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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1912-2-15, Page 6TAUS OF LONELY NORTH FICTION OUTDONE BY 'TLE IILOUNTED POLICE. • How Fisk Was Tried and Convicted After Long Chase Over Track- less Forests. No history ever written, no pen yet clipped to record adventure, danger, human resource, or the grim paths of men often fighting a losing battle and dying unrccog• nized and alone, can excel in vivid- ness the life chapters of the North- west Mounted Policeman. Six hue- dred of these adventurous Govern- ment- servants yearly traverse the trackless plains and snowy wastes of the great Canadian Northlaed to maintain order, and to substantiate the claim of British justice in a country the vastness of which i.r- vites the marauder. DANGEROUS MISSIONS. Thrilling, dangerous and often pathetic are the experiences of these guardians of the North who at an hour's notice clash off alone or in small detachments into the wilder- ness. to bring in the desperate, law- breaker who, perhaps, sits in his cabin, rifle across his knees, pre- pared for no escape, but only wait- ing for the, chance to earr'y the lives of two or three with him into eter- nity. The rounding up of malefactors on this great police beat demands not only men of courage and fidelity, but of infinite resuuree, The ease of covering tracks, the facility for escape, demands the greatest skill on the part of the officer. In sheer multitude of baffling details, and paucity of even shreds of evidence, • the solving of the Tucker Peach mtil'der mystery stands out to testi- fy to the ingenuity and pereistenee of this great protective body. This is only one of the many in- teresting cases dealt with in the an.- nual report of the police which has just keen issued by the Ottawa Gov- ernment. The reports from the different sec- tions of the North compiled by Com- missioner Mr. A. Brown Perry and written in plain matter-of-fact words, outdo in many respects any- thing that aver appeared in fiction. THE PEACH MURDER. On June 29, 1910, the headless body of a man was found in. the Bow River washed up against a tree. Its identity could not be discovered. In November a skull .with a small hole in the forehead, a blanket, a cowhide, and a piece of rope were found ander the same tree. By dint of inquiry it was learned that an old man, Tucker Beach, re- puted to be wealthy, had disap- peared, presumably gone to the Old Land, and leaving his place in charge of a young man, Robertson. Questioning of this man brought forth different stories on different occasions, but nothing that could be used against him. Robertson, however, had commit- ted the murder with the aid of Fisk, and it was only a matter of time and the marshalling of evidence to wring from him a confession. It was the case of a weaker dominated by a stronger mind. Fisk, an enemy of the old man Peach, by dint of threats, induced Robertson to share in the murder, and to divide, up the property of the deceased. Robertson, with the, de- sire. of a confessing criminal to re- lieve his soul of the guilty secret, ( Like a Pleasant Thought Of an old friend— Post Toast" es with Cream. Sweet, crisp bits of white Indian corn, toasted to an appetizing, golden brown. A .delightful food for break- fast, lunch or supper --always ready to serve instantly from the package, "The Memory Lingers". For a pleasing variation sprinkle some Grape -Nuts over a saucer of Post Toast - los, then add cream. The eombincd • flavor is onto - thing to remember. Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Windsor, Ontario, Canaria. BLOODY WARFARE FR031 TILE AIR. ' Italian aeroplane fleet dropping bombs into a squadron of Turkish cavalry, creating fearful havoc. The war in Tripoli is the first in which this method of warfare has been used to any extent. tells the manner of the murder as follows: KNOCKED AT DOOR. "-The next morning. Friday, the day of King Edward's funeral, about 6 o'clock, Fisk and I went to Peach's shack and tried to look in the. window. We couldn't see any- thing as it was covered °ver with a tent. I knocked at the door and the old man called 'who is there.' I said I was there, telling him, my name. He opened the door, he had his drawers and shirt on, he sat down on his bed, which was on the floor, and started to put on his trousers. Fisk then fired a shot M Peach with a revolver, blood start- ed to trickle clown his face, at the same time he fell back. Fisk hand- ed the revolver to me and told me to do the same. "I took the revolver, pointed it at Peach and fired. I don't know whether I hit him or not, I was so excited. but I guess I did. Peach never spoke, he was dead after the shots. We both came out of the