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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-04-08, Page 6The 'Quality" Character o this brand has a International Reputation. B566 ATrial Packet will bring speedy conviction THE BRILLIANT HISTORY OF , THE ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE PART THREE As pioneers of road -making the police are of the greatest value, their latest work in this respect being the construction of a trail from Ed- monton to Dawson City, a distance of nearly 2,,000 miles, through the Peace River country. The difficulty of con- structing this trail may be understood known. Anyhow public sympathy was with the Eskimos; they were found not guilty, and went hack to the Arctic greatly pleased with seeing the won- ders of the white man's land ' Six Years on the Track of Justice A still more remarkable patrol was that for the murderers of Harry Rad- ford, it is stated that three years were fore}, the famous Arctic explorer of 'ahenitd in ted it, Its principal were New York, and his companion Street, use for same making to tame will be alas who were speared to death by Eskimos a road for the conveyance a prison- in the Bear Lake region of Hudsonwyi eats from Dawson City to Edmonton, monton, thesBay in desolate19l1. News travels slowly of without passing through the United until93that regions, pet e fd it No not States territory. Yet the greatest Wuntil Mounted a Police was disported tragedy in the history of the mounted toest r,fpo dispatched police occurred on this trail. whosif milted theetwo Eskimos While passing overland from Fort had committed the cringe. McPherson to Dawson City a patrol of llthee ar party, withj. Bte Sergeantea incharge under Inspector Fitzgerald got lost inantwo Ri Ca theyy a blizzard. They wandered about un- went b traotins. From Regina til they died from starvation and ex- over tl sin hto sand a distance we haustion.t� One man committed sur- they i two schooner miles,g where dile. The relief expedition which they too" charteredhschooner takelahe Belle, found the remains also recovered thewilderness.eeeially to them into diary of the leader in which the Tlh story of how they ate their dogs and and one schooner sailedhfor HudsonBay, the leather of their moecasins• ulous the trip fromd numerous nd ice Was told. The annals of Arctic and and wass aicebergs and ice Antarctic exploration does not contain bone, nearly Chesterfieldwrecked several a more thrilling narrative of a brave' rreach. Finally den was man's fight against the forces of me- aeached. The partyarpressed inland, ture than Fitzgerald's little diary -�nd for three years scoured a vast In carrying out their ordinary police work these daring men, in mak- ing their way across the trackless wilds of the Northland, return with valuable information as to the ex- istence of rivers, lakes, mountains and creeks, which enables the map - maker �,to fill in the blank spaces. Patrols covering a thousand miles and more have frequently to be made. Tile Coppsrnline River Crime A recent striking example of hunts for murderers its the far north is here described: Some five years ago two Roman Calehoiic miesionerhea were murdered at the head of Great Bear Lake. It took some time for the news and some half a million square miles in area hi a vain search for the Es- kimo murderers. They did, however, find the last hut in which the ex- plorers had lived, and a diary be- longing to Radford. In the late sum- mer of 1916, the patrol's three years of duty being up, they started back for eivilization, coming overland to Le Pas Mission, where the Government Hudson Bay Railroad leads to civil- ization. On January 28th they ar- rived back at..Regina. Inspector French then set out, bat he has returned after an unsuccessful scorch of'three years. The fact .is the police have only the vaguest clues and no accurate description to work upon. he police headquarters, but 1 Furthermore a good deal of sympathy early in June, 1915, Inspector• La- is felt for the unknown murderers, as Nauze, a twenty-seven-yeor-old offic- according to rumor among the native kmOS who were suspected , er, was despatched to arrest two Es- people (and rumor is all powerful in the +t, Northland) the white men were to rime. Taking two constables with him, 110 left Regina and proceeded to Peace River Landing, Alberta, by train. From there they went down the Peace River to Dake A.thaba bl It is be abandoned, but cit has althat readytcost lthe Canadian Government $150,000 and en - t ' I• then down the Slave River to Gre4 miles intounknowns territof ry. Its has Slave Lake, which they crossed to the,'resultedin filling in many blank spaces mouth of the Mackenzie River. Down! on the maps, and for that reason that stream they went to Fort Nor-' alone cannot be described as altogeth- man, et the mouth of the Bear River, er a failure. Scores of unknown Es - Bear the Bear River to Great 1 kimo