The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-31
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ur collector. with ilRe of traps running 150 miles nrth Of torl fro- whence on Che Mackenzie river in tne l far northwest or Cnada. arrived in New York yoalerda and sa'leQ Tor ] France on tho gteaneg Roonamoeau' l He is a reserYist iu the grenoh navy and goes to join lis Fhip ho i5 ! twenty-uine years ol.
 So for away In tha forests IS Fort Providence that he oid moi hear of the war until it had leen eoing on Q month and half Then he started afoot and walked most of tne way 1900 mites ho estimates to 9 railway station He told his story on the I French Line pier yeserday
 "I was born at Brtst and served in Che Marine Corps of tho French navy" lac said "Eight years ago lI went to Canada and became fur trapper buying my supplies from the Hudson Bay Company and selling my lurs to them At Tort Providence, where the company hbs a trading sta- ton. there Is a tribe of Indians whose chiefs name is Peter Squirrel The only other whito mon besides myself are the company's two or three agents.
 Married Indian ch.efs Daughter
 CT liked the life il tho forest got government lot bailt log house and established my line of traps. ltI ! ia a wild, cold couniry but there is good money there. and my brother in.law last winter adhered $l6,0QO worth Of furs and s5ld them, but inI the spring he found himself $500 ln debt to the company
 Peter Squirrel has daughter Mag dalene, the pretties Ildion girl in the l province. I was lonely and far away rom my people Sbe vas good to look upon, and brleht and good housokeeper. We were married al year ago. Then word came that my country was at war was far out on my line of trap, and was making my way back to tic cabin home, at which place expeced to find baby when l arrived.
 Then. with the tall to come home and fight ringing in my heart l fell m in one of my hut5 on the trap line. My Indian assistant found me therc. He came seventy-fiye miles along the route l should have covered to find me. He made me as comfortable as he could and set out for the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. 300 miles away to cone and ooly out for me. as had inflammation of the lungs.
 "A mounted policeman came, bring ing an interpreter with him lest | could not speak English Three days they doctored me. left medicines. and went But before they went they found little black fox in one of myl traps and I gave it to the interpreter for his trouble li was worth S60O to him. Then set out for home.
 There my wife said that # my country called me l must go, though just then of an times she needed my comfort and attention alone in the forest as she was and expecting the baby With blankets, sun, bannocl, bread, flour and dried moose meat ] started up the Mackenzie river to-H ward the south until ] met voyagers ! padding the way l wanted to go They gave me lifts over some of the bad places, which was grateful for as had travelled 1,7O0 niles to walk toI get to the nearest railroad station. Their lifts made my walking-trlp on- ly 1900. as ] figure out
 Walked lce-Bound River.
 "It was 600 miles of walking to Fort Chipoywan on AthabasHa Lake The ice closed tho river. and ] had to walk this. following the windings of Che river to Great Slave Lake, and i then the Athabaska river to Fort Ch!Deywan.
 Here ! found mother Frenchman, Joseph Giraud. thiry years old a voyager. who was on his way to join tho army in France He also had heard of the war very late. and was anxious to get on. There Commander A. II. L. Muller of the Royal North Northwest Mounted Police gave us documents. testlfying that we were making every effort to reach our col- ors.
 "It was while at Fort Chipewyan that voyagers starting R day after did arrived with news that my wife had fine big son. never felt so like turning back, but came on with Giraud discarding our guns and ey- erything didn't need At night we by down on the snow wrapped in blankets, with our feet to the fire and slept like tired dogs.
 With the river closed, the ratts- men and yoyagers gone We nearly wore ourselves out One day when our flour and meat were aI gone and with no gun, two moose calmly walk ed into camp and looked us over. But at last by dint of fishing and trapping to live. we reached the little railroad station, hundred miles north of Ed- monton, Alberta. and took the first train east We were in Montreal on Thursday and Friday morning and got here today Going across to my country from here seems 10 be but a step or two after what we have been through
 "If l live shall be back on Che Mackenzie after the war for want to see that little fellow My wife has taken him and gone home to her folks at Fort Smith, expect. It is a wonderful country up there, and onon fho lt,re of fho fronna4,ia IffoI