Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1903, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba morning free press Winnipeg. Saturday january 3, 1903. Nova Scotia in ool s a shrinkable underwear Verv port of Nova Scotia is near Salt water and the gentle sea i input to Tiia Wool a Peculiar texture and softness. This Wool Staple Ami of Jerreat strength and elasticity. in the in the world made from Nova Scotia combed tool. 3 sold by All reliable dealers. St governor of Ruperts land from i s s i frets Trust 1 time to his physical tin Ciruli action of tie col massacre followed swiftly. Ufier the demolition. Scalar of Jirred that horrid of t-lit1 in Nior and some i his and men. The if surrounded As it was of Sec Kenins Sav s Iii. A s vill be seen not to i Roli Imbia to tie foot of by he destruct Pihra tar. And smarting loss and insult to his or Lonnell Dis Hurt age los Prairies an of from sixty to seventy ins Sis canadians and Trie Lead i ii pert Irant. Who had Michael Bour i Loulo. To go to the i Hin near fort i Jimy with the object of .j.1 provision arts beyond or the purpose of Ravn is apparent retained the ser of the Northwest and her by Poitras with horrid imprecations ripped open his belly with a knife. The knife axe or says Pritch . Put a period to the existence the wounded and on the bodies of the dead were Practised All those horrible barbarities that characterize the inhuman heart of the Savage. From i saw and from what i have been told 1 do not suppose that More than one fourth of our party were mortally wounded when they fell but they were most inhumanly butchered afterwards. We had Twenty one persons killed among whom were governor Semple Captain Rogers or. James White Surgi on or. Alex. Mclean or. 1. P. Wilkin son Secretary to the governor or. Holte formerly lieutenant in the Dan ish or swedish Navy and fifteen ser vants. On the Side at the Northwest ers Only one Man Batoche was killed and Joseph Trottier a says Hnoth no could As apr hrs to Law ass spirit of by which the c so Lons u counsels of Mcdonnell. I is to to believed m m docs i in sin Indian by i with the object to assist him in Hist .1 them that the with the and that not ,.v i Ali of on the a on the in 10th of june the fort at a. Con the usual Road it -.va? Only on that thy with a num in nor. A with Cali r and. exam Prev his spy Flass of sons out and directed o i it bin. Cie of who Ifni Aid of two Field Kruml that his Intel of Thepe pieces a nov but Ute the e11" r Tansu. 1. On Tho half Breeds in a Force and. Intent party , extending to present a larger i. I who on at them a franc i lir Iii i oui Ber. His . shouted Waal la you Story of an Eye witness. I the following extract from an affidavit made by one of the settlers Alexander Sutherland gives further details this deponent next Day was allowed to to to fort Douglas and on his Way saw the bodies of the slain nearly naked with limbs and skulls fractured and covered with blood and wounds that Sev eral of their faces could hardly be distinguished from the blackening occasioned by guns having been discharged close to the skin. That deponent went in the afternoon with some other settlers to Bury the dead on the Field where they had fal found them totally naked. That deponent saw Many of the Indiana and especially pee Guiss a. Saulteaux chief crying like children at the distress of the Pritchard likewise states the first Lime 1 returned from the fort to Frog Plain 2utli 1 was accompanied part of the Way by the Indian chiefs who were Golnic with a cart to collect the bodies of the dead some of which they brought Home and buried in my Gar Den. Had governor simple really been As they always called him their father and his friends who had fallen their Brothers the indians could not have expressed greater sorrow than they did on this Douglas were removed Between the years of 1s20 and 1s30 to St. John s churchyard but no Stone was erected Over them and he could not Point out the spot where they were re interred. Were certainly re interred. That they were removed re interred is beyond All doubt for miss Mary Mcdonald of Winnipeg who was born in fort Douglas pointed out to the writer on the 7th Day of july the spot where the excavation was made when the Bones were taken out and placed in a Large Box before being removed to St. John s. Miss Mcdonald was a Little girl at the time but remembers see ing the men working in the open Hole and the Box of Bones. The excava Tion was made on her Grandfather s Robert Logan property he then owned fort Douglas having bought it from lord Selkirk s i without the stockade of the old fort i across the Little Creek which ran by j its West Side. As to the interment in St. John s churchyard the exact spot is