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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

by the British army to be told of for
the first time.
The messenger dogs are used in
place of men, and are called to work
over the fighting zone, where men as
messengers would be in constant dan
ger from enemy fire. Their value
lies, not merely in saving the lives of
men, but ins carrying messages much
more swiftly than men could do over
the same ground. and with less risk
of the loss of the message by the
death or injury of the messenger.
A dog can creep or run in almost
complete safety where man would be
hit, and the lives Of many men in the
firing line may be saved by a message
carried by dog to point two or
three miles behind.
In one instance last year, where the
Germans launched an attack. messages
of great Importance were carried by
dogs, which had to swim across a
stretch of water to reach the head
quarters with which it was necessary
to communicate, On another occasion,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

i'll which the Black Watch was con-
cerned. cream colored 7lurcher; known
as Creamy, carried a map showing
new line which had been established,
as we'll as an important message, and
carried it in twenty-five minutes, where
a man would have taken three hours
if he had got through
Creamy was under heavy shellfire
during his journey, but came through
unhurt, as most of the messenger dogs
usually do. The percentage of dogs
lost is small. and after years work
Creamy is still doing his bit"
Occasionally there is a loss to be re-
corded. Some time ago. one of the dog
messengers reached his headquarters
with the lower part of his jaw shat
tered. He delivered his packet. but
was so severely wounded that he had
to be destroyed. In similar circum-
stances man would no doubt have
won his medal, or the Victoria Cross.
Another hero-Little Jim, a cross
bred retriever-is reported to have
rendered excellent service" He car
ried important dispatches on ono occa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

through water, through barbed wire en-
tanglements and every imaginable kind
OF obstruction. Like good soldiers, they
become used to anything. and 90
through anything at the end of their
course without turning a hair.
They learn jumping and swimming
ana thoroughly enjoy cross-country
races, IN which they have to leap
hurdles, crawl through wire, or Jump
or swim dykes. No dog is sent to the
lront unless it is able to carry mes
sage TOR three miles, and some have
gone hye-mile runs before going to
france. One dog at the front is re-
corded as having carried a message
eight miles in minute over the hour.
Another has done FIVE miles in half an
hour, and third, three miles and
hree-quarters in twenty minutes. Of
one dog messenger it was reported that
he could be "sent anywhere within a
redius of four miles," AS a rule, the
trained dog can cover about mile and
quarter in five minutes.
10 make a good messenger q dog
must be sensible" and a good Jumper.
Dogs of breeds smaller than mentioned
are of no use. One of the strong points
Of the dog as messenger is that neither
darkness nor fog stops him. Once
properly trained the dog can be trusted
to find his way "home" so long as he
- able to move.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

risdiction over the Yukon and the
sparsely populated Northwest ter
ritories. The total area patrolled
amounted to nearly two million
square miles, with a population of
nine hundred thousand. In other
words, there was one Mounted Po-
liceman to every 2,400 square miles
and to every 1,400 people. Yet the
land they policed was one of the best
policed and law-abiding sections of
the world. Crime statistics were
low. The chad man." that ogre of
those sections Of the United States
corresponding in longitude, charac-
teristics and population to Western
Canada, was unknown. The Indian,
once the terror of the settler, was
quiet and becoming civilized.
Before he was accepted, recruit
was required to ride we'll. During
his probation, he learned the entire
management of horses, stable duties,
and the groundwork of veterinary
science. Among the things he had
to learn because he had to know
them were cooking, shooting, the
criminal code, the Indian, customs,
fisheries, railway, land and other
laws, federal and provincial, court
procedure, map-sketching, first aid,
and travelling by compass, stars and
watch.
His daily round developed YER
satility. First and foremost he was
policeman-not soldier, despite
his military uniform and discipline,
but a member of the civil service.
He patrolled the country, making a
regular house-to-hou visitation on
the prairies between certain definite
points. In a case Of distress, he was
responsible for carrying provisions
or for taking quick measures to cope
with disease. To the new settler
he was a well-spring of invaluable
information. He would have to or.
ganize the countryside to fight a
prairie fire if he encountered one
or to fight it himself if reinforce.
ments were unavailable. He might
be put on the trail of horse-thief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Duties More Social
Than Military \

