Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-03

The first discovery In settlement Of this coun-
Try was by the procurement Of Sir Walter
Raleigh In conjunction with some public spir-
tied gentlemen Of that age, under the prOtee-
ton Of Queen Elizabeth, for which reason It
was then named Virginia being begun on that
part called Roanoke Island, where the RUNE
Of a fort are TO be seen this day, as well as
some old English CONS which have been lately
found, and brass gun, powder horn and one
Gunall quarter gun, made o. iron slaves anu
hooped with the saane metal TUT
ther confirmation Of this we have from the
Hatteras Indians, who either then lived on
Roanoke Island or much frequented it' Tnese
tell Ms that several OF their ancestors were
white people and could talk IN BOOK az We 40
The truth Of which Is confirmed by gray eyes
being found frequently among these Indians ana
mauy others II Is probable that this
settlement mscarried for want Of timely sup
plies from England or through the ueaehery
Of the natives -LaWson'S Travels Among GIRO
lima Indians, 100.
An expedition under Sir Richard Granville
Sir Ralph Lane, Governor, and los others
landed in Roanoke Island in July, 1883. Inc
ships left the colonists In August and returned
10 England. This colony governed oy Lane
achieved no permanent location and aLter inc
residence Of a year returned with Sir Francs
nrake 70 England A few days after
a ship despatched by Sir Walter Raleigh ar
rived loaded with every essential OF comfort,
and soon after Sir Richard Grenville anu Lnrts
uhipS searched in vain for Lane. Sir lenaru
left Aftean men at Roanoke Island and re-
turned to England. Haleigh sent
Whtne as Governor and number Oh eolohHLs'
male and female, who arrived In July uootl,
Tia oolouists left by GrenNhie VERY nv ~ "
white returned to England leaving colony
of eiRnty-n nine man, seventeen women anu wv
children. Among these were M ms S SISS
vvAoaa child was the FIRST onspfing OF Ehglsn
parents in this western world On
ne return Of white, England was AT war
With Spain, and Sir Walter halelsh, Hren-
vtiis and Lane were in the service 1t was
Two years before white could return, ana on
iandinR at Roanoke not single man was
found 1t had been sgreed On ieavaa INN, 1ne
tha colopists they were TO leave the name On
the place where they might be FOUND, and
iu distress to designate II by cross Gov
ernor white found ON tree or post the WORD
CIroatan but without the sign or distress
No trace OF these cOlonists has ever been dis
covered Lawson, the earliest histo-
nan Of Carolina believes that the English.
despairing OF all relief from the long absence
on their friends Amalgamated with the IN
dams, In confirmation OF which he learned
from the Hatteras Indians that seNeral o.
tf,sir ancestors were white people and could
taik IN a book the truth Of which is confirmed
BY gray eyes being among these Indians ana no
others --Wheelers History OF North Carolina
Had the emigrants persisted or escaped with
their lives to Croatan, and through the friend
ahip Of ManteO become familiar with Indians,
the conjecture has been hszarded that the DE
serted colony, neglected by their own country
men were Hospitality adopted into the tribe
OF Hatteras indians and became amalgamateu
with the sons Of the forest This was tine
belief OF the natives at later day, and was
thought to be confirmed by the physical ehar-
scter Of the tribe, IN which the English and
indian race seemed to have been blended
Bancroft's History Of the United States, vol !.
- q the authority of all the historian
for the DISPOSITION Of Sir Walter
Raleigh's missing colony Is Law
SON 1t is a guess that has served
up to this time since something
- must be hazarded to account fol
the complete disappearance OF more
than one hundred peop'e. 1t would serve
as we'll as any othe- for all time If phys
Ical conditions were not really against 1t
Nobody seems TO have taken the trouble
to consider all the facts and circumstance
OF the period very closely in order to de
termne the most likely fate of the colo
nists.
1t is only the purpose OF this story L
tell OF heaps" OF white mems bones tina
were lying in the cliffs in the country IA
away beyond the Cumberland Mountains
lying where white men had been slaiI
many, many years before the first know
white explorer had set foot In that will
derness. 1t might be said that these whit
men who had been slain where their bone
were found, proof of which will be sub
mitted, were a stray party from the col
ony of North Carolina or Virginia an,
time in the seventeenth or eighteenth cen
fury. 1t might be so, but the evidence 4
10 the contrary. 1t might be said will
more reason that Lawson's assumption
that the Hatteras Indians absorbed tn
Roanoke colonists was gratuitous whel
based solely on the tradition of the In
dams that they had several white ances
tors and that the tribe had gray eyes
The infusion Of white blood might be ac
counted for in many other ways. Tn
country of Roanoke was visited by an of
fetal party from Virginia eighty years be
fore Lawson was there. Commerce to an
from the mother country and with tn
Northern colonies of New York and Ne\
England had been going on for grea
many years. And while the Roanoke coun
try was not occupied until about the mid
die of the seventeenth century, venturou
voyagers might have been there any tim
after the settlement OF jamestown in l6O'
and that was only seventeen years late
than the colony was lost.
A GregUSo1te Tale.
This Is a story Of dead mems bones.
IL naAA 10 tell at TINS time whose bone
they were, but there are a good many eli
cumstanoes that make II appear that the
might have been the bones of the lost co,
ony at Roanoke Island, found a thousan
terrible miles from Roanoke Island, terri
bic miles even now.
That Western country beyond the Gun
berland Mountains is still like a dark spac
behind a wall to all people outside OF II
confines, IL Is a hilly country. one hi
following another with narrow creek bot
toms lying between
II is beyond both those mountain chair
that these white mems bones used to n,
The place IS Wolfe county, Ky, west OF m
kentucky River a mile. The scene Is
rockhouse in the cliffs OF Bloody Cree,
just below the Falls of Bloody Creek. m
creek was named by the first settle,
there more than one hundred years az,
and was named because of the evldenc,
they found OF a massacre
All these observations are susceptibla
analysis. There are probabilities ana FAC
TO be weighed in the scales against dou1
and disbelief. one OF the lrst white a.
tiers at the cliffs u Bloody Creek was n
father OF walk" Oliver, who stll u,,
there and whose honest and kindly Ia.
will be seen In an accompanying portal
About . mile from him J. y. Childsrs. wi