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Show DRAFT CALLS MEN FROM REMOTE SPOT JUNEAU. Alaska, August J. (Mail) Draft calls for men in the remote and far away sections of Alaska havo brought youths out over many hard miles to report for service. Hunters, trappers, traders and prospectors, pros-pectors, in. answor to the draft calls, havo come from the tundra country up along the Arctic, the hills and valleys val-leys along the Yukon River and the remote mountain sections of southeastern south-eastern and southwestern Alaska, j They have been mobilized at Alaska forts and later sent to tho states for training. One young man, Claude Harrison, received his draft questionnaire as ho was making plans for spending tho winter hunting and trapping in the) t in the Like Minchumina country about julf sixty miles northwest of Mount Mc- tujkj Kinlcy. S He Harrison immediately dropped his Hji plans and set out orva 125-mile "mush" d H.j to the office of the United States com- j Hh missioner at Kantishna. When he ar- j ! rived ho found the commissioner had ' H i gone to Nenana, nearly 100 miles far- In1 ther, so the long hike was continued i m on until the official was found. ! Twelve other young men, who ga- H i thered at Marshal, Alaska, to board wftr, a Steamer for Nome, in answer to j their calls, found, oft their arrival that on account of the slowness of the Hi mails, they had failed to receive their Ht notification in time and were classed i H f as delinquents. They were cleared of !. the charges when they explained the iHj delay. HiH |