Show EIMO ESKIMO DENIES GRA GRAVE VE CHARGES Ada Black Blackjack jack Says SheDid She SheDid Did Not Starve Lorne Knight ny nAM nJ NS Special Correspondent lIt Standard f Examiner I ILOS LOS ANGELES GELIS March The 1 1 United States State go saw to the the education of Ada Blackjack blooded full blooded Eskimo She Sh was put Into a school In one ot of the outpost towns owns o of the far tal north and taught to Ih li lir after the white whit men and omen omen representatives of ot the higher cl A Ada Ma la BlackjaCk wa ae married at- at attel after af after ter tel the white fashion and she ahe ah was dO deserted by her ber husband also at- at atter af after tf ter r the th whIte whit fashion and found herself literally starving In a hut hutIn hutin hutIn I In the Arctic wilderness with her hel year old old year son on She Sh walked 40 miles to Nome the boy for tOI the th gretter gretel cr part of ot the th journey and Ada o Blackjack la is I but bul a a mite ot of a woman JOIS S EXPEDITION Arctic e x was wa 01 an to colonize Wrangell Island Alan Crawford a Canadian as as asin In command ot of the expedition and Lorne Knight of Portland OIl Oie rf d Ick Maur Mauer and Milton Galle G the last la t three thre Americans were the theother other members member of ot the th group croup They needed an Eskimo woman oman to 10 td sew fulS fuis for fol f Ada Blackjack was desperate enough to 10 take tak the chance and Khe ho he sailed with them In the of 1921 Rt Rr OUT The men had been a I IThe relief ship but it did not arrive Supplies ran 10 low only train oil hardtack and tea lea were left Knight was ironing groning sick Ick lck with Ith and th the white while men becoming decided to 10 take lake lak the chance chine on crossing the Ice floes floe to 10 Siberia They left Ada Blackjack alone to alt sait for the th relief ship hip She Sh did not 1101 murmur accepting her fate tate In inthe Inthe the same am spirit In which she h had ted nith sith Ith the th expedition But Rul the white bite men returned I had grown glon worse and as a Ii burden W When hen hen they started gain again Knight was sas left behind b as asa asa asa a chaie of Ada Ad Cne ee men who tho ho set sel out for Sib or ha hate hae e nevet nevel been heard heald of q q y seen sInce Their Theil fate fat cannot be doubted Lat Last La t Harold Noice olce of 10 Los Angeles led a J eller expedition I to Island ot Of 0 what he I found there ther he wrote It It was as 8 p 1 m ni August 23 3 when hen we e e saw something mo on the beach b-ach At first o e wel e not sure whether the object leally J eally mo mo ed ed 01 ot whether heth- heth er for It was aas as but a figment of ot the th tog fog hut but as we dl diew ew neat near we M e taw saw that it II wis Wa Indeed a human figure It moved moed slowly lowly elo Iy do down doan n to the bech I and held out its lis nd h lo ald us In dumb supplication i DL BLUD FOIl FOll DE Cn That aae w a Ada Black jac I ha had 1 died on June 22 of After a stud stud of Knight s diary which Ada had 1 pi 11 ced In his hands hand Noice a few v days ago agoo made the chap cha-ce cha e that Ada Black Ck Blackjack jack Black jack lild d permitted KnIght to stal stale e to 10 lh dc ahi hi c p she grow grew fat fal falon faton faton on the EtOI tomel I food Adi Adt Black Black- Blackjack jack Black jac jack in Los tos Lo makes her first public statement about aboul the Wran- Wran Wrangell Bell Wran-Bell ran I gell Lind I-Lind expedition e to resent reent the crud charpes charres chan f ATT Tn ro rot MF rr IT tT I Knight was Isas as sick she sail lIe He could not RO n out to hunt or 01 hap dapHe lie thought I should ho tb do It I didn t I knott how to trap IraI I was aas as hired to In InI Ins tos s sew w skins as a a seamstress but I I learned hoto lion boa to trap I trapped fox I to tot KnIght ht and gao gale him all the tendel piece pieces I hUnt hunted d gulls tull eggs for tor him and fed them to him I I hauled wood tot foi fires tires With Ith the thea a ork p nd I fm lew ew CW sick Ick my-I my my- my myself my-Belf my self For a month I could cn not make the th lounds ot of the traps I That meant mant no fresh sh food tood foi tot lie H crew grea rel weaker Foi Fot ai a I mont before the seals se and nd the lie ho came caine with I cau caught ht i no fox tox T I was ory ery ry weak eak and sick self I don Ion t think I could ha hate hae e through If It It had hd not been for fol thoughts of ot my little bo I had to In 11 use 0 for tor him II I But that thai month we was the th death o of Knight ht Da Da Daby by day he grew crew weaker For Fol the last 0 dao 5 ho hoI a I was aas unconscious Before that while he h still 1111 till had hit mind and an could talk he thanked me inc tot 01 what I had done don for him During the th month while I was too sick lck to trap was wall wa sometimes angry aith Ith roe me I suppo ho he h thought that 1 a as shirkIng When hen the seals al and ducks duck came Caine cam camI cameI I got tot fresh meat again and Ire grea fat but bul KnIght Knitht was as dead dad o FOlt For months I an a was alone alon on the Island bland with the th bod Together we w were many months alone there thele ther and at times both helpless from 1 But Bul these the accusations accusation are harder hardi still till There Thele Is no truth to them |