Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-10-23
A Pleasure Trip to Mile Lac.

A Pleasure Trip to Mile Lac.
A party Of gentlemen left Little Falls
on Sunday last for pleasure trip to
M lille Laos, the beautiful lake about
40 miles northeast Of Little Falls.
Maj. A. 6. postlethwaite of st, Paul
con troller of the. vt. Paul & Northern
Pacific Railroad company, George S.
Jones Of New York, secretary and
trea surer Of the same corporation, J.
c. Flynn, Leon Houde and Milo Por-
ter Of Little Falls, and Lyman w. Aver
of Belle Prairie were members Of the
party. The lake was not reached I'M
IL Monday noon, and the party spent
the afternoon in hunting and fishing
and examining the Surrounding coun-
try. Ducks, cartridges, grouse and
other game birds were abundant, but
the lake WAS 50 rough that there WAS
not much pleasure in fishing. Sha-
hosh- ke'rrz, the head chief . f the Mile
Laos Indian tribe was Visited at his hut,
and he claimed that he had lived on
the same spot for over sixty years.
He says he is over eighty years Of age,
but be don't know how much. There
are about 600 Of his people living on
the reservation now in comparative
comfort, and nip ask that they be paid
their annnities regularly in money and
that the white men be kept off the
reservation. Sho- boshk ong claims
that the government officials many
years ago assured the indians. thst they
would not be removed from the reser-
walton as Tong as they behaved them
selves, and The constant runors about
| removing the MilIa;Lac Indians to
White Earth greatly worries the ole
chief. Mr.. Aver is a thorough scholar
in the Chippewa language, probably
the best in Morrison county, and acted
AS Interpreter for the chief. The party
returned on Tuesday. making q very
quick trip, considering the roads and
arriveing in Little Falls soon after 4
o'clock.
Post'ethwaitc and Jones are innuen-
tial officers in the st. Paul & Northern
Pacific company, ard it is possible
, that their trip was for something be-
sides pleasure, as 80 mile ride over a
rough road in October weather is not
the best picnic imaginable. They ex-
a'uined country between this place and
Mile iacs carefully and posted them
selves as much ~ possible on:tha re-
sources and character Of the territory
between the two points.
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A 'arge delegation Of Little Falls peo.
pie, among them Lyman Signor, j. Tay
! lor, Robt. HERON, Sheriff Rasicot. J. Fl.
! Rhodes, Frank Marihall, and Editors
Auyer and Fuller, went down 10 st.
Cloud on Saturday last TO see the horse
race between Roam Billy and Orphan
Boy, the Gieeu Prairie runners. The
race was on the track Of lhe Driving AS
sociation, and large crowd from St.
Cloud attended. II was to be three
;; heat race but the race was won in the
first 'wo heats by Orphan Boy, owned
by Richard Neil. 1t was claimed BY
some that the Jockey who rode Roam
Billy, owned by John Denny and enter
eel by j. Taylor, did not try 10 win the
race, and the slow time made
did not show very well for either horse.
The first mile heat Was run in : fraction
Of second over two minutes. A trot,
dag lace was arranged between Neill's
Judy and a mare owned by Che,. Waite
at 81 Cloud, and the latter animal won.
The running race didn't come out exact
~ according 10 the liking Of some Of the
Lille Falls crowd.