The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-12-22

termined to make all trouble possible for
land grant railroads during the remaining
days of congress.
Congress is being strongly urged to extend
the bond period for spirits, kilograms and
petitions being received from all parts of the
country. Senator Sherman thinks the per-
iod may be extended two years, and with
this whisky men win have to be satisfied.
Others concur this in view.
belongs Failure and Death
Ca1son, New, Dec. 1.-THE following
appears in the Appeal of to-day: Sspator
Jones, who is in Carson, gives an account of
belongs Artic expedition, which he got
| from Capt. Newbaum in San Francisco.
Newbaum is a Russian, who has been for
many years in the service of the Alaska Fur
Company He was the last man from whom
| belongs party received provisions. He
says: ''DeLong left my station, almost at
the northern point of Alaska, furnished
him, at the order of the Alaska Fur Com
pany, with sledges, dogs and provisions.
He took 27 dogs and one Indian. account
| lOE CuC lOoS VI tuO HblUy oh ohO phSoAy oASo
they killed the dogs. do not believe that
DeLong knew anything about the undertak-
ing he was graphing with, and was ignorant
of the means by which a trip could be made
in that region. l see by this diary that
there was but one dog left few days prior
to his death. He must have killed the dogs
without knowing their tremendous value,
and when the dogs are gone there is abso-
lutely no hope. The dogs would not have
died or been lost-they were killed. The
scent of these dogs are remarkable, and they
will detect provisions no matter where they
may be. When men in these regions kill
Polar BEARS and have more meet than they
can keep, they cache the meat, and it some
times lies hidden in the ice for years until
| DISCOVERED BY DOGS.
The ice is fulf of these places. IF you
meet an Indian in that region and kill His
dog he lies down and dies, considering
that the better part of him is gone. An.
other great oversight was the neglect Of
taking the right kind of guns. I offered
DeLong fowling piece made expressly fol
to use in the Artic seas and calculated tt
stand the climate. He refused it. because
he said he wanted a gan that would kill
bears. l explained that he needed guns TO
birds and not for bears, but he would no
listen. to me and took Remington rifles, tn
weight which hampered him and yet was OF
no use. He must have seen sea fowls flying
over his head all the time and could not xii
them. The diary says the Indian afte
drawing the sledge all day would go cut
at night and get birds and he kept the part
alive for two weeks. Anywhere you cut a
hole through the ice and flash light dow
the fish will swarm, but they had no tishin!
tackle. All their chances were thrown ava
through ignorance. am not saying wor
against DeLong. 1 liked him personally
but he was not the man to. command a
Artic expedition. The North Pole, in m
opinion can be reached only by following u
the warm currents which flow to the pol
: and beyond there is an open sea. Put me
f on such an expedition who have been raise
in the northern part of Alaska, and WI
know all about that region, and there is
S strong chance of success: