New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-08
THE HALEBREED REBELLION.
GOVERNMENT TROOPS ADVANCING.
GENERAL MIDDLEToN's FORCES MARCHING 10 ''iI
FRONT.


U,S>,,,rc Anr;l 7-General Middleton be-
ran his advance from Fort Q'Appelie yesteruay nun
,r tho odvance orard leaving at o'clock. lie mas H."
with him the yinuipeg Rifles and field battery h"
tering about $50 men, aEd Ii Dat'e''o' =,
OAppee at 10 o'clock yesterday ba'tei9 a
probably he pushed forward to oyertake the n'rt u
roent at Touclwood and the first contingent Vi io
troops comprising about 3OO VIII 1oilo" III VI. 81,
line. making this column about $50 strong u Is san"
,, D.tterv and the second detachment from Toronto
ilI co ON 70 Swift Current and De taken down the oo.
Saskatchewan in steamers and barges, to meet the
column at Clarke's Crossing. This detachmen' wa"
make no about $50 men. The Queens own kihes "rf0
at Port Arthur from Toronto yesterday morning, anu
reached here at midnight and the Greha"ici' '
Toronto are about twelve hours behind them
There "a every indication that an advance iroh ro'
o,AppeIle TO Saskatchewan will be one or extreme
difficulty The trail Is now in bad shape anu 'e"
cannot take heavy loads The mud Is Knee uooP "
places the route of the headq' arters column IL a' "
lows: Fort QAppelle 10 Honghton, "a m'ies' iouo
wood to Bedson 20 miles; Bedson to swnford ~ mes
swnford TO WISE 81 Ie miles; Wise 10 HUMBOLDT ~ .
miles. Humoldt 10 Melgund. % miles: Melgund 10
Middleton 30 miles; Middleton to Clarke's CROSSING 10
miles. Clarkcs Crossing 70 Stobar 80 mites; total 80
miles. =,
The men OF tho batteries and Queens wn had nara
trip across the uncompeted portions oil the Cahaua
Pacific Railway The roads were bad ana the "ealnoI
at times extremely cold. the mercury going as pn ~
33s The feeling IL almost I .,ded
this hardship and long delay should nave necn "r"
by gaining permission to send troops through the ono
states. - q. ,.o u,,,,o M
This nace IL rang force Of fifty scouts 10 watch the
boundary between Moose Mountain and Od wives LhhS
To intercept supplies and fugtiyes. nnueT o, B1v
shots are already engaged and horses purchased ~
Hudson Bay Company receiN wotl Iast e's,s nn
George Ample garth Indian Inspector, VINO was SUI
posed have been killed, has escaped anu hiauc MS way
Information has been received that Farm Instructor
Applegarth Is alive. lie gives the Following account W
his escape lie was In Red Peasant he'epne; ~
the uprising until his house was attacked py tne
Indians at a. III. ON Saturday. They dlsa',I TSa
him and tw Indians felt In his pockets for money inc
chief advised him to leave the place as soon az posp
or Ma men would xiii him. and also told him not
rnaricd and he would be shot when he started with
lis wife and sister the Indians were ransaekins ms
house six Indians followed for about ,, tMo
days. when Appegarth overlook lug lug
ON their way from Batlcford. The Indians then stopped
and the party proceeded TO swift Current Inc nIiahs
told Appegarth. when they came to his honse Una" the
sto oy Indians had killed their INSTRUCTOR Payne. ~
OTTAWA April The Minister OF the Interior mas
issued instructions land agents that all homestehes
trogbes in he Northwest win be allowed the time 50
spent rs residence upon their land; also hat those IN
iernstci are requested Ia call at the Dominion Lana
Offices AMI their names Ia order thai thet Ihu"s
may he projected. 90, ,,,,. 49,. "a
cided to form "a company Captain scott ma, tcefraph,
the Government from Winnipeg asking authority 10
organize ten pluIcs instead OF sN' because ne y ~
crnwIcl with appcat 20 10 the front The mat
ter IN brrg considered. Alexander Fisher VINO ~ m'
toned as Kicl's chief commissioner II not British sub
| ect nut an American hali-brerd. lie first cduo ~
! Canada in 1873 nnd with Mr. s"iwyn. dominion
| / ana surveyor on an expedition He was aiterwdid
employed as a guide to tie mounted police. -
| CHICAGO, April The DaGy Ne'os's dispatch from
! Winnipeg says: courier sent from Balteiord thtc.
days ago has tccgraphed the Hudson Bay Company tha
! there are 200 men and 100 women ana chlldI,u
bcsieged the barracks Under cover OF the cannon the
polc secured enough Ia last the Town three
ford have started for Montana hoping 10 m"uoo 'n'
| Indians