The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-18


ton for war on large scale and inferred
that, having secured the chief of the whites,
the savages were about to fall upon
Boonesboro and wipe out the settlement.
He managed to fatter the Indian pride.
signaled to the salt boilers to give in with.
out battle, and as result the war party
marched back to the capital of the tribe
with their trophies. After many adveu-
lures and an experience that would have
lured common man TO embrace savage
life Boone escaped and made his way back
to the fort across 100 miles of wilderness
Retaliation was sure to follow on the loss
of Booneshoro and its master mind as well,
and Boone quickly put the post in n state
for defense. The colonists defeated the In
dams in several skirmishes, but were final
ly surrounded in August, 1878, and driven
into their blockhouse The savages mum
bered 500 and were led by Frenchman
and a dozen Canadians. They carried the
flags of France and England and in the
name of King George demanded surrender.
Boone shouted defiance to the enemies Of
his country and dared them to do their
worst. Through nine days the siege last
ed. The bowling savagos tried 20 burn the
blookhousc, but failed, and they hurled
125 pounds of lead against its walls
Boonc's rife picked off the most daring Of
their men, and the Indians abandoned the
attack, never to repeat it.
Booncs warfare would have ended aud
his colony enjoyed peace after that bloody
rcpulsc at Booncsboro but for the plot
tings of the British and Tories on the Can
ada border In August, 1852, Il large body
of Indians, led by n keen white savage,
marched into the colony and bcsiCgcl Bry
ant :, near Lexington. Help was summon
ed, and Colonel Boone responded with his
Boonesboro detachment The Indians rails
ed the siege and ostcnsibly abandoned the
warpath to gp on a hunt. They were trail
ed to the Blue Licks, and Boone counsclcd
waiting for rc-cnforccmonts known to he
on the march before hazarding battle
Other leaders were for immediate attack,
and the little army of between 200 and 800
men rushed across Licking river to ridge
of rocks inclosed by n horseshoe bend. The
Indians were posted in two columns ut eli
ther end of the ridge, and the HCntucliians
found themselves Cnsnarcd by their own
hecdlessncss. Boone had realized the blum
der throughout, and when the others saw
it he took the lead in II charge on massc
upon the Indians ut the land end of the
promontOry. The Indians outnumbcred
the kCntuckians, and the latter turned in
panic and dismay to recrOss the river.
Boone stood fast His son was killed by
his side but without losing heart or cool.
ness he rallied IA handful of his own follow
ers, cut his way through the line Of saw
ages to the shelter of n strip of timber and
by IA fearful hand to hand battle kept the
enemy at bay. While the savagcs were
sating their cruel passions in plumber and
slaughter on the river bank Boone and his
companions charged across the river above
them and made their way back to Bryant's
Boone's warnings and counscls had been
despisCd by the impetuous souls who thirst
ed for Indian blood Boone craved grand
and sweeping victory to end in permanent
peace.
The Blue Licks massacre, however, fired
the kentucky heart The settlers arose,
Boone, as twin leader with General George
Rogers Clarke, at their head, and the In
dian pest was stamped out with the fearful
vengeance of fire and sword. Emigrants
in thousands swarmcd into redeemed Ken
lucky, and in the midst of them Boone pass
ed his hale middle age peaceful farmer
and rural sage. Trouble beclouded his
declining years and he died in exile, neg
lectcd and almost dishonorcd by the state
which he, more than any other man, had
fashioned out of "a remote forbidding will
dernoss. Twenty-Five years later, howev-
er, Kentucky sued for the remains of the
exile and consecrated her soil by mingling
with it the ashes of true hero.
GEORGE l.. KILMER.