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’ British subjects,

The: Windsor, Out., ‘Daily Star, in a
recent issue carried the following in-
teresting” story ‘about a man who was
ul resident, of Pacifie for a dozen years
id who Was highly thought of there:
A mystery. whose tangled threads

lead ‘from the broken ice of a North-
eri Ontario lake to the African’ Gold
Const. Alaska and Peru, has been fin-
ally unrayelled by Russell Smith, Win-
(sor lawyer, after five years of dog-
#ed detective work. No  meerschaum
Pipe, hunting cap or large magnifying
glass are in. Mr. Smith's detective kit,
The file which he has just closed in-
cludes some 1500 letters, He had us-
ed mostly stamps'to solvee the mys-

“Mystery Family | Found
After Five Year Search

no ‘counpany had yet been formed.

cash value. But’ since then a company
has been formed;. and‘: the property
and the property has been found to
contain much valuable gold. ’ Thig
gives the Harry Jones estate a value
of abont $9,000 with the Prospect of
more to come.

; Mr, Smith had never heard of Harry
Tones, his sudden death or his mining
claims until a day in June, 1932, when
a young man named George Jones.
walked into his law office with a
newspaper clipping from the Manches-
ter Guardian, which told —of the

The agreement therefore had-no’ ready

London, this S¢lop of 7 piper was found
to be the eighth part of a birth certifi-
cate relating to Percy Merriman, the
son’ of William Henry . Merriman, a
buliders” clerk, and his wife . Aimelia,
This information had been ‘given te
the coroner at Sioux Lookout in -1931,
lint, nothing had. been done about it be-
cause there wag nothing to prove thig
was Hurry Jones own birth certificate
except the bare fact of bossession. . No
one had ever heard of Harry Jones us-
ing: -the hame. o£ Peroy Merriman, But
Mr. Smith had. guessed that the birth-
certificate belonged to Jones, -so he
hired English ‘soiiciters to track down
thie relatives of this Percy Merriman,

‘| AWWho.

three men; ‘standing: bealde a -‘Tokker

tery,
ners of the world
from Windsor.

Nites, photographs and odds and ends.
Tt’s all marked “Harry Jones Estate”
nnd few. would. guess from this prosaic
caption that a story of mystery and
divama lies within, -. .

Licture a ‘Mareh day in - Northern
Ontario. The year is 1930, AIL dur-
ing the cold winter Summit Lake, 120],
miles north of Sioux Lookout. has been
frozen: solid. Now the ice is getting
trencherous for winter’s grip is slipp-
ing and the first. warm touches of
spring are in the air,

Harry Jones is 53. He cvdks for a
couple of prospectors, Louis Parth. a
Czecho- Slovakian, and Fred Fishness,
a Norwegian. ” Harry. has lived among
mizing meh ‘for yeurs and has done‘a
little progpecting on ‘his own, but he!

Synopsis of Land Act |

PRE- -EMPTIONS

“aca, ubreserved, surveyed Crown

lands may be pre-empted by British
subjects over 19 years of. age, and by
aliens on declaring intention to become
conditional upon rtesle
dence, cecupation and improvement,

Pull information concerning Pre-emp-
tions Js given in Bulletin No. 1, Land
Series, “How to Pre-empt Land,” copies of
Which can be obtained free of charge by
addressing the Department of Lands, Vite
torla, B.C.; Bureaw of Provincial Informa-
tion, Victoria, or any Government Agent.

Records will be granted covering only ~

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to the edge of: the’ Ice, °

; is still rated as a tender foot.’ When
lhe started out with Parth and Fisk-!
{ ness, the ald timers laughed and said

Harry ‘would’ sure to get lost if he:
| Strayed from the lake shore, ;

As he beging ‘to drive his slelgh over

Summit Lake this sunny March morn-
ing, he apparently doesn’t realize that
the ice is weak.

