Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-28 | Page 2 | Regarded as Men without Country

REGARDED- AS MEN WITHOUT COUNTRY JUNEAU. Alaska, Oct. 19 (by mail). Foreigners In Alaska who surrender their first citizenship papers to escape the draft are considered men without a country. coun-try. OHe recently arrived here from southwestern Alaska, wearing a yellow rihbon Indignant citutens had pinned on him. According to reports received here from Anchorage and Cordova, this man, of a neutral country, was working on the United States government railroad. He I gave up his papers and was so shunned by his fellows that he left his work, seventy two miles from Anchorage, and walked In. Residents along the road kept him moving and denied him meals and lodging. At Anchorage he boarded a boat for Latouche, expecting to get work there. On arriving, seven cltlsens met hlrn, gave him the yellow ribbon and escorted es-corted him to a United States deputy marshal, who told him to keep on mov-1ns. mov-1ns. Ho rams to Juneau and then went south to the slates. It was said he was refused a first cabin nn the steamer and was sent to the steerage, although he had several thousand dollars on him. Reports Re-ports said even his own countrymen bhunned him.