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had the cat. He took it to his home in New Philadelphia, O. The kindly disposition he
displayed in refusing to leave the cat to its fate in the Karluk wreck and in caring
for the animal impressed us all in his favor."

"The Arctic has claimed a kind man," was the epitaph pronounced on Maurer by other
Seattle Arctic navigators yesterday.

Of those lost as a result of the Karluk disaster, eight died on the ice and three
succumbed to illness on Wrangel Island.