The Portland daily press., 1893-10-26
THE WOLF DOGS.
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alive
here is still chance that young John
Stone did not reach Little Green island.
Capt. Began thinks he must have en-
countered head wind at the time, and
may have not gone through the line OF
surf. If he did not, he may have drifted
out at sea. He was familiar with the
management of his boat, and may have
made landing at some one of the many
islands along the coast. He could not
have been out long before he would have
encountered the fog that would have
made it out of the question for him to
have seen even the outlines of the
islands. He may have passed out to sea,
and have been picked up by some passing
vessel, he may be drifting about, or he
may have made the landing at Little
Green island. All will hope that he is
on some of the islands, and all right, but
great interest will be felt in Capt.
Bogan's search today.
Little Green island is small, rock
bound island about five miles outside of
Cushing's island
Another story concerning the affair is
to the effect that Mr.. Stone owned a
house on Little Green island, and that the
boy John started from here after his
father was supposed to be safely through
the operation, with the idea of going to
the island and shu ttings the house up
The dogs are said to be the largest ever
seen in this section, and to be ten or
more in number. They are half starved
and wild, but the friends of the boy say
he would have been safe with them if
they had ever seen him before. Mr.. Stone
was familiar with them. The island was
improved by Mr.. Stone as a sort of vege-
table garden. A younger brother of the
missing boy is in this city. Young Stone
is reported to be a very bright manly
boy, much liked by all. 1t is said that
only one dog of the lot ever saw him.
Mr.. Stone was in many respects
quaint character, according to the stories
told of him. He lived for some time at
South Portland in a shanty near the
Breakwater. He owned boat, and was
in the small boat fisheries in small
way, generally selling what fish he got
to ] w. Trefethen. He was noted for
owning numerous large and savage dogs,
at least people SO regarded them. At one
time it is said that he owned seventeen,
and when he took the farm on Little
Green island, he added his colony of big
dogs to those already there. While ut
South Portland he fed his dogs on raw
meat and fish, and probably continued
the practice at the island. As near as
can be learned after he was told that his
father was better, the boy took the fish
ing boat and started for the island.
There is a report that the father told the
boy to shoot all but the largest of the
dogs" but that can hardly be true, for
he would scarcely have given such
commission to a boy. 1t is believed that
if he landed at the island, and from any
cause was unable to leave, that his boat
would have drifted off with the storm of
Sunday night. Captain Bogan's next
visit may bring some facts TO light. Mr..
Stone had good deal of the hermit in
his makeup, and while it is said he was
kind and even affectionate to his children,
liked to be with his dogs, or out on the
ocean alone. The solitary situation of
the island seems to have fully satisfied
him, and he chung to it, and to his
brute friends as long as he could, too
long for his or their good. 1t is said
that in addition to what the fishermen
have been in the habit of calling Stones
wolf dogs,n there are a number of
valuable do IS on the island, or rather
were. By this time they are probably as
wild as the rest. The dogs were unused
to the sight of any one except the man
who was more or less the master of them
all.
When Mr.. Stone left South Portland he
bought Little Green island for $50, and
built the house there. The building was
framed in this city, Stone doing the
most of the work himself. A fact
brought out last night would seem to
make stronger the theory that the boat
might have drifted away after the boy
landed. Mr.. Stone recently met an old
friend, and in conversation with him
said that his boat got loose and drifted
over to JEWELS island AS matter of
fact there was not even an anchorage off
the little island he chose for his home.
Mr.. Stone, with all his odd ways, was
man who was greatly liked by the few
with whom he chose to be friendly. He
served through. the war, and last sum-
mer was given pension tor injuries re-
ceived while in the service. All the
circumstances of the case will add to the
interest certain to be felt in the con-
tinued search for the boy of the old
soldier, and almost hermit.
French Paper in Biddeford.
Biddeford, October pa representa-
tive of the Independence, the French