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Show roach the place, but ou reaching Bis-1 coe a searchlnc party was organized. l'roviBlona worn left by Dr. .Myers In a hunter's cabin on Ruinaey lake anl shots were fired lo attract the attention atten-tion of the aeronauts. NO WORD OF AMERICA II. j St. Louis. Oct. 2-j. A plan to send a balloon with supplies aRer Alan Tlnwley and Augustus Post, the crew of Ho- missing America II, were hastened today, frills von Phul, who will plhd the lellef aerostat, expects to leae here tonight for Canada. He Plans to begin bis aerial hunt from Sault Ste. Marie That the search for Ihe balloonist Is being made by two countries ib shown by the lelepiams which have been received by Ihe Aero club of St. Louis within twenty-four hours. These have come from the hoods of tlie Canadian government and from the signal cups of the United States army and ollicials i..f the Canadian railway systems. Although sixty telegrams have I -oc n received from persons hunting for the America ir they have contained no definite in" , formation as to the local loon. They Saw a Galloon. Ottawa, Ont.. Oct. 25 The work of systematizing the search tor Alan Ii. Haw ley anil Augustus post of New-York, New-York, the inLsing aeronauts, aud their balloon, America II. is well under vay here. Edrnond F. Stratum, representing rep-resenting the Aero t'lub of America, has made his headquarters at a local point at which reports rroni Ontario and Quebec will be received From the data ul ready available ari l v hleh Is coming in, u map is being prepared pre-pared upon which the location and time ol" sighting balloons last will be noted. The fitory brought down to Hunts, ville by Richard Cole, a guide, who has returned from New Ontario, that be sighted a bnlloon last Thursday, vv ill be investigated The Dusseldorl, Germanlu and z urea, ur-ea, the balloons covering th longest clstance. came to earlh" on Wednesday Wednes-day and If Cole's story stands, it will i' regarded as iinmlstabable proof hnt the America II got safelv across the great lakea. j fiuide Co.e. it developed today wa with Mr. and Mrs. Myer-s of Toronto on Kumsey lake, about 20 miles north ol iJisroe. on the line of the Canadian I antic railway, when the balloon wnj jilted k apparently made a landing land-ing ou toe ,,ore of Fox lake. 6oni, tvvo miles from Rumsev like and I "bout 22 miles due nvitl. of Rlscoo ! ne-avy snowstorm drove Cole and his companions out of tber attempts to. |