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THE OMAIIA ILLUSTRATED BEE. Arm a iwn. x Nine Hundred Men (Copyright, 190. by Frnk O. Carpenter.) 1GOINA. Saskatchewan, April S. 13 I (Ppecial Correspondence of The I H. 1 Pnr lh I.M .k. ' . ....... ...v uiuuiiia I have bern traveling along th Canadian frontier. I have been llvlnir In the baby town of the wild wet anil have Rone unarmed through om of the least settled porta of the country. The conditions here are far different from thos which prevailed In our v western state when they were first opened up to Immi grants. There are no cowboys dashing through the streets shooting up the towns, there are no holdups on the railroad and the "bad man from Hitter creek" Is con splcuous by his absence. . here are plenty , of bar rooms connected with the little hotels, but the old settlers do not make the tenderfoot dance by shooting at his toes with a revolver, and murders and lynchlngs are fewer still than In the set tled states of our west and south. . Canada's Mnenteil Poller. The Secret of this good order comes front Canada's mounted police and the fact that th man who cfmniits a crime is bound to be caught and punished. The mounted police Is one of the most remarkable mili tary forces In existence. It comprises less than C0 men, but it keeps order throughout Country more than half as large as tha United States. A vast part of Its territory Is wilderness. It runs from here to tlie Arctlo ocean. It has Its stations about Hudson's bay, on the Peace river and la the mining camps of the Yukon. Its mem bers patrol every part of the new wheat belt, where American and other Immigrants r taking up homesteads, and they gallop up and down the boundary between the United States and Canada guarding against smuggling and cattle thieving and settling any minor troubles which arise between the two peoples. One of th largest stations of this terri tory is here at Reglna. The mounted po lio have barracks about two miles from the city, and most of the new men are broken In at this point before they are started out In the service. There are other Urge stations at Prince Albert, Cal garjr and Edmonton. They may be found p.efr every Indian reservation and on every Pot where trouble Is likely to oome. Talk with, tha Chief. During: my stay at Ottawa I had an in terview with Colonel Frederick White, the head of this organisation, and the man who, more than any other, has had to do with bringing it to Its present efficient tat. Colonel White has been connected with tha police for more than thirty-five years. He has seen it grow from 300 mem bers to almost 1,000. and he has been as sociated, with It In various capacities through ail parts of this great British - northwest. I asked Colonel White to tell me some thing as to the extent of the territory un set his jurisdiction. Said he: "Our police precincts run from the boun dary of the United States to the Arotlo ocean. We have altogether about X, 600, 000 square miles under our Jurisdiction. Take Edmonton. That town lies over WO miles north of the boundary of the United States. W have policemen on guard there and all . long tha line east and west to the Paclflo ocean and to Hudson's bay. We have men hundreds of miles to the northward, and. we keep a large force in the mining regions of the Klondike. Indeed, w have praotloally tha whole of the sparsely set-. tied and Unsettled nnrtlnna rt RiHtlih wk America." ,. .' 1 . . - - ISverr Farmer a Police Reporter. "Give me some Idea of how order is kept In such a oountry," said I. "Our arrangements are such that we come In contact with all the settlers. As It la Conditions Under Which the klDfltlT VaH 9K fllMAlal Pnrr. I I spondenc of Th Bee J An eleo- I I linn In Pnlind Vam .lft. tlon. This Is even a magnetic word for free American citizens. It presents a great problem to a French republican, or even to an English constitu tional monarchist, but how Strang sounds th word under th autocratic Imperial cahopy. ' Without questioning the motive which prompted th issuance of the manifesto granting to the people the great gift of the "Narodnaia Duma," or national legis lative congress, It 1 a fact that the people are practically unprepared for this great Chang. You, . across th ocean, ar very well awax that to hav an election It is neces sary In the first place to organise an electoral campaign, and , for the different political parties to prepare platforms, to that