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Show HAS MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE . Harry Roylance may. or may not like cold water plunges in a freezing mountain stream at 4:30 in the morning, but it has leaked out that he took one recently while on his way to the fishing pond at Lost Creek reservoir. res-ervoir. He did not take it either, of his own volition, but it was forced on him, and it happened this way. Mr. Roylance, accompanied by Ira Overfelt, Julius Duggins, L. Ludvtg-son Ludvtg-son and Sidney Baxter, left Gunnison one cold, bleak Sunday morning shortly after 12, midnight. While going up the narrow canyon, with a freezing wind hurling dust and grav-j grav-j el in their frost-bitten faces, and with j Overfelt and Roylance leading and ! riding in a stripped Ford, they en-j en-j countered a narrow bridge or rath-I rath-I er where the bridge should be. Instead In-stead of driving over the bridge and I owing to the dense darkness and poor headlights, the car missed the bridge and Roylance was shot out into the cold slimy waters of the stream. His hath did not last long, however, as he was soon rescued and the only thing he lost was his cay and a few little cuss words. A bg blazing fire soon restored his tempei ( and ardor and he was able to joir j the bunch in angling for the festive j trout. Overfelt escaped, being abk to hold his position in the car. |