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Show VETERAN THESPIAN RETURNS TO NORTH ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March I. Frank Kelly, veteran actor, who. In the gold stampede days of '(8, was known In the Haw son and Koyukuk camps as "Ragtime" Kelly, has returned re-turned to the northland. Friends of the comedian aay that years ago he named the town of Cold-foot, Cold-foot, located far above the Arctic circle. cir-cle. There had been a rush of prospectors pros-pectors to the camp, then the "farthest north" mining district and a name for the place was wanted. Kelly, one of the prospectors, suggested "Coldfoof because many who went to the spot got "cold feet" as he expressed It, and turned back. Later Kelly prospected In the Koyukuk Ko-yukuk district he recalled, and staked a claim on what he thought was Km ma ! ,reek. where ,it was thought gold could be found. Koon Kelly found that his claim waa not on Km ma creek, but on ! a gulch far from the stream. To thia dry the gulch la known as "Kelly's! Mistake." I |