The Redcoats Have Landed in Seattle

The unusual sight of British redcoats attracted attention on the streets last evening, and many people paused to admire a dozen or two bronze fellows with jaunty forage caps and spurs who were looking over the town. They are members of a detachment of the Northwest Mounted Police, and are on their way to the British boundary of Alaska. They have been ordered to the British boundary of Alaska, and will build quarters at the mouth of Forty-Mile Creek on the Yukon, near Fort Cudahy. They will leave this city tomorrow or next day on Capt. Healy's steamer Excelsior. Capt. Constantine says his men have been picked from the best troops in the Northwest territory, and that he has now a command exceptionally sober and hardy. Last evening as the men stood in front of the Northern Hotel, one of them suddenly called out: 'Here come a couple of bluejackets. They are the first I have seen for a long time.' The redcoats all waited until the bluejackets had come up, and then each greeted the other with: 'Hello, boys.' That was enough introduction, and the fighting representatives of two of the greatest powers on earth were soon engaged in animated conversation.