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Show SEVEREST WINTER IN TWENTY YEARS Even the Eskimo Are Suffering Prom v the Cold Weather in Alaska. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30. Alaska Is undergoing the severest winter that has visited the northern country in twenty years. Even the Eskimo, who are ac-custoofed ac-custoofed to the cold, are suffering. The little codflshiig schooner Pearl, which has arrived Nfrom the north. brings news of the condition of affairs in the ice-bound lttad. Her officers state that the thermometer at Unga fluctuated fluctu-ated between 10 and 12 degrees below zero. Snow has fallen, covering the ground to a great depth. The white men residing in Unga were greatly affected af-fected by the cold. |