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Show Woman Survives on Barren Arctic Island While Four White Men Peri:h in Cc!J N a Ic ' Expedition t o Wrmngell Discovers That Death All But Wiped Out 1920 Party of. Explorers NOME, Alaska. Bept 1. Ada. a native Alaskan woman, la the narrator nar-rator of ths latest cf the tragedies of ths north. She alone of an expedition ex-pedition sent to Wrangell Island two years age by Vllhjalmur Stef-nsson Stef-nsson Is alive, while four men. civilised and-dlsclpllned, with whom ha went as cook, gave up their lives to the barren frost. , Ada. who found when ehe arrived hers Thursday night with a relief expedition leg by Harold Nolee. that ehe had become a widow while she waa gone, eaw Alan Crawford, Toronto, To-ronto, leader of the expedition, which went to eatabllsh British sovereignty sov-ereignty over the lelsnd, and two of his companions, rretf-j-lrk liirer. Ksw- rhliaar'phla, O. Tin. Milton Oalle. New fereunfeis, Tex . go out on the Ice seeking the mainland in the second winter of their isolation en the Island, and disappear. t)he nursed the fourth man. Lomse Knight, MeMlnnvllle. Ore., hunting hie food for him. until be died of scurvy this summer. And when the relief expedition ernvee sna waa unaDie to Deueve that the men she eaw were human beings. The eight of them sent her into a faint. Before returning here with Ada, and with a bottlp In which the Crawford party had left a message declaring the claim of King George of Great Britain to the Island. Notes left a colony of thirteen, headsd by Charles Welle of Nome, ta continue the effort to aettla tha Island and make It a British possession, de-eplte de-eplte claims ts It snnounced by ths soviet government of Russia. NOICE VOUNO. BUT EXPiRISNCtD EXPLORER. BKATTUB. Sept. 1. Cbptala Harold Nolce, heed af tba expedition expedi-tion which went let WrangeO Island la aa unsuccessful attempt ts res-eue res-eue members of the 111 rated Crawford Craw-ford party, although only If years old. has long been familiar with Arctic navigation snd sxplorstlon. He la the eon of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. eioics of Seattle and spent most of his lifs here. , Nolce, aa a lad of IS. was a member mem-ber of tha Siefanason exploration party of lll aad ISIS, and In 1IIT nrasaHsd his own expedition te Coronsdon gulf, wear ths mouth of "copper" Eskimos. Ths latter expedition ex-pedition required four years. He le known as en authority on the language lan-guage sf the Eskimos aad sa Eskimo Es-kimo sthnology. AMERICAN HEAOED BRITISH EXPEDITION. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. L Lores Knight, a member of ths lost Wrangell Island party, waa ths eon of J. L Knight sf MeMlnnvllle. Ore. Although not officially named as the leader of the party, for diplomatic leasmia. young Knight was considered consid-ered in local quarters ss head of the party becauss of his previous experience ex-perience with - Poler sxploretions. i The off! rial head of the party was Alan Crawford of Toronto, Frederick Fred-erick Maurer and . Milton Galls. Americana, were the other men la the party. The entire group arrived at Wrangell Isls-ld oa September It. 121. The last word which Knight's parents received waa under this dste. The letter wss brought back hw the vhiMW n 11 wee Wave, ehuh took the men to the island.. Ths original plan wss to have men on the island for a year, and that the Silver Wave would oaJI for them the following summer. Untoward Un-toward weather conditions rsvented sny attempt being made ts take them off. : Ths schooner Isfcum, which left Seattle esrly .In the rummer, expected ex-pected to call at the Island If possible, pos-sible, and members of her crew believed be-lieved thst they would find the men oafs. Last May Knight's parents received re-ceived word from Stef anasos. under whose direction ths trip WS undertaken, under-taken, expressing the bef-st 'M the party wss safe, beoeue I bad desired to de so, snd we are-pared are-pared to spend snotbes - the Island, thay could nsvsi - ed to ths mainland orw lbs f e during the winter season. ' - . |