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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
FIRST SCHOOL In WEST.

eminent in Cahokia, in what is the
oldest county in the state.
1t was under the royal regimes of
King Louis XIV. of France and King
George III. of England and finally
under the American stars and stripes
during the administration of the first
president, George Washington, after
the expedition and bloodless victories
of George Rogers Clark in 1878, when
he captured the Northwest Territory
from the British.
The little building is constructed
of square black walnut logs, about
ten inches square on the ends and
one story high. The logs are set up
on end in the style of the construc-
ton of the French period. The over
hanging roof makes the top of the
porch, which extends all around it.
At the end is a chimney and fireplace,
with the old hand-wrought andirons
The ancient town of Cahokia was
the settlement of the Cahokia tribe
of Indians, one of the Illinois confed-
Grafton, and the village was possibly
located as early as 1852, but the be-
ginning of the history of the vii
lage practically dates from the found
ing of the church of the Holy Family
about 100 by Father Francois Pinet,
S. j., who also founded the Guardian
Angels mission at Chicago about
1896.
Father ST. Cosme, in the journal
of his voyage in 1899, states that his
party conducted from Chicago by Mr..
De Tonty was rejoined at Peoria by
this same Father Pinet, who was &C.
customed to spend his summers at
the Chicago mission.
The Cahokia courthouse was built
about 1716, according to local history,
and was the next Oldest building to
the church 1t was early used as
headquarters for the notary and civil
officers and local military officers I'M
der the French, British and Amer
leans when in Cahokia. 1t was also
called the garrison" occupying the
most commanding corner of the pub
lie common in the center of the vii
lage, where it overlooked all the
roads and approaches to the town.
Pontiac, the great Indian chief, was
assassinated in Cahokia about 1903
while engaged in one of his conspir.
acies. The building occupied the mid
die OF a small plot of ground and for
merly was surrounded by a stockade
fence A small iron cannon occupied
each corner. These were sWept aWay
or buried in one of the great floods
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
OLD DOCUMENT GIVES CAHokIA,
ILL.,, UNIQUE HONOR.
Log Courthouse Recently Brought to
Chicago from st. Clair County Re-
calls Pioneer Days-Built Of
Black Walnut.

Chicago.-Cahokia, the quaint little
Clair county almost on the banks of
the Mississippi, Is now claimed as
the cradle of the great free school
system OF Illinois by members of the
Chicago Histo4cal society, who have
brought to light an old document
zens of Cahokia request "the judges
of the honorable court of Cahokia"
to allow them to hold their first pub
lie school in the courthouse. The old
courthouse, said to be the oldest in
the west, is now situated on Wooded
island, in Jackson park.
The old document which fixes the
time of the founding of the Illinois
schools, was discovered a few weeks
ago after it had been hidden from
human eyes for almost 100 years. 1t
is written in French. Translated it
reads as follows:
"To the Honorable Gentlemen, the
Judges of the Honorable Court of
Cahokia:
THE inhabitants of the parish of
the Holy Family of Cahokia have the
honor to express to you at their as
sembly that they have the desire to
establish school in the said parish
Tor town. for the instruction of their
children.
"As they are obliged to do many
necessary public works in the parish,
they cannot at once undertake the
construction of building necessary
to hold the said school, so these rep
resentatives ask you gentlemen that
you allow them to hold the said
school in your audience room of the
courthouse until they construct a
building which will oblige all the in
habitants whose children have their
instruction in the school, and in
which case should there arise any
DETACHMENT of the said audience
room, they will leave it in the best
condition which you Judge necessary
and proper.
THAT is why they supplicate you
to accord them this request as being
iiSNSoooiJ ioi thO pupliC 6OOu. III
this cause they submit themselves to
your good will and have the honor
to be, very respectfully.
Your very humble and very ODE.
dent servants, Louis Sebrun.
Louis Grand"
"Cahokia, 6 May, 1894"
This, according to the historians
was the first request for a public
school in Illinois after the revolu
tionary war, when, under one of our
first laws, one section in each town
ship was set aside for school pur
poses.
With the erection in Jackson park
of the old courthouse in which the
first Illinois schools were held, Chi
cago now possesses the only Original
historic public building west of Bos
ton or north of New Orleans. The
structure was the seat of local gov
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
Auto Runs PRINTING Press.

