Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — Frontier Discipline. [ARTICLE]

Frontier Discipline.

The Argentine Republic employs a corps of frontier guards, largely recruited from the roving tribes of the pampas, but controlled by SpanishAmerican officers, who seem to enforce subordination by rather peculiar methods. Two or three representative warriors of each tribe are kept under the surveillance of a squad of trusty veterans, and at the first symptom of mutiny these hostages are cornered and - watched at the muzzle of a cocked revolver, while the officer negotiates with tlie Convicted mutineers, however, are no longer flogged, a disrate which their kin nneu would avenge :d_all risks, but either shot outright or or lered to run for their lives, followed after a quarter of a minute by a longrange volley of musket-balls.