Show INDIANS IN FEAR OF COMET superstitious aborigines held it accountable for shortage of door dear and caribou door doer in canada hivo havo been scarce tills this year said eald john A raymond of 0 Alon montreal treal in fact in somo places thoy they havo almost vanished there theio was a great brent dent of cold weather tho the last winter jn the A adberta Af berta province in somo parts the ground was frozen several foot deep the indians were tho the greatest BUff treis not particularly from rom tho the cold but from the of food 0 because they depend upon door doer flesh to last them thein until the spring the caribou also were few A year ago rabbits were so plentiful ono one could almost walk over them this year they were gone and it was tho the saino namo with tho the deer and caribou it was the same bame story nil all over that part of Cr canada inada tho the hudson bay hunters reported that they lead had found ab nb caribou nt at nil and sorna of thorn them ta traveled voled nio more re than miles in search of the gamo game tho the indiana everywhere suffered and of nil icings were organized by tiao hudson day bay company as well wall as aa by the mounted police tho the indians were mado made the moro more unhappy by a superstitious lelac i that the iho conict comet was in coilio cantier manner accountable for their suffering in somo some cases thoy they wore drawn almost to a state of panic val hid themselves im ha finy kind hind of shelter thoy they clotild find hoping to bo overlooked by tile tho power of floso visitation the thor assumed tho the comet to bu bo a sign |