The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-27
AK KILLS ALL WHO WELD III.
Weird Story OF Haunted Tool That In
variably Brings Death to Its Owner.

Ste Lucia. a tiny hamlet set deep
in the woods of Canada, in the wild,
beautiful country inhabited by French
and Scotch loggers, and the She-She-
Genge Indians. has sent out to the
world one of the strangest and uncan-
niest stories ever told
Ste. Lucia declares, and the people
or all that wonderful district between
the Brokenhead and Whitemouth rfv-
ers even down to the south of Broken
head lake, where Read river flows down
to the great lakes, believe that Felix
Jorgelet's great two-edged ak is haunt
ed. Furthermore, none dares touch the
ak, for already, they say, Felix Jorge
let's ak has killed five good men, and
they whisper in awed tones that it
will kill any one who claims 1t as his
own, or attempts to it.
The story savors of uncanny super
stition, and to one who lives in places
where many people live it is ridiculous,
but in the deep woods. where death
comes quickly and where men each day
hold TO life by strength and cunning,
and quickness, and where things hap
pen, people do not laugh.
Neither do the people of the White
mouth lake neighborhood, nor even
those at Ste. Lucia, where there is a
trading post, store and a saloon,
theorize much or attempt to explain
things away on scientific lines They
care not for explanations-all they
know is that Felix Jorgelot's great ak
has killed five men-and, sacre, will
Jorgelet's ak has split their heads and
. spilled their brains?
! So 1T is left for the outside world to
theorize over the mysterious and awe
some happenfngs-and meantime Felix
Jorgelet's ak remains in the cabin of
his foster brother, Angus Ferguson.
Nor will Angus carry 1t into the woods
that he may throw it into the Wild
rushing waters of the Whitemouth lest
it split his head, nor will any of the
She-She- Genges approach even the
cabin where Ferguson lives, nor are
the French much less fearful.
There is hardly a spot in all the north
woods SO wildly beautiful as that coun-
try through which the Whitemouth
flows northward, and near where it
skirts the She-She-Genge reservation is
it's most beautiful spot. Rushing rivers,
which boil over stones, wooded hills,
cataracts, leaping trout, ma jestic pines.
In summer 1t is a glorious mass of
green's: in fall, the green of the pines,
the rich yellow of the birch, the vivid
fall colors of the hardwoods make it
even more beautiful, and when the snow
piles higher and higher in winter when
the great trees bend under the weight
of dazzling wilderness, then the woods
men declare 1T is wonderful
In this country Felix Jorge1et and
Angus Ferguson lived together, hunted,
trapped and guided those who came to
capture the giant speckled trout in the
whitemouth and the Brokenhead- In
their little clearing, with no neighbors
nearer than II miles, except the She
She that had wandered from the reser-
walton, they were known as great men,
and in the woods when the crews work
ed at getting out the timber, they were
leaders of all.
It was hard to tell which was the bet
ter, the strange, quiet strong Scot, or
the tall, 1.-THE, panther-1ke, equally tao
turn Frenchman. They were foster
brothers. for both had lost their parents
when young and both had been adopted
by Manato, the half breed who had
been the wife of John McDiarmid. She
was of the She-Shes, and it was said
her father was an English soldier; but
in the great North woods these things
count for little. She was a good wife
to McDiarmid, and when no child came
to them they adopted the two mother
less ones and took them to the cabin.