Show 1 INDIANS IN FEAR OF COMET y aborigines held it ao ac ni countable for Sh shortage of deer and caribou ft i deer jn in canidi have been scarce this year said john A raymond Ray inand of montreal Alon treal ls jn fact in somo some places they have almost vanished thero ali ro waa n great deal of cold weather tho the last winter in tho the alberta province lit in some parts tho the ground waa frozen several feet deep tho indians were the greatest not particularly from the coldi cold but from the shortness short of food because they depend upon door deer flesh to ta last them until the spring the caribou also were few A year ago rabbits wore wora so plentiful ono one could almost walk over thorn them this year atey thay were 0 gone and it w was as the t the he doer deer and carl caribou bou il story nil all over that apart p of canada tho the hudson bay hunte B reported that ahat they hey rud found no caribou ab all 1 and some of them traveled moro more than wiltes finites I 1 in search of the game the indians indiana everywhere suffered and of all kinds were organized by the tao hudson 1 hay compari company as well asby the mounted d police the india indians fis were made tho more unhappy by a superstitious lelle that tho the comet comat was io in sonto manner accountable for r their buffering in sonie somo c cases ases they were beio driven almost to a L coate of panic and ana hid themselves in I 1 riny t ny kind of shelt shelter r they could find hoping to be by tho the power of whose visitation they assumed tho the comet to bo be a algo |