Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-09-23
schedule OF prices fixed, which innkeep-
ers We're instructed TO follow under
.peril OF wrath. The list follows

peril vi NIdAti ~ .
| Whisky. per gill ..........t..... "a
Teddy. per gill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS w
! West India rum, per gill %
Continent UNI, per Gil ..-.. "a
Rum teddy .....s.s.-. ..s..."-.ls %
Cider, per quart .,.............. 10
| Strong beer, per quart -....,... Sd
Madeira wine, bottle ...s,-.....s.Is %
Lisbon wine. bottle ..........t...ts %
Holland wine, bottle ....,........o s W
The court gravely adds in a note.
There be no objections IL these rates
are lowered"
Elizabeth Blake, "a made of ound
health" during the year 1851 indent-
ured herself to Morris Stansland ITO be
instructed In the trade OF mystery or
housewifery." Tn consideration OF eight
years service in the capacity 1t was
stipulated thai she receive 'meate,
drink, wearing apparel and three quar-
tiers of schooling" Meanwhile, h was
forbidden ITO play at cards or dice. or
any unlawful game"
Early in the year 1878 is inscribed a
case OF the king VS.. Simon Girty. The
charge vas misdemeanor. and a r
bill is recorded, but the sentence of the
court ID LOI kAHGil ~ W10 NA"P
trial that drove him to his awful deeds
of blood or not is not known; but 1t is
certain that In a few years this Simon
Girty left his people and joined the saw
ages. He it was that headed the fierce
Mohawks at the time of h Wyoming
massacre, and personally urged the In
dams TO deeds that make the blood run
cold. In 1774. having captured a frontier
post, he tortured the captives and burnt
Colonel Crawford at the stake. In reply
to Crawford's piteous p.eadings for
mercy Girty spit in his face as he was
dying.
Just at the outbreak of the French
and Indian war, June 10, 1850, Hector, a
negro slave, was sentenced to death for
murder. The original death warrant Is
unique in ~phraseology. as can be seen:
Cumberland County, S.
..At a court of oyer and terminer, held
at Carlisle, Cumberland county, before
Francis West and VIM. Smith, esquires,
justices OF said court. and fellow assist
ants, viz: Thomas Wilson, John Welsh,
John Montgomery, John Agnew, Robert
Miller and Jonathan Holm, June 10,
1850, by virtue of commission from
James Hamilton. Esq, lieutenant gov
ernor and commander in chief of the
province OF Pennsylvania and counties
OF New Castle, Kent and Sussex, up on
the Delaware, to them the said Francis
West and VIM. Smith, esquires, direct
ed bearing date the 9th day of April
last past where brought before said
court a negro named Hector, the prop
erty of VIM. Mumson, of said county,
husbandman, and charged with the
murder of a certain George Hughson,
late of said county, yoeman, and found
guilty by us OF killing and numbering
said George Hughson at Peters town
ship, in said county, on the 18th day OF
February last past, which murder the
said Hector received sentence to return
to the place from whence he came, and
there to remain until Saturday. the 18th
inst, and then be taken thence to the
public gallows and there hanged by the
neck until he shall be dead.
Witness my hand and seal this day
and year above written.
Francis West.
"Wm. Smith,
Justices
The early records show thai West
moreland county included, originally,
all the settled portion of western Penn
sylvania- The capital was established
at Hannastown, in 1773, and there re-
manned until hat town was burned by
the Mohawks in 1882. Ralph Hanna was
the first justice. His wife and two
daughters were carried off by the Indi-
ans when the town was burned, and
Mabel, the eldest daughter, fell in love
xr~f+1 a - "A - xrfnl ~ Ty~-ltrhN xornoaIz
who was among her captors.
Arthur st. Clair, a Scotchman by
birth, was the moving spirit In the coun-
tvs early days. Up until his appoint
ment as prothonotary of Westmoreland
county he was English all through, but
Ii must have been the influences of
western life that prompted him to write
the following letter:
Arthur st. Clair, May is, 1775.-To
JOS. Shipper. jr., Ligonier: Yesterday
we had a county meeting, and have
come to volunteers to arms and disci-
pline. and have formed an association.
which / suppose you Will Q see in
the papers. GOO grant an end may be
speedily put to N necessity Of such
proceedings. / doubt the utility and
am almost as much afraid OF success In
this contest as OF being vanquished."
st. Glars patriotism Don led him to
assume command of a regiment OF mill
tia, and his services in the wars quickly
gained him the rank OF major general.
At the close of the revolution he was
sent to congress-, and later made gov-
ernor OF the Northwest territory. While
commander in chief Of the armies In
1871 he met a terrible defeat by the Indi-
ans at the battle of the Wabash. This
defeat embittered his whole after life.
He resigned from the army and devoted
himself to Industrial concerns. Mis-
fortune overlook him in his old age, ev-
cry penny OF his fortune being swept
away. ne died at length in a miserable
howell near Greensburg, which still
stands.
The. body OF the illustrious patriot lay
in an unmarked grave until 1912, when
the Masonic societies erected a simple
shaft of brown sandstone. 0 which
is Inscribed the following beautiful epi-
taph:
The Earthly Remains Of
Major General Arthur st. Clair :
Are Deposited Beneath
This humble monument, which is
erected to supply the place OF
nobier one due from his country.
He died August 81. ISIS. in the
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