New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-01-29
WHOLE NUMBER 81.

WHOLE NUMBER 81.
him. Holmes raised his gun, and both
fired simultaneously, each shot taking
effect They then dismounted and
and Holmes walked to . house near BY,
falling exhausted on the doorsteps.
Ialbert camo up and stepped over
Holmes, into the house, asking for .
gun to tlDish him. He, too, fell on the
floor, and both expired in few min
utes after. Holmes was twenty-threo
and Talbert nineteen.
The Swedish Polar Expedition.
Two weeks ago we called attention
to the promise Of success awaiting Prof.
Nordenskjold's Polar Expedition, which
was to demonstrate that there was q
northern nayigable route from Norway
to Japan, or, in other words, q north
ern passage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. A later dispatch, based on
information furnished by whalers com.
ing from the Arctic Ocean into the Pa
SASASS AVH"AVo VIC 0UV SAAV0 V0SSOA ia t0O
ice at the eliminating point Of the voy-
age, and an expedition is to be started
from Japan waters to the relief of the
ice-bOund vessel. After all there Is
promise of success, to be measured or
modified, of course. by the conditions
under which the latter part of the voy-
age has been accomplished.
Americans are more familiar with
the attempts to penetrate the Arctic
Ocean from Baffn's Bay, under the i'm
pulse to discover q northwest passage,
or &n open Polar Sea, than with those
on the line on which the Swedish ex-
plorer has been operating. But there
were early experiments in this direc-
ton as we'll as in the other. 1t was the
ambition of the old Dutch navigators
to discover n northwest passage to
India, SO as to counterfeit the influence
of Spain on the Indian and Atlantic
Oceans, and as early as 1894 Bareutz
had made successful voyage along
the northern coast of Asia, passing to
the north of Nova Zembla. In 1896 he
penetrated to Icy Cape, in Alaska. He
had travelled the whole course, but his
voyage did not afford much encourage
ment to commercial interests. In 1907
he sailed for the "open Polar Sea-"
going between Spitzbergen and Green
land. The next year, searching for q
northeast passage, he made another
,v,uge, passing between Nova Zembla
and Spitzbergen. Before reaching the
vicinity of North Cape, in Asia, he
turned back, and devoted his efforts to
the discovery of northwest passage.
Since that date there has been rev.
Olution in commercial affairs, lessening
the Importance of a northeast passage
to India. But three great rivers Of
Northern Asia pour into the Arctic
Ocean, and the development of tho
trade OF these rivers-the Obi, the Yeni-
sci and the Lena, in connection with
the commercial interests of Norway
and Sweden, has given in recent years
new impulse to exploration along tho
Siberian coast. In 1875 Prof. Nord-
enskjold, of Sweden, advanced tho the
ory that the practicable route to the
mouths of the Obi and Yenisei was to
the south of Nova Zembla, through the
Kara Sea, as this was kept compare
lively clear of ice during certain seas
sons of the year by the river currents.
He sailed from Hammerfest, near
North Cape, in Europe, June 8, 1875,
reached Nova Zembla in six days,
crossed the Sea of Kara, and reached
the mouth of the Yenisei Aug. Is. This
unlocked the basins of the Obi, Irtisch
and Yenisei to trade, and caused great
excitement in Northern Europe.
Russian explorers. who had been en-
deavoring to reach the same points
from Behring's Strait, took new tack,
and the Russian Government encour-
aged the Swedish explorer to continue
his explorations along the Siberian
coast. In 1876 Nordenskjold made .
voyage in a steamer to the Yenisei, dis
posed OF his cargo, and returned 10
Hammerfest, making the whole voyage
In less than seven weeks. This was the
beginning of new era in Siberian
trade, and NOrdenskiolL was ambitious
to carry his explorations further, to
open up trade with the Lena district as
he had with the others, and TO pene-
tratc, if possible, to Behring's Strait,
and thus open q new route to Japan
and China. III.
The third expedition, under tho
auspices of the Swedish and Russian
Governments. sailed from the Norweg.
ian coast July %, 1873, and reached the
mouth of the Yenisei Aug. 6, and three
days later two vessels, the Vega and
Lena, sailed eastward.
On the 14th OF October the world was
startled by dispatch from Yakutsk, .
town Of Siberia, nearly thousand
miles up the Lena River, announcing
the arrival of the ship Lena at that
poiur. A few days later the arrival OF
tho Vega at the mouth of the Lena was
announced by Prof. Nordenskjold him.
self, and one great object of the expedi-
ton had been accomplished. A prac-
teal route from the Atlantic Ocean to
the basins of all the great Siberian
Rivers had been discovered, and the
coast from the Yenisci TO the Lena ex-
plored for the first time. But in few
days the Vega sailed for Behring's
Strait, and the next information comes
from whaling vessel arrived 1t San
Francisco, to the effect that the Vega
is icc-bound above East Cape, or al
most in sight Of the Pacific.
This is guess work in part, as it il
only surmiscd that the vessel is the
Vega. But the relief ship calling from
the Pacific can reach the vicinity of
East Cape with comparatively little
difficulty, and Prof. Nordenskiold may
yet accomplish all the objects of his
expedition, and sail out into the Pacific
to be hailed as the discoverer of the
northwest passage.-Caica0o Inter-
Ocean.
4 Stone In . Horses Jaw.
For q long time lump has been OBJ
servable in the side OF the jaw of .
horse belonging to Supt. Osbiston, Of
the Gould and Curry and Best and
Belcher Mines. Yesterday veterinary
surgeon made an incision, and brought
to light hard and smooth stone, about