the people may know the Issues pre sented. . The peoul of this oountry know no more of what constitutes a real elec tion than the man blind from birth know about th colors of th rainbow. Pollltloal Parties la Polaaa. There ar more political parties In Po land than you can count on your Angers; but , among the great number th differ ences ar only fanciful, leaving but two parties between which there ar radical r i A . .' r' rrv"- A 4 sow our policemen ride on horseback through every part of the lands which are being opened up. Every man lias his route, and he-gallops from farm to farm and town to town, asking every colonist whether any thing wrong has taken place since his last visit. If the farmer has no complaints he Is Asked to sign a report to that effect, and if the contrary, his troubles are at once Investigated. We have a record of all the settlers, and we go over the route and make the policemen produce these signed statements showing that each man has been visited. It may be that the farmer will claim his cattle have been stolen. If so, the policeman goes with him to traoe the thieves, and If they are found he sees that they are brought to Justice and pun ished. In many cases such complaints are false alarms, and the policeman and farmer find that the stock has merely strayed Into some valley nearby. Nevertheless, we make many arrests. There were more than 1,000 convictions for crime and other of fenses In the northwest territories last year. Many of ( the offenses were petty on a, and this number, all told, covers a population of more than 400,000, scattered over the enormous region I have described. It seems to me small." "Do you have many murders?"" "We have had thirteen In four years," said Colonel White, ' "and of those thirteen only two of the criminals' were Canadians.? -"How about lynching?" ',' . . ... ' . -v - If Lynchlsgs Nov ft1dasa, ' "W hav never ha no man- lynched m Canada, and, more than that, w have sever had a holdup on our. railroads, ,1 will not say that plahs have V pri made to rob our trains, but so far we have circum vented them. Indeed the records show that traveling Is far . safer In- northern Canada than la th western part of your country. I remember two or thro Instances whlotr oocurred recently where men had evidently schemed to hold .up th trains on th Can adian Paclfle railroad. In on of thes the would-be thieves had a team of fin horses and a carriage shipped to the point where they expected to rob th train. Our difference. On of these 1 th "Narodlwa '.political .meetings have been prohibited, Demokracja" (National Democracy) and jwhere precinct commissioners ar dls the other the "Polska Partla Soclaltyscna" charged from office and arrested for per (Polluh Social Party). In this country the mining political meetings to . be held In first is generally known as th "N. D." their offices, where the Intelligence of the and th latter as th "P. P. 8.," and for country, women a well as men, fill the' convenience I will us these Initials In prison because they express their sentl. mentioning them. Each of these parties menu at publlo gatherings. In addition to has several branches and, showing the fact these wholesale arrests, njany doctors, at that th nation Is politically unripe, they torneys-at-law, civil engineers, merchants fight among themselves over differences and tradesmen ar ordered to leave the wholly Immaterial. - The difference be tween the N. D. and tha P. p. 8., how ever, 1 marked. Th first sounds tha strains of th tradl- tlonal and historical manifestos, being con- ervatlv and passive In its demands, while th other plainly says that the new era has arrived and that political life must be based upon sound social principles and human liberty. 1 P. P. S. also insist that when th country Is In a state of siege and hundreds of thousands of people, belng Imprisoned, ar deprived of their right to vote, a real election cannot be neid. Editor All la Jail. Really, It I difficult to see how a political campaoan can oe conuucnu in a county government nas Deen anven to make a where thousands of editor and members show of liberal and progressive spirit In of editorials staffs ar under lock and key order to reassure foreign Inventors, a It la and hundreds of newspaper offices are known that the government Is In sore Unen closed by th police authorities, where clal strait; but even In this It finds It OOVEANOR'I PALACE IN WARSAW. Keep Order