The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-10-28
BY AIKEN & SCHMAHL.
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts From st. Paul Papers O
October II, 1853.

who accompanied him to Red Lake
crossing arrived home Thursday.
after six weeks absence in the
wilderness of Northern Mime sofa.
The treaty extinguishes the Chip
pewa title throughout the entire
Red River valley, on both sides of
the river, except the small and
worthless district of impossible
swamps and rocky barrens which
form the basis of Red Lake, the
present home of the Red Lake In
dams, and between there and the
Lake OF the Woods. The area ac-
CURED is about 10000 square miles.
In return the Indians will receive
$50, 900 per annum for twenty years.
The remarkably delightful wealth
er those days is just such as we al
ways have in Minnesota in Indian
! summer.
The adjutant general offers S4O2
to veteran cavalrymen to re-enlist.
Capt. L. n. Saunders has made an
attempt to induce the department
to allow those of the Mounted Rang
ers who wish to re-enlist to be mus
tered out now, their time being al
most out. Raw recruits get 1862
bounty.
Capt. T. M. Saunders, provost
marshal general for the State of
Minnesota, yesterday received from
the department at Washington posi-
tive written instructions to CON-
mence the draft on Sunday, Oct. 25.
Those who feel nervous aboutit had
better be getting their little $500
ready.
Capt. William B. Dean, one OF the
commissioners to get the vote in the
Cumberland army, is now at Chat
tanooga with Rosecranz's army, un-
able to get away. The captain will
probably have a chance to smell
powder and do little fighting on
his own hook. He should be pro-
noted to high position in the me-
fish on his return on account of hav-
ing seen actual service.
James McFetridge, Esq, who ar
rived from Pembina this week,
brings the terribly painful intelli-
gence that the overland party I'M
der Capt. Fisk hadbeen attacked by
the Sioux near the Big Bend of the
Missouri and forty of the ffty-three
men composing that little band
killed outright. This story was
told Mr.. McFetridge by half-breeds.
A letter from Mr.. Paul Beaulieu to
Mr.. G. H Cakes confirms the above
in all essential particulars. This
news is terrible shock to the peo-
pie of our city, as there were many
St. Paulites in the party.
The Second Minnesota distin-
guished itself at the battle of Chick
amauga, when the regiment lost $50
in killed, wounded and missing.
All the field officers had their
horses shot under them. cat a
critical moment. when the tide of
battle seemed to be in favor of the
rebels, says the New York Her
aid, 1.-THE tall, spare and thin, but
big-hearted Minnesotans, whom
Van Cleve had enlisted two wears
before, sprang from their position
in reserve, and, with loud yells, as
if the sight had Infatuated them,
rushed forward with fixed bayonets,
drove the enemy from the guns
which they had captured before
shey could be turned on us. They
then drew the guns back to the I'm
ion lines and handed them to the
regulars, leaving many of their
brave comrades strewn along the
bloody field"
The ninth regiment, COL Alexan-
der Wilkins, left on the Chippewa
Falls Thursday afternoon for the
seat of war. This completes another