New York.-The electric motor
which is used to drive the press
in the office of the Staten Island Ad-
vance in West New Brighton, broke
down the other afternoon, and an ex.
pert from Manhattan found it could
not be repaired without being sent to
Philadelphia to be rewound. John
Crawford, Jr., the editor, found no
other Office in Richmond borough
could print his 16 page paper. so he
took his S5 horse power direct drive
automobile up alongside the building,
had hole knocked through the side
OF the wall, and the shaft of his press
run out through the building. A belt
then was adjusted to the shaft of the
automobile and the paper was run on
successfully.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
OLD COLONY ON WANE
LAST REMAINING SETTLEMENT
OF FRENCH PASSING AWAY.
With Decline OF Fisheries little Town
on Island Of MiqueIon, OFF Mouth
Of ST. Lawrence, Fast Be-
coming Depopulated.

Sydney. G. B.-The last remaining
settlement of the once vast domain of
France on the North American con-
tinent, the little fishing town OF st.
Pierre, on the island of Miquelon, off
the mouth of the st. Lawrence river,
is fast becoming depopulated. Grave
concern is felt by the French govern
ment over the serious condition of af-
fairs The feeling of the French gov
eminent over the shrinkage in this
tiny island possession is not due to
pride alone. From the intrepid ma
rines of Miquelon she picks the men
from whom she builds the fighting
strength of her navy.
The exodus of the inhabitants OF
Miquelon has long been noted. Can
ada is striving to build up her great
northwest and is offering strong in
ducements to immigrants. The fish
ing industry of ST. Pierre has been
failure for the last two or three
years, and with the sole means OF
sustenance taken from them the de-
scendants of the hardy French ex-
plOTeTS nave ldCGu dCLudl SJdINdllOu
Government steps have been I'M
equal to relieving the privations en-
dured by it's colonists. Recently 100
immigrants landed at North Sydney
from one schooner in charge of DR..
T. A. Brisson, head of the colonial
ton department for the province Of
Quebec. DR.. Brisson says that on
the next trip 200 more will come,
and that the end will not be even
then, and the population of Miquelon
is numbered only by hundreds.
The hardness that has made the
men of Miquelon famous in romances
of the sea will now be employed in
new ventures. Nearly all the able
| bodied men have been promised en-
ployment in pioneer railroad con-
struction, and others will seek some
steads in the wheat belt.
France has made determined eff
forts to maintain this foothold in the
west. When the tide of emigration
set from the island she filled up the
gap with colonists from the fishermen
of her own shores. But with the de-
cline of the fisheries and with the
ceaseless struggle for a meager exist
ence growing continually harder, the
colonists have refused to remain.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
WORLDS MOST POLITE MAN.
Many People Would Probably Regard
Him as a Crank.

Clarksburg, w. Va.-Never guilty
of having said cross word to any
body is the record of Robert Wilder,
of Clarksburg, and, furthermore, he Is
highly respected by his relatives,
which is saying a great deal. No
Frenchman or Japanese could be
more polite than he.
When Wilder was held up by a
highwayman near Dugan's Dam, Mr..
Wilder handed over $13.26 and apollo
gized for not having more with him.
He was working on the roof of a tall
building when fellow employee struck
him. Wilder, without the least display
of anger, picked up his assailant, and,
after begging his pardon for the an
noyance he was subjecting him to
dropped the man head first upon a
pile of rocks. He showed his forgiv-
ing spirit by writing nice obituary
for the local paper.
Wilder smiles when person tramps
on his corn, and congratulates his
wife on her discernment when she
calls him names.
Taken i'll one day, he insisted upon
telephoning the undertaken, express
ing regret at the trouble he might
cause him.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
THE STORY.