Crack! The ice gives way. and

Harry is plunged into the . chilly wat-

He seveams ‘for help. as he clings
‘Charlie Gra- |
1am herrs his cries “and rushes to his

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ald with a long pdle und rope. .

He traced his man to far cor-
without stirring

"lt you look in Me, Smith’s filing
cabinet under’ “J”. yuu will finally. get
to a’ buikly bundle of letters, affida-

the Land a nee
3

“Na... 20,

‘tholuding. payment of atumpege..

~ Por: ‘graxizig”
. eteps.. nov: -exededin
, Weased by. one peered

ue Ee fer
1 CR pETe

fand suitable for agricultural purposes
within reasonable distanca of road, school
and marketing faciitfes and which is not
timberland, Le., carrying over 5.000 board

feet per acra east of the Const Range and -

€.000 feat per acre west Qf that Range.
Applications for pre-emptions are to be
addressed to the Land Commissioner of
Division in which tha’
land applied for. situated. on printed
forms obtained from the Commissioner.

Pre-emptions must be. ecoupled for five

. years and improvements made to value of

$10 per acre, including clearing and ¢ulti-
vating, at least five acres, before & Crowa
Grant'cdn be récetved.

Pre-emptiona carrying part time condl-
‘Stones of occupation are also granted,
c

PURCHASE OB LEASE

Applications are received for purchase
of vacant and unreserved Crown tonds,
not belng timberland, for agricultural
purposes, Minimum. price of first-class

(arable) land 14 $5 per acre, and second. -

claga (grasing) - land, $2.50 per acre.

Further information is givenwin Bulletin .
Cand. Geries, “Purchase end Tease

of, ‘Grown Yarida”

AS partial relief ‘measure, ‘Teverted
fands may be acquired by purchase in ten
equal instalments, with the first payment

., One

suspended for two. yeors, provided taxes |

‘are paid! when due and improvements are

made ‘during ‘the first two yeara of not °

less than 10% ef the appralsed value,

Miu, factory or industrial sites ‘on
timber iand, not exceeding 40 acres, may _
be purchased or leased,, the  condit;

_pxceeding
- UneuTEaye. prea, as homesites, cond:
tional upon: eng hetng erected in

first- year,” obtained - atter.

. iilaenee | aud hnprora rover en ‘onditions are

been’ surveyed. .’.

* ndustzlal purpeses
aod. C40 “acres nay a
‘or @ company. =~.

fulfilled and.

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teuiga tder rg in rors
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analy, UP, au tn

| Tones,
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death.

Loner... HL.

“But by the time Graham gets there
Harry is se namb and: weak -that he -

? can only: cling to the. pole,lut ‘can’t

take a firm hold on the rope, by: which
he could he hauled to safety. .Graham,
j thinks he can "t get him out with. only.
pole -so he. rushes. back to shore
to wot n second one.’ When, he returns
Harey Tones — is gme... Weakened | by,
colds he-las fainted and. sunk: te an icy’
“The ‘body | is. s. finally. ‘found. but ‘at
takes seven weeks to, get. it, to the cor-
E. Holland, Sioux Lookout,
. he frozen corpse . has, :to "be hauled
many diffientt miles. ‘by. flog team,
The trencherous’ ice on. all streams: “and
lakes nnkes progress slow and hazard-
ous. Ie inally an Airplane comes to the
‘Assistance vf the prospectors - dn. their
sad duty, ‘aud. the body: is brought’ into
Sioux: Lookout. ; In ‘the ‘little cemetary ;"
at Sioux - Lyokout, there" ig. a’ “aimple
grag. ovhich, bears. the “‘hame’ ‘Harry }
“That - ‘wasn't the real naihe’ “of
the: dead. man—,but, more” of that later..

