Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-12

acres now stands a church and many
stately edifices. The sash and doors
| of this structure was the early work
of r. w. McClellands steam fac
tory, and l erected the brick dwelling
No. 1925 Brady street.
In 1852, we had no proper burial
grounds. Several of US talked the,
situation over, and | was selected to
hunt up a suitable location, and then
authorized to close purchase. but
when payment was required. all were
short of funds, and | had to paw for
Pine Hill, or abandon the undertaking
and disappoint the grantees. \ large
outlay followed for fencing. tree
planting and other work. And many
costly monuments now rest within
it's appropriate grounds.
To write up an ever active life con-
sumes large quantity of ink | was
member of the Chicago Board of
Trade in 1864, and row hold my Gre
dentials.
|. as other pioneers, have done some
blowing and narrowing. | plowed
the ocean and narrowed the Rock ISL
and rapids with grain and stone
barges and lumber RATS in the 4OI
before Uncle Sam removed the dam
gerous chains. When pilots have de
clared that they would not ship with
me and make the run for the gift of a
steamboat. They did not know that
resolution was omnipotent.
The east territorial road of CO feet
followed the rivers windings. |. in
1854. applied to the county court, and
gave road of so feet. at a cost to
self of $500 for grading it and grub
bling out trees and thorn brushes. and
built a culvert at n cost of 5000 near
now Wall street.
Time has made n change. The now
people. for gain, have seized on the
Gilbert portion of that legally laid
public road and reduced il to a miser-
able COW path.
Was sole war correspondent from a
foreign country to the United States
i'm the '3O's. Corresponded with the
New Orleans Bulletin. which was
copied by the New York Herald. n
journal launched on Spruce street.
New York, in 1895, by James Gordon
Bennett. learned and enterprising
Scotchman. And L was reporter. in
addition to other arduouS duties. dur
ing two sessions of state legiSla-
ture.
The county records witness that
Old Sailor Fulton gave town lots to
four churches, and at his own cost
purchased and hauled timber and ma
terial Il miles and built two bridges
on the roads of Cleona township.
--++--i-rr0t Old Sailor /. with resolve.
faced vast odds i'm numbers, wealth
and station, backed by the city press.
then no magnificent public building
would ever have adorned Perry and
Fourth streets-never.
In 1881 | made voyage on board
of the ancient steamer Yellowstone
up the Gazoo river, the first steam
boat voyage up that historic stream.
The last of the combatiVe ChickaSaw
Indians had not long departed. Plan
tations and dwellings were widely
separated and all was new save a few
bark and small log abodes of the In
dams who had been driven from their
homes to give space to the pale faced
intruders.
| passed with sadness over their
well-worn trails and through their
once cultivated. open fields. and look
ed with awe upon the apparently
blanketed, ghost-like. bleaching and
decaying orchards of peach and other
trees, that they, on departing, had
girdled with their tomahawks to pre-
vent the unhallowed pale face feast
ing on their fruit and reaping where
they did not SOW.
/ could rive thp nionaprS many in
teresting pages of NIississippi's early
days. and my long inland journey.
camping out sometimes i'm lonely
canebral>e iungles. where wild beasts
dwelt and were constantly seen.
Mexico. as a nation. has never re-
ceived due credit for her virtues or
achievements, while her delinquencies
have been magnified. She has had no
foreign allies. but alone and without
assistance overcame foreign and do
nestle tyranny.
She had been a valuable but dis
contented province of Spain from her
conquest by Cortez i'm 1920 down to
1908. when Napoleon Bonaparte in
vited the royal family of Spain TO
visit France, and ON their arrival
cast them into prison at Rayonue,
and then required the father to alb
dictate the throne of Spain To his son.
and then required the son to renounce
his crown to Joseph Bonaparte. The
mother country thus becoming sub
iect To n foreign power. the creoles
of Mexico considered il favorable |
opportunity to throw off the despotic
colonial system and establish an in
dependent government.
Then the brave and noble-hearted
priest. Don Mogul Hidalgo Castillo. i'm
the name of the Great Jehovah, buck !
led on his armor and stepped forward
to emancipate his kindred and the |
native Aztecs from Spanish tyranny.
lie unfurled the standard of independ- |
ence and for time was victorious in |
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