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in the spring new the Copper River
& Northwestern R.R. is going to close
down in January for 3 or 4 months.
They have to doitheir freighting in
to the ICotsina early enuf to sled in
over the snow by way ot the river 2c
Horse-creek.3o they dure not leave
and maybe get stuck on the Coast.
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TAYLORS C0IE3 TO TORN
Frs. Taylor and her son Alfred and
d'*-u. Alberta came in from out the
Trail at A1 Foore' s Camp on the Road j
Com. a little while ego. Alfred is
old enuf to be a boy-scout. They got j
J.L.ClcughRs house for rent. They
expect to stay thru the winter to
send their children to school. Al- j
bertu is in the 8th Grade & Albert
in the 7th.Their now house is just .]
across from the schoolhouse.
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HUTCHED - AFD IFTERE5TIFG I? TRUE ;
That Swagger has taken over Doctor
GillespieTs job since Dr. left town.
The Dr.said Swager already knew how
to do butchering and knows all the
insides of a pig. Dr. Hillcspie show,
c d him the cross between n. pig and a
man and all the differences,and so
now -wager is ready to fi:: you up
for whatever ails you.
r'rc know it is true the, that Fr.
Burling (Swager) ins been a great
help to Dr. many times this summer
in many ways, tending to the dispen- 1
sory etc., and always ready tcasslst*
THE NEE NURSE IS HERE ,
Fiss Emma Lambert came on yester- ■
day’s train.She is living in the O.A.
Nelson bungalow which the Gov’t has
leased. She will attend the Natives.
She wishes to say that she will be
very willing to go out the Trail at
any time necessary to see the sick,
transportation being the only thing
laking. As the'Gov’t has no appropri
ation for that, individuals will need
to provide it, as their part* Fiss
Lambert is one cf the 34 nurses em- j
ployed by the U.S. Gov’t for Alaskan j
Native work.There are 10 physicians, j
distributed along thousands of miles |
cf coastal range and along the im- j
portant rivers of this vast Territory, j
To those scattered along the theus- j
ands of the Yukon River a medic?.!
bo.at furnishes the only means of se
curing medical A dental relief. Lur
ing the summer months of eech yr the
boat cruises along as far as the del
ta, with a Er.,nurse & dentist, ex
tending 1st aid,distributing medi
cines, advising of the care A feed
ing of children, performing opera
tions, and taking a few patients tp
the hospitals at Fairbmks & Tanana.
Fiss Lambert was nurse on this boat
during the past summer.
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{Since this issue went to
1' ress ,v*e received over tlie
ra die,the s errowful wor d
that Thomas Alva Edison
passed cn at a little after
c o’clock this morningTJ
EX'In OH, the men who has contribut
ed most of any man to things of
human proggresshTho tried to make
the world a better place for it’s
people to live,who took so small ■
share of its proffits.Sometimes
none.If,when someone asked’"'.hat
will you do if you don’t got your
income? "he would reply,’"*rell, I can
always make $7 5 a month as on ex
pert telegraph operator and I can
live on that." He,who found the joy
of life not thru riches but by the
jcy of working for others,without
pay in money,but- his pay was the
liking of seeing others happy and
comfortable. He had more than
I,b0u patents on articals oi more
importance in one than any other
man in 10.He invented the mimeo
graph, which had it not "been invent
ed, we wouldnot "be able to serve 4°
many patrons by this paper.And many
other things we described in our is
sue of Feb.22?, 131. To our opinion,
the loss of this man is the greatest
loss in the world.He was 84 yrs,old<
v/e wish he could have lived to be
100 because he was doing sc manynicr
and worthwhile things .Edison was ve
ry kindly'to any boys trying to do
good work,and never too busy to send
letters of encouragment tc anyone
he could with the help of his seer.
t tries. *"c extend our sorrow tc
Frs .Edison and her sons ,\7 .H .Feadow
croft,Edison1s successors the beys
who are learning to dc his work in
F¥I.T.,& to the other 3 of the Four
Cronies.
It is said of another very
great and good man,Abraham Lincoln,
and we think it should also be s vie
of this great end good nun Thomas A',
Edison,
MFow he belongs to the ages.’1