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question to popular vote, and the result was that they 

 decided to give the railroad $300,000 as a bonus to 

 enter the town. 



We arrived at Morley, Alberta, September 25th. 

 The town consisted at that time of one store, three 

 dwellings and the railroad station, having a total 

 population of about twenty. It is of importance by 

 reason of its being the distributing point for the reser- 

 vation of the tribe of Stoney Indians. Large herds of 

 cattle are pastured there by the Canadian Govern- 

 ment to provide a weekly supply of meat during the 

 year for the Indians, and the annual payment of five 

 dollars per head is made and blankets distributed in 

 accordance with the treaty stipulations. 



The Indians are settled along the valley of the Bow 

 River, some in tepees, but most of them in substantial 

 and well-built log houses, each family having a small 

 cultivated patch of ground on which they raise vegeta- 

 bles. Their ponies are hobbled near by and their 

 cattle range the prairie. They spend a happy, con- 

 tented life, altogether different from the non-treaty 

 Indians whose bad traits I observed so markedly in 

 Maple Creek, and whose good qualities were not to be 

 observed with the naked eye. I talked with a number 

 of those who spoke English, and spoke it quite as well 

 as the majority of white men. They had traveled 

 some, could read and write, treated their wives and 

 families with consideration, and, moreover, had accumu- 



