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Show PROSPECTORS SEEK TEN j CASES OF ANCIENT RUM THE PASS, May 27. Ten cases of rum which an Indian tradition says were burled at Cumberland House a century and a half ago, wero being searched for today by a party of prospectors. pros-pectors. Tho story. In which tho searchers place full credence, is that the rum was brought into the north by a French trading party, which was stopped at Cumberland House and turned back by, tho Hudson Bay people, peo-ple, after they had hidden the liquor, which was intended for tho Indian trade. I |