The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-04-28

yes SIR" responded the policeman.
They're a bad lot Where is your escort sta
tonedf"
The trooper smiled family under his mustache
why. scott's having bis horse shod. and guess
Murray's over getting drink They'll be along II
a minute
And when presently Scott and Murray came
rlacidy the scene. that troop of cavalry sat OF
their horses and watched the band OF Indians thel
had 40 carefully guarded. depart the yellow
prairie under the charge OF three men
Tho American ofncer watched them dwinde q
a dot across the level Then HIS feelings founs
speech. Wen. I'm damned" he said And ,h'
troop rode away.
Again old Pie-apot and several hundred OF hi,
tribe we're making serious trouble along the rail-
road then under construction. and the mounted 20
lice promptly rode out 20 the Indian village with
order for the tribe 10 break camp and take the trai
20 the north. away from the line.
when the policeman explained the order 10 him
Pic-apo, laughed and turned away. The other In
dians jeered and discharged their guns In the air
The two policemen sat still
Il win give you Just rs minutes 10 comply with
the order said tho sersean, quietly.
When the is minutes up. he dismounted
walked over 20 the chiefs tepce, and with calm de
liberation kicked out the pole Of tho lodge
bringing the whole structure down-poes war bon
nets. drying skins. kettles and ali-n a misceilane
Gus heap.
Po-apot aid some deep and rapid thinking A
gesture 10 his young men would have sent a hun
dred bullets into each OF the quiet. unrufied men
who we're systematically going through the camp
kicking out the key-pole OF each tepec But the In
dams OF the northwest had learned that sooner OF
later Justice was done By the mounted police and
Pieapot never made that gesture. lie gave In
and In snen silence the camp collected It's scram
bled ELECTS and turned their ponies heads north
Not 40 fortunate was the attempt Of serrt Cole
brook 10 arrest fugitive Cree Indian named Al
mighty Voice.
Almighty Voice had stolen a steer. and Sergt
Colcbrook. with half.breed companion rode across
the prairie 20 arrest him. The policeman In
structed the half breed TO tell the Indian that they
had come TO arrest him. and that he must 20 with
them. The Cree replied: Tell him that II ho ad
vances viii KIN him"
Instantly the halfbreed covered the Indian with
his rife. but Colebrook promptly ordered him TO do
sist. for Almighty Voice must be taken alive. Then
he rode deliberately forward upon the muErle OF
the Cree's rife. and. sooner than submit to the
shame OF arrest. Almighty Voice fired year In
ter. however. the indian surrounded In a pi,
where he had taken refuge. The police brought up
their field guns and shelled the pit. killing Almighty
Voice and thus avenging Sergt. Colebrook's death
The outcome OF this incident served TO prevent Sc
rious trouble with the Indians. who were all In q
more or less sulky and unsettled mood at the time
How greatly the Indians have TO respect the
Just and impartial administration OF the law by the
mounted police was shown when one OF Mecasto's
uanu escaped IRON tne guardroOm AT Macleod after
having been tried by the police a charge OF theft
and convicted. when he returned to Mecasto's
camp the chief who had attended the trial nj which
the fugitive convicted had been so deeply i'm.
pressed by the impartial nature OF the proceedirs
and by the fair administration OF justice that he
promptly delivered him up again the fort gate to
the ohcer In command.
Perhaps the greatest achievement which the DO
lice ever undertook was accomplished when they
persuaded Sitting Bull and HIS band OF between
i've and ak thousand hostile Sioux to return and
surrender TO the United States authorities when
they had taken refuge In Canada after the memor.
able massacre Of Gen. Custer and his command
Commissioners from the United States had visited
Sitting Bull and had negotiated with the chief for
his return and surrender. 10 no Avail The police
however, by Infinite tact and diplomacy, and be-
cause In their previous transactions they had won
the confidence OF the Indians of the northwest M,
length succeeded In inducing Sitting Bull and hl,
hostile braves TO return peaceably 10 the United
States an exploit OF which any body OF men might
be proud.
When the Boer war broke out England called for
the mounted police TO help her there One-thIrd M
them. practically the pick OF the force. went OUT
Very few OF them ever came back Many were Of
Tered commissions. and some accepted Wherever
there Is trouble. there the mounted police are ths
answer to the problem. as they have been in west
ern canada for 80 years from the time OF the Rie
rebellion up TO today.
The story OF the mounted has its shadows Men
grew tired Of the loneliness and deserted AZ times.
men who had lost all-love. hope ambItion-ouIetly
went away into the wilderness and blew out their
brains. The life was unsettling men could not
leave II and take up clerical work or farming M.
cause adventurers are not built that way.
But. shadows and all. the story OF the Canadian
mounted police Is one OF the most gorgeous tales
since the days OF the Spanish Main And the spir.
u OF the force Is best embodied ia that messaRe
round scrawled ON the orders of a policeman who
persisted In blizzard while making his way with
dispatches to distant post In his last moments
WIN nunDed hand he had written: Lost horse
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