Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-03-12 | Page 9 | Stefansson Has Been Heard From

STEFANSSON HAS BEEN HEARD FROM Seattle, Wash., March 12, A news dispatch from Dawson, Yukoii territory, terri-tory, says E. S Ironsides, collector or customs at Dawson, has received a letter written at McPherson by a friend, who interviewed Vilhjalmur Stefansson, commander-in-chief of the ! ! j Canadian Arctic Exploration expedi- .j tion, who was there last month. The , letter says Stefansson has gone back !j I to Herschel Island off the mouth ol ! the Mackenzie river and Intends to ,1 start out immediately over the Arc- j! JS tic. Continuing the letter says: i! I "Stcfanssori thinks that the explor- ij J ing ship Karluk, which was blown jl j from the vicinity of Point Barrow, if j M Alaska, Into the Arctic ice field dur- I ing a blizzard last September, leav- J m ing Stefansson and three other scl- j v m entists ashore, may forestall Captain I f Roald Amundsen in his coming at- J i m tempt to drift across the pole. Tho j Karluk Is provisioned for five years J U! and Stefansson seems to be of the j 11 opinion that she will be carried 1 l across the pole by the Ice and come 9 out north of Greenland, if she es- capes being crushed." I I P