eaten crt pn Eta MOUNTED POLICE, By MARY MARKWELL. he 1816 by: Publishers' Press 1 race of heroes once 1 knew ne. more their aged eye shall where the magis the law wupy In settled districts tally Gevdoned, aod courts and where prope ty never assailed, the North: punted Police might be looked to 8% an oramental adjunct | disciplitarian possible to imagine . QOL. FRED WHITE, 2 Commissioner IL.N.W.M. Police. -------- v fife. But in truth there is Tao an in the Cana. t serviee today which Sa mot dependent opeudont upon the mounted po- tice Hor assistance and support. The the se Fug have than one occasion prevented ian outbreaks, and, during the of the rebellion, as scouts, their k was simply marvellous, They enforee every ordinance governing © western laws, and their manifold du- * tholude collections of revenue Abe: border, quarantine, prairie and keeping down eattle steal he duties of a J. I. also comes ' FJackets's"' lot; in barraks he wyduty as sentry and, when word of r comes in, Red-Jacket rides handed, it may be ten or i to bring. in athe usually a "terror," and 'him 0.1 Multifrious are the 5 unted police, In 1893 "the mo l, stationed in Athabasca, where conditions the laugh goes round, and the senti- ments of the troopers are exchanged . inaudibly ! No truer Sir Galahad ever rode forth than Hed: Jacket of the western plains. He is no public servant on poor pay, content to wait on "m'lwd;"' his Hvery ix not one of servitude, it is cather the badge of pride. It is the flag he sees when he sets forth to meet dan- ger or certain death, but that which 1 nrging him on, aod on, and on, is, wot hope of reward, but it is the call of "DUTY!" to which his pulse quick: ene and his heart responds with throbs of delight } Western Cnnada © has the reputation of being n pesceful and Inw- abiding country, and this complimentary tri- bute goes io the North-West Mounted Police, whose splendid services have won recognition both at home and; abroad. As a school, it is the bést and if you want to read a book full facts worth the gathering, then pick up the annual report of the police com- missioner. Within its blue covers there is material for the novelist, for the poet, and, too, sermons for the pulpit as well. Nowadays the life of the mounted police is in a_comparative luxury as compared with that of the early days. The first police post was stationed at Fort Walsh (named after its com- manding officer, Maj. Walsh), built - in 1873 and abandoned ten years later, Here it was Sitting Hull came with' his wrmed. and blood-thirsty band, threatening the small garrison, greatly otitnombered, in ; but who put oh a brave fromt andi®withgut firing a single shot, biufied : into "intimidation the old savage, who vame to learn that British authority . meant peace not war, To Col. French, er of the force, must premier honors of this semi-military march across the lonely plains. In the dpring of 1874, three hundred men set out across the praivies from Emerson, in Manitoba, towards the western sun- set land; and alter six hundred miles had been traversed, creek, slongh, river and hills intervening, they reached, at mid-summer, whit Ix since known as Fort Meleod, Their particular work was to prevent the American traders from Benton and Belknap, in Mon tana, from supplying the Canadian In- dians with "fire water." They also kept in check the wandering tribes of Sioux, Assiniboines, Salteaux, and Piegans who crossed hunt the buffalo, Attached to Colonel French's fam- ous trek across the prairies is told a good story: it was known that whis- hoy smuggling was going Sn. awl in formation reached the authorities that one D. W. DD, ....,; a deader in the first comm ission- be accorded the R.N.W.M. PO LICE SENTRY. "ab Fort Ch Ayan, was sent y. hundred fifty miles to Hay ey batk to Fort Saskatche maniac, who was at wnied by an interpreter, out: with his dog team und, sour: days and vights jour a tet © covering hixtest unassisted, he he Meleod district . was supplying iquor to the Indians in full defiance of the law. To D....'s shack, (set on the map of the plains like a more fly peck.) without 'warming' (as he thought) the gallant French with his fttle army arrived in a cloud of of Geial dus hey surrounded D. . Js shack, closed in with a great jingle of spurs and sword-sca' , and Feonnh himself dismounting, entered the dwel: ling to find the proprietor asleep and #ated in his shirt sleeves wearing ite the air of innocence aggrieved ! Here warn't a whit of evidence of the fellow's well-known galling, aad Colonel Fronch (although knowin the "fire-water" was safely cache'd some- where) was obliged to ride away; his first experience . . . ut not his last, in rounding up a 'bind pig'--out west ! In the discharge of duly these mounted meh are slew incarnate and perhaps the ease of King-Hay- Ward (King hailing from Utah) is still as one the ireatest cases of Aeuth" work known in the history of crime. The story goes: In the aut: umn of 1904, 190, to, men King and Ha "pals," appeared "» the border to i ' { THE DAILY BRITISH WIG, SATURDAY, SEPTRMER 24 1910. words, uit some Ipdians travelling south gave the information that "a white man going