ICEBOUND CABIN
TOMB OF TRAPPER
Dies All Alone in Frozen Wilder
ness of the Canadian
Northwest.
EPITAPH ON HIS DOOR
Wounded Policeman Makes Hazardous
Journey of 2,000 Miles to Investi
gate Fate of Man Suspected
of Being Murdered.
Saskatoon, Sask.—Emmanuel Peter
son, a Hudson Bay company trapper,
fell asleep In Ills lonely cabin In the
northern wilderness near Fond du Lac
12 months ago. He lies today Just as
he fell asleep, In his bunk with his
blankets tucked around him. The
wolves that howl about his shack and
the roaring blizzards that pile the win
ter snows to the clapboard root will
never awaken him from his slumber.
There he will continue to sleep, pos
sibly forever. His old log cabin, which
he 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 it.”
Constable M. Chnppins 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
ney is the last chapter in the tale.
Suspected Slaying.
News that a man lay dead in a cabin
somewhere north of Lake Athabaskn
trickled down out of the frozen North
to Edmonton last February. The man
had been dead then nine months.
There was a suspicion that he might
have been murdered. Chnppins was
assigned to make an investigation. It
Is such work as this that has built
the heroic traditions of Canada's corps
of Scarlet Riders.
He set out front Prince Albert. A
branch line of one of the transconti
nental railways took hint 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 in
Crosse 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
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Has Become His Mausoleum. .
60 degrees below. Packs of gray
wolves bung on his trail. They kill
ed two of his dogs in an attack on his
camp. He killed them every day by
the dozen. This. Cliappins 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 desolation
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 am very sick. It would be hell If
1 should die out here among the snow
drifts 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,
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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 bundle into
the wagon. The child smothers* be
fore it was missed.
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