The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-02-16
HUGE MONSTER
OF ARCTIC seen
keratosaurus Declared to Be
the Equal in Size of
Ten Elephants.


ten of my Indians saw again, on
Christmas afternoon, Leemore's ter
rible monster!
"As big as ten elephants, it passed
like hurricane across the frozen
river, smashing immense blocks of
thick Ice into the air. Its long bris-
ties were covered with boar frost, and
its immense red eyes famed in the
twilight. The monster held in its
mouth a caribou of close to TOO
pounds, while it eareered at 20 miles
an hour!"
Such are the first mention and first
description-both from Alaska-of
the keratosaurus of the Arctic circle.
the gigantic prehistoric creature
that is now again exciting Russian
sportsmen and scientists along with
the discovery of an unsupported
mountain range in northeastern 81
IBERIA which may be its home.
Maps of Siberia will have to be
changed by the discovery, only recent
~. of this newly named Cherski range
G25 miles long. 1870 miles wide. and
covering an area greater than the
Caucasus. They have been found by
the explorer, Obruchev, sent by the
Soviet government in 1926 to investi-
gate the unknown regions beyond
Yakutsk, east of the river Lena.
Too Big to Be Captured.
This was probably the last great
mountain range remaining to be dis
covered on the globe" say the Rus
logical survey and Academy of
Sciences, sending special expeditions
to it, come on authentic facts about
the giant sauran?
OF course, there seems to be no
possibility to capture terrible mon
ster "as big as ten elephants"
TO kill it. even, high explosive shells
would he necessary, according to
Lcouvier, who went out after the
keratosaurus in the first Russian eX-
element about ten years ago
IeIouvier, 1.-THE unkillahe." along
with Prince Scipione Borghese and
Goddard. had done Paris-Peking in
specially constructed motor cars. An.
other great sport was the French
Georges Dupuy, veteran correspondent
of the Paris Auto. who brought back
the original fall story of the kera
tesaurus from Alaska, studied by
I.e'ouvier and the others for their eX
pedtion.
The duke OF Westminster certainly
believed in the partridge creek mon
ster'; and his Franco English com.
h.nation actually decided with a San
Francisco banker named Butler. that
en- ostensible shooting trip would
quietly extend to the McQueston river
IN the Yukon, where the KlayakuE In
dams waited round the post of Arm
strong creek until the good Jesuit Fa.
Their Lavagneux should give the word,
"They come!'
keratosaurus Photographed.
Here came the first Alaskan story
to, Europe.
In particular there was miner of
the Yukon, Tom Leemore, who-alone
with this Georges Dupuy, Banker But
Ter, and Father LavagneuX himself
beheld the keratosaurus in his rage
and photographed him when he kicked
an avalanche of rocks close to theii
heads.
pig-headedly, Leemore confided the
print to Father LavagneuX alone. "to
interest some rich and serious Euro
pean sports" and insisted that "none
of those Dawson crooks shall set eyes
on it,"
SO the duke of Westmnster's friends
had equally the account of how the
monster was seen again. with carl
hnu in its mouth, in the letter herein
already quoted at the outset. from
the trustworthy Jesuit missionary to
Georges Dunuy after the latter's re-
turn to Paris. If the great story Is
bplievable. It seems to have finally In
closed the photograph of I-eemore.
Story Never Doubted.
Letter, photograph, and good faith
of Dupuy were never doubted In
Paris. Three times the sporting cor
respondent of the Auto visited the
Kiondike, and his tale was as fol-
lows:
Butler. the San Francisco banker.
buying gold claims In Dawson, met
Dupuy at McQueston post for weeks
hunting. 1t was July. Taking coffee
at the home of Father Lavagneux,
Butler came hurrying to them. much
agitated.
$40 YOU know that there are pre-
historic giant tlesh-eatng lizards alive
up here?" were his first words. Dupuy
did not laugh, because he saw Father
LavagneuX listen with sober interest
last night Graut myself and the
Indians went after three moose he
said. "Suddenly the male moose let
out a below, and off they went al
breakneck speed What could II he:
At fhe mooseIeak we saw the prod
ICY! Fresh in the mud was the print
of a gigantic body The belly made
gully four feet deep, fifty feet long
and perhaps twenty feet wide. -Four
vast feet, nearly two yards across
had made a lot Of prints"
Do,r;rc ca,Las Earth