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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...
...OWEN E. JENSEN...
...even dog trot, a knife fashioned out of a bolo (native blade) in each hand, he skewered an aged grocer as he stood in his store doorway, then an amazed bystander on the sidewalk, then three Filipinos in a row. People ran screaming in all directions. When Officer Gordon Jensen, returning from a football game, saw him, Julian Marcelino was busy on a Japanese. By this time reserves had been rushed to the scene from all over Seattle. Officer Jensen and two colleagues finally overcame the little madman. Summoned from every hospital in the city, ambulances clanged...
Said Officer Jensen: "He fought like a mad wolf. He had more than human strength...
Lincoln, Neb. where Professor Jensen ponders the lightning, is a fair place for it. Better is Tampa, Fla. which holds the U. S. record with 94 thunderstorms a year. Best is Baliburg in Cameroon, Africa with 200 a year. San Jose, Calif, has the U. S. minimum with one a year. Most lightning goes from cloud to cloud. What goes from cloud to ground kills about 50 people per year...