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Lake County Register (1922), 16 Jun 1923, p. 8

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_' -- MIs D06 AND FURS sTOLEN i. oc tigm * «* years old because she was tired of the loneliness. After that my father had to catch a deer ahd he raised me on uhmmdd"m seven. I dod't know much of my mothet.: Fathét nevér sperks of 'lommhfidud.ud in our we Lad several books on Blave lake he has lived from birth. He and his father are trappers' Fort Hen#y, where they take their furs, is 440 miles away. But here is Jacques® ere three beoks of Longtelliow's ;.' -:Mc.'c-u V%MQ'M "I never saw a woman until I was Afteen. That year my father took e _ Smeques Richtor's amazing journey Is but one of many amazing things he relates.--On the north shore of Great roento. ~And for 2,000 miles, all the way from Great Slave lake to Toronto, he '_:'h:'m his only pourishment had been one cup of tea. He has not found his man nor his buskies And the great lone Northland that out-- movies any movie, and out--fctions fic-- n--.:-m him the man who had done: the great wrong in the silence ef the Arctic had gone to Toronto. < He him but when he did so he found the boy's great frame was emaciated, his .'\mmmmmpufl-we pallor. Se the boy was escerted not to the cells but to thé hospital. There it was found bhe was in an mggered from the blind baggage of Arain from the West in the depot at / Ont, A ~"HI, where are you going?" called a policeman who regarded the boy's ap-- ie Sachen KE a y business is it of yours?" an awered the youth. ute a whole ple that time. Then I had ice cream and gtruwberried, the Arst time I had them, and the last." Here is Jacques' account duth-o strange adventure which brought to. ctvilisation, an adventure still un guessed by the seventy--year--old father --the English chemist immured in the hh mm ; yc ue FeE "I started out about two months ago with ogr last wihter's work. 1 had two ailver fores, 120 beaver, $00 muskrats, 87 lyu1, three bears and several otters. Rey Robbed in Far North, Trails His .. "We usually take our furs out from Great Siave iake in the summer, when the lakes break up, but last spring my father got sick and so we couldn't e aned taa:. oi ts 4 ned a team of 12 4 qmm« *.'o--"l.'n-lm In the middlesot the trail with his «nowshoes sticking up in the air, 1 thought he was dead. When 1 stooped E*M"MCG'&- and grabbed me. 'They hit me on head with a club. all they took my coat, a cont my father w-& It was white seal with t fox collar, perfect fur. My T un Pins ic Fab's WREAIG saurt esp, mitts, and my bunting knife. 1 remember much after that. 1 PA die, but first 1 wanted to get the men who stole my dogs and my _ * nad to get to Fort Heury. 1 remember jnat how 1 got there or how lohk it took me 1 made -- «in lnces and caoght 3 limbe from a tree and # with this I started a "I was born in the Athabasca. My 'Teronto, for One Who Was Starv-- ing, Wasn't the Place to Find a "Man in a Siiver Fox Céat"----Came for Re-- *The nest thing I knew I was lying He TO TORONTO Came for Revenge. of I was going. J asked him what busi. ness it was of his, and then he grabbed said Jacques; "but I guess I'll never meet him. But if I 46, und I have a knife, TH cut him into little bits or Again I slept at a police station. Nexrt morning I told the police my stor. These policemen collected some money, about $2, and gave it to me. 'That did me for a couple of days to buy food: Each night I siept in a police station, and each morning 1 aaked where was the train for Toronto and bopped on to the baggage car. "Whes 1 got to Toronto I was feel Ing sick. As I came out of the train going. ~But when: I told him I was@t't fealing well he seht me to this hos _ "I thought that Toronto was just a town, and that I could run across the some kind of machine. "It had four wheels with rubber on them. I don't know how long we tray-- eled this way. © The trails were snowed in in places, but we managed to get through. "We came to another post where there seemed to be more people. I saw a policeman here and I asked him where I could stay for the night. He told me to go to the police station. Here they told me I could sleep on the fipor. I asked . them whnp'l'?b was. 