Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1907-02-08
GREENW WOOD.

w. 90 AiuPioNeu OTuer OF Red Men
Hunting grounds of Greenwood Reservs
ton of Delaware, having received tn,
sad news with profound sorrow of tn,
death Of one of its members and chiefs
Linwood Q. Spanish. While travelling
the forest on strang hunting grounds in
the reservation of New Mexica at ''Lamy''
The Sth Sun, fifth run, Travelling Moon.
- stern time, G. S. D. as Brother 81.
q Spanish" was rendered unconscious.
robbed and thrown on a pile of hot Gin
ders by unknown party or parties to him.
His statement to his nurse, Sister Mary
DeSales, was that he saw four Mexicans
nearby, but a short time before he was
assaulted and robbed, one seemed to be
very courteous and very attentive to him.
and was found by an employee of the
AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Company, with his head in hot cinders.
face badly burned and cut. knees burned
and right thigh badly burned, and a
blank book was found on him bearing
the name of IL. G. Spanish" Beaver
Dam Tribe, No. 3S, Improved 0. R. NJ,
Greenwood, Delaware, and it was report. |
ed to Brother Eugene McElroy, the Great
Chief of Records of New Mexico, and
member of Red Cloud Tribe, No. 4, at |
Las Vegas, So miles away, whose heart
was prompted by fraternity of redman-
ship, had Brother Spanish sent to the st.
Vincent Sanitarium, eighteen miles away,
and ordered the best possible attention
and then sent the sad news of his misfor-
tune with electrical rapidity to Beaver
Dam Tribe, No. So, Improved 0. R. M.
of Greenwood, Del, which was received
on the eighth Sun, seventh run and [
twentieth breath, Travelling Moon; and !
the same sad news was communicated to
Me- Great Chief of Records of Delaware, c
Jher Edward McIntire. Within twen- /
-four runs he regained consciousness on
the ninth run. v
His p1rse, Sister Mary DeSales, who rem C
dered such valuable and inestimable SER F
vice through his entire sickness, who
kept Brother McElroy posted of his ply al
steal condition, on the twelfth Sun his
condition was greatly improved, we look fc
ed in great anticipation of his speedy r.
covery and able to follow the hunt in a to
few seven Suns, would be trailing in the P.
forest of life, but our hopes were blasted;
the Great Spirit ruled otherwise on the co
twenty. first Sun, Travelling Moon, tie pc
disease-lock-jaw- and on the
twenty-fourth Sun, seventh run and forty sts
five breaths he was called to the Happy
Hunting Grounds of our Father, who is Co
all wise. While in the midst of strangers,
yet near friends as if his footsteps were
directed by the Great Spirit by his death, me
Beaver Dam Tribe has sustained loss,
which it feels keenly; and while we bow co. co.
in humble submission to the will of the a i
Great Spirit and it is with abiding sorrow
that we report the death of our Brother
and Chief, Linwood c. Spanish, he will
be with us no more. His absence from
tbeR Tribe will cause a sense of loss,
ah.s,n will be felt by all. He left the @
impress Of his personally upon the mem pro
bers of Beaver Dam Tribe. He was a D
brother, who exemplified all that is hon M
est, true, pure, and of good report, in the Chu
character of a citizen and a Red Man, ] It'll
and his life formed an example to which NJ
we can proudly point as worthy the Den
as a member of our Tribe and the
he order, and being honored by it and "
aking leading and influential positions day
n it he was true Redman and loved the M
Improved Order of Red Men and gave &c
nselfsh devotion to all its interests, and dav
re, the members of Beaver Dam Tribe, w
rust and believe by the loss of our Bro two
her and Chief that every member of Phils
MS tribe and reservation will catch the WI
pirit of this Great Fraternity and be ming
lore Jealous and due their full duty as c
le Great Spirit says 1 will bring the tives
lind by away that they know not will Thur
ad them in paths that they have not Mrs.
lown. 1 will make darkness light before Lydis
em and crooked things straight. These Mastt
ings will do unto them and not for Georq
Ike them. Mrs
Why this resolution has not been pub Md,
he'd is because of the various reports
d all conflicting, and have been trying A..
solve the m ystery of the misfortune of go
other L. 9. Spanish. The case was re- ~
rted to Mr.. James Kurn, the superin- -
Aent of the railroad, and he referred
p Mr.. ]. D NJ. Hamilton, the claims
'Eney for the railroad, and his investi- 'S'S''
u has been abortive trying to appre.
the guilty party or parties that did
crime, and as the Tribe since date MILF