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 [i ' I -I 4 -J " 4 i l' Y I 'I r :rt:ft^-"-»-*'^3A--" TUb Standard. MABKDALE JUNE 4, 1885. BOYAL KINDNESS. Our readers may have hitherto noticed that oar reeent Boyal Gover* nets, Princess Louise, had contributed a fund for tbe procuring of comforts f«r our wounded and .suffering boyH at the front. This act of thoughtful care on the part of the Princess will render her memoryâ€" already dear â€" doubly dear to every Canadian member of the Empire. THE BRASS BAND. We are gratified to bo in a position •to announce that Markdale is now ^possessed of a brass band. The instruments arrived last Friday and were paid for spot cash. There is many things yet to be provide ' .a the way of music, helmets, torch-lights, uniform, o., Sic, so that those who have not yet paid in their subscrip- tion will greatly oblige tne band by doing so at their eailiest convenience. We have already had the pleasure of music from this new institution, and, though they have had but three nights practice, they have made wonderful progress, and will master a xiumber of pieces by the let July. The foUowiDg are the officers and members of the baud â€" E. Jocee, Captain, E Cornet W. J. Benson, Solo B Cornet G. Eichards 2nd B'Cornet W. Mason, E Claronet; E. Large, Solo E Alto J. B. Mathews Treasurer, 2nd E Alto W. T. Jack- man, B Baritone F. Porter, Secretary B Trombone D. McFarlane, 2nd B Tenor J. Beaton, B Bass W. Arm- strong, E Bass Alex. McDuffie, Bass Drum T. Clarridge, Snare Drum T. Newlove, Symbols. Trustees â€" The village police trus- tees, Messrs. Wm, Brown, Thomas Mathews and George Grant. Auditorsâ€" W. J, McFarland and J. E. Marsh. OUR BEAVE MEN. Canada has certainly good reason to be proud of the bravery of our volunteers. The young men of tbe country nobly and heartily responded to ibe caJL of duty when their services were requireil, and in no instance do they appear to have flinched for a moment to march into the thickest of tlie danger and battle. Their coolness and disciplme, too, has been of tbe most creditable character, and cheer- Inlness with which they have endured the great fatigue and privations, so necessary in such a campaign, in such a climate and in such a country, deserves our highest admiration. All honor to our noble volunteers. Un- fortunately too many of them will never return to us again. What a pity that such noble lives must be sacrificed because of the acts of such mean men, and in defendmg our country against such an uprising EIEL'S TRIAL. THE CBOWN PBOSECUTOSS TO STABT AT THB END OF JUMK. B. B. Oslor, Q. C, who has been appointed bv the minister ol justice to go to the North- West as a crown prosecutor of Eiel in company with Christopher Eobinson, Q. C., is a Liberal in politics, havmg contested Welland m 1882 m the Eeform inter- est, and was a very strong candidate. Before a iuiy he has no superiors, and will doubtless make the best of the case. They leave about the 25th of J-iuv, and the court will likely onen soon Jitter their arrival. It is'almoiit certrtui thi't Stipendiary Mftgistrate Eiohardsou will preside at tbe trial and that a jury of six will be empan- elled.. In tbe North- West Territoriee there is no provision for equality in the nationality of the jnrcrs. GREAT SALE of HARDWARE, M^niiui on the other side, il«f««f«vv*^ffvv w. Kioxjcsja Having decided to give up Business, is now offering his his immense stock of SHELF HEAVY HARDWARE, PAIHTS, OILS, GLASS, C., AT COST. This 18 a genuine Clearing out Sale. Call early and secure B^^^^jJ)^ SIGN OP THE "BIG AXE." 240-53 A GOLDEN OPINION. Mr*. Wm« Allan, of Aeton,cleol«rw that Hamrd's TaUow Oil b the bert boaadMdd remady in tho irorid Ibr coMa, oronp, aowtfatont, hmam, ubMm mad otiMT pnhdU opiamiMvvO SCENES IN THE NORTH-WEST. The Bev. E. B. Young, in an ad- mirrable article in tbe Methodist Magazins on the North- West tronblee, writes as follows The great cause of tbe present troubles is the scarcity of meat since the destruction of the great buffalo herds. Both Indians and half-breeds well know that