THROUGH THE NORTHWEST PASSACE
Navigator Within Ninety Miles of the True Pole—Philadelphia Society
Believes it Will be Reached Before Long—The Varicle
Party May Make Arctic Trial Trip.
New Bedford, Mass., Get. 17.—The !
whaling schooner Era arrived here
Monday from Hudson's Bay, after two
season's stay, with 7,">00 pounds of
whalebone. She reports that the Nor
wegian Arctic exploration expedition
has been successful in making the
northwest passage, Captain Comer of
tlie Era basing his statement on a letter
he had from Captain Amundsen of the
sloop Gjoa, who was at that time, April
11:.’, in King William’s band.
Captain Comer says that there is no
doubt of the successful navigation of the
northwest passage this time, and that
when the party shall return to civiliza
tion it will he found the pa-sage was
made with little more than incidental
hardship, and required but determi
nation and courage, such as piloted
Magellan on his famous voyage into the
unknown South Seas
THE REPORT CONFIRMED
Man Who Made the Passage Came
Overland from Hereschel Island
and is Now on the Yukon.
Dawson, Dec. 9.—The northwest pas
sage from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
sought for years hv explorers of all na
tions, has at last been found.
(’apt. Roald Amundsen, who has
made the passage, left Christiana June
17, under the patronage of King
Oscar and several geographical societies.
His purjMise was to locate the magnetic
pole and seek a water passage around
the northern part of the American con
tinent.
On Dec. 5, Amundsen, in company
with Captain Moggs of the whaler Bo
nanza, arrived at Kagle after a long,
weary mush overland from Hereschel
Island.
The two men lived on the game they
were aide to krll while en route, of which
they found plenty.
Amundsen's feat in making the water
trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific
places him in the list of the world’s
greatest A ret it* explorers.
This route has been searched for since
the days of Columbus, and is, in faet,
the very thing of which he wa
in •♦arch when he di-e«»vered \merica.
Millions of dollars and many live* have
lut'll l'«*t ill the effort to discover this
l^sage.
\tnttrid««n ul«o located tie magnetic
p>lv near the place where Koss had dis
covered it many year* ago. lie camiwd
there for two years making* J’-erv utmns,
which, lie •ays, will Is* of great value to
science. It* also declare* that the true
}»•!•* in not over nun t v miles from win re
he was heated.
Hi* crew of seven liien »s now at
tlrreseliel (•land. \iimndtii is very
proud of the crew ami «av* they are the
l«e*t Nu n that rotild he ha*I
Captain M -gg*. ale* arMupniiHl
Amundsen, says liis vessel was caught in
an ice pack and lie was forced to aban
don her. He also reports that his vessel
was the only whaler lost in the Arctic
this year.
Amundsen expects to return to ids
crew by land and finish his journey on
his ship, coming out by way of Bering
Sea. lie is the hero of the hour over
the entire world, and all the geograph
ical societies are vying with each other
to do him honor, lie was on an expedi
tion to the south polar regions several
years ago and is well known to the sci
entists. _
ARCTIC CASKS TURN UP
Sent Adrift Several Years Ago in
the Polar Sea, They Indicate
the Arctic Currents.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2.—At the
meeting today of the Geographical So
ciety of Philadelphia the announcement
was made that two of the Bryant Mel
ville casks, stmt adrift several years ago
in the Polar Sea, have now turned up.
It was suggested several years ago by
Hear Admiral Melville that valuable
data concerning tin* *peed and direction
of tin* Arctic currents might be obtained
by setting adrift some specially con
structed casks in the Arctic ocean. Ac
cordingly some fifty casks have been
thrown overboard by Pnited States rev
enue cutters and whaling ships.
As one of the results of the experi
ment, the geographers regard the direc
tion and speed of the Arctic currecnts as
perfectly established and of such perma
nence and uniformity as to presage tlie
discovery of the pole for a surety in the
near future.
The casks were set afloat at a number
of widely separated point-, and it will
only require the picking up of a few
more before tin* society will be able to
accurately map the polar regions.
Bach ca-k of the fifty was numbered
and contained a message in four lan
guages, requesting tile tinder to notify
the Philadelphia Society.
One of the recoveredca-ks was thrown
overboard by the I'nited States revenue
cutter Bear, August 21, P.ml, at a point
H5 jH»ints no. thwe-t of \Yrange! bland.
It was recovered August 17, P*>2, near
the mouth of the kolwiching river, on
the coast of Siberia.
