Word: pickax
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Into Wiseman, above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, where men had always hitherto settled their disputes with fist, rifle or pickax, Justice descended last week from the skies. It had come by airplane from Fairbanks - District Judge Cecil H. Clegg, accompanied by a prosecuting attorney, U. S. marshal and court stenographer. The Court also brought melons, cherries and many another pleasing novelty to Wiseman. Before returning to Fairbanks (in central Alaska on the Tanana river), the Court was to hop to Ruby, covering 1,600 miles...