the ex- tiuetion ot these animals is due to the coming of the white man, with Lis superior firearms, and his wanton slaughter for the mere excitement of the chase, and also his greed for the profits on the sale of the robes. The buffalo was ever regarded by the Indians as the special gift of the Ku^ Mmuto the Groat Spirit. His nutritious flesh furnished the best of food his hide gives them tents, bed- ding, clothing and moccasins the sinews were easily made into the strongest thread. With plenty of buffalo they hardly need anything else. Travellers who visited those broad prairies year ago have given us glow- ing descriptions of the vast herds that then roamed over those fertile regions, literally the cattle upon a thousand hills. Btrict laws, very similar to our present game laws, were rigidly en- forced by the Indians to prevent the unnecessary slaughter of these useful animals. Spears and bows and arrows were the only weapons with which they then hunted them. But all this is changed. The pale face has come, and in his mad frenzy to kill he has ignored all the wise Ihwr for their preservation, and so the wholesale slaughter has gone on until now the buffalo is, or very soon will be, classed among the extinct animals. A few years ago as many as one hundi'ed and aixtv thousand were slaughtered for the robes alone. When killed in the fall of the year for meat, their robes are about worthless, but during the winter when they are in prime con- dition as the robes of commerce, the flesh is poor and hard. The result is there was a double slaughter, to obtain meat and to obtain robes. Is it any wonder that under such wholesale slaughter, those plains that once teemed with plenty should now be devoid of life and that half-breeds or ludians should, from their present half-starved condition, wish they could see those days return again I remember once when conversing with the late honoured Rev. Geo. McDougall on the expensiveness of getting in supphes to my northern mission, hearing him say that the matter of obtaining provisions for his own, and son's families, the previous fall was a very simple affair. He said that he and one ol his sons, with their pockets full of buUets, wiUi their powder horns on their necks, and with their guus in their hands, had mounted their well trained buffalo runners, and during the alteruoon's sport, had killed fourteen fat buffalo cows, which furnished them with abundance of fresh meat all through the wmter. The great yearly event in the life of the balf- breeds was the Rreat fail hunt of the buffalo. When the little crops were secured, like a great mihtary procession they wended their way west- ward towards the vast feedmg grounds of these animals Wives and children followed after in quaint, capacions, nngreased, and censtquentiy noisy, yehicles, known as the Bed Biver earts. Hundreds of buffalo used to be killed, and thousands of pounds of dried meat, and iemmican^ and tallow, and hides would be secured. Thi witli tlte produce ol their little farms, although they made miserable fiumers. give them abundance of food. There is no use in dsguisiug the fact tiiat th^se people are in a half- starved coudition. The transition haH been too sudden, the (^d lif e was too deeply ingrained to be forgtrtten in a year or own a deeade. Placed on theur resenrei or BStUements tliey hftv* new fBtteonteoted. audit «iU t^hng jmxB and much patiMtee HOW TO nSAT THE IimiANS. In the cuone of a sermon in Selkirk Hall, Winnipeg, on Sunday evening hist, Bev. C. B. Pitblado said .