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Show THE MOSQUITOES OF ALASKA Far North Species Is Worse Than Any Found in the Temperate Zone. "Our summer lasted for three months, and during that time, by day as well as by night, we had the fight of our lives against swarms of mosquitoes mos-quitoes which lor tenacity of purpose and endeavor cannot be equaled in this world, and I have seen a good deal of it In my 15 years as a soldier," said A. O. Gardner, sergeant of Company Com-pany C, Twenty-second infantry. Sergt. Gardner was returning home to Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Wis, after two years spent at Fort Gibson, Aluska, some 900 miles northeast of Nome, on the Yukon. "The government maintains six posts In Alaska," continued Sergt. Gardner. "We had two companies at our pot and did very little actual military duty. Our principal work was In keeping up the telegraph lines which are owned by the government. The signal corps has large representation representa-tion in Alaska, and the soldiers fre- quently are called on to give that department de-partment assistance. "I have fought mosquitoes in the woods in Wisconsin, in the flats of New Jersey, in the swamps of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river and in the Philippines, but there are none that can equal the voracious species they have in the far north." Kansas C. - Journal. |