unknown hut it was immediately Northwest of where sir George j Simpson s child is buried miss me Donald thinks the Date Cou a not have been much if at All before Semple s family grief stricken. It was not till towards the end of september that a Rumor of disaster reached the deceased s family in Scotland but no particulars nor confirmation of the report could be obtained till n month later though All this time this Little Home Circle was in an agony of fear and when the blow fell it was with re doubled Force for with the details of the death of Robert came the news of the loss of another brother Thom As who had been swept overboard in a Gale Oft the Rio de la Plata. No wonder that his sister Anne writing to her brother Matthew to announce these sad events lamented alas my dear brother that i live to be the Nar Rator of such a melancholy tale As i have to unfold every feeling within me seems How the governor was regarded by his family May Best be gathered from her Clos ing words we have All lost our stay and support in him indeed through his whole life he has sacrificed All his happiness for us. None Hud so Little of sell As he had. None had Ever a purer or More affectionate heart and All the thoughts of both our Brothers must be pleasing except the melancholy Way in which they a fond wish 4? a letter of the governors written in Isis and quoted by the Bishop of Montreal in his journal of a visit to the Northwest american missions gives an insight into his anxiety to establish religious instruction into Rupert s Lund i have trodden the Burnt ruins of houses barns a Mill a fort and sharpened stockade but none of a. Place of worship even upon the smal lest scale. 1 Blush to say that Over the whole extent of the Hudson s Bay territories no such building exists. It is surely High time that this foul reproach should be done away with from men belonging to a Christian nation. I must that i am anxious to see the first Little Christian Church and Steeple of Wood slowly rising among the wilds and to hear the sound of the first Sabbath Bell which has tolled Here since seven Oaks. There is no item that enters into the Economy of the household that is so important to know All about As the one of milk. Rib rib is absolutely pure perfectly prepared and full Cream. For More than forty years it has been the favorite Brand avoid unknown brands. All grocers sell it. Tho Canadian exclaiming. So me Laid j a Idle who there his horse and is . A shot was fired or Ito to. One of the gov was and a ten took place by which in All his party r -.1 or wounded the Only Hins Michael Hyden. John i Mihael Kilkenny. Of org Mccoy and an according to or. .t How it Grant admitted to that he had shot the governor a Ard Brok a it. Ashen i Nelp gathered round him. Upon his or. Save . The n into the group j i deadly or suts. j a round Ami support it us hand the governor on l by Grant and Icahn was said. I am not and if you could get me the " fort i think i should promised to take care left him in charge of one no him t object hut a truck the name of Machvca by a lust for blood to the defenceless and bleed his run to his left breast ton dog you have aus of All this and shall i him through the heart. to Pritchard Mclean was brought to the next Day with eight Michael Hyden the Black that he Cou do i to hero the Ball struck he which wound he lost his body was so covered with Marks that he Roulfs not Tell one a from another. Hugh Mclean Wileden As to the bringing of the nine bodies on carts ant who my at the first Volley. Up and series a save Pritchard nil ran with him towards the n 1-thwist.ts. With raised hands ask Natter but was shot through by Thomas Mckay son or a Vranik a Mckay r. Retired partner cure no pay. Tvs Lixi Galst will refund your Money Imizo ointment fails to cure King pm. Old ulcers and sores. Pir Inlow. Fin-1 blackheads on the face and skin diseases. ".0 cents. Of your drug has t to in Stock Send 50 cents in to the Paris Medicine co. St. Me., who also manufacture Laxa Bromo Qumine Tho celebrated cold cure. Indians were faithful. Frederick Damien Heurter formerly acting and clerk in the regiment of de Meuron. In his Narra Tive also bears testimony to the Faith t a Hiss of the indians to the governor and says that Archibald Xor Man my made a speech to two Saulteaux chiefs named pee guis and l Homic Xor or the Black Man and their bands in which i heard him reproach hem for having refused to take up against the Colony when called to do so. He called them a band of Doss and threatened to punish them very severely if they dared to befriend the English again. The writer had an interview at Winnipeg in 1891 with Misko Ken Mew red otherwise known of Henry Prince youngest son and Suc Cessor in the