The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-10
alooashea in the Northwest.

Manitoba and Canada have been thrown into
great excitement by news of a conflict between
forces of Louis Riel and Manitoban forces. The
INSTANCE of the affair is embraced in the fol-
lowing telegram from Lieut.. Col Irvine to Sir
John Macdonald, dated at Fort Carlton, via
Winnipeg, March 27: The party under
my command has just arrived. When near
Fort Carlton l found that Crozier, with
a party of leo went to DUCK Lake
to secure a large quantity OF suPphes
there stored. They were met by some 100 reb-
els, who had an advantageous position at
Beardy's reserve, and endeavored to surround
the poiice and civilians. The rebels fired first
when il became general Crozier, owing to the
disadvantage which he was taken, retreated
orderly, arriving at the fort the same time as
my barry. Ten civilians of Prince Albert and
two policeman we're killed and four civilians
| and seven. constables wounded. The number
of rebels kN I'd is not known. The police and
| civilians acted with the greatest bravery under
heavy fire. The killed were:
Consta bles-T. J. Gibson. g. P. Arnold.
Civilians-Capt John Merton, w. Napier,
James Bakely, D Mckenzie, D. MePhail,
| Charles hewitt, Joseph Anderson, Alex Fisher.
Wounded-Capt- Moore, leg broken: A. Nc
Natb, W. r. Markley, Alex Stewart, OF volnn-
teers. The Northwestern mounted police,
wounded are Inspector j. Howe, Corporal Gil
christ, Constables s. Garrett, $. I. Gordon, A..
NJ. Smith. j. j. Moore, A. Miller.
Detachments of A and B batteries of Kings
ton and Quebec, the Queens Own and Tenth
Royals, Toronto, and infantry school, under
command of Col. Otter, have received march
ing orders, and will proceed via the Cana
dian Pacific railroad to the Northwest without
delay.
wHATTHE HALF BREEDS WANT.
Toronto Mail: The half breeds in the St
Laurent district complains that the dominion
has treated them badly, and we think it has.
Under the Manitoba act of lSIOeach half-breed
born in that province before July | Of that
~isfaction of what may be termed the half
breed title. But beyond the con-
fines of Manitoba lay a few half-breed set
Elements, for the inhabitants of which no
provision was then made; nor, indeed, was
any demanded at the time. st. Laurent,
one of these, was established as long ago as
1859, and is a fairly prosperous place. The
first demand for consideration was preferred
by the colonists ten years ago, when they
asked to be placed on the same footing as
regards free holnesteads as the Metis of Man
itoba. Later on, when the domluion surveyors
appeared in the country, a fresh grievance
sprung up. The half breeds, as was the
French custom, had settled along the rivers,
each farm having a narrow water frontage,
and extending far back IN the form of a long
parallelogram. The surveyors were, of course,
compelled to destroy this arrangement of the
holdings, and the people earnestly protested
against it They also renewed their claim for
grants of 24O acres per capita, and from that
day to this the agitation has been maintained,
Riel's arrival from Montana last spring giving
it the semblance of a general and united move
ment