The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-08

lice, dismounted, brushed by the
rigid figure of the Indian and leaped
through the lodge entrance. With
a kick he d%islodged one of the lodge
poles; then another and another un-
til the skin lodge came tumbling
down on the squaws of Pie-A-Pot.
The audacity of Steele's act in
thus manhandling the head chief of
the tribe overawed the Crees, and
they at once struck their camp and
departed.
Of the many international cases
handled by the mounted police, one
of the most famous was that of Sit
ting Bull who, after wiping out Gen
eral Clusters band in 1876, sought to
use the Canadian border territory as
a base of further operations against
the Americans. With a mere hand
full of men the mounted police were
able to control the Indians.
The remarkable endurance of the
members of the force has been fire.
quently mentioned in the press. The
death of the Fitzgerald patrol on
the Fort McPherson-Dawson trail in
1901, when Inspector Fitzgerald
with Constables Kinney, Taylor and
ex-Constable Carter died on duty,
was a notable instance. The bodies
of the four men who had persisted on
the long trail were afterward found.
The men had struggled on to the
last, killing their dogs and even
part of the harness. Fitz-
gerald, the last to survive, was found
dead with his diary and a mail bag
under his body.
The Bathurst Inlet patrol made a
two and one-half year journey into
the Arctic circle, covering 5000
miles on sledges and on showshoes
to arrest two Eskimos for the kill
ing of Radford and Street, two
men slain in 1912. They
found the Eskimos and brought them
to court.
The Northwest Mounted Police
we're organized as a result of the in
of the Canadian northwest by
American fur traders from Fort Ben
,on, who built trading posts, some
Of them fortified and armed with
cannon, at various points between
he Montana line and where the city
If Calgary stands today. The most
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,use. When the mounted police came
md forced the surrender of Fort
on st. Mary's river, they !
made it impossible for the American
raiders to use whiskey in their deal
ngs with the Indians, and so the
orts built by the Americans were
abandoned.
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The police were organized and sent
vest because of demands made by the
Hudson Bay company on the
canadian government for protection
gainst the inroads on their fur trad
ng business made by the Americans.
he first draft of Mounted Police
7as largely made up of youngsters
nth a taste for adventure and of SOL
iers of fortune from all of
be British empire, and they were a
ard-drinking, hard fighting, devil
le-care outfit who we're just suited
D the rough, open country that they
anne to patrol. Assembled and en-
oiled at Ottawa, they were SEN to
and thence to Moorehead,
Minnesota, under special arrange
lent with the United States govern
lent, but with the stipulation that
ley should box up their arms and
informs until they crossed the Cana
ian line. The crossing into Canada
as made at Pembina, where they ar
we'd, three troops strong, with their {
orses, small arms, sabres and two I
pound cannon, drawn by six horses {