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Show TIMBER WOLVES EAT THREE MEN Two Indians Are Torn to Pieces After Death of White Trapper. PORT A FtTH p R, Ont.. Dec 28 -A great raving band of hungry timber wolves has devoured three men, according ac-cording to meager reports sifting In from the "now .ov.-r.-d trails of the Sturgeon rler country. These reports re-ports told of a losing battle fought ', by two Indians after a white trapper ! had been downed and killed M . VKt HLRs OUT Last Saturday an elderly trapper 'left his cabin In the wood." 70 miles north of ignace to mush down to the. SMttloment for bis CMulstmas mall Hoi irrlved In safety There was no mall, however, and the old man said he 1 .would come bak Christmas morning 'At noon he had not arrived. The postmaster post-master sent two Indians to follow the trail until th. y found him. About two miles from the settlement tho Indians found u spot pound- ' rt down In the snow and crlmson-hued. crlmson-hued. Hits of dog harness torn to Ishreds were scattered about In the ; iiilds! uf them Indians found human 'bones. They hastened back to report re-port their discovery. LI RJE D Bl BOUPTTY. The lure of the bounty on wolves I 'however, urged the Indians to take tho! jtrall again with extra ammunition . j They sped behind their dog teams. Into woods as the villagers waved goodbye. They did not treluin. I Yesterday a new searching party de- .parted. They found another patch I trodden In the snow about two miles beyond the first The two guns the Indian- had carried car-ried were lying there and scatter, d about wore bones, bits of clothing and empty shells. The carcasses of 1C wolves lay stretched In a circle about the trampled tram-pled patch of snow. no |