chieftain ship to the in Dian chief pee Guiss now pegu is i above mentioned by his favorite and head wife a pee Moya Wace the sounding a Chip Penny. Misko Kin Mew spoke in the most affectionate manner of tie governor and stated that his father to tie last mourned his death and told him that he Hal gathered up his body and those of Liis officers Ami buried them year the big stockade of fort Douglas us governor s in a separate grave because of his rank the body was uncovered by a shirt. A separate grave was also a signed to an englishman a Fik and of pegu is the servants As he believes were buried As they Iny scattered about on the scene of the Skir Mish. Savage ferocity. Commissioner Coltman enumerates several examples of horrid crimes perpetrated on the wounded by the Northwestern and that these acts of Savage ferocity cull loudly for some that the two Des champs. Father and son so revelled in atrocities that they were shunned by their Savage associates will give some idea of the enormities practice. The father plundered the Corpse of the governor and gave the clothes to his sons two of whom had murdered no less than ten persons and these wore with exultation the hats of the Gover nor and his Secretary the latter had been killed by Francois Deschamps. One Lacerte wore or. Semple s watch and silk Sash which were brought away by Vasseur into whose faithless charge he had been committed by Grant Alexander Sutherland above quoted saw Cotton Haye a half Brkl son of Charles belief Arr a Canadian arrive from the scene if the massacre bearing with him gov Tizor Semple s pistols sword Flo Uble in rolled gun and White handkerchief ind give these articles in his father who put them with smiles of Satis faction under his kept personal effects. Or. Pritchard says that he entreated Grant to procure him the watch or even the seals of or. Semple for the purpose of transmitting them to his friends but did not succeed. Archibald Norman Mcleod installed himself in the apartments at the fort lately occupied by Semple where his books and other articles yet remained and Thomas Mcmurray by his directions broke into his boxes with an axe. None of or. Semple s effects Ever reached his family and the writer has drawn some attention to the distribution of them because at the request of a relative he vainly endeavoured through the medium of the press to Olurin some Trace of them. Some that remained including valuable mss., were forwarded to his relations by the h. B. Company s ship Britannia but the vessel caught fire and they were All destroyed. Graves Are unknown it is a matter of great regret that the last resting place of the Gover nor and his men is not precisely own the Graves of those who were buried on the scene of the fight would naturally soon become obliterated collected statements of a number of the old settlers agree in the main with the contemporary accounts where they do not agree it i inv be attributed to the fact that the then oldest surviving settler. Tialii Murray had not attained a greater age in 1s1c than the Youthful one of fifteen the others were Many years younger. Murray pays a trib to Jesuis memory and his re Sard for Semple and states that the ass Lea we were buried at fort Tab s condensed 1 Iii new Yuriv Selling representatives Scott Peters co., Winnipeg Manitoba b re the scene of this sanguinary conflict is known to the Selkirk settlers and now to Manitoban generally As seven Oaks from a Cluster of such Trees then standing there. The Trees have Long disappeared under the blows of the axe. And the roots have been torn up by the plough of the Farmer yet the place survives after nearly three generations As the most spot in Kupert s land and whatever if any danger there was of its losing this character has been obviated by the commemorative Tablet erected in 1s91 by the historical and scientific society of Manitoba on the Side of the main Highway representing As nearly As May be the theatre of these occurrences. Perpetrators escaped punishment How the massacre of seven Oaks led to the dispersion of the colonists in vigorous reprisals on the part of the . Re of Selkirk to the proclamation the Prince Regent commanding peace on the part of the belligerent factions to the sending of the Royal commissioners to the trials at York in upper Canada and at Montreal and finally to the amalgamation of the rival fur companies in 1s21 is a. Matter of his tory which needs no consideration Here. Only in regard to the trials in Canada need it be observed that Paul i Irown and Francois Firnin Boucher tried at York or. October Isis for the murder of the governor and adjudged not guilty of the crime , and the same verdict was returned in favor of John Sive right. Alexander Mckenzie