When. he. died. Harry Jones ‘had -lit-
‘In * ay “‘kithay -in--hlg shack,
32:° Later -68¢ . was;
found, in, his: name, it. h. bank: 4n Winnie:
per.: But.’ Harry. “had” a, partnershly |
Agreement , anh ~Purth an: “Fiskness:,

iked, it: wa
it ‘Jodes’ ‘anu |.

all. fhe etal an’t}

bedanse. of hls

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on i bat everyting

xpert ‘prospectors: :
i tiird ‘interest’ in!

wiedge.«
They. Hkéd thie ‘plea van
“| who° were ‘the: dead man’s

drowning in Northern Ontario.

George Jones, who lives in Detroit,
explalned that hig mother, now Mrs,

the siory out of the Manchester paper,
thinking it might refer to her husband
who. deserted her in Béll Vernon, Pa.,
in 1908. On the chance that Harry
Jones might be. his father. George
Jones asked Mr. Smith to look inty’ the
ense, Harry Jones had been |, dead
nearly. two years, but by. writing to
the coroner at Sloux Lookout and | to
the provincial police Mr, Smith man-
aureil, to locate séme of Mr. Jones’ old
feiouds and obtain Vhotographs from
then. Five of these thotographs
were sent to Mrs. Fred Stone in Eng-
huni. | Mrs. Stone picked. out Harry
Jones trom.a group of men and said
he wag the man who deserted her: in
Pennsylv nia more than 20. years ago.
But she was unable to pick bim out of
three vE the pietures.

‘This identification was not’ “suffi-
ciently positive ‘to’ satisfy a court, so
Iats, Jones was ‘asked to’ send: “over
Lphotographs of the Harry Jones she
said was her former husband.

Fred Stone.of Preston, Eng., had ent

In. the. best detective tradition. Mr f
Smith had . 2 “theory” | He believed
that. Jones had deliberately destroyed
the pirt af the. certificate where the
naiie was. recorded so that. he could
conceal his érve identity, The remain
ings portion he bud kept presumably be
enuse it Was useful, for legal and imnii
gration purposes, in establishing the
tine and pace of bis birth.

It ‘turned ‘unt that Mr, Smith wis
right in his theory.
uu alias—or so suid his mother, an 81
year old woman, finally located in Blr-
Mingham, and his brother,
Merviman who: lived -in Dngland. The
Yeason they gave for the alins seemed
a little fintastic, but they both insist-
ed ‘on it, ‘They. said. Perey had a pal

try. .
ship. that he accompanied ‘the yal into |“

that “neither of: them .could ‘be traced.
Before leaving England in 1908, bound

To prove her claim. Mrs. Jones Sent jf
“two photographs and an affidavit.. In
this she swore she. married Harry

Jones in 1899 at a little village called

Treleth-with-Askain, ‘in - Lancashire,
England, Then, she said, in 1903 her
husband w ent ta work as’ ‘a inimer on
the Gold Coast of West’ Afrien, She
Joined him: there in 1904 and soon after
‘they moved’ to Pennsylvania, Four.
years later, she said, he deserted her
to go to Bingham. Canyon, Utah With
‘her. sun anda daughter she returned.
to England: -She had never heard of
him since, Mrs. Jones two photogra-
phs were sent by Mr. Smith: to many |
‘people who had known the: dead man.
Some saw tt. ‘resemblance, - thers did.
‘not. Mr, Hollana; the coroner at Sioux t

1

j Lookout, made. this: written statement: ; ii

_ “LT can see enongh. resemblance, -parti-\ \
eulurly in the Shapé of the head. and:
‘the ppper part of the face, to say that;
T believe. the photographs, to. be. oF the
Silne min who drowned at | Summit

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But. hone: of Harry Jones’ frjends :

chad “ev er heard him talk of the Gold | |
‘Porn and Alaska, yes, "but not. pK

Coast.”
the Gold Coast. ‘Nort liad. anyone ev-
er. ‘hear bim talk ofa wv Le’ and ehild- :
rau. “Phere. were other’ details, TOO:

that ala not. geom to tally. Finally two .

