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Show ARCTIC TRAGEDY TOLD IN DIM I Solitary Battle Against Cold, Disease and Hnnrjer in Far North Described THE PAR. Manitoba. Feb. 16 Out I of the frc,::m expanse! of barren ! lands. 200 miles from the nearesl trading trad-ing pnsi, news has como tr the provincial pro-vincial police of the triirzic death f A. O. Rlnehart of Duluth, Minn., a trapper. HU body ;s found In a shack last October by truppors. where a diary recorded how for months ho had fought a solitary battle, against disease, hunger nnd cold. The last entry was dated April. 1920. Rlnehart left here In August. 1915. on the long Journev Into Ihe barren lands for a trup line. Dirlng the I next three months his adventure apparently ap-parently was ithout Incident for the first entry In the diary was dated November. 1919. Four months later. March. 1920, his notes revealed his almost al-most hopcle; plight, then having been helplessly confined to his bed. Realizing his pr ;ieament. he hnd stored all his supplies within reach. The finni chanter told of his inability to get out of bed to keep the fires going. Ihe exhaustion of his water supply and his slow death Ono of the t nippers who found Rlnehart' a body, sail the ai.r- show- i ed the doomed man had scorne t sul-! sul-! cide and to make sure he would keep I his resolve, bad broken the mechanism mechan-ism of his firearms. On the way buck from a trapping tour In northern Manitoba. McClen-aghan McClen-aghan and Ins companion stopped at the cabin The door was barred but they forced an entrance and found Rlnehart dead, wrapped in blankets. oo |