settlements were discovered and Bear Late, they crossed it to Deese much valuable data regarding their Bay, sphere the party wintered in the ,I life and habits secured. Indeed, the very, oath: where the priests had! Canadian Government are now arrang- lih cd ing to send reindeer to these Early in the cprin of 1916 the pa- as they were found to be very short of trol main took up the trail and: food through the disappearance of the crossed over the Divide to the Cop- whale and the seal. And it is the permine River, thence down that Mounted'Police who will transport the stream to Cornation Gulf on the Arc -1 reindeer to their country and teach tie. Here they were fortunate in fal-1 them how to look after them 'and ling in with Corporal Bruce, one of rear them. the members of Stefansson's expedat- To -day the i4 cion. Although he had heard n Mounted Police have of the murdered priests, he hadt mace strong bodies, ranging from a hundred deeded in becoming well acquainted postedo anin hundred andi al cities -fife West - with file natives. and it was through I in the principal cities of West - g ern Canada. The conservative ele- hstgood offices that track was event- menet of the population speak of them tally found of the men who had done , the deed. One was discovered on as Canada's bulwark l them an n entjrv- South Victoria Island, while the other Iy different. radicals call the great labor was arrested on an iceburg -out incrises in Winnipeg h the slimmer of Coronatlan Gulf. All told Inspector LaNau . travel- led dote upon three thousand miles to secure these men, the journey oc.. eupying over a rear.e With the tw 9 laborers ofought etched battle onolice and tthe main street of that city, when several men were killed, and dozens wounded. The presences he proceeded to the post ars le Past history of the Mounted HerstHerschel,wherew}vote e con~+alilw has dis Palate has been a brilliant one. Pxob- h UMW .,,,,.La, 41— � al i•e leets. ably the principal secret of the red - 1 ('O?t•ed rjdC$1 'success was the fact From Herschel the prisoners were that they always recognized the In- dians' to Edmonton, a distance of dian.s' rights when .adjusting difficult - over 2,500 miles. According to the les that arose in the early days. The atory they told they met the mission- eries en their way up the Copper- Indianis knew they would get a square mine River. A. storm was raging at deal. the -,11.1e, and the missionaries Pre- Thus the massacres on both sides the ljii,zl to ission the 'p s which marked the whites' (.easings dfa ging the sledges i As th storm, aria the Indians nitedsStat Statesin early grew we , the E,;.angios b00ame early scared that they would be overwhelmed daysrwere avoided. No doubt the and sought to turn back for shelter. force's future retold will be a worthy The priests, bo,vever, were determined one, and through thein we shall learn to go ferwar d. Angry wools follow- uornet.h.ng of the secrets of the yet entroed, to be succeeded b the } blind - [1 thitsework n dalone they erness ef llhave l proved fn torn kindly ,rI atwsveil the eetha, tachAsc, 41; etit;s+.l to the great expinr- e'ru t, rats, elemental, lake thda els of the past. i1od, cvi ntry which witnessed it, .the The End, quarrel could salve but one contlu on, , sea is i;a,l it not been that the ntuide'rery h'hda dormant season is the time #o al r ro t d cl a r.-1 wore the garments of ]gale actin s the fate of the Irission- 3,. . , 1 ;,ht haw. •r remained a mystery rut out fire blight from the orchard. It is useless to cut out the blight if the old brush is left in the oral --,--- fps twt a. t nese garments afforded ready to infest the trees again, Burn 1 ••nle clue. Whether this was ac every particle of the brush removed. t case or not will nes r be J Keep 1 iziatd's X,iprii (tent, in the berme. 'Kicking Over the Traces, . A plan may feel that he is merely jogging along day after day .,in• the •shafts, held up by the harness—yet to bb a faithful tractor, aloi1e•�or as a yokefeliow, is meritorious, and the ad- jective "tractable" is not the worst that - can be bestowed. The tractor pulls, and the tractable is passive and nonresistant; but whether one leads or is led, if the going is in the right direction, all is well. The world is not so usefully served by the suddenly eccentric persons es by the safe and sane majority. In- spirations and surprising inventions are not to be decried, though common- ly those who have thought' out new things have been pilloried and mock- ed. We need those who dare to tell unwelcome truth, who possess and ex- press 'their souls, who speak out with neither; fear nor favor when the ern- tial. hour strikes. But those who do the extravagant and spectacular sort of thing merely to advertise themselves by "the noble noise they make" are a different breed. The great, humane works of relief per- formed in war -time have by no means been free from those who masquerad- ed in the