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lit* it Organizing a Band of Indian* for tlio 1’ari* Kx|»o*lti«»n.Gabriel Damont. the noted lieutenant under the late Louis Reil, was interviewed bv a correspondent at tort Renton on the 21st inst. Napoleon Neault, a bright young French man. who has been with him since 1885, accompanied him as interpreter. Dumont’s knowledge of the English language is imperfect. Ho emphatically denies that he was on a mission to organize a force of Indians and half breeds to aid the Crees at Bato-che in another uprising against the Canadian government. When he was at Montreal he made arrangements with a Parisian gentlemen to furnish him with one hundred half breeds and Indians, and one hundred and twenty ponies, for exhibition at tho Paris exposition. His object in coming to Montana is to complete bis selection of men and horses.He has tilled the company with Crees and halfbreeds that he found on Milk river, and will leave with them as soon as he gets an answer to a cable message sent to Paris.He does not think the Batoche half-breeds will create any further trouble with the Canadian government, not with his consent, anyhow. He believes that the Canadian government is unjust to them. He believes and says their wrongs cannot be redressed by bloodshed. Time and a fuller consideration of their just demands ! will, he thinks, work out a satifactory: conclusion of the whole matter.Tho bluest of the blue blood of the Cree, Chippewa and Assioaboiueprinces, enlivened and tired by a French cross, Hows through the veins of Gabriel Dumont. He speaks the French, Cree and Chippewa languages fluently. He is 50 years old, weighs 233 pounds, wears a full beard and long hair, sprinkled with gray. There is no danger of Dumont exciting a revolution at that time. He is engaged in a peaceful business.
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Port Townsend Puget Sound Weekly Argus
Port Townsend, Washington, US
Thu, May 30, 1889
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