The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-24
MRS: ]. H. RUSSELL MAKING TRIP AFTER
 IS YEARS IN NORTH

l Seattle on visit to her son, Leith,
 is making the trip after continu-
 ous stay of IS years in the North land, and she expects to enjoy
 well merited and web earned holi- day.
 Mrs. Russell first came North
 with her husband early in 1898, and they settled in Atlin during the boom times of that camp, where
 Mir. Russell engaged in business. He built the Russell house and the wharf there, as we'll as the brewery and other buildings.
 In the summer of 1899, the Brit ish Columbian authorities enacted a law which prohibited aliens from holding or in any way acquiring
 mining or other property. The law
 went into effect the same year and all Americans, who had practically opened up the country, were ob- liged to relinquish their claims. The majority of them pulled up stakes and left the country, and in
 an incredibly short space of time the once flourishing camp dwindled down to a small community. This pernicious law was repealed the next year by the Dominion govern
 ment at Ottawa, but the damage had been done, and Atlin was class ed among the second raters.
 Early in 1900, the Russell family moved to Whitehorse, Y. T., and
 in the following year they went Outside on short visit, returning to Whitehorse the same year.
 The town of Dawson, during this period, was the main camp in the Yukon territory, and offered many opportunities in a mercantile and mining way, and in 1902 the Russell family moved thither, MT. Russell engaging in mining on a nearby creek with little success.
 About this time, Fairbanks was flourishing mining camp and was enjoying boom times, fortunes were
 being rapidly made, the population seemed to be ever increasing and
 business of all kinds possible. In 1905 the Russell family moved to Fairbanks, which has been their home town in the North ever since. Five of the younger Russells were
 born in Fairbanks and the family has the rare distinction of having Ino less than seven native sons and daughters of the Golden North among its members.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Russell and family are well and favorably known throughout the Northland,
 both in the Yukon and contiguous territory and in Alaska proper; in fact, it would be hard to find any one in this great territory who has not met at some time or other. at least one member of this much re- spected family.
 Mrs. Russell is relinquishing the cares of large family, which she has so well reared during the past years, to visit her son in Portland
 and incidentally have a good free time, free from all care, knowing
 full well that her well trained
 daughters will worthily keep the homes fires burning" and see that Dad Russell gets the necessary quota of fussing over, and that her absence will not be keenly felt. The children have split up the household duties among themselves and the Russell home on upper 4 street is now always the scene of vast activity, everything is spick and span and shipshape against the
 arrival of mother The kids are determined to show by actual achievement that the lessons she has taken so much pains to teach them have borne fruit and that they, too, can keep house almost as well as mother can.