Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-16
EASTERN NEWS.
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WASHINGTON. Sept. 13-Capt. Caeser,
Acting Chief Signal Officer. said tonight
that telegram had been sent TO Lieut..
Darlington this afternoon asking him
TO state what stores if any had been de-
posted by him on LittIeton Island. He
was also requested to give the depart
ment full Information as 70 what could
possibly be done to send relief to Gree
ley this fall. The department had not
yet a reply to the telegram. Captain
Caesar says that the department realizes
fully the critical condition in which
Lieut.. Greeley and his party were placed,
and that nothing that could possibly be
done to relieve him will be undone. He
said there was ground for hoping that
Lieut.. Darlington had landed his stores
on Littleton Island. And if he had done
this his party after the wreck OF the
Prote1s would have wandered there in
Nsvick. Lieut. Darlington" he said,
fully appreciated the necessity for
landing the stores on Littieton Island,
before endeavoring to force the passage
o. the upper Smith Sounds. and the
supplementary orders issued Just before
be sailed, directed him to do SO, but
the Proteus having been wrecked about
% miles TO the north and west of Little
ton Island, must have passed the last
mentioned place. The only way in
which he could account for falling to
land the stores, before proceeding north
ward. was that it had been found i'm
possible to do SO. and the Yantic after
wards found it impossible to make land
in search of the Proteus boats" 1.-THE
assumption" he said, "Lie1t. Greeley
had supplies for his sufficient mainte-
nance until next spring, but added that
the question of quantity of supplies at
the former date at his station at Lady
Franklyn's bay WAS not an important
one. The great misfortune WAS the fail
ure to provide supplies for him at Lit
Teton Is and, and this was what made
the loss of the Proteus such disaster.
Under instructions upon which he was
made Acting Lieutenant, Greeley would
break camp" he said, Eat Lady Frank
Ign bay about the latter end of Sep
TENDER and endeavor to make kis wav
to Littietou Island, where he would
count on finding stores at several sta
tions. On the way down he would find
supplies and boats for use where open
sheets of water we're to be crossed, but
trouble would be met when Lieut.. Gree
ley reached LittletOn Island If he found
no supplies. His situation would be
critical indeed. He might have sent
back outgoing parties to pick up provis-
ions along the route. especially the two
mouths supply leftl by Mares at Cape
Hawks, and in this way maintain his
party till relief could be self. He did
not know who could lead one, not hav
ing heard from Lieut.. Darlington, bus
thought a sled0ino party dispatched
from upper Nayick might be able to
reach Lieut.. Greeley at Littleton Island,
if he should succeed in gettinp:there be-
fore his supplies failed, and bring food
and assistance to enable them to retreat
further south.
Those supplementary orders which
have never been made public we're as
follows: The naval tenders to Join the
Proteus at st. Johns, N. F., and to pro-
coed with her to the neighborhood of
LittletoR Island. The Proteus is to
land her stores, except supplies for the
more northerly depOts at LittletOn
Island. On the way north, if she sue
ceeds in reaching Lady Franklin Bay.
she is to pick up the stores. excepting
the house, and the depots, if possible.
on her return, and the naval tender
will await the return of the Proteus
in the neighborho God Of Lit
| Teton Island, and on her
return will steam s,uth in company I'M
| til she reaches the southern limits of
the ice pack.
The Secretary of War, Acting Secre-
tary of the Navy, and the Chief Signal
officers are in consultation this after
noon upon the situation of affairs, bat
have not yet devised any practicable
plan for the relief of the Lady franklin
Bay party.
Yellow Fever.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 15.-The Surgeon
| General IF the Marins Hospital Service
has received All affidavit sworn to by Is
pilots on Pensacola bar, residing on the
naval reservation of Warrington and
Woolsey, adjoining the Pensac ia navy
yard. denying the publication of
charges that yellow fever had
been introduced into Pensacola
navy yard through their negli-
Hence. They say they did not
board vessels with yellow fever at the
Quarantine station at Ship Island, and
they have not done anything by which
yellow fever might have been intro
dnoed to ihe naval reservation.
Called Bonds.
WASN'T. droN, Sept. 15.-Bouds re-
deemed today under the l2lst call,
$l67, 720,570.
As the appropriation for transporta-
ton of fractional silver coin will be ex-
hausted on the lst of October. express
charges on such coin forwarded from
the Treasury on aud after that date will
not be paid by the Government, but
must be borne by the consignees.
A motion for rehearing, filed by the
Attorney General of tue State OF Cali
fornia in the case OF the survey of the
Pueblo in San Francisco. was received
at the Interior Department today.