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Show MAROONED ON ISLAND ON EVE OF WEDDING Swan Llndqulit of Minneapolis, Held Prisoner by Ice and Ceremony la Postponed. Minneapolis. Swan LlndqulBt was marooned on Big island, lako Mlnne-tonka, Mlnne-tonka, with a scoro of other men, recently, re-cently, and as a result ho did not marry his prospective hrldo nccording to schedule. After n couplo of days ho mnnaged to get n rowboat through tho lco and the postponed marriage took place. Soveral weeks ago tho Twfn City Rapid Transit company hired a crew So Near and Yet So Far. of mon to proceed with tho Improvements Improve-ments booked for completion the early part of next summer. Tho crew secured a largo stock of provisions and hired colored cooks to huudlo them all of tho mon hnvlng mado arrangements to mako a good long stay of It. Half a Aozen Minneapolis persons know nbout Swan's coming marrlago. If tho young man had trlod to como to tho city threo days bofore, everything every-thing would havo been lovely, as thero wero rowboats on the Island, and he would have had no difficulty In making tho opposlto shore The Ice then Inclosed the Island, bow-over, bow-over, and It was impossible to uso tho boats. It was impossible to walk over tho ice, aa it was too thin in some places. This put Swan "up agalnBt it," and ho had to wait for tho fates to help him out of his trouble. For about 21 hours tho girl, whoso namo la j withheld nt hor own request, wns nearly frantic, thinking something serious se-rious had happened tn her fiance. Whon sho learned ot Swan's predlca-ment predlca-ment sho was inclined to bo angry,1 saying that any man with spunk would get to land by hook or crook, oven if ho hnd to swim. |