The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-15


- 's ION of the original thir-
~ uor star first blazed in
% ~ Old Glory seventy'one
~ Nav. Her application for
,bo cause of many bit
y. Congress. The slavery
~ = .mourt then, and when
Ia II was the result Of
The Ohio anti-slavery
c,roress desired a definite
state boundary hne'
-;,orv of Michigan wanted
free State. The Ohio
-, forces consolidated with
advocates. and 1t was
.hs two new States should
free and one slave. John
,sn. Jed the opposition in the
..,,sss was admitted on June
- Michigan came IN the next
has suffered more than any
N,ause Of a Joke. The Ar
.sIsr was a good story that
NC Me- by a ripping good tune
.,,-ags fiddler, and there may
Saek woods prototype for
was so monumentally in.
,stehlne his roof, But no
a y sars to be known to fame
r,rdard Of its most shiftless
Tsereforc, Arkansas rebels
4. Irksnsaw traveller idea.
aA States have more varied
,ssources. The buckshot
4. Mississippi bottoms in Ar
.anrss cotton in almost in
.sandance, The western part
.'..s has as good corn land as
s",a anywhere, The hills and
Y. row apples that cannot be
~ world for quality or guam
i " and zinc and lead underlie
= ereat abundance. Her for
rsrcely been touched by the
I, mere is a greater percentage
,iuber here than in any other
= rbife man to enter Arkan-
n SOLO. who crossed the Mis-
5yu. which he discovered, and
4 iuto the interior of what is
.u-as De Soto was i'll, even
\ tbs Indians told him Of a
healing spring. They took
Z, he batbed in its hot waters
4 nuch benefited. The Hot
a Arkansas are now Fed
ration and many thousands of
D there each year in search
The Indians knew the vir.
as springs. and from their
creduious Spaniards created
q Of the fountain of eternal
b Soto died in Arkansas and
"a either in the Mississippi or
lrksrsas river near its mouth.
Is In l5il, sixty-siX years bc.
ytlsment of Jamestown.
y permanent settlement on the
r., and the first settlement IN
iTenitory of Louisiana was at
uyst. This was established by
.nGsr Henri de Topti, the ma q
y ircn hand, twelve years be.
Ibryille built his fort at Biloxi,
n the forerunncr Of the New
s,tlement. De Tonti is known
father Of Arkansas. -
Law, the Scotch 6nancier who
y French nation with his NJ is
Rsbble. sent colony of Ger-
10 Arkansas, but with the
al the bubble they deserted
~ sOuih into Louisiana to set
y German coast. . The little
lgnti had set up lived, but did
n, When il was a hundred
N i boastsd Of but 1876 per-
titn the territory of Louisiana
Eti by Mr.. Jefferson and be
an Of the United States, Ar
psi had but 900 inhabitants.
- had the stars and stripe s
-erid, however, Nuntil there wos
4 immigration from the States
sAsT side of the Mississippi,
lltle settlements at Arkansas
hopeheld were soon to have
nralc. The population had
much that on the Fourth of
v The present State began it's
Hetence as Arkansaw terri
~ Miller of New Hampshire,
d Lundy' Lane. was ap,
u'ernor, but he failed to az.
re and the duties of the po.
upon the shoulders of Robert
Of Frankfort, Kentucky. the
Heretary of the territory.
vas only twenty-five years
y took hold without hesita
1sned a Legislature and or.
a government.
ismarkablc coincidence that
'ooImg States OF Arkansas
Should both have been
on their careers by men SO
%ssrIor William c, c. Clai.
Sa Jefferson appointed GOV
II -s whole territory Of Louisi.
~ a sao was first governor of the
,aa' name, was the Youngest
Ssi served in Congress. He
70 Congress when barely
- and served two terms as
oil Andrew Jackson, al
aaa not reached the age OF
y as required by the consti
III unnlieudeu. the father of AZ
TIllcs, was the brother oi
..'n''snden, the great Kentue
He died before Arkansa,
-. LION, late of Vermont. III,
Icy ensracter who was solo
10 New England in sIav
~ JUG of oxen, aud whose fav
~. 5sas; BY the bulls tba
was a candidate for dele
r9Iess in the FIRST territorial
=, 1'kansaw, Brilliant as hi
I Uc was defeated by lame
' l'.., ambrose II. Sewer, one o
.r.,,, men the State has nrn
W. ,sc iiyc times as a delegat, m
,hs 'ss.oary, and it was he VIII,
y agat for Statehood W"
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