â€"The Indian can no longer fiud employ- ment on his old hunting grounds. He can no longer get venison with which he satisfies the pangs of his hunger. He can no longer get fur with which to furnish clothing for his body and covering for his tent. And now on tbe vast prairies, where his father dwelt at ease and lived on plenty, the aborigine of the western land roams an idle, naked, starving outcast. What wonder if, in such eirenmstances, the Indians should be tempted to take by plundering what he cannot get by hunting? What wonder if be should seek in the new fields of the pioneer settlers the food which he cannot find on the old hunting grdunds of the plains What wonder S, in his desperation, he should. RESENT TBI INTBU8I0N OF THE WHITK MAM into his territory by shedding his blood and sacking his home! But to the honor of the redman of the North We|st be it said, they have been known to starve rather than steal. They have pillaged whole Indian villages when they would not lay a hand on a white man's settlement. In this respect the untutored heathen has often with- stood temptations to which the cultured citizen has yielded. He has patiently borne what you or I would have resented. Perhaps his patience is now exhausted. Goaded on by designing rebels, the Indians haye in a few cases been driven on to commit deeds of violence and bloodshed. Their destitution has no doubt been a weighty factor in influencing them to perpetrate crime. One thing is certam. The flames of war bet^veen them and the new settler on the frontier have been kindled. If .they are not ex- tinguished THE BESULT WILL BE KUINOUS to the colonization of the North-West, exhausting to the resources of the Dominion, and detrimental to the interests ot Christian truth and morals in our country. Hence our policy with the Indian must still be peace, at almost any financial price. It will still pay us better in every way to feed them than to fight them, and it will be found more ennobling to the nation to hire good farmers to teach them how to cultivate the soil, and for the Churches to send missionaries to bring them under tbe power of Christian truth, than to keep op an army to exterminate them firom the country. The Indian wars in the United States cost the Goveinment $86,000,000, or HOBS THAN rOUV MILUOK A TIAB. The cost of the present disturbance would, under proper res^ulations, de- fray the expeniea of feedmg the Indians and snpptying them with teachers and missionaries for many years. Well, if we will not paj liberally to diffuse education, we must pay ex- travigantly to suppress crime. If we will not pay a little to farmers to instruct them, we must pay a great deal to riflemen to shoot them. If we will not pay a few thousand dollars for provisions to prevent famine, we must pay millions to sustain an army to prevent masacre. When we will not give a few hundred dollars to erect churches, we will be obUged to stive some thousands to mantain policemen. When we will not giye freely to support missionaries, we will be obliged to pay reluctantly in taxes to sustain soldiers. If we ^ill not pay to uphold moraUty we will be sad^d with the expenses oiyiee. A THBOAT CUBE. A core for Cronp. There is no heltar nmedy for Croup than BMyard's TeQow Oil taken intrnuaiy ud applied aeeordhig to apoeial jmtioBB. This is the great houa*. 'â- â€¢14 Wiww s a for riteonBatum, if 4c. BIC BEAR. Gen. Strange Meets the Frog Lake Ifl^^ Loss of Three Womidedi Middleton Departs with his Force from Battleford. GEN. STBANGE'S FIGHT. GEN. STBANOE MEETS Blfl BEAB â€" ^A TWO DAVS' FIGHT ^ANXIETY CONCEBNINO A SCOW AND THIBTSEK HEN. Battlefoed, N. W. T., May 80.â€" The steamer North- West en route to Pitt came across James Grant and Charles Bossiter in a canoe 60 miles up the river. They left Fort Pitt on Thursday night with dispatches for Gen. Middleton, a fight between Strange's forces and Big Bear's band having taken place that day. Bossiter informed your correspondent that Big Bear's location had been discovered on Wednesday and an advance was made the following morning. As the whole of Gen. Strange's troops had not yet arrived at Pitt he could only muster about 300 men the force con- sisting of two companies of the Winnipeg Lake Infantry, two com- panies of tbe 65th Battalion, the Alberta Mounted Infantry, and Captain Steele's police scouts. A march of ten miles down the river and three miles inland brought the troops to the Indian camp. THE BEDSEINS WERE ENTBENCHED. just over the brow of a hill and in order to reach them Gen. Strange was obliged to cross a marshy valley. While advancing the Indians com- menced