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Show Curiosa Americana .j. . .;. By Elmo Scott Watson ' Buffalo Trackers THE buffalo have long since vanished van-ished from east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi but the state of Indiana has three official "buffalo trackers." They are George R. Wilson of Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, John Chappell of Petersburg Pet-ersburg and Lew O'Bannon of Cory-don, Cory-don, appointed by the governor of the Hoosler state, complying with an act to search for "the buffalo trace" leading from the Ohio to the Wabash so that the trail may become be-come a state memorial. The law says that the buffaloes, in their periodic migrations from the Ohio to the Wabash, made a trace that was used hy Indians, explorers ex-plorers and pioneers and It "should be preserved as a lasting memorial to the daring and notable achievements achieve-ments of the pioneer settlers of the state." Messrs. Wilson, chappell and O'Bannon have ftie power to administer oaths and compel the attendance at-tendance of witnesses, even though It is doubtful if anyone who saw the movements of the buffalo Is alive today. Anyway, the commissioners are to use any means In their power to determine the exact route of the vanished herds and make a report to the governor, accompanied by maps and drawings. The trace will then be taken over hy the highway department and Indiana's "buffalo trackers," the only oiliclals of the kind In the country, will follow their ghostly game Into oblivion |