IT seemed like such a little thing
i and yet Daniel as he faced the
issue realized that 1t was the crisis of
his life. Should he or should he not
partake of the .bounties from the
kings table?
Why, what else was there that he
could do? he asked himself. There
he was captive in the kings palace,
and there was the food provided for
him. If he ate not he would incur the
displeasure of the prince under whom
the Hebrew captives had been placed
and perhaps endanger his life with the
king. And then, what was he to eat If
he did not eat that which the king
had so bountifully and so generously
provided?
That day he and others of the cap
tive Hebrew princes had been brought
from their rude quarters, and were
told by the interpreter that hence.
forth these sumptuous apartments
were for their use. Ever since their
arrival at Babylon under guard of the
soldiers they had been quartered in a
rough building adjacent to the sol
diers' quarters, and that day Ashpe'
naz, the prince of the kings eunuchs
had visited them and chosen certain
of them and taken them to the palace
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
Elevator Ride Is Fatal.

New York.-Medical skill was I'M
able to check the nervous decline of
Mrs. Frank Hennion, which developed
after her return from shopping trip
to New York, and she died at her
home at Morristown, N. ]. Mrs. Hen
Mon received a severe shock while
taking her first ride in an express"
elevator in New York. She entered
the elevator on the tenth floor of a
skyscraper occupied by a furniture
company. After returning home she
complained of headache and a pain
full illness set it, Physicians dag.
nosed her ailment as lockjaw. They
concurred in the opinion that the dis.
ease resulted from the terror expert
enced in the elevator ride. Mrs. Hen.
MON was 26 years aid.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
UNCLE SAM PAYS MINNESOTA.
State Allowed $4,000 for Indian War
During Rebellion.

Minneapolis, Minn.-The national
government will pay the state of Min.
nesota $1,000 to defray the expenses
of the Indian war in this state in
1923. The uprising came just at a
time during the civil war when it
looked as if the north would have
England to fight as well as the south.
Thousands of armed Indians rushed
over the border from Canada, and the
national government was unable to
protect the settlers.
The state raised militia under Gov.
Ramsay and the invaders were chased
beyond the borders and hundreds of
them were slain, but not before many
settlers had been massacred.
After the close of the war the state
made claim on the national govern
ment for the cost of the war, and 1t
has been hanging fire ever since.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
BROKEN BOW,
NEBRASKA.
An Objection to All Reforms.

Tudor jerks, discussing reforms
and reformers in the November mum.
Der of the Worlds Work, avows with
considerable self-satisfaction, that he
has spent no small portion Of his life
In skillfully avoiding the advocacy oil
any reform for long at time. Mr..
jerks says: There has been only
one serious objection to each reform
in turn as it presented itself. In evary
case I have found the theory delight
full, and have longed to make 1t my
own; but also, in every case, have
been saved by the reformers them.
selves. In short, the trouble with
each reform has been the advocates
of It, So long as it could be ap
preached as set of mental ideas,
there was something delightful in the
thought of becoming one of the elect
of the earth-of separating ones
self from the opportunists; of Joining
some devoted band Of martyrs; OF
living and theoretically, Of course)
dying for cause. But just as / have
reached the full flush of youthful en-.
thusiasm, 1t has always been my fate
to be presented to some light of the
new faith, some enthusiast whose
ideas seemed to fit him little better
than his clothes; whose extrava-
gancies of speech or of manner
matched his extravagancies of hair;
who was so absorbed in his own pc.
culiar cult as to be entirely oblivious
to the many advantages derivable
from enlisting me in it. And 1t may
be that in my wounded selfesteem
lies the secret of the repugnance
which the reformer has aroused
against the reform" This observer
concludes that we should be we'll on
toward the millennium were 1t not
that the reformers drive away those
whom the reform attracts. In fact
he goes on to say: THE trouble with
reforms is invariably the reformers;
and wish respectfully to suggest to
all those whose mission it is to better
mankind that they commit theii
thoughts to writing, and forward
them In due course OF mail to such
organs as will put the arguments into
cold type. The advantage of type is
that 1t never wears reform costumes;
is always habited in decent suit OF
black; never goes on talking when
the object of the reform wishes to
drop the subject, and is by it's very
nature confessedly devoted to a sin
gle topic"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
New Deposit In Canada Equal to Hold.
lnes of the Steel Trust.

