IN THE WILDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 93, 15 May 1909, Page 5

IN THE WILDS.

MURDERED 11V INDIANS,

Victoria, 8.C.. Fehruary iti. Charles MijUcod, the Edmund man who, while leading a party of prospectors through the wilds of the NorthWestern portion of this province, stumbled over-the 'bones of his Iwo brothers, nmrdcml .by Indians three years ago, has returned to civilisation, and tolls''a tal„ of the gruesome find that reads like a chapter from a romance.

One evening lust summer, while "making" camp, McLeod discovered the remains of an old camp lire in the woods, and in a lit of curiosity began to .scrape inning the ashes, presently discovering on a tree close by an inscription consisting of the date. ".May. 1D0.i," and his brothers' initial*. Later on one ofl McLood's party made the discovery of two skeletons'under n tree a short distance from the trail. This aroused MeLeod's fears, and he hastened to the spot. Investigation revealed the fact that the head "of the two skeletons had been cut oil and were not to be found. The clothing had cninpleOely rotted away, and nothing but Hie ! weatlier.ilieateii bones remained. In the vicinity MoLeod picked up a watch and a ring, which be immediately recognised as having belonged lo his brother Frank. One of the skeletons had the hrea«tbon L . shattered in* such a manner as lo suggest the work of a ride hullct.

On closely examining the trees in the locality' McLeod found a "blazed" Iree with 'more carving, but very little of these words were legible. Near the base «( the tree he managed lo make out suflicient to lead him to th,. belief that a complete deciphering of the message would mean a probable fortune. The words that were decipherable -''-, ferred to the location of valuables, bull the ■murderers' not only had taken care tu remove from their victims' clothes every article of value, but had also cut the tree in such a manner as to make the caning unintelligible. Near at hand, however. McLeod found a",shaft from which the Indians had evidently taken gold quite recently. The Indian* claimed that they had sunk Ibis shaft themselves. A companion of the two murdered men is still unaccounted for, and a detail of the Royal NorthWest Mounted Police will be sent to investigate.

Madrid ha* a hr.v by which habitual drunkards have their heads shaved every four weeks. Ancient paintings four thousand years old show ploughs, barrows, and landrollers' in use in EgyptHvnni made more money tha-a any other KiiKlish poet. Murray alone paid liim MUM® in purchase -money and royalties. 'in near I v every street i.i Japanese, cities is a public oven, where, for a small fee. housewives may have their dinners ami suppers cooked for tlieui. When a traveller in China desires a passport, the palm of his hand is covered with line oil paint, ivnd an impression is taken on thin paper. This paper, olljeially signed, constitutes his passport, The elephant, commonly supposed to be slow and clumsy, can,' when excited or frightened, attain a speed of twenty miles an hour, and, what is more, it can keep this rate or. progress up for half a day. The humming of telegraph wires is a phenomenon which has' not yet been satisfactorily explained. Tt is not caused by the wind, for it is heard during .perfect calms. It has been conjectured that changes of temperature, which tighten or loosen the wires, probably produce the sound. A pertain young fellow of Hyde Determined that he'd suicide, J!|lt the pill Laxo-Tonic Made Hying harmonic, i Now—he couldn't be sick .if he tried, LAXO-TONIC PILLS, 10'/ 3 d aad Is fld. —Bullock, & Johnston, Agents', New Plymouth,