The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-11-29
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken from St. Paul Papers Of
Forty Years Ago.

Paul Pioneer and will hereafter
conduct that ancient Democratic
organ as Republican sheet. Mr..
Hall is young man from Ohio,
where his father is a distinguished
newspaper man, having been editor
and proprietor of a number of news
papers in that state. Mr.. Hall,
Fsenior, paid a visit to our city last
month. It's last issue as a Demo-
cratic sheet was on the day Of
election, having up to the last
moment Loyalty supported the en-
tire ticket in one of the hottest
campaigns in our history. On that
morning it startled the reading
public with this announcement.
The Last Broadside With this
issue the Pioneer sinks into the
black sea of abolitionism; but, thank
God, like the Cumberland, it goes
down with flying colors, and with a
laundering broadside from every
port hole
This was followed by the follow
!. ing advice to the voters:
If you wish to have niggers in
your schools, niggers at the polls,
niggers in the jury box, niggers
crowding you out of your jobs,
niggers in your fields, niggers on
your public works, niggers gallant
ing your white girls, niggers cor
rupted by demagogues, niggers
holding office, niggers miscegenating
and niggers till you can't rest. Vote
the African ticket
Earl S. Goodrich's connection with
the Pioneer, which he has just dis
solved, dates back to 1853, since
which he has been its chief pro-
prietor and editor. He will be
missed from the journalistic field by
his many admirers. Mr.. Goodrich
will henceforth devote his energies
to the development of the ST. Paul
gas works, which property has come
under his control by proxy or pur-
chase. He designs to put this
neglected and almost used up insti- 7
tuition upon footing at once profit
able to the stockholders and useful
to the city.
Shakopee senior, the father Of
Chief Shakopee, recently hanged at
Fort Smelling, is said by early set
tiers to have been a most arrant
coward, as the following anecdote
makes evident: In April, 1850, the
celebrated Chippewa Chief, Hole-in-
the-Day, made raid into the Sioux
country and killed one of Little
Crow soldiers, son of cold Bets, !"
on the trail between Mendoza and
Kaposia (the tragedy occurring
about where the center of West st.
Paul is at present). Hole-in-the-
Day, with his two companions, of
course, left suddenly for the north,
but Crows warriors, in force, were
speedily on his track. Old Shakopee
happened at the time to be on
begging visit to St. Paul, and forth
with made his appearance before
Gov. Ramsey and demanded that he
be allowed to lead his young men on
the warpath against his ancient foe.
The governor, knowing well his
harmless character, told him to go,
and that he would pay him S. for
every Chippewa scalp he brought
back. "Ho," said Shakopee, senior,
and off he started on a dog trot.
The interview was in the lower part
of the city. The renowned warrior
got as far on the warpath as the
American house, when he halted in
the enterprise, and requested a
citizen to state.lto Ramsey that I'M
less he 1.-THE governor) came down
handsomely in advance with his
gold, he would not move another
step.
The mastering out Of portion of
the Second Minnesota cavalry has
resulted in a meeting of the men of
Company A, Independent battalion,
at Fort Abercrombie. They claim
to be entitled to release from service
first, as they were mustered in prior
to the Second cavalry. On Nov. IL
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