Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23


and who were greatly disappointed on
searching the records, to find that while
such deed wasgiven to Carver by tho
Indiana, yet when the land was oeded to
tho United States no mention was made OF
the transaction; that is, the deed was not
confirmed, and hence the title was not
perfect. The gentleman was then sick
and subsequently died, but for
courtesies extended to him by US on the
journey, his widow, years afterwards. gave
US copy of the alleged deed, and We
presented it to the Academy of Science.
That institution united with the Historical
society; when this was burned out in the
old capitol building, and the deed went up
in smoke, as many other grand schemes
of men have disappeared in the black
clouds of disappointment. What would
have been the result if these parties had
succeeded in perfecting their title, nobody
can tell, but this little incident is interest
ing as connected with the early
growth and history of st. Paul. In 1S48
DR.. Carver, grandson of Jonathan,
visited our city in search of his
property, but congress would not recog-
nizs his claim, and the matter quietly
dropped.
THEN AND NOW.
Over twenty-five years ago Carver's cave
was place of rural beauty and attractive
ness. Many traditionary legends of the
red men fingered around It's peculiar
history, and tourists entered it's cavern
GUS mouth, dallied with its clear water,
wrote their names upon its transitory
sand walls, and sometimes penetrated Its
winding, hidden rivuleS as it laughingly
gurgled its way on to the Mississippi river.
Then nature was dressed in her gayest at
tire. Then we could pick our way along
the bank of the river, amid the flowers that
bloomed on every side. Now the whole
plateau or swampy land, embracing sew
eral aores, over which we then passed, is
one solid network of rails, on which 1926
trains or 1886 cars pass per month, OF
over 300 trains of cars daily come and go
into the sanity city of st. Paul. The en-
trance to the cave is at present blocked
by a railroad track. Its capacious cham
Der is filed with beer barrels. Its pearly
stream has ceased to flow. 1t is slowly
dying of civilization, and in few years
will be known only in history, and yet to
those who remember it in its palmiest days,
it brings up many memories of bygone
hours and recalls many features of old
friends who sleep the silent sleep of
death. And so the years go by,
the tread of population increases,
and the land marks of the past are
obliterated by the swelling wave
of the human race, which pushes
barbarism to the mountains, crowds the
Indians beyond the plains and harnesses
nature to do the bidding of dominant
man.
FIRST ACTUAL SETTLEMENT IN THIS BE.
GIoN.
In the year 1905 -seventy-eight years
ago-a treaty was made with the Sioux
Indians, (who, at that time, owned all the
land on the west side OF the Mississippi
river,) by Lieut.. z. NJ. Pike, (after which
Pike island, at the base of Fort Smelling is
named, and which island can be plainly
seen from the cars on the left coming
from the fort, or on the right gong to the
fort), whereby they csdsd to the United
States a reservation at the mouth OF the
Minnesota river; end in 1919-or
sixty four years ago-the pres
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menced, and this is, really, the first
actual settlement in this region, antedat-
ing that at st. Paul or "Pig's Eye" This
year, or 1919, Mackinaw boats, loaded
with government supplies, we're poled up
the Mississippi river, 900 miles, from st.
Louis to Fort Smelling, the time thus oc-
cupied being three months. Now palatial
steamers Gan bring the same kind of goods
from the same points to Fort Smelling, in
side of five days. We really do not COM
prehend the maroheof events and the pro-
gress of the age in which we live, until we
dig up the past and place it side by side
with the present, and then we begin to rea-
lie what Galilleo many years ago said,
that "the world does move," and surround
ing events demonstrate that it ia moving
| now faster than at any other period in its
history.
I TREATIES WITH THE INDIANS FOR PORTIONS OF
THEIR LAND--'PIG's EYE"
Thirty-two years later, or about 1887
the Chippewes eeded a portion of their
| land east OF the Mississippi river-they
claiming ell the land On this side of the
| west side, (the river being the boundary
| line) land part of this land coded by the
| Chippewas, is the presenb site Of ST. Paul.
Settlers of the Red river OF the NORTH,
! mostly of Frenca extraction, who had been
driven off the Fort Smelling reservation,
ceded by the Sioux, settled upon this coded
land from the Chippswas, and hence com
| mencsd the nucleus from which g great
city sorang into being, and greater city
is yet TO be, in the march of years. A
Canadian voyager, with bad reputation
and sinister features, by the name of
Pierre Parrant, has the honor of being the
first settler of our Sanity City. From all
accounts he was an ugly
looking fellow, but no doubt brave.
He had an eye that resembled that of 8
pigs, and hence the place was early called
Pigs Eye" which euphouious name it
bore for several years. Parrant built the
first log house in st. Paul, in 1888, Or
forty five years ago, and at the close of
that YEAR nine cabins praced the future