in the Wilds of the British Northwest? .POLICEMAN INTER VTEWTNQ A FARMER police knew something was wrong, an! we had a force on the lookout Th men found that we were watching them and as a result they gave up the attempt and drove off towards the south. W have not heard of them since." . Story of a Crime. "I should think there must be many Crimea in the' northern wilds which could never be discovered," said I. "I don't believe It," replied Colonel White. "Our police get reports from every party of the territory. They are careful In collecting Information and anything out of the way Is sent In to them. They are able detectives and they discover crimes which would pusxle a Sherlock Holmes. Take the murder of Edward Hayward, a young Englishman, who was killed at the Lesser Slave lake, away up In the wilds, hundreds of miles from nowhere, about a year ago. His murderer was discovered and convicted by the mounted police and he was hanged only a short time ago. The murderer's name was Charles King, an American, who came from Salt Lake City to Edmonton, where he met Edward Hayward, an English immigrant. Hayward had brought some money with him, expect ing to settle and make his fortune In our northwest. He fell In with King at Ed monton and King filled his head with the possibilities of fortune making In the far north. He persuaded Hayward to buy horses, tool and arm and go with him to look for gold mines, which he said ex isted about the Lesser Slav lake. Boon after the two men started off with a full prospecting equipment. They had been gone some weeks when an Indian notified on of th sergeants of the mounted police of the vicinity where they had been camping that two strangers had oome Into the country and that on of them had dis appeared. The Indian said that he had noticed a big fir where the camp was and that the ashes covered so much ground that he was sure something was wrong. "The mounted policeman then went along with the Indians. He found the remains of the fire, and followed a track evidently country because they have been ' selected by their associates for local leaders of th parties, and they are thus deprived of th right of voting' as well a 'of taking part in the campaign. Under such ' circumstances ' who shall vote? Who shall be sent to the Duma as th representative of th pcofler Again, th election law 1 surrounded with such restrictions that many persons of all classes will b deprived of th right to vote In toto. Naturally, thl creates dls- satisfaction among free thinking men, and will probubly result In this class declaring a boycott on th polling place. -- Flaaae Back ot Poller. Ther I a feeling prevalent here that th made by one man, which led away from It He kept on the trail and after many days came up with King on his way back to Ed monton. The policeman asked King what had become of his companion, and King re plied that he had taken another trail and gone on to British Columbia. This seemed very strange to the policeman, and he' ar rested King on th charge of murder and started back to get the evidence. The first thing he did was to gather up the ashes of the campfir and sift them. The result was thatxhe discovered pieces of flesh and bones and also two or .three buttons, a sail maker's needle and a watch charm used for carrying a gold coiix. AUthese things were packed up' and shipped east to be -examined and analysed y our specialists. Their report was that th? hones were those of a human being. - v - . "In addition' to this the policeman traced King's tracks, to a little take nearby. With the assistance of another policeman he cut a ditch and drained the lake. Upon its bottom lay . two pair of boots and other articles which were afterward proved to have been sold to Hayward. When the casa was- tried a brother of Hayward was brought out from England to identify some of these articles, and th result of the whole was that King was convicted and hung. "A curious statement, was made, at this trlal,' concluded Colonel White. "We had proven that the murder was committed on September. 1$, away out there on the banks of the -Lesser Slave lake. At the trial It was stated under oath that on the morning of September W, th day following the murder,- Henry Hayward, th brother, who was then at North Mundham, England, told his sister of U hideous dream he had had that night. In which he had seen his brother Ed ward shot and flung upon a huge bonfire. This story was told months before the Canadian government had, communicated th news of th death to th family. - ' ' . . Baai ef Explorer. . "Th mounted police are doing a great deal in the way of exploration," continued Colonel White. "They go ahead and make Recent Elections Were Held chief stumbling blocks in the bureaucratlo and conservative officeholders, who, in these liberal measures, foresee their downfall and as a. result place obstacles In every step toward giving the people a voloe and a vote In matter of legislative or admin istrative affairs. The serious problem for the people to solve is how to secure their rights, given them under th manifesto, and this 1 more difficult, a th people ar absolutely ignorant of public method and there la no time to Instruct them before th voting begins. It will be interesting to watch the developments of thl peculiar' condition. How Liberty Prevail la Warsaw, Confirmatory of th proceeding state ments, I will quote some of th newspaper which ar still permitted to exist, making absolute translations, a these Items will be good material for American acrapbook. From tha Dally Hurler Warssawskl: "By order of th general governor of Warsaw, In an administrative way (this means with out Judicial trial), two dallies, the Kurier Poranscy and th Comlel, ar suspended and th editor ar Imprisoned for th duration of th state of siege." From th Warssawskl Dnlewn'k (a Rus sian semi-official organ): "On seventh day of December last, at the beginning of the conoert at th 'Philharmonic of Warsaw,' th orchestra played the patriotic Polish hymn, 'Bose cos Polske.' This being told to the general governor, Scallon, his excel lency has found it proper to fine for that . offense M. Alexander Rejchmnn, the ad ministrator of the Institution, In the sum of too rubles, and M. Clclewlct, the musical director, 100 rubles, or In lieu thereof one month's imprisonment . for the former and two weeks for the latter." From the same Journal: "There were congregated In a certain house, a private ' lodging, about sixty book binders, who had met to form an organisation of their trade, but before the . meeting was opened there entered a larje military patrol, under a police officer's command, and arrested all present, whereby many book binderies are closed." The Kurier Warssawskl of February 14 says: "The editor of the Weekly Bleslda Literacka, for political articles In Nos. I and I, is fined. In the administrative way, 1,000 roubles." Ibid: "In the town of Skempe, county Lipno, the police have arrested, without stating for how long, a farmer, Biigrowskl; also two students, the last two for pri ' vat el y teaching a number of poor Illiterate children, the farmer for giving a place la ( his home for the purpose." Ibid: "In the town of Kufieao. near Warsaw, two precinct plenlpotens, Messra Sodriak and Mllewskl, also Farmer Jan kowaki and two brothers, Bebienskl, were arrested and Imprisoned at the city of Minsk Maxowleckl, the offenso being that they had th courage to send a mutually signed complaint to Count Wltte at St Petersburg." Ibid: "In th suburb Wola' an tint . denuded man struck a policeman In a peer house and ran away. Boon after a larg military patrol, led by a polio offi cer, entered and without xamlnation ar rested th proprietor, hi wUa, two miner M " the trails, and prospectors and settlers follow them. They have opened up the Rocky mountains and have cut passage ways through the wilds to Alaska and the Paclfle coast. On such trips the policemen erect houses along the troll and leave sup plies of bacon and other provisions for trav elers who come after, who might find them selves without food away off In th wllda. The trouble of many of our mining pros pectors Is that their food supplies run out at about the time they reach the place where they expect to work. They must then go back or starve. Such men can get fresh supplies at these rest-houses. It Is surprising that the men who have food will not to touch the supplies, unless It is abso lutely necessary for their sustenance. In such explorations our men go along and blase a trail about eight feet wide. It Is wonderful how soon others follow and how quickly little hotels grow up along the line. We are making such explorations all the time and are gradually opening up the great northwest." Polio of Hudson's Bay. "Are all your police mounted, - Colonel Whiter' I aaked. "No. There are many regions which are not accessible on