shack and looked around to see if anyone was there. We then hitched up Tucker's team and drove up to the door, rolled the body in some blankets and drove it down to the Bow River to Tucker's lower place. We drove into the river along the west fence or west side, of his pro- perty, and dumped the body into ib. The blankets and cow robe which we rolled him -into were tied around him, Fisk, the. instigator, a man who had terrorized the neighborhood by his reputation as a `bad man," was arrested, tried, and hanged en June 27, 1911; Robertson suffered life imprisonment. Thus the, event closed after a year of the most ar- duous seareh for details and incrim- inating evidence. TRAGEDY FROM LONELINESS. One of the most harrowing trage- dies resulting in murder and suicide because of the intense loneliness and exposure was discovered by the police in July, 1910, Oliver. and Meiland, two hunters, travelled down the Mackenzie River to hunt and prospect. Months later their bodies were found in a shack. The following confession left by the man who hid .suicided, gives some conception of the lonely beat of the wilderness policeman: "W. S. Oliver. Cruel treatment drove me to kill Pete, Everything is wrong He never paid one cent. Ship everything out, pay George Walker $10. I have been sick a long time ; I am not crazy, but sim- ply goaded to death. He thought I had more money than I had, and tried to find it. •I tried to get him to go after medicine., but could not. He wanted me to die first, so good- bye. W. S,. 011-F r e' "I have just killed this man that was killing rne, so good-bye and God bless you all. I am awful weak and have been down Since the last of March, so there haint no but death for me," • ' WHY 1 "You leek very tired, young man; are you overworked 1" "I'm studying for a minister, sir." "Well, why in the world don't you let him study for hiensclfl" Moore ---My sense .of hearing is the keenest ever. Do you know 1 can isaar your watch ticking, al- though you, ate; six feet away Ireere-•-Then you're it wonder, My watch is it the pawnbroker's _six blocks away, THE CARELESS GROCER Blundered, and Great Good Caine of It. A careless grocer left the wrong package at a Michigan home one day and thereby brought a great blessing to the household. "Two years ago I was a sufferer from stomach trouble, so acute that the effort to digest ordinary food gave me great pain, and brought on a condition of such ex- treme nervousness that I could not be 'left alone. I thought I should certainly, become insane. I was so reduced in flesh that I was little better than a living skeleton. The doctors failed to give me relief and I despaired of recovery. "One day our groeeryman left a package of Grape -Nuts food by mis- take, so I tried some for dinner. I was surprised to find that it satis- fie' my appetite and gave me no distress whatever. The next meal I ate of it again, and to be brief, I have lived for the past year al- most exclusively on Grape -Nuts. It has proved to be a most healthful and appetizing food, perfectly adapted to the requirements of my system. "Grape -Nuts is not only easily digested and assimilated, but I find that since I have been using it I am able to eat anything else my appetite fancies, without trouble from indigestion. The stomach troluble and nervousness have left me, I have regained my plump- ness and my views of life are no longer despondent and gloomy. "Other members of my family. especially my husband, (whose old enemy `heart -burn,' has been van- quished) have also derived great benefit from the use of GrapeeNuts food and we think no morning meal eempiete without it." Name given by Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont. "There's a reason," and it is ex- plained in the little book, "The Road to 'Wellville," in pkgs. Ever road the above lettere A now ono appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest. ,A TIDE OF TRAGEDY. At five o'clock in the 'afternoon people gather on the causeway that connects Mount St. Michael with the coast of Normandy, to watch the coming of the tide,, one of the sights of the world. So far as the eye fan reach stretches the grey sand, silent, empty. Seven miles and a half lie between the 'ocean and the rock. Presently a strange murmur pervades the air; it semis to come from nowhere, and yet to be everywhea•o. And and far on the horizon lifts a line of white, Every moment it draws nearer, and the 'simnel in the air swells louder; and then, with astonish- ing speed, comes up the lino of erested set, and in a moment,' where it reaches the sands, there is but a space of swirling eater. And en the wave ride, in the fish- ing -boats that have been out to sea. Many a tragedy has been caused by the swift inrush of this true tidal wave, for, save along narrow paths, the bottom of this vast, strange bay is but quicksand. A REMARKABLE RECORD The increase in the sales of "SALADA" Tea last year over 1910, amounted to over one million and ninety thousand pounds. This is one twenty -nightly part of the calls.