splendid game for the sake of headlines and men's praise. Before we kick over the traces, be- fore we abandon the careful routine wherein we move, let us be circum- spect and make very sure of what we are doing. You do not like the work you hale, Perhaps. You think it engages the least part of you. You believe your employer has a blind eye on the side toward your merit. The lament of being misplaced or not appreciated is as old as human toil. ,You look about and the labor market seems to- bristle with opportunities, and everywhere are hands that beckon. Any place looks good to you but the one where you happen to be standing. The dis- tance lends enchantment, and the em ployment and employers seem con- genial because you do not view them at close range. 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If means for the control of the pest are not taken, the rat's fecundity, combined with an increase of his food supply and hiding places as population becomes denser, will most certainly result in his be- coming nothing less than a na,tlonal menace. Indeed, he is that already and rats do an incalculable amount of damage wherever food is produced, stored or transported.. The various means at man's dispos- al for combatting this cunning and prolific rodent are: A. The encouragement of the rat's natural enemies. (1) Domestic animals, e.g., cats, terriers and ferrets. (2) Wild animals, e.g., owls, i.ltwks, snakes, weasels, etc. As to cats, the ordinary pampered arouse pet is useless as a rat catcher, while a semi -wild cat is liable to be dangerous to game, ponitry and small insectivorous birds. Nevertheless, the fact that the cat has been associa- ted with man since the days of ancient Egypt shows that, on the whole, it has been found more beneficial than harinful. Terriers are commonly used. by professional rat catchers and can be trained to be exceedingly expert. Female ferrets are used—the males being too large—to enter the holes of rats and either drive them. forth or destroy thein there. !earners' Friends. - It is strange that. though man har- hors the cat, he should generally show such an antipathy to small wild curni- vora. Pew creatures are more bene- ficial to man than the owl. He preys principally on rats, mice, gophere, squirrels anti other noxious rodents. The damage he does to poultry is negligible. Even the hawk, though be does take a chicken occasionally, does infinitely more good than harm. Only the Sharp-skizined and Cooper's Iiawks sinii `tee Goshawk are excep- tione to this rule. The weasel and his .congeners may izideed`work sad havoc in a poultry' house, yet, if proper pre- cautions . are taken, they can be ex- cluded and their bloodthirsty inclina- tions turned against vermin. As to snakes, the common species found in Canada are all non-poisonous. They certainly destroy many field mice and, . if given a chance, there is no reason, why they should not be valuable allies against rats. B. Traps. Rats are exceedingly cunning ores - tures and no trap has yet been de- vised which has been more than tem- porarily successful in any one locality. No doubt many rats can be caught with them by a skilful man, but, as a Means of extermination, they :.,re not to be seriously depended on. C. Poisons, e.g., arsenic, riryvh. nine, squills, etc. 11Ir. P1. G. i3oulelhger, Curator of Reptiles, Zoological Gardens, London, states that, to kill rats, he has obtain- ed the most satisfactory results with squill poison, which, ill the small quantities necessary for rat extermina- tion, is harmless to domestic animals.' It is best used by soaking bread in. a solution of the poison mixed. wtfh milk. Barium carbonate, of which lr,-,'� to 2 grains kill a rat, though 10 to 1$ grains are harmless to a chicken and 100 grains to a dog, is next best, It should be mixed with tallow and smeared on bread as it makes the ra a thirsf . It can be used effectively, with squills. After it dais been put down, bowls with squills and. Mtn( should be placed where the rat W371' go to drink. Other Means of Exterminatan. Strychnine is too dangerous for, general use. Phosphorus and arsenic are also very dangerous, and are less successful than squills and barium car-, borate. Since the war, the suggestion hila, been made that -poison gas should �$ employed against rats, No do::ilt tI1,1,�1' would prove very effective in aeaillip+�� spaces, suck as cellars and th !loi of ships, D. Bacterial cultures. In Denmark, where a vigorous, zip*{{ Isonal campaign has been wag. against rats, , a virus discovee by Dr, Neumann, of Aalborg, has beer found very efficacious, Cultures, n"f, Neumann's bacillus are prig. up in ting under the lganle of "rat.in," -jet it . simple to use anal, has 'been four 'p. rattractive be a 1 bait. Its lnarmlpa4. ness to domestic animals ]tis beery ' demonstrated. Among rats, hawevex•, except in isolated instances, it prof. duces a virulent epidemic, with a vert. high mortality,