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Show RICH ESKIMO ; : CLOSES LIFE REWARD. Alaska, April (I (I I ) While airplanes endeavored to fly through the uncertain weather of the northbind to reach him, David Seppuli. Alaska's richest eskimo, died at his home atf Sevoona, St. Lawrence Island, according to radio advice received here today. . For dnys Seppuli has been desperately ill, while treatment for the iied man was prescribed by physicians in Seattle and radioed to the tiny hamlet where he lived. The last effort to reach the island, north of the Alaskan coast in Bering Ber-ing Sea, and take Seppuli to Nome for treat men t, was made by Pilot i K. )L Merrit and Mechanic Alonzo !('nx flying n plane of the Anchor-I Anchor-I age commercial company. |