° Tea consumption of the Do- minion—and represents only one year's •inerease in the consumprtion of this popular Tea. YOLI'I'IIF11L AUTO CRA T. lfeir to Russia's Throne Is a Spoil- ed Child. The Czaeovitch Alexis is 7 years old, As ho has been repeatedly told from the, time he was able to understand that he will be, the abso- lute master of all the Russias and reign as an autocrat over 125,000,- 000 of subjects be has drown himself to be a terribly spoiled child, says n French paper. His father, a year after his birth, named him hetman of the Cossacks. He has taken his title quite serious- ly and treats every ono around him with military rigor. He tyrannizes over his younger sisters, the Grand Duchesses Marie and .Anastasia, and they tremble before him. The eldest sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, 16 years old, alone dares to oppose him, Recently when she had refused to 'gratify one of his caprices the Czarevitch bectunro angry and struck her. But the Grand Duchess seized him and administered to the future master of all the Russias a good beating. The 'Czar, who was in an adjoin- ing room, and heard the cries of rage and pain raised by his heir, came upon tho scene and could es- tablish peace only by declaring that the Grand Duchess Olga should be imprisoned for the crime of lese majeste, whereupon the hetman of the Cossacks declared himself satis- fied. ,COPELAND'SCURE FOR CONSUMPTION; As proof of what this cure will do for those afflicted with the White Plague, read this letter : "Dear Mr. Copeland :-- "When I commenced taking your cure I was not able to sit up in bed and could not keep anything on my stomach. My doctor and a con- sumption specialist said.I could not live more than eight or ten days, but after taking two bottles of your cure my appetite commenced gain- ing and the weakening perspira- tion stopped. I now have taken ten bottles and feel completely cured. I am better and stronger than I have been for years, and can re- commend it to anyone suffering from any lung trouble, knowing what it has done for me. Wishing you every success, I remain, yours, "DAVID WARNOCK, "Street Car Conductor, "Toronto, Canada." I am receiving testimonials -daily like the above from those who have been given up by the doctors..Many are speedily recovering, and some claim to lie cured. Our success with advanced cases proves beyond a doubt /she marvellous quality of this preparation. It can be taken on the most delicate stomach, epon which it acts as a stimulating tonic. As a cure for consumption, weak or bleeding lungs, lingering coughs or bronchitis it is infallible. Price $1 per bottle, or six for $5. Men- tion nearest express office. when ordering. For the present, sold only by Wm. R. Copeland, 511 Pape Ave., Toronto, Can. • '1 MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS RAILROAD EQUIPMENT BONDS ARE EVEN SAFER THAN RAILROAD MORTGAGE BONDS. During Bad Times of Railroad Financing No Equipment Bondholder Has Lost Principal or Interest—Equipment Move, able and Can bo Sold to .Other Com• panes—Rallroads Cannot Operate With- out gars—Courts Have Ruled to Class Them with Preferred Claims Ahead of Mortgage Bonds. T• he arf.iclee contributed by "Lnventor' aro for rho sole purpose of guiding pros ()active investors, and, if possible of say. ng them from losing money Cannel) placing it in "wild -oat" enterprises, The Impartial' and reliable oharaoter of tha Information maybe relied upon. The writer of these articles and tho publisher of this paper have no lntereste to serve In eonneotion with this matter other them those of the reader. (By "Investor.") It is evident from what was said last week that .equipment bonds differ Su two important respects from all other classes of railroad issues. First, the title to the property which .secures the bonds does not vest in the railroad (but with a Una - Me); and secondly, the property is mow- able and not fixed in any one locality, As a result of these two points, the hold- ers 01 equipment bonds aro 1p a decided• ly mote advantageous position than tho Holders of the mortgage bonds in the event of the railroad becoming bank. rupt. "If a railroad is unable to meet its in• tercet charges," writes an authority, "the mortgage bondholders can rarely 'do het ter than have a receiver appointed who will operate the railroad in their inter- est; but if, with. honest and emcient marc. agement, the railroad Minot, be sonde