Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — BOYS TOOK CRUISE ON LOG [ARTICLE]

BOYS TOOK CRUISE ON LOG

Spent Three Days on Lonely Unlmhabited Stretch of Shoreline. Running away from the * parental home on Mercer Island, Wash.. Henry Knowles and Comfort Harding, two young boys, boarded a log and paddled more than a mile at night over the chißy waters of Lake Washington. They landed on an uninhabited stretch of Lake Washington shore line an<f spent three days In the brush. They had blackened their faces with creosote to escapC'the guards at the parental home, and * rancher’s wife, thinking they were out for a holiday, gave them a can of baked beans and some matches. The baked beans were all they had to eat dpring the time thei Uved their lonely existence. Deputy sheriffs looking for moonshine stills found the boys and returned them to the home.