Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-10
THE WESTERN STATES.
Their Names, Nicknames
And Coats of Arms.
WHEN AND HOW C0L0NIZED.
A Continuation of q Subject Inter
esting to the Local
Organizations.
WHEN AND HOW CoLoNIzED.


Containing the States Of the Union'
Ohio may be taken up as the first OF tne
Western States. The name is OF course
Indian and is given to the river as wen
a. the State. The nickname, na
MI the world knows, is " Buckeye
given for the horse ehestnuts, which
abound In that region. She was admit
ted to the Union on the 10Th OF fobru-
arv. 1903. Her coat OF arms are in the
osutsr OF shield on which the SUI Is
rising over rich agricultural scene,
where water, hill and plain are beautifully
combined. On the sides are herds OF
cattle and other insignia OF husbandry
The motto Is the Latin Imperiam IN Ian
oerio. an empire within an empire. Tho
State was first settled by c0lonists from
Virginia, followed by Others from Penn
svlyania. but at later date many people
from New England came In. 1t Is prob
ably To this Massachusetts element that
the State is indebted for this motto.
IA IA well known nj about the
baoinnine of the century the
dlctrine Of states' Rights was very ram
pant In the old Bay State. The empha'
sis placed in this Latin inscription ON
the empire resident in the State was
probably inspired by this sentiment
fransplanted from New England to the
Western territory. The State of late
years has been so prolific OF Presidents
and Presidential candidates that In a
play upon the name bestowed on her
prime progenitor, Virginia, VIZ; the
hMother OF Presidents, She has been
called the ''Step- Mother of Presidents. "
The local Ohio organization embraces
many of the most prominent and esti-
mable citizens OF Los Angeles.
Going West With Grseley's
Young man, Indiana is reached.
The name, OF course, Is in
compliment to the whole aboriginal
business Of the New World. The
.ickname is Hoosier, There is a
great deal of dispute as to
The origin Of this term, but the gener'
ally accepted ons is that itsprings from a
rather broad and careless pronunciation
Of the question, who's herey' and It IL
50 d to have arisen from the habit OF the
early settlers in the wilds Of the new
territory, who lived far apart, in con
slant terror OF the savage Indians or th,
scarcely less dangerous white ruf
fan, always found too plenti
fully in new countries, and herr
accustomed when a knock oaue at th'
door after dark, of approaching the en-
trance with great caution aud asking
"Who's herey corrupted into ''Who'
yerg" and 30 into Hoosier. The Stat
came into the Federal Union April 10
1916. The escutcheon has q circle II
irontiersgyy sS "a ffsseiHia fsse fagidh c hArd' y
the rising sun to the remote
west, far from the hated signs anC
sounds OF the ever enoroaching wave o
civilization that was overhowing his
pastures. On one side Is load o
new-mown hay and on the Other
that still familiar emblem of the hall
nomad and wholly seductive life of the
emigrant. big prairie.sohooner or GOV.
cred wagon. The legend is ''Constitu-
tion, and near by is a sword to protect
the cherished instrument OF American
freedom. The State wss settled largely
from Kentucky, and as that State was
coionized from Virginia and States fur.
ther south, the motto would seem to
point to taking up of the gage
Of battle thrown down in the
legend on 0hio's coat of arms.
There are great many Of the people oil
the sturdy old Hooaier State in and
about Los Angeles. They have done
untold quantities of yeoman service in
settling up this region, as Pasadena and
other colonies will witness. Why they
do not form a State society is, in the
memorable words of Lord Dundreary,
You know, that is something no fellah
can find out, you know"
The adjacent State of Illinois gets also
an Indian name, but its termination
lois" shows that the word reached the
first oolonists from the lips OF the French
Missionaries Of the Society OF Jesus, or
Jesuits as theyare usually called, whofrom
Canada at the very earliest dates pene-
treted the furthest western wilds TO
plant the standard of the Cross. They
left their monuments all the way through
Detroit, Joliet up to st. Paul and the
falls of st. Anthony in Minnesota. Both
the peninsulss OF Michigan and the
broad regions of Wisconsin bear witness
to their untiring zeal in the numerous
names of French form that stud these
States. The nickname by which the
citizens of this great empire State of the
West are known far and wide is s'Suck-
ers." This term cannot mean that
they are tgreen" and easily caught,
like the fish A Chicagoan and
sharper ino bad meaning in this epi-
thet hsrel are supposed to sleep in the
same bed pretty often. How then came
the manner The fish is great imbiber
Will some Iliinoisian rise and explain?
She came into the Union December 3,
1918. Her coat of arms is shield on
which are emblazoned an eagle on the
stump of cut down tree. He bears in
his beak scroll on which is writ.
ten the legend; National Union.
State Sovereignty" Can this be
= patriotic attempt on the new
State to bridge overs the opening
breach apparent in the notices of her
two sister Statesg She was eolonized
largely from these two States aud her
population is made up of pretty even
proportions of people from the South
and North, The rest of the escuteheon
are the symbols Of commerce and agri-
culture. The local society is the parent
one of all those in Los Angeles aud is in
a very vigorous state of health.