Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20

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river. She heard them fringstheir guns,
and escaped in time to save ;her life,
They proceeded to Grow Wing, and on
an island opposite the town, which is now
in Morrison county, they found some
camps of Chippewas thaticontained* only
old men, women and children. They
'pounced upon them and killed eleven
persons. <'s,, = H.. . :5.i@'5 1@'| ~ d" u
When I first arrived in Little Falls Mrs.
Sloan was living here with aman whose
name was John r. Sloan, generally
called pewter eyed Sloan, who contrib,
uted his full share toward keeping up the
price of whisaey. He was q good raft
pilot, and generally worked at thatsbusi-
ness during the*summer, and at drinking
and gambling in the winter. About two
years afterwards Mr.. Sloan married q |
daughter of tn venerable Allen Morri-
son, of Grow Wing, she being a. half
breed. At this conduct the ~discarded |
woman became justly enraged, aud deter
mined on taking revenge. She therefore
provided herself with a sharp knife, with
the intention-ef relieving her rival Of her
nasal, appendage, which was the usual
punishment inflicted upon ladies of Chip
pewa bload who dared to supplant one of
their sex in the matrimonial, relation, and
she patiently waited for an opportunity
to execute her purpose. The new wafe
suspected mischief, and kept herself close
ly concealed at her fathers house in Crow
Wing. The first Mrs. Sloan found that
she would not be likely to get good op-
portunity for revenge, and one dark night
she got into their chamber bed room by
thew way of, an outside window, which she
reached by firstgetting onto shed. She
was discovered in time to prevent any
serious results. Sloan and his bride
moved to st. Cloud very soon thereafter
for fear Of accidents. The first wife had
two boys by Sloan, John and William,
both of whom the mother kept and
brought up the best she could John is
notorlously good hearted and industrious
man, and William Is the same excepting
when be imbipes too freely of: fire water,
which, unfortunately sometimes happens.
Mrs Sloan, previous to living with this
'truant man Sloan, had. a white man by:
the name of Chauboi1e, by whom she had
a daughter named Margaret. Though
she lived with another man after Sloan
left her, she never had anymore children and
brought up these three without the least aid or
assistance from any one. She made sugar
every spring, gathered wild rice in the fall,
caught fish and gathered huckleberries in the
summer, and when about town made ~mocca-
| sins, went about town to work sometimes, and
she was also good root doctor, and carried
on an extensive businessaas root doctor about
twenty FIVE years ago. She travelled about
the country:a good deal in the summer. and
until of late she could easily pole her bark
canoe forty or fifty miles day up the Mis-
sissippl or any river in the country, however
! rapid it might be, with her three children
packed in, with camping equipage, bedding
etc. nearly forgot to mention that she was
on the St. Croix with large party of Chip
pewas that went down to Fort Smelling in the
summer of 1888 to receive their second annui-
ty payment under the treaty of the previous
year. They found that they had gone down
there by mistake, and that the payment would
be made up at Superior, and they started to
go there, some by the way of the st. Croix,
and some by the way of Rum river and Mile
Lac Lake, both of which parties were attacked.
The St. Croix party, in which she was, was at
tackled on the first night after they had started
for Sup eriOr. The Sioux came onto them
about daybreak, totally surprised them and
killed large number on the spot, and wound
ed many others who died on the way. She
| was apparently always a fast friend of the
/ whites. and true to the Chippewas as between
them and the Sioux, always joining in the
scalp dances, several of which took place at
\ Little Falls previous to 1862. She is now
quite feeble, and lives with her son William,
Iiwho resides here with his family. Her oldest
daughter Margaret, though still young wo-
man, has had quite an evcntful life, and has
been unfortunate in her selection of husbands,
having had three or four of them at various
4 times, all of whom played truant to her, and
among them all she is LETT with six children,
! four of which arc still small and entirely de
pendent upon her for support Her first has.
band was Chas. E. Garden, who came to Little
Falls when he was quite young, with his broth
er Arthur, and started store. They claimed
to have Spanish blood in them, but the gener-
al impression was that they had some blood
of little more substantial color than Span
ish. However that may be, Charles was nat
urally shrewd man, and got in with Gus.
Aspenwa]l and Chas. A. Ruffec, the latter of
1 whom is now the Indian agent for the Chippe-
wa nation in Minnesota, and did business un-
der the firm name of Aspenwall, Ruffee &
Garden. Major a. G. Morrill, WAS Indian
agent at that time. They carried on large
business for four or five years. then dissolved,
Garden taking away about fourteen thousand
dollars for his share out of about one thous-,
and originally invested. After living with
Margaret for about two years, and having two
| children, q girl Louisa, and boy Charles,
| they dissolved, and he afterwards took q
mixed blood by the name of Della Warren,
who, though mixed strongly with Indian
blood, had sandy hair and light complexion.
When he left the country he did not iaforn
her Of his intentions. fearing that it would not
be healthy for him to do so. She learned his
Intentions, however, soon after he had gone
and started after him with Colts six shoot
! er. She went as far as St. Paul. but finding
it impossible to proceed further, she returned
wrongs. Garden proceeded 10 Philadelphia,
went into the hat aud fur business, breke
/ down, and went to New York and married the
only daughter of q rich fur dealer, who set him
/ up in business, frem which time be made msa-
ey fast until his death, which took place about
eight years ago, he being then worth probably,
seventy five thousand dollars. ~ He left twen-
ty-fve hundred dollars. according to report,
i in the hands of Major Morrill,, of Minneapo-
Ills, who is now married to Gardens widow, to
be expended as he might deem for the best
good Of bis two children. Thus far they have
received only about three hundred dollars,
from him, and he has Of late entirely declined
to furnish them anything further. It is hardly
/ to be supposed that Major Morrill, eontem-
plates keeping the money from the children
i az he is 3 vealthy man and has thus far sus-