Amundsen May Have
Undertaken Flight
of North Pole.
Copenhagen, Sept. 11.—It is
generally believed here that Am
undsen lias already undertaken
his daring flight across the North
Pole from Northern Alaska. This
belief is further strengthened by
the fact that the Norwegian gov
ernment has asked Capt. Gott
fried Hansen, the well known
Danish explorer, to undertake a
relief expedition. Captain Han
sen, who is today working out a
scheme for the exploration of
Western Greenland next spring,
is unable, however, to accede bo i
the request,
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In charge of a convoy of 20 horses, j
the property of the Innoko Dredging;
'Company. Harry Harris—known from 1
Bethel to Point Barrow as “Buckskin” i
—arrived at Optair a few days ago. The i
stock were taken across country from ;
Jiuby to Ophir, the trip being made in j
twelve days. The stock are now at Ta- ■
cotna in readiness for the winter haul j
iog of dredge material to the com-;
pany’s holdings on Canes creek.
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Death of Mrs. G. W.
Hoffman, Napai.aite
Mrs. Gen ge W. Hoffman, wife of the
well known Napatnute trader, passed
away on August 28th, wliile en route
to the Akiak hospital, the news of
which wiil be received with much re
gret throughout the entire Kuskokwim
section. The sad story is told in a per
sonal letter from Mr. Hoffman to the
editor of The Times, in part, as fol
lows:
“I have had one great loss, being so
unfoatunate as to lose my beloved wife,
who passed away on the .morning of
August23, after only one day’s sick
ness, dying from internal hemorrhage.
My wife was born in St. Michael, Alas
ka, June 13. 1882. and was the daugh
ter of Edward Lind, pioneer trader of
that place. We were married Febru
ary 13, 1900, and had she lived this
would have been her thirteenth child.
Eleven children, ages from 9 months to
15 years, are left to mourn her death.
“A few hours after she took «;,,k the
steamer Quiekstep came along, and I
wanted h r to go down to the hospital
at Akiak, but she thought it was not
so bad and refused to go. Towards
evening, however, she grew worse, and,
with Mr. W. Pbaill, we started out for
Akiak. She still did not want to go,
but wr tried out. We got only as
far as ft -ian Mission, and I took her
into the Rev. M. Berzkin cabin, and.
ten minutes after she arrived she
passed away. I brought her back to
Napatnute to be buried.
“And while I wos away the children
met with an accident. They were, of
course, under more or less excitement
at seeing their mother going away, so
one of them went to till the lamp, and
did not. take any notice of the marked
gasoline can. When they were about
to go to bed there was an explosion
from the lamp, from which the fire
spread. Mrs. McDonald was there at
the time, and by good luck put the fire
out. One of my girls, Agnes, was very
badly burnt about the body, and tiad to
betaken to the hospital at Akiak.”
Charlie Ross, founder of the Miners
it Merchants Bank at Iditarod, twelve
years ago, is closing out his business
interests in that town, where he ar
rived a few weeks ago. Mr. Ross made
the trip from the Outside via Seward,
Nenana and down the Yu ton, but will
leave this wintor over the trail, being
chaperoned by J. E. Beattie, who will
have charge of the gold train.
Fred Spencer and John Griflin were
Monday arrivals from Berry Landing.
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