| Show THE NORTHWEST INDIAN RISING ane indian rising in the northwest Is getting more and more serious kletthe Kl Rl elthe eithe halfbreed who Is the head and front of tile the rebellion against the dominion government is dally gaining more adherents he rents ills his men are arc armed with rifles and nearly all of them are expert marksmen they are fine fellows physically capable of great endurance and remarkable rapidity ot of movement tile the chief rebel himself is by no means an ignorant fellow his educational advantages es flaye haye been fair and he is endows endowed with much natural shrewdness should he fall into the hands of the government which is more than likely ho he will be summarily dealt with witti by being hanged at short notice lie he is now under indictment for the murder of thomas scott whose execution by his order was a cruel and merciless assassination the indians of the dominion have nothing to complain of against the dominion government it has pursued a very different policy from that so long lung the rule of our interior department it treats an indian as areston a responsible being punishes him for crime as other men afe abe ar punished aud and keeps its con contracts tract with him as it does with other men mell mel kiel first rose in rebellion in 1809 1869 his complaint then was what it is now that the government is surveying lands for sale to which the half breeds have sole right because of prior occupancy P ancy lord loid wolseley then colonel now in the soudan whipped riel kiel in 1870 and little has been heard of him since except his election to the dominion parliament when tiie the settlement was effected in 1870 the dominion gave to the northwest half breeds acres of land each but this grant was confined to the province of manitoba kiels present followers live in the saskatchewan bottoms bottom sand and about lakes winnipeg and the present rebels demand the same terms accorded fifteen years ago to their fellows of manitoba |
