Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 6

~'ness of the Cafadian’ Northwest. —— EPITAPH ON HIS DOOR “Wounded Policeman Makes Hazardous gate Fate of Man Suspected i * of Being Murdered. Saskatoon, Sask.—Emmanuel Peter- son, a Hudson Bay company trapper, fell ‘asleep in his lonely cabin in the mortheérn wilderness near Fond du Lac 12:months ago. He lies today just as he: féll' asleep, in his bunk with his blankets tucked - around = him. The walves that howl about his shack and the roaring blizzards that pile.the win- ter snows to the claphoard roof will never awaken him from his slumber. There he.will continue to sleep, pos- _. sibly, forever. His old log cabin, which hei built himself, has become his mausoleum. A sheet of paper tacked on:the door bears-his epitaph written *-in ;English, French Cree and Chepe- wyan : “This is the grave of Emanuel Pe- terson. Let no man disturb 1t.” Qonstable M. Chappins of the Royal ‘Northwest - mounted police traveled 2,000.miles through snow and storm to write, that * epitaph. - His return to :Saskatoon- after -a- three-months jour- « mey is:the last: chapter in the tale. Bl Suspected Slaying. | ‘News that a man lay dead in a cabin somewhere north”of “Lake Athabaska trickled down ‘out of'the frozen'North to Edmonton last. February. The man Dmd,;beep dead: then nine months. Thpre -was & ‘suspicion that he might ~ haye been murdered. Chappins was assigned. 'to make-an fnvestigation. "It 1s jsuch 'work as this that 'has -built the herolc traditions of Canada’s:corps -of !Scarlet Riders. " He' set out' from Prince Albert. A _ branch line of one of the transconti- mental railways took him beyond the farms to the northern end of the steel highway at Big River. He outfitted with a sled”and dog team at Isle'a la Cresse and with -an -Indian guide struck into the wilderness. The ther- mometer registered 30° degrees below zero. The snow ‘was two 'feet deep. At Cree lake the snow was four Has Become His Mausoleum. 50 degrees below. Packs of gray wolves hung on his-trail. They Kkill- ed two of his dogs in an attack on his camp: - He killed them every day by the dozen. This, Chappins believes, saved his life, for the half-starved, «desperate brutes feasted on the car- «casses of their dead companions. Faced Snow Alone. A little farther on his Indian guide turned back. The frozen desclation that lay ahead struck him with panic terror. Chappins went on alone. He drove ahead two days in the teeth -of a blizzard. His provisions ran low. He lived on short rations of pemmican and tea. At the silver camp at Darnier ‘he obtained fresh supplies and a new guide and pressed on to the Hudson Bay post at Fond du Lac. He found Peterson’s body perfectly preserved in the cold, dry air. There were no signs of violence. Peterson’s diary lay open on a’table. The last entry, made March 29, 1918, read: “I nm very sick. It would be hell if 1 should die out here among the snow- -grifts all alone.” ” BABY IS LOST IN MOVING Forgotten by .Mother, the Child Is Found Smothered in . Mattress. Oakland, Cal.—Busied with getting ‘her furniture ready for moving to an- other apartment, Mrs. Joseph Valado, placed her month-old baby on a mat- 7 tress. She tossed a blanket over it to keep the baby warm. The expressman failed to see the .child when he rolled up the mattress -and blanket and threw the bundie into ‘the ,wagon. The child smothered be- fore it was missed. } Dijes Al Alone in Frozen Wilder- Journey of 2,000 Miles to Investi- -+ eqflro cost of running ‘the American Wnshmmn—'].‘he war cost the United States directly about $22,000,- 000,000, or nearly- enough to pay- the government from 1791 up to th. out- break of the European war. For every hundred American soldiers and safl- ors: who served in the war with Ger- many two were killed or- died of dis- ease during the period of hostilities. The number of men serving- in the armed forces of the nation during the war was' 4,800,000, of. whom 4,000,000 served in, the army. These facts are set forth in a sta- tistical summary of “The War With Germany,” ‘compiled under the direc- tion of ©ol. Leonard P. Ayers, chief of the statistics branch of the general staff of the army. This summary, just published by Colonel Ayers by direction of the sec- retary of war, is a complete review of America’s participation in the war against Germany: condensed into less than 1650 pages. It is a detailed sum- mary of American military operations, and yet the. long statistical - tables usually. found in official reports are entirely lacking.' Col. Leonard P. Ayers is the only of- ficer from civilian life who has risen to the position of chief of a division of the general staff. Before the war he was a director of the Russell'Sage Foundation. He was chief statistical officer of the peace committee. After his‘return here he received the dis- tiiguished -service medal.