| Summary: | Dog Teams Race From Northland: Five Nome Residents Start Trek To Government Railroad. DOG TEAMS RACE FROM NORTHLAND Nome Residents Start Trek to Government Railroad. NOME, ALASKA, Dec. 17. (/P) -- Reminiscences of the memorable dog team race with death a year ago recurred to Nomeites today as they awaited the outcome of the overland dash of three rival teams to Nenana on the Alaska railroad, more than 400 miles in a direct air line from here. A year ago the dog teams were bringing serum to halt a diphtheria epidemic which threatened to wipe out many lives in this outpost of the far north. Today the dogs were transporting five resdients of Nome to the outside, from which Nome is hemmed in six months of the year by snow and ice. Dr. Hoelscher and his wife, on their way to Seattle to purchase dental equipment to replace that destroyed in Nome's recent $100,000 fire, compose one party. Grant R. Jackson, president of the Nome Miners and Merchants' bank, making his first trip outside in more than 20 years, and James Keenan, a mining man, representing a Miami corportaion, make up the second, and Representative Thomas Jensen, going to Juneau to attend a meeting of the Alaska game commission, is going with the mail team. Great rivalry exists among the contestants to tsee which party will be first to buy railroad tickets at Nenana. The race started yesterday amid the shouted encouragement of the friends of the travelers.
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