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TWO iTONHKRS OK IXTI'.KK )KDili OLTSIDKi hat Jose lh ami Janus Duke, pio lifer residents ui Nuiana, died within a month lt;•! each other at ll»t •Si'ium.s Arkansas. is tho wold brought lu i ..ii hank itoi.i tie- new railroad iv. m b District Attorney ID 1' Kotb The elder Duke died some law in Januar. hut .lann-.-Pai;. . ihv b« 11t*r known oi tin- two died only last Sunday his wife. who ,s at Nenana. having received a win to lint el feet The body of Joseph Di.lt* was hurled at Hot Springs im mediately after he di* d, and Jamie Duke was laid at rest at the aide of his father, according tlt;* tin win ivcehed. at his own request.15ut little can h« learned of the hi.-tory of Joseph Duke, the lt;lder «,• tin* two men. It is stated, how-,-vei that lie « aim* to Alaska about liMi:’. and became associated with his son. who was the first white resi tiie now m w and prosperous railroad town.James Duke established a trad in** post at Nenana about 1902 I'rioi to that time he bad had a rather 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 ro general report, hut at the muzzle of a gun which he managed to socure. forced the deputy marshal in charge to release him, and made good his escape, swimming the Koy-ukuk river to do so.Ho lived off the country afterleaving 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 this camp, but winter caught
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Fairbanks Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Mar 05, 1917
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