Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-27
.FTY MEN KEEP ORDER
IN TERRITORY OF YUKON
nall Body Is Division OF the Royal
Northwest Mounted
Police.
ATCHrUL or STRANGERS
ally Fourteen Murders Have DC.
cured in the Klondikc Since Gold
Was Dtscovered-AIlP Prisoners Are
Compelled to Work.
ny FRANK q. CARPENTER.

ny FRANK e.. CARPENTER.
DAWSON, YUKON TERRITORY
&c Kaiser keeps good order in Ger
my. Hc has tho largest single army
earth. and five or six million sol
ers respond to his call. Ills prin-
,ality is in the neghborhood Of ooO.-
square miles. There is man here
Dawson who is military ruler OF
untry almost as large. II is part
tho Dominion OF Canada. and In
lown as the Territory OF tho Yuk on.
bsEins at the south. within thirty
les of the Pacific Ocean, and extends
Herschel Island, near where the
hckenzie River flows into tho Arctic.
is about q thousand miles long and
veral hundred miles wide. and il has
nomadic and settled population OF
dams. Eskimos and white mon The
my that keeps this great tract in
der consists OF less than fifty men.
the record OF unpublished crime is
oportionateIy les. than that OF tho
iiser. II is known as the Yukon d.
sion OF tho Royal Northwest Mounten
dice, and it's commander is Sergeant
,jor r. s. Knight. Nho only recently
come here from Regina TO succeed
iJor J. y. Noodle. retired. Major
,odie has had control OF the terri
~ foT number NJ years. have
ct him during my stay. and havc
d a long chat With him to how
NADIA keeps such good order in this
ontier land OF the north.
Ru, first let me give YOU general
ca OF tn. Royal Northwest Mounted
plicc. Ny Information comes from
lionel Frederick While. the commits
'ner OF the territorial districts a.,
NADIA and the communicative chief Of
c force. Colonel White. headuuar-
RS arc At Ottawa. and IL was in hi.
flee there some time ago that met
m and talked about this remarkable
sanization. At that time 4 consisted
less than 1000 men. Since tho war
oke out in Europe the number has
en- increased to 800 but the most
the Increase has gone TO tho south
parts OF the Dominion. and the
'mber in the Yukon remains just
out the "a me.
still $500 men Is not many. IT
ems very few in comparison with
size OF the territory in which it has
keep order. II has under It's juris-
otior a district ~h;ch is fully one
pr as large as the main body OF the
ntcd states, and the greater par,
that country is wilderness. |, runs
ON the boundaries OF tho United
ates TO the Arctic Ocean, and II has
stations about hudson Ray. on the
'ace River and along the banks OF
Mackenzie. lis members patrol
cry part OF tho wheat belt. where
n-ricans and others arc noe taking
homestcads. and They gallop along
International boundary OF our
untry and Canada. guarding against
juggling and cattle ,hcvIng. and
t,iing all minor troubles that arise
tween the two peoples.
OIiCE WATCH OVER
INTERESTS OF FARMERS
The mounted police watch over the
terests OF the farmers Of Southern
Nada. Every colonist is visited and
compla ints investigated. Each po-
!eman has a route. along which he
ies from farm TO farm and town 10
wn. asking whether anything wrong
Us taken place since his last Uisit.
e has to send in n report from every
ttler, and II n;sdemeanors are COM
iited. he has 20 arres; and punish the
Tenders Where murders or other
Eh crimes occur. i've takes tho crimi-
tis 10 court. and he often acts as de-
Give, keeping on the trail day and
ght, until evidence is secured that
'ings the robber to prison. or the
urderer 10 the Eallows.
The mounted police have made many
tho trails of the Far North. They
II the hrst road through the wilds
the Yukon. at the time OF the gold
scorery. and they have opened up
ie Rocky Mountains 10 pr0spectors.
their explorations they sometimes
rect houses along the trails and leave
applies OF provisions for other trav-
ers who may come after. They have
station on Hudson Bay which is made
houses shipped there in pieces, and
,e police there give reports on con-
tons prevailing about the bay and
to how the natives arc treated.
hey have steam launches TO patrol the
iy, and they go up the rivers in
noes. and across country with
edges and dogs.
Major Moodle reIls me that the Tu-
on force Is scattered all over this
,rritory. Said he:
I'VE have one constable stationed 500
lies up the Porcupine River from Fort
nixon, Alaska. We have one on Her.
mel Island. in the Arctic Ocean, and
,other at Fort Mcpherson, which is
20 miles distance. We have sta
on at white Horse. and others scat
red about here and there, so as TO
bver all the mining camps of the
rritory.'
"rer me something OF the duties
these menu"
Each constable has one or two men
ith him, and sometimes an Indian Or
as well. Together they patrol the
hole country. They make long trips
sitting the mines. and reporting what
going on among the prospectors.
they administer justice as to small
alters in the out -of-the-w districts.
ID they keep order among the Indians
I'D the Eskimos. They also see that
&c poor and the insane are cared for
I'D brought TO the asylums. In fact.
icy do almost everything except grant
vorces We have cases where they
(,vc performed the ceremony of mar
age, but their chief business is the
seping OF order and the punishment