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Show oo STEFANSSON TO LEAVE TODAY Nome Alaska, July 12. Vllhjalmar Stefansson expects to leave Nome on the polar exploration ship Karluk tomorrow, to-morrow, going as far as Port Clearance, Clear-ance, the best harbor on Seward peninsula, pe-ninsula, where the engines will be j given a thorough overhauling and Inspection In-spection before the vessel sails through Bering strait for her thre vears' stay in the Arctic. One hundred hun-dred tons of the best coal available if being loaded on the deck of the, old whaler and when this is taken ' aboard Fhe will be ready to leave. Thirty dogs for Stefansson's party were brought today by Scotty Allan, the Alaska dog expert, and racing drher The dogs are the best in the Nome district and Include thirteen I valuable males A 53-horsepower launch was also bought today for the Karluk and a five-horsepower launch was bought for the auxiliary boat AJ ' askan, which will carry the southern ' party under Dr. R. U Anderson to Victorlaland. Stefansson is meeting many old friends of the Arctic here. During tho day he visited with Ernest Lcf flngwell. the Chicago explorer, who j is outfitting an expedition to go into the Arctic; Captain Louis Un of the power schooner Polar Bear, which has a party of eastern scientists aboard. Captain Frank Klelnschmldt of the schooner P J Abler, which also is on a scientific crul6o. and Captain Heady of the famous old steamer Corwin. well known among Arctic mariners. Mr. Stefansson was the guest at luncheon today of Cap tain Balllnger on the revenue cutter Bear, which Is anchored In the road stead here |