Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — EXPLORING ALASKA. [ARTICLE]

EXPLORING ALASKA.

Progress Made by the Party Under Charge of Lieut. Stoney—A New Volcano. [San Francisco dispatch.) Lieut. Purcell, who went with Lieut, Stoney to Alaska to explore the Great Putnam River, returned here yesterday on the whaling tender Thomas Pope. Purcell reports that before proceeding up the river the party visited the newly found Bogoslar volcano. They noticed little change in it, except less smoko and a sand-spit was forming to the westward of it. J.uly 8 Stoney reached Hotham Inlet, into which the Putnam River empties. He intended to ascend the river as far as his large steamlaunch would carry him and then go into winter quarters. The party would then divide up into sledging parties for the purpose of exploring Northern Alaska as soon as navigation reopens. He intended to come down the Putnam River and explore Noatak River, which empties into an inlent north of Putnam. Purcell reports tho party all well at the time he left. The expedition intends returning here next falL