stefansson-wrangel-09-14-114-001

McMinnville, Oreg. Dec. 3, 1923

Mr. V. Stefansson
New York City, N.Y.
3755 Broadway.

My Dear Mr. Stefansson.

I shall first take up the subject matters discussed in
your letter to me under date Nov.20, to begin with, concerning
Ada Blackjack;

I made the trip to Seattle as I wired you that I would, on
Nov. 28 th and received your wire which you had sent in duplicate
to this town and to Seattle and I shaped my plans accordingly.

I first got in touch with Carl Loman and we had w a wonderful
visit for strangers but, we were not strangers as he knew and was
interested in Lorne and this made him a friend of mine. I shall tell
you more of this later on. He gave me the same address for Ada that,
I had received at the hands of my friend J.W. Spangler the Pres. of
the Seattle National Bank, before I started over.

I next saw Miss Andrus and she x advised me, as Carl had that
Ada refused to see any of the people who should be and were her
honest friends and that, she had declined all offers of advice and
assistance. She seemed to be under the control of this man whose
name is W. Harvey but who has registered at at least one hotel in
Seattle, as Jack Tenana and there seemed no chance of getting an
interview with her because, those who had seen her and who had
tried to get her to talk, had found that she closed up like a clam
and refused to answer questions and became like a wooden indian.

I then, having been given an address for Harvey, went to
try and see him under guise of a representative of a publisher
but, I searched the neighborhood and found no trace of him nor of
any one who knew him. This and a lot of inquiry consumed one day
and the next day started with an interview with Castell and Masic
who are at the Notehren Hotel and they advised me that they had
been along the North Siberian Coast from two or three hundred miles
west of south of Wrangle Island to the East Cape and they had
heard nothing of the boys but, hed they known of their plight they
could easily have gone to them from the west. They are in company
with young Wittenberg whom you may know.

Then, I visited the Bureau of Education and had a very inter-
esting interview with Mr. Sinclair and he told me all that he had
in the line of information and he gave me the same address for
Ada and about the same line of information concerning her conduct
and suggested that, if we no could get any excuse for it, he
would be glad to have the plinceolice pick Harvey up because, he seemed
to believe that Harvey and Ada's brother in law who is a half breed
and who was living there in the city, were bootlegging and that
his man had found Ada drunk on one occasion when he sent for her.