The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-07-26

dor love has taken woman
To investigate the death of the hus
band she loved, Mrs. Leonidas Hub
bard. widow of the dead explorer, vii
brave the dangers of miles upon miles
of freezing, trackless forests. Sh'
will travel through wilderness o
sleet and ice and chilling mists, try
ING to penetrate, at the peril of hel
own life. the mystery OF her husbands
death.
death Of starvation" was the mea
gre and horrible news sent out to the
world as to the fate of the young eX
plorer in October of the year 1903.
He had been gone since the month
of July. Accompanied by Dillon Wal
lace and George Elson, a half-breed
Indian guide, LeOnidas Hubbard, DR.,
had set out for the icy wilds of North
Labrador. determined to be the first
white man to describe the land OF the
Nascaupe Indians.
The news of the young explorer 5
untimely fate shocked his friends un-
utterabiy. His widow absolutely re-
fused to believe it.
"Mr. Hubbard is safe. she amour
ced to the newspapers, land will come
out all right. He is brave and pa
-tient and never gives lip"
In an agony of impotence, now over
whelmed with fear that the horrible
news was true, again hoping against
hope, the explorers wife waited and
waited for absolute confederation
from those who had survived. 1t
came crushing and invincible.
Came in two kilograms from Dillon
Wallace. in one addressed to Caspar
Whitney, editor of the Outing Maya
zine, of which Mr.. Hubbard was asso-
eiate editor, and in another to his
sister, Miss Wallace.
The News Frustrated Her.
The explorers widow collapsed
completely under the shock. She had
kept up as long as there was vestlge
of hope, until the moment when she
received the last words of her dying
husband Il think death from starva-
ton not so bad am prepared"
In May of 1904, nearly two years
after he had announced jubilantly, ~
am Just going to look up tribe OF
indians in the north who are willing
to be discovered" the body of Ex-
plOrer Hubbard was returned to his
wife for burial.
death from starvation.
Mrs. Hubbard brOoded over those
words for months. He was so brave
and patient and never gave up" sh'
kept repeating.
Mr.. Caspar Whitney and DR.. Moore
both Artic explorers, declared them
selves completely mystifed by tn
affair, though they never for mo
ment doubted that everything possihl
had been done to save the life OF Hub
bard.
az cannot believe, said DR.. Moore
'that Mr. Hubbard could have starved
at the season of the year he is report
ed to have died unless he met will
personal injury"
According to Mr. Whitney; "Twelv,
miles from where Hubbard made hi!
last camp there were three pounds o
-four; twenty-five or twenty-slX mile!
further was the head of Grand Lake
and Donald Blake's good cache. AnC
il was less than forty miles from tina
cache to the warmth and plenty o
northwest River Post, FROM where
they had ali starved
''Whv should he have starved
y
plorer's widow repeated to hersel
over and over, Every scrap Of in
formation she could gather she pieceC
together to try to satisfy herself tina
the cause Of her husbands death wa,
clear. Deeper and still deeper seemed
to her to grow the mystery with every
step she took to solve it.
During this time Mr.. Wallace pub
lished a book, "The Lure Of the Lab
rador Wilds, in which he questioned
the judgement of the late explorer il
plunging into an uneXplOred region
without adequate and absolute prOvi
sion.
This statement unquestionably free
Mrs. Hubbard to indignation. How
could any one dare to doubt hernhus
bands Judgement At once she seem
ed to see in Dillon Wallace an enemy
She heard that he was preparing t.
make a second expedition to the lant
of ice and bleak barrenness, where
her husband had met his death. A