north had a doz ibat would not follow hivv' To the savage this significant fact spoke volomes. At once the police went on the scent, and followed the track of reer with hi 'game a kill becomes almost an absolute cerfainty. He stands twenty-five fo tweniy- seven inches high, 'with good 'galloping quarters, rather long but' very muscu- Jar legs, with strong feet and toes; the ears are very large and erect, beanti- HN. W.M. POLICE PATROL ESCORTING A HOMESTEADER, nig A OH the velling alone, tvo men, voniinz upon King tra Asked where hits com: panion Was, » gave evasive replies: he was arrested; but there was not a ecintilla of esddence against the man, He stated that hé and Hayward had parted company (a thing which occurs everyday in the new world) and he betrayed little anxiety = when placed under arrest. The ease bf securing evi- dence was placed in "the hands of young Anderson of the Police Fore who out to discover Hacwirnd's whereabouts, The zronnd mitht have opened and swallowed the mao. Noth- hit save that he yim oor night, . after Anderson the wit ing was known of had: camped by a small lahalet with, King, one thats all trace "was Jost. found a Jake the ashes Mn of | 2NWM. POLICE camp-fire--in it was a small particle of the bone of a skull-three bard fuagm of flesh was also there embed- ded in the ashi Then Anderson drain ed the lake but found nothing. Ho hired Indian wonim to walk over the hed of the lake, and inch by inch they feltwith their toes r any subatance which mizht be hidden in the muddy depths. A shoe with a broken needle in it was the first find; then the can) fire ashes; sieved and placed under microscopic examination, provided the rext of the broken needle. Th's brought the lakelet and the ean rfive, to un: mistakable union. Further a gold stick-pin was found in the lake bed, and the maker over in England was cabled for full information. The gold merchant provided another link in Ziving the name of the = purchaser a Hayward in Enland, who preved to he the murdered man's brother. The Canadinng - povernment hrougzht = ths gentlemen to Cpnatla: # also brought forty Indians from the north and sev. eral Hali-Breeds, men who had wiet, seen or known anvthin: about the travellers, It tank a full vear for Aviderson to place his [acts before the court, aml then. on a tec hnicality, the case was thrown out to comirt. But Faitish justice was not to he bhatked: again were the wily CC Enmmoned antl 'again wag the ears opened up, and this time every link in the chain of circamstantial evidence fitted in PATROL BOAT, fully formed to eatch the faintest | sound when working in thick ecoverts. Added to this he has a very keen sense of smell. The "jaws are wonderfully strong, with beautiful white teeth; they can break bones. which few animals except the hyena . donld crack, and the strength of the latter's jaws and teeth is proverbial. Their mode of hunting Having found and started some of the festest dogs gallop ward ahead of the main pack, keeping on either side to turning and doubling back. As these dogs tive they fall back and others take wp the ramming in their place. When the quarry tires the in and all their energy is devoted is very clever. a buck, for: "YOUKON.' killing hy tearihg out the viscera. Some writces say the pack takes the form of a crescent when runuing their prey, gradually "closing in as the game tires. All agree that the short time taken in running down a buck is sim- ply marvelous, a quarter of an hour being the estimated time in hunting, killing and consuming a buck under ordinary circumstances. The wild dog is not at all fastidi- ous as to what foad: he shall take, but he levies toll on any sort of buck or antelope he finds handy. Gnu, sa- ble and waterbuck gre said to be his favorite food, but he has been known to pull down a buffalo when pressed for food. Needless to say, when at- tacking a powerful animal like this some of the dogs meet with a sudden death, and these. are consumed by the surviving members. They always seem ravenous for food and their appetites nearly insatiable. There does not sbom to bo any record of their having sis tacked a white man. The Cape hunting dog is sometimes called' the hyena dog on account of his likeness to the hyena, The likeness, however, is' only superficial, and the fact that he runs down and kills bis prey in a sporting manner entities him to & small share of our respect, whic b a scavenger like the hyena gould néer command. Packs range from fifteen to forty in number. The note is ~ bell-like amd M. POLICE POST, "NORWAY HOUSE." with exaeiness anid King paid death penalty. The case cont the Ca: aadian goveruntint some $30,000, but jhe" plain i that no [the other. Jt: is villzation | wa ot the | rather wusical. tne writer, Sir. An drew Smith, likens it to a "Ho: -ho-ho+ * sound, Ho - run ope inte a moot point as to whether they over bak in the ordinary Ythe Cape hunti dog seems incupa- ble: of thorough do ugh domestication. They prevent the buck la ai The Kellogg factory is as clean as 'your own tless kitchen. The Kellogg way is a thor- ugh way, from the first otion to the last. 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