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Show INDIAN WOMAN AND CHILDREN STARVING Port Arthur. Ont. April 7. William McKlerdy confirms a story that an Indian In-dian woman IMng north of here, cut n piece of flesh from her body in an effort to procure food for her children, whon they were starving. Tho woman and children were in doB-peratp doB-peratp stralte. The last crap of food had been eaten days before, and rue re was no game, though the woman hunted hunt-ed until her strength was gone. In this pitiable condition, the secured a fcnlfe and cut a strip of fleBh from her hK)y. This flesh she used as bait with which to catch fish and thus sua-Alned sua-Alned life until help arrived. |