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Show Old Man l eft la sh.n of Mi.i to IMs j F.dnsrd Morliuur, a gray, haired miner, es years old. is the center of a j story emauatiug from I)awson. where he is said to Imve been kiddappcd and lowered into a shaft thirty-live feet j deep on Thistle creek, 17j mile from Liawsoo. His captors demanded P;K) a the price of release, but on being told that he had no money, left him, apparently to perish. After twelve hour of effort the old man succeeded in climbieg to the surface of the ahaft by means of slicks stuck in the side of the shaft, and after wanderiug eighl Bile found a canoe, which bronght him to Dawson, where he claimed police protection. |