firing and the troops were ex- tended in skirmishing order. For three hours and a half a steady fire was kept up from both sides. The troops had a good cover in the shrub- bery from the fire of the enemy. The field gun did good seryice in driving the Indiaus from their quarters, but the number killed could not be ascer taiued. Strange's loss was yery slight, only three of the 65 being wounded-Marcjotte, of No. 3 Company, was fatally wounded, and two in No. 5 Campany. The troops. BETIBED IN GOOD OBDEB. to Pitt. The 65th Compaities came down the river in a scow and joined the main body. On the inland march i thirteen men were left behind to guard the provisions on board. After tbe fight the scow could- not be found, and neither the men or the scow have turned up since. Bossiter also says Steele's men had a skirmish with the Indians on Wednesday, when an Indian scout was killed and scalped. Gen. Strange wants reinforcements and ammunition. After landing Inspector Perry and the Polise, we turned back arriving here late to-night BATTLEPOBD. HIDDLETOX'S FOBCB FOB BIG BBAB 0HI.y THIBTT SOtniBBS AT EDMOHTON. Eattle^obd, June 1.â€" Altftangh it was arranged that the force* of Big Bear should start last night they only ^ot away this morning when ifae steamers Alberta. Marquis and North- West left for Fort Pitt witii tha Midhmd, 250 par* of A and B Batteries and two GafcU^i. »Sixtv m«n ol Bonltoa's acoute, 6$ oT Dismift fttti^eorpi. m otmtOikm^t, wte irnmoh a swats, and S6 iCoaiiltd Poliee weai iiie 8oq« teii. the foraisnpitiiitoiaad tUi sid« of teiD,. hdmonton Joioi. Tb«ra are only thirty \^ Ednooton with Col. Ooiior^J 6Sth in eommand. ^^ "' THE TEAHS. The exact number of left Calgary yesterday for was 228. They were escortJa?' men of the niutb BatallioQ ' Capt. Dopieus. The transpoij* calculates he had saved tCt' on this outfit, previous Tatei about 17 cents tc EdmoutoQ •) he sent this outfit at eight ci^ pound. He believes the gupp^^ have to be forwarded from this all sommcr. ' CALGABl. OXPAHTUBlS.OF AN OKIFnâ€" aba» Oaloabt June 1. â€" A larg» consisting of over two huudnd 1 and carts, started for yesterday escorted by twi the 9th Quebec Battahou. Yb^i tbe first sent out under th« oev f sport officer. Major McGibbon trail to Edmonton is said to be i fearful state. This outfit will a tedious time in getting Tbe lest one was seven daysin^ to Battle Biver, .120 miles from and would take about seven moi get through. A Kick Against HeneHliJ The case of Vickers v. Can Pacific railway was commenced^ Jtme at Osgoode hall beforeCJuno Boyd, pursuant to special app. ment. The action is one bronfliil the Vickers Express company toe pel the Canadian Pacific railwaj] carry their express parcels oTet f Toronto, Grey Bruce d tneir road and the Teeswater bn for a fair compensation. The j of the acticMi is that the G. F. B refused to carry the plaintiffs' pai on the ground that they had specij contracted with the Dominion eigi company to give them the mk right over that road. Tbe pit contended that under the railwa;J such a monopoly cannot be era but that all express companies 1 be treated alike they also claix^ 000 damages for loss througii tiieij way's refusal. Five Queen's are engaged in the case, vhich 1 probably take all day. Notices af^Births, Mamagei, ani twetnty five cents. â-  MARRIAGES McCoNNELL â€" Kerb â€" ^In Markdalei on i 3id inst.^by Eev. A. Wilsot. MrjJ McConnell to Miss* Emma Majrto" of Euphrasia. MAKKDALE. Fall Wheat.... SO 80 to Spring Wheat 78 to Barley 50 to Peas 55 to Oats 3 Butter 10 to Eggs 10 to Apples 50 to Potatoes 30 to Hay Oa tolij Pork 5 00 to M Flour 3 75. to i] Wool 17 to ^te.y^'iiQ MARKDALI THIS NEW â€" Patent Process Flouring Is now completed at great e' on tbe IVIost Al*PRO pl^ns, and with the best chinery manufactured, ^^ ing it, in every sense 01 teL, "I lodei nil." 1 am therefore in a to give the public a Si iHtele of Flour, A fair trial resiyectMl licited and I have no tea the result will be emiD' satisfactory. tiOMk paid for good hard 1 "tS' Flour, Bran, Sh^ itc, for sale wholesale^ uaus Pi m ngn iiw