To innumerable government de-
partments he rendered service. The
mounted police were called upon to
furnish escort for the payment of
treaty money to the Indians. Upon
them devolved some of the quaran-
tine work of the department of agri-
culture. They saw that the game
laws were obeyed, and rounded up
sportsmen without licenses or viola
tors of the closed season. In the
absence Of the proper agents, they
collected timber dues and guarded
timber limits. They patrolled the
Border continuously to prevent
smuggling. They protected fisheries.
When on patrol in new section,
they were required to furnish topo-
graphical and scientific reports. By
arrangement with the postoffice,
| they carried the mails into the far
north on regular dog-sled schedule.
4AACy Jul lieu III "1CpO1 W upOll CIOpS.
Unassuming themselves, they were
tactily expected to cut wide swathe
as social fgure-and they general
ly did,
And all this for one dollar day!
The force was organized in 1873
and, consisting Of 159 men, was es-
tablished at Fort Garry, since the
city Of Winnipeg. This number
: proving insufficient, a new division
was raised and dispatched from
( Toronto in June, 1875, travelling by
train to Fargo, N. D.-for there
were no railways in Canada, west OF
the Great Lakes, in those days
From Fargo they made the rest Of
their journey on horseback, two hun
dred strong; and as a preliminary
they made circle through the ives
to look the ground over.
1t was an inspiring sight, tina
first ride of the Northwest MOUNTED
Police. 1t symbolized what was thel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Troop of Northwest Mounted Police at Inspection
At nghtLone outpost of authority Far Northwest.

France suffered for so long from
similar imputations, but it's members
in a month or two's service became
paragons of virtue and prodigies of
valor.
Brave and upright they certainly
we're; but there was never room for
the waster, the weak, or the in
competent. They were picked, reso-
lutte young men, largely employed"
as one commissioner wrote, "in in
dependence duty far from the i'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Importing Law
Not Child's Work

To stabilize their authority, the
government had given permission
for the mounted police to be raised,
disciplined and conducted on a mill
tary basis. From the very first, the
distinctive color Of their uniform
was red. There was a reason for
this. The Indians, after many en-
counters with the United States mill
tary, had gotten great hatred of
blue. There is one case in the
mounted police records of a police
man narrowly escaping death at the
hands of Indians, because his red
tunic was covered by blue great
coat.
The expeditionary train was from
four to five miles long. Not the
least important thing was that in the
rear followed a number of cattle
and moving and other agricultural
machines. Nearly two thousand
miles were traversed in this expedi-
ton, in over four months en- the trail
During the journey, detachments
were left to establish posts at num-
Der of points. These latter increased
until at the time of their drafting,
the force controlled twelve districts
with nearly two hundred posts. The
furthest flung detachment was at
Herschell Island, on the shores of the
Arctic Ocean, $500 miles from head
quarters, and at Fullerton, on the
northwest shore of Hudson's Bay.
The importation of law was not
very popular among a large num-
Der of the early inhabitants of the
northwest. Not only among the
Indians, who were disaffected by the
imminent extinction of the buffalo
lay the necessity for strong justice
the few whites were, with fewer ex-
ceptions, of a wild and unrestrained
type. Whiskey smuggling and whis-
key selling to the Indians were
among the first things to demand
attention.
But the success which the mounted
police achieved in it's administration
in the space of only four years may
be gathered from the utterance of {
big chief when the Indians came to
gether to discuss a proposed treaty
"The police have protected us as thu
feathers of the bird protect it from
the frosts of winter" said CHIEF
Crowfot of the Blackfeet. II will
sing"
A somewhat piquant aspect is lent
to this in the fast that the preced
ing summer a historic character
in the person of the redoubtabls
Sitting Bull, fled into Canada after
the massacre of General Clusters
army. The old Sioux endeavored tt
rally the Canadian Indians in sym
pathetic war. He managed to create
> some disturbance-nearly six thou
sand of his own braves were with hin
to overawe their red hosts-but h.
found it impossible to inflame tn
Canadian Indians against the red
coated riders of the plains. Sittin,
Bull remained an unwelcome cues
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