horseback. This Is so about Hudson's bay, on the Mackenile river and In other parts of the far north. W'e have a station on Hudson's bay to which we have shipped houses In pieces and put . them together, again when they reached their destination. , As It . s now we go round by ship to Hudson's bay once a year ' to visit that station. Our policemen there report on the condition prevailing about the bay, as to th whal ing and fur Industries and as to how the natives are treated. They have little steamers to patrol th bay and they go up (he rivers In canoes and across coun try w! th fledges and dogs." "What ar you doing in th TukonT" "W have a comparatively large f ore there engaged In keeping order and to a large extent In governing the country. We are doing what we can to put down gambling, robbery and all sorts ot orlme. children and sixteen . guests, who were ther quietly sitting." Tbe Dally Nowe ' Lycie, February 15: "Two editors of Mlodsc, Messrs. Juszkle wlcs and Rygier, have been brought be fore the court for printing a political ar ticle by a political leader, Mr. Ignat Dassynakl." ' Teaching the Poor a Crime, In Warsaw, on St. Jersha street. Is . a private "ladles' school." In th same house live th chief of the police station ot th Second district who, upon seeing that a number of children gathered at the school after the regular school hours, demanded a reason for the assemblage. The mistress of the school did not deny that she taught poor children in the evening, thinking It a charitable deed; but th police officer, being of a different opinion, punished her with a month' arrest without defense or ap peal. PVxample of Military Role. The correspondent ot th St Petersburg Telegraphic agency complains that the temporary governor general, Peyricoff, re siding In the city of Lods, has prohibited the sending of telegrams to the press with out having them first censored by himself or by the chief of police of the city; there for th press receives only what th authorities permit. Colonel Novlckl, who Is stationed during i ii iiiiiii ii . , i I, I, iiini mT in ii i ' - . , - -. ' ' ' O - - "!' t , - .- . - I ! r ' .-V :J . : v-v; :- .". , . .-.-. . . . ... u J ? t ; . . 4 i - V, v .Ins' . - .1, : , '-'..il 1 I - . - ty v , ; r , " 5 -.v-.- ' , : . ; . u POLICEMAN SCOUTS WITH INDIAN TRACKERS. and at th same time are making some explorations. At Dawson we have adopted the finger print system for the Identifica tion 'of criminals, which promises to be- come universal over the world. It Is now used in England and the United States, and there will some day be a classifica tion bureau of this kind In Canada so that copies of the finger prints of all criminals will be on record for the vari ous police departments of the country. This system waa Inaugurated by Scotland Yard In 1896, and that ' department now has In Its classification bureau th finger prints of mora than 100,000 Individuals, from which, they say, they can Infallibly Identify any criminal there recorded In one minute and a half. How th Force I Paid. "Tell me something about th pay and qualification for the police service." "The members of the mounted police receive fairly good wages," replied Colo nel White. ,"You must remember they are supplied with free rations and that they live to a large extent In barrack. The constables receive upon starting In 60 cents per day. At the end of the first year their wages are raised to 66 cents, and they go upward , at tha rata of B cent per day per . year until the ninth year, when they get 91 per day. Four of tha staff sergeant are paid $2 per day, and lower staff sergeants get from $1.60 to $1.76 ter day. while other noncommissioned officer hav from .10 to .. Among tbe qualification are: The men must b unmarried; they must be between 21 and 40 years of age; they must be able to read and writ either French or English; must understand horses and be able to rid well. Th minimum height Is fir feet and -eight Inohes, the minimum chest measurement - thirty-five Inches and th maximum - weight 171 pounds. The term of ngagemnt Is for five years,' Horse that Chewed th Rope. During my travel In Canada I hav heard soma good stories of the detective ability of these mounted policemen. On of the latest 1 about a hors belonging to th state of slegs at Oarvolln, government of Sledlee, marched with a company of his dragoons to the country residence of a Polish nobleman, Count Zamoyski. In tha absence