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it out that, during the last eightl Roosevelt doesn't come across.“Get Your Man” Mounties Told to Get Sea SerpentOgopogo Order Puts Royal Mounted on the SpotttUnonton. Alta., July 7 lt;up'j.— Roy a! Canadian Mounted Police are on the spot.Sxtolled for their ability to got their man/' the Mounties have been ftuigntd tho task of catching an Ogopogo~*i sea serpent.Since nobody, since tho day of ancient mariner*, hai succeeded. in hog-tyiug an Ogopogo, it appears the Mount ice r re in for a lot of work, If their reputation !a to tttaaJn unblemished.The latest tourco of annoyance for tho world’s moat famous poliwmon first poked his ugly head above tho waters of Battle River near Rosalind, 77 miiee aouthweat of mmonton.ftescribed a* about the dlameW of a stovepipe, 25 to W feet long* gray In color, with a.alimy, tiptrlni head, the. mdnfiter has bean so eh' at ; points • eight1'mll«. apart at fotfr dJCvferent times by four diifcront witnesses, all reputable folk.The witnesses, three coal mine op* era tors ami a farmer, j*y the monster swims at a speed of about 15 miles an hour, lashing the water Into foam rw It moves.The Ogopogo was reported to Royal Canadian Mounted Police and crowds of more than 100 have gathered from tlma to time on the river bank m hope of catching it.William Shurrett, farmer, apparently Khd tho best rlow of the critter, Ho said; 1 was crossing a bridge nnd Z saw waves like thow made by a atoftm Inunoh approaching.Then 1 saw a sea serpent coming through tho shallow wftton ’’here w*i no mistake ivbojit it. it had *n uglf head with ft tapering neck and wm about 30 foot long, There wm bulge .in its middle, at If it had
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Jul 08, 1934
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