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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26

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BIG STONE

Headlight, December Is, 1902.
Prof. Harms, the Ohio man who has
been elected principal of the schools
here writes that he will be here about
the 3Oth.
Chas. Ulrich writes from Missouri
that his mothers health is improving
but he has been under the weather
ever since going down there.
Rev. C. E. Rowley and wife of Tole.
do, Ohio, have been engaged by the
Methodists for special revival meet
ings which will commence the Sum-
day after New Years Day.
The Big Stone band has reorganized
with fifteen members and meet in the
building formerly occupied by the
Headlight. They have engaged MI.
Edelman, who is an old and experience
ed band man, as instructor and will
doubtless make fine progress before
spring.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26
WiLMOr

Republican, December 20, 1902,
Miss Clara Wepner OF Milbank
arrived IN the city Monday evening
for a visit with Mrs. j. lnglert.
w. J. Ireland and daughter, Susie.
departed Monday for a trip to the
pacific coast. Mr.. Ireland will look
over the country and may decide to
90 into business in Washington.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26
Reporter. December 90, 1902.

Reporter, December 20, 1902.
Mrs. John Babb. who has been sick
for some two months with a compli-
cation of diseases, is gradually i'm
proving. Is under the care of DR..
,Jacotel of Milbank, who was up
Wednesday.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26
ALBEE

Revillo Item, December Is, 1902.
Edward Spiering has rec emily
purchased the well drilling outfit
belonging to Ed Hoey. Mr.. Speiring
intends to drill wells in this vicinity.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26
ALRAN

Mr.. Eli Wise and wife have gone to
1ontevide0 for q visit.
George Wise made his wife a Christ
mas present " . nice organ.
Dillman Trap went to Dodge Cen
NJ, MINI, To spend CHRISTMAS with
hfs lister.
Mrs. Pagle Of Laste, N. D.. 10 down
visiting George Bury andother friends
% her old home.
Riee program Of exercises was
eiiven M The Christmas tree Wednes-
d3ysnieht at the church.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26
WEST TWIN BROOKS
December Is, 1902.

More snow today.
3. r. Atwood has one less horse.
Loren Whipple is trapping in Ma
xeppa.
They ray there will be q Christmas
tree In No. s.
Miss Lillian Rickard visited In
Wnterto wn last week.
a small party is reported at
Franxier's last week.
No. 4. has the pupils from the
Rickard district this winter.
Oscar Nelson Il getting his house
md barn shout ready Tor occupancy.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

Forty Years Ago.
Short Sketch of the Great Sioux Massacre.
How Minnesota was Reclaimed from the
Indians by War. Siege of New Ulm.

the savage scenes OF the west, and the
younger generation gathering at this
time with the pioneers of those days
will take lessons of the price paid in SUI
fering and human blood for the securi-
ty and prosperity that now is theirs.
Forty years is a short space in the
aeons of time, but in the life Of man
it bridges the time between youth and
old age and marks the pathway down
which the most of US march to that
narrow line which limits the miseries
of this uncertain life. Hope and the
eternity of happiness lie wrapped up
in those years and the heart that
bounded with the VIGOROUS blood of
manhood grows sluggish in thepursuit
of life, and SO it was in 1862 when over
this fair country civilization first be-
gan to blaze it's certain pathway that
the young manhood and womanhood
of the east resolutely set their faces to-
ward the setting sun and patiently
sought to win a competency from the
desert prairies of Minnesota. Fortified
by courage and their own indomitable
will, at peace with themselves and with
the world they little thought that foe
lurked in the teepees of the Indians
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

from the time the first gun was fired
not white person remained alive. All
were either wetering in their gore or
had fed in fear and terror from that
place of death, and not an Indian had
been killed.
Pathetic, indeed is the plea of Philan-
der Prescott then nearly seventy years
old. II am an old man: I have lived
with you forty-fve summers. My wife
and children are of your blood: have
never done you harm; have been you
true friend, why should you wish to
kill me?" The only reply was: We
would save you if we could, but the
white man must die: we cannot spare
your life: our orders are to kill all
white men: we cannot spare you. Thus
persisted the best friend the Indians
ever had.
So the blow fell-the storm offierce,
savage murder, in its most horrible
form. Day passed and night came;
Down sank the sun, nor ceased the
carnage there
Tunlultuous horrors rent the midnight
air..
until the sad catalogue reached the
fearful number of
TWO THOUSAND VICTIMS
from the gray haired sire to the help
less infant of day, who lay mangled
and bleeding on the ensanguined field.
The dead were left to bury the dead:
for the dead reigned there alone.
In two days the whole work of MUIR
der was done, and during these two
days population of more than thirty
thousand, on foot, on horse back, with
teams of oxen and horses were rushing
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

