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Show DECEMBER COLDEST MONTH IN YUKON DAWSON, T. T., Jan. 5. December 1917, was the coldest month In the hLs-C tory of the Yukon territory, according tr j official records made public today. The; ! daily average temperature here was 51, degrees below zero. At Pelly, a Yukom river point between here aid White Horse, the thermometer at one time 3ur- ing the month dropped to $6 degrees be-, low. The new year brought milder weather. More than twenty Dawson resident! died of pneumonia and whooping cougrh 'during the cold spell. The funerals ar being held now, as the cold prevented, interment last month, During1 the epidemic. epi-demic. Eagle City, Alaska, declared a quarantine against Dawson. |