The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-09-07

The following items OF wes..rn History, which
we ind in the chicago Bmoerat, win be read
with interest What contrast the Present as-
rsct Of this county pre.ea.s whsn compared
wirh Hha, Il w. ~ -ery aad = h.f; ago, and
wf-i sll TIC Crest is; ts CIV l--u..el and
tay ys.srs i.etcs
PaotiA LA1E-lids lsss vai ..gst yisitel by
NJ la sale il. tie yesl 1879 IL was called ,hc
Broken heat lake bscaase IA Sale aud asso-
eia'es ,ad such la.si .uig and calamity 70 q
,ertnhe them IN theT yanl,, o; discovery from,
Canada to the wes..
Til. great man, La Sale and h compani ms
vt.e the G,,t VIII e people WHO cNplorei the
western country. La Sal learned inn the IN
dians while n Canada 4 vague rUlnor "a! the grea,
river Mississippi. buI suppustd It 20 ca.cr the
Pacific Ocean n.,ead n u.- ilt e Mexico -
Af,sf csp,riguciH.g tAe grcat,.t ,3tH,.ltils, and
iAIa ., IA ja.G y -iitl tttf l.ac lass "a
iio 'eg'a 81 g.e Fsf 1919, hl.dc u s!nJA iJit
iAcI4 ali N.iu.se.,i III ".
10, -n,,ip uf this 81. atc ssh II lille on the
ans % the lato 4 sg.a' gice above the pres
cot town a, ieor.. It va, tSrn ia ,he rilr. o..
los,i,e saYaggs among WI .m his brave mao and
,omrade, passed i gloomy winter ana "a the
spriag Of 1850, ,hrY oSs, Juc,, thc I.ltois river
10 the Mississippi. he aa>sca. l.e I.,-y, .gi
father Hennelia assembled H.
These eutcrpii.iH-, .rgn vofa ne first Willie
men that sailed on the d'her Ct wl,,is-one a--
seeming TO the ocean, ani the u'her ar.thed al
iaoSt the sources Of the Mis- i'sippi when he was
taken prisoner by the indians aal detained for
some years
The French gOVcrumeut maintained q small
garrison at Peoria lake t. protect the Indian trade
t,t al. D..
EnIh,h took possession Of the country under the
treaty Of 1903 Iii, post Was important IN the
Indian lrld-, rs II in the centre ot the great
est lndian pofaA,ion 10 AZ do, weston country.
hore numerous Oh! iLGian q q. c.n OF th, tfv
h. discovered 10 Peoria tAa to any ether p..ut
"a the west
he lake AMI Illinois river Afforded more f h
fr ti.9 support of the Indians than was found N
any other OF The western w.;lis This and other
causes su,taineda more dense Indian population
than any other point, SnI remained 50 as long Us
the Indian trade existed
q, This lake i. Gle ,nust beautiful cxnanse of wa
ter IN Illinois, tie water i, transparent aud the
shores and bJ,.un arc composed 81 white sand
aid gravel.
itis 81 miles long AMI varies in width not ex-
,cedrg, in many places one mile
: lake wiz become in after days celebrated.
iVsl SElrlMANl ~ IIlE NoHlEWlSt,-lle'fnlt
was settled by French mi=sionuic, and traders
a. carly as 1879 Tie first p.irtImeut settlement
was made AT Detroit in liU
MicbiImackiuar WAS founded in 1911, by Father
Morquette a missionary. The fort was hull. by
La Sale in 1919. A fort near the present so
Of Rockford il this state VS. also built 10y lin,
III the same year.
The first settlement at Green Bay was made b.
tlle French about 1910
The first vessel r,er tn n a canse that ever
fuaioi on the Lakes was the Griffin. crnmantrd
by la Sale. lie emba kcd on Lllo Mch'g "a.
and continued en- westward I'll lie reached q c
Mississippi