to earn its interest charges, the mortgage bondholders usually have to eonsont to the sealing of their bonds to a point whore tee railroad can operate upon a paying basis.' With the holders of equipment bonds the ease is' eat 1'ffferent. If the vegeta- Sr defaults upon their bonds they have only to direct the trustee to enter upon Possession of the ectaipmsst and son it or lease it to 55me otlirr railroad. •fit will be revensbored, that the equipment le ,telcl by a trustee sole leased to the ratlroncl until such time see it has ion) luny peel for, l,e., ,until tiro lest equip- ment bond securedon that parlieular lot ofbquiprnuirt has been redeemed. Then FOR MAK SOAP, FTENI`' G WATER, REMOVING *°A II '`` 17, ®ISO iF ,GTING SINKS, CLOSETS,DRAM NS, ETC. SOLD EVERYWHERE REFUSE SUBSTITUTES the railroad owns it outright and not un- til then does it own any part thereof. The knowledge that the bondholders have this power has made the inatauees whore it became necessary to use it very few indeed. The reasons aro almost obvious. The equipment of a railroad is esson. tial to its operation. Rails and termin- als are merely the shop as it were, the equipment Constitutes the supply of tools. If, therefore, the receiver were deprived of the equipment it would be utterly int. possible to satisfy the road's creditors, as the road couldn't be operated. Tho result of this has been that in the States (there has so far been no occa- sion in Canada to adjudicate on this matter) the courts, both State and Fed- eral, have ruled that the necessary equip- ment of a bankrupt railroad must be preserved. They have moreover "placed the charges for principal and inter- est of equipment obligations," writesMr. Henry. of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York "upon an equality with oharges for wages, materials, and other operating expenses and in priority to in. terest of even first mortgage bands." As a result; equipment bonds have made a remarkable record during times of stress in railroad circles Between tho years 1888 and 1905 took place the prin- cipal railroad troubles in the States. A careful search has been made of all re- organisations during that period- and it was discovered that "sixteen different railroads, aggregating nearly one him. dred thousand miles, and located in wide- ly different parts of the country had out- standing equipment bonds at the time of default. IN EVERY CASs THE PRIN- CIPAL AND INTEREST OP EQUIPMENT BONDS WERE PAID IN PULL WB:ILE ALL OTHER SECURITIES, WITH A PEW EXOEPTIONS, WERE REDUCED IN RATE OR AMOUNT OR BOER." Two of these railroads, it is said, offered tothe holders of equipment bonds the option of an advantageous exchange of securities, which amounted to more than payment in full. In security. therefore, the facts heroin set forth, justify the conclusion that equipment bonds possess security equal or superior to that of any other form of railroad bonds. So much for safety of principal and interest. THE HARMLESS IVY. The impression that ivy is harm- ful to walls of atone or brick has been removed by the testimony of a large number ofGerman archi- tects, builders, foresters and master gardener's. These trained observers agree that ivy has no tendency to make the walls. damp. They main- tain, in fact, that the clinging ten- drils of the plant extract and ab- sorb any existing moisture, and that the thick leaves protect the ,walls from the action of the weather. Furthermore, they find' no evidence that the ivy roots affect the founda- tions of stone structures. VEST-POCKET MACHINERY. The watch that you wear in your vast -pocket is one of the most won- derful of machines, quite as wonder- ful as many a vast engineering work. Generally speaking, there are 170 differoft pieces used in snak- ing e, watch, and in its manufacture there aro no fewer than 9,400 ssepa- rate, operations. Week in and week out a watch works, asking for no seventh day rest, and each day the little roller that controls its move- ments makes 43,000 heats. The average. balance-wheel,•o moreover, is moved 1,43 inches at each vigra- tion, or 3,558 miles continuously in one year. One tenth of a drop of oil will lubricate the entire machinery for twelve months' hard service. a. Nine young men were arrested in Hamilton. charged with gambling on Sunday. Has the "Black Knight" come to your home? Let him show you the quick and easy way to shine the stoves. "Black Knight" takes all the hard work and dirty work out of stove polishing. It's a paste—so there is no watery mixture to be prepared. Just a few rubs with cloth or brush brings a. mirror-like shine that "you can see your face in". And the shine lasts 1 Moot dealershandle and reaom- tnend "stack Knight' Stove Polish. If your dealer cannot supply 11, send lac. for a big can—seat postpaid. THE F. F. DALLEY CO. 