Drowning of Stabback and Miller Winnipeg Free Press October 29, 1930
and Fear Johnny Chartrand 17, Drowned, Winnipeg Free Press November 3, 1930

TWO MEN DROWNED IN  NORTHERN LAKE

Stabback and Miller Wandered on Thin Ice and Plunged Through

The Pas,  Man   Oct 28    Charles Stabback and Fred Miller , two of the best known prospectors in the northern  Manitoba mineral field ,  were drowned in a mishap on Herb lake yesterday afternoon,  according to word  reaching The Pas  late today.  The bodies have been recovered , a report from the settlement states , and a provincial constable  will travel north tomorrow to bring out the bodies. 
It  is the first tragedy  of  the  season  in this territory .  According to the few details available today,  the two men were travelling by dog team , carrying a canoe on  the sled,  when they were caught in a bad snowstorm, about a mile from Herb lake village. Battling their way through the  gale they wandered out on the thin ice on the lake and were plunged into the waters.  A long pole near the spot is thought to be evidence  that one of the men crawled back to shore then returned with the pole in an effort  to aid his companion .  Evidently again the ice broke from under him, and he was unable to escape a second time.
Stabback was between forty and forty - five years  of age and is survived  by a wife and family  at Herb Lake.  Millar  was about fifty years of age, it was stated.   Both men have been prospecting and trapping  in northern Manitoba  for a number of years.
Mining men here declared that the two men held  promising  groups of claims in the Herb Lake  region. Millar was prominent in the silver-lead rush  at mile 137 on the Hudson Bay  railway  a few years ago,  while Stabback  had been identified with more than one mineral find in northern Manitoba.   Stabback was a native of Ontario , and he served with the Canadian forces overseas.  A brother,  Joe Stabback, lives in the mineral belt.  The whereabouts of Millers relatives are not known ,  but his father is stated to have resided  at Hudson Bay Junction,  Sask, up to a few months ago.
WINNIPEG  FREE PRESS OCTOBER   29    1930

NEWS  OF  BOY`S  FATE  AWAITED AT THE PAS

FEAR JOHNNY  CHARTRAND ,  17,   DROWNED IN NORTHERN LAKE  WITH PROSPECTORS
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The Pas , Man  Nov 2    1930
Peter and Albert Stoltz  were expected to return  to Herb Lake settlement sometime tonight from Crowduck Bay  to the northern end of the lake,  with  news of the fate of Johnny Chartrand ,  17 year old trapper feared to have drowned a few days ago.
The  men  travelled north by dog team to ascertain whether the youth had been seen in the Crowduck  area.  A coat   believed to be his property, was found  near the spot where Charles Stabback  and Fred Millar , prospectors, went through  the thin ice to their deaths about a mile from Herb Lake village.
Coincidence with the dissapearance of the  young trapper,  is the  drowning in Lake Winnipegosis , a couple of days ago ,  of Eli  Chartrand , fifteen years old, It is stated here that he is a cousin of the missing Johnny Chartrand.
Stabback was buried at Herb Lake today, while Millar will be interred here.  F.O.  Millar  his father, and  Mrs. J. Gibbons,  of Moose Jaw,  a sister,  arrived in The Pas Saturday,   to arrange for the funeral of the young man.
Services for Stabback were held under the auspices of the Canadian Legion .  Hugh Vickers acted as chaplain,  while the Pall Bearers were,  H. Roberts,  J. Dixion ,  C. Olson,  C.G. McLean ,  E.  Rosen,  C. Linn,  M. Smith, Dick Woosey,  William Cote,  W. Vickers,  Joe Kerr,  William English,  W. Sissett,  Roy Wesley and  Ben Maxwell.

MANITOBA FREE PRESS  Winnipeg  November 3  1930