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~ maple trees. af more: open. Old Fort Ellis and Sioux Indians Crossing the Plains to Fort Carlton Summer 1875, By O-GE-MAS-ES (Little Clerk). eae THE GAZE ITTE. OLDS, ALBERTA. Senator David ox Tinperialism | e He Believes That Unity. of. ‘E Must be Founded on Local Autonomy, 4 Ottawa. —Moving in the Senate for copies of all correspondence exchang- (Copyrighted) I-had wintered-at Fairfort on the morth end of. Lake Manitoba and had just closed’ up the business in the Spring, when I received orders to re- port at Manitoba House. and superin- tend a small. sugar making -plant which the. Hudson’s “Bay Company had undertdéKen: on an island in the lake just out from the post where there. were. several thousand -ash- Our methods were very primitive. An old pony and stone- boat with a barrel to gather the sap, ‘birch bark roganis and wood-troughs for containers, and a string of large- sized open copper kettles for boiling 4 the sap. An old and wrinkled Indian woman attended -to the boiling and sugar making, and when the ‘season ended we had - ‘several thousand pounds of sugar,’ sugar-pitch and Syrup. After kecping enough of this ‘for home use, ‘the orders were to send the balance up to Fort Qu’Appelle, | and there it would be traded to the Plain Indians who were excessively. fond of it, andthe price to them was, I think,.a skin a pound. The officer. in charge of Manitoba House at that time was the late Isaac Cowie, and he fitted out five Red Riv- er carts with. ponies, detailed a half- breed named Charlie Anderson (gen- erally known as Charlie-Man) for guide, had the carts loaded up -with sugar and sy-up, and issued us rations your ‘when. sleeping out on the prairie: I ‘our ponies, the trip. was for the trip. Unfortunately a gun was not included in the equipment! and at that time I did not own-one. | He ‘then gave. orders for us to pro-} ceed direct to Fort Ellis.. It was a! scious until morning. when. he woke up all right, though for several days he was quite deaf on that side. * * * * * So much - for Charlie-Man’s yarn. And now I take up my narrative again. I was. suddenly awakened that night by what I thought was a tremendous blow inside my head, ‘fol- lowed by angther, and. another until I lost consciousness, and then you have heard Charlie-Man’s story as to what happened. Talk about ‘grizzly bears ortimber wolves, a little tiny red ant is much more to be dreaded when in ear, and for years afterwards stopped my- ears: with cotton wool. Our rations consisted of Pilot bread biscuit, large and very hard, with a small amount of buffalo Peinican..Un- fortunately, owing to the weakness of taking us much longer than Mr. Cowie allowed or, so we had to limit our fare. course, there was plenty of maple Sugar and syrup and we ‘rather un+ wisely ate too much of this which caused dysentery. - Finally, by Char- lie’s rough count, we should be within ; some. thirty miles of Fort Ellis. But, alas, our ponies had Played out .en- tirely. Charlie was yery much weak- er. than myself owing to the effects of too much sugar, and we held a council over night as to the best pro- cedure. | The question arose,. should we kill one of the ponies, and ‘after some discussion we decided’ against this, they of .course being company’s property. There were only two large biscuits Ieft, no Pemican, and then the wilderness we had to traverse, and i iM sugar, which by this time we were fact on the whole trip we never saw or “trackéd ‘a human being. The! Ponies we wére using had wintered out and as the green grass was only just. coming -in- they. were. in - poor shape for a long trip. Our progress was very slow, not more than eigh- teen to twenty miles a day, and. at first we had to make a ‘number of de- tours to avoid bush and. brush, but! gradually as we got further away from the lake, the country became We had no’ tent, but fust.a covering to sleep under, One night we had camped rather late on a dry looking knoll,. and after supper soon went to bed, as we made a poiitt of starting early, spelling our, poor poniés twice in the day to give them the best show possible. : Charlie-Man will now tell the story: “We had put up the usual. willow frame and over this drew our cover- ing and went to sleep, when in th: _ night I was ‘awakened’ by Ogemases grabbing. me fiercely, moaning and shaking his head from side to ‘side. Though I was considered -a strong man it took me all my time to hold afraid to touch. It was finally decid- ed that I was to start out early. next morning taking an easterly course; marking ‘my trail constantly (so that Charlie could be easily found), and three or four hours should bring me to the main cart trail from Fr. Garry to Ft. Ellis, © I-was