Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-04-15
DENMARK

Seattle, Wash, April 3.-Capt.
Ejnar Mikkelsen, who jointly COM
manded the Anglo-Polar expedition
which sought to find an undiscovered
continent in the Beaufort sea, ar
rived from the north yesterday on the
Yucatan, Capt. Mikkelsens vessel,
the Duchess of Bedford, was lost in
the ice pack near Flaxman island a
year ago. Capt. Mikkelsen started
Oct. 16, from Flaxman island and
made the journey along the northern
shores of Alaska to Nome, arriving
at the latter place Jan. 20. He left
Nome with a companion Jan. 10, and
journeyed with dogs sleds up the Yu-
kon river to Fort Gibbon, and came out
by the way of Fairbanks and Valdez.
Capt. Mikkelsen's expedition traced
the continental shelf in the Beaufort
sea and ascertained that if land does
lie beyond the sea it is an independent
continent. He has obtained informa-
ton concerning ocean currents which
will be invaluable to him when he
makes his next attempt to attain the
unknown continent. In the tedious
march over the ice hummocks the
party frequently came upon water.
Capt. Mikkelsen had none of the native
kayaks of which DR.. hansen made
such good use, but instead he made
his boats when the occasion arose.
He strapped waterproof tarpaulin
beneath his sledges and improvised
a raft which floated. The sledge ex-
petition went further into the un-
explored Beaufort sea than had been
planned by the Royal Geographical
Society of London and the American
Geographical Society of New York,
which directed the expedition
They found the continental shelf and
learned that beyond this shelf there
was water of great depth. It was as.
certained that the Beaufort sea was
not a shallow basin, as had been sup.
posed. The journey north was ap-
proximately along the 149th merid-
ian. Soundings were taken occasion
ally. At distance of sixty-four miles
from land they were unable to touch
bottom with a two-thousand foot line.
This indicated that the continental
shelf had been passed and one of their
objects had been accomplished. They
continued the journey until they
crossed the seventy-second parallel,
when the ice conditions prevented
further travel. The return journey
was made un 'er the most trying con-
ditions. They landed near Cape HAL
kett, May 6.
The net profits of the Copenhagen
Street Railway Company, for the year
1907, was $541,350, and after large
amounts had been set aside for diff
ferent funds, the stockholders 70.
ceived a dividend of per cent.
Hanna Johansson, a lady who gave
information which led to the arrest
of counterfeiter, received a reward
of $50 from the government bank of
Sweden.
The cabinet has granted the Stock
holm division of the Swedish press
association permission to run a lot
terry LOT the DenenL OF It's aid fund.
Representatives from the cities of
Aarhus and Randers, and from four
teen rural communities, held a meet
ing to discuss the proposed electric
railway, between those two cities In
connection with an electric power sta
ton. large enough to supply the
whole neighborhood with light and
motive power. The cost of the two
plants In estimated at almost a mil.
lion dollars.
The estate of the late Alfred Nobel,
is valued at $9,051, 750.80, and the in.
terest for the past year amounted to
$8s3,071.66.