The daily Alaskan., 1907-02-05
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cane .u ..-....rl to join his brother Du.r. ua g,.g.aar tAe little hamlet ID rhe ia. v-e--. e,.~, E2 expected to fuL hss u.....-. ....o. learned that ae hai I......a-.u under very sus- ,fcious c.~r1..s sstgccs.
 Dml,ri Eu#~.y. wro hal co".a over some years uo.o.r. had sought work with John lg-.n.. w ao .a6r store Dmttrl naJ lo... ii dt..rult 10 2st On. not kuowiu, tls language og the GUS toms os th, cus.,g!. and when he ap- oiled to Mason for employment was literally starving. AIr. Mason took pity on him ana toi and clothed him. Ma- son. scetl- thgt he was intelligent, au- vanccI him gradually from a mere CT. rand boy to clerk and at last gave him charge Of the store during his own ab- seuce. which was quite often.
 The youngSyer. who wus now about twenty. showed the most intense grau- mde for his treaCmeut-tudecd, he col stdered himself so well off that hH sent his savings to Russia to bring his brother over. knowing the dreadful condition of the Russian peasant and desiring 10 give Petrol the same ad- vanraees as himself. Petrol was due to arrive in week. when one evening q blizzard such as is not unusual In the west came Up. During the night Mason heard footsteps in the store be- low his rooms. but aS his clerk slept there thought nothing about it. In the morning Mason went to his cash draw or and found the cout'utS-Somc $2JN- gone The clerk was nowhere to be found.
 All that day the snow swirled. the wind howlel while tho thermometer stood at -o de-rc,s below zero. it was impossible 10 20 in search of the tugi- tive. Indeed it WIS moi cNp2cteJ tL"i he could get very tav away. ,hyorh the blizzard had not reached great severity till near movung. and he might have covered a ~ool G.4l ot ground durtn. rhe ni-ht. When iJ cleared the SHOW vas still too Go,r lo warrau: u sr"rc.l .aI t w.,s nor for some j."e !o1-U. ..t r completely disappeared. Then t..sou .,., out hr different avenues a..ia 40. u.s money, but found Io race of it @aG gave it un for '1--.
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 Then Petrol ogn 'ay ~.. u9, rcSo,v us to follow a ror;s' .u which he ..ould be best shielded hE aH imaginary 1 empest. He first ctrc.nl aroaud a ] DIV hill: then str"rr aUi t"r a wood. ! Emerging from ,hjS, lr .icIherot2i LOW next to prorret Finally he con .!uIaI to fellow a creek. Reaching a place wgssre it appeared that the bank . taI cavcl. ho >.a-rrl a-d looked lbout him. Below him ae noticed a ,oot p~otrudtug from 'A" soil. He vent down to it anI pulled ir away. eN' posing a too,. Scratching away, be ,amc 10 d leg aui at last exposed a )ody thinly covered by ear.A that had saIcu on it. It was the hody of 1 Dmitri
 ! As soon a, T-t.o' lad recovered rom the shock ,n satrclaI the cloth .ng for the mi,s.a~ uo~cr There was only 8 little change m thr vest pocket
 D,rirri had fallen ol his tace. had . been covered with snow. and when it
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