Northwest History. Alaska. Dogs, Dog Races & Mushers.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: husky dogs; death; Malamute treks; summon aid; Little Squaw; Alaska; explosion; the Brooks mountain; Oscar Ottersoniz; Nigger; J. S. Shaw; C. Dunlap; the United States; arctic circle; Fairbanks; Nipawin; Sask.; Indians; W. H. Williams; San Bernardino; Cal.; Christmas; C. E. Barrett; Hollywood studio; the Bear valley; Baldwin lake; Tobin creek; Saskatchewan; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Baldwin; Barrett; Lent; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90492

Husky Dogs Save Trio From Death: Malamute Treks Through Pass To Summon Aid For Explosion Victims./Team Races Reaper./Carry Dying Prospector Across Wastes To Hospital -- Reach Marooned Woman. HUSKY DOGS SAVE TRIO FROM DEATH Malamute Treks Through Pass to Summon Aid for Explosion Victims. TEAM RACES REAPER. Carry Dying Prospector Across Wastes To Hospital -- Reach Marooned Woman. Little Squaw, Alaska, Dec. 25. (/P) -- Carrying a scribbled note from two miners crippled by an explosion, one of them blinded, a malamute dog crossed a 300-foot pass in the Brooks mountain range at night with the mercury 40 degrees below, to his master's cabin here. The injured men arrived here today on a sled. Oscar Ottersoniz, Little Squaw miner, was awakened at 2:30 yestereday morning by his dog Nigger whining and scratching at the door. A note on the husky's back read: "Come." Both seriously injured. Explosion." Wednesday Ottersoniz lent the dog to J. S. Shaw and C. Dunlap, who were mining on Tobin creek, beyond the pass. Two men, hurrying over the pass with the sled and team of dogs found Shaw and Dunlap shot full of copper by the explosion of a box of detonators. Dunlap was blined. From the Little Squaw radio station, established December 13, by the United States signal corps, 90 miles north of the arctic circle, word was sent to Fairbanks, Alaska, to rush an airplane to take the patients to a hospital. Indians Save Dying Prospector. NIPAWIN, Sask., Dec. 27. (/P) -- a 160-mile dog team journey by Indians across the wastes of northern Saskatchewan to save life of W. H. Williams, a prospector whom they found in a lonely cabin dying from hunger and exposure, ended here today. At a Nipawin hospital in which Williams was placed it was said tonight that he will recover. Williams left here six months ago by canoe on a trapping and prospecting trip into the northland. Becoming lost and failing to reach winter quarters, he ran out of food. He stopped at an abandoned shack, became ill, and was unable to speak when the Indians found him. Dogs to Rescue of Woman. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec. 27. (/P) -- A bit of Alaska was transferred to Bear valley in the San Bernardino mountains on Christmas night, when Alaskan dogs went to the rescue on a woman and her child marooned in a blizzard. Mrs. C. E. Barrett was the woman. The dogs had been sent from a Hollywood studio to get a touch of real winter. When the word reached the Bear valley settlement that a woman and hcild were in an automobile caught in a snowdrift near Baldwin lake, the dog trainer harnessed his animals and dashed to the rescue.