The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-03
THE STATE OF KENTUCKY
Romantic Episodes in the Career Of Commonwealth and
of Its Hardy Pioneers.

Kentucky, the first state OF the I'm
ion west of the Appalachians. and the
second to be added to the original IS.
was admitted to the Union on June ].
1899, and will be lis years old to-
morrow. Only two OF the states have
the same birthday, Tennessee having
been admitted on June 1. 1896, four
years after her sister to the north. :
Kentucky suggests pretty women.
good whisky and fast horses. In
1854. five years before George Wash
ingtOn became president of the United
States, the fame of Kentucky liquor
was such that the Hoosier Indians OF
the Wabash sold forever their claims
on Kentucky soil for the mystic secret
OF the heart OF the corn. The chief
of the Wabashes in his treaty with
Daniel Boone and the Kentuckians.
IN concluding his statement of rea-
sons for submitting to the Long
Knife" as the Indians called the white
men, said: I'VE We're born and raised
in the woods; We could never learn
to make rum-God has made the
White Flesh the masters of the world;
they make everything: and we all
love rum"
The first distillery in Louisville had
been doing business for more than a
year at the time that treaty was eX-
ecuted. and had already found mar
ket across the Ohio river in what was
some day to be the state of Indiana.
Evan Williams was the first Kentucky
distiller. He was also a member of
the first board OF trustees of the city
OF Louisville, and it is recorded that
when he attended meeting he al
ways took a bottle OF his best product,
which was drunk by the trustees as
they considered the business Of the
growing town in the wilderness. Now
Sc of the 119 counties of kentuck
prohibit the sale of whisky, but the
state still leads in distilling corn
whisky.
During the same year of the treaty
OF peace with England, which gave
American independence its final guar
antee, the good people Of Harrods-
burg, KY. gathered at "Haggin's Race
Paths" to witness the sport of kings.
There was puritanical party which
was opposed to horse racing, even
then. and in 1888 one Hugh McGary
was tried, found guilty and pronounc-
ed an infamous gambler because he
had bet mare worth IL pounds ster-
ling on the outcome Of race at Hag-
gins track. The track is gone these
hundred years. but the name of Hag-
gin is still one of the greatest on the
American furf
The state of Kentucky is divided in
to five distinct portions, known by the
local names Of THE Mountains" the
Blue Grass" the Bear Grass" the
"Pennyrile" and the Purchase" The
first takes its name from the geo.
graphical formation, the next three
from the natural product of the soil,
and the last from the political origin
OF its connection with the state, it
comprising that portion west of the
Tennessee river which was bought by
Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson
from the Cherokee Indians. The noun
tains produce iron and coal and feuds.
The Blue Grass is the home of the
thoroughbred horse and the politician,
the Bear Grass is the home of whisky
and tobacco, the "Pennyrile" combines
mining and agriculture. and the Pur-
chase makes cotton and sweet Eaters.
A popular error is that the word
Kentucky" means 1.-The dark and
bloody ground" The name is really
an adaptation of the Iroquois word
"kentake," which means prairie, or
meadow lands. The more sinister de-
finition was given it by a false or
strained construction OF the speech
made by Chief Dragging Canoe to Col
onel Richard Henderson at Watauga,
Tenn. when treaty granting lands
north of the Kentucky river was sign
ed. The chief did not wish to give
up the lands south of the river, and
he told Colonel Henderson that they
were dark and bloody and would be
hard to settle" The prairies which
gave the Indians the word "kentake"
We're called by the early Kentucky
settlers 1.-The Barrens," and are so
called until this day. The French