The Nome nugget., 1927-05-07

tn the Poland Spring race, ana as 2 result of little favor Seppala did her in the race, gave the reporters great story about him. stressing the fact that by doing this favor for her. he stood good chance of losing the race himself. She also bought the number of puppies he Tad taken out to sell. Also, she transferred her dogs elsewhere and turned her great dog barn over to Seppala. a
 Also Seppala wants particularly to thank Mir. Walden for his won- derful influence in bringing him into contact with the men at the head of the dog racing profession. which was the chief cause of Sep psla 6. great succsss. in the East.
 Furthermore, MT. Seppala wishes to publicly thank Mir. Walden for his generous and splendid hospital ity, as he was guest of MT. Wal den's for quite long time.
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 Thence to Boston, where upon the request of the Dean of North eastern University, he presented a dog as a mascot to that institution. In Boston upon his arrival. he was met by a delegation of 1900 stu dents. with bands. and paraded from the railroad depot to the Un- iversity, which line of march, by tile way. took the parade right past the site of the Boston Univer- sity. with which Northeastern Uni versity has always had great fric- tion. In front of the Boston Uni- veristy, a riot between the students O: the two universities occurred. on account of the old hatred, which. however, had nothing whatever to d.. with Seppala, and was not meant al any disrespect to him.
 The following paragraph is taken from the Boston Herald of March 8, which will give the situation:
 Reports that . demonstration was being planned reached North, eastern two days ago and it is be- lieved to have been based on the fact that students were going to carry signs deriding Boston Univer- sity. Two signs. one reading Look ont. Terrier.' and the other "One terrier against one husky equals one well-fed husky had been pre- pared. but had been destroyed on orders from Prof Harold W. Mel win, director of Northeastern stu dent activities, who also forbade the carrying of any signs naming any other institution"
 In Boston. our great musher was entertained for one week. and he lad decidedly wonderful time. In Eos'cn Sep mot many people ha Inew from the Northland. but one nan especially he wants to tell his Nome friends about. Thas man was Red" Powers. who used to drive a team here for w. J. Rowe. He is e' old timer here, but left some 4 of 5 years ago, with few thousand collars he had saved, and went back to Boston, where for a while he was in partnership with his uncle. The combination proved disastrous for "Red" and he got his money out of the enterprise with difficulty an set up in business for himself One ev- ening, while Seppala was being ban quoted at the University Club, he vas paged for telephone call. and upon going to the phone, was met by the voice of Red Powers. who wanted to see him, and met him at the Club in an elaborate Locomobile limousine. Upon being asked the particulars of "how come" him to drive such car. and had he job as chauffeur for some wealthy man. the information developed that Red owned the car. and that's not all he owned in Boston either. He drove Seppala to Milton, Mass, nearby, where he pointed out house after house. and in one place an entire block of bungalows which he own eG Some of the buildings were un- der construction, hut most of them were occupied. Red" Powers. one time mule-skinner of Nome is big mana wealthy mana powerful r.an. So the scales of fortune sway among the cid timers of our beloved Northland.
 From Boston Seppala went back to Poland Spring. Maine, and Won alancet. N. H. He then made his arrangements to return to Alaska. Al Poland Springs, he left a lot of dogs at the Kicker farm with view of returning there and establishing kennels there for breeding and mar keting Siberian trail dogs.
 Then started the long. hard trip hEcx tn Nnuno Mr 0Anwn1n ss4owt