THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE — JANUARY 17, 1904
Prediction Is Made That Hunter Will Meet Tragic Death.
LAKE GEORGE, N. Y., Jan. 16—Adirondack guides are predicting that dire misfortunes will befall Wesley Jordan, of Saranac lake, because in the last week of the hunting season he shot a white deer, the second ever known to have been killed in the Adirondacks. A white deer is so rare in the Adirondacks that when one does appear it is regarded with superstitious awe.
Jordan has received letters from all parts of the country warning him to prepare for trouble, but he takes no stock in the superstition and is having the deer mounted by a taxidermist. The belief that the slayer of one of these animals would meet with some great misfortune has been so general, however, that from time immemorial such white deer as have been seen from year to year have rarely been molested by the arrow of the Indian or the shot of the white man.
A few deer nearly white were killed in the Adirondacks years ago, but this is only the second, according to some of the oldest guides, that is a perfect albino.
Rodney West, the Essex county woodsman, says that if a complete albino deer is killed the rest of the deer usually leave that neighborhood and that is why an Indian will not kill a white deer.
“Six white deer,” said West the other day, “and only one of them a buck, have been seen in America since 1897, and I have had at least one good chance to get $1,000 by killing