Cleveland.-The new deposit of
ore recently discovered in Canada
upon examination is shown to contain
almost as much ore as all the hold.
ings of the steel corporation, with the
exception of the Hill properties lately
purchased. This information has
caused much comment among iron
ore men, and 1t is said that indie
pendent interests in Buffalo and Pitts
burg are negotiating for the property.
This new ore-bearing property is
situated about 20 miles east OF Port
Arthur. and is about three miles in
width and six miles long According
to recent tests the body VIII! contain
slightly upward of 20,G00,c00 tons OF
ore.
Estimates of the grade O. this ore
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03

Most of us have had the experience
of belonging to some literary society
or club or debating circle which con-
sisted of little more than a name and
a list of members, For such at least
there is a suggestion in a speech by
the president of the National Fedora,
ton of Women's clubs, and perhaps
some societies that really engage In
literary work may profit by it, too.
Said Mrs. Decker: Il know a small
western town that has ten Shake
speare clubs. Grasp, if you can, the
full horror of that. But the streets OF
that town are dirty, and esthetically
the place is dead. There is no care
for child life, no interest in sanitation,
no regard for the larges issues-it is
all Shakespeare" In its place and in
formed by proper spirit the study OF
Shakespeare is large issue. But
consider the poetry of clean street!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
Victims of Shooting Season.

Seventy-four slain by gunfire is the
record of the shooting season, which
lasts just about as long as the foot
ball season. or these victims, most
were actually shot at, their rustling
in the bushes being taken for that OF
a deer. No intelligent comment on
this chapter of accidents is possible
without knowing whether the homi.
cides were green hands afflicted with
an acute form of buck fever, or sea.
soned sportsmen caught off their
guard. The former seems most likely
to be the case. However that be-
hunting for deer must still count as
an extra hazardous pursuit, and the
recurrence of these tragedies of the
woods year after year, says the New
York Post, suggests that the state
may yet have to institute tests for the
use of gun, as it does for the
handling of motor car. Meanwhile
1t cannot be too emphatically sale
that the sportsman who under any
circumstances will shoot at noise
Is guilty of criminal carelessness. I'm
happily. the law hardly reaches the
emergency, for no one ever classes
himself in the great roster of gun
bearing fools until he has potted hi:
man-or, as in several cases this
year, his woman.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
100000 TONS OF ORE.

vary. One is that it will run about
10 per cent. in metallic iron and with
in the limits of Bessemer quality on
phosphorus, and having low per-
centage of sulphur. 1t is also declared
that the moisture amounts to only
about one per cent, whereas that of
the Mesaba range averages eight to
ten per cent. 1t is declared that this
new ore adheres more closely to the
analysis of the Old Range Bessemer,
and will be available Immediately for
open hearth and Bessemer processes
OF making steel. 1t is declared that
the 2O,OOOOOO tons indicated is the
minimum that is likely to be devel
Oped.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03

Dean Jackman of the University of
Chicago is of the opinion that there
is no such thing as lazy boy. Here
is where many fond but experienced
father will take direct issue with
him.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03

The wealth of each person in the
United States, as figured by the cen
sus bureau, was $1.336.O1. on June 80,
1901. The one cent is probably for q
postal card to send to Washington tc
inquire why you haven't received
yours.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-03
An Easy Reclpe.

BY simple silence one displays
Great wisdom here below.
1t is by speech a man betrays
How much he doesn't know.
Washington Star.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-17
Little Boy Severely Bitten.

Leo Kegans, the four veal old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Kegans was severe
ly bitten by a huge dog in the front
yard of his home in the Park build
ing on Main street at nine o'clock
this morning. The little fellow vas
playing with his little dog in the yard
when the big one zane along and
jumped on the pet. The boy ecam
mixed in the fray and the big dog
seized him by the left arm tearing a
cash in the flesh an inch and a half
long and chewing the hand badly /. A
physician sewed up the rent and dress
ed the other wounds He has pro-
nounced h injury not necessarily
dangerous.
r. T. Frazier, the celebrated saddle
maker of Pueblo, Colorado, is here at
tending the convention and mas a fine
exhibit of his wares at the Smoke
House. He gave the 900 saddle that
is offered as first prize in tie riding
contest this afternoon.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-17
BUGBEE'S
ADDRESS

