The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-09-12
Girl Found By Hounds
After Long Time Hunt
From Mondays Daily.

turning from long nike In the Gays
when the redmen roamed the woods
and 4prairies and kidnapped the whites,
came Deputy Sheriff Ed. Ario, after
sixty-five mile tramp through the
thickest kind of underbrush, where
after being on the job for almost two
days he found little Buelah Ganzhorn
who strayed away from her home ten
miles south of Erskine last Wednes-
day afternoon. The child had walked
only about three and one half miles
from home, but the trail was covered
twice and number of circuitous
routes and trails followed to the end
before she was finally discovered. The
baby is only two and half years old,
and had subsisted for four days on
weeds and grass where she had fall
en- from sheer exhaustion in the midst
of a bunch of almost impossible rush
es near an old beaver dam. Her face,
and in fact her entire body, was a
mass of scratches and mosquito bites,
and how she managed to survive is
indeed a mystery. There was no
water near, and all she had to drink
was the dew that fell on the grass.
She lay on the ground utterly ex-
hausted and unable to speak or move.
She was alive and that was all that
could be said of her.
Ario Picked Her Up.
Mr.. Ario picked her up in his arms
and carried her out of the brush and
gave her a spoonful of warmed wa
ter. After swallowing this she man.
aged to open her swollen eyes and
look round. Then she cried piteously
for more drink" 1t was given her
in small amounts, and she was carried
home to her almost frantic parents
and a physician summoned. She will
recover in short time.
Since her disappearance Wednes-
day afternoon the whole territory for
miles around has been out on the
search Men left there stores and
shops in Erskine, a number came
from Crookston, farmers left their
work and three threshing rigs were
shut down and the three crews join
ed in the search. Almost five hundred
men and boys scattered and went
through the woods abreast about ten
feet apart for two miles in all d.
rections, and failed in their efforts.
She was last seen playing near a
thorn apple tree near her home We'd
nesday about three p. m. She was
missed an hour later, and then the
search commenced. 1t continued all
that night, all the next day and the
next night, and Friday morning, c.
P Hole, a newspaper man in Erskine
called up the sheriff's office st. Cloud
and asked for bloodhounds. He he
ceived the reply that the onlp blood
hounds in the state were at Mankato,
and then the sheriff's office here was
notified County Auditor c. l.. Ken
nedy gave his consent to the expedi-
ton for the sake of humanity, and Mr..
Ario arrived in Erskine about at 1885
Saturday morning.
Made an Investigation.
Nothing was done until daybreak,
and then Mr. Ario looked all over the
place to get the lay of the land. All
the places where she went to play,
or to gather acorns or thorn apples
were once more explored without avail
Then something that would furnish a
scent was looked for. The little
girls parents are not very we'll to do
and the baby had only one dress be-
sides the one she was wearing. This
was useless as it had been washed
The officer asked Mrs. GanZhorn il
her little daughter was barefooted
and she said that the child wore
shoes. She then said that Buelah
had another pair of shoes, but the
baby was playing with one of them
so it was useless to try to get the
scent from it. The other shoe was
finally found under cupboard anC
it had not been touched. Mankatc
Queen was started from a little thorr
apple tree near the house from the
shoe and tiny foot print. She
followed fence, then turned
into the timber and led the
way for over mile before the tria
forked into three parts. The dos
took the right hand fork, and Wen
south east, then turning several times
through the forest, and eventual.
arrived at a deserted logging camp
From there the dog led round in {
half circle to three little clearing
with hay stacks in each. A short res
was taken here, little farther OF
was an abandoned beaver dam. Here
the faithful dog having been on thu
trial almost all day Saturday, haltet
exhausted, and after being given ;
drink of water, she could not get tn,
scent again. There a report wal
brought that rags had been foun'
two mills south of this place at Ray
mond's camp. After travelling to thu
Ganzhorn home to identify the clotl
and then to the camp, distance o
twelve miles, the dog was put on thi
scent Sunday morning. After follow
ing it for nearly a mile, lady al
rived at Raymond's camp who ident
fed the rag as one which had bee
worn on her little boys foot. Thu
this trial was left, and the myster
still unsolved. Not content to Civ
up yet, the officer and his dog wen
back to the Erskine home Sunday moo
and started again from the thor
apple tree. The same trial as befor
was taken up, and the dog went on t
the beaver dam. Here the part
stopped for rest and while the me