The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-31
WOMEN AS INDIAN FIGHTERS


DR.. Edward Egglesson's important histor-
ical paper in the September Century, on
g Indian War in the Colonies" says Of the
her0ism Of the wives of the pioneers: 1.-The
women of those times developed q readiness
and courage as remarkable as thai of the men.
The Swedish women near the site of Phila-
delphis, while boiling soap, were warned
that the Indians were coming They took
refuge, soap and all, in the fortified church,
blew the conch- she'll horns to alarm the
men. and when the Indians tried to under
mine the building ladled the scaldlng soap
upon them, and so saved themselves from
destruction until their husbands arrived.
The renowned Hannah Bradley, of Haver-
hill, in Massachusetts. who had more than
her share Of captivities and adventures,
killed an Indian who was rushing into the
open gate of her husbands garrison, by
throwing boiling soap upon him; and
when the savages came to capture her 3
third time, she saved herself by shooting
the foremost one dead. In 1916. the battle
which Talcoit was fighting in defense of
Hadley was decided by the promptness of
the women, who loaded with small shot and
nails cannon that had just arrived from
Boston and conveyed it to the defenders;
these discharged it, to the dismay and rout
of the savages. A story is told of a maid
servant in Dorchester who defeated an
Indian single-handed by the use of musket
and shovel full of live Goals. A young
girl in Maine shut door and held it, and
thirteen women and children had time to
reach bIock-house while the Indians were
dnvz fhnd or,d Hnn0 Il
though they did not kill, its defenders.
Twelve years after Bickford's ingenious de-
Tense of his house at Oyster River, some
women at The same place initiated it. There
being no men in the garrison, they fired an
alarm, loosened their hair to appear like
men, and used their guns so briskly that
the savages fed. In Tip, Esther Jones
saved Hoard's garrison, in the township of
Dover, in New Hampshire, by mounting
guard and calling so loudly and confidently
as to make the Indians believe that help was
at hand. The stalwart Experience Bogarth,
of Dunkard's Creek, in Pennsylvania, in a
hand-to-hand fight in doorway, in which
two white men were killed, slew three
Indians with an axe
A party of young loafers entered Metho-
dist church at Waseca, Wis, and began a
nights carouse with whiskey and cards.
As there was no police force that could be
called in, the pastor wrapped himself in
sheet, emerged from behind the pulpit, and
spoke in such ghostly fashion that the intru
ders fed in dismay. :.
CALIFORNIA; wheat crop for the present
year is estimated to be worth 100000 600.
One-third Of this will be retained in the
State for home consumption and seed, and
the rest will be exported to foreign countries.
The wheat product of the other Pacific coast
States and Territories will be worth $40, 000,-
600 more, making the value Of the total
wheat crop of the Pacific coast $50, 900 900,
which is more than the entire value of all
the precious metals mined in the United
States during 1882 These figures show the
monstrous folly of which the people of the
Pacific coast were guilty in past years when
they pinned their faith and their hopes of
future prosperity upon their gold and silver
mines and in a great measure ignored and
neglected their far more valuable agricultur-
al resources.