Forty years ago today New Ulm
was the theater in which was staged
one Of the greatest tragedies the
United States has ever seen. Not
even the civil war with all its thousands
of sacrificed soldiers can present a
picture SO distressingly horrible as the
great Sioux Massacre.
Fifteen years ago the survivors of
the Massacre held a reunion in this
city. But at that time while the deeds
were fresher and the men younger
who took part, still that occasion will
be small compared to the one at this
time. Like the soldiers of the civil
war these comrades in sacrifice and
sorrow are growing old and the young.
er people realize that the time is not
far distant when there will be none
who shall be called survivors of the
Massacre. Bringing tribute to their
feet and to properly show them that
the city has not forgotten the deeds
of 1852, this great celebration has
been planned.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

loved ones and tortured with misery
worse than that Of the inquestion.
In this limited space it is possible
only to give an outline of the great
struggle which constituted in many re-
spects the most formidable and i'm
pOrtant Indian war in American histo-
ry. More Indians were engaged more
whites were killed and more property
destroyed than in any other conflict
or series Of conflicts with the savages
since the first settlement of this country
Compared with the great Sioux Out
break.of 1862, King Philips war was a
triviality: the other Indian wars of
New England in colonial times insight
ticant: the uprising under Tecumseh, in
1911, the creek wars in Alabama and
Georgia and the Seminole war in
Florida were each unimportant when
the loss of white life is considered.
The Massacres of Wyoming Valley
have been SO often described, so be-
tittingly commenorated in story and
song and monument, and whose details
are so we'll known, are hardly to be
compared in character and extent with
the massacres of Sacred Heart and
Beaver Creek, of which not one Ameri-
can in hundred has ever heard. The
defense of New Ulm, Ft. Ridgely and
Birch Couley are as gallant episodes
as any that are recorded in the annals
of the Republic, and yet the American
Historian commonly gives them but
the briefest mention, or omits them
entirely from his pages.
Continued on second page
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

drive the whites from the country.
Whatever the minor causes were;
chargable to non-payment OF annuities
or to any other circumstance, it is
evident that the massacre was not the
result of sudden passion but deep
laid plot carried out by intriguing In
dians. 1t was the working out of the
principle that governs in all nations.
The conflict of knowledge with igno-
rance; of right with wrong. The re-
suit would have been the same to the
Indian if the weapons of death had
never been used. An inferior race
must recede before superior race Or
sink into the common mass.
This warfare takes place the world
over, on the principle of material pro-
gress. The larger light eclipses the
smaller; mind makes aggression upon
mind and the weaker falls before the
stronger. This process goes on daily
and like the Indian nation, that which
does not employ all the faculties with
which it is endowed must give place to
that which dOes-the working out Of
the principle that Ito those who have
shall be given and from those who
have not shall be taken away that
which they have"
On August II the massacre COM
menced by the shooting of Mr.. Jones
and Mr.. Baker at Acton and the hold
ing Of conference at Rice Creek the
same day, at which Little Grow order
ed the Massacre to begin at the Lower
Agency on Monday. The white people
at the agency we're at breakfast when
they were surprised by the Indians and
those who we're not killed fed from
the scene of rapine and murder carry
ing to friends and neighbors word Of
the commencement of a Massacre that
has not it's counterpart in history and
for deeds of atrocity has not it's equal,
not even in Cawnpore.
Like bolt of lighting from clear
sky this human avalanch, a veritable
bosom of destruction, swept over the
land burning, pillaging, numbering.
Husbands powerless to save saw their
families destroyed, mothers, weremade
to witness the torture and death of
their children and the mutilation of the
bodies of the dead. So sudden and
fierce was the attack on the agency
that morning that within thirty minutes
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

