Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-05-01 | Page 2 | Whale Carried of the Line

WHALE CARRIED OFP THE LINE. The Monster Also Made Away with a Good Harpoon. Up among the torn bergs of the Are-tic Are-tic a monster whale Is cruising about with a harpoon Imbedded In his thick back and something less than half a mile of stout hempen rope trailing after him. The crew of the steam whaler Thrasher, which returned Sunday night from an eight months' cruise in the icy north, declare that "Mister Whale got all that was coming to him." "He got away from us," muttered the mate, spitting viciously Into the scuppers, "but wo will get him next season. It was good rope we used, and he'll get tangled up on something" so we will be one whale to the good when we get back there. "He was a bad one, though. You see Sllva, the boat steerer, slung tho hook into him when wo were in open water between two big bergs, Off he goes with the stick In his back, and the rope went out like a man tumbling from the loft He ducked and dived until one tub of rope was cone, and ho did the same with another. He was making for the nearest floe and when he reached It ho spit a lot of water Into the air and took a deep dive. The edge of the ice cut the rope like a knife and he was off for good, with 2.000 feet of the Tbra6her's line and a good harpoon with him." San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle.