Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-12
WISCONSIN NOW CELEBRATING
 DISCOVERY
GREEN BAY IS MUCH CROWDED WITH VISITORS WHO ARE AT TENDING CELEBRATION AR RANGED BY HISTORICAL sociE TY IN MEMORY OF JEAN Nico LET.

GREEN BAY, Wis, Aug. 11.-This city is crowded with visitors from all parts of the state and from the sur rounding states, who gathered here to attend the celebration of the 275th anniversary of the Discovery of Wis consin by Jean Nicolet. The celebra, tion, which was informally opened yesterday, will close tomorrow and is attracting considerable attention among those interested in the history of th,s state and of the Lake region in general. The maii. Ieatures of the exercises are the unveiling of a bronze tablet at Red Banks, where Nicolet first met the Winnebago tribe of Indians, and of another tablet on the site of the old French Fort St. Francis and the English Fort Edward Augustus and the opening as public museum of the Tank cottage, the old est building now existing in Wiscon- sin. which was erected in 1766.
 The Plymouth colony was but four teen years old. when, in 1884, Samuel de Champlain. then Governor of New France. as Canada was called under the old French regime, sent Jean Mic plet. a trader, who had lived in Que bee many years, to explore the re- zion of the upper great lakes. Cham plain had been g,venby Q chief of the Ottawa tribe. who was then wis ting the fur market in Quebec, a large piece of copper. which, he told his French host, was from the shores o' a great sea in the West. In later years it was ascertained that the cop per came from near Ontonagon, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan. Champla.r the upper lakes there dwelt a curious tribe of men who had come from g great salt, water still farther West Champlain was anxious to find the copper mine from which the piece o metal given to him had come ant was also interested in the mysteriou: tribe. which he believed 70 be Chin ese. His belief was due to the fac' that he was under the impression that the Amercan comment was eith CT part of Asia CT connected with I by land.
 Taking with him several Huron In 6ians to paddle his canoe, Nicole passed through Mackinac Straits ant reached the shores of Green Bay where the strange tribe was reported to live. Nicolet, who was an experi enced woodsman and well versed il the habits, customs and languages O the Indians, expected to find Chimes and was greatly disappointed when D. found the mysterious tribe, whicl lived near Red Banks, high cliff ol the eastern shore of Green Bay, wer winnebago Indians. an off-shoot the Dakota tribe It was later ascei tained that the report of their comin from a great salt water in the Ia West had originated from the fac that the tribe had once lived nea some salt springs in the Winnfpe country, from whiah they derive their name.
 After visiting Green Bay Nicole ascended the Fox River to a poir beyond its passage through Lax winnebago and then turned sout ward, probably passing the preser site of Chicago, and returned East D way of Lake Michigan His stori' on his return to Quebec. to the effe' that he had been on river tn; would have taken him to the sea ha he kept on three days longer. led II Jesuits to believe themselves on II eve of discovering the long-soug outlet to India.