The presence Of Gov. Van SAINT and
his staff, Of Ex-Gov. Ramsey,t Ex-
Gov. John Lind, Col. Sheehan, Judge
Flandreau, and a host of men as high
ly honored but less favored will give
the people an opportunity of hearing
eloquence such as is rarely assembled
at one time at any other place.
In the military line there is to be at
least six companies Of the Second
Regiment of the State Militia in full
uniform, with a full compliment OF
officers, CHARTERED on the school house
square. These men with Burgs battery
will engage in a sham battle south
of the city. This exhibition of military
manouvers will be strikingly interest
ing.
A band of Sioux Indians camped
within the city, the relics accumulat
ed from the massacre, the music OF
five bands, the entertainment planned
for the entertainment of the younger
people and the base ball game be-
tween Redwood Falls and St. Peter
makes galaxy of events that can we'll
claim the attention of everybody
able to get to the city.
On Saturday the people of the State
Of Minnesota will celebrate the Forti-
eth Anniversary of the Great Sioux
Massacre, in this city. To fttingly
commemorate this event New Ulm has
expended large sum of money. Never
doing anything by halves the city has
greatly exceeded itself in preparation
for this event and the result will be
something without parallel.
Survivors of those dark days when
morning dawned upon torn and dis
membered community and night found
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

and stalked at night drought the
shadows of the forests. But so it was
and when nature in her muni6cence had
seemingly provided so bountifully for
their wants, and the fields of grain,
upon which their hopes had been fixed
had been garnered, the Massacre COM
menced. It is this Massacre and the
seven weeks of terror following it that
is to be commemorated by the citizens
! Of New Ulm.
Forty years ago the outlying districts
| OF this part Of the state, where now
live in comfort and happiness thousand
of farmers, the savage Indians stalked
in undisputed sway and hunted on the
plains the buffalo and in the woods
the deer.
Knowing nothing of the individual
| ownership of land, to them, like the
air we breathe, the earth was the COM
mon heritage Of all-the birthright of
their nation. Saddened by the en-
croachment Of the whites, deprived of
their hunting by the destruction of the
game and seeing only starv alton for
| their race if the white people continued
to occupy their land and acting on the
theory that the United States was weak
from the demand for troops for the
Southern war, the Indians determined
to reclaim their land by driving out
the whites, and there ensued the great
est massacre in the history of Indian
warfare.
J Historians give this mass acre but
, few lines, because, perhaps the civil
! war at that time so greatly claimed at
tention, but in the loss of life and
| sacrifice OF property no Indian con-
fict in this country can be said to
equal it.
The Sioux and Chippewas seeing
their common interests threatened form
ed a compact and these two ancient
enemies of each other smoked the pipe
of peace, and in it burned their love
for all the white race. 1t was the
w dOeIIOO Vi Clo 1Quldu QdUlO0. In us
success or failure they saw the raise
| or fall of their nation. In it's success
they saw the plains again covered with
buffalo, their woods full of deer and
| unrestricted by the limitations of civil
cation these free born children of ma
ture hoped to roam unmolested at their
will. They did not reckon on failure.
so BEGAN THE STRUGGLE.
Little Grow was the star actor in
this tragedy. He first plotted against
the whites when he was sent out to
capture Inkpaduta and purposely fail
ed. The idea that this outlaw could
go UNPUBLISHED because, as he reason
ed, the nation WAS not strong enough
to compel his surrender, made him be-
lieve that he could do likewise. He
and his adherents had found capital
out of which to torment the difficulties
which followed and from the time the
government ceased it's efforts to punish
! Inkpaduta he began his agitations to
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

them scattered and bleeding upon a
trackless plain, will find in the ad-
dresses of the notable men to be speak
ers for the occasion, something that
will cause them in memory to live over
again those times, and in the silent
grasp of the hand in reunion with COM
rades in distress they will have re-
kindled the fires Of youth and the
spirit OF the days when ambition drove
them from the less favored haunts OF
the east to win their fortunes among
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-20

