St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-03
BY t. NJ. NEwsoN.
Article XYYILL.
AN UNPLEASANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


While sitting in a small Office of the Shell
ing House thirty one years ago, our atten-
ton was arrested by the imposing presence
of large Indian chief, who, with his blanket
about him, strobe into the room with the dig
nifty of Roman senator. He was large
man with high cheek bones, well poised
head, dark, brilliant black eyes and hair, and
with pleasant smile he exclaimed while
passing: ''Booshu nechee l'-'how to do,
friend!"-and took a seat near us. There
was a massive characteristic about the man,
which did not belong to the ordinary Indian
and yet he had all the Indian peculiarities.
Dinner was soon announced, and he took a
seat near US at the table. He ate with ordi-
nary deliberation and an ordinary amount Of
food, but while so engaged one of the win
dows was suddenly darkened, and on look
Ing up we beheld many grimmy faces and
burning eyes, with war paint and feathers,
the possessors of which belonged to the Sioux
nation. Cleaning knives and partially
covered tomahawks made our position by the
side of the Chippewa chief rather uncomfort-
able, so we moved away; but he continued
to eat on, and then the door opened and
thirty Sioux warriors filed along in front of
the foe of their nation, with clinched rifles
and hearts glowing with revenge. Still, calm,
with not muscle of his mobile face denot-
ing fear, the chief finished his dinner,
eacoolly arose, drew his blanket about him,
Ssand with lordly tread. a compressed lip and
I" flashing eye walked down in front of these
hostile Sioux and lighting his pipe deliber-
ately pulled the smoke into the very faces Of
his inveterate foe That man was Hole-in-
the-Day, the chief of the Chippewa nation,
and the thirty Sioux warriors were on his war
path, but they feared the white mans troops
that would dart down upon them the mo-
ment the blow had been given, so they re-
strained their wrath and let the great chief
depart unmoested.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Hole-in-the Day was an Indian of remark
able sagacity and intelligence. He assoc-
ated with the whites and com pretended their
ideas Of civilization. He was very
willy and very brave, and greatly feared by
his enemies. 1t is said of him that he
would float down the Mississippi river in his
canoe to st. Paul, paddle across the stream to
the opposite shore, secrete his boat, lay in
wait for the Sioux, who were in the habit Of
following the trail to Mendoza, then pounce
upon them, kill one or two, secure their
scnlps and make his way back again to the
East shore, and thonce home.
INDIAN WHITE QUEEN.
He visited Washington several times and
became pretty well versed in the ways of
tricksters and politicians. Once, while on
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white girl in the National Hotel, and actually
proposed to l&r, was accepted and they We're
married. He came West, repaired to his
home near Fort Ripley, installed his wife in
his teepee as the white Indian queen, and
soon after he was assassinated while riding
home with his little son. Hole-in-the- Day.
had magnificent physical organization. He
was very straight, quite dignified and vet very
a1fabe, and withal he was very generally
liked by the whites. During the Sioux out
break in 1862, he had overtures from Little
Grow, the great Sioux chief, to join with him
in massacreing the whites, but he declined
the honor, although some of his people were
very anxious to have him do so. He has a
son, educated at Farbault, who possesses a
great many of his fathers qualities and who
is now endeavoring to elevate his race by in
ducing them to adopt the habits and customs
of the whites which he has himself already
done st. Paul, in early times, without
n-the-Day, would be like the play of
Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
HIS TOMB.
On high hill overlooking the Mississippi
river, about three miles above Little Falls, lie
the bones Of the great chief, and those of his
father, after whom he was named There is
n slight depression between two hills, and in
this depression Is lone tree which
stands rs a sentinel over the graves
of these two noted chiefs. No other Indians
lie buried in the neighborhood.
TREATY WITH THE SIOUX.
Up to this year the Sioux Indians owned
all the land on the west side of the Mississippi
river, but treaty was made with them on
the 23d Of July, 1851, at Traverse DIES Sioux,
whereby they ceded 81, 900, 600 acres of land
to the United States, and this land is now
covered with villages, towns, cities,
railroad tracks, farms, energy, en-
terprise and capital, and where will one day
arise an empire that will astonish the world.
or course there was great rejoicing over the
treaty, because the land would be open TO
settlement the traders would get their money
due from the Indians, and the Indians them
selves would have money 10 expend with the
whites. II was the opening of new era In
the history of the northwest; 1t
meant pushing the Indians ON 10 the
frontier; il was, as Goodhue then wrote in
1851 the introduction of farms with their
fences, and white cottages, and waving
wheat fields, and vast jungles of rustling
will citf
spires and railroads with trains of cars
rumbling afar ofT-and now nearer and
nearer the train comes laundering across
the bridge into st, Paul. fifteen hours from
ST. Louis on the way to Lake SUPERIOR All
of this has been realized and more
too, in thirty-four years, and many
OF those who attended that treaty still live as
witnesses of this unparalleled growth The
Sioux Indians have been swept outside of the
borders Of Minnesota since 1851, and still
the tide of civilization rolls on.
RIGHT REV. JOSEPH GRIFFIN, d. D., THE FIRST
BISuoP OF ST. PAUL.
Rev J Cretin was consecrated bishop on
the 26th OF January, 1851, and arrived in
st. Paul on the 2d of July of the same wear,
or thirty-three years ago. Since the days of
the good father Galtier, the first priest, the
Catholic church had grown to large proper
tous, and 1t became necessary to have q
bishop to direct its movements. Father
RayouN, who took the place of Rev. Galtier
in 1914, speaking of Bishop Cretin, says:
All those who have been well acquainted
with him are convinced that he constantly
walked in the footsteps of Saint Paul, by zeal,
piety, charity, humility, iucessant labor and
patience in Suiferiugs; not only after his