The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-04-29

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The spirit ~ adventure
which brought the men Of 1874 to Red River Set
tloment willlurc the hardest To still more dis
tant fields The scarlet tunIc Will be seen no
longer, except In the pages Of some historical
source book. but the work ot these silent, steady.
eyed men will live forever n record Of tireess
ness. fcarlcssnets. unnlnchng courage and pa
tioncc-thc making of q new and great empire
Change has already come TO the mounted The
DAYS when scant 500 men were magistrates, doc
tors. cOronerH. explorers. surveyors, mining re-
corlcrs croWn,timber agents revenue and Gus
toms officers elcgraphers. scouts riders drivers,
buatmcn canoemcn marines aud sailors, dogdr
ycrl mail carriers couriers public health and ant
mnlmnrnntine officers. prairie and forestnre
guardians cOnsabloa and soldiers for unethlrd
Of the llritHh Empire are passing with every
now mile NJ railroad Tho border "woller" the
cattle "rustier" the whisky trader. the fighting
indian the whole band Of swnggcring ruilaus who
used 10 give zost 10 life In the Territory has
largely passed away. or been crowded norihward
and westward toward the mining camps OF Alas
kn and tho Yukon The reckless daring, the 70.
bust hnrdlhood and picturosqucncsa of the force
necessarily have somewhat changed In the de-
vclopmcnt Of the thoroughly civilized new north
west Now the young fellows are getting their
breaking In among the settled districts while tins
old stagera are stationed to the north and west
whore there Il sti the frontier ON the edge OF
uutraversod wilderness
For the purposes of the new order OF things.
Il Il thoroughly competent and efficient force
ns II was In the days OF the Territory. The mem
bors must pass physical and mental examination
which guarantees that I came upon one Of them
In a moment Of leisure studying Textbook on the
common law and he showed me some eSamina
ton questions which implied that he must know
how to conduct u cross.cNaminntion In open court
80 ns to avoid whit ARE known In the law Ms
"lurdIng questions" Aud any lawyer VIII be I'm
pressed when say that every mounted policeman
must know how to take murdered mans dying
declaration In such manner that II can be pre-
secuted as evidence in court The reason for this
n that he combines the functions Of u policeman
with those Of petty magistrate
And this arrangement. whereby the same man
could arrest YOU and then try you himself, ana
finally nut YOU In prison and be- your keeper, was
an ideal arrangement In the days when Justice
was Justice of the saddle, and all the more de
sirnbc Tor being summary Although there are
regular civil courts In the southern portion OF
Canada now. In the FAR north the duties OF the
mounted policeman are still varied rs those OF
Gilbert and Sullyan's roohl Primarily h.
keeps order After that he does everything that
ought to be- DONE and that II isn't amy one elses
duty to do And when some one else leaves Ills
duty uudonc the mounted policeman takes It NJ
and finishes II when the mHilcarricr who GOV
era the Surth Country on dog sledgos reaches tn,
most northern limit Of his route, the mounted po
liccman takes over the bags, and goes 500 ''ile
farther north with them Not long ago lctte
came tn my hands from the LctngWoll polar cN
pcdition, In which the writer stated that he Woul'
take nyc dogs aud a companion ana travel An
miles over the lee To mail the letter when th
letter reached Us destination the envelope hor
the stamp vt the ROYAL Northwest Mounted Pc
lice who evidently mad received Il NJ one OF th"i
POSTS In tho arctic and then had carried Il by dog
train from The ice fields 10 railway connection
II is all In the days work to them They vii
undertake anything, from mindng the baby
hanging q man. with equal pluCidity, aud put
through without nicdug an "yolu,h They nav
done their part to demonstrate that the ON
thing ON this earth longer than the equator Is N
arm ui English Justice Less than three year
ago mounted policeman tracked Yukon mu
dcrcr over 5000 miles caught mp with him
Mexico brought him back boy way OF jamac
and Halifax avoiding United Stutcs soil To pr
vent oNtruditlon complications, aud hanged hil
within sight oi the scene OF his crime
: There has mover been a lynching In Canada ~
that down 90 the credit Of the mounted police, WI
, administered Justice so successfully that 'hri
WINS never any temptation for the work to be- q
A ken up by private enterprise There was heV'
any pnrallcl for the experience ot bismarck, Mort
. Dakota whore Il Is said the FIRST - graves Wei
, those ot men who had died by violence IoWal
, the Indians, the mounted police maintained o.
dllou OF stern vigilance which prevented anythr
like the costly Indian wars which the Unite
- states wagcd up to a few years ago There ".
a never in the history OF Canada train rohho
. such as still feature the headlines OF lulu
a States newspapers from time to- time. The d,
y, pcrado uf every type had healthy respect I'd
h, tho mounted policeman and preferred to condu
h his little enterprises south of the border
h Canadians are particularly fond Of telnug n
10 newly arrived American about the troop OF Anne
10 lean cayalry--a whole troop. mind you-who tu
DERBY escorted band ol bad Indians bent
o crossing the border. TO the Canadian houndl
10 line They were met by single mounted pole
a man