The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-13

made of bear, wolf aud lynx skins. On the twenty-first he finished sleeping bag made out of bear and boat skins, and canvas and blan- kets. On that day he complained for the first time of his eyes hurting him.
 On December 1 he complained of getting worse and that he had been eating cold meat for several days. On the sixth the diary noted that the river had risen six feet in 24 hours. On the fifteenth Swanson said | it was getting very cold and that it was impossible to be out without skin clothes on.
 GRUB GROWING LOW On December 19 he wrote as fol- lows: Showing but still very cold. Rifles at the bends in the river open and I can't travel. don't believe there will be any ice for a man to run sled over this winter. Very little grub now and snow too deep and soft for hunting goats. Stom- ach baking at straight meat diet, lynx especially" On the twenty-first Swanson shot a goat and said he had a fine Christmas dinner.
 In January Swanson wrote his health was getting worse and that the lynx were moving down the river | in numbers, but he was unable to get any, and that the goats were going 1 to the hills and out of reach. On February 1 he said the lynx were robbing his meat cache up the river and that he was getting short of tea and salt and was growing weaker all the time. On the twenty fourth he said he was living en- tirely on dried meat and tallow.
 On March 2 he shot a goat and on the eleventh struck out for Dry bay in his canoe, but after going for an hour struck ice and was too weak to drag his canoe over it. The re- maipder of March Swanson tried to get back to his cabin, that was an hours run in the canoe. Open river and perdendicular cliffs delayed him and at the place where he was he said there was nothing to eat and his eyes were getting bad.
 FINALLY REACHED HOUSE
 On April 1 he reached his house and found that the wolverines had been eating his fur skins, including | his bearskin pants. They went into the cabin through the stovepipe hole and while he was in bed showed fight when he tried to drive them out
 | On April 3 he said he was cooking his last grub and that he had no salt. On the next day he shot a goat using all but three of his shells and could not see the sights on the rifle any more
 For the next several days Swanson complained that the wolverines were bothering him, eatiNfi his furs and had carried his 30-30 rifle out into the brush. They had chewed up his bedding and also one snow shoe. He also compained of getting shaky in the legs On the fifteenth he wrote he was in bed most of the time and legs very shaky. His last grub was nearly gone, being cooked on the twentieth. On that day Swanson made his will leaving everything he had to Joseph Pellerine, of Dry bay, and if the latter was not alive, his property was to go to Paul Swartz- kopf.
 SKELETON IS FOUND In September, Fred Castrow and Harvey Trefger, thinking that some thing might have gone wrong, made the long trip up the river to the ! cabin and found the skeleton of Swanson much mutilated by wolver- ines that had undoubtedly stripped it of the flesh. That Swanson did not wait for death to overtake him but met it by blowing the top of his head off with bullet from a A calibre revolver, was indicated by the skull
 | Swanson's body was buried near where he had died and the last chapter of another tragedy of the north was finished.
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