Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1878, Winnipeg, Manitoba Daily press september 7. Nearest Point had to be drawn across the country. To build a Barrack under these conditions seemed to be in impossibility but in the lexicon of a Bright police there is no such word us and before the first Frost a comfortable and Complete Barrack with stables store House and officers quarters will confront the traveller and Cany dismay to the heart of the whiskey he a the Shore of one of the prettiest spots in the North West. Shoal Lake is the Bane of All under Mitte d whiskey carriers. There Are Only two roads by land into the North West from Manitoba Anil Titis is the main one so that Here goes on the principal search ing of carts and examining of permits. I had occasion recently to travel to fort Ellice on government business. I car ried sock government documents that it was important should note lost or damaged so As a River ahead of me. Was flooded i stopped at Shoal Lake to get assistance in crossing the Stream. There were numerous trains of traders and freighters on the Road bound for the Western forts or for the payments of the Indian annuities and each and every one of these had to be examined concerning whiskey. It was necessary to be careful because so the Story goes a half Breed trader had once passed the whiskey by an ingenious Dodge. As he approached the Lake be took a Large Keg off his and event Down with it to the Lake. There he held it in the water for some time and then returned and threw it dripping on top of the cart. It was naturally supposed that he had filled a Keg with water that he might Camp when night overtook him without regard to there being water at his camping place but the gentleman less discreet than ingenious soon afterwards boasted that the Keg was filled with rum and that when dipped into the Lake had been securely corked. These Little manoeuvres Are no longer efficacious at Shoal Lake. 1 noticed while there that every once and again a policeman would Sud Denly drop the Shingle he was laying or the chisel that he was handling and hastily put on a Scarlet jacket and his helmet. In another minute he was striding across the Barrack Field and then one the head of a train of carts appearing through the Trees that fringed the Lake. Sometimes it happens that a buckboard dashes by at a full swing without stopping to communicate and then it is a Case of Saddle and mount. On the occasion of my difficulty with the swollen River Captain Herchmer learn ing the nature of my Mission consented to take me to fort Ellice. On arriving at Tae Stream in question we found camped there a gentleman who had driven past Shoal Lake flourishing an empty Keg at the visiting policeman. He Hail submitted to scrutiny and now enabled to inform us thai we should have to swim our horses and that the current was Strong. Captain Herchmer divested himself of All cloth ing but a forage Cap mounted one of the horses and led die Way. Eventually clothed and in our right minds though of of eaten by mosquitoes we reached fort Ellice we had not been ther above an hour when an Indian boy Ai Rived at a Gallop with a letter from Shoa Lake to say that there was Good reason to believe that the gentleman with the empty Keg had managed to secrete Quantity of undiluted alcohol. By Thi time the shades of eve were closing fast and the flies were rising in hungry no Titues but Herchmer s mind s Eye Only a chuckling smuggler and Proem aug two horses for Liim Soh incl or. Kiuei to met at the fort the pair be off on the Back track. At two o clock in the coming one s slumbers were Dis Turbed by the military tread of thes two returning officers. Is that you Herchmer it s what s left of me. The mosque toes have got the greater did you catch yes woke him up and search everything he had. He had t found him to had t even Tion of spilling his serve you right for speaking in sue a cold blooded Way of spilling Whiske Good night. Don t make such a to Frith your daily edition. Saturday sept. 7, 1878. Mil. Moi crib Jab his lorfies. In two or these of his speeches or Lorris said that while lie was Emor of Manitoba lie was obliged to sex penal. And did expend per a Muir out of his own private Means Over an above his official salary and. All conti1. Buted by the provincial government some May believe others May be sin prised at this remarkable statement very Many indeed will confess that the. Statement has startled them somewhat but they will find As Little difficulty ii believing it As that other bold Public statement made by or. Morris that h had no idea of coming to Manitoba t run for any constituency although dozens knew that it was intention so to do when he left Here last autumn he made the latter declaration notwithstanding interview with a prominent political Friend at Ottawa last Spring and his communications with certain wire pulling politicians Here. With j