McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-16
THE REL REDSKINS.
a Party OF Their, Captured by the
4 Mounted PoIice..Fears Entertained
FOR the People Mt Fort Pitt.

Winnepeg dispatch of the 10th: Late news
from BattleIord says fourteen persons in all
were killed by the Indians on Frog lake. A
and as 1t was thought they were going to
make an attack fire was opened upon them at
long range by the mounted police In the fort.
Two Indians were killed and the others hastily
retreated. Another report, which comes from
Gen. Middleton's party, says that fifty rebels
were taken prisoners at Observation-Disclosures
Indians or half-breeds is not known. B bat
terry and the Queens Own arrived at Swift
Current tonight. Ample supplies for an all
vance are on the way there from Winnepeg.
The Hudson Bay company this afternoon re-
celved another dispatch from Prince Albert,
stating that the balance of Carlton which was
not consumed at the time it was evacuated by
Irvine and Crozer has been burned by the
rebels. Archbishop Tachc was inter
viewed this afternoon. Among other
things, he said: IL the rising is confined
to the half breeds it viii not amount to
anything at all. | feel sure they would not
attack any one, as they play the roll of de-
fensive but If attacked ] would not account
for what they would do, but know they
would run. If the Indians rise generally the
whole aspect is changed. There will be no
end of trouble. 1t win be perfectly horrible,
i would a1vise the government to at once
send strong force of troops and deal with
them by no halfway measures. The Indians
are by nature towards, and take as much de-
light in scalT,ing a woman or child as a man,
but IL you can overawe them they are soon
rendered submissive. When / say deal with
them by no halfway measures, | do not mean
to slaughter them by the thousand. but IL they
continue to act in the manner they appear
to be doing 1t may be necessary to make an ex-
ample of them.
Continuing, the archbishop said: 81 am
very much surprised at the Indians rising, be-
cause even in their widest moments they were
always frie ndly to the whites. Ever since l
came to this country / have never known
these Indians to be other than friendly to our
missionaries, and also to the Hudson Bay
always contended that the half breed
was the link which bound the Indians to the
white people, and the moment that is broken
the bond is severed and there is no knowing to
what distance the Indians may go. AS for my
opinion of Riel, | am deeply sorry for him. |
think he may be m.sjudged. He usually coun
selled constitutional measures, but if Riel has
really incited the Indians to rebel and rise he
has incurred a great responsibility, the magni-
tude OF which he can never be aware. 1could
not excuse him for that act" The Sixty-tifth
battalion, from Montreal, arrived at Winnie
peg this morning and went west for Calgary
this afternoon. The Ninth battalion, from
Quebec, is expected tomorrow. Col. Smiths
battalion will leave in day or two and Scott's
as soon as its equipment is complete. The
telegraph line to Battleford has been repaired
and is working tonight Inspector Morris,
with the mounted police, made a raid on the
half-breed camp near town last week and cap
tured ten men and number of women and
children.