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Martin Victor Writes Again, This Time from Fairbanks, In Alaska " In a few years, eleo, tric refrigerators will probably be as corn- mon as automobiles --Why do you wait? PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY 0F NORTHERN ILLINOIS 51 South St. Johns Avenue h Th; Kn m1: ml rplyhmd is made in whnel turns lawma- currant and the sal- at the ratemf I few u- fish averaging 25 rm the fish Jemtth. th" meat cross wile. up hk MW ‘m w to put the skin, in tho Hun to dry, " ~mv-k4uhmlno and on the Yukon to " walled Fish lake, my. ahnut seven-in It {will of 'n them. '. n h-himl nil Everything w" tho trrrnperatttre ,!tN' as artistic fur-sewing 39: m natives. I M. of headwnrk h districts and turn home. s wore feeling I hard. travel- f tho time. As _ ho handlebars is brund, l we the moun- nt of me, then hem. sue them THE PRESS nappy and I feel i " Occa- , Mung as up altvr c t ' the m g "red, rt- I village, k called f was " belnw. I'd sit there Ind whis- tlo all the tunes I knew, then I'd sing t) the top of my voice as I knew there eould n t be anyone arming! for miles to hear it and try to tell me the that rh perhaps it would be e short-cut and later meet the other at n bend in the river, I kept on tnveling, the (lugs were making line speed and I was in a very optimistic mood. Tim- ing the speed of the dogs, I calcul- ated that I should have been there _ah.~ut 1% hours ago, but nothing (-nuld be done about it except turning buck or keep on traveling until I reach a cabin or until the dogs give out and in that case build a fire on the shore for the night. It was 7 oilrrck when I reached a native cabin. Driving right up to the door, I met an old SqLIlW. her Nee full of wrink- lov. her chin tatoned. She seared me for a minute, I thought they were minted up for war or something. I asked her the direction several times to Fish lake, but she threw up her hands in the air waiving them, and talking Indian, turning her back and walked into the cabin. i tol. 'lowed her in and found a. younger squnw. about 16 who could barely make herself understood. I asked her the some question, she told me the direction and I was off. I had an idea, but felt a lot better. I was 23 miles off the'course, but had A T chance of cutting across country and thereby meeting the trail again. I , followed several small creeks and I then into the timber and later to wil.. low country. The trail was new, in feet signs of only being used once, and only driven around trees, over willows. rte. It was not a blazed trail, just i short-cut. After traveling several hours the dogs were quite tired and I was just looking around for 3 good place to camp for the night when the dogs sighted a, team ahead, com- ing towards us. They picked up srwtul and put all their energy into it. Evidently the other team experi- vncotl the same thing as we were upvn each other almost immediately. It turned out to be two teams. A native with his wife, He had about H slugs and she drove nine. They tried to pass me, but a white men's team never agrees with Is team be. .Lnging to a native. They stated into a tight and it sure was one big moving mass of fur, the growling, yelling. some dogs crying with pain, some being choked in their harness, all of us shouting at the dogs, jump mg into them with a chain in esch hand. They soon stopped end it took quite a while to release the tangled teams. I spoke to the native of my plight and he said the trail ends sn- r-thr-r mile or so from that spot as he has been moving cump. I told him that I better stay with him, that night and get a fresh start in the morning. So We all went back to the cabin at which I stopped to get the information. I tied my dogs to have nearby and fed them, it felt good to have s roof to sleep under, the dogs seemed to have had done enough work for the day and they had made 68 miles. In the cabin a hot above was roar- ing away and I sat. down on the spruce 1?owertrottrtt! floor, removed my Parks and Mukloks. The room was about 8 feet by 10. The native. his squaw, two smell ehitdrem, the young squawr and the elder one u described formerly. We were quite a few, but we all found room to sleep a Aew, uuv w: 'i... nun“. .-.... .V "fir or} the Mor. I for my put only med B single blanket, using my Path for a pillow. The native sat down on Thursday, May 29, 1930 Iérwho could' barely understood. I asked question, ahe_ ml_d me