The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-06-15
built a rude fort on the banks of the
Mississippi in southwest Wisconsin.

Mississippi in southwest Wisconsin.
In 1850 Louis Hennepin, a Fran
clscan friar, going up the Mississippi,
and David Graysolon Du Luth. gen
tleman of the Kings Guard" coming
down the river, met on Wisconsin
soil. 1t was an event that proves
how small the world is after all, for
when they had last met it was as COM
panions on the field of Seneffe in Hal
nault, the day of the French victory
over William OF Orange, when friar
Hennepin was an almoner in the
kings army, and Du Luth was squire
to the Marquis de Lassay They had
| each gone to an extreme end of the
New world and had met by accident,
| almost in its center, the only white
| men save handful within thousands
| of miles.
After the French and Indian war,
Wisconsin became English and re-
NAMED so until after the war of
1925, longer possibly than any
other State now in the Union French
half-breeds and Indians donned the
British uniform and fought zealously
for King George in the revolution
They set the British flag over the
4 M at
Chen, and long after Zebulon. H.
Pix had passed through this new ter
ritory on his journey of exploring the
new louisiana purchase, the cross
Of St. George foated over the trad
ing posts of Wisconsin. An admira-
BILE line of defense was established by
the British along the Fox and Wis
consin rivers, diagonally across the
State, and that section was held by
them until the summer of 1915.
After the Revolution, Wisconsin
was part of the famous Northwest
Territory, having been saved for the
United States by the work of the
frontiersmen of Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia and Kentucky. In 1874 Jeffer-
son presented plan to Congress by
which ten States were to be carved
from this region. What Is now Wis
consin was to be called Michigania,
and other States were to have been
Sylvania, Assenisipa, Illinoia and
Cheronesus. But James Monroe went
the mex year to treat with the Miami
Indians and thought the States would
be too small. Later the ordinance OF
1887 was drawn up, and through the
processes of State evolution the com
monwealths of Ohio, Indiana, I'LL
nois, Michigan and Wisconsin have
come from this territory.
/ In 1896 the territory of Wisconsin
came into existance after passing
nearly fifty years as part of Indiana
Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin ter
ritories. In 1S48 she became soy.
ereign State with Nelson Dewey as
Governor. The capitol was first al
Belmont, then at Burlington, and in
1888 was removed to Madison. The
earliest settlers were French and En-
glish in the north and east and
Scotch-Irish in the south. In 1847
the attention of the German immi.
grants was directed that way, and
there are now six distinct German
groups with strong influence In
political and Industrial affairs. The
Pomeranian costume was a familiar
sight for years in the agricultural
, districts.
The lead mines in the southwest
were an early attraction. Indians
: worked them profitably, Porrot devel.
, oped some of them. France knew Of
these as we'll as others and in 171s
appointed Francis Ronault "Directel
General of Mines in louisiana" and
early in the nineteenth century immi
I grants came up from the south tc
: work them with slave labor. Today
: the mineral industry represents ar
! investment of many millions of dol
| lars. The forests that the early ex
. plorers knew only as hiding place.
t for Indians. now yield revenue, two
: fifths OF the capital of the State beine
! invested in lumber manufacture. 1
: In said that the nina nlanks cut Ii