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Show Whale Caught Carrying Harpoon Morcor, Oro. A harpoon eighteen foot long, which an old whaler doclarod do-clarod was fashionod by Indians or Eskimos, was attached to tho carcass of a smalo whalo that has como ashoro at Cox Point, Oro. Tho whalo was first sighted by the llghthouso keeper of Hecta Hoad, who, thinking It an overturned boat, roportod to the Sulslaw coast guards. Tho harpoon, of very crude design, had boon fash, lonod lrom a sapling and tipped with a broad triangular iron point It is bolU-vod tho whalo drlftod south from tho coast ot Siberia or tho Bering Sea |