The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-07
PRESERVE AND MARK GRAVE
OF "A NATIVE VlRGlNlAlN
Bill iii Iowa Legislature to Pies
serve Resting-Place Of
5s5 General Street. ss3l
HIS INTERESTING CAREER
Began Life as Deputy Sheriff I'M
Lunetburg County, Virginia.
Died in Far West,


Lunenburg County, Virginia.
Died in Far West.
Especial Correspondent OF The Times.
Dispatch.) AK
DEs MONIES, IOWA. Jan, s.-Ths
Iowa Legislature has been petitioned for &
an appropriation to mark and preserve
the grave OF General Joseph Nj. Street. O N
native virginian, who lies Inferred II In NJ
the same grave with Wapello, o chief Of
the Sac and Fox Indians. whose great
friend lie was. The strcet-Walpello grave
is now marked only with 81 common mar.s3
bic slab, the grave enclosed with an or
binary picket fence. The town OF Agency. 81
where street was located when Sac and y
Fox agent. has asked the Leglsla-tl
| tire, now In session, to erect a 1nonu-s
mcnt to tho two men, white and red III
properly care fort the grave and make Of I,
| the old agency building, where Street,
presided q State museum for the present.
| walton OF historical Indian relics. 81 This \
| will probably be DONE " III S8 8
| Joseph Montfort Street was ono OF the II
most prominent men Of his time In the
| development Of the Missippi Valley
and the pacifcation OF the Indians. His b
long and strenuous life was commenced In
Lunenburg county, Va, December 49,
1852; his father being An thony Street,
q planter, and his mother Mary Stokes Q
sister Of Montfort Stokes. Governor ot8ii
North Carolina. After serving with hons,
ors In tho Continental army. participate
| ing iii the battles Of Guiford Courthouse Y
and Kings Mountain, Colonel Anthony
Street succeeded to tho office OF Sheriff
Of Lunenburg county His family held y
the office uninterruptedly for fifty years.
Joseph Street was made deputy sheriff
while in his teens, and the black buck
/ skin knee breeches and long stockings
worn while riding US deputy /" were long &
| preserved as relics In the family. Aftera8
j this he was in a commercial house I'm $
! Richmond. Leaving there he went " to &
kentucky read law In the office of Henry
Clay and practiced In the courts OF Vir-.
glnla and Kentucky 5f S5sgssii
BECAME AN EDITOR. So ssS
1t was while editor Of the 4 Western
/ World at Frankfort, Ky., that Street at-as
tanned to q national !; Il his D
paper lle charged Aaron Burr 18th con-Ss
4 splracy against the government This I
| Lied to numerous assaults and duels In all !
/ OF which Street trlumphed, until finally
| he was set upon by George Adams, u Z
\ young lawyer, and In the melee Street i,
4 was wounded sosseriously that he hover!
ed between life and death for MONTHS
every day expected to be his last. \, He 4
| was SO low that when the Burr trial wa w
called he was unable to appear and tes-#!
i tify against Burr. M IL
4 After recovering, Street WENT Shaw
i, neetown. in tho Territ tory Of 1lltnois,S
where he was clerk OF the court for six
i teen years. In 1S27 he was app ointed by
President John Quincy, Adams agent Of
the Yinnebago Indians ut Prairie 3dlla
i Chen, and remained there until he was \
j transferred to the Sac and Fox reserva-sl
i ton. at Agency. Iowa, In 1885. While In
charge OF the Winnebag goes Street was so j
! tactful by pleading with his charges and
moving them from place to place, that
1 not one Joined Black Hawk In his swar&oe5S
4 1882, although they had promised to- do&
I SO. After the battlesof Bad Axe, When
Black Hawk was treacherously captured
he was surrendered by the Whine bagoes
j to General Street, who turned him over
| to Colonel Zachary Taylor afterwards
| President Of the United states), and who I.
| sent Lieutenant Jefferson Davis to Street
for Black Hawk. Street accompanied
! Lieutenant Davis and Black Hawk to
I! Rock Island. under orders OF General
| Winfield Scott. and from there Black
I Hawk was takenfb by Lieutenant Davis TO-
Jefferson Barracks and Fortress Monroa 4
for short Imprisonment. ~
In 1887 General Street took @ delega-s
ton Of Indian chiefs, including Black
Hawk, Keokuk, Wapello, kishkekosh.2
| Appanoose and Powesniele, to Washing
| ton, Boston and New York to Impress
| them with the size and resources OF the
! country, so there would be no further res
| volt In this he was successful. ID
Returning to the Iowa Agency, Genera
| Street passed the remainder of his life
! there, dying May S. 1S40.ss Two yea rsss
later Wapello, who had been q head ~
| chief Of the Sncs and Foxes, and greatly
attached to General Street, died, and b.
| his own request the Street grave was ems
| larged and Wapello was laid by the side
OF his friend. It was Chief Wapello who
| led the Indian war dance which the IN ~ ~
dlans gave on Boston Common durlnE
i, the eastern visit and who replied to thes8ll
address OF welcome delivered Dy }}loVer..lEsE
nor Edward Everett. 7sstSS
For sixty years the two graves have
remained marked only with, loose stones
and recently by n small marble ~ slap.
| The graves are within sight OF the Bur
| llngt ton railway, which Is encroachlng on /
| them, and It Is to escape this destructlqM3
| 5that the Iowa Legislature as asked FOR me-
| the appropriation to care for ana pres
| serve tho graves. II Ss
Hell Sounded Like Postofhce.s
| An American missionary Just home Il
from, corea informs Tip that the lan-
guage Of that much-coverted land az as
Shout the most difficult on earth 10Y ~
Cor elgner to use with any certainty, say
y writer in the New York Press, i, 5s o.
| Ihls. on account of words when. n
With slightly varying infections, arc used Iii
to express entirely different meanings
My missionary friend once was preacn-a3
Ing 10 natives and. as he thought, as
suring them that. unless they lived right I.
eously, they would go to a place o. Whlcn
| renort said nothing good, But to his per-
plexity, mild nstonlshment rather than
| djsmay was the expression on the races 1;
of his auditors. Afterwards they told y
him they saw no reason why, for their
sins, they should be sent to-tne local ga
mns.oe,ce ON another occasion when the