Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-07
MOUNTED POLICE INTERVIEWING A FARMER.

/ that on the morning of Sept, 10. the
day following the murder, Henry Hay
ward, the brother, who has been al
North Mundham. England. told his
sister OF IL hideous dream he had had
that night. in which he had seen his
brother Edward shot and flung upon
a huge bonfire. This story was told
months before the Canadian govern
ment had communicated the news OF
the death to the family.
A BAND OF EXPLORERS.
THE mounted police are doing
great deal In the way of explorations"
continued Col. White. "They go ahead
and make the trails, aud prospectors
and settlers follow them They have
opened up the Rocky mountains and
have cut passageways through the
wilds TO Alaska and the Pacific coast.
on such trips the policemen erect
houses along the trail, and leave sup
piles of bacon and other provisions for
travellers who come after, who might
find themselves without food away off
In the wilds. The trouble Of many OF
our mining prospectors Is that their
food supplies run out at about the time
they reach the place where they expect
TO work. They must then go back or
starVe. Such men can get fresh sup
plies at these rest houses. Ii is sur
prislng that the men who have food
viii not touch the supplies, unless II is
absolutely necessary for their susten-
ance. In such explorations our men
go along and blaze a trail about eight
feet wide II is wonderful how soon
others follow and how quickly little
hotels grow up along the line. We are
making such explorations all the time
and are gradually opening up the great
northwest"
THE POLICE OF HUDSON'S BAY.
Are all your police mounted, col
White?" asked.
mo. There are many regions which
are not accessible OH horseback. This
Is SO about Hudson's bay, on the Mac
kenzie river, and I'm other parts OF the
far north. We have a station on Hud-
sons bay to which we have shipped
houses In pieces. and put them together
again when they reached their destina-
ton As II Is now we go round by
ship to Hudson's hay once year to
visit that station. our policemen there
report on the conditions prevailing
about the bay, as to the whaling and
fur industries and as To how the ma
steamers to patrol the bay and they
go up the rivers In canoes and across
country with sledges and dogs"
THE POLICE OF THE YUKON.
What are YOU doing IN the Yukon?"
I'VE have a comparatively large force
there engaged In keeping order and to
large extent IN governing the coun-
try. We are doing what we can 10 put
down gambling, robbery and all sorts
OF crime, ana at the same time arr.
making some explorations. At Dawson
we have adopted the finger-print sys-
tenn for the Identification OF criminals,
which promises to become universal
over the world. II is now used in Eng
land and the United States, and there
VIII some day be a classification bureau
or this Kind In Canada so that copies of
the finger prints of all criminals viii be
on record for the various police de-
partments Of the country. This system,
was inausurated by Scotland Yard In
1898, and that department now has in
IT'S classification bureau the finger
prints OF more than 1000 individuals.
from which, they say, they can infali-
by Identify any criminal Shere recorded
In one minute and halN'
now LIE fOfCE Is PAID.
Tell mo something about the pay
and qualifications for the police SER
vice.
The members OF the mounted police
receive fairly good wages" replied Col.
White You must remember they are
supplied with free rations and that they
live 10 a large extent In barracks. The
constables receive upon starting In go
cents per day. At the endsof the first
year their wages are raised to So cents.