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Show PHYSICIAN OF REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE DIES Holllster, Cal.. Fob. 17 Dr. Samuel J. Call, a retired physician of the revenue rev-enue cutter 8ervlce,ia dead here from an attack of Brlght's disease, which ho contracted as the result of tho exposure ex-posure that he suffered on the memorable mem-orable reindeer relief expedition sent to Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1898. by the government to relieve some whalers whal-ers Imprisoned in the Ice. For his services ser-vices at that time, congress voted him a special gold medal. Just before his retirement from the service of the government, gov-ernment, Dr. Call was attached to the revenue cutter Thetis. |