pleased with the prospect and: taking half a biscuit for my breakfast away I went, warning Charlie to eat no. more sugar, and assuring him I would have’ assistance back as early as possible. . After some three hours steady walking I struck the main trail close to Birl Tail Créek. I was by this time hungry as a bear,-and here on the light. soil banks of the creek were hundreds of prairie gophers, fat and saucy, the first we had seen. They looked good to cat and after vainly | pelting them with stones an idea struck me, Sitting down I took off my moccasins pulled out the long deer skin thongs. arid made-a snare, and in a few minutes I had a couple of fine big gophers; — Making a fire I skinned: and cleaned my game, fixed up what Indians call a Ponask, viz: yea -— own with the little clerk, and ‘I| The game is stretched on a stick with 6 thouzht he must have gone suddenly mad. In our struggles we smashed! our rude camp to pieces, rolled some! distance down the knoll, and at last | I®managed to hold him down firmly | with my knee on his chest and asked ! what was. the matter, He was not conscious .of.my Voice, but. still. kept throwing his head from side to side and moaning. It struck me at last there: Was something in. his ear, , and | dragging him slowly back to a camp, I found our dunnage sack, took, 3 ‘out a Dottle of Painkiller, pulled the cork’ with. my ‘teeth, turned. him on his ‘side, and poured the pure stuf | into his ear.. He collapsed as-if you had hit him with a club; and finally I, noticed a small red ant float out with the Painkiller. - He remained uncon- skewers across and roasted before an open fire. I quickly polished one off. Very good and sweet it was, and was s just started on thé other one when I heard a rig coming from the east, and who should it be but Molyneux St. John and his wife en route to Ft. Ellis on. Indian © Department business, Nothing would do but my having a good dinner on the spot and then.a comfortable drive to-‘The Fort, where I at-once:reported conditions and saw a relief party with~ provisions. sent back to poor. Charlie-Man, who arriv- ed that night, and after a day or two’s rest was all right again. The ponies j-were left to do thefr own recuperat- ing and would be brought | ‘into the horse guard later. (To be continued) oe . To Equalize Assessments Assessment Revision Is Authorized Within Province of Alberta. * . Edmonton.—In one of the most im- portant reports ever prepared in the Province, the commission appointed by: the government under authority of the legislature last session to. equalize assessments in land values of Alberta, has advised drastic revisions-in the realty assessments of the cities, this amounting to many millions of dol- lars in the casgs of Calgary, Edmon- ton, Lethbridge, Red Decr, Medicjne Hat and Wetaskiwin. Mannix Sees Pope. Rome.—Deep concern over the de- plorable conditions in Ireland was expressed by- Pope Benedict during his ‘interview with Archbishop Man- nix, of Melbourne, who come to this city from England, where he was in close touch with the Irish situation, Archbishop Ceretti, Papal under sec- retary of state, acted as interpreter during the audience, which lasted half an hour. Exchange Zoo Loo Spécimens Rocky Mountain Shi Sheep and Goats Are Sent to Bronx Zoo, Montreal.—Harold Sibbald, fire and gaine inspector for Rocky Mountain Park, Banff, is in the city on his way west from New York, where he left four fine Rocky Mountain sheep and two Mountain goats for the Bronx Zoo. These were sent by the com- missioner for Dominion parks under a system of exchange for other animals, which will be sent for, They ‘are worth $400 each. Sibbald told how these animals are caught by making a large corral and luring them with salt. A ‘Misunderstanding. Vancouver. — Premier Oliver in- formed the legislature that there had been a misundérstanding over the ap- pointment to the cabinet of Mrs. Ralph Smith, that Mrs, Smith occu- pied the position of minister without portfolio and that he himself retained the position of president’ of the Privy Council. Of; ed between the Imperial Government and the Government of Canada in connection with the representation of Canada, either in’ the ‘British Parlia- ment or-in any council ; its participa- tion in the administration of the Brit- ish. Empire; its contribution to wars of the British Empire and to the establishment of a British or Cana-+ dian navy, Senator L: O. David said ‘that, in his { would have the effect of: diminishing the autonomy enjoyed by the various Dominions and colonies within the Empire would be productive of disas- trous results. It*could not be. supposed, Senator David said, that Canada, Australia, New Zealand ‘and South Africa would think alike on all world problems; what would suit one would not ‘suit the other and any scheme designed to mould them into a single attitude could bring nothing but harm. What was wanted was the unity of diver- Sity; a unity based on ‘local’ auton- omy... After all Britain had no rea- son to. complain of her Dominions. They had in recent. yeats shown a high mieastire of devotion, and no one supposed that they would have done more had relations been; more close. “Why; then,” said he, “is it deemed ;necessary to depart-from the pres- ent position?” He warned the Sen- ate and the country to be of guard jas to what might be done at''the coni- ing conference of premiers. a . : ; * Losses on Canadian Bacon Announce ‘Postponement in Arbitra- tion Over Canadian Bacon Loss. London.—The arbitration proceed- ings in connection with the losses on Canadian bacon’exported to England under contract with the British food ministry during. the closing months of the last year, will not be commenc- ed for some time, it is now stated. Representatives of the leading Can- adian interests -concerned -have ar- tived here, but it has not-yet been settled whether the arbitration tri- bunal will sit in London or Liver- pool. : The proceedings will be Pvt. it is announced. ; Ontario’s Population Recent Estimate Places the Total for the Province at 2,649,936. Toronto.—The bulletin of the Bur- ;¢au of Municipal Affairs of. Ontario province as 2,649,936, an increase of 70,759 over 1918. - The rural. popula- tion of 999,919 shows an increase of 3,691 over 1918. The villages‘ and towns show a decrease of 8,255 cdm- pared with 1919, and of 720 compar- ed with 1918. Ontario cities now have 1,129,946 population, an increase of 35,084 over 1919. ‘ The total assessment of tthe prov- ince for 1919 was $2,131,666,300, an increase’ of $62,287,785 over 1918. Sending Soap to Russia. Chicago. Seventeen. thousand pounds of soap were shipped from this. city, destined for: Moscow. Used sparingly, this would suffice to wash the faces and hands of nearly a mil- lion Russians. of the American Red Star League, and is being sent at the earnest solici- tation. of the Soviet Government, which says that typhus and other epidemic diseases are killing hundreds, chiefly. babies, every day. Riots on St. Thomas Island. out on the Island of St. Thomas in the Gulf of Guinea. The-police force, united with state and civil employees, whose ‘claims for higher wages have not been granted, have raided provi- sion stores and. 12 persons were killed in street fighting which resulted. The Portuguese Government has cabled the authorities at Angola to send a warship to St. Thomas to restore or- der and prevent the natives froui join- ing the rioters. Munitions Discovered, Cork.—The police have discovered in a dugout near Cork large stores of arms and ammunition, among which “were two elephant guns, quantities of bombs, mines, bayonets, pikes, a few rifles and revolvers and also uniforms, and also seditious literature, Favors Separate Province, - Prince Rupert.—The City Council has passed a resolution strongly sup- gorting. the proposal for a division of British Columbia, and the establish- ment of a new province consolidating Northern British Golumbia and the Yukon Territory, opinion, any scheme that]. for 1920 gives the population of the- The soap is the gift Lisbon.—Grave riots have broken. |[- No New Railway’ Projects D::C. Coleman, Vice-President of the CP.R., Winnipeg, who states that his company will postpone further. western extension until conditions are more settled. Rumour of Return Of Hapsburgs Menarchists Are Not Taken Seriously. By British Authorities. : London,—British official. circles ex- Pressed: the opinion that-former-Em- peror Charles in his attempt to regain the throne of Hungary, was misled by Monarchists*who advised him that the time was ripe for his return to Hungary. The advice of Regent Horthy to Charles to leave the coun- stry immediately, is regarded here as substantiating the view that there is no support for a Monarchist coup in Hungary at present. «It is believed here that Charles will enter Switzerland or some other neu- tral country, and not make a further attempt ‘to return to Hungary. If-he should-try this course, the Al- lies. would do nothing’ aside from ap- plying moral persuasion ‘against. his return to Hungary. ‘Germany Lodges Conjlaiat : | Teutons Protest: Sale of Coal Deliver- ‘ed to Allies on Reparations. Berlin.