Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-02
Bill NYe's Polar Expedition.

The BOOnerG12g reporter sent out to find the north pole eighteen months ago has just been heard from. An explor- ing party recently found portions of his remains in latitude II A, longitude sou'west by sou from the pole, and near the remains the following fragment of 8 diary:
 July 1, 1981.-Have just been out searching for sunstroke and signs of thaw. Saw nothing but ice foe and snow as far as the eye could reach. Think we will have snow this evening unless the wind changes.
 July 2.-Spent the forenoon explor- ing to the northwest for right of way for a new equatorial and north pole railroad that l think would be of much value to commerce. The grade is easy and the expense would be slight. Ate my last dog to-day. Had intended him for the 4th, but got too hungry, and ate him raw with vinegar. 1 wish was home eating Boonerang paste.
 July 3.-We had quite a frost last night and it looks this morning as though the corn and small fruits must have suffered. It is now two weeks since the last of the crew died and left me alone. Ate the leather ends of my suspenders to-day for dinner. did not need the suspenders, anyway, for by tightening up my pants 1 find they will stay on aIl right, and I don't look for any ladies to call, so that even if my pants came off by some oversight, mo- body would be shocked.
 July 4.-Saved up some tar roofing and a bottle of mucilage for my Fourth of July dinner and gorged myself to- day. The exercises were very poorly attended and the celebration rather a failure. It is clouding up in the west and I'm afraid we're going to have snow. Seems to me we're having an all-tired late spring here this year.
 July 5.-Didn't drink drop yester- day. It was the quietest Fourth ever put in. I never felt so little remorse over the way 1 celebrated as do to- day. 1 didn't do thing yesterday that 1 I was ashamed of except to eat the re- mainder of box Of shoe backing for 1 supper. To-day ate my last bootheel, stewed. Looks as though we might have hard winter.
 July 6.-Fcel little apprehension about something to eat. Ny credit is | all right here but there is no competi- tion, and prices are, therefore, very high. Ice, however, is still firm. This would be good ice cream country if there were any demand, butthe country is so sparsely settled that man feels as lonesome here as a Greenbacker at a | Presidential election.
 Ate a pound of cotton waste soaked in machine oil, to-day. There is nothing left for tomorrow but ice-water and an old pocketbook for dinner. Looks as though we might have snow.
 July This is a good cool place to spend the summer if provisions were moro plenty. am wearing seal skin undershirt with three woolen overshirts and two bear skin vests to-day; and when the dew begins to fall 1 have to put on my buffalo ulster to keep off the night air wish Twas home. It seems pretty lonesome here since the other boys died. 1 do not know what I will get for dinner tomorrow, unless the neighbOrs bring in something. A big bear is coming down the hatchway as 1 write. 1 wish could eat him. It would be the first square meal in two months. It is, however, 8 little mixed whether l will eat him or he eat me. It will be a cold day for me if he ---''
 Here the diary breaks of abruptly, and from the chewel up appearance of the book We are led to entertain horri- ble fear as to his safety.