The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-12
YOUNG CLEARY BOY WRITES ID
 OUTSIDE PAPER

Quincy Uu) N.hs When the mer- cury goes down io zero. Qu!ncy boys and girls thlnk that they are having pretty cold weather And when they have to go six or eight blocks to school they think that Is pretty far. But the Wh.g has received d letter from Samuel lyey. Jr.. age l2 years. who often has to go four m.Ies when the mercury is 2O degrees below zero to get to hIs school He has dog team and sled. though. and t does not take long 10 gar there. He lives n Fairbanks. Alaska
 Last year Samuel lived m Quincy with his uncle and aunt. MT and Mrs John Rom and attended the Madison school like any other Quin- cy boy or girl And when the Whig offered prizes to the boys and girls in the schools for the best essay he wrote an essay about his dogs and his sled in Alaska And he won prize. Now he Is driving the same dogs.
 Cleary. Alas, Dec. 10. 1916. To The Whig
 Dear Sirs-A merry Christmas and e happy and prosperous New Year tc all l am the little boy from Al aska who vas spending lasl winter with my uncle. John Eorn. m QIncy, so l thought you might like to heai from me and my northern home anu my dogs
 Since Thanksgiving We have had very cold eathsr-from 10 to 5e degrees below zero, but run out every day for little while with m! dogs and We have great sport We seldom have such long cold spell and are hoping it will get warmel soon.
 When l went to school Vt had 2t and 30 below but my dogs took me down to ChataEika folr miles from he7e-u 2 minutes. enjoy that and wish l could take some ot m! Quincy friends for a i,de The las. day of school. November 24, I took my mother down to Chatanika with six dogs and sleigh It was 2S be low when We left CIeay and was 8 when We got there. fly mother en joyed it
 Ny winter vacation jlsts until Feb ruary, for we have rcal dark day, now and it is dark at o'clock, but we light the gasoline at 2
 November 28 my friend and m! dads partner and I mUshed six dog- over to Kokomo, where my dad has some claims, IS miles from here. l. was 28 below and a very rough ride enjoyed patching eating beans and bacon-although mother gave us some good bread and cake to take with us.
 Grouse and ptalmlgan are yer! scarce. 80 we could not bring an. home came home Thanksgiving night at o'clock. fired out bu, ready to eat good goose dinner and go to bed It w@s then only f below.
 The next day it was 30 below and went to Eldorado with my dad anG his partner, horse and double ender. I drove but was glad to get home, as it was very cold
 don't want you to think We have all cold weather for our summers are lovely We have beautiful flow CTS and also vegetables.
 Mother and left Seattle July first at P. Nj We stopped at all can neries and towns and also at Taku glacier. It was very beautiful. Some of the pieces of ice were as big as houses.
 At Ketchikan they were celebrat- ing the Fourth of July. It was rain ing very hard. but everybody was out Our steamer stopped two hours. 80 we walked over the town and heard an Indian band and they played fine.
 We landed at Skagway July 7 and We left next day over the White Pass. This is grand trip. We got to Whitehorse at 9:30 in the even Ing and went right to our next steamer (the Selkirk), which left at 10:3O down the Yukon. We landed at Dawson at midnight July g. Here the steamer Yukon was waiting for us, so we had three hours to spend with friends. as the steamer left at 3 A. NJ.
 When we got to Nenana (the new railroad town,) here vas my dad to meet us. tell you we were glad.