The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-19
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company Of two squaws. lie had just kill
ed prairie chicken.
Tell him I've come to arrest him for
killing cattle" said the sergeant to the
guide.
Tel him if he advances III kill him"
answered Almighty Voice.
The guide covered The Indian with his
carbine. bur the sergeant said: we have
no authority to kill We have come only
to arrest Tell him to lay down his arms"
The sergeant had no choice. He could
not retire; he had no authority to shoot
the Indian; he had orders to arrest him.
even if it cost him his life-and it did. An
other forward pace, and fire belched from
the Crees gun. Sergt. colbrook fell,
shot through the heart.
A price was set on the murderer's head
thousand miles west, a thousand miles
north, the relocated riders watched for
Almighty Voice. who was. shielded through
many moons by his Indian friends at
Duck lake.
Almighty Voice Caught.
One day in June a half-breed scout and
a companion were bringing in a horse
thief As they came TO a clump of poplars
the thief disappeared and Almighty Voice
came in view. Soon the scout was galop-
ing for life with a bullet through his
back. and Sergt. Colbrooks slayer run
ming like the wind at his horses heels
making savage clutches at the swishng
tail.
Low on his horses neck the scout rode
with Keeling brain. The horse gained a
little The pursuer stopped an instant, his
fierce black eyes cleaning along a gun
barrel The bullet cut the scouts cowboy
hat and severed the woven hair bride
between the horses ears. The bit drop
ped from his mouth, and under the new
freedom the horse sped faster.
The news was flashed into Prince AL
bert Capt Allen and detachment of po-
lice rode eighty miles that night. In the
morning, as they reconnoitered, Allen saw
three bIots scamper into a bluff on all
fours like deer. They surrounded the
bluff. As Capt Allen patroled the bushes
he leaned far down the side of his horse
but too late. He heard the bone in his
right arm snap like glass. Almighty
Voices bullet had smashed it at the Shout
der Thrown by the shock the officer
crawled a little way through the thick
grass, then raised himself on one knee,
only TO look into the eye of Almighty
Voice.
Throw me your cartridge belt of I'll kill
you!" he said In Cree.
"Nevern answered Allen. Just then a
bullet spat against the trunk of a poplar.
A constable had sighted the Indian. The
latter jumped back among the trees.
They tried TO burn out the Indians put
the growth was too green. Then three
men crept in TO try and unearth the des-
peradoes. Those on guard outside heard
al irregular intervals the rifles speak.
but no message came out of the deep shad-
ow No fleeing Indians darted into the
open, no smoked-grimed policeman strug-
gled forth holding a dark captive.
At last there was utter silence. The
watchers grew heavy-hearted. Gamer
aderie is strong in the force, almost as
strong as courage. Al last characters
ticany two men undertook what three had
failed to do. They We're O'Kelly and Cook
Crawling fiat upon his stomach. O'Kelly
discovered three runways made by break
ing down small bushes, and ending in
death trap--a pit the outlaws had dug
with knives. AT the other end of each
runway was an Indian with a leVeled
rife. II was in these runways the first
three policemen had been shot.
Suddenly O'Kelly became aware of pair
of khaki-colored legs in front of him. AS
| he seized upon them they were wrenched
from his grasp, and disappeared over the
embankment into the pit.An Indian sprang
| up TO get a better shot-the bullet from
| OKelly's rifle crashed through his brain.
| The constable hattened out and Rugged
earth as though he loved IL, yet a shor
from Almighty Voice tore spur from off
| his heel
Fight In Thtcket.
All night they guarded the bluff Next
| day the fight was like a Roman specta-
Gle. A near Hill was covered with Indian
and haIf-breed spectators The Old tan
faced mother of Almighty Voice sat there
and crooned a weird death song. and
cheered her boy to fight to the death like
| an Indian brave. She screamed defiance OF
the police-her son would STAY many more
| Of them.
His end was drawing near. A field gun
brought up from Regina threw few
| shells into the bluh. When the smoke
| cleared away the pit held three dead In
dams, and il was IAN quiet along the
Saskatchewan" once more.
Now a little as TO the physique OF the
Northwestern Mounted Police In hight
their average is feet 9 inches. with a
chest measurement of 3s inches. Men and
horses are subjected to a most searching
medical examination before being taken
on The regulations of enlistment are
framed. indeed Ito make ID a most diff
hcuit force to get into, and an easy one TO
get out Of" Result. a fine body OF con-
tented men. and few assertions.
Besides lSeeping the DQace tha no1ico