of the proprietor he seached the place, and finding nothing suspicious, confiscated from th old historical family museum all the ancient arms. This same brave colonel on the same visit arrested two young men and ordered them to be conducted twenty vents to th town of Oarvolln. on foot, between mounted dragoon. - v Effort to Aroese Rate Hatred. Th officeholder who play th part of th "Black Hundred" hav great hop of raising race feeling between different peoples - of the Polish nation, with th in tention of bringing her th same condi tions which hav prevailed at Baku be tween Tartar and Armenians, or at Kief and Klsheneff between the Jews and other people. As evidence of thl It may be cited that only a few days ago th semi-official Russian organ published a false report that a number of Jews In a confectionery on Wlelka street destroyed a Christian re ligious picture which waa hanging on th wall. Investigation proved th wlllfull falseness of the report, showing that the story was published for a purpose. Th effort will scarcely succeed here, as the people, being taught by experience In the .ARREST OF NJSWSPAPfia MEN IN WA RAAWTrom a Contrabaad rtttfiV n ! :. 5 i n v v a Canadian rancher which was run acroa ,t the border Into th United State. Tha, .) horse was a fine gray which could gallop a mile In less than two minute. Th. ., mounted policeman of th district In which,, ( It was owned started after th thief th,.)(t day after It waa stolen ana tracked hlnna down to Fort Asslnlboln. where Colonel Otis, afterward General Otis, th governor; of th Philippines, was In charge. H ther..,. found th hors In th hand of a stock-' man. who claimed that he had owned It for f.ve year and that It had never bee a . out of hi hand. n'lt Polleo oa th Trail. ,.( Th mounted policeman called upon OoU vul onel Otis, told him he knew th man wa lying and asked him If h would arbitrate -i a tha case If it were brought befor hlnv " Colonel Otis replied that this wo outvrtn-i Bid his duties, but that b would pas at judgment if th parties were brought be- u for him. Thereupon th Canadian officer, m caused th man' arrest by th local polloej M and man and hers cam befor Colon M Otis. Th man swore to his ownership-t saying that he had kept th hors fofiw years. In the meantlm th Indian guide who had assisted th mounted policeman whir, pered that th hors had a curious trick: r of chewing up any piece of rope with which nl he waa tied, and that he could free himself m from any rope In ten minute. Th pollei nl man communicated thl fact to Colonel ? Otl and asked that th hors D put toto th test, saying that tx h aim not onewtrol himself loos h would gtv up his claim,. ,tvr To this Colonel Otl consented. ... jj Th animal waa thereupon tied with a,v( rop to a post clos by and all the party vOD, walked off to a abort dlstano. They hX)to hardly stepped back before th hors bw,n(- gan to chew at th rope. ' Colonel Otl took, rf) out hi watch and timed him as h bit Atorft hi baiter again and again with hi strong nT, whit teeth. It was Just seven minute rI1j and a half befor h was loos. Ther. ,r- upon the policeman wa told that he could jt take th horse back to Canada, which ho did. FRANK O. CARPENTET -- in Polancf east, will not be led astray. jr Th Now Lycle 1 authority for th-"7j statement that a uerman newspaper pub' llshed at Lods has been confiscated and th.M editor 1 awaiting Judicial trial. ainii.. auu. .... .. . - number any day In thos few newspaper 1)a which exist or, rather, vegetate, In thl', country. Th people ar constantly subject 8(1J to arrest at any moment, and that on th. (w eve of the election of th national "Duma,'' ot while a few month after th proclamation of th Imperial decree the majority of. n, luiure voter are exiiea or unaer iocs, ana key, without the right to vote. Hit by a Cabbage ..i.i med Tambo Mistah Owaynus, apeakln' of , ,otl man e&ttn' hi words, did yo' evah '"' man tnakln' a meal offn his opinions? loal Interlocutor Why, no, William; I novel''"11, saw a man making a meal of hi opinions.' :ua Will you be kind enough to tell m,"J' William, how a man possibly can mak a meal out of his opinions? "' Tambo Well, uh, when he' eft d tl,iVu out'n 'em he's atlll got d "onions," baltW' uC3 he? . ''" Interlocutor Ladle and gentlemen, ' th"' " celebrated baritone, Mr: IJmberglottl, wlltn,Bsl now sing his parhetlo ballad, "Kiss Ma on the Cheek; My Lips Ar Cracked. "-Chi- ft! " cago Tribune. -'W"