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Show THE HALF-BREEDS FOLLOW KIEL Execution of Eight Indians Who Participated In the. Northwest North-west Rebellion. Battlefobd, N. W. T., November 26. All arrangements are completed for carrying into effect the sentences of the six Frog Lake and two Battleford Indians. The gallows gal-lows were tested this afternoon and worked satisfactorily. The execution takes jplace at 8 o'clock in the morning. The prisoners are mostly resigned. Wandering Spirit, leader of the Frog Lake massacre, is defiant. He says he would do, if free, as he did in the spring. He says HB HATES WHITE MEN. Some Indians are in from the country, and the - sentries are doubled in consequence. Final religious services were held with the prisoners to-night. No speeches will be made on the gallows. Battlefobd, November 27.-855 a. m. The execution of the eight Indians found guilty of murder at Frog Lake and Battle-ford, Battle-ford, occurred at 8:27- this ' morning. The mechanism of the gallows worked without friction. |