mediate control of their superiors,
with important duties to perform
and high standard of conduct ex-
pected by the public" The would
be recruit was warned that the medi-
cal examination was very strict and
searching. and that a certificate of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

exemplary character (italicized) was
indispensable.
Here are the facts: Comprising
about 800 officers and men, the
force, in addition to policing the COM
paratively well-settled provinces of
Alberta and Saskatchewan, had ju-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

not SO platitudinously called the his
toric westward march of civiliza-
ton, for the Canadian west was in
those days almost unknown, kind
Of come-and -fnd-me land inhabit-
ed only by Indians, half-breeds, and
few degenerate white men. I'm
explored" was written over most of
it. Even so shrewd a judge as the
great Disraeli, of England, charac-
terized it as "illimitable wilderness"
True, the Hudson's Bay Company
was there, trading groceries and
firearms with the Indians in ex-
change for furs, but that famous
Company of Merchant Adventures
of England" founded by Charles II
with a blanket charter in 1910, were
ubiquitous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Americans Also
Caused Trouble

For instance, the large number OF
Americans settled in Western Can
ada, whose attitude toward the brisr
ish constitution has frequently been
that of the bull to the red flag, en-
terrain the highest admiration ios
the sureness and swiftness OF bris
ish justice as personified here. ins
Royal Northwest Mounted Pow
were pioneers of civilization u
very unique sense. They creapea =
the beginning what no one has slns'
wished changed-law and ofos''
justice for the poor man, as fof =.
rich. In doing so, they not csas
maintained the best traditions o. Va
British race by doing it silently ~
unostenatatiously, but made Mss
own name synonyme for elnc's 3
endurance and bravery xsrR ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Fictionists Will Miss
the Heroic Figure

The passing of the police will leave
a great blank. That Of course goes
without saying. The midwest see
mario writer, the serialist whose hero
can't prove an alibi and is forced
to fly the country, while his only
brother (who really committed the
crime) marries the girl, will be the
poorer. Every traveller in the West
will miss that startlingly picturesque
figure who, in these drab days, did
manage to infuse little color into
life. They became very familiar
with the trim, smart mounted police
man. His scarlet tunic, his Stetson
hat, his tight riding breeches, his
boyish, insouciant air, and his per-
feet poise of authority, will remain
to them a picture simply delightful.
He was the true glamour of romance.
He was the bright boy, the ladies'
pet, the swell dancer, the perfect
cavalier, just as his horse, his beau
tiful prairie-bred horse, that he
trained into it's fascinating habit of
standing unhaltered with it's reins
over it's head, was the perfect horse.
But the force had begun to suffer
from it's own friends. A little too
much sentiment had crept in for per-
feet truthfulness. Not only was it
beginning to be misrepresented as a
kind of "Lost Legion" for any scamp
and scallywag who was in disgrace,
very much as the Foreign Legion of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26

ago the federal government of Can
ada abrogated it's contracts with the
provincial government of Saskatche
wan and Alberta, whereby the
Mounted Police exercised police jur-
isdiction over those provinces, and,
withdrawing the men from police
work proper, detailed them for spe-
cial war duties, such as watching dis
affected alien districts. But the gov
eminent still kept them at home, call
ing their services indispensable"
Notwithstanding that every upstand-
ing mothers son of them was itching
to be off, and in spite Of the fact
that as fast as each. Mounted Police
mans time expired he almost in
variably enlisted. Any branch of
the army was only too pleased to get
an ex-Mounted Policeman
However, now they're off. The
ban has been lifted. To make up for
the grievous losses sustained by the
Canadian cavalry in the rear-guard
action in Picardy, it has been de-
cided that several squadrons of horse
will be raised among the members
of the world-famous force. AS I
write, nearly eight hundred men,
practically the entire personnel, are
already on their way overseas; and
it goes without saying that they will
show their mettle on the plains of
France, as they have done on the
prairies of Canada. Do you recall
the Strathcona Horse in the South
African war--that brilliant mounted
corps of rough riders whose devil
ment shed one of the few bright
lights on that unhappy veldt cam
paign? The Strathcona Horse were
all Mounted Policemen. Do you re-
member Dan O'Leary, the Irish
Canadian, who won the Victoria
Cross for conspicuous bravery in one
of the most-chronicled stages of the
war? He too was an ex-"Mountie. !"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Canadian
Rangers Go to
the Front, Clos
ing Wonderful
Record of Half
a Century
By Charles w. Stokes

