Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-31

the gate-post of his garden, when some
drunken Indians, coming up Bench
street hill, fred at him, ball struck the
post, making narrow escape for Guerin.
Again, as he opened his door, one morn
ing, an iron he AIDED arrow whizzed past
his head, and stuck in the door JAM"
THEN AND NOW.
We quote these Indian attacks to bring
more wildly to the mind of the reader, the
great changes made in our city inside of
forty years. The Imagination can readily
picture IN the past, few log cabins amid
Iorest trees, nearly q half
a mile apart, with Indi-
an teepees, and drunken indians
themselves proving about on our present
Bridge square, where now can be found
all the paraphernaIia of civilized life.
Those humble huts have given place to
stately edifces of commerce, and
where the Infatuated savages sought the
innocent lives of Guerin and his family,
can now be found silks and satins; and
where the forest trees intercepted travel,
can be seen street cars and the glare of
the electric hight All the old cabins are
gone! The oecu pants are gone! The
trees are gone! The Indians are gone!
But still civilization increases and the city
grows!
DEAD-BUT HoNoRED.
Ten years ago we used to see Mr.. Guerin
walking our streets; interested in our
growth; pleasant in speech, aiding every
public enterprise; a really noble citizen.
And even later along in life, when his
property was stolen from him, and he be-
came poor, he still maintained his honor,
his manhood, his integrity. He died in
1870, aged ffty-eight years, and the com
mon council of St. Paul, for which city he
had dore SO much in the shape of dona-
tons of real estate,very properly and just
ly, erected monument to mis- memor5 and
in the Catholic cemetery reposes all that
were once the material elements OF Vetal
Guerin.
PIERRE PARRANT's NEW cLAJM.
Having been driven by the soldiers from
his location near Fountain cave, Parrant
took another claim, running back from
the river, and including the present prop
erty from Minnesota to Jackson streets.
He built cabin on the edge of the bluff.
! near Robert street, where he sold whisky,
| and finally disposed of this claim to Ben.
| Gervais for ten dollars! This property is
now worth several millions of dollars; Ger
tainly not less than 100000, aad
so goes the world! We can all
| see better behind than before, and even if
| We see ahead we very often lack the finan-
cial means necessary to secure a good thing,
| or even hold that which we have. OF
course il Parrant had drank barrel of
| his own whisky, and gone to bed and slept
| until the present time, and it hadn't killed
him, on waking up he would have found
himself rich man! But he didn't do it,
and he didn't hold his claim, and he didn't
get rich! And what are you going to do
about it? Nothing! 1t is the old story
it over and over again? If-and if-and
if!-
ANOTHER CID SETTLER.
Most, if not all the men we have al
ready mentioned, came to st. Paul during
the year 1880; but in 1871 appeared Pierre
Bottlneau, who purchased tract OF land
known now only in history, as Baptist hill
because Baptist church had been erected
thereon, but of which no vestige at present
seen the imposing building of Wilder &
Merriam, on Sibley street, occupied by
| Nichols, Dean & Co. Bottineau's father
was French Canadian and his mother
a Chippewa woman, and with
the blood Of these two flowing
! in his veins, he was somewhat remark
| able man. He was IL the mploy of Gen
Sibley as guide and interpreter in 1887
and subsequently became famous in con
Quoting expeditions across the plans, as
he spoke all the Indian languages and had
| Travelled over almost every foot of the
| great northwest. On leaving st. Paul he
made claim at st. Anthony, and ther
established settlement, at what is now
known rs ''Bottineau's Prairie" He YVES
| large man, physically, as We remember
him, with prominent face and head
straight black hair and piercing eyes, and
swarthy complexion. An odd contrast
to this appearance, was his exceeding
pleasant smile, which nearly always radi-
ated his face. He had the characteristics
of the bear and the gentleness of the wo-
man, and, if alive, as we think he is, he
must be a man seventy-three years old. He
is a noble link of the past, as he combines
the French, the Indian and the American,
in all his elementary peculierities. One Of
the best things which can be said of Bot
tineau, is, he was always true to his trusts,
and that of itself Is noble monument to
any man.
JOSEPH RoNDo.
Rondo was Canadian and
formerly in the employ of the Hudson
Bay company, came to st. Paul along with
the Gervais brothers, and purchased the
claim from Phelan for 5000. Rondo street
is named after, him; aid this rounds up ouI
account of the very oldest settlers of the
once Pigs Eye, but nov the great, bust
ling, growing city of st. Paul.
sLAyERY!-DRED SCOTT.
Don't be startled, reader, but it is fact
that slaves once trod the free soil of Min
nesota, and what is more remarkable still
is the fact, that the famous bred Scott
about whom Chief Justice fancy made
such singular decision, viz:
that 'negroes had no rights which white
men were bound to respect" was once the