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■few days ago on Roy Lund s launch
from Tanana. brings news of the
damage done by the breakup and
the high water following it, to the
/ towns on the upper Yukon.
The damage done at Circle
by the ice was very great, several;
building being damaged beyond re
pair and others being completely,
■wrecked.
The big woodpile belonging to
the military is aid to ha\e been
scattered all over the place and ,
much of it carried away by the flood j
waters.
At Fort Yukon about thirty feet j
•of the river bank for a distance of
about 300 yards along the water
-front is said to have been washed
away, together with several build
ings. It is stated that the mission
and several other buildings are now
being moved farther back. Fort
Yukon annually loses much of its,
waterfront and it is said that this
sort of thing will continue until the
channel is changed.
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Reports from the diggings which
are said to be about ninety miles]
from Bethel, are to the effect that
Curley Smith and Joe Jean, mining
men from the Marshal district, have
made a deal with Butch Smith and
partners and are going to work
about four or five claims in this
district during the season.
They are reported to be on good
mining ground, averaging about
from three to four dollars to the
foot. They will adopt the open-cut
method of mining.
Several outfits are said to be plan
ning on working in this section of
the country this summer, reports in
dicating that there will probably be
from about one hundred to a hund
red and fifty men in the camp.
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LONDON.—The hardships of rail
way travel during the present disor
ganization in Russia were brought
home repeatedly to the members of;
the American Red Cross Mission to ]
Rumania on their journey from Jassy
to Murmansk. The distance is about
2,500 miles but the mission was
nearly a month on the way, ave-ag-!
ing less than 100 miles a day. Even
after reaching Murmansk the Ameri
cans lived on their railway trains
while waiting for a boat.
Murmansk is about 150 miles
north of the Arctic circle, and the
cold during parts of the journey was
severe. None of the railway cars
had any heating arrangements. Dur
the the coldest weather many of the
doctors and nurses remained in bed
all day to keep warm.
American ingenuity made a brave
effort to remedy the lack of heat
ing arrangements by building small
stoves of brick, stones and pieces of
sheet iron. These stoves were built
in the corridors or aisles of the cars
and were fed with wood and char
coal picked up along the line. They
were not very successful as heating
appliances, but were occasionally
useul for making hot coffee or tea.
The new order of things which th •
: Bolsheviki have introduced into Rus
sia was perpetually in evidence. Ev
erywhere along the line the officers
in charge of the train had to deal
, with Russians who thought they had
as good a right as anybody else to
travel on it. LTnbidden guests were
always coming on board. At night
they would often enter by way of
the windows, some merely looking
for a ride, others in seach of plunder
The Americans all slept with their
revolvers under their pillows, ready
to repel boarders.
At almost every railway station
there were prolonged arguments and
altercations. Excursion parties cf
Russian soldiers would express a de
sire to travel a' few hundred versts
with the mission, and the French
soldiers who accompanied the mission
would explain that it was impossible.
The disorganization of the railway
system was well-nigh complete.
There was no semblance of train dis
patching. Once or twice a day a
train going in the opposite direction
would be encountered. In this case I
both trains would stop, pour parsers
would ensue, and one train or the
other would go back to the nearest
siding .
The self-constituted authorities at
each station were a perpetual nuis
ance. Every Station-Soviet had to
have the whole business of the mis
sion explained to it, and the diffi
culties which immediately arose could
only be solved by a plentiful dis
tribution of roubles and cognac. The
total amount of money distributed
by the French officers in charge of
train during the four weeks’ trip
would easily have paid for the train
twice over. The Americans wished
to share this expense proportionately
but the French insisted on paying
it all. The French also insisted on
supplementing the American’s food
supplies.
The Bolsheviki everywhere showed
a remarkable friendliness for the
little group of Americans on board
the train. "The French belong to
the bourgeoisie, but the Americans
are just as good Bolsheviki as we
are,” said one Soviet leader in an
address of welcome at a tiny village
station north of Mosco. Occasion
ally a Russian who had been in Amer
ica was encountered.
During the severe weather one of
the French officers, Colonel Odone,
fell ill with pneumonia and died in
his berth a few days later. His body
was taken off the train near Mur
mansk and buried beside the track.
All of the American and French offi
cers, and deputations of British,
Italian and Serbian military men
from trains which immediately pre
ceded the Franco-American train, at
tended the funeral service on the
snow-covered field. The grave was
marked with a cross made from fir
tree boughs by members of the
American delegation. Over the cof
fin, at Colonel Odone's request, were
draped the flags of France, the
United States and the other Allies.
At Vologda the train halted for
nearly a day, and the Americans paid
a visit to the American embassy,
which consisted of three railway cars
drawn up on a siding near the sta
tion. The American ambassador had
a private car of Pullman type, a din
ing car, and a first class sleeper.
From Vologda to Murmansk the
train dragged its way wearily and
hesitatingly. This line is a new war
railway, every mile constructed of
American material, but laid rather
hastily and over frozen ground. For
miles it skirts the White Sea. a vast
expanse of solid ice a far as the eye
can see.
It was unpleasant to see, at fre
quent points along the line, vast
quantities of American rolling-stock
and railway material lying useless
and gathering rust. At one station
there were 64 locomotives, almost
new, but dismantled and with various
parts of the mechanism smashed or
stolen. At another point there was
a great quantity of American agri-!
cultural machinery, wire cables and ^
copper telegraph wire in rolls as tall
as a man.
The food supply of both the French
and the Americans began to give !
out as the train neared Murmansk,
and for two weeks before the mis
sion sailed their diet consisted largely
of reindeer meat. This was sup
plemented by a scant ration of mac
aroni and black bread. The first
bread of a reasonably white appear
ance which any of the Americans had
seen in almost a year was that serv
ed at their first meal on board the
steamer in Murmansk harbor.
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Seattle No. 3.—At mouth of river.
Yukon—Scheduled to leave Fair
banks this evening.
Sibilla—Fort Yukon 5 pm. 19th.'
Washburn—Down Nulato, 18th.
Jacobs—At Nenana.
Davis—At Fort Gibon.
Reliance—At Nulato.
Tanana—Down Circle 3:30 a. m. |
Dawson—Up Selkirk 9:30 p. m
Whitehorse—At Whitehorse.
Selkirk—At Dawson, leaves for
Whitehorse 8 p. m.
Alaska—Down Eagle 11:30 p. m.
the 19th.
Princess May—Up Nenana for
Fairbanks 8 a. m.
Shusana—At Nenana.
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Recent arrivals from Nixon Fork,
about 35 miles from McGrath, state
that considerable prospecting has
been done recently in that part of
the country and that some of the
prospectors have struck pretty good
pay and that they are figur
ing on opening up some ground this
season. There are said to be about
forty men at McGrath who are
headed for Nixon Fork country, but
from the last reports to hand they
were unable to get there owing to
the flooded state of the country. It
is also stated that there will be a
great deal of work done in this se'
tion of the country this season.
Material and supplies cf all kinds
are said to be very hard to obtain
and this condition will be a bar to
the development of the country it
is thought.
Tom Aitken, on Candle creek,
| about forty miles from 'fakotna, is
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irg a dredge an<’ w.l: have about
forty men on his payroll.
It is reported that the wireless
station owend and operated by jriv
aio interests, has been put out of
commission by reason of the floods.
The new German submarines are
j said to be 450 feet long and thirty
j six feet broad, and have 20,000 horse
j power. They can make twenty-eight
knots above the surface and fifteen
i knots submerged. They carry seven
I ty-five torpedoes, 150 mines and six
j guns, and are capable of diving in
j five minutes. The guns carried are
( said to be six-inch .
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