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Show DRAFTED MAN HAS ARDUOUS JOURNEY CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 1-1 Leland L. Hudson, a select from Paxson, Alaska,. 200 miles north of Fairbanks, is hero after a trip of more than 3,000 miles in which he traveled by dog team, buckboard, mail barge, river steamqr, railway and coastwise vessel. Due to a mistaken idea on the part of the registrar at Paxson that all men who registered thero were obliged to give their address in "the States" Hudson Hud-son gave his mother's in Seattle. His card was sent there and on May 22 he was ordered byUho Seattle board to report there for duty. Ho asked for a two weeks' extension because a boat did not leave Fairbanks until late in June, but he received a reply to "take the first train or be classed as a deserter." de-serter." The nearest railway is at White Horse, more than 1,200 miles away. j |