| Wldly and frantlcally over the prairieS
to places of safety.
| Flight from an invading army of foes
is awful: but flight from the uplifted
tomahawk in the hands of merciless
savages in pursuit of unarmed men,
women and children, is a scene too
awful for the stoutest heart.
Some sought the protection of the
nearest slough, others crawled into the
tall grass, hiding in many instances
in the face of the lurking foe. Children
OF tender years, hacked and beaten and
bleeding, fed from their natural pro-
tectors, now dead or disabled, led by
some trail of blood or by natural in
stinct from the places of slaughter,
cautiouly crawling by night from the
line of fire in the rear to Fl. Ridgely
or some distant town.
An all seeing eye looking down from
above could have seen this avalanch
of $1,000 human beings of all ages and
in all conditions, their rear ranks
MANNED and bleeding, and faint from
starvation and loss of blood, con-
| tinually falling into the hands of in
human savages keen and fierce on the
trail of the white man. And angels
from the realms of peace, touched by
human woe over such a scene might
have shed tears of blood, and passing
the empyreal sphere into the Eternal
presence one might there behold the
Creator lament and draw a cloud of
mourning round his throne.
Worse than panic ailed-3O, 900
distracted inhabitants of eighteen
counties, on the highways and byways,
hiding in sloughs in grass, furnishing
for water, dying Of hunger, some bare
footed, some in torn garments and some
entirely denuded of clothing; some
crawling on hands and knees because
of wounds, dragging their mutilated
limbs behind them, making their way
over country in which no man could
offer succor or consolation. The i'm
agination faint and aghast turns from
the picture in dismay and horror.
Images of those horrors are burned
deep into the souls of thousands of
mothers berift of children by this saw
age barbarity! What unavailing tears
fell unseen to the ground by that army
Of helpless infancy reduced to orphan
age by the hands of Indians? How
many still wait, and linger in their
memory about the homes they loved,
hiding from the keen eyed savage,
awaiting the return of a loved one
who can never come to their relief?.
Forty years may soften grief and
temper the winds of misery that have
CONCEALED the trusting bosom and be-
trayed the confidence of man, but it
does not restore the happiness nor re-
place those so ruthlessly snatched from
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29
Estate of Horace DEMO.
of Craftsbury.

STATE OF VERMONT,
DISTRICT OF ORLEANS,
TN PROBATE COURT, held at Newport, In
i said district, on the Gath day Of Dec. "a.
q. 1902.
N. B. Williams, Executor of the estate Of
Horace DEMO, late of Craftsbury. in said dis
trict,deceased, presents his administration ac-
count for examination and allowance, and
max es application for decree Of distribu.
ton and partition of the estate Of said de-
ceased. Whereupon, it Is ordered by said
Oour that said account and said application
be referred to q session thereof, to be held "a
B Ed Carpenters Office in said Barton, ON the
18th day of Jan.,A.D. 1909, at nire O'Clock In the
forenoon for hearing and decision thereon.
And it Is further ordered, that notice
hereof be given to all persons interested, by
publication of the same three weeks succas.
siveiy in the Orleans County Monitor, news
paper published at Barton, VT, previous to
said time appointed for hearing, that thew
may appear at said time and place, and shosx
cause, IL any they may have, why said ao-
count should not be allowed, and such decree
made. By the Court,
t2-2 "a. ALFRED, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29

Rev. N. A. Ross was in Woodbury. Sat-
urday.
Lewis Moore has returned to his home in
Maine.
Delmar Cargill, wife aud child have gone
to Manchester.
Mrs. Melinda Hood from Hardwick is
visiting here
Julia Hill from Hardwick was here call
ing on friends recently.
Carrie Leavitt has moved to her sisters,
Mrs. Alvah Adams.
Alton Piper has moved into Twas Rollins
tenement house.
A number attended the dance December
26 and report good time.
George Dubois from Barton Landing is
visiting at Wright Lowell's.
Warner Thomas and son Leslie from
Woodbury. were visiting at N. A. Ross Fri
day.
The remains of Mrs. Louisa Sulham
Moore were brought here from Waterbury
for burial. She was former resident Of
this place,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29
Estate of Bryce Young
of Greensboro.

