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INFLUENZA PLAGUE AMONG MOOSE FORT WILLIAM, Out., February 19. Moose are said to be dying in the north woods by the score of Spanish influenza. Bushmen coming to town tell of finding numerous bodies of the beasts lying in the woods where they succumbed to the disease. The animals have no trace of wounds upon them, and boih bulls and cows have been seen in such a state of exhaustion that they made no attempt to run away when approached by men. Others have been seen collapsing while they bled at the nose from .hemorrhage, identical with that of Spanish influenza in human leings. If the plague continues fo "takelolI at its present rate lumbermen say that there will be few of the lordly kings of the trails in the Thunder Bay district by tho next hunting season.
