The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-22

Hamilton Hayne; and many others Of
prominence in the professional, bust
| ness and social life Of the Republic are
in the direct line from DR.. Henry
Woodward who went TO South Carolina
to live with the Indians.
General Grenville NJ Dodge OF Coun-
Gil BhIus. la, and New York City, is
best known TO fame as tho builder and
| sunervising engineer Of the Union Pa
| ciflc railroad. 1t is said that he IN
| tends to quit the railroad business,
return permanently to Iowa and make
the race to succeed Senator William
| B. Allison III the United States Senate,
that Nestor of the upper house OF Con,
gress having announced that he VIII
not stand for reelection. In the South
General Dodge's name Is known and
honored, as much perhaps as 1T is IN
Iowa, but not because of his teats OF
engineering and railroad building, not
because Of his politics, nor yet because
OF his record as fighter, because there
were many brave fighters from the
North in the sixties. He is Iemem-
bered as the man who caused Sam
Davis, the darling hero of Tennessee,
to be hanged as spy. He is also re-
membered as the man who paid that
same rebel spy the tribute, " He is tho
bravest man that ever died. lie is
also remembered as one OF the hrsJ
to send a contribution to the fund to
raise a monument TO that same rebel
snv whom he hanged. In November,
1868, General Dod"e was at Pulaski,
Tenn, in command of the left wing OF
the Sixteenth army corps. One day
Confederate soldier was captured 1T
was Sam Davis, boy barely Il years
old. On his person were found com,
plete plans of tho Federal works and
fortifcations at Nashville. Evidently
they had been given to him by some
Federal officer high in authority, Cen
eral Dodge offered him his freedom
informant the young soldier resor
lutely declined and was taken before
a court-martial, tried and condemned
to be hanged. Again an opportunity
was given him to go free if he would
tell who gave him the papers, and again
he declined. The next day, November
27, 1863, he was taken from the Jail
to East Hill, riding on his coffin to the
gibbet. Just as the moose was about
Chickasaw galloped up from Colonel
Dodge S headquarters and cried; ''It is
not too late. We will give you free
passage inside the Confederate lines if
you will tell us where you got the pa
pers - '' Do you suppose | would be-
tray a friend9 No, sir: if l had a
thousand lives l would give them all
before | would betray the confidence
Of my informer. With these words
Federal officer, Captain Armstrong,
whispered at the last, 81 hate to do
this. - General Dodge fe wdays later
gave Sam Davis s younger brother and
John c. Kennedy permission to take
the body to the Davis home, and as the
rude wagon with the coffin went
through the Federal lines the boys in
blue uncovered their heads in token of
respect for the man of whom General
Dodge had said: ''He is the bravest
man that ever died. -
Charles Doolittle Walcott, the new
secretary of the Smithsonian institution,
is a many-sidcd man. He is a scien
tist, d mixer with men, and a pub
hclst, AT the head of the greatest sci
entifc institution of America with It's
varied departments, he is naturally most
interested in the research and expert
mcntation which is the chief end of his
work. He is none the less interested In
the National Museum of which he is
also the head, and which will be, when
it is moved into the new building now
going up, a national school for visitors
TO the capital. 1t is his purpose TO in
terest the general public of the country
in the work Of the institution TO an eX-
tent that never before has been at
tempted. During Mr.. Walcott 5 thir-
teen years as director of the United
States geological survey, he paid par
tlcular attention to the dissemination
of the knowledge gained, To this end
he maintained a ''press AGENT in the
bureau, who gave TO the newspaper
men Of Washington, representing the
press of the whole country, every scrap
of interesting, important or curious in
formation that came to the survey.
This plan, modified as may be neces-
sary, will be adopted for the Smith
souian institution. and it is safe to
say that before MI Walcott has been
secretary for many years the general
public will know much more OF the
scope and Importance Of the work of
the institution than it has ever dreamed
of in the past.
1.-The Last of the MiamisD is the
title given to Gabriel Godfrey, an In
dian now in his sixties, who lives near
Peru, Ind He is the son of Francis
Godfrey, the last war.chief of the once
powerful Miami tribe that held domin.
ion over the rich valley of the Wabash
OF the lands reserved to his father
when the Government made It's set
tlement with the Miamis, only forty
seven acres that were of little account
were left 10 Gabriel. Yet he has reared
family of boys, of more white than
Indian blood. to hunt and fish after the
manner Of their fathers. He has taught
Them the ancient language of the Mi
amis. But lie has seen them desert
the notions and traditions Of his peo-
pie, and hc looks upon himself as being
the last of his line, the last of DIV,
NASTY of mighty warriors, the last of
the MiamIs.
Not one Of the relics Of the Wash
lngton family is more priced than the
Bible which belonged TO Martha Dan.
bridge, later Martha Custis. later Mar
tina Washington. This Bible is owned
by Martha Washingtou's great grand.
daughter, Miss Mary Custis Lee, ddugh.
ter of General Robert f.. Lee. the Con
fcderatc chieftain, This book, a small
volume hound in leather. disappeared
from Arlington House during the Civil
war. 1t WAS returned to Miss Lee a few
years ago by G.. w. Keudrick. n collector
Of Philadelphia, into whose hands il
came by accident In the Bible is re-
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