PROSPECTOR KILLS BIG
MOOSE WITH AN AXE
According to reports lately received in
Fairbanks from the Totatalnnika coun
try, Tom Burns, a prospector and uup
per who makes his headquarters in that
region, had an experience during Hie
past winter which is without precedent,
us far as can be learned. Consequently,
he enjoys the unique distinction of hav
ing killed a large bull moose with an
axe. Some would say that such a feat
would be easy If the animal were wound
ed and unable to travel, but such was not
the case, the fact being that it was not
hurt, but wus unable to move rapidly in
the deep snow.
According to the report, Burns start
ed out on a trip over his trap line one
morning with his dog team, it was in
February, after the first thaw, and, con
sequently. traveling over the unbroken
waste ot snow was easy, as a thick crust
nad frozen during the previous night.
The trapper had not gone very fur
when suddenly his dogs became unman
ageable. He knew that they hurt smelled
it moose or some other animal and did
Ills best to stop them, but us he hud
no brake on his sled his efforts were all
of no avail. Therefore all he could do
was to hang on to the handle bars ot the
sled and keep up with the racing dog
cam.
Pretty soon the outfit came up to the
noose. He was standing in snow belly
deep and was unable to run. For every
tic.e rn Would take a step Ida sharp
hoofs would cut through the crust into
the deep snow and would keep him from
moving at any speed.
Being evidently of the opinion that to
try to escape was useless, the moose
came to buy when the dogs and man
reached nim. The dogs started barking,
which seemed to anger him, for he turn
ed on them and charged with head down.
Then there was some mixup. For dogs
and moose wore piled up in one snarling,
butting mass.
The prospector could easily see that
tile moose would win the battle, as It
was evident that he would soon have
the dogs trampled under fool, harnessed
as they were lu the sled. He had no
gun and therefore could not shoot, but
he did nave an axe. And so he soon got
busy and mixed into the melee himself,
the -estut being disastrous for the moose.
Burns is a man U5 years of age and
weighing but 140 pounds. His feat of
killing a moose with an axe is therefore
the more surprising. And his age and
weight probably also had something to
do with his being unable to stop his
dug team when they enurgod across the
crust after the moose.
This story is voucited for b> a well
I known mining man and prospector who
' has spent several years In the Total
| lanika country and who knows Burns
well.—Citizen.
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Although the 42-cm. gun used by the
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catlons at Liege and Namur attracted
world-wide attention during the early
stages of the war. the secret of its di
mensions and other features has been so
Jealously guarded that practically noth
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this monster mortar, beyond the terrible
uestruction wrought by it. At a recent
meeting 01 artilery engineers at Dussel- '
dorg, Germany, an engineer uf the Kruppi
works delivered a lecture on the making
of heavy artillery and particularly 1
on the making of tlie 41-ciu. guns,
or the "Rig Rerthas," as the Germans
call them, and an apparently reliable re
port of this lecture has been transmitted
to this country. According to this report
which appears in the December Popular
Mechanics Magazine, the big guns weighs
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it stands when in firing position weights
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