The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-02-12
B. DAVIS BOUND
FOR HONE


D.
from Red Gross Aesdqnarters in New
York A letter received from B. B.
himself stated thAt he expected to
sail about January 20. A letter re-
quires about . nonth to make the
trip, SO it is expected that he will
reach San Francisco sometime the
latter part of this month.
| A letter, dated December 26, was
received from him last week by John |
Mcconnell In it be says nothing about |
coming home. The lstter, descriptive |
Of that country, and written in Mr..
Davis's Characteristic vein, is given |
below:
/ presume, II yuu have thought Of
me at all during these months that |
have elapsed since / said farewell to
you, they have bsen thoughts that
would not bear Repeating aloud. l
have thought q you many times, es-
pecially when ! travelled westward
through Siberia and marked the great
stretches of unused mountains and
plains covered with . heavy growth
OF grass and all sorts of rich foliage
II wouid appear to be an ideal stock
country If proper provision were made
against the winters long cold months.
Everything is done in such a primitive
IN tins country that it is really
amusing to one who has seen farming
done on large scale as we see it in
the U. S. As | returned in September q
from the interior / saw hundreds of |
thousands of acres of prairie hay in t
shock and being moved by hand, and I
have not seen a real steel pitchfork O
in all my travels The work is all s
done by cheap coolie labor, until one
gets several thousand miles into the
interior, where it is mostly all done by
he women and small boys in the most y
primitive manner with the use of
wooden forks and straight scythe
InAths and hand ropes
We are now having our first real d
vlnter weather High cold winds pre- q
'ah and some snow, not much yet, and c,
he bay at the entrance to the harbor II
s starting to freeze over. How many a
lines have wished you were with me
o see this wonderful country rs we :.
vent far into the interiori / presume
'ou know from letters that l have =
Vritten to my folks that l reached the a.
Jral mountains, where / had hoped 81
D remain for some time, but the rap
advance of the Bolshevist troops
lade it necessary for as to fall back
aster than we had advanced. u
At Tomsk fell i'll with typhus and G.
fter darkness of % DAYS | awoke re
gain to this strange life of ours and co
as soon placed aboard train and tn
eaded for Vladivostok, where we ~
lnded September /, since which time 4,
have been In the American Red Cross
ospital at Russian Island | am now on
ute recovered, but they will not let pe
e go to work yet. Still my legs are tn
little shaky. l think l weigh more m;
ian / ever did. wi
There has been but little suffering
think among the peasant class dur
g the revolution They appear well
lpplied with food and stock of every col
The country between ~
msk and Chileabuist appears par -
cularly prosperous. Of course, one
es no good farm houses or any good 10
lildings outside of the cities The an
ussians themselves speak of Siberia the
only half civilized people as
hole. The great need at this time
of course, a stable form of govern
ent first, then schools. The people eh,
a whole are STEPPED in ignorant fru
perstition and religious fanaticism. W.
There will be wonderful opuortuni- r,
s here for making money as soon -.
a stable form of government has pos
en- established. The poor creaturex T.
e now in Wild confusion. Lost With
t . leader. tAev siuulv hunt eaeh
her around ma kill eaeh other off. the
t knowing Va ia their frienIe A. htr,
10 their en~mv. H ia indeed : - ~
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