Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1905 — Wrote His Will on Birch Bark. [ARTICLE]

Wrote His Will on Birch Bark.

On a piece of birch bark by the light of a tiny oil taper Robert McNeil), who lay down his life iu tlie quest for riches, scrawled a last message to his loved ones, and bequeathed to them tlie wealth that was his. McNeill's death came while lie was prospecting near the headwaters of the Stewart fiver in Washington, Tlie rumor of the probability of a renewal of the rate war between the Atlantic steamship companies is officially lenied at Lirernool.