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erotl,LAlta. Seems ToHave OgopogoPeople Watch for Queer Creature That Appeared in the Battle RiverEdmonton, June 11.—The chaps who fish in the Battle river and the folk who picnic on its banks were keep mg' sharp Sunday for Alberta's ogopogo. It might not be an ogopogo or a relative of the Pacific coast’s sea serpents, Amy and Caddy, but it’s a queer creature “like a stovepipe” and between 25 and 30 feet long.Four residents of the district said they say it slithering through the river as it flows to join the Saskatchewan river 77 miles southeast of here. The four were Chris Hansen, owner of the Battle river coal mine; William Johnson, who operates a mine near Hansen’s; William Shorette, a farmer and John Jones, son of a mine operator. Jones fired five shots at it from a .22 rifle but none of them took effect.Now everybody is watching for it. The Battle river flows through a section of Xlberta’s famous badlands, where dinosaur bones and fossilized remnants of other prehistoric monsters are found.Moose Jaw was chosen for next
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Mon, Jun 11, 1934
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