- Some of ‘the Figures. Some of the stal atlcal snmmarlel ln 'the report show: * The war cost the Unlted States con- siderably more than $1,000,000 an hour for over two years. America’s. expenditures in the war were sufficient to have carried on the Revolutionary . war continuously for more ‘than a thousand years at the rate of expenditure which that war actually involved. During the first three months ex- penditures were at the rate of $2,000, 000 a day. During the next year they For the final ten months the daily average was over $44,000,000. The 'total war' costs of“all nations were about $186,000,000,000, of which the allies ‘and the United States spent two-thirds.and the enemy one-third. The three nations spending ' the greatest amounts were Germany, Great Britain and France, in that or- der. - After them come the United | States ang Austria-Hungary, with sub- . i stantially equal’ expenditures. The United States spent about one- 'eighth of the entire cost ,of the war and something less than one-fifth of the expenditures of the allied side. The total battle deaths of all na- tions in this war were greater than all deaths in all the 'wars in the previous hundred years. Russian battle deaths were 34 times as heavy as those of the United i States, those of Germany 32 times as great, France 28 times and the Brit- ish 18 times as large, Infantry Suffered Most. In the American army the casualty rate in the infantry was higher than in any other service, and that for offi- cers was higher than for men, For every man killed in bnttle seven were wounded. Five .out of every six men sent to hospitals on account of wounds. were cured and returned: to duty. Pneumonia killed more soldiers than were killed in battle. Meningitis was the next most serious disease. = The: British- sent ~more-“men to France. in. their first year of war than we did in our first year, but it took England three years - to reach -‘a strength of 2,000,000-men in France, and the United States accomplished it in one-half of that time. In the physical examinations: the states of the middle West. made the best showing. Country boys did better than city boys, white better than col- ored and native better than torelgn born. Most of the troops who ‘sailed for France left New York. Half of them landed in England and the other half in France. Of every 100 Americans who went over, 49 went in British ships, 45 in American ships, three in Italian, two in French and one in Russian ship- ping under English control. - American cargo ships averaged one complete trip every 70 days and troop ships one complete trip every 86 days. The cargo fleet was almost entirely American. It reached the size of 2,- 600,000 deadweight tons, and carried to Europe about 7,500,000 tons of cargo. Work of Engineers. American engineers built in France 83 new ship berths, 1,000 miles of standard gauge track and 538 miles of narrow gauge track. The signal corps strung in France 100,000 miles of telephone and tele- graph wire. Prior to, the armistice 40,000 trucks were shipped to the forces in France. Construction ‘projects in the United States cost twice as much as the Pana- ma canal, and construction overseas was on.nearly twice as large a scale. The entire number of American ma- WAR I’ASS ALL I’REVIGIIS REBBRIJS Col Lnonard P. Ayers Prepares a Remarkable Stahsflcal Summary Showing Comparative Costs in Men, Maney and Material for Al the Countries Engaged—Cost (. the United i 3 states Is$22,000, 000.000. averaged more than $22,000,000 a day. A el R e Sl S P e RNt . S L S Ve s S IO s i M i NS s i dtlnogunsprodneedmthnddml k was'227,000. The Browning machine guns are be- | Ueved ‘to’ be miore“effective” than the corresponding weayonn nled in" m other’ army: American production of rifie ammu- nition' amounted to approximately 87 500,000,000 rounds, of which'1,500,000,~ 000 rounds were shipped overseas:* The number: of rounds o1 complete artillery ammunition ‘produced in American plants was in excess