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Show TURNED BROWN HAHt WHITE Frightful Experience of Man Followed Three Nights by Wolves. Tho once brown locks of M, A. Ma-honey, Ma-honey, of Tacoma, Wash., who carried car-ried from Fairbanks to Valdez, Alaska, tho body of former Mayor Humes of Seattle aro now whlto as tho result of his cxpcrlcnco with timber wolves during his trip. It was Mahoncy's custom to lcavo tho box containing Humes' body on tho trail whllo ho and his dogs each night entered tho nearby timber to build a flro and sleep. As tho sun was setting ono evening they heard tho howls of a largo pack of wolves, which gradually closed In around them. Hauling tho body Into tho timber, tim-ber, Mahoney built a fire. His dogs, frightened and nervous, crept between tho sled nnd tho fire. Whenever tho flro got low tho wolves camo closer. Mahoncy's fight was largely against Ills' own sleepiness. sleepi-ness. For safety ho tied a burning plno knot to his nrm and when It burned closo enough to hurt ho would get lip and replenish tho fire. Ho was compelled thus to torture himself thrco successlvo nights. On tho last night n particular tho wolves wero especially ferocious, seeming to understand un-derstand that by another night their prospective prey would bo out of danger. dan-ger. The noxt day Mahonoy reached a roadhoiisc and from that tlmo had company until Valdez was reached. |