The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-28

government was established. - a council
was chosen, the territory divided into ipuf
districts, quarterly courts OF Justice Were
instituted. presided over by nasistrale.
trial by jury established, and in other ways
the law making instinct made apparent.
An import duty OF III per cent was Levied
on all goods coming into country and an
export duty also on provisions and i've
stock produced in the settlement A gaol
was built, gift Of $500 having been
made for the purpose by the tucson dl, :
Bay company. The first execution took
place in 1916. the offender being Saul
teaux Indian, who had shot Sioux.
rhe first steamboat on the Red river
was the 'tAnson Northrup. It was go
named after It's owner, a well-knoWn boat.
man of the upper mississippi, VINO mao
brought it up that river on the spring HOOD
to its northern limit of navigation, ana
from thence had portrayed the machinery
and the boat, in sections over the head
waters of the Red, where he had rebuff
and christened it.
That was tfirty-fve years ago, and pe-a
tween that time and the present the
growth of Manitoba has been rapid and
steady. The rebellion of the early seven
ties the boom of the early eighties nave
come and gone, and while they have leIS
their marks on the history OF the province
those marks in no way affected It's steady
prosperity which has been allotted by AZ
mighty Providence to the great northwest.
| 4 Thirty years ago it was a rolling green
wilderness untrodden save by the foot OF
the Indian and the fur trader. over slls.
vast leagues strayed countless thousands
| of bison;in its streams the Watcnfui pea
yer built their colonies undisturbed. The
richest arabic land in the world lay IDLE
and untitled. The pastures. which now
supply food to thousands of cattle grew,
season after season. with but the Indian
cayuse, or shaganappi, to Craze thereon
| OF settlement there was practically none.
| At the junction of the Red and Assiniboine
rivers the hardy descendants of the West
Highland settlers who came to the Great
| Lone Land ninety years ago were located,
and hundreds Of miles apart, the lonely
| forts of the ETudson's Bay compa ny-rude
embattled log walls, enclosing storenonse
and cabins for the traders, and armed with
culverins that probably dated from Prince
Rupert and the civil war dotted the
ba nks of the streams that traversed the
gusty leagues of the illim1table northwest.
These solitary sentinels of civilization GER
tainly gave no promise Of that thrush of
settlement that has transformed an idle
wilderness into one of the granaries OF the
world. But the past thirty years has
heard ''the tread Of pioneers, of nations
! yet to be- and the results OF their labor
are to- day visible over an area larger than
many European kingdoms. Es
I A woNDRous TRANSPORTATION
| In: the thirty years that have elapsed
jasnce Manitoba became part of the Cana
| dian confederation it's record is one OF
/ such rapid progress, municipality, educa-
tionally and commercially, as almost to
/ surpass belief. The transformation OF the
west from idle grazing lands to fertile
farms, and from the trading posts of the
trapper to prosperous cities. with every
metropolitan convenience, might well stir
up in the breasts of its residents mingled
feelings-of gratitude for the ample
measure of their present success, Of pride
in the record Of their past achievement,
and of hope for the outlook for o. still more
prosperous future.
4 This observation-disclosures Of the most
remarkable in an era Astounding In the
conquests effected by man over nature
will be more fully realized by a compar1-
son of the conditions prevailing thirty
years ago, with those of the present time
; The progress that in older countries takes
, centuries to effect, is here secured in pears
, often in weeks. A quickness to see OPP
! portunities, an ability to contrive means
i to take advantage. of them, and com
mercial courage and daring that is COM
: bined with judgment-these, with agr1-
+ cultural industry, thrift, endurance and
skill, have made Manitoba what it is to-
n day. History has been made quickly here
: in consequence of these qualities.