The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-29


when Dumont appeared on the edge |
OF a bluff, and asked him what he
wanted. The courier asked Dumont
to give himself up, saying that Gen.
Middleton had promised him fair
trial. Dumont replied that he had
arms, intended TO fight, and would
not he taken alive. The rebel
Lieutenant, with q few followers,
was last seen on the 18th, proceed
ing from the open prairie towards
the ruins of Batouche.
Dispatches from Winnipeg of the
18th state that Col. Otter on that
day made an attack on Poundmakcr
and after severe battle captured
him and took 1919 prisoners. The
battle was fought in Eagle Hills,
aud Otter made an assault against
orders. Twcnty-onc Canadians and
nineteen Englishmen were killed.
|, An Ottawa despatch of the goth
says there was good deal of specu-
lation there rs to the cause of Lord
Melgund's return from the North
west at that particular moment. 1t
was thought he had been instructed
to place Col. Otter's conduct in pro-
cccding against Poundmaker with
out definite orders before the Minis
ter Of Militia. Col. Otter's instruc-
tions were to relieve Battleford, but
Gen. Middleton entertained no idea
of his engaging the Big Cree chief
unless the Indians made an attack.
The announcement of Riel's cap
ture, made by the Minister of Mill
tia in the House Of Commons, was
received in dead silence. Members
dreaded French Canadian sympathy
with the prisoner. The people of
Ontario, however, and the English
of Quebec, demand that he be hang
ed, in order to thereby thoroughly
scare the Indians, who have a horror
of hanging. 1t is said the Dominion
Government is much embarrassed
by Riel's capture. In Winnipeg
the general opinion is that an at
tempt will be made to get him off on
plea of insanity. e}l''
Dumont, who planned the rebel
defenses, is reported ito have been
worth about SS0,000. By blunder
of the Government a patent was
| issued to a colonization company,
granting it the land owned and occu-
pied by Dumont. His house, farm
buildings, cleared lands, orchard,
etc., were all disposed of in the
patent without his knowledge. He
was naturally wroth. 1t is thought
he will escape. Everything was
quiet around Batouche on the 10th.
Flags were flying from all the houses.
One hundred and fifty rifles and
guns had been handed over by the
rebels. Most of the prisoners were
allowed to return to their homes,
but the ring-leaders were taken to
Prince Albert. - r,uz
Dispatches to the Hudson Bay
Company announce that several of
1 their most important posts in North
Saskatchewan have been destroyed
and plundered by the Indians All
the goods were carried away or
burned, and the officers and people
were turned adrift to starve. The
post at Green Lake, 200 miles north
of Edmonton, toward .Athabasca,
was also treated in the. manner
4 described. The loss ITO B the COM
pa1y will be great, as the goods,
worth hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars, in, transit to northern posts,
were at Green Lake post.
4 RAILROAD MATTERS.
A general strike on the Eastern
Division of, the Canadian Pacific
Railway was to have begun on the
25th May. Unpaid wages is the
cause.J sEa ! ,t{id0 HliSLl /
The London Times in an editorial
says: The completion of the Cana,
dian Pacific Railway is most i'm.
portant step toward the consolidation
of the Empire. It is priceless
advantage to have command of .
great line of railway hniting two
oceans beyond the reach of hostile
attack, and free from the restraints
of possibly embarrassing neutrality
Sir John Macdonald is urged by
the President of the Canadian Pacific
Railway to undertake the immediate
construction of railway between
Regina and Prince Albert, in the
Northwestern Territory, with 6
branch at Humboldt across the
Saskatchewan river to Edmonton.
1t was shown that this would prevent
further half-breed or Indian upris
ings, besides opening up to settle
lnent a large tract of fertile country
The length of the railway proposed
would be 500 miles and its cos
$4,000 per mile. The cost O
maintaining the road for tim'
would he about $4,000. 900 pe]