GTATE OF VERMONT, ORLEANS DISTRICT
- IS. In Probate Court, held at Newport,
in said District, on the 25th day Of Decem-
Der, A. D., 1902.
Margaret Young, Administrative of
the estate of Bryce Young, late of Green's
boro, in said district, deceased, presents her
administration account for examination and
allowance and makes application for de-
cree of distribution and partition of the es
tate of said deceased.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said
Court, that said account and said appli-
cation be referred to q session thereof, to be
held at the Pro bate Office in said Newport, 90
the 14th day of JAM, A. d. 1903. at O'Clock in
the afternoon for hearing and decis ion
thereon.
And, it is further ordered that notice hereof
be given to all persons interested, by publica-
tion of the same three weeks successfully in
the Orleans County Monitor, q newspaper
published at Barton, VT, previous to said
time appointed for hearing, that they may
appear at said time and place, and show cause,
If any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed and such deere made.
By the Court-Attest,
52-2 F.E ALFRED, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29

Mr.. and Mrs. o. e. Roundy and dau gh-
ter Una of Barton spent Christmas at A. l..
AIdrich's.
Frank Thompson of Newport spent
Christmas with his mother, Mrs. E. M.
Thompson.
Will Smith has finished work for A. H.
Silsby and is now employed by Ed. King
at Arcadia.
Horace Cheney who has been afflicted
with heart trouble for several months, is
rapidly failing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Curtis of Barre spent
Christmas with Mrs. Curtis parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Riley Richardson.
Irving Woodruff of Portsmouth, N. H.,
and Horace Woodruff of St. Johnsbury
visited relatives in town last week.
Mrs. Fanny Cheney Smith of Lyndon
Center has been spending few days with
her cousin, Mrs. Bertha Brockway.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Stoddard, Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Campbell and Miss Ellie of
Lyndon Center were guests at Riley Rich
ardson's Dec. 25.
G. E. Aldrich and Dora Aldrich of Bar
ton, K. P. Aldrlch of Lyndonville and Per-
ley Aldrich of Heathton, P. O., spent
Christmas at A. l.. Aldrich's.
The Christmas exercises at the M. E.
church on Christmas eve passed off very
we'll indeed. The children were much de-
lighted with Santa Claus and his palace.
The chorus work by the children was very
good and the solo, "BeautifuI Bethlehem
Star" by Gladys Hickie, recitation, "Her
Christmas Gift" Bernice Roundy and the
recitation by little Olive Hickie, aged g.
we're very much enjoyed.
The Eastern Star has elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: Worthy
Matron, Mrs. Addie Cobleigh; w. P, j. B
Watchie; A. M, Mrs. Eta Ruggles; G.
Mrs. Alsey Hall; A. c., Mrs. Kate Cheney
Ada, Mrs. w. G. Anger; Ruth, Mrs. Addis
Cobleigh; Esther, Mrs. Mary Packer
Martha, Miss Jessie Dearborn; Electa, Mrs
Carrie Gaskill; warden, Mrs. o. c. Wood
ruff; sentinel, Alsey Hall; chaplain, Mrs
Addie Colby; marshal, Mrs. Frances
Watchie; organist, Mrs. Emily Way.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estate of Fred G. Skinner.

The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Orleans, Commissioners, to receive.
examine, and adjust ali claims and demands
of all persons against the estate of Fred O.
Skinner, late of Barton, in said district
thereto. hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at B. F. D. Carpen-
ter Office, in Barton aforesaid, on the
18th day Of June next, from one
O'Clock p. m. until four O'Clock pm. of said
day, and that six months from the 18th day OF
December, A. D., 1902, is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present
their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated at Barton, this oath day of December,
A. D., 1902.
4. D; MATaEws, |com,rs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29
MARRIED..

PROCTOR-BULLARD- Barton, Dec. rs,
by Rev. W. G. johnson, Mr.. william Proc
tor and Miss Ida Billiard, both of Barton
Landing.
HOGABOOM- WOODWORTH- In Barton,
Dec. "A, by Rev. w. G. Johnson, Mr.. Horatio
j. Hogaboom and Miss Cassie E. Wood
worth, both Of Barton.