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Show MESSAGE FROM WILDERNESS. Note Found in Bottie Indicates That Hunter Perished in Idaho Wilds. Spokane, Wash. Apparently a last (message from a hunter, ill, despondent and lost in the wilds of northern Idaho, a note signed "R. Clay Stone" and sealed in a medicine botttle, was found floating in the Spokane river here Monday by a fisherman. The note, which is dated August 12, 1913, says : "I am sending this message in this bottle. Should anyone find it have same printed or write to R. L. Roba-natt, Roba-natt, Havana, Cuba, which was his last address. I aim sick and lost miles from anyone. "This is a small stream. I have $150 on me, also my rifle, two bear skins and watch. Should I be found give the money to tue poor. Send watch and rifle to my friend. Goodbye Good-bye to the world." The bottle, evidently thrown Into one of the small mountain streams of Idaho, has been three months on its journey to Lake Coeur d'Alene and thence into the Spokane river. |