The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-15
The Greedy EXPEDITION.


WASHING TON, Sept. 13. - Captain
Caseare, acting chief signal officer,
said tonight that a telegram had
been sent to Lieut.. Darlington this
afternoon. asking him to state what
stores, if any, had been deposited by
him ON Lyttle,on's Island. He was
also requested to give the Depart
ment full information Immediately
as to what could possibly be done to
send relief to Greeley this fall. Tie
Department had not yet received a
reply to the telegram. Capt. Caseara
said the Department realized fully
the critical situation IN which Lieut..
Greeley and his party were placed,
and that nothing that could pos
sibly be done to relieve them
would be left. undone. lie
said that there We're no
grounds for hoping that Lieut.. Car
llngton had landed any of h S stores
on Lyttleton's Island, since if he had
done SO, his party, after the wre. k Of
the PrOteus, would have wintered
there, instead of returning 500 miles
to Upernavick. Lieut.. & arlington, lie
said. fully appreciated the necessity
OF landing stores on Lyttletou's Isl
and. before endeavoring to force Il
passage up Smiths Sound. supple
mnntary orders had been issued to
hi.n just before he sailed. directing
him to do so; but the Prot+us hay
ing been wrecked about TWENTY-FIVE
miles to the north and west of Lytiie-
tons Island. she must have passed the
last mentioned place. The
only way in which he
could account Tor his failure
tn land stores before proceeding
northward. was that it had been
found impossible to do so. The fact
that the Yantic afterwards found It
impossible to make land when in
search OF the Proteus' boats, he
thought warranted this assumption.
He said Lieutenant Greeley had sup
plies for this party sufficient to maiu-
tain it until next spring; but, he
added, the question Of the quality ct
the supplies formerly at his station
at Lady Franklin Bay, vas hot unim-
portant.
One great misfortune was the fill
nre to provide suppl es for him at
Lyttleton's Island, aud this was what
made the loss of the Proteus such d
disaster. Under the institutions
upon which he was acting Lieut..
Greeley would break camp, he said,
at Lady Franklin Bay, about the lat
ter end of September, and endeav"r
to make his wy to Lyttletul'S IS
land, where he would count on find
ing stoI es. AT the several s%tationson
his way down he would and supplies
and boats for use where the open
sheets OF water Were to be crossed;
but trouble would be met when t.
G'eeley reached L%yttleton's Is and.
Ii he found no supplies his $ tuation
WOul | be critical indeed. He might
be able to send back slejgins parties
o pick up provisions dep .sited along
The route; especially the two months
supply left by the Marcos expedition
at Cape Hawkes., and in TIM, way
MAINTAIN his party until relief could
be sent them.
He did not know what could be
lone, not having heard from Lieut..
but he thought Il sledg-
ng party dispatched from CpefIia-
vlk might be able to reach Lieut..
dreeley at LyttIeton's Islanl if he
should succeed in getting there be-
ore his supplies failed, and brlnE
hin food and assistance TO e.laOle
him to retreat further south.
OTTAWA, September 14.--Princes
donated a picture, OF her own
'aintlny, TO the dominion gallery,
IS a memento of her residence III
'anada. The picture is five feet iii
and is at present on eNhlbl-
ion in Boston.
GALvEsT N, Sept. 13.-The follow
ng cables were received here to-day
rom the City of Mexico. The Mkt
an National Construction company
las just closed a contract with the
}tncO Mercantile, the oldest ana
trongest bank in the City of MpXWo'
or al immediate advance OF sou
OO against its government subsidy.
lnce Feb. 18th the company has .
'cted IN cash on its s%ubventlon S06o'-
10 and the collections now are SlU,-
0 monthly.
CHATHAM. Ont, Sept. 12-The
'eamer Qleen City is burned to ne
rat RS edge about six miles down the
names. No particulars are received