Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 20 | Draftees Hile Miles in Snow

DRAFTEES HIKE MILES IN SNOW Youths From Far Away Avay Sections Sections Sec See in iii Alaska Report for Service Juneau Alaska Aug 31 Draft Draft calls for or men In the remote and antI far tar faraway tarawa awa away asay n sections u of or Alaska have brought 7 07 v. v 0 VUI many Inan naru miles to U report for tor service Hunters trappers tra traders ers an and prospectors pros pros- In answer to the tho draft calls have come corns from the tundra country countr up along the Arctic tho nills and valleys valleys val- val leys along the Yukon river and the remote mountain sections of ot southeastern southeastern southeastern south south- eastern an and Alaska Time Tho They have ha been mobilized at Alaska forts and later sent to the states for tor training One young oong man maim Clau Claude e Harrison received his questionnaire n as he lie was as making malting plans for tor spending tho time coming winter inter hunting and amid trapping in the time Lake country countr about sixty miles flues northwest est of ot Mount McKInley Harrison immediately dropped his his plans and set out on a 1 mile 5 mush to the time office of ot tho the United States com coin missioner at When hen hA 1 1 L. L he ho ar- ar haU iLU gone to Nenana nearly miles mile's s farther far far- ther so the tIme the long hll hike e was sa continued on until the official was Yam found Twelve other young oun men who gathered Kath gath- ered at Marshal Alaska to board a steamer for Nome om In answer to Ic their calls found loun on their arrival al that on un account of ot the time slowness of the malls 11 ti C ey had failed tailed to r receive their cation cation In iii time an arid and were sere classed ns os do- do The They w were re cleared of oC the charge chars w when time the en they explained the time dela deIa delay 1 1