Word: holmberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1914, the year the Alaska Railroad was begun. Frank Adams, John Holmberg and Tom Jensen loaded up with salt pork, coffee and flour at Fort Yukon and went prospecting up the Yukon River. They took Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
What the Government could do with "Blueberry Tom," the dog musher, if it was indeed he, remained a problem. The body of neither Frank Adams nor John Holmberg has ever been found to provide a corpus delicti for a murder charge. Some Indians buried Sweet Marie Schmidt in a sandy grave, but a flood came and washed her body away long...