knowledge of these the event which have transpired since his arrival in Winnipeg is it surprising that the Public feel disposed to doubt any declaration made by or. Morris resting on his unsupported assertion but this state Merit about drawing on his own private Means for the support of himself and family at the rate of a year Over and above his salary and All perquisites is astonishing. Or. Morris must have but a poor opinion of the intelligence perception and judgment of the electors of Selkirk and the people of this coun try to venture upon such an audacious statement. The Public accounts Dis close that up to the 1st of Decem Ber 1872, lie was paid presumably As , than per careful analysis we think would show More. Hei alone without going into other matter incidentals Etc., we have nearly drawn bodily from the Public exchequer for a Little Over five years and All of doing Little More than having exhibit himself occasionally in Windsor uniform will or. Morris at his next meeting turn the Stream of his sympathy from the neglected who ranks to declares he could not select private Secretary because a Privat Secretary you know must be a Coni dental person and sit at your own table the Trio who marshalled him out a a candidate and Are certainly entitled t some Little consideration at the hands o their chief and explain How much Mam Toba owes him for services rendered it at a. Personal expense to himself o per annul Over and above All h Drew from the Public exchequer there seems to be scarcely any opposition to or. Dubuc s candidature in pro Bencher and his not by acclamation at least by a very Handsom safety be predicted. The attempt is being made by or. F. A. Matin to foist himself upon the constituency but his candidature will probably Tiase before nomination Day. By removal expenses five years salary As it. Governor contributions by local government. Per annul. Would be tedious to go into the exact amount that was contributed to his support by the provincial government but it is Safe to say that it was not less t. Scott should at once return from Marquette. Or. Smith require his assistance Down in Kildonan when the people Are just aching to hear Hin again. Perhaps or. Morris Don t wan him Back though. The acceptance of the governor generalship of Canada by the Marquis lome necessitated As a matter of course the resignation of his seat in paid Sameir his younger brother lord Colin Camp Bell also n Liberal was elected in Argyl Shire to replace him on the 2sth ult. H received votes a majority of 35 Over or. John Wingfield Malcolm conservative who resigned his seat of Boston Lincolnshire to contest Argyll Shire on behalf of the government. The election is the most important from party Point of View of any held in Sci land for years. Both candidates a been actively canvassing for weeks. Obj principal Points discussed were the for eign policy of the government and the disestablishment of the scotch Church lord Campbell condemned the former but declared himself open to conviction in regard to the latter. The number o electors in the constituency at the Las general election was the famil influence of the Duke of Argyll in the constituency is naturally very powerful fact which requires to be taken into consideration in estimating the extent i which the result of the contest May b accepted As implying condemnation o the Imperial policy passed at Berlin or Eastern exchanges throw Sonn further Light upon the purport of tin meagre news we have hitherto received respecting an alleged revival by the gov eminent of the United states of negotiations for the attainment of a reciprocity treaty with Canada. The London times editorial from which a Brief extrac reached us by Telegraph a few Days ago Appeal s to have been founded on a Trust worthy communication from its Phila Delphia correspondent to the effect tha the americans desired to renew negotiations and that or. Evarts real object ii opening a correspondence with the British foreign office about the fisheries award was probably to put the aware and the new reciprocity treaty together so As to obtain the negotiation of the lat Ter at the same time the former is liquidated. The times argues at length showing that such an arrangement can not be made. It would really seem i Orr the context of the portion of the Artiel received by Cable that the Sugges Tion has been made that Canada should adopt the United states Tariff a promo the acceptance of which would involve such momentous consequences that we hesitate to enter upon their consideration without having the fullest details before us. The times remarks if Canada and the United states Are to be fused for Trade the must have a common fiscal system 01 merchants in Buffalo and Toronto 11 would be put on unequal terms in Trad ing with new York and merchants in Montreal and Boston in dealing with Halifax. 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