United States.”
POLICY GOVERNMENT ALASKA
STUPI1K SAYS JOSLIN
SEATTLE. Oct. IS. (Apt -Fal
con Joslin speaking yesterday at
a luncheon given hv the Young
Mens’ Business Club as a part of
the celebration of Alaska Week,
declared that the policy of the
Government toward Alaska during
recent years has been stupid. He
said that the right plans would
soon increase the population of Al
FRENCH < ’A 111 NET FAILS
A(.’ltKE RECOGNIZE RUSSIA
PARIS. (Jot. IK. (AP) Thu Cab
inet. after a two day’s session, has
BRITISH grOTA HAWES
LOAN OVER SritSCRIREII
LONDON. Oft. IK. i AP) Sub-!
scriptions of (ireat Britain of'
loan, today totalled $150,160,000.1
It was unofficially announced that
the British portion of the loan has
been subscribed thirteen times
RAMESES THE FIFTH
HIED WITH SMALLPOX j
New York. Oct. 16. f AP)—S.
Elliot Smith. Egyptologist of the
l niversity College of London told >
the Acedemy r»f medicine last night
mies showed that I^haroah of Ex
odus had hardened arteries and j
Raineses the Fifth died with a
sort of smallpox. He stated that |
cancer, rheumatism and nastoad
ittis were common four thousand
years ago but gout and leprosy
weie almost absent at that time.
Moscow. Oct . 16, < A P) —- The
rise in the river Amur of twelve
feet has caused floods that have
submerged two villages and killed
four hundred inhabitants.
SNAKES ARE SNAKES—
DRUNK OR SORER j
Springfield. Nova Scottia, Oct. If.
(AP)—Philip Landery. jailed for
IrunkneBs complained to hlR jail
?rs that snakes had bothered him
ast night and said that he had
tilled one. The police told him
o sober up and the snakes would
lisappear. Landery insisted till ,
he police started a bunt and found
welve reptiles under a wooden
OXE HALF MILLION
IN GOLD ON THE
STEAMER VICTORIA
The Aluska Steamship Company's
Victoria, (’apt. Davis, sailed od
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 with
over 270 passengers from Nome.
The ship arrived here September
30, and after being delayed on ac
count of inclement weather for a
few days discharged a small am
ount of freight and went on to
Golovin where more bad wind**
hindered her to some extent in
working her cargo. On returning,
via St. Michael, she was rewarded
with fair winds anti the work of
unloading was completed without
interruption. In all, the Vic was
in the vicinity for fifteen days, be
ing almost a month out before
starting the return trip.
A shipment of gold from the
Miners’ and Merchants’ Rank here
is probably the most important
Item of the Victoria’s cargo. This
shipment, a little over a ton in
weight, is in brick form, taking up
little space, but is valued at 3576,
000. This consignment makes
about a million dollars in bullion
that has been shipped from here
so fnr this season, and It is esti
mated that approximately a half
million more will be shipped be
fore tiie close of navigation. This
will easily equal the shipments of
scheduled to run in at Akutan to
, tion of the North Pacific Sen Pro
products for Seattle.
The Victoria has in her cold
573 reindeer loaded at ' Golovin
from the herds of local raisers
about 250 barrels of herring, in
which considerable difficulty was
of the rough weather The her
around th>' spit
over niakinc tlie access difficult.
Other shipments included scv
siderable quantity of walrus ivory
Malmute dogs, purchased in Nome
for transfer to interior points is
(■has. .Mitchell, ('has. F Thomas.
H. Black more, p. Hagaboom. L.
\V Kendell. M Hoyt. Carl F
Clout, J c Brown. B. W Ther
J. K. Mertie. [van C. Ackley. Kas
mere Bezieh. W. B. (’artor. 0. S.
Woodstead. .1 W. Burgess. John
Wright. F M. Blanchard. Win.
Malone. V. O. Taylor. Mrs. Tay
lor. Albert Ing. Albert McLaugh
lan. J. M Ayer. G. U Whitney.
Mrs. Whitney, C. M. Hall. T. Pa
oli. Arnie Anderson. Geo. Trip
lett. J. W Stapleton. (’. Herlov,
W. C. Chesney, Loren L. Babcock. ,
C. H. Symmers. F. T. Walin. W.
,f. Henderson, Frank Heckman.
Joseph Mattovich. R G Simmons,
A Dahl. J Conners. Harry Swan
mu. John Ilady, A Cattich. M N
Smith. Donald L Condit, F A Ziek.