'They told me I'd have to go on ® train, but I didn't know what that was. Then they described it and they told me how to ride blind baggage. Se the next morning I went where they told me, to a station... I asked where the train to Toronto was, and when no "';mmu-ofinhflifi But the next time it was easlier, for 1 earried the charcoal from the old fre. m::.uwldnu--vm or. slept in ravines below the level Of the surface of the eurth. Furs Sold for $812. 4 "One day I got to Kort Henry, I went to the man.at the post and told him what had happened. He told me that he bad bought my furs and he showed them to me. He had paid $812 for them. And then he told me that the man who bad sold them was wearing a white seal coat. H¢h1 sold all my dogs but the lead dog, don't know how he could manage him, tor I had raised him from a .pup, and even my father could not toucn him, fl\op.gtfimtdd-.tht the man who : sold my 'furs sald he was going to a place called 'To-- ronto. He said he was going to take my dog with him. L "I know I could tell my white coat them I could get the man. And if I got bim PA cut him up in Bitle bits. . c thep rinld buckskin *T 5 me my pants -;.lhmnt'hey ve me & mcmmm&; And M 10000 Aquare Verets. i aond Wht the Ruanch mining oo Aussians :in Northern ~Siberia Report has returned home after an eightsen months' investigation, reporting it had located buge coal deposits to the ex-- tent of about 10,000 square versts. (A MaJ David Daviee Sthrts His Day's Work in Tub. MaJ. David Davies, M. P., probably is the coly man in Great Britain, it not in the world, who has a telephone in his bathroom. f A re, hbe has the repu-- m«fi-wow worker, While the average man is eplinshing around in his tab in the morning, Major Deavies in his bath has begun his day's work., f Onb of his three private secretaries has arrived with the corre Muu% ters and makes telephone during the process of ablution. BATHROOM 1N M. P.'$ OFFICE Ll?mmvfll'" :q..m| ::l.hunv-l-lh mite in m "M-mmnmE (u,:aflm.hhwx.""h hour, for having no tall lights, and> G"Nlhnknvon-n"t eotulld not stop within 300 feet, -- > FIND VAST COAL DEPOSITS man 'at the post: gave me Tt my hak imate iio_iru-t"*"wm' am, gives such :flhzuhm"b-k-db 'mdbw erties, it quickly subdues nn right up, a clear, smooth skin in place of eruptions, rash, pirm» #u.&. Yudl:-thnb.flfyc"z'n- a Tiite lheree Rorte brentioe Suiplear the country, Capt. Willoughby has been able to observe the working of &dryhnhamm- 1 Enforcement Huage Farce. To him the enforeing of prohibi-- Wungflflu&hb-- lie he declares, work hand in hand with bootleggers. :The country is more "wet" than before prohibi-- tion, he asserts. 'The prohibition laws have worked points out Capt. Willoughby. Drunk-- enness, holdups, murders and piracy he says, have increased greatly. He declares that there are as many acts of piracy committed on Spanish main: now as in the days of Capt. idd and o'c"cm;m'u:' been-- brought ewlh:t:CopLHu:M'Ft loughby, aviator and naval . officer, who recently returned from a trip Aviator and Naval.Officer Mmh!oree.&t Is Big F &:Agm:ri-mm-- m DRY LAW HELD _ CRIME BREEDER Just the moment you apply Mentho-- APPLY SULPHUR IF SKIN BREAKS OUT AND ITCHES i t detective, has aaid that 50 per cent | liquor into the United States at the uuhmd-hu.u!rca Mooldxtynflu*u'hll. ;'4:','_"'!'""""'-0""' Active Agents Are Shot, ---- Makes Drug Addicts of Young. The young people of the country are more open in their 'contempt of AMMW prohibition agents who are "Our statue of liberty in lower _ An electric sodering outfit is of z!&i&."'?fltwh :.m heibernicts hm meombinntiegy Mbouh-wm There are 4 2o OL KA s n l iA¥ ids ..lw "_'W_.m m Aw Rse t 1 i that h:;'-:o'fl i?fiififi'fl. manufacturer nas just placed such # o td

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