Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-03
All tlOe Foot OF tbe Cuff.

brevlty and reservation of all Kentucky
mountain men-"l don't know" On VIVA
mountain man does not know you might
as well give up trying to commit him. lie
will not venture an opinion and VIII ony
smile tolerantly at any att mp to make
HIM form one. He does not know. That
settles It. 1t is not for him to deal with
hypothesis and mental problems.
Too Many Murders.
Mr.. oliver was asked how many men he
thought were killed there. He said he
could not tell; he could not remember ever
having heard. l asked him if he could not
strain his memory little to the time that
he was very young and remember some OF
the things that his father told him about
the killings on Bloody Creek and the bones
that were found there. He answered
simply that all he could remember was
that his father told him there were lot
OF bones there and that a lot of people
had been killed there some time by In
dams
One of the teachers once employed in this
rough country, a man of some parts, called
Professor Cough, made some inVestlga-
tons regarding the Bloody Creek tragedy,
but did not report them. 1t is many years
since he lived in the country and he Is
now a travelling salesman in the Black
HIS. He told me 1t had been proved by
the usual science Of the anatomlst that the
skulls taken from Bloody Creek were white
mems skulls. He also said that he had
got trace OF skulls that had been carried
away, some of which were covered with
light hair That there were many COM
plete skeletons there not long ago he did
not doubt. He said that in the earliest
days OF the white settlers there was some
llght hair picked up at the scene These
bones, almost to the last Of them had been
carried away by strangers passing through
and hearing snatches of the story Relic
! . faapg avaA @.sH-
nave also been there and got the spells, so
| that whatever number OF people died there
or about there their bones have been car
/ ried TO the four winds. Professor Gough
says that in his time in the county the
stains on the cliffs about the rock house
aooNe II ana below it, gave unmistakableI
evidence OF a massacre
Mr.. Lawson concludes that Sir IvaI,o-
Raleigh's lost colony was assimilated Inv
the Indians because he found Hatteras In
dians who declared they had white ances-
/ tors and because he found gray ewes atnon,|
Hatteras Indians. 1t is not a very CON.
elusive statement when one considers that
lthe last colony only antedated the settle
/ ment or Virginia by sixteen or seventeen
years, and that fifteen or twenty years
later coast trips We're not uncommon, and
most any time before the advent of Law
son white parties might have visited Roa-
noke Island from ships from abroad or
when Lawson travelled through that coun-
try, and when he did get TO Roanoke il was
quite thickly peopled and had been settled
for more than nifty years. and II had been
} pI Ospected by an exploring party seventy
eight years before, In 1922. Wheeler's his
tory OF North Carolina says:-"July, 1858
Rodger Greene's colony from Virginia set
tied on the banks of the Roanoke Be
fore this North Carolina had been the
refuge Of Quakers fleeing from religious
prosecutions
4 There were many reasons why the col
ony should not appeal for succor to the
, Indians. The trust and affection Of the
Indians had been alienated by treachery
and murder by the whites.
/ Bancroft's history shows that the first
/. expedition of Raleigh took back TO Eng
land two natives OF the wilderness. Man
teo and Wanchese, and that the expedition
had been entertained at Roanoke by the
wife OF Granganimeo. father Of Wngina
the King, with the rehnements of Area
; dian hospitality" few pages further on
il is learned that Governor Lane, who
managed the colony brought out by Sir
Richard Granville. murdered this kingly