Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-29
A VALUABLE RELIC.
Webster CITY .Jolrnal.1


Hon. Charles Aldrich, curator Of the
Iowa Historical Society, is in receipt
OF a valuable relic which will be of
interest to many in This city on ac-
count fits Connection with the fam
Gus Spirit Lake Indian massacre. A
company of volunteers was organized
In this locality to march to the relief
of the settlers near Spirit Lake at the
time OF the Indian trouble in 1857.
A number of Webster City people
were in ihe company and brass tablet
has been placed in the court house to
commemorate the event. The valuable
relic just received by Mr.. Aldrich to
be placed in the state historical build
ing is rife carried by William Burk-
holder, brother of Mrs. Ex-Governor
C. c. Carpenter. William Burkhol1er
was member of the expedition against
the Indians and met his death. One
other soldier was also killed and their
bones were found bleaching on the
prairie eleven years afterward. The on
ly way the bodies could be identified
was by the rifles at their sides.
The rifle carried by Mr.. Burkholder
was given to the wife of the governor
and she had kept 1t until this time.
1t is heavy rifle with large calibre.
and 1t shows the marks of its long
exposure. Burkholder was brilliant
young man and at the time he joined
the famous expedition against the
Indians he had just been elected treas
urer and recorder Of the county.
The two men became separated from
their companies and met death on the
prairie. The rifle which was carried
by William Burkholder was given to
Mrs. Carpenter, his sister, and has been
by her ever since, both as a
remembrance of her brother and the
days of the Spirit Lake massacre.
1t was sent Friday to Curator
Charles Aldrich of the Iowa historical
department to be added to the collec-
ton of the department. The rife Is
very valuable addition to the collec-
ton.
WHO ARE THE FAITH DOCTORS?
burlington Hawkeye.l
The Marshalltown Times Republican
concludes that most people will pre-
fer to accept the conclusions drawn
from centuries of investigation and ex-
pertinent by trained and educated med
icalsts over the bare assertions of
some newly f1edged faith doctor with
out knowledge of accepted methods of
healing and with the general education
of a plowboy." The query arises as to
which Conclusions drawn from CEN
turtles OF investigation and experience
by trained and educated medicalists"
the people will accept. 1t is quite GER
tain the doctors of the eighteenth CEN
fury did not accept some OF the con-
illusions and experiments of the doctors
of the seventeenth century. Every one
knows that the physicians OF the nine
century repudiated many of the
teachings and remedies of the medical
schools Of the eighteenth century, and
1t goes without saying that there was
very pronounced reaction in the last
half of the nineteenth century against
practices and medicines in vogue in the
first half of the same century And
already with less than three years of
the twentieth century lapsed there are
SYMPTOMS of a disbelief among the
medics of some features of the germ
theory of disease that We're orthodox
at the close or the nineteenth century.
The Hawk Eye cites these phenom
ena in the curative art not In defense
of faith cure. but in mild protest
against the dogmatism OF accepted
which are drawn from all
centuries but agree in whole With
none. That which was an exact science
in one generation ia an exploded theory
in another. Nothing in medical science
is cock sure, excepting the disciple.
Both the theories and the medicines
have to be taken on faith So that
after all who are the faith doctors?