“Wil- 3
Hanson ‘of Regina Ww ho hak inewn the!
“decensed, intiinately, - Mee Willenigon
anid definitely, “It could’ t Pousibly be =
he"—-or Herhaps he aiid. “him” But;
anyway, he was quite: sure Mrs.’ Stones --
claim AAS bnseless, ‘Mr.- Smith agreadl |
iwith: lin. ‘ “By this time’ it was “May, :
1055, find: he’ Was HO“ closer: ‘to: unravel: -

Se

rf
F ish -Colmnbia.

Thomas + MeCubbin, -
‘to Mir Me Cubbin ty find: ont, if, ‘al: Ahiig

an nvslishanal. auuned ; Harry
lake.” ao :

for Caunda, Percy had confided to his
family -that, henceforth. he would “be
known as Harry Jones, —

short, thing in Gnnada‘ and then Went
to, Dern.

to know, -
for which nd “information!ts available.
The trail: of Harry-Jones isnext. pick
ed up’ in- ‘Vancouver. where: he. hid ar-

rived fronr Pera towards the end. of the |.
win’

‘He went into Northern - Brit;

ish Coluinbin ‘and - thea on to. Alaska |
where’ ‘The ‘stayed a‘year or -bwo,
the tirndd: up-at. Pacitic., ‘a lithe: town-|i
m the ‘Skéduteiver in Northern Brit- |: fg.
‘He owas at. Pacific: ins
he ae 1O20!s when his: mother last :

Thep:|:

herd ‘OF Nims: “At, Nhat -time | he: wis 4
working: for a general: Inerchant! named ©
Mr. Smith, Avvote “

Harry Jones was|-§

Horace]

who got into some. kind of-troubte over |
® woman in -Englind..-The pal decided 4.
to change his nane tnd leave the coun-| Bf
Percy was. so ‘firm in’ his frlend- |: #2.

exile -and’ changed his.-:nnme: too, so |e [:-

if . It's easy. Just write to me.

>of

It xeems that Perey ‘stayed but’ al f

What’ he did in Pera and’ B:
what happened ‘to:the yal no one. seems | 3;
There Is gap of. 14 years ma:

Bee! std ,

"had retupned. from Peru, had Hy-
fed: ie Pacifie: for a number of years
‘and had left' there in: 1826 to join the

eald. Tush. into Northern. Ontario,

“Horace Merrie
served’ with the R.A. during: the war. .

Of all the six brothers in England ;
Horace had been on the closest terms
with. ‘Horry. Jones—or rather Perey
Merriinan, ‘Horace ° ‘corresponded * in-
termittently: With “hin ‘until. 1997 or
1928 and after that iInide ‘efforts | to
lovite his brother’ by whiting to a To-
vento paper? The last word he:-receiv- .
ed from Perey was. a letter containing .
ft binvred hetwspaper clipping, showing

airpline* he: ‘letter’ -explained—-for
the picture was very indistinet—that
one of the men was ‘Percy. "Up to this
point Mr. Smith dind ‘lithe except the

ward of Horace ‘Merriman - and his
mother. to prove the. .kinship with
Ilarry Jones, the deceased. But this

Fashion Reflects
the Coronation”
_— says JANE DEE.

- § the time for the Coronas
tion draws closer and
closer, there 4s. ening

- event hag: chad’ i Spoctacntar
influence on fashion,. Not only
thas the Coronation influenced
the coior trend, but also the
styles, the fabries—even the
designg. in. printed, materials.
“And fashlan-conscious women ,
; are ‘choosing; their | ‘ outiits
c= according to this new trend,,

Why not be ‘up-to-the-minute
yourself. in this connection? ©

Let ‘me tell: you all about the

Coronation influences, or plan
an outéit for you: “in Coronation

colors, . But remember, J re-

. quire an adequate. -description

of your coloring, weight, and

figure. A 'snapahot of yourself,
‘would be very helbtal. :

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“Among Jones. few “‘pouseaslons: :
been’ found. oie ‘clue
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