The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-06
SNOW DRIFTS
BLOCK F[|ERS
Trail OF Civilization SWathed in
White and BalIoonists Are
Stranded Again.
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trapping at the time and there are
certain skins that may not be taken
at this season. Also, strong AS may
be the temptation TO carry httie
inward fortification against the Dit
ing cold OF the Northland, laws are
laws and revenue men sometimes are
stern and unrelentinE:
RAN FROM BALLOONIsTs.
SO Marks was hurrying away. Like
many OF his kind, he not only Is I'M
able TO read or write. but processes.
after lifetime among white men,
complete lack OF understanding when
they try to talk to him In anything
but the sign language,
For an instant the three white men,
as they came within sight OF the In
dian, must have been Quickened with
hope that help was to come just about
In time. Then as they discovered the
Cree was fleeing needless of their now
pleading. now reassuring shouts. they
no doubt were puzzled and disheart.
ened.
At any rate, Mr.. Armstrong learns
that, with the revived strength born
OF renewed prospect OF finding they
way out OF that vast wilderness which
enveloped them, Hinton, kloor. and
Farrell went after the Cree. Beside
him they were the merest tyros at
making their way through the snow.
but they got him. Whether they were
armed is one Of the details yet I'M
learned, but somehow they managed
to master the swarthy trapper and
make him do their bidding.
Marks. once he was assured the
strangers, clad in uniforms, had no
| interest in the pelts on his sled and
only that OF cold and weakened
men in anything he may have had
about his person, gladly consented
to guide them to the Hudson Bay
Company's post at Dose Factory.
ATONED FOR INHOSPITALITY.
hospitality Of his first meeting with
messenger who should carry tidings
Of their safety to the rail head. that
it might be flashed to their su-
periors. their wives and their
alarmed countrymen.
SO much for the Cree. who still Is
at Mattice, more reticent than ever
in his talk with white men, though
| II Is said here more than one
glistening-eyed squaw has been en-
| thralled by the tale of the strange
apparitions he met in the forest and
how the evil that he feared was
upon him proved in the end to be a
source of good. since it set him
about face. long before he expected
to return home, and he was richly
rewarded for the coming.
Here. where a nine-days' wonder
goes the full nine days with ex-
cellent prospect Of playing a winter
long encore. interest has been di-
vided today between extracting the
last morsel of interest from the
belated tale of how Tom Marks ran
away, preparing to welcome the
aeronauts when they come and
specializing as to the potable point
of their emergence from the wilder
ness.
PREPARE TO WELCOME filters.
The Board of Trade held it's annua,
meeting last night. Arthur Stevens
who keeps the station restaurant. pre-
sided and Otto Thorning, publisher OF
The Weekly Northland Post and Sec
rotary of the Board, set in motion the
preparations for the reception. Thus
far they have progressed only to the
point of naming a committee to greet
the travellers.
The meager facilities Of the place
are to be strained to furnish a rous-
! ing reception. however, just as soon
as it is determined that the airmen
Will tarry here long enough to be the
central figures in it. Present plans
compass luncheon and smok err
| The luncheon may not be the sort
that Oscar at the Waldorf would con-
| trive for some visiting potentate, but
it promises features of both novelty
| and nourishment. Hereabouts in
certain cellars are toothsome chunks
of venison and launches of moose and
steaks of bear that are to be brought
from their frozen resting. places to
| furnish the most delectable bits of the
| feast.
The smoker too, may be of some
of the trimmings of a more luxurious
civilization, but even though the
clouds that rise above the heads OF
those who gather at it may not have
the fragrance of imported Havana
there promises to be plenty of man
| talk from those who can swap yarns
on fairly even basis, even with
naval officers who have triumph ed
over unusual perils of the air.
Expected At COCHRANE.
From believing that it was a nifty
| fifty chance whether the rescued air
men would come out here or at Mat
| tice. local betting today has turned
to strong odds on their arrival here
| The Moose Factory mail packet ar
rived yesterday at Mattice, proving
that the longer trail taken by Marks
when he brought the message from
Lieutenant Kloor still was open, but II
was announced today that the next
packet, due about January 10. would
| take the old Cochran-Clute trail,
which comes at Clute, n one-hou SC
post about fourteen miles north OF
| here. For a hundred years or more
this has been the chosen winter route.
1t Is only 100 miles as opposed to 200
| for the Mattice trail, and 1t has the
! advantage of being broken by New
! Post, relay station on the Abitbi
river, sixty miles north Of Cochrane,
where provisions and a change OF
malamutes may be had.
MATTICE ROUTE UNLIKELY.
The local opinion is that the nav,
men, their Indians, and any white
escort they may have will be trek
king, heavily laden, because of mex.
perience of Americans and the expo
sure through which they had passed,
and hence the existence of relay sta
ton Is offered as strong ground for