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Show LOCATES NORTH POLE. Quest cf Norwegian Explorer Believed Be-lieved to B3 Successful. SAX FRANCISCO. May 12 The Norwegian Nor-wegian 'onsiil here has received an order or-der for provisions to be sent north on a whaling Arctic explorer, who sailed from Norway on June 17. 1903. In an endeavor to find the northwest passage. pas-sage. From the fact that supplies are to be sent north by the Pacific ocean, It Is argued that this great quest of Arctic explorers for more than 400 yeani has been successful and that the explorer will soon appear on the Pacific Pa-cific coast. Capt. Amundsen, who passed Green-land Green-land bound for Kln William Land, 19 paid to have located the north magnetic pole and to have found the monument erected by Sir John Franklin when that Ill-fated expedition perished. |