The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-07-21

Joe Bernard. of Nome, Allan said:
 Captain Bernard set out ip 1918 to make the Northwest Passage, tray cling from west to east. Nothing has been heard of him for more than a year, but that causes no alarm in the Arctic. He was at Three River, Scv- cnty-five miles east of Copper Minr River. when he was last reported.
 Unless misfortune has befalcn [ him. he is continuing his eastward fight through the Northwest PaSsa"" Co Hudson Bay and thence to the A lantic. If all goes well, l expect that Joe will ar1iyc on the Atlantic ncN; October thus duplicating Amund- sens great feat of several years ago. Amundscn, however, sailed from cast to west. | was Shipmate with Joe ir the Arctic back in 1902 and hay' every confidence in his ability to sail into the Atlantic"
 Long NuSh Overland
 Leaving Shin"lc Point firty-five miles east of Hcrschcl island, on March 1, Captain Allan "mushcd" his dog team inland to the Old Crov River. thus blazing a new trail from the coast to tho interior. The, Old Crow runs into the Porcupine Rive forty miles from the boundary line between Canada and Alaska, Captain Allan followed this route to the Po"- rupine and descended to old For, Yukon. arriving there March l9, hay inc walked 800 miles in slightly les than Six.ccn days. From Fort Yukon he /mushcd to Circle and thence 'o Fairbanks. As a passenger on the long journey he had Leo Wittenbcr%, Arctic trader From Fairbanks the two men ioufncycd by stage and rail to Cordova, where they boarded a ship for Seattle.
 Poor Fur Season.
 "The past season in the Arctic, reports Captain Allan. "has been marked by small fur catches. Fu, bearing animals have been scarce, probatlv due to the lack of food. Rab- bits again are appearing in tha Mackenzie country. Two years ago they were plentiful. Last year they were not to be found. This year they have appeared in limited numbers anl next year they.will probably appea" in great numbers.
 Cantain Allan is again on his way back to the Arctic. He brought out consignment of furs. Wittenburr will also go back He is the man who nursed Stcfannson, the Arctic eXplor- CT. at Hcrschcll island, when the latter was i'll with typhoid fever. Wittenberg formerly owned the schooner Chal- lcngc but sold her several years ago 10 StefanssOn. The explorer later sold her to Captain Noice, who in turn sold her last fall. Wittenberg now owns the schooner Sea Wolf, lying at Juneau and will go back into the Arctic on that vessel when navigation opens.
 Register For War
 Captain Allan deserted the Arctic last fall to come down and register for the military draft and was ready to get into uniform, but the signing of the armistice ended his chances of going to France. He then set out on the return journey to the Arctic. Az Cordova he was qualantined five days and at Fairbanks had another ten days of the same treatment, because of the influenza epidemic. '"
 "There has never been case of influenza in the interior diSticts of Alaska through which l travelled in going to and from the Arctic he sail "There was a rumor that natives at Copper Center, fifty mics north of Chitina, had contracted the malady, but later it was reported that it was not case of influenza but of wood