The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-04-25

FORTY YEARS AGO.
"reminiscences of Early DAYS in
Princeton Cleaned from
the Pioneers.
from the Lake Re-
giOn Pass Through to At
tack the Sioux.

CaWatawsi, Wounded at Shako-
pee 81 Years Ago, in
I Town Last Week.
[-1l:T [h is always something fas-
clnating about the trials and ad
ventures of those men and women
who 40 formed the advance guards of
civilization. Their long, tedious
and NC oftimes perilous migrations
through woods, across prairies and
over hills and mountains, to some
attractive valley, woodland, lake
Upstream, where nature has spread
her bounties with a lavish hand,
are full of interest to the succeed
ing generations. Then, their
modes of living necessitated by
their heir primal surroundings, after
reaachlng their Eld0rado, are of
more than ordinary interest, and
when IN a reminiscent mood there
is no serial that can charm the
listener, as do these, perhaps
crudely-told, tales as related by
the pioneer people, still living in
many of the communities in a COM
paratively young State like this.
They are now old and gray, the
early founders of this village, but
many of them are yet on this side
OF the mysterious realm, happy
and contented in the sunset of life,
proud of the fact that their early
Inconvenience and trials were the
corner stones on which have been
built this prosperous little city,
and the hundreds Of farm houses,
dotting the country far and wide.
AT times, they are willing to re-
hearse the scenes of those days,
and then it is that facts like the
following are told, about those try
ing times.
One summer evening in the lat
ter part of the ffties, the little set
Element here was thrown into state
of feverish excitement by the ap-
pearance in their midst of nearly
fifty Chippewa warriors, on their
way from their homes in the lake
country to attack a small party Of
Sioux, their inveterate enemies,
who were encamped on the banks
of the Minnesota river about a
mile or so from the village Of
Shakopee. The junction of the
two rivers at this place made this
an objective point for rowing bands
as camping ground, and warriors
remained some time at this place,
making preparations for their dan
gerous incursion into the land of
the Sioux. They we're not partic-
ularly DESTROYS in those days to in
wade the rights of the whites,
neither we're they over-scrupulous
about infringing, provided white
man had what they wanted, and
Chippewa held the balance of
power. The Dexter Payne family,
on the occasion of the Shakopee
raid, had a fine COW that came to
her doom when she came home in
the evening to be MIXED. The
braves were hungry for beef, and
proceeded to butcher the COW in
the yard, threatening the owners
with like fate if they interfered.
The COW was divided among the
party and furnished them with
supply of meat for a time. The
next day OF two they proceeded on
their mission of destruction to
Shakopee which they reached in
due time finding the hated enemy
encamped on the opposite side of
the Minnesota. They managed to
cross the river unobserved, and
bounced upon the Sioux with their
terrible war. whoops, rifle shots
and yells. Though taken by sur
prise, the Sioux soon rallied and
warm reception for the