—Protest against — the sale, by allied governments ‘to neutrals, of coal delivered by Germany on the reparations account, is made in the note addressed to the Reparations Commission ‘and the Belgian cabinet, by the German Government. It is asserted that Belgium is disposing of |: German coal in Holland, and the coal’ aggregating several thousand tons has. been offered for sale abroad at Prices below those Germany. is able to quote. As a result, the note declares, Ger- man interests are being severely in- jured, Advocates Vocational Training Boys Entering Trades Should Have _An Equal Show With Professions \ Edmonton. — ‘Vocational training schools should be established. as part of a national system, just as were public, and high schools, in the opin- ion of Dr. F. W. Merchants, of Tor- onto, who addressed the Alberta Edu- cational Association. Private enter- prise was not sufficiént for the ‘pur- pose of .encouragirig vocational educa- tion, Dr, Merchant thought, and boys desiring instruction in the various trades ought to be given equal rights | with those who intend ee the Professions. "Crime In Manitoba On Increase, Winnipeg —tThe time is not far dis- tant when the assizes will be con- tinued the’ year round, Mr.. Justice McDonald told the Grand Jury when it submitted its report. ° Crime: has greatly increased, he said, being due mostly to the foreign element brought in, and the increase in population in the province, Education for Benefit of the Few. Edmonton. — Decentralization of educational institutions was the dom- inant note of the presidential address of: T. E. A. Stanley, at the Alberta Educational Association convention. At present the university education was for the benefit of pathetically few, he said. “Influence_of the Movies, Winnipeg.—At the meeting of the intermediate high school principals at the conventioh of the Manitoba Edu- cation Association. in Winnipeg, the degenerating influence of motion pic- tures upon the risin en¢ration, was discussed. _ Corporal punishment wis also discussed, ————SSEESEEEE W.. ON. UL #1362 British Embassy Deals — With the Report of the One Hundred Com mihittee Plans for Canadian Fleet May Stay on. Pacific in Winter: and Atlantic in Summer Time. Victoria—Both the. Pacific and Atlantic coasts can spare the presence ‘} of the Canadian naval squadron, ac- cording to J, C. McIntosh, M.P., Nanaimo, who has just returned home from Ottawa. Mrz McIntosh states ‘that it is proposed by the government to station the Canadian fleet on the Pacific . coast. during. the winter jmonths and on the _Atlaritic in oe . summer, It ‘is rumored, hace that the cee thay remain on this coast during the coming summer, Permit Esmonde to Land Will Be Allowed to Remain in Canada Long Enough to Take Boat to _ England. Vancouver.—On condition that he will proceed Englandward, Osmond: Thomas Grattan Esmonde was per- mitted to land froman Australian lin- er here. After. four months’ confine- ment to ship board, he is allowed to land in a British country, - it is understood that immigration authorities questioned| his right to land here only because he had been refused admittance to Australia, The question to be settled.so far as Can- ada is concerned was whether or not he was a person aiming at-the over- throw of ‘constitutional. authority. Apparently. the authorities have found him innocent of any such ex- treme views,-but He, will--be allowed to remain in Canada only long enough to permit of his. reaching a British bound boat-in Montreal ‘or Halifax. ‘ Russia Threatens Fratice Soviet Issues Ultimatum to France in’ Reference to War Prisoners. Moscow.—A note has been address- ed to the French: Government. byM. Tchitcherin, .the foreign. secretary, Protesting against the detention of 25,000 prisoners in France and others in ‘North Africa and in. the Balkans. The note declares that if the Soviet demands are not complied with, the Russian’ Government will ‘take suit- able military steps. Board Fixes April Freight Rates.. Ottawa—In accordance with-the judgment and order—of the Railway Board, dated January 14, 1921, the rate of ¢xchange in connection with shipments of freight between points in Canada and the United’ States, from April 1 to April 14, inclusive, will be 12 3-4 per cent., and the sur- charge on the said traffic will be 8 per cent. The rate of surcharge on inter- fational passenger business will be based on 13 per cent. exchange. Winners of Medals Not Located. Ottawa.