The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-29
SOLDIERS RETURN FROM bER|NG SEA;
 HAVE HARD TRIP

Seven drafted men, who had been recently discharged from the army at the military post at St. Michael, arrived in town yesterday, after particularly hard trip over the trail. The entire journey consumed A days.
 The men arriving last night were Jake Batoff, Harry Kozoff, Zorbeck Tamaieff, George Hanoff, Alick Hanoff, Sam Hameloff and Bob Sabanoff. The men had two dog teams which were used to pack their camping outfit and grub. The dogs and outfit were purchased at St. Michael.
 On December 11th they obtained their discharges from the army on request, and the next few days were spent in getting together travel ing outfit. This having been satis- factorily arranged, start was made on December IS, the mail trail by way of Unalakleet being chosen. The St. Michael mail trail via Una lakleet runs through a bleak and barren country, devoid of timber or other shelter, and storms are very prevalent in that region. The first day out they made only eight eeen miles, the dogs being rather soft, and here the party stayed at the roadhouse. Continuing next morning, they made Golsovia, and as storm was brewing, they stay ed there for the night.
 From Golsovia the boys made the run to Unalakleet, but were met little way from the village by a few inhabitants of Unalakleet who informed the boys that the village had established a quarantine against St. Michael and that they could not stay there. 1t was late in the evening and the men and the dogs were tired, the weather was some thing like 40 below or so and it was quite impossible for the boys to go back to Golsovia that night. A disused cabin some little way out of town was finally selected and here the men were obliged to camp ill a storm. The cabin was old and battered, the windows were broken and the walls had not been chinked for years. There was an old Yukon stove in it and the boys procured some wood and made themselves as comfortable as possible. Each man took turns at the fire while his comrades slept on the floor, hud- dled under the two robes the party possessed.
 Next day they back tracked for Golsovia, where they remained for six days. Christmas was spent there, needless to say, very quietly. The storms that sweep over that region were prevalent then, and the boys kept under cover, waiting for break in the weather to resume their journey. During their stay there they occupied the old wire less station building, doing their own cooking.
 On the morning of the 27th, the weather appeared to be propitious and a start was made, camp being made for the night at an old dis used coal miners cabin within few miles of Unalakleet. Starting out next morning, wide detour was made to give Unalakleet a wide berth. The trail was drifted and the going hard, but they managed to pass the hostile village and made camp for the night at Serosky's cabin, about six miles from Shak- tolik, in blinding snowstorm. A day and two nights were spent there on account of the stormy weather.
 Resuming the journey, the mail cabin eighteen miles farther along, known as Old Woman's cabin, was made. There they found white man who appeared to be the care taker of the old telegraph station building and he allowed them to camp in the building, soaking them