LIVING DINOSAUR SEEN NEAR ARCTIC CIRCLE. (June 18, 1908)
LIKE SIR GEORGE
KNIGHT OF OLD WHO FOUGHT DRAGON FINDS COUNTERPART. Duke of Westminster to Hunt Antediluvian Monster—Said to Have Been Seen Alive in the Arctic Circle.
The young duke of Westminster, of ample fortune and venturesome disposition, in the spirit of his fellow countryman of old, Sir George, is preparing to give battle to a monster creature which is reported on reliable authority to have been seen roaming in the inaccessible regions of the arctic circle. He is coming to America soon to prepare to trail this antediluvian creature to its lair, there to attack it and either capture it alive or kill it and bring back its carcass as proof of his prowess and courage. On his way to America, the duke stopped in Paris, and there laid plans for the expedition up to the McQuesten river in the Yukon in search of this monster, which scientists have named the Keratosaurus, and which certain parties, including a Jesuit father located in the far north, are said to have seen and photographed, besides taking measurements of its footprints. There seems to be much mystery and many rumors concerning the monster, but report has it that a miner of the Yukon, Tom Leemore, who with George Dupuy and James Butler and the Jesuit father, saw the Keratosaurus in its rage and photographed it in its rampage when it flicked an avalanche of great rocks down around their heads. Who has seen the photographs of the Patridge creek monster? Not the Dawson authorities, who refused to lend 100 mules and 50 armed men to go hunt it. Not the editor of the Daily Nugget, who dubbed George Dupuy “a rival of Edgar Poe.” The miner Leemore, who remained at Armstrong creek, pigheadedly confined them to Father Lavagneux alone, “to interest some rich and serious French or English sport,” and now that George Dupuy is back in Paris with the duke of Westminster behind him, one of the most extraordinary photographs on earth is in the young duke’s pocket, while Dupuy has in his pocket a liberal contract to idemnify all those concerned and fit an expedition that must include a 4-000-ton tramp steamer—to bring straight to London the live monster weighing 80 tons and more! The duke of Westminster has also in his pocket a letter from the Jesuit missionary to George Dupuy, after his return to Paris, in which he says: “And now would you believe that I and ten of my Indians again saw, on Christmas afternoon, Leemore’s terrible monster? “It passed like a hurricane across the frozen river, smashing, dashing, crashing immense blocks of broken ice into the air behind it. All its long bristles were covered with hoar-frost and its red eyes flamed in the twilight. “The monster held in its mouth a cariboo that weighed at least 700 pounds, while it careered along at 200 miles per hour! At the corner of the cut-off it disappeared. “In company with Chief Stineshane and two of his sons, I took prints of its tracks, exactly as you, Butler, Leemoore and I did that last day in the moose leak.” The positive good faith of George Dupuy is beyond doubt in Paris, where he is so well known. His place as a writer and sporting explorer is quite fixed. When the New York-to-Paris automobile race was being organized his mere word convinced Parisians of the impossibility of crossing the Bering strait upon the ice—which doesn’t exist. Three times in the last eight years Dupuy has made long visits to the Klondike, always as a sport with money, and it was during this trip that he saw the Keratosaurus, and it is the result of these facts that is leading up to the duke of Westminster’s “American Vacation.” From— Cameron County press. (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.), 18 June 1908. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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