Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08
A Subsidized TwiDklGr Dreams
Of Bliss and Informs the
Public.
Progress Of the Expedition for
the Bodies of belong and
Companions.
S,me Additions Facts About the
Bleak and Barron Shercs
of Siberia.
The Reported Discovery OF Lieut..
Chipp's BODY Discredited.
CAPITAL NOTES.

Sulpps bOuy DlbCreulted
CAPITAL NOTES.
| Specia, Dispatch to Tss BSs.
To THE PUBLIC
WASHINGTON, d. c., January g.
John A. Walsh, witness for the prose.
cution In tho star route cases, gives
"to the public" his unanswered letter
to President Arthur, which letter, no
says, became necessary, owing to the
communication to the attorney general
not meeting with a response. He
charges upon Special Counsel Bliss
failure to iudict United States Senator
Kellogg, against who Walsh says his
testimony before the grand jury bore
in an especial manner, rather than
against ex. Postmaster General
Brady and Mail Contractor
Price, who were indicted; recommends
that tho prosecution of Brady, Dor.
sey, ct al. be conlided to another than
Bliss, and concludes: "Suoh has been
the weak, hslting character of tho
prosecution, as a whole, that the men
knew not on which side the govern
ment was arrayed. Feeling of doubt
and distrust have been engendered by
this vacillation, that, in the opinion Of
many law abiding citizens, nothing
less than your active and positive d.
rection In these cases, Mr.. President,
will insure a result commensurate
with the gravity of the occasion.
AT II GRAVE OF DELoNG,
The navy department to-day re-
ceivei from Minister Hunt the fol
lowing telegram:
ST.. PETERSBURG, January T.
CHANDLER, Secretary: l have Just re-
oeived from Ensign Hunt the follow
Ing telegram: "Please inform the
secretary as follows: 'kirinsk, Do
cember 3~l.-Anequin is seriously i'll
in the hospital. Myself, man, son and
Bartlett will remain here, probably a
delay of two weeks. Leach, lauter-
back and Thomas proceeds and await
me at IrButsk. The Russian govern
ment has not yet ordered it's authori-
ties to permit and assist in removing
the bodies
THE BOSTON STORY
Geo. KEENAN, of this city, who has
travelled extensively in Siberia, and
who is, perhaps, the best authority in
this country upon the geography of
arctic Asia, speaking of the statement
telegraphed from Boston that the
bodies of the crew of the Jeannette's
second cutter had been found by an
American artist on the Gulf OF Khat-
opgs, a long arm OF the Arctic ocean,
south and east ofthe Taimur peninsula,
says the story strikes him as a Every
clumsy invention" KEENAN, adds:
that the mouth of the gulf of Kha.
tanga is more than 800 miles in m air
line, and more than 500 following the
coast from the place whore the boats
of the Jeanette separated. Lieut..
Ohipp knew very we'll that Captain
DsLong intended TO land at the
mouth Of the Lena, and it is hardly to
be supposed he would deliberately
and voluntarily go three or four hun
dred miles further westward and land
on the edge of the Taimeer Peninsula,
the dreariest, most desolate and least
known part of the entire North Siberian
coast. OF course, he might have been
blown there against his will, but 1t is
in the highest degree improbable. II
you should lose sight OF a small boat
&c miles off Sandy Hook, with a gale
blowing on the shore, you would
hardly expect to find that boat on the
coast Of South Carolina, but this is
perhaps least of the story's ,mproba
bi!ities. The artist who is said to have
discovered Lieut.. Chipp's party on the
coast Of Rhatanpa went there, accord
ing to HIS letter, for the purpose of
finding his brother in.law, cxiled 70
81 ,sma mines" j don's think there
is a mine or Russian settlement of any
kind within 400 miles..of the mouth of
khatonga gulf in any direction. The
nearest inhabited places are Hefaisk
and khatongsk, both four hundred
miles inland. A few Samoyades wander
in the summer over Tookdra, which
lies along the Arctic ocean in that vici-
nifty, bu, In winter they oven retire to
the interior and leave the whole region
uninhsbited. The mouth Of K~hatonga
gulf lies in latitude 70 degrees, almost
as far north as the winter quarters OF
Dekane, and it could be reached at a
season, when West says he went
there, only by a ell.equipped
Arctic expedition. The letter tele
graphed from Boston, besides being
suspiciously vague in it's ~geographi
cal details, is full of absurdities and
inaccuracies. The presence of a man
in the north cannot be determined a,
a distance of half a mile or 30 by ths
peculiar ''stropg odo1, neither domer
at the north inhabit cairns; chookches
of whom West Is represented as beinl
afraid, do not live within 800 mileSo
Khatonga, and it is next to impossi
BILE that a traveller in that region
should even leayn their name.
All details of the finding of the sup
posed survivors of the second cutie
strike me as simply preposterous
according to the alleged record foun'
in the bible supposed to belong t.
kuchue, One, at l0sst, Of the crey
lived until the "a Of March, 1882. Il
other words, an inexperienced sailor
an inexperienced sailor, thrown OF
the uninhs bited Faimur peninsula, IL