Show l- l Story of th tb DY ay rn HE GOT THE TUE MONEY Construction gangs of the Algoma Central Hudson's Hudsons Da Bay Railway company com corn pany arc are stringing a n. telegraph tele-raph line through the northern woods from Crom the Soo Sno to Michipicoten l have ha Just succeeded In unearthing the la last t of oC the famous catches made by hy Sand Sandy Mc- Mc Manners about two years ears ago Th lh Thy y found It easily enough Sand Sandy showed them where It was At this time lime Sandy Is IB probably down at the Soo celebrating hl hlA hie triumph over o the company In the usual fashion For counting the proceeds of ot this last trip Into the wilderness ho has made not less letis than by hy pointing out these thes same ame caches I Sandy lc Is one of or the thousands thousands thou thou- I sa sands of ot Scots who are re to be he found nit nil through that northern r region slon 11 H lIe Is a 1 aborn aborn born woodsman man a hard drinker a ready really fighter and celebrated nil nit aion Ions the thc north shore for his ability to pack h heavy avy loads In the cods r on his hla back or on dog clog ol sleds It was wa this last lat recommendation that secured him employment em em- by the railway company at ut atthe atthe the time when the telegraph line lino was vas under construction There was as not i a mile of oC th railroad built buill then and antI only a few miles s of ot the roadbed IN was graded For miles be- be t th the Soo and M l h 1 was but woods an and ln river rl and lakes cut by h- wonderful waN rals anti and by deep canyons To To-o To go even inthe In Inthe th the dead ot of winter with a n do Ill sled up the line of or the proposed railway was fis Jut It was neCel necessary H if It the tel tel line lino was as to be con constructed to put the wire In there In winter while tha th snow wan on the ground So Sandy being u used ed to Just such contracts va wn- engaged en engaged to put It there At his or orders ers the wire wa was sent up inthe In Inthe the fall taU before Lake Superior was frozen frozen frozen en over and was landed and to stored red In quantities at the little tittle harbors along the shore shore shore-Goulais river Agawa bay Batchawana ba hay and oUch Mich- At thee the ports which ports are not villages but merely landing places from which the commissary ary transports In winter his supplies for the summer work work Sandy Sandy collected his dog trains He had nearly a hundred huskies and a a. lot of ot line sleds and as soon as Goulais river and the Agawa A awa were frozen enough to bear and there was good sledding on the trails between the lakes he started the wire In Train af af- af- af ter train he ho took back his huskies hukle skimming along at a tl fine rate over the Icy lCy rivers and ond up and down the hilly trails going twenty t miles s or ar more In Inland Inland inland In- In land to the right of way wa Of course It would never have done to 10 leave that telegraph wire loose Inthe In Inthe Inthe the woods after he had taken It In Wolves Vol might eat It H said Sandy with a tl shocking grin So he be cached It at convenient places He lie dug little pits built log and bough bouCh shelters over them and tilled filled th them m with wire lre Insulators and other necessaries for tor the con construction of the line Then Thenh h he carefully concealed the caches by every art he knew It was as spring before the work was nag done clone and Sandy Sand was back at the Soo to settle ettJe with the company compan And then he had trouble Some sort of ot misunderstanding misun misun- started and Sandy went on hl his regular spring spree convinced that the company had wronged him badly The company compan however was vas satisfied and sent lent the gangs Into the woods to go goto goto goto to work But the gangs could do no nomore nomore nomore more than cut and set up poles for Sandy Sandys 8 caches were t too well welt hidden to tobo he bo found Not a foot toot of wire could the compan company's hunters locate Sand Sandy was easier to lo find He lIe was In Ina I In a n saloon at the Soo when a company compan man mart hunted him up and asked him to come back and find Ond the wire One hundred dollars said eald Sandy One hundred nothing You put I It there Now show us where It J Iq i. i I 1 put It there and you pay but you cheat me Now Ill I'll point It out but you Oll O pay first One hundred dollars Sand Sandy stuck to his point for a n time hut at last they beat him down to 50 So he went into the woods wood and with a a. great reat show of or openness found a cache coIls colls of ot It It There Thero was the wire great Sandy went back to the Soo Sio But the cache was very shallow as they soon found and h held ld only a a. portion portion por por- tion of ot the wire So after afler Sandy the company went again This time Sandy I started the bidding at 23 5 and got It He HeI found another cache And so one by byonE byone I one he has pointed them all out at last and the company has Its wire and Is stringing It It All AU In all Sandy Sand got and has been in a genial mood during two whole summers There Is but hut one sweet thought for forthe forthe forthe the company compan Even at the price It was cheaper to deal with Sandy than to bu buy more wire and can carry It up there next winter Minneapolis Tribune |