The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-07-26
SEEKS CAUSE OF DEATH OF HER HUSBAND.
nars T .eondas Hubbard Has Undertaken Trip in the
Frozen Regions of Labrador With only nan
Breed as Guide Husband Was Lost IN 49o3.

once there new lnJO nef niuu JIle pIO-
ect to Journey there too. She was a
woman but what of that? Why should
she be deferred by ice foes and frozen
trails. Her husband had braved them
and so would she. She was vigorous
and strong and young and deter
mined.
No sooner had Dillon Wallace left
New York on his second expedition
than she prepared to follow hlm. she
had made up her mind that there was
some mystery in her husband 5 death
that she alone could fathOm. Her be-
lief that he was a genius is absolute.
| She insists that he could not have
made a mistake.
OFF for the ley Wilderness.
Poor woman. Bent on discovering
| if everything possible had been done
to save her upfort' nate husband, she
is now en- route 80 the Labrador
coast On the steaA Harlem she
has sailed for GillspOrG. With her is
George Elson, the half-breed Indian
guide, who accompanied Mir. Hubbard
the man of all the world who can con-
duct bis widow to the spot where the
explorer lost his life.
For some time it was believed that
Mrs. Hubbard S expedition was in
tended as an attempt to finish the
work her husband had begun. Later
it crept out that she had gone to gath
er evidence of his death.
To get this evidence, she must pene-
trate into the region which cost her
husband his life, a region from which
he wrote the most narrowing notes OF
suffering and privation that may be
imagined. At one time;
"No matches OF grub, and clothes
wet, Scared little "
Then lust a few days later he parted
with his friend. Wallace, and his
guide, unable to go with them further
into the sleet and ice that made dark
ness of the daylight. For days they
had fed upon bits of rawhide, chewing
them slowly to make them last as long
as possible.
"Before that" wrote Wallace, 1--WE
had been eating the entrails and every
scrap that could be eaten Of the fish
and game that was killed,
The country in which Hubbard died
is one that even the Indians avoid.
mo white man has penetrated the
wilderness and came out alive" the
traders of Labrador warned the in
trepid explorer. But he only laughed.
Il shall return before the winter
/ gets in in earnest, he assured them.
! A few months later he was found
! lying in his tent wrapped in his blan-
| ket-dead.
Beside him was his diary. In it he
had written: The acute pangs of
hunger have given way to indifference
| think death from starvation is not
so bad"
Words Burned Into Her Brain.
The words OF that diary, the descrip-
ton of sutferings too horrible to dwell
on here, have burned themselves into
the brain of Mrs Hubbard. She I'M
derstands to the full what a trip into
the icy fields of Labrador must mean,
and vet she is already on her way at
full speed following in the wake of
Wallace. who left New York some
weeks ago.
In his diary Hubbary said of him
| and the Indian guide: They are two
of the best. brayest and grandest men
! [ ever knew. and if die it will not be
because they did not put forth their
i best efforts.
In spite Of this assurance. the eX-
plorer's widow believes that not every
! thing was done to save his life. To
discover what was left undone. she
has gone to Labrador.
Mrs. Hubbard arrived in Halifax
with a splendidly QUILTED party,
which included five Americans and a
number of Indian guides.
Dressed in deepest black, she looks
pale, slight and nervous, SO much so
that those who saw her wondered that
she would dare hazard so perilous a
trip. Occasionally some one advises
her against it, then her eyes would
| light with determination, her lips be-
come straight lines, and in a tone
that could admit of no doubt, she
would announce: 81 am going to see
/ if | cannot penetrate into the land OF
the Nescuppes. l am going to see II
| it is possible feat
over 600 Miles of Ice.
/ Her path will lie over 900 miles OF
/ ice after she has reached Ungary Bay.
! There. somewhere in the midst of that
! lonely, barren waste, she may sudden
! ly find herself face to face with her