Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-06-18

the point to longitude $50, and on
September 10 was apparently frozen
fast for the winter. Ten days later
Stefansson, feeling sure that the ship
was in her winter cradle, set out for
shore with two white men. two Eski-
mos and dog teams, TO hunt caribou
to provide the Karluk with fresh
meat On September 22 violent
gale sprang up which broke the Ice.
When Stefanson and his companions
returned to the sore at Beechy
Point September 2S, the Karluk was
not to be seen. The hunters pro-
ceeded to Point Barrow. and on ar
rival there we're told by an old Es-
kimo that he had sighted with his
spyglass the Karluk drifting west. in
the first week OF October
Stefansson and his associates. seek
ing the other vessels of their expedi-
tion. at once moved eastward toward
the Mackenzie delta In January of
that an Eskimo had seen the Karluk
steaming east past the north end Of
Richard island, east Of the mouth Of
the Mackenzie river. about the mid
die of October. No white man had
seen the Karhk since Stefansson
left the ship on September 20 last,
and there is an inclination among
Inayigators to discredit the reports
of Eskimos who said they saw the
Karluk after Stefansson left her
Stefansson and Peary have both
( expressed themselves as confident
that the Karluk is safe in the ice.
Both have the utmost faith in the
ability of Capt. Robert A. Bartlett
her commander. Capt. Roald Amund.
sen, the discoverer of the south pole
had planned, until compelled by lack
of funds to abandon his project, to
sail TO Point Barrow with his wooden
/ ice-boat Fran next August and per.
nit the Fran to be frozen in the ice
I just as the Karluk was. Amundsen
believed that the ice would carry
him northeasterly perhaps across the
pole, and would probably deliver him
upon the coast of Greenland Capt
John Backland, OF Seattle, one of the
best known of Arctic navigators,
whose schooner Trans Il was crushed
/ by the ice and sunk near Point Bar
row last summer, fears that the Kar-
4 luk's sides were strong enough to
withstand the squeeze of the ice. The
Fran, he says, is built with a hull
that would be heaved up by the Ice
/ closing upon it. whereas the Karluk
might be destroyed in such a grip.
The Arctic shore is patrolled by
Eskimo hunters during the summer,
and wreckage from the Karluk, II
any comes ashore, is likely to be
picked up.
Stories placed in circulation last
summer, to the effect that Bartlett
had protested against going north in
the Karuk because she was unsea
worthy, and that Bartlett and Ste
fansson had disagreed concerning the
management of the expedition. have
been emphatiealy denied. The best
of fellowship among men has pre-
vailed
On the Karluk after Stefanssor
and his comrades went ashore tC
hunt last September were "a persons
including Captain Bartlett. Henr
Beauchat anthropologist; Bjarn'
Mamen topographer; DR. Aliste
Forbes .Mackay, surgeon; George
Mallock, geologist; VIM. Laird Nc
Kinley, magnetician, and James Mul
ray, oceanographer The remainde
of the party was made up of ship
officers and crew
The Karuk was provisioned 70
FIVE years. The Canadian govern
ment has asked the Russian govern
ment to keep Lookout for the ship,
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