Adventure, February 1917 — page 223: what you’re looking at

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The Camp-Fire K tre next turned up in the back country of Elopura, British North Borneo. He was taking moving- ictures; I was hunting the “live uns” for Jamrach’s, the wild-animal people. There, Kite got typhoid; I got snake-bite; and we both got Later I went to Burma. In the ruby mines, in the orchid jungles, in the rubber tract, Kite Dickin- son had always been there before me. From One- Eared Quong Ma’s joint on the Singapore dock- front all the way round to Manukji’s in Shanghai where for thirty-two cents you may hire a man to fall upon your enemy while he sleeps, men of all colors and nations had traded with Kite Dickinson and scrapped with him. In the former they had usu- ally got the better of him; in the latter, never. ONLY one place in all that world had not heard the name of Kite Dickinson. That was on the Siam border, where my ill fate consigned me to the task of persuading elephants to drag whole teak 221 trees out of the forest down to an alligator-haunted creek. There, for a wonder, the benighted populace knew him not. Last I met him again in Rangoon. We were both enjoying cholera in the same hospital during one of the regular epidemics. Had a bully time together, you. All this while, you will note, Dickinson had not accumulated a fortune. Neither had I. To the Apostolic Creed of our Papal Dickinson, godless reprobate, had forgotten—we added the one most irrefutable item of all, that thing about the rolling-stone..- ’Nuff’s ’nuff! Me, EF shook the dust of that place from off my feet. Dickinson, he stayed. The call of those Red Gods had him by the heart-strings, and holds him yet. It reaches out ten thousand miles to me here sometimes. What I know, I can’t - forget. And if there ha to be some you want to know, ask me and I’ll tell you in so far as my knowledge goes.—GoRDON McCREAGH. Notr—We offer this oausan: of the ““Camp-Fire” free of charge to those of our read- ers who wish to have separated All inquiries along tend LOST TRAILS We reserve the right, in case inquirer refuses his names, to reject oe item that seems to us unsuitable, discreti his department. Give also your own full address. We will, forward mail through this office, tar to give additional publication in their ‘‘M weekly and daily editions, to any of with the Montreal HOFFMAN, A. C., left home ten Pale ago and went North. Last letter we received he was coming home because his brother Joe was dying. He lived with rents at 161 siege oS st, De“ Cal. Please write your mother. oan Pio OFFMAN, 1740 Way, Berkeley, Gal wee ataegag last heard of about seven years ago in a hospital at Eugene, Ore. Was logging-camp fore- Hoge to that time et Ne ge the lumber region. Would like Address R. E. DOLMAN, 2635 Frank- lin St., ee Neb. 5 beeen hon (Santiago Bill), was in the Spanish-Ameri- t I heard of him he was running a steam- Meee ot at be ‘Panama Canal. Any one having any infor- mation regarding him, will you please write.—Address WM. . WILLIAMS, care Joe Lewis, Catlettsburg, Ky. KEENE, Alas would like to know his whereabouts, or any of t. Be gang. wha made trip.to Liverpool on S S. Antillian, late 1 pecially. “‘There was a Ship,’ quoth he. ‘Hold a or unhand me, Graybeard Loon,’ Eftsoons his hand dropt he." —Remember.—Address Evan Gorpon, Iolam, HITE, JOHN S., disappeared from home Aug. 5, I9Q13 ight complexion, height 5 ft., age 43, weight 4s Ibs., oars or hazel eyes. y information be great- by his blind mother who wishes his return WHITE, 198 Gibson ih De- ly Age teres troit, Mich. Inquiries will be printed three times. In each February issue all unfound names, in-~ quired for during the two preceding years, will be printed again. PLE, CLYDE, last heard from in Mexico with Ma- dero’s Army. Left San Francisco, Cal., in Jan., ror. Had charge of machine-gun squad. chinist by trade. Have important news for him.—Address amet rete Cras. = PAYNE, care Gen. Del., Altoona, Pa. Bo. a Re — you lease write your old partner, Mat , Hotel Barbon, Central Bridge, New we et in touch em. For the this line, unless con for Bom do in full with inquirer’s name, in this department, at our discretion. Electrician and ma- ~ ain with old friends or acquaintances from whom the years efit of the friend you seek, contrary instru be considered as in- name, to substitute any num to use our on in all mat- assuming no responsibility therefor, our inquiries for persons last MER ase. ange formerly student at Military College, Asheville, N. Carolina. Native of Florida, age 40, and musically inclined. Any one kno his ad- dress will you please notify his old chum.—Address L. T. RED. BLAIR Mc D., last seen in B’klyn, N. Y., hav- ing gone there from St. John, N. B. Was in the Fourth National Bank in New York, before coming to St. John.— Address A. W. HEANS, 4 Millidge. St., St. John, N. B. S 3 phigee Ngee ta last heard of had finished term ie By; S. Dakota, 1913. We are anxious to locate Mise hae CLARENCE BEVEL, 1323 South 7th Ave., Nampa, Idaho. aboot KENNETH (Frank or James Barry), for- merly of U. S.-Jowa, stationed for some time at Guam. Any Sicfercuion would be gladly received by his _ eas Mrs. E. K, BARTLETT, 350 35th St., Oak- an DARLING, CHAS. H., last heard of in San Francisco, Cal. Your old pal wants to hear from you.—Address SIDNEY SEVERNS, Martinez, Calif. YLE, ARTHUR, native of Pa. Let me know where you are. Worked with you on pile-driver for U. S. Reclamation Service at Vandalia, Mont., Summer of 1913. —Address Gus ZECHEL, Malta, Mont. OPP, ELMER V., served with him on board U.S. S. Barry in China, Philippines, and South Seas. Write ie cia toons: —Address WAYNE H. Peck, Etiwanda, ITMORE, FRANCIS M.., last heard from in ton, Jamaica, in r9r3. Formerly medical student of P., Pea ,Pa. On trip to British Columbia, Would like m you. proposition in view. Write old address, F. L. B B Giey. 2 MRS. FRED, last heard of at Jersey City, and ARTHUR D. COCKS or Cox of ‘Frisco. rother and sister, both born at Putney, Eng.—Address Jack cok" BRUNSWICK, care The Hage, 16 ork t.. London, Eng. Cures, met on Joy Line boat from New York to Providence, R. L., er, 1908. Later in Hof- Brau Restaurant in Wocistidemea aka tnks W. Salo 5 Gen. Del., Taunton, Mass. : (€(0) 0)(0)(0) give your own name if possible. however We have arranged Relative Column.” . of in Canada (E)