Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1917 — FROM THE CANAL ZONE [ARTICLE]

FROM THE CANAL ZONE

Soldier Boy Sees Comrades Swallowed By Shark—Looks Forward to Home Coming. Mt. Ayr Tribune. Mrs. Ransom Elijah has just received a letter from her son, Dan Lintner, who .is in the service of Uncle Sam in the Canal Zone. He tifils of Christmas there, describing a very different condition to Avhat he is used to when at home in Indiana. Everything green and the thermometer at 90 degrees in the shade made it seem a peculiar Christmas for Dan. It is in that locality where the great Boa Constrictor is common and Dan sees them frequently as long as 30 feet. In the morning of the day that he was writing he witnessed twq boys get eaten by sharks in the mouth of the Panama Canal. The boys swim their horses in the Pacific near the outlet of the canal and it seems that a couple of sharks were hovering about this outlef when the sport -was going on. Don is looking forward to his home coming Oct. 8, 1918.