The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-15

The executive council OF the Minnesota
Historical society held a regular meeting last
evening. President Alexander Ramsey pre-
sided and an audience of fifty listened to
two papers, one on the subject OF THE
Southern Boundary Of the Grant to the Hud-
Hill, and the other by Mrs. N. D. White. OF
Renville, giving her experience as a captive
| among the Sioux Indians in 1852.
PREVIOUS to the reading OF the papers G
business session OF the society was held at
which Enoch F. Berrisford and Dr. Rudolph
schinmann, of st. Paul, were made life mem
oers, and Charles N. Akers an annual men,
Secretary Uphsm reported donations OF
books pamphlets. maps and articles to the
society during the past mouth to the number
or SSY, OF which number 4S0 were pamphlets
and As books.
A committee consisting of Judge FIandrau,
Judge Greenleaf Clark and Maj. John Espy
| was appointed to represent the interests OF
the society at the coming session Of the legis-
laturs.
President ssabury. of the capitol commits
sion, presented the society with copies OF the
exercises attendant upon the laying of the
corner stone Of the new capitol.
Mr.. HIS paper was read by ?. L. Kings
| ysriously defined and changed, became later
| the northern boundary OF Minnesota. The
grant given by Charles H.. in 1870 gave to
the HUDSON Bay company all rights TO the
country within the entrance of the straits
| commonly called Hudsons straits. When the
| ensuing wars between the English and French
Utrecht, in ms. the Hudson Bay Company ~
| claimed the forty-ninth degree of latitude as
their southern boundary. the same line which
Of the Lake Of the Woods. In 1s11 the COM
peny sold to the Scotch nobleman. Lord Sell
kirk. for colonization, large tract including
the present province OF Manitoba defining
Its southern bounds the height of land or
watershed separating the drainage basin OF
Hudson bay from the waters tributary to the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers and TO Lake
Superior. The Selkirk purchase, according TO
this definition, would have included the valley
OF the Red river In the present states OF Min
nesota and North Dakota, extending far south
Of the forty ninth parallel, which line In the
negotiations between the United States and
British commissioners in 1907 had been pro-
| posed es the international boundary westward
| from the Lake of the Woods, BY the treaties
| following the War OF 1872, and by the later
treaty OF 1872. the present northern boundary
Of Minnesota and its western continuation on
| the forty-ninth parallel were established.
The second paper, read by the secretary
warren Upham, was narrative, Captivity
among the Sioux, August IS to September
| g. 1862 by Mrs. N. D. White, Of Renville
Parts OF this personal narrative Of peril
| anxiety, and release were:
Soon after the alarm was given, twenty
seven neighbors assembled, men, women and
children. at the house OF J. W. Earle. Teams
we're soon hitohed to wagons, and we started
on at our perilogs journey We had not pro
who had secreted II emsslves in ambush, rose
from the tall prairie grass on each side Of
our road. Nine Of our number were killed
In the ensuing fight, among them being my
Oldest son. Eugene, about sixteen years Ok
age Eleven were taken prisoners, among
them myself, my babe and my daughter.
fourteen years old. Seven escaped, and after
great hardships, reached Cedar Lake and st.
Peter.
I'VE were taken across the Minnesota river
to Little Crows village, about six miles from
our homestead and with several others /
was taken TO Little Crows house frame
building, among about sixty tepees. II hap
penec TO be my lot to be owned by Too-kon-
we-chasta (meaning the stone mani and his
squaw. They called me their child, or big
papoose. Their owning me In this manner
saved me probably from worse fate than
| death.
"A week having elapsed since we were
taken to Little Crows village and the war
riors having all returned, an aged Indian
marched through the village, giving orders.
| Puckacheei Puckachee? and the sutaws i'm.
mediately commenced taking down the te-
PEGS. We understood that the crier had given
command for g move, and soon away we
went,
AFTER many other removes. we came To
| what proved to be the end OF our tourneying
In captivity, Camp Release They gave US 20
| tie In short time with the white soldiass.
Il was fought on Sept g. at Wood Lake
eighteen miies distant We could distinctly
hear the report OF musketry during this bat
tie The hostile Indians returned to their
camp before sunset. and 1t was evident to US
defeat
About 10 O'Clock in the morning Of the
third day after this battle, the glimmer Of
the soldiers bayonets was first seen. A flag
hostile Indians had left us and fed to ths
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