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Show Dog Teams Saved Many Lives. Word has recently been received of the heroic efforts made during recent months to check the influenza epidemic in Yukon territory, where remote communities com-munities faced grave danger because of limited medical aud nursing supplies. sup-plies. To meet the emergency, Indian runners with dog teams were dispatched dis-patched from Dawson with nnti-inf.uenza nnti-inf.uenza serum nnd sent across the snow as far north as Fort McPherson, nei.- the mouth of the Mackenzie river, making the round trip of 1.000 miles in a little less than two months, which Is a fair performance In mid-winter. The journey included crossing the Rocky mountains. |