A STRONG force Of United
~ States cavalry were once es-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26
Now They re OFF
For the Big Fight

The announcement, suddenly as it
came, did not bring such q shock
to those who knew and loved the
Mounted Police as it might normally
have done. for . Little oyer b year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-26


sparsey populated Northwest
ritores. The total patrolled handle lunatcs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-22

to the length of shooting a man as
an extreme necessity.
Another captured order deals with
the investigation into a case where a
German a;rplane was shot down. prob
ably in mistake by German troops, and
The occupants secretly buried. "Sacf
procedure the order said, sis un,
worthy Of the German army"
IN still another document General
I.1dendorf says there are constant re-
rorts Of German officers on leave voic-
ing utterances that are calculated to
awaken feelings Of doubt as to Ger
nan preparedness for battle. He men
toned an officer in Berlin who said
that further ofensivcs were impossi-
bic on the western front, because OF
the shortage of horses and oats. Gen
eral Ludendorf warns officers against
spreading unfavorablc rumors. lie
declares that it is remarkable that
they never bring encouraging news
home from the front, snd adds that
Il is "bettcr to colcr the situation
with rosy hue than with black paint.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Spain will utilize German vessels
now in Spanish ports in place OF
Spanish ships sunk hy German sub
marines, and will continue to observe
neutrality. This decision is announ-
ccd in an official statement issued
after meeting Of the cabinet at San
Sebastian. The Spanish ambassador
at Berlin has been instructed to in
form the German government Of this
action.
Or. Won Dryandcr, the Kaiscr's
chief chaplain and private spiritual
ruidc, has been decorated again, this
time with the Order Of the Black
EAGLE, the highest Prussian decora-
ton.
Tho death CT Gar Ferdinand and
the proclamation Of Bulgaria as a re-
nublic may Re expected in A few
days" says the newspaper Liberia! OF
Madrid.
Yielding ut last to the public a%Ita-
zion against the ill-starrcd crown
prince commander. the Kaiser has
granted Frcder:c!; William six
months "vacation." ) dispatch Tues
day night limited that the cro"n
prince had been relieved Of his COM
o,and because Of his iiasco on the
Marine, which, coupled with the Yer
fyn disaster. earned him The cogno-
mon Of high jin%" Of the German
arnnv. Crown Prince Eupprccht Of
Bavaria likewise Is taking "rcst' IN
l,is home town, Munich. He command
cd the German Northern armies, IN
Guiding the enc taken by surprise ii
Picardy.
number Of alleged descrterS
from the United States army, tracked
by a posse into The hills # Mingc
county. ". Va, resisted arrest yes
tcrday, and in . pitched battle which
cnguod. Deputy Sheriff George h!liof
and a man NAMED Ellis were killed
Aid was asked from Charleston. an'
:: spsciaI train carrying deputy I'M
ted States narshals aid member .
the State military police is ru5bin:
10 the scene. Twenty members 0
the militia reacrro from ian.M%to'
are en- route % Nin-o.
A petition that the tri9 co'srt ,
directed to grant Thomas J. '1loencE
new trial on tie ground that ms con
viction was brought about ;hreu@
, maifcasance practiccd by the distc2c
attorney was denied b. the State ~
premc Court At San Francisco ycs.eL
day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-22
Food Attracts Ants.

The surcst way to keep a house
free from ants is to leave no food
living about on shelves or in open
placcs where they can reach it. Ants
90 where th+y find food. and if the
food supplies CT tic household are
kent in ani-proof metal containers Or
in iccboxcs, and if all food that MAJ
happen to he scattered by children or
others is cleaned NJ promptly, the
ant nuisance viii be slight. Cake,
bread, SUGAR, meat, ard like Sub5tan-
cc5 arc especially attractive to the
ant and shaud be kept from them
Reaches will not frequent rooms
v:rics5 they find some available food
material. and If such materials car
be kent from living rooms and Offices
or scr DuiouS carl exercised TO SEE
that no such material is placed il
drawers where it can leave an attrac
tive cdor or fragments Of ford, III,
roar!1 nuisance can be LARGELY fcstrict.
cd to places where food necessarily
must be kept.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-22
AUCTION SALES.
Rv Samuel H. Lunt, Auctioneer.

