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Thursday, September 22, 1955 -

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

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from Alexandria did not set out for
the Chilcotin country until June 8.
This party under Cox included Don-
ald McLean, late chief trader of the
Hudson's Bay Company at Kamloops.

lowed Lieutenant Palmer’s trail and
on the 12th arrived at Puntzi Lake
near the junction of the Chilcotin
and Chilanko Rivers. The next day
McLean departed for the forks of

the Chusko and Chilcotin rivers, in

Phone 57-R-2 search of Alexis, a friendly Chilcotin
chief. When he reached this tribe

OUESNEL, B.C. . | he found all in arms and prepared

‘or war, but, succeeding in convinc-

From Alexandria Cox’s party fol-

More About Chilcotin War

ing them of the peaceful intentions
of the whites, they promised to send
Alexis into camp.

A scouting party was also sent
out, but had scarcely proceeded half
@ mile when they fell into ambush.
One man was injured.

Cox determined to await the ar-
rival of reinforcements and his par-
ty remained at Puntzi Lake in their
jog fort at the summit of a small
hill. There Brew’s party from the
west met them on July 7
LAST MAN KILLED

McLean, who was in his element
in this man-hunt and who seemed to
think he bore an enchanted life, was

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Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal

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statesmen.

ALSO SPEAKING

Chairman : Gardner Boultbee

ic Meeting

The people of Williams Lake and District
are cordially invited to hear

GEORGE DREW

Elks Hall - Banquet Room

Tuesday, September 27

This is your opportinity ‘to hear one of Canada’s foremost
Mr Drew will be welcomed by representatives
of the Board of Village Commissioners and Board of Trade.

Your own Member of Parliament

DAVIE FULTON

Opposition

| culable.

indefatigable in his efforts to bring
it to a successful issue. On July 17
he went out with an Indian guide to
reconnoitre and was fatally shot.

By degrees the Indians, who had
kept aloof at first, became familiar
with the presence of this armed
white force in their country. Alexis,
the much-desired Chilcotin chief,
was induced to present himself to
Governor Seymour, who had accom-
panied the Brew expedition. Accom-
panying him was an Indian who stat-
ed he was the bearer of a message
from Klattasine and Tellot, that if
the whites would remain where they
were the murderers would come and
give themselves up.

On August 9th
Klattasine, Tellot and six others ac-
companied by Alexis came to Cox’s
camp and surrendered, returning at
the same time a horse and a mule
and $20 for the Governor in token
of good faith. They informed him
that ten others were implicated but
could not be caught until the folfow-
ing spring, and that three more haa
been concerned in the murders but
that one had. been shot by McDonald
and the other two had committed
suicide.

It was evident that Cox made
representations of friendship and
immunity that he could not perform.
This appears plain from the gifts
the Indains brought and explains the
otherwise unaccountable surrender
of men who the party had not even
been able to see.

The ring-leaders thus being se-
cured, Cox's party with the prison-
ers returned to Alexandria. Brew's
party marched to Bella Coola, hoping
to find some of the other murderers
on the way. In this quest they were
unsuccessful, but meeting Anaheim,
another chief of the Chilcotins, they
obtained from him the horses and
the greater part of the loot from
McDonald's pack train.

RETRIBUTION

The trial of the murderers took
place at Quesnel mouth in Septem-
ber. Two of them became witnesses
for the Crown;, five were found
guilty and hanged; the eighth~was
sentenced to “imprisonment for life,
but escaped. =

The expedition haa been an ex-
pensive one for the colony. Its total
cost amounted to about $80,000.
But the indirect benefits were incal-
The government showed
that it was not sought to visit upon
the natives, indiscriminately, pun-
‘shment due to the few guilty per-
sons, but to impress the Indian mind
with the superiority of British law
in this respect that only the guilty
can be punished. When the true
motive of the expedition was clear
to the natives, the great chiefs be-
came ranged on the side of law and
order. 2

This outbreak killed the Bute
Inlet road scheme. By the time the
Chileotin War was over, the Cariboo
Road was built from Yale to Soda
Creek by way. of Lillooet. *

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Stories dealing with early mining camps do not feature
the religious side of life as a-rule but this famous old Church
had a faithful attendance when Barkerville was a roaring
Eldorado and the biggest city west of Chicago with the excep-
tion of San Francisco. The Cariboo Historic Association is
working towards the preservation. of this and other historic
relics of a cdlorful era in British Columbia’s history.

Photo: B.C. Government Travel Bureau, Victoria.

Health Seuvites Work Among Indians
Shows Results In Lowered Death Rate

A tremendous drop in the tuber- fant mortality
culosis death rate among British
Columbia Indians im the past -14
years is noted in a report by the In-
dian Health Service.

has also declined.
The deaths under t year at a rate
per 1,000 live births were 89.0 in
1953; the year previous the rate was
121.8. The death rate for infants
under 1 month in 1953 was 26.3,
compared to a figure of 16.3 for non-
Indians in the province. Maternal
death rate was:1.2 compared to 0.5

In- 1951, among an_ estimated
25,000 Indians in the Pacific région,
74 succumbed to TB. In 1954, the
preliminary figure is 17 in a total

non-Indian.
population of 31,000. The death SS
rate has dropped from 699.3 in 1941 :
to 54.8 per 10,000 population in |} LITTLE WONDERS
1954. Some 13,000 X-Ray films were TRIBUNE
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