Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1906 — Big Iujun and Wigwam Both Lost. [ARTICLE]

Big Iujun and Wigwam Both Lost.

r A thing befell Jasper County’s most efelebratetl' w »odscraftsmam L»wly McGee, Tbars day.-- He was out on the trail ol minks and skunks, with his nephew and understudy billy McGee. They worWed over into east Jordan. aml intended to head in to Remington, and spend the night with relatives. Their dogs got sick however, and they concluded t) return to Rensselaer. They fol lowed the sand west for a time and imending to follow the general direction of Carpenter's creek, to about where it joins the v Iroquois. This tiny*supposed,tkek_ were doing, and tinally they left the sand ridges and struck out into a cultivated region, and heading, as they .thought, towards Rensselaer. However, the houses did not seem to have a familiar appearance to Laudy and the farther they walked%)ie less familiar they seem •ed. Finally they saw a man coni-" ing towards them in the road, with a team, ami. Landy wanted the hoy to aakdwur the -way to Rensselaer, but the boy said Landy could do that himself. * The man in the wa goh proved to be Billy Bringle, of 7 W'B miles west and well known to - Landy —j Landy tried to make his euquirieaiua diplomatic way, so that Billy would not think he was lost, if the wigwam was, after the mannei of the big Injun. It would not work, for Billy pointed

oat to Landy that instead of being beaded towaras Rensselaer Be whs goiug directly towards Broolc, and was already in sight of FWesman. There was a telephone line alongside the road which Landy had .helped build, but neither that nor any of the buildings in the vicinity looked like anything he had ever seen before. With Mr. Bringle's help Laudv got his bearings and sadly took the back track towards Rensselaer, arriving at six o'clock, after having walked about 14 miles out of their way. What adds to the strangeness cf their getting last was that sun was sinking brightly all the time and Landy was walking right towards the sun instead of from it as he should have done. However, they made a pretty good day's work, to console them for being lost, for thevgot a good mink skin and two skunks.