In one yea**, less four days, it had
traveled .T*WI miles to the southeast,
probably influenced by !• -cal eurrents.
The other r» e»»\ • red »a-k was plaetd
on an ice Hi a- northwest of point Harrow,
Alaska, in latitude 71 .XI in rth and lotigi
tilde lli-t all West, by the steam whaler
Al -xaiidcr, «»u ^eptcinU r 13, IMW, and
was recovered one ntik cot of t‘a|«'
Itaiida Nupr, on the northern of
h * 1 Hid. June 7, I'll"*,
The |**»lll**ll >>f thi« «»-«->iihI cask proves
the existence •*< a direct current from
Ps ring "trait around the * trdtiti»|«4ur
l*mm t«» *h* Vthnlii 'avail
Um h satisku tnui la expressed with
thr result* glutted, as it make* certain
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creeks. Good teams. Good service. oc
Nansen’s theory, distinguishes tlie eir
eulitr direction of tlie current, and shows ,
the course tvliich must lie taken in fu-1
ture liy explorers aiming at reaching the
north pole.
The •president of the Philadelphia So
ciety remarked that had Nansen had the
advantage of the information now in
hand, and commenced his operations
with the I'ram from Bering Sea, there is
every likelihood that the pole would
have liven reached, lie also surmised
that the next attempt would undoubted
ly he made fsom that direction.
The discovery of the tell-tale casks
disposes at once and for all of any hopes
which may have been entertained of the
recovery of the remains of the Franklin
exploring party, which vanished on the
drifting ice and left no clue. The relics
of the party have undoubtedly been
scattered over the ocean, disappearing
in the warm southern seas when the ice
which bore them melted away.
YUKON POLAR INSTITUTE
May Send an Expedition to Heres
chel Island as a Test Trip and
to Establish a Base.
Prom the Dawson News.)
Should Dr. Varirle ami party, now
outside in behalf of tin* Yukon Polar
Institute, return to Dawson with funds
for carrying out the programme of tests
on the trail tin- winter, it is likely that
an expedition will he sent from Dawson
to lleresehel Island and on to the relief
of the American whaling ships now
reported in the ice near lleresehel
Island.
An expedition of this kind on the part
of the Polar Institute would have the
double advantage of a practical test of
the methods of travel and apparatus
proposed to he used in the trip to the
pole, and at the same time would he
doing a service to the imprisoned
whalers.
Should the whalers he found in desti
tute circumstances, or any of the ves
sels wrecked and men in need, the ex
pedition would he appreciated the world
over, and the institute might attract
attention iixpiarti is where much valua
ble assistance Would Is- secured fi r the
|«dar expedition.
Major Wi us I, commander of the North
west Mounted Police, stated that if the
Polar Institute cares to send an expedi
tion out al»mt the time the pdicc exp -
dition leaves here for Port Mai Phersoti
and lleresehel Island, that lie will Is
pleased to have thr Polar people co
operate with the police expedition as far
as Ilercscltel Island.
before leasing iKixtnn for the outside
Dr Varielc di-cussed with favor the
proposition to send the Polar Institute's
trial expedition to llere-ehel l-land this
winter. II*- then knew nothing of tin
whalers Iwing distressed there, hut he
tl» light that it Would he well to get in
touch with lh rest hel |s|an*l in unlrr
help pre|stie or plan to establish a tm*e
o| supplies at the island for the real
expedition to llte pole the next summer
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H o'clock p. in.
\VM. SIPARY. G. A. KETTERER.
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margin
of the Yukon Valley
News and mailed home would
■ ■mi— grutify relatives and friends
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A nutting uf tlir Miner* A-Miicialimi
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Tliumlay evening, I Hr. :!S.
Every miner -Imulil make an extra
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Good Report From Little MinooK Jr.
P. Kalniivj. who luu* latclv Urn
; !• s|h*« ting mi Little Miikm k .Ft ., is in
town h*r the h liday*;. lie ?e|H»rtw that
Inan ii a i «ol mill \V M. II twkins are
still «*n good |my. Mr. Hawkins' pun
ning* average iilsmt *« ven dollars a tiny,
.(••1111 Miitook e*|*e«ats to start on his
long «h laved trip to Kay river directly
after the holiday*, lie will hurry hark
and e*nn»ih*nee t«» work a lay on discov
ery, Little Min<»>k
^uitdiiiH' is dtte t*» motile ft tardy toinli
the high »|«»t« along ►font «lro I the
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