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Show ALASKA BELIEVED ONCE WARM CLIME j SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 17 (By A. P j That Alaska was once a tropical re- I gion Is said to be indicated by a bone j three feet long, weighing fifty pounds, brought here by K. A. Swift, an old time mining man. to be presented ' lo-the lo-the t'niversity of Washligton. Swift found the bone in a bank of tlie Knyukuk river, fifty miles north of Pettles, Alaska, within the Arctic circle. t was twenty-five fet deep In gravel and came to. light In hydraulic hy-draulic mining oeratlnna. It Is believed be-lieved tn be part of the skeleton of i a mastodon. |