DOCTOR HERO’S FATE.
WHITE HORSE, Yukon, June 11 Dr Sugden, lor 17 years surgeon to the Canadian North-)) est Mounted Police, was drowned last week in the Stewart River. It was lie who saved the life of Sue MacDonald, ns recounted in Colonel Steele’s "Forty Years in Canada.” Sue MacDonald was a woman of the mining camps who was seriously wounded and sent south to a hospital with a half-breed, a dog team, and Dr Sugden. After they had gone about half the distance the half-breed became insane, the dog team deserted, and Dr Sugden drew the woman over 150 miles of snow to a hospital, operated upon her. and restored her to health.
He was known among the Alaskan Indians as “.Tuneau Jesus.” or “the miracle man,” because of his effective operations for cataract, which is particularly common among the aborigines.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1923, Page 2
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