Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-03

carts. AS they travelled large herds
Of buffaloes were encountered at fire.
quent intervals; and, at times ante
lopes. Hunters brought in every day
Sufficient fresh meat TO supply the
camp.
Arrived at the foothills of the Rock
les. q detachment was left to estab-
! lish a post OF. the Old Man River un-
der the command of Colonel Macleod,
assistant commissioner; and Colonel
French returned to Manitoba, estab-
fishing other posts en- route.
Colonel Macleod gave his. name to
the post, which was established on tho
site of what is now a well-knowh
town in Southern Alberta. He also
named the present city Of Calgary,
which was originally police post.
now the largest city in Alberta. 1t
was formerly spelled Calgary" a
Gaelic word, meaning clear running
waterS' the name OF the Macleod an
cestral home in the Highlands of
Scotland >S
For many years the most far-reach-
ing Influence in the Northwest, the
mounted police have left their impress
on the country on all sides The nom
enclature oil the west is tEickly inter
sp,rsed with names reminiscent OF the
Northwest Mounted Police
After the Custer massacre in 1876,
Sitting Bull with about 1000 Sioux,
crossed into Canada and established
himself in the vicinity OF the Cypress
Hills, in what is now the province of
Saskatchewan. For number OF
years, until Sitting Bulls surrender to
the United States authorities in 1881,
the presence on Canadian territory of
these troublesome visitors rcquired al
most constant vigilance ON the part OF
the police. Several tinee situations
arose which but for the tact and Dip
lomacy OF the police might have re-
suited in international complications.
Sitting Bull and his followers were
considered by the Canadian and Amer
lean governments as wards of the
United States, On the other hand
they had sought sanctuary in Canada
and so locg as they obeyed the laws
OF the country they were free to re-
main. ht the same time there always
was danger that they woult use Cana
dian territory as base OF operations
for carrying on warfare aiainst their
foes across the border.
1t is estimated that Indian wars>in
the United States cost the American
people approximately s70O0OOO0O be-
tween l776 and 1856. to say nothing
of the loss of thousands of lives. With
the exception OF the half rebel
lion of 1885. which resulted in very
little loss of life and was put down
with the expenditure of very little
money the whole of the Canadian
West was opened UP with minimum
OF friction between the Indians and
the whites. This remarkable achieve
ment was due In no small measure to
The Mounted Police, The aborigines
were carly taught to respect the scaf-
let coated rider of the plains. They
learned that his invariable rule was
to carry out the undertaking to which
he get his hand The Pie-a-Pot in
cident, which occurred during the con-
structior of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, may be cited as typical.
pie-a-Pot was an Indian chief who
happened to be encamped virtually on
the right Of way Of the proposed rail-
way grade. When the construction
gangs reached his vicinity he refused
TO move and threatened to make
trouble. For time construction was
halted The Mounted Police were ap-
pealed to. Two men-a sergeant, and
n corstable--were sent out TO set the
matter straight. Pie-a-Pot was in a
truculent mood, probably fortified by
some OF the bad whisky which was be-
ing smuggled in more or less freely,
owing TO the influx Of laborerS en-
ployed on construction, in spite of the
vigilance of the police. He had sew
oral hundred braves around him and
was more than insolent when the slim
patrol of two rode into his camp
and ordered him to move on. The
squaws and the children jeercd
whilo the braves clustered round in
menacing attitudes. Well might they
have thought that never hal two mon