Pancake Geo. W.  35 M W O. Farmer resident of state 10 years
                                  resident of enumeration district 3 years

Pancake G. W.  Boarder W M Sep 1855 44 single Ohio Ohio Ohio Labourer

[George married Minnie and they had moved to Seattle, Washington by 1910.]

     County Commissioner Charles Kauppi returned this noon from a successful deer hunt in the vicinity of Long and Floodwood Lakes. Mr. Kauppi went out in a party including Capt. Holmberg and Mr. Clark of Floodwood. Four bucks and a doe were the results of the chase. There were a number of hunters camped in the same locality on Long lake, and the total number of deer killed was about seventeen or eighteen.
     Commissioner Kauppi and party were camping near George Pancake, the well known Floodwood citizen who was seriously shot near Beauty lake last Sunday morning, and visited the scene of the accident with several other men. Mr. Kauppi says that it is certain that Pancake was shot with buckshot from a set gun, and he is very indignant over the practice of hunting in that methods.
     "I believe," said Mr. Kauppi this noon. "that any man who makes his living by means of a set gun should be made to spend the rest of his life behind the bars."
     Mrs. Pancake, wife of the injured man who is in the hospital at Grand Rapids, came down from that place this morning to her home in Floodwood. She told Mr. Kauppi that Mr. Pancake was still regarded as in a critical condition. He was shot in the left thigh, several of the leaden pellets passing clear through his limb.
     In relating the manner in which the accident happened and how it was discovered that a set gun was used, Commissioner Kauppi said:
     Sunday morning our party started out in one direction to hunt, and Mr. Pancake, Clark and Billy Carlin started towards Beauty lake about four miles away. When they were about half a mile from the lake Clark and Carlin started off through some green timber and Pancake proceeded off the logging road through some burned over stuff. While he was walking along the deer runway a gun was discharged and he was struck in the thigh, but kept on walking in a dazed condition for about 30 rods further calling for his companions. Clark heard the calls first and going towards Pancake saw him standing with his gun pointing towards the front. Pancake when asked what was the matter said somebody was shooting at him.
     "Mr. Carlin came up and one of the men staid with Pancake while the other ran to the camp for assistance, the injured man being carried in a blanket to Powers and then on a hand car to Swan River where he was put on a train and sent to Grand Rapids.
     "At the time of the shooting the men were too excited to think of making any examination of the locality except to see that there was no one about to do the shooting, and it wat [sic] not until Tuesday morning that the hunters in our camp decided that the circumstances were so suspicious as to warrant an investigation. We went back over Pancakes trail and just off it found crotched sticks that bore unmistakable signs of having been used to hold a gun, and a thread of string used in pulling the trigger. The shooting had been talked over so widely by that time that the owner of the gun had time to remove it.
      "Suspicion falls strongly on a man who has been hunting in that locality for some time past and who has the reputation of using set guns. A very significent [sic] fact is that when the foreman of a lumber camp, after the accident, accused this man of using set guns, he grew very pale and has since disappeared, abandoning his cabin. A party of hunters that visited the cabin soon after the accident saw some shells on the window and some buckshot lying about. Yesterday no trace of either could be found. Everything about the cabin was frozen up yesterday, indicating that the owner had apparently deserted it on short notice.
     "I understand that steps are to be taken by the authorities to locate the man suspected of setting the gun, as his name is well known and a good description can be put in the hands of the officers.
     "I don't know whether the accident happened in St. Louis or in Itasca county, anyway it was close to the line.
     "The accident dampened the ardor of the entire camp, and after Pancake was shot we did not do much. Every time I went out I got in the habit of watching to see if any one was trying to take a shot at me, or if I was running into a set gun, instead of looking for deer.--Duluth Evening Herald.
     Pancake's chances of recovery seem favorable at this writing. Dr's Storch and Gilbert performed an operation yesterday, and report the patient doing nicely.

"ONCE LIVED IN DASSEL.--George W. Pankake, an old hunter who was shot a short time ago in the woods near Grand Rapids, presumably by a set gun, was some years ago a resident of Dassel. He is one of the best known woodsmen and hunters in the northern woods."