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Show Huge Monster of Arctic Seen Keratosaurus Declared to Be the Equal in Size of Ten Elephants. Paris. "And. tow. will you believe. Id the name of our Lord, that 1 and ten of my Indians saw again, on Christmas afternoon. Leemore's ter rible monster! "As big as ten elephants. It passed like a hurricane across the frozen river, smashing immense blocks of thick ice into the air. Its long bristles bris-tles were covered with hoar frost, and its immense red eyes flamed in the twilight. The monster held in Its mouth a caribou of close to 700 pounds, while it careered at 20 miles an hour!" Such are the first mention and first description both from Alaska of the keratosaurus of the Arctic circle, the gigantic prehistoric creature that is now again exciting Russian sportsmen and scientists along with the discovery of an unsuspected mountain range in northeastern SI beria which may be its home. Maps of Siberia will have to be changed by the discovery, only recently, recent-ly, of this newly nai4ed ("herski range. f!2o miles long. 180 miles wide, and covering an area greater than the 'aucasus. They nave been found by the explorer. Obruchev, sent by the Soviet government In 1S12G to Investigate Investi-gate the unknown regions beyond Yakutsk, east of the river Lena. Too Big to Be Captured. "This was probably the last great mountain range remaining to he discovered dis-covered on Che globe." say the Russian Rus-sian papers. Will the Russian geological geo-logical survey and Academy of Sciences, sending special expeditions to it. come on authentic facts about the giant saurian? Of course, there seems to be no possibility to capture a terrible monster mon-ster "as big as ten elephants." To kill it, even, high explosive shells would be necessary, according to I.elouvier, who went out after the keratosaunis In the first Russian ex-c'teinent ex-c'teinent about ten years ago. I.elouvier. "the unkillahle." nlong with Prince Scipione Rorghese and Ooddard. bad done Paris-Peking in specially constructed motor cars. An other great sport was I he French Georges Ditpuy. veteran correspondent of the Paris Auto, who brought hack the original full story of the kera tosanrus from Alaska, studied by I.elouvier and the others for their expedition. ex-pedition. The duke of Westminster certainly believed In the "Partridge crook monster"; mon-ster"; and bis Franco-English combination com-bination actually decided with a San Francisco banker named Butler, that an ostensible shooting trip would quietly extend to the MrQueston river In the Yukon, where the Klaynkuk In dians waited round the post o' Arm strung creek until ttie good lesuit Fa titer I.avatnnn should give t lie word. "They con e !" Keratosaurus Photographed. More tame the first Alaskan story tn Furope. In particular, there was a miner ot the Yukon, Tom I.c.Mtiore. who along with this (iporir'is Pupuy, Banker l!ut ler. and Father I.avagneux himself bi'held the keratosaurus in his rage, and photographed him when he kicked an avalanche of rocks close to theii heads. Pig-headedly. I.eeniore confided the orint to Father Lavi.gnenx alone, "to interest some rich and serious European Euro-pean sports," and insisted that "none of those Dawson crooks shall set eyes on It I" So the duke of Westminster's friends had equally the account of how the mortster was seen again, with a caribou cari-bou in Its mouth, In the letter herein already quoted at the outset, from the trustworthy Jesuit missionary to Georges Dupuy. after the latter's return re-turn to Paris. If the great story Is believable. It seems to have finally Inclosed In-closed the photograph of Leemore. Story Never Doubted. Letter, photograph, and good faith of Dupuy were never doubted In Paris. Three times the sporting correspondent cor-respondent of the Auto visited the Klondike, and his tale was as follows fol-lows : Butler, the San Francisco banker, buying gold claims in Dawson, met Dupuy at MeQueston post for a week's hunting. It was July. Taking coffee at the home of Father Lavagneux, Butler came hurrying to them, much agitated. "Do you know that there are prehistoric pre-historic giant flesh-eating lizards alive up here?" were his first words. Dupuy did not laugh, because he saw Father Lavagneux listen with sober interest. "Last night Grant, myself, and the Indians went after three moose," he said. "Suddenly the male moose let out a bellow, and off they went at breakneck speed. What could it be? At the moose-leak we saw the prodigy! prod-igy! Fresh In the mud was the print of a gigantic body. The belly made a gully four feet deep, fifty feet long, and perhaps twenty feet wide. Four vast feet, nearly two yards across had made a lot of prints." Roaring Shakes Earth. Next morning the priest, Dupuy, Butler and Leemore went to the tracks, accompanied by the Indians. "At noon we bad given up expecting expect-ing anything, when down came suddenly sud-denly an avalanche of rocks, amid such roaring and snorting that made the earth tremble and we saw itl A keratosaurus with the colic Is an apocalyptic sight! The prehistoric thing, black, bulkier than six elephants, ele-phants, anyhow, lurched down the ravine beyond us, sweeping rocks aside like pebbles. "We stood petrified. The keratosaurus kerato-saurus of the Arctic circle!' cried Father I.avagneux. In full daylight you have seeen the Eiffel tower? So. I have seen the monster of Jurassic times from its hairy belly bung clods of mud as big as ten-year-old cliil dren !" "No use to shoot lead at such a fellow!" said Leemore, as lie Is claimed to have taken the snapshot. "To kill It would require high explosive ex-plosive shells!" said Lelouvier, when this story got to Russia and was confirmed con-firmed by Siberian native hunters. Crosses Into Siberia. The monster disappeared from Alaskathe Alas-kathe duke of Westminster's combination com-bination never got at It. Appearing sood after In Siberia, it would seem to travel back and forth across Bering strait, when the ice is thick enough between 'the Islands. How, then, did the keratosaurus equally disappear from Siberia when Lelouvier and friends went after it? - Some say, of course, that the prehistoric pre-historic monster actually sleeps for ten-year periods being an astounding sole survivor in this manner! But, today, the Russians believe that the thing takes refuge in its real home in the hitherto unknown Cherskl range of mountains just discovered by Obruchev, official explorer sent into unknown Siberia by the Soviets. The Cherski range (greater In area titan the Caucasus) lies between east Siberia and the Pacific coast adjoining adjoin-ing Alaska. And the keratosaurus is again reported by Siberian natives, just as the Cherski mountains are discovered ! Sterling Heilig in the Chicago Tribune. |