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Kennesott
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legally arranger
Cordova,
Alask;
ASA C. BALDWIN
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SEATTLE, WASH
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Alaska
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Here and There
In Alaska
Lee and Ereo Johnson miners
employed at the Fern mine, at
the head of Archangel creek in
the Willow Creek mining district
recently had the harrowing expe
rience of being entombed beneth
tons of snow for ten hours.
While the two men were eattng
there midnight lunch in the black
;
j smith shop at the mouth of No,
2 tunnel, a snowslide came down
‘ burying the blacksmith shopand
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crushing it almost Hat, piling
snow on the entombed men. Lee
Johnson was held prone across
the forge and Ereo across his
back, with his arm extended to
where it touched the corrugated
roof, but encased in snow.
The two men were alone on
the night shift, and when they
did not return at the usual hour
the day men climbed the hill to
lind the mouth of the tunnel cov
ered and the blackdmith shop de
molished. Hearing tapping under
neath, they realized that their
companions were beneath the
slide. They immediately set to
work to fiee the imprisoned men
After several hours of frantic
digging in the packed snow, the
men were rewarded by seeing
Ereo’s hand protruding from the
snow, just beneath the corruga
ted roof, on which he had been
tapping all night in the hope of
attracting attention. His body
was completely covered, but his
breath had melted a small aper
ture, thru which sufficient oxy
gen to maintain life was admitt
ed.
He was fully conscious; but
his companion, whom the rescue
party found lying on his sto
mach across the forge was un
conscious. It took two and a half
hours of massage and first-aid
treatment at the lower camp, to
which the men rushed on sleds,
before Lee J ohnson regained con
sciousness. Both men were con
fined to camp for a week by stiff
ness occasioned by being encas
ed iii snow for ten hours.
The rescue party is convinced
that the men owe their lives to
the fact that Ereo Johnson’s arm
was extended upwards, torming
a means for air reaching them.
A new device that wonderfully
improves the ease with which a
power gurdy may be handled, is
the invention of S. A. Shepard,
of Wrangell. The device is used
fo haul in ihe trolling lines and
is said to be perfect by fishermen
who have examined it. The Wran
gell Machine Shops will have the
invention on the market in a few
days.
The American Legion pjst at
Anchorage, recentls precipitated
a row that has not cooled oft’
yet. The doctor at the govern
ment hospital, one Turpin, refus
ed to answer emergency call out
side the the hospital, despite the
fact he was the only M.D in the
city. The Secretary of the Inter
was advised of the situation by
cablegram, and then the fun be
an. The upshot of the matter is
that the hospital is now open to
all physicians and the atmosphe
re is beginning to clear.
D. J. Parker, Chief Engineer,
Mine Safety Service of the Fede
j ral Burea of Mines, expects to
| visit Alaska, during the coining
summer. He has charge of all of
the mine rescue work equipment
and stations maintained by the
Federal government. The pur
p^se of his visit to Alaska is to
study the mining industry in
the Territory in order to get
first hand knowledge of its needs
for mine rescue work.
It is reported that the news of
a placer gold strike in British
Guiana, some seven hundred
miles inland from Georgetown,
the capital, has caused several
Fairbanks prospectors to stam
pede. If reports are favorable, a
many other men intend to go.
J. E. Ketchum, formerly agent
for the C. R. & NW. Ry. at Chiti
na, and Richard Edwards, an ex
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