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TWO iTOXKKKSOF INTI'.UK )UDili pUTSlDKThat Joseph and James Duke, pio neer residents ui Ntiiana. died within a mull*li ■'! ••ac'li other at Hut Spiiugs. Arkansas. .s t ho word brought , Tirbank.- uoi.i tin- new railroad P.iwn by District Attorney R. i' ICoMi The elder Duke died some In;. in January. but Janies I mli,-. th. b* tier known «»i the two died only last Sunday his win;, who is .it Nenana. having received a win to that effect 1 he body of Joseph in.i., was buried at ilot Springs im .mdiately alter lu di* d. and Jame Puke was laid at rest at tin* side y,( hi:, lather, according to «h. win reroited. at his own request.Bui little can b« learned of t.h* history of Joseph Duke. I he «Ider of the two men. It is stated, how-, vet that ho earn.- to Alaska about I tin:: and became associated w ith his sun. who was the lirst white resi «;. nr o! the now m-w and prosperousrailroad town.Janies Duke • stablished a trading post at Nenana about l‘JO- ITiot ti* that (into he had had a ratio i tempestuous career. He was first in Dawson in the early days of that camp, going later to the Koyukuk country, where he got into trouble. He was placed in jail there, according to general report, but at the muzzle of a gun which he managed »lt; sweure, forced the deputy marshal in charge to release him. and made good his escape, swimming the Koyukuk river to do so.Ho lived off the country after leaving the Koyukuk and struck out for the Yukon. Arriving on the banks of the river, he heard of the Fairbanks gold stampede and started toward thin camp, but winter caught
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Fairbanks Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Mar 05, 1917
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