Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-08-01 | Page 9 | Rescue Trapper from an Island

RESCUE TRAPPER FROM AN ISLAND THE PAS. Man , August 1 Aftei being marooned on an island without food or shelter for 2J days, Franl. Reynard. 72. has been rescued, according accord-ing to word reoelvod hero from Mile 32 on the Hudson Bay railway today to-day Reynard, who Is a trapper and has S shack on Cormorant Lake, wont out some three weeks ago ln his canoe looking for duck eggs. Ho landed on a small rocky Island and during his search a storm blew up and his canoe was carried away Tho trapper wa? isolated on a spot seldom visited b travelers. There was no fuel for building a fire and no protection from tho elements. The only means of sustenance sus-tenance was some half dozen duck eggs, water snarls, small crawflah, wild mint and roots of reeds. He was conscious when found by a local trapper but very weak. He is. however, recovering rapidly and stat'd It was the heatenlng and strengthen! n properties of l!d mint that kept him. alive.