The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-26
LIVELY CRUISE IN ARCTIC ICE.
u. S. s. THETIS TAKES PRISONERS
AND RESCUES MEN.
warrant Served on whaler's Captain. Ac-
cused OF Assuming Esquimau Girl
stabblng OOk Months I'm Irons
shanghaied Man.O'swaP sailor Freed.

stabbing COOk Months I'm o
shanghaied Msn.O'.war sailor Freed.
VICTORIA, B. c., Nov. 25.-The long arm
Of the law has reached out across thousands
Of miles Of the Arctic's frozen silence, and
the u. s. s.. Thetis Is back from the land OF
polar bears and bergs with two prisoners
who had believed themselves immune from
pursuit. One Of these is Capt. Newth OF
the whaler Jeanette.
The Thetis met with and conveyed the
steamer Harold Dollar, laden with relief
supplies for the imprisoned whalers, TO
Point Barrow. There thick ice held fast.
For seventeen or eighteen days the revenue
cutter was held and the Harold Dollar was
also fast. The schooner Duchess of Bedford,
which had been spoken several times
previously. at Teller, Point Hope, Icy Cape
and Cape Smith, had gone into quarters
in the lagoon near Point Barrow, Capt.
Mikkelsen thinking it would be necessary
to winter there. About August IS the Nor
wegian sloop Gjoa, in which Capt. Ronald
Amundsen ~navigated the Northwest Pas
sage. broke through the ice from the east
ward, and a few days later various whalers
began to appear. steaming through cham
nels in the pack.
The Thetis was freed and Immediately
started TO the eastward in search 70 the
whaler jeanette. Eventually she was
found, but with a field Of ice separating her
from the revenue cutter. Capt. Hamlett
put out the cutters launch with a Lieu
tenant, United States Marshal Landers
and a boats crew, and the launch started
through a channel between foes, with a
long train OF whaling boats heavily laden
with provisions in tow.
When the ice began to break the whalers
sent boats to Point Barrow to seek food,
for many of the vessels were completely
destitute, while others had a few bags Of
hour only remaining. The boats were
amply loaded with provisions from the
Harold Dollar and the Thetis's launch
towed a long string for a distance Of about
twenty miles TO various whalers, among
them the Jeanette.
Heavens, 1 didn'tt think you would come
over this far, /" said Capt. Newth, when the
marshal ven on board with his warrant.
IF I'd thought 50. you'd never have got
me-"
The Government was determined to bring
Newth TO trial. and he would have had to
come out from the Arctic at some time.
He is charged with assaulting an Esquimau
girl taken on board the jeanette.
The crew of the whaler Olga had per-
haps one of the most interesting experiences
and suffered also because of shortage of food
This vessel went much further to the east
ward than any of the fleet and made some
interesting chronological discoveries. The
whalers were starving and reduced to the
eating Of dog harne SIS before they found
a native people on Princess Albert Land.
These Esquinaux of Prince Albert Land had
never before seen white people, but one old
woman, who had come from a village 10 the
south, said she had seen such beings onC
when a little girl.
1t was about August % before the ma
jority of the whaling feet had come through
the ice, and the crew OF the wrecked whaler
Alexander, which had been lost in the ice,
were brought out by the Hermann. The
A~lexander's crew had a trying time. having
been in open boats for fifteen days and
forced to eat whale blubber. The crew
of the schooner Laura Madsen, wrecked
a year ago by driving ashore at Point Bar
row, we're taken on the Thetis with the men
from the Alexander.
A colored cook belonging to the whaling
steame Karluk was brought by the Thetis,
who had been in irons 80 long on board the
whaler that when brought off to the Thetis
he was unable to stand. The sock stabbed
another member of the Karluk's crew when
they were at Herschel Island. The men
were engaged in thawing ice 10 secure
fresh water for the vessel when a quarrel
occurred. The cook was delivered to the
Northwest Mounted Police at Herschel
Island. The Canadian officials, however,
told the whalers To keep the man in irons
and turn him over TO the United States
authorities at the first port. The Thetis
took the man off, finding him utterly ex-
hausted. He had been in irons for months.
The Thetis also brought from the north
J. CAMERON, a gunner's mate Of the United
States Navy, who was released from the
whaler Jeanette. on which he said he had
been s~hanghaied at San Francisco. Gamer
ton left the Mare Island Navy Yard and be-
came convivial with some new made friends,
with the result that he woke up one morn
ing with a sore head in the forecastle Of the
jeanette, leaving San Francisco for the
Arctic. CAMERON had papers 10 prove his
identity, and he wen aft n Capt. Newth,
III says, stating he was a member Of the
United States Navy.
you are, are your" he says Capt. Newth
replied; well, you're Just the kind Of man
we want. Get aft and %steer!"
When the Thetis's boat crew arrested
Capt. Newth the gunner's mate produced
his papers n was freed.