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Show VVOLF HOUND TEAM ' LEADS IN DOG DERBY x NOME. Alaska. April 5. -At 1 o'clock this afternoon Alexander "Holmson, drl-Ing drl-Ing John Johnson's team of Siberian wolfhounds, wolf-hounds, was holding his lead in the all -Alaska sweepstakes dog race. Holmson covered 175 miles In thc first thirty hours and expocted to reach Candle, 20fi miles from Nome, tonight, completing thc llrst half of the 412-mllo course over tho snow trail. Johnson and Bratchford got oft the trail last night and lost nineteen minutes recovering re-covering it. The Oliver dogs leave blood on the snow from their soro feet, but they are still going steadily. Big wagers are made on tho race. |