Evening star., 1916-08-27

fcopyrishted 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter)
= DAWSON, Yukon Territory.
E1HE kaiser keeps good order IN
Germany. He has the largest
single army on earth. and five
q or six million soldiers RESPOND
10 his call His principality is IN the
neighborhood of 100000 square miles
There is a man here at Dawson who Is
military ruler of a country. almost as
large. II is a part of the Dominion OF
Canada. and is known as the TERRITORY
Of the Yukon. 1t begins at the sooth'
within thirty miles of the racine
ocean. and extends to Herschel Island
near where the Mackenzie river hows
into the Arctic. 1t is about thou-
sand miles long and several hunofeo
miles wide, and it has a nomadic and
settled population of Indians, Eskinlos
: and white men,
The army that keeps this great tract in
order consists of less than fifty men, ana
the record of unpublished crime Is proper
tionately less than that OF the kaiser II
tx known as the Yukon division OF The
Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and
its commander is Sergt. Maj r S.
Il
here from Regina to succeed Maj. ]. d.
Noodle, retired. Mai Noodle has had
control of the territory for a number
of years. 1 have met him during my
stay. and have had long chat with
him as to how Canada keeps sucn good
order in this frontier land of the north.
idea of the Royal Northwest Mounted
police My information comes from
Col. Frederick White. the comIf!lssioner
Of the territorial districts OF Canada
and the comnauder-in-ch chief OF the
force Col. Whites headquarters are at
Ottawa. and it was in his once there
some time ago that i met him ana
t4alked about this remarkable organiZa-
ton. At that time it consisted OF less
than 1000 men. Since the war broke
scout In Europe the nurpber has been IN
: creased to fftefn hundred. but the
most of the increase has gone TO the
Southern parts of the Dominion. and
the number in the Yukon remains just
about the same.
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still 1,500 men. Is not many. 1t
seems very few in comparison with
the size Of the territory in which it has
! 10 keep order. II has under its jurisdc-
tion a district which is fully one-half as
large az the main body of the United
Try Is wilderness. II runs from the
boundaries OF the United States to the
(. Arctic ocean. and IL has its stations about
/ Hudson bay, the Peace river and
along the banks OF the Mackenzie. Its
Bembers patrol every part Of the wheat
Salt where Americans and others
4 Are now taking UP homesteads. and they
II iKalIop along the international boundary
81 our country and Canada. guarding
against smuggling and cattle thieving
and settling all minor troubles that arise
between the two peoples.
The mounted police watch over the in
.terests of the farmers OF southern Canada.
Every colonist is visited and his COM
plants investigated. Each policeman has
u route, along which he rides from farm
it5 farm and town to town. asking whether
.any thing wrong has taken place since his
Hast visit. He has to send in a report
sfron every settler. and II misdemeanors
tare committed he has to arrest and pun
.1sh the offenders. Where murders or
.0ther high crimes occur he takes the
.criminals to court, and he often acts as
.detective. keeping on the trail day and
might until evidence is secured that