Hugh my Ninis John Mcdonald John Mclaughl will and Kimon Fraser charged As accessories. The grand jury had at the same sittings of the court of Oyer and Ter Miner brought in indictments against Cuthbert Grant and Louis Perrault As principals to the murder and against a number of others As accessories but none of these were Ever brought to trial. A careful perusal of the reports of these Legal proceedings certainly justifies the remark made in regard to one of them at least by a judge who sat on the Bench that it had been conducted in a. Very manner As Well As the advanced by Amos in the introduction to his report that they had been most improperly conducted a single illustration of which he Evi Dences in the fact that Cuthbert Grant though he was lying under indictment for seven capital felonies was nevertheless admitted to bail and fleeing into the Indian territory escaped his divine retribution. Though most of those who took part in the massacre were brought to the bar of earthly Justice yet in his history of the keel River settlement Ross states that divine retribution in the shape of violent or sudden death overtook no less than Twenty six of the sixty five men who composed the attacking party. Such is the Story Tolu As completely Lviv be from the available material of the first governor in chief of Rupert s land. His will have so appeared from the foregoing pages it is hoped Case it will be Only needful to say that All tie historians of. And writers on red River affairs unite in testifying to the exceptional extent of his attain ments and the general uprightness and of his disposition. Even his bitter enemies the westers acknowledged that he was both amiable and meritorious and a. Useful and honorable member of also bearing witness to the fact that he fell a. Sacrifice to the implicit Fidelity with which he executed the commission which was entrusted to him. Lustre on his memory. Cut off As he was in the prime of his duty the tragedy of his death Sheds a Lustre round his memory. What name la there in the history of the red River settlement which is entitled to a higher place on the scroll of worthies than his 1 not that of sir Geo be Simpson dimmed As it is of a suspicion of Craft Nefas and tyranny. If not then there remains but Selkirk s. But even his should not be he id in greater estimation than that of Semple for the philanthropic schemes of the Earl cannot be disassociated from commercial ouse male of its Honor and integrity no his death of its martyrdom in the defence of the lives and property entrusted to his Victoria b. C., Canada sunday school j t primary Union lesson. Title Paul and Silna at Phillips. Central thought How Tho Grooch news How Tho news of the Tell Bow the news of Ery True Soldier of the lord Jesus must help to carry the Newe. Approach. Procure some Cut out pictures sold the news of Jesus to these people. The people did not know who they were but of Day there was a. Crowd of peo ple on tie Street listening to u. Tamau whom some men Han fortunes to tha pc nolo for Money. This woman Paul and Silas one tiny make Murks for the crowd on Trio and cried out. Those men Are the messengers of the great Ood. And Liuva brought news from him. Paul turned and called out. In name of Jesus Christ this woman is Mae . And As soon As lie had Lipken. The woman was hotter. When Tho wicked men. Who made Money by her saw what waa Dune they took hold of Paul and Silas and with a frent crowd of be open used them Virv roughly and brought them of furs the police court. They told lies i Orward we Henat Side of the Chalk Pri i they were put in the worst part i of the prison and their feet wern fast ened so they could not move. But Paul a rus would take care of them. So Ulicy Sang songs of Praise to Jesus. Through Tho night Tho other prisoners could hear Thorn san Ping. Then am and Silas prayed to Tho lord Jesus when suddenly there u great noise the ground Shook the great Stone Walls of the prison the. Big brass inti a new open and the chains fell off nil. Tea i prisoners. The jailor ran out was drawing his sword to kill himself when Paul cried Don t do Hourselt any harm to Are nil Here. The Pniler fell at Paul s feet. Surely it True what Iheson men of nil Nho it this wonderful lord if he could shake Tho world by a word and Brenk the Gates of brass without touching them. So to cried out in Groat fear what must i in to he nil Paul snick believe on the lord Jesus. Jailer believed and nil his tally that was How the news first came to Phillipi. Application have you Ever told tills news to any would Yon not like to save Sam eone from satan you May. Sing i love to Tell the Story. Great clubbing and Premium offer. 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