AUCTION SALE-Sale of three de-
siratle houses and lots, Alexandria
IA.
Bv virtue of and pursuant to ths
terms of a deed of trust dated Apr!
Ito, 1916. executed by William Kyel
land Louisa Kyer, his wife, to Robin
son Moncure, as trustee, and of record
in Deed Book No. So, rage 239 Of the
land records of Alexandria City, Va
at the written request and direction
OF the party thereby secured, by the
said deed of trust, in front of the
Royal street entrance to the MARIE:
house. in Alexandria City, Va, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST "a, 1918, at
| y o'clock NJ, those three parcels OF
ground with the improvements there
on and the appurtenances thereto be-
longing. located OF: the East side Of
Pitt street between Pendlcton and
Oronoco streets, with improvements
land appurtenances, in Alexandria
City, Va, and bounded as follows, to-
wit:
First-Begining at a point on the
East side of Pitt street 10 feet North
of Oronoko street ana at the North
line of an alley 1G feet wide, and run.
ming thence North On Pitt street IL
feet 9 inches, and running back East
ward the same width and along said
alley 10 feet to another alley 80 feet
wide, with right of way over sad al
lcys, and being acquired by said WI
liam Kyer from the Fogust heirs by
deed recorded in Liber GO, page 80;
Sccond--Begining at the northwest
corner of the aforementioned lot and
running thence North on Pitt street
to a point which is the southwest
corner of Charles Gaskins' lot, being
Is feet in front and running back the
same width 40 feet to said 3o-foot
alley, with right of way thcrcover ard
being acquired from Jones and Harrl-
son by deed recorded in LiDcr ID. page
1O5; 1
Third--Bcginning At point on the
East side Of Pitt street 100 feet North
Of Oroaero street, and running thence
NorsL. 81 Pit street IS feet 8 inches,
;lnnd runD:n% blc!; the same width IiO
feet to said alley with right Of way
thcrcovcr, and being acquired also
from Jones and Harrison by deed re-
corded in Liber 2I, page 3S, all sad
records referring to Alexandria City
Land Records.
The said land is improved by three
nice houses.
Terms Of Salc-Cash. Conveyance
ing at the cost Of the purchaser or
purchasers.
Robinson Moncurc,
1Sf-cod Trustee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-22
VIRGINIA NEWS

Russell ]. Coles has returned to
Danvillc for the tobacco season and
announces that he has launched the
Ocean Leather Company with head
quarters IN New York and tannery
at Newark. N. j., to make leather
from the hides Of sharks, several tons
Of which are already at the works.
Dr.. Coles recently was awarded the
Sc. p. degree with Theodore Roose-
vclt and J. Pierpont Morgan at 1rln!-
ty College and has spent most of the
past eight months conducting expert
mcnts with new sea foods and tie by
products of sharks, rays and porPoiscs
Some grades can be used for the up
pers of shoes and the lighter leather
for fancy articles.
With representative gathering
Of the most prominenet men from the
various Municipalities throughout
the Commonwealth, the League of
Virginia municipalities opened It's
thirteenth annual convention at "
o'clock yesterday Afternoon in the
Council Chamber Of The City Hall,
Ki:r1GnC, with President Edward <.
Fuller presiding. Practically every
city. and large town in the State WIS
represented.
Hundreds G; barrels Of lubrica;lnG
oil. portions Ct the cargo Of the Nor
wcgian ship Nordhav, sunk several
DAYS ago l25 miles Off the Virginia
Canes have been washed ashorc IN
the ncighborhood of Virginia Beach.
Although d high sea is running, the
barrels reached the breakers pract'-
Gully intact, and are being salvagcu
lv fishermen and others. Even colt
ayers joined in the work of salvage,
learning that the oil was OF consider
able value.