Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-11-22
7Htt HAVE ONLY TWENTY MEN
Statements Made By the American News.
papers Are Declared to Be False
and Prcposterous.

Regina, Assinniboia, N. w. T.. Nov.
17.-This is headquarters for the North
west mounted police, and a great deal
OF interest is taken here in reports in
American papers about the operations
of the mounted police in Alaska. High
officials of the service ridicule these re-
ports. In conversation today wiz a
representative of The Spokesman Re-
view, one of the officials said:
1T is certainly most absurd the way
the papers are going on about the hand
full of men we have in Alaska. 1t was
Ncapped by an article said to have been
abolished In a Port Townsend paper,
we were patrolling the whole
aryi and building a lot of fortified
Do How sensible people can write
shelieye such stuff passes comprehen-
on. 1t appears to be the rule at
nfsent for part of your foreign popu-
}n5 backed by few politicians and
Apaper men, to blackmail England
al hAall pertaining to her. 1 will give
you a short account of our invasion of
Alaska
owing to representations made to
our government that large amount of
goods We're being brought into the Yu-
kon country upon which no duty was
paid, and that the Indians were becom-
Ing demoralized through whisky trad
Ing, inspector Constantine and Ser
geant Brown were sent into the country
In the season of 1894 Inspector Con-
stantine came back the same year and
Sergeant Brown remained at Fort Cud-
ahy during the winter of 1S94-5 alone
This season Inspector Constantine lin
charge), Inspector Strickland, DIR.
Wills, assistant surgeon, and 16 rank
and file, were sent up to Fort Cudahy,
which, with Sergeant Brown already
there, makes a total of 20 men all told
This is the army portion of your peo-
pie are getting so excited over, and
which is building Notifications at nu-
merous commanding points along the
boundary.
Eve have nothing to do with the de-
termining of the boundary line Our
men have gone there to endeaYor to
maintain law and order in a part of
our country, where, up to their arrival
there only existed miners law; they col
lect customs dues, which already have
amounted to very respectable sum,
and, In short, perform the multifarious
duties that our force are supposed to
carry out.
''The detachment here had to build
their own quarters, and according to
advices received a few days ago, ex-
pected to be housed SO far as circum-
stances would allow, by the end Of last
September. There is no picnic about
this business l can assure you. Natu-
rally certain class of the population
resent the coming of the police, and al
ready large number of the whisky
makers, saloon keepers, gamblers, etc.,
have emigrated to Circle City, some
hundred miles down the river in your
territory.
Constantine reports the mining season
as having been good, and that the min
ers, from last years experience, find
that they can work prof1tably during
the winter, which will be a great ad-
vantage. The two trading firms at
Cudahy are both American, and ]. ].
Healy is manager of one of them.
IF you will take a map you will find
our post tust where Forty-Mile creek
empties into the Yukon. 1t is built
right In the forks. Mr.. Ogilvie, the do
minion surveyor, who WILL think. win
ter at Cudahy, has been employed in
endeavoring to find better and shorter
overland route than the one now in
use. may add that Mrs. Constantine
and Mrs. Strickland accompanied their
Husbands, and that the members of the
force comprising the detachment vol
unteer for two years service in that far
on country and will be relieved by
others.