a gain of 100 pounds. Lot No. 2 gain
ed 81 pounds. On April End at Kansas
City lot Nc. 1 weighed 1249 pounds
and sold for $500. Lot No. 2, weighed
1916 pounds and sold for $5.15. The
time 1occupaed in feeding was So
days"
Now l want to call your attention
to the fact that this feed was all rails
ed in the Panhandle. That it has
been shown that with grade cattle
and careful feeding We can right mere
fit our stock for market and become
Independent of the corn growers of
cattle business from a game of chance
to a regularly organized business
where industry and skill will receive
an adequate reward. This, 1 insist,
conforms the suggestion last year that
the development of farming in this
country is a benefit. not only as re-
CARDS the advance in the value of the
land, but in the help it gives to stock
raising itself.
1 would not by any means, however.
disparage the work of the pioneers of
the cattle industry in this country, in
Northwest Texas and New Mexico.
They were the pioneers of civilization
in this section long before any other
white men yer here. They left com
Portable homes and settled communi-
ties to come here to what was hen
apparently the great American des-
ert," and enduring tae loneliness and
the hardships of a pioneer life, the
chances of misfortune and loss, gal
lantly fighting the battle with savage
beasts and still more savage men.
blasts of winter WITH cattle thieves
and rustlers. They have made posi-
BILE the development of the country
which is now beginning to dawn To
their enterprise, and to the business
they gave in n way of live stock
shipping we are indebted for the rail
roads that have penetrated this sec
tion; and to the railroads in turn we
owe the coming OF the farmer and con
.sequently the great agricultural devel
opment Of our glorious country Most
OF these pioneers have passed over to
the Life Beyond to receive their re
ward. but we can rejoice that there
are some of them still with u.s.; men
like Goodnight and Slaughter n Lit
tlefield, who are spared to see b land
they opened 60 uke developing beyond
MI they could In those early days
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have imagined to be possible.

have imagined to be possible.
At this meeting held for the first
time in a new place and a new sec
ton of the country, it is proper to call
attention to the purposes and OBJ
jects of the Association, and to urge
as strongly as we can al who are in
terested to join in with us. We rep
resent one of the great industries of
our Nation-next to grain growing.
the most important and greatest of
agricultural pursuits. Now it has al
ways proved true that with men n
gagged in a oommon pursuit there is
no truer proverb than the old one I'm
union there is strength" We ave
many difficulties still to encounter.
The nature of the products of our
pastures n ranches make u call
ing peculiarly subject to the depreda-
tions of thieves and marauders. Our
Association sets itself to suppress
this crime and to punish the criminal.
and by maintaining at the points of
shipment and at the markets a regu-
lar system of inspection to secure the
property of its members recover
it when stolen. If the Association ac-
comphshed nothing more this would
of itself be a sufficient reason for its
existence. But the cattle theft is by
no means the only M we have to en-
counter. The country swarms with
parasites who try to thrust in between
the producer n the consumer and
pick up the lions share of the price
of the product; and again and again
have purchasers combined to keep
down the price of cattle for their own
advantage. Singly we can do nothing
to prevent such injustice, but by com
bining our forces we can in some de-
gree at least serve each other by pre-
venting them. We have in 4 past
and may again, need legislation to pre-
vent eNtortion in transportation and
unfair n ruinous rebates. To regU
late the charges of marketing and to
prevent combination of customers to
keep down prices. Standing each man
for himself we are ~powerless to Sc
cure it. but the united effort of the
while body has in the past and will
again in the future succeed in some de
gree in getting these evils corrected.
Then, apart from matters of business.
our Association has a social side that
is quite as attractive. Once a year
a large number of men good, good
neighbors and good fellows, all of
them having a common interest in the
business they pursue, get together
to compare their experiences and
their methods. TO enew old acquain-
tances and t form new ones, to re-
count the story of the past and to plan
for the future, in short. to have q
good time. And I earnestly hope that
the many who hare gathered here
win n this meeting 90 agreeable
that they viii an want 20 get togeth-