The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-01-05
Low . Handful Of Mounted Police Keep
RH0st Of Redskins in Ave. siiH ?

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= The special correspondent OF the Lon
don Times, who made the Northwest
tour with Lord Lornes praises up the
mounted police, of whom Che says) it
would be difiieultsto speak too highly.
Lord Lorne, always very keen in mili-
tary matters since the days when he
himself worked con sdnadss in a voltin- :
teer artillery corps, and for. an amateur,
therefore, an unusually good Judge,
pronounced themla as tine troop as
he ever saw" They are ludicrously
iunderhanded for the ground they have
TO cover. and the number OF Indians
and white men, often more unmanaqea-,
bic than Indians, whom they are ex-
peeted to keepin order. They are $780,
and the Indians may be counted by tens
OF thousands. Yet, If a crime be COM
mitted out on the prairie, handful sof
mounted police seize the. criminal. q
CHIEF it may be, surrounded by his tribe,
and carry him off to the nearest fort as
coolly as "a policeman would take ND a
pickpocket in Cheapside. Not long ago
some Cree Chiefs considering them
selves agggrieved by the Government,
seized upon some Government cattle
passing through their territory. killing
and eating three Colonel Herschimer
and six OF his men happened to come to
the place almost the same day. they.
at once summoned the chiefs to surren-,
der. The chiefs refused, armed them
selves and their immediate followers,
and, as the police approached, fired
volley over, but pretty near, theft heads
to intimidate them: Had the fire been
returned the police, far outnumbered,
would probably have been slain to
manss but. calmly relying on the majesty
OF the law, they walked under. the bull
lets right into the Indian camp, hand
cuffed three chiefs and carried. them of.
amid loud protestations and threats,
but no. actual Violence. A still moro
striking ease occurred quite recently
among the Blackfeet. One of the
Mounted Police was murdered, shot iii i
the bnck-bya a young Blackfoot Indian, i
whose father had. or thought he had, |
grievances against the Government,
and on his death-bed bequeathed the
lie 5acy OF vengeance<sto his son. The
murderer at first escaped over the Amer
nc IN frontier, but coming back was
aken by small bodgfef i'policei from
the very midst of his tribe, to whom he
appealed in vain, though they knew
enoiigh OF English customs to knowthatl
he was being carried to death. He is
now in Fort Macleod, to which we arc
on our way, and though his executions
is q certainty, and the Blaekfeet, many
ofEthem armed with Winchesters, are
quite numerous and powerful ehoaghsto|
avenge AS they might have rescued
him, indeed, powerful enough to raise
war; not the slightest apprehension is
felt ofttheir making any serious diff
Guilty, or. the Governor General, need |
scarcely say, would not be allowed ito
go among them, except under. tho
strongest protests from those responsi-
BILE for his safety The Indians know
well that nothing more than strict JUS
tice has been or will be done What |
is perhaps still more curious than their /
submitting to the control of the police |
rather than resist it by force is that
they voluntarily make use OF it them
selves. II an Indian nowadays has his
horse stolen. instead al going at once
on the war-path. andtrying to recover.
it himself. together with the thiefs |
scalp, he appeals to tile police, and ex-
poets them to recover it, which they i
usually do. al 60.