The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22

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Old Jim had rushed out Of doors
and fired pistol and then a gun at
the Chlppewas without hitting them.
1hey turned and let go a volley that
knocked a piece off his wooden leg.
Gov. ramsey sent a messenger to
the Tort and a Lieut.. Magruder, with
a detachment of cavalry, hurried off
after the Chippewas. He followed them
clear to st. Croix Falls and killed one
OF them with his revolver The dead
ChlppeWa's scalp was brought back to
81. Paul. but the rest of the raiders got
away"
William Pitt Murray. the pioneer at
torney, who came to ST. Paul six wears
after Mr.. Larpenteur, agrees with that
gentleman as to the character of the
Minnesota Indians. "They were all
right" said Mr. Murray yesterday, so
long as they were treated right. If
they hadn't been Outrageously imposed
upon, robbed and starved, the Sioux
outbreak of 1852 would never have
happened"
Mr.. Murray recalled with pleasure
Hole-in- the-Day, the famous Chippe-
wa chief who prevented his tribe from
joining in the outbreak. He was a
very brave man," said Mr.. Murray
The year after 1 arrived he came
down the river with one or two COM
RSN%AAOA4h's Z
and attacked a small party of Sioux
within few rods Of a big band of
that tribe. He killed and scalped one
Of the Sioux and got away unharmed.
In twenty-fOur hours he had Travelled
eighty miles to execute his raid.
Old Bets a Favorite.
Old Bets, according to Mr.. Murray,
was favorite among the early st.
Paulites. She spent most Of her time
begging from house to house She was
presumed to be more than 100 years
old, but people that knew her best
said she wasn't ninety when she died
in 1873 near Mendoza, where she was
born. Her name was Aza -ya nan-ka-
wan, or The Berry Picker. One of her
sons. Ta-opi, or Wounded Man, was a
convert to Christianity and special
favorite of the late Bishop Whipple
After Ta-opi's death his biography
was published by the bishop. Ta-opi
was so called because he was wound
ed in a pitched battle, fought in 1912,
at Pine Coolie, close to Pigs Eye, near
Kaposia. About twenty Sioux were
killed and ten Chippewas.
The Indian history Of St. Paul be-
came less interesting after the ratifi-
cation in 1852 of the Sioux treaty, by
which the Sioux surrendered their
lands west of the Mississippi No
longer did the st. Paul newspapers
publish such items as that which ap-
peared in the Democrat Of May 27,
1851:
Our citizens were visited on Tues
day last by a company Of twenty or
more juvenile Sioux, who danced the
'beggar- dance in different parts of
town. The young redskins, from five
to eighteen years Of age, presented
grotesque appearance. They were
naked and painted"
But the ratification of the Sioux
treaty, announced in st. Paul June 26,
1852, aroused typical rejoicing.
II was a boy here then" said J. B.
Tanning, of 462 Fuller street. Bon
fires We're lighted on the bluffs and a
steer was turned loose to please the
Indians at Tenth and Cedar streets,
where the first state capitol had just
been built. The Indians shot the steer
full of arrows. and after he had raced
around that part of town for a while,
followed by us boys the town marshal
ordered somebody to kill the poor beast
with rifle. Then the Indians cut up
the meat and held a glorious barbecue
to celebrate the fact that their people
had lost possession of about 21,000,00O
acres Of the finest land in America"