of 20, 000,000, compared with 9,000,000 rounds secured from the French and British, In the first 20 months after the dec- laration of war by each. country::the British did better than the United States in the production of light artil- lery; and the United States excelled them in producing heavy artillery and both light and heavy ammunition. At the end of the war American pro- duction of smokeless powder was 45 per cent greater than the French and British production combined. The' American production of high- explo- slves was 40 per cent greater than Great Britain's and nearly double that of France. Out of every hundred -days that American combat divisions were fin | line in France they were supported by’ their own artillery for 75-days,- by British artillery for.five days and by French for one and a half days. In round numbers, America had im France 8,500. pleces of: artillery, of which nearly 500 were made in Amer fca, 'and Americans used on_the firing line 2,250 pieces, of which over 100 were made in America. 4 Airplane Production. When the United States entered tlll war- the allies-made “the designs of their planes available to Americans, and before the end of hostilities fur- nished. from their own manufacture 8,800 service planes. Aviation training schools in the United States™ graduated 8,602° men from elementary courses.and 4,028 from advanced courses. More than*5,~ 000 pilots and observers were sent overseas. There were produced in the United States ' to. November -30,- 1918, more than 8;000 training planes and more than 16,000 training engines. The. American air force at the front grew ffom three squadrons in April to 45/ in November, 1918. On_November 11 the 45 squadrons had an equipment of: 740 planes. i Of 2,698 planes sent to the zone of the~advance for American aviators, 667, or nearly one-fourth, were of American production. American air squadrons brought down in combat 755 enemy planes, while their own losses of plnnes num- bered only 357. Ameriean divisions ‘were in battle for 200 days and engaged in 13 major operations. From the middle of August until the end of the war the American divisions h¢ld during the greater part of the time a front longer than that held by the British. . In October the American divisions held 101 miles of line, or 23 per cent of the entire western front. In the battle of St. Mihiel 550,000 Americans were engaged, compared with. about 100,000 on the northern side in the battle of Gettysburg. The artillery fired more than 1,000,000 shells in four hours, which is the most intense conceqtmtlon of artillery fire recorded in history... . The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted for 47 days, during which 1,200,000 Ameri- can’ troops were engaged. Orphaned Fawn Adopts Man as Its Guardian Williamsport, = Pa. —. George Hummel, a resident of Liberty, while fishing at the head of Gray’s run, heard a fawn bleat- ing in the woods up the moun- tain. side, and upon inyestiga- ~tion;came upon a strange sight. On the ground lay ‘a dead doe with a dead fawn by her side, while a live fawn stood guard nearby. The live animal had worn a path where it had trot- ted around the body of the moth- er. There were no bullet holes in the carcass. Mr. Hummel had some cookles In his pocket which he fed to the little fawn, and ‘the animal followed him home, apparently content that it had found a friend. Mr. Hum- mel reported the case to a game protector and is caring for the . fawn. Girl's Bravery Wins. Richmond, Mo.—Miss Rosa May Bowers, sixtéen years old, of Rich- mond, recently earned $18 in a way that was unusual but she will probably get no fashion for other sixteen-year- old girls to follow. While out walking she saw a young wolf at the entrance of a den and after-going for her grand- father’s help crawled into the den, cap- turing single-handed ‘the mother . wolf | and five little ones, DR. osTHOPATEIC Ibertson Block 214 FOURTH STREET PIANO INSTRUCTION | Mrs. G. Oliver Riggs. Many years a successful con- cert pianist and teacher THOROUGHLY UP-TO- : Students should apply at once Class will be organ- ized on and after Sept. 1st. ‘STUDIO: 1213 Lake Boulevard - Aldrich & English General Blacksmithing —Horseshoeing a Specialty— 'Oxy-acetylene Welding o Tata LUNDE and DANNENBERG NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY ' AND SURGEON Chiropractors Dwight D. 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