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Former Iditarod Man
Writes From Siberia
Anchorage Times.
Under date of September 25, Dick
Hussey, well known in Anchorage,
writes to William Boudreau and Jerry
Murphy concerning his experiences.
Dick left Anchorage last spring for
Seattle en route to Siberia, and his
last letter, written from Okhotsk, Si
beria, savs:
Okhotsk, Siberia, Sept. 25.
Dear Bill and Jerry:
We made our tirst landing on Si
benan soil yesterday morning at 0
o’clock at a place called A tan, 250
miles south of Okhotsk, eightdays from
Hakodate, Japan. Two days of that
we 9pent in the midst of a typhoon; at
least had 24 hours of the worst and
heaviest sea I ever witnessed before; a
100-mile gale. Mount McKinley looked
small compared to those riffles. They
headed the boat into the wind, held
; her there for 24 hours under full steam,
and she gained one mile. The next 12
hours she made 20 miles, and after that
it became calmer. We got into it just
after we passed Saghalien island.
Aian is a very beautiful little cove,
;i about twenty houses, five white people,
fifteen or twenty white Russians, thirty
or forty Yakutsh aud Tangoos natives,
and 250 troops, who are living in tents.
The bolsheviks were within 30 miles of
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the place six weeks ago. The people
were ready to Hee to the mountains
when a gunboat, with 300 troops came
id and the bolshies went back. The
people in that burg treated us royally.
The Russian soldiers are very sociable.
Several of them came on board, shook
hands and hunted whisky. The Japs
did a big business in some kind of saki.
It is worth about 50 cents in Japan. I
Tbev sold it to them at $2.50 a bottle.
Met the governor, a very nice old
man Rad a long talk with him through
an interpreter. He and several others,
including three Russians who spoke (
English, wanted us in the worst w..y to
stop off at Aian and go down the bav
fifty miles, where they said there were
good prospects. We would have done
so, but A1 Winchell, one of our party,
left Hakodate four days ahead of us for
Okhotsk; boat had only room for two
passengers, so Al and a fellow named
PuriDgton went on it. We could not
get our freight on that boat, otherwise
we might have crowded in somewhere.
It is very miserable traveling on
these Japanese boats. They have no
passenger accommodations. Got to
pack your own blankets and grub. No
place to cook your grub, We have
been existing on humpbacked salmon
and bread for nine days Expect to
make Okhotsk tomorrow. Everybody
feeling good.
None of the Jap crew talks lEnglish,
and we took on a few natives at Aian,
so you can imagine how cheerful it is.
Aian looked good to me, and I would
like to have investigated that section.
Three trading posts there—Hudson
Hay, Swenson, and a Jap outfit.
This is a very barren lookin T country
along the coast. Haven’t seen a sign
of life, house, boat or anything else fer
the last 24 hours. I bad a Japanese
9tamp in my boek, so thought I would
write while aboard. No telling if there
will be any chance to write from Ok
hotsk. If so, I will spnd all the news.
Sand Table Portrayed
Story of the Nativity
McGrath school closed for Xmas va
cation on Friday, Dec. 22. In view « f
the fact that the entire school would
be taken to Tacotna for Christmas eve,
only a 3hort program .was given at the
school house.
All present congratulated ^teacher
and pupils upon the decorations of the
room and the sand table, the latter
representing the stable wherein the
Savior was born. Lights glowing
within cast upon the opening the
shadows of Mary and Joseph leaning
over the manger. The star above, the
angels showing the way to the wise
men, with their camels, and the shep
herds watching their flocks, were all
represented. It would be a dull child
that did not comprehend the story of
the nativity as portrayed in the Mc
Grath school room this year.
Maybe the price of grapes is due to
a pressing demand.—Detroit News.
Those who are at the Bosporus are
certainly In serious straits. —Detroit
Free Press.
Shakespeare was no broker, but he
furnished a great manv quotations.—
Princeton Tiger.
It is easy enough to figure out a liv
ing wage for the other fellow to live
on.—Indianapolis Star.
Perhaps with all the1 mines working
all winter we’ll get enough coal to last
tili the next strike.—N. Y. Tribune. *;
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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