Daily globe., 1883-08-17

agent to ''investigate." The agent found
that one Frenchman who had married a
Chippewa lady had raised a crop of
PA HALF BREED CHILDREN
and had drawn scrip for every one of them.
The old lady was still in prime condition,
and the prospect for another crop was very
fattering. That beat the patriarchs of
old; but it must be remembered that we
have healthy climate and a remarkably
productive country. These half breed
scrips, please remember, touch "Uncle
Samuers" land without money and with
out price," He didn't get $1.25 per acre in
cash for it, as he does of the pre- emptors
who "squat" on the pine lands of the
Minneapolis syndicate. Finally the Chip
pewa half-breed scrip enteries that had not
yet been patented were suspended by the
secretary,of the interior, and it became nec-
essary for the spine land ring" of those
days to do. something for their country,
so they organized, consolidated and ad
vanced on Washington in solid phalanx
with their ''grip sacks" full of Chippewa
scrip locations and their minds sobered by
prospects of "divisions and silence" The
twin Bills who were running thei Washing
saw that there was good chance
for sail hands round" and they got an act
passed through congress to allow the poor,
honest locators of this Chippewa scrip and
their innocent assigns to take it up and en-
ter the land at $1.25 per acre. The
"scrip," you see, was good thing to have
in the house, and might be useful again in
the future. The official records and files
of the st. Cloud land Office show that the
twin Bills aforesaid became the ''innocent
purchasers" of good ''slice" of these go
cations,' and took up their scrip and en-
tered their pine lands ''like little men," at
$1.25 per acre under the law they had made
for the protection of the poor and innocent
IocdtorS and their assigns.
One of these twin Bills. on dit, invested
the proceeds of his purchase" in short
horn bulls for the benefit of his beloved
country, and the other Bill invested part
of the proceeds of his in religious tracts
and holy hymns, which he sent out to en-
Tighten the 'sHeathen Chinee," and glorify
the church of which he was devout and
sanctifed member.
The latter, before he stepped down and
OUT of the United States senate, joined
heartily in the holy howl of lesser Will
THE MINNEAPOLIS PINE LAND SYNDICATE,
for the repeal of the pre-emption law, and
helped to secure the appointment of one
VIM. R. Marshall as speciaI "bulldozer"
to hunt down and harass the poor devils of
pre-emptors, who had begun to encroach
on the sacred grounds and divine rights of
the syndicate.
The fact was, the new "syndicate," which
was formed about three years ago, had
plenty of money and complete control of
the political machine. They could obtain
the contracts for the public survey and run
them to suit themselves. They coald send
the township plats to the local land offices
when they pleased, and go with them and
gobble the cream of the pine with scrip
and soldiers additional"
They could order public land sales when
they pleased, and as they pleased, but the
The syndicate couldn't enter the lands till
they were surveyed and the plats trans
mitted to the local Office, but the right of
the pre-emptor attached the moment he
''squatted" on his claim-surveyed or un-
surveyed.
The gentlemen of the syncate couldn' t
&c up into the pine forest and ''squat;"
they had other business on hand. They
had saw mills, -four mills and political
mills to look after in Minneapolis and else
where, and besides they were not numer-
Gus enough to cover all the desirable pine
lands with the slack of their breeches.
They had made other calculations. They
had figured on ''gobbling" the lands with
soldiers homesteads," chippewa appli-
cations (of which .hereafter) and deftly
managed public sales; but impecunious
poor men, who had no right to pine lands
or pine trees, hsdIsuddenly taken.to the
woods and were poaching on the presences
of these wealthy gentlemen of the syndi-
cate, and something had to be done or the
game was up. So
| WILLIAM B. MARSHALL,
who had been in his better days governor
of the state of Minnesota, but who had
gradually descended year after year from
higher to lower levels, was con-
tent to earn his daily bread
/ by acting as scavinger for
more successful men, was appointed as a
detective snook to hunt out, hound down
| and harass the poor men who were u1ld-
ing their rude cabins and ''squatting'
among the plumed pines of the north.
Marshall thankfully accepted the
''crumb" with his accustomed holy whine
and eagerly entered upon what he terms
| his
SACRED MISSION
of hunting out the trails of the poor pre-
emptors and homesteaders, and following
them up to their rude cabins to harass,
intimidate, prosecute and persecute them
! for the benefit of the syndicate and the
! honor of our beloved country. With eager
scent he began like a rat-terrier to smell
out the tracks of the poor settlers in the
pineries of Minnesota, snuffing with de-
| light the tainted air where the waY-worn
and weary homestead hunters had tarried
for time at the calls of nature under the
shadows of the somber pines.
WHAT A SPECTACLE!
Stretch, my gentle reader, if you can
your Imagination beyond all bounds of
probability and propriety, and picture to
yourselves ex-Governors Sibley, Ramsey,
Davis and Pillsbury, or either of them, de-
scending to the position of a common de-