B Winkler. J Malone. Nick Mor
ine. B Hammer. Mrs. (' Burnes.
Mrs. B O’Connell, I) Cameron. G
Matson. C Dunoon. John Herman
jon. M (' Kelling. F McNutt. John
DuFrese. Frank Malloy. J Kot
•hevar. Ed Lawson. E Shulte. L.
M Conroy. Chas Stanley. Earl
ftosman, Leo Hanson. Harry Dob- .
ton, Chas E Johnson. Mrs. Hugh
3’Farrel. Milton and Jack O’Far
■el. P Donohue. E. J. Mathews,
ft J Cramer, Mrs. Cramer, B. E.
\dams. John F Weiner. Fred
ATeiner F Balovicli, Peter Tomren,
* Taylor, H T Tripp, Win Nielson.
3eo Thorpe. Chas McClay. Mrs.
McClay. C. F. Gilbert, O Hatlen.
’has Anderson. T Balovlch, P R
joveland. I J Dorens. A Thomp- ‘
ion. L Blake. O E Nelson. J W
!row, R Paul. L Hoy. R Lyster.
) Flynn. T Ockwig, A Ross. J
inderson, J Brown. Chas Miller. 1
Pom Harry. J Bush. D Lovelay. 1
’has Nelson. John Carlson. R C
ihaw, M Koenig. J A McWilliams. (
Juncan McClain. W C. Walsh. ; j
V Continued on Page Seven i ) 1
WRANGELL ISLAM!
REFUGEES REMOVED
BY SOVIET BOAT
Information reaching Nome thin
week from Wallen, a small village
near East Cape. .Siberia, tells of
the arrival there recently of the
soviet vessel “Red October” which
succeeded in reaching Wrangell
Island .after 32 days of strenuous
work bucking the ice. The in
formation also informs uh that
the 12 or 13 Alaska Eskimos and
one white man named Harry Wells
of Nome, who were taken to
Wrangell Island to establish a col
ony last year by Harold Noice’s
expedition, were all taken off the
island by the Soviet officials on
board the Red October, including
their fur catch consisting of for
ty fox and forty Polar bear skins.
No deaths were reported among
the refugees who spent a year on
the desolate and “friendly” island
of the Arctic Ocean, this being
one of the few times vessels have
returned from this island without
a grewsome tale of death and
The Soviet steamer Red October
is a former Russian ice-breaker
and made the special trip to the
island for the purpose of raising
tin* Soviet flag and to procure the
fur catch. The natives apparent
ly were happy to leave the island
judging from the pleasure and
hospitality they were enjoying on
tin* trip back, dancing being in
dulged in every night aboard the
vessel and a real good time was
had by all aboard.
When the Red October returned
to Wallen it was short of fuel
ami the officers of the ship finally
decided to break up the schooner
Belinda, formerly an American
tel. This done the vessel pro
ceeded with the refugees to Prov
idence Bay. about l*»f> miles from
Wallen where the ship’s bunkers
could be filled with coni. Due to
th* fact that the vessel could nof
sot in touch with Anadyr radio
station and not haring orders as
to where to take the refugees,
it was thought best to keep going
until the ship could get in touch
with Soviet headquarters. Ir jg
probable that the refugees may
b»* landed at Indian Point. Siber
ia. and then again it may be that
they will be taken to Vladivostok.
with supplies reached
miles of her destination
found impossible to
impossible fo
Red October
sage from f
her condition
ie Rtavapole stating
and that the vessel
tst Cape.
hooner Cub. Aar
nout Castel owner and Rkipper.1
returned from a trip to Wallen.
Wednesday evening after dis
-barging a cargo of food supplies'
ror the Soviet officials at tha^
noint. Mr. Castel reports tha
provisions are very scarce alonj
:he northern coast of Siberia, th
mpplies being greatly needed an
:he trip made by the Cub vn
nuoh appreciated by everyone, i:
be only other provisions left 1,
he big boats were Just the n j
■essities of life, such as flour, t.1
WATTLE INDIANS
STILL HOLD
PORTLAND. Oct. 17. <AP)
\ home run by Becker In the fi j
nnlng with two runners on ba
tave the Seattle Indians a g
ead and three more runs In J
bird inning cinched the game
erday and allowed the team j
iold their position at the tojvj
he scale. The result of the g‘{
ias Portland 4. Seattle
^ranclsco and Los Angeles,
•rher two teams that are stiKI
he pennant race each won air]
The standing of the taams:
Seattle 106
ian Francisco 104
ios Angeles 1 Ot