St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-26
SCARED THE REDS.
The Burberry War Veterans
Celebrate at the Metro
politan Hotel.
Men Who Shouldered a Mus
s ket to Put Down an In
dian Outbreak.
The Occasion One for the In
terchange of War REM
iniscences.
How Brainerd Was Saved
From the Ravages Of
Redskins.

Redskins.
The members of the state execu tive
and the state militia who participated in
quieting the uprising of the Indians at
Brainerd, July 25, 1872, held reunion
at the Metropolitan hotel, under the
name of the reunion of the Blueberry
War. The occasion was the lynching of
two half-breeds, who had murdered
Mary Macarthur. The half-breeds
were hung to a limb of a pine
tree in the streets of Brainerd,
which was then frontier town. The
Indians threatened an uprising to
avenge the death of the half-breeds.
The sheriff of Crow Wing county APP
pealed to Gov. Austin for protection,
and he ordered Companies A, and d
of the state guards to the rescue. The
reunion last night was gotten up for the
participants in the event, which hap
PLY resulted in no fighting. There was
a goodly Company gathered to
par ticipate in the reunion. The
dining loom at the Metropolitan
was decorated with flowers and plants,
the First regiment flag and stand of
musketS used Oh the occasion. One or
two of the gray uniforms used at that
time also were exhibited. An appetiz-
ing menu was served, while the ex-
soldiers recOunted incidents of the past
twenty years or talked of the events of
the war that was named, as Lieut..
Cochran said, by the newspaper re-
porters. He said no Indians were seen
by the guards, except a few squawS,
who came into the town to sell blue
berries.
Lieut.. Milford c. Wilson, who acted
as captain of the company. at one time
exhibited number of souvenirs of the
early history of Company A. which
was formerly the Minnesota Zouaves.
One of these was programme of the
first ball given by it. July Is, 1871, the
executive committee at that time being
Capt. e. s. Bunker, Lieut.. W. G. Will
son. Sergeant w. S. Baldwin, Corporal
E. H. Cutler. Privates G. S. Acker, j.
l.. Forepaugh, ID. B. Finch and l.. II.
Maxfield. He also exhibited the honor
able discharge of w. A. Van Siyke, on
Aug. ~. 1872: also the receipt for the
fifty muskets used 10y the company at
the time and a special order by first lieu
tenant ThOS. Cochran to parade OH Dec
Grafton day, 1872. A number of pictures
were exhibited, among them a photo
graph of the two half-breeds hanging to
pine tree in the street of Brainerd.
Regrets.
Gen. Mark d. Flower, who was adju-
tart general at the time, acted as
toast master and read kilograms
and letters of regret from absent par
Elephants in the event celebrated
The kilograms of regret We're from A.
nj Hf Il ofnIf,
San Francisco, and A. Steinbach, James
town, n. ID. Waiter }. Kennedy wrote
regrets from Butte, Mont. F. F. Hen
mig sent re-rets FROM Sioux Falls. Gen.
Bunker was out of the city and sent
regrets. Henry Lunkenheimer, of Su-
periOr. Wis.,, wrote that business pre-
vented his attendance.
II Mayor McHaglep and a committee of
Brainerd'On July Is sent an invitation
to the soldiers to be the guests of that
city the 18th of July. The st. Paul COM
mittee replied to this. inviting the
Brainerd people to St. Paul. S. Gerden,
editor of the Yellowstone Journal,
wrote a lengthy letter from Miles City,
Mont. saying that the invitation to be
present at the twentieth anniversary of
the memorable. though blOOdleSs cam
paign known as 1.-The Burberry War;"
came at time when it was impossible
to attend. He INDUCED in "reminiscences
of the war that caused the soldiers
amusement when read.
Gen. Flower, as postmaster, said he
did not know who first suggested that
meeting, but it gave him pleasure to
meet the veterans, who, twenty years
ago, were called upon by Gov. Austin
to protect the citizens of the northern
part of the state from depredations by
the Indians. He, as adjutant general.
ordered Companies A, B and u, of the
state guards, to proceed to the scene of
the uprising. The following answered
The Roll Call.
Hon. Horace Austin, the then governor:
Hon. AlonZo j. Edgerton OF Sioux Falls s.
D., who was one of the commissioners who
treated with the Indians; Gen. Mark D.
Flower who was adjutant general; Zene C.
Bohrer, adJutant OF the First regiment: W.
A. Van Siyke, Quarternaster of the First
regiment; John W. Shepard, sergeant ma
jor and acting quartermaster sergeant First
regiment
First Lieut.. Thomas Cochran Jr., Second
Lieut.. Wilfred G. Wilson. First Corpl. Ed
ward Fl, Cutler. Privates. William 81. Game.
Craig. George L. Farwell, Dudley B. Finch.
Rodney G.. Gooding, George II. Hazard,
Samuel b. Larpenteur, Henry Schumacher y
B. Seixas, Henry j. Spencer, Cornelius Will
Jams. -,-1
COMPANY B.
Capt. Albert Scheffer. First Lieut. Fred
W.~Dobn, First Sergeant Charles +. Pusch,
Second Sergeant Martin Dreis, First Corporal
Minneapolis; Privates Charles Albrecht,
Christian Albrecht, Charles Bishop. Adolph
Lindenberg, st. Cloud; Augustus Manke,
Theodore Sander.
Captain, Michael j. O'Cunnor: lieutenant
Thomas Caulfeld; corporal, George Demp-
sey; privates, Thomas Davis and Thomas
Nolan.
The roll of Company A was called by
Corporal Edward H. Gutter; of Company i
by Sergeant Charles F. Pusch, and OF Com
pany d by Thomas Davis.
An Ex-Governor.
s'The State in Its Relation to the Nat
ional Guard" was the toast to which
Gov. Austin responded. He said:
s'Many of you know, but did not know
you as soldiers OF the Burberry war.
This war has precariOus standing i'll
history. 1t was generally supposed to
have been false alarm, but tue records
in the state house show there was
dangerous uprising. The ready re-
seemed real danger indicates their
heroism. He expected the security of
the state to be preserved in the future
by the state guards. and he compli-
mented the militia of PENNSYLVANIA on
responding to the call to preserve the
peace at Homestead.
J e. S. Chittenden responded to the
toast 1.-THE Midnight Alarm, and How
I'VE Got There" by reading clippings
from newspapers about the time of the
war. as to its cause, etc.
( Capt. Albert Scheffer responded to the
toast 1.-The Girls We Left Behind U.s."
i'm his uSual bright and Snarkliup man.
ner He asserted that the soldiers
know how to appreciate the American
girl, who is the finest in the world. and
the finest in America the uirls Of