—The records department, S.C.R., announces that there are 192 medals and honors, including several D.C.M.’s and M.M.’s with bars, the; winners of which they are unable to ‘locate. . With the exception cf this number, 31, 744 1 medals and honors have already been forwarded to Can- adian soldiers, Hon, Mr. Doherty Is Hopeful, -Toronto—In the opinign of Hon. Manning~Doherty, who has reached the city after a visit to England in connection with the matter, the cattle ¢mbargo against Canadian livestock entering the mother country, will be removed at the-time of the Imperial conference in June. Walasndes ces conthusions* of the unofficial commission of the Committee of One Hundred, invéSti- - gating conditions in Ireland, plading moral . responsibility for disorders there on the British Government,“are characterized as “biased-and wh@lly thisleading,” i in ‘a statement issued, by: the British embassy in answer io* “the. report. “1 The report, the ‘icity said, was entitled to exactly’ the amount? of - weight which should be given ‘to ‘any judgment based entirely upon the eévi-‘ dence of exparte: statements, and put forward for the most part by persbns admittedly holding extreme views.” The statement issued by the @m- Bassy adds: “The - facts speak for themselves, Ireland; far from béing . a devastated country, is the nidst — prosperous’ part of the ‘United King- dom and probably of the whole ‘of Western . Europe. Separate trade Statistics from various Parts- of a United Kingdoni, forming as they one fiscal unit; are-not readily. av. if able, but ‘a reliable index to the gen~ eral Prosperity of the country can be found in the returns. of deposits‘in joint stock banks which have i increas-, ed as follows: 1914, 147,000,000 pounds sterling; 1919, 166,000,000 pounds sterling; 1920, a 200,000,000 pounds sterling. s or “This Prosperity continues, an is only: affected in a very minor’ degree the general industrial depression... \“The- report of the committee, lays Stréss on so-called reprisals, and “ig- nores the fact that before the Ifish Propagandists suggested in Septein- ber, 1920, that reprisals were taking Place, 92. policemen, 12 soldiers 0 23 civilians had been murdered. * cold blood, and 159. policemen, 56 at diers and 74 civilians woiinded, *in most cases without a chance of de- fending themselves. By, the same- date 1,200 buildings had been burned and wholly or partially destroyed. “Sinn Fein has established ‘its po- sition by the terror of the revolver, which has silenced thé moderate opinion of the vast. majority | of frish- men. It desired-to claim for the T#ish Republican Army th@ status‘ of belli- Gerents, ignoring the fact that. the members of that force constantly. in- deed, invariably, violate the laws “of War as. recognized by--every civilized community in a. manner; which, . he- .cording to the same laws, justifies the penalty of death for all offeifd- ers. Their_methods are those of the assassin, their deadly work is done by stealth, by persons in the garb-of civilians who moyg’ about under the protection of the law until the mo- ment comes for the attack, and who, — immediately after killing their victim, revert ‘to. the aspect and demeatior of peaceful” citizens. Expanding bale : lets are. frequently employed by these | Sinn’ Feiners. Increasing pressuré is _ being ' brought to. -bear by . .crown: forces, and has succeeded in foréing’ | them more and more to’ abandon the method of individual assassination* in, favor of organized attack by armeé bands, but the furtive “character of their eetivittes still continues, 2 Charles to Return to Switzerland. © Vienna —The Hungarian charge daffairs has notified. Austria that. former Empcror Charles’ will-return E to Switzerland. The Swiss minister declares that Switzerland will agree to his return, b ~ Protest Cut ‘in Bonus. Ottawa.—Telegrams are pouring into the Dominion offices of the Great War Veterans’ Association tr de against the recént reduction Of the’ civil service bonus, ; : og Government Extends Further .. . Relief to Disabled Soldiers - i No Further Assistance, However, Will Be Granted to! Single’ : i Men Without Dependents. Ottawa.—An_ order-in-council has just been passed extdnding the relicf granted to disabled men by the De- partment of Soldiers’ Civil Re-estab- lishment until April 23, subject to cer- tain modifications. It-is now pro- vided that the men for whom assist- ance shall be granted, shall be mar- ried or single with dependents. who have received assistance-as such prior to March 31, After March 31, the maximum amounts which may be ex- pended on behalf of any case are: Man and wife, $60; first child un- der 16 (girl 17), $12; second child, under 16. (girl 17), $10, Maximum payable, $85. No further assistance will be grant-- ed to single men without dependéiits eafter March 31, This extension will enable the De- partment of Soldiers’. Civil Re-est&ab-' * lishment to deal with the most neédy cases during the next three weeks. By that time, it is hoped that a sha- jority of the men who are now re- ctiving assistance will be able a ia secure employment,” It will be no : that no new cases for relief can “be. taken on under this| extension, those who have been carried prior te ote ] the end of March being eligible, and that mainly in the north=by ._ a a
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