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England, long known as the tight little isle, is rapidly becoming loose, if we are to believe the alarming reports that come from various parts of the coast. Tho re- cent dropping of a huge slice of the Dover Cliffs tato the sea is but one of many similar incidents that would lead one to believe that the total disappearance of the whole island is but a question of years. From Dover comes the report that at least 10,000 more, square yards of ground show evidence of instability, and there is serious clanger of their slipping into the water. At Pakefield in Suffolk, Kilnsea in Yorkshire, and Borth on Cardigan bay, something approach- ing te panic has taken possession of the people who live near the wa- ter's edge. For five years a royal commission on coast erosion and afforestation sat in England and made exhaus- tive investigations into the former subject, About a year ago the conn - mission made some valuable sug- gestions for preventing just such • accidents as that which occurred near Dover recently. One of the members of the commission takes an optimistic view of the situation. "Although the sea is encroach- ing on certain parts of the coast," he says, "we need have no f•ear that the sea, in its fight with man for the land, will win the battle.. On the whole, the coast is growing outward and much more land is be- ing added to the country than is being lost., "Nevertheless, at certain parts of the coast the sea is snaking thr- oats inroads. Air Pakefield, near Lowestoft, for instance, the village is gradually being swallowed up by the waves. There can be no doubt that the encroachment of the sea. at Pakefield is due to the protective methods for keeping back the sea at Lowestoft. If the :sea is held off at a certain point it is apt to `get in. behind.' Some- where along the coast it will get its own back. It cannot be set back. "The only way to protect; the coast effectively is to protect it everywhere. But in certain parts of the country the value of the land hardly justifies such an expense." In the last 30 years more than 3,000 acres of England's coast have slipped away. The county of York- shire has been: -the chief sufferer, losing ,about 800 acres. Lanca- shire and Suffolk have lost ahn.pse 600 acres, anci Tient, Sussex and Lincolnshire have, added materially to the total. LONDON'S ILNDY MAN. Tells You Everything Yon Want to Know About the Mails. At the London (England) Gen- eral Post -office there is an official who -takes all knowledge, as his de- partment. , His name is Meyer, and his mission is to solve the countless difficulties of the foreigner with postal business to transact. As an ex -courier he can be fluent in Eng- lish, French, German, Dutch, Ital- ian and Spanish. In the summer foreign visitors chiefly occupy his time. But at Christmas time London's own for- eign population keeps hirn busy. 'They look on ate," he says, "as the, man who knows everything. I sign papers for them when they can't write—I have signed hun- dreds of thousands of postal orders in my time—I tell them when the next snail leaves for Warsaw, how much they can send for twopence halfpenny to Turin, and why they can't be permitted to carry away telegram forms to use es pipe - lighters. "When we were in the old builcl- ing there used to he a, Jew who camp in regularly every Friday just before sunset. He would go up to one of the telegraph desks, put his hewed on his hands and pray quietly for about ten minutes. Then he'cl nod to me .and go cub. "Every Christmas I got a card from a Trench Jody, 'with some- times a postscript, `Have you seen my husband yet?'• , "Tho oto'.' 'is a queer .nee. Years ago her husband lelt her. He war; a frequent caller .at the post -einem and she asked Inc tri keep a lookout for him, for I lee lieve - every one comes in beam at least once in their lives Every, time rho carpo ie for six years site would ask me if I had seen him yet, but I never cli , Yet in spite of disappointment she still hopes- he'll opeshe'll mime back. "Some of the most peculiar pee-' plc who are brought to 'mo are par- ties of Russian peasants en. route for America, The polios can't .un- derstand them ,when they arrive at the stations, anci they bring •them alosi o to m, • , i'3 always tical with :then in the same way. I get them to give me tllpoponcc or its otpuiv,ltlent Kinn t reit' money) 'search 1isr ' paperns for the, name of the, London agent of the steamship company, and then 'post' them to the address in charge of a special messenger'," ` How do 'Veit know he'e a stl an» ger?" "I saw bins set his watch by • the town clock." •