The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-14
TRAVELS OF DE SOTO NEAR
 THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY Y


 And as alluded to the knlins Of | panther. the raising of hogs on the road. the building of briksdines, l will s8eak more of those things
 The history says that Jean ortez. the Spanish captive. while one night guarding the Indian tombs or the dead Indians killed a panther. trying to carry or a dead child. Thls story does not prove that they wrote falsely, but that they were poor zooiogists, for the panther meyer preys npon put
 This is . fact known to svry hunter from the days of the grandson of Ham down to the Engiishmsn. Boone, the early hunter of Kentucky. Mike Shuck of NieEouri. Albert Pike and Kit Car- son Of the plains of New Mexico Win ffrop colbreath. of the caddo Noun tains, of Arixansaa to John L. Wins ton of Texas. Besides the Indians that have been acquainted with ali in- habited countries that were invesssd with wolves which prey upon human edarded against such. And putting thsir. dead fn boxes ana isavinx them above the earth is srthing never heard of before. All that is uecessary to, refute this hog story for sensfble men who know anything of hos rais- ing. the time they. 90 with their young. the time they reQuirs to Dc of any use. and this to be doue on farm where every necessary .precautfop is narrative, notice the country. they went across. the rivers they had to cross and the Mississippi among them then the quantity of those anamai left behind for the successors of De Soto and his men to Kill and pack away { if packed at all, must have been without salt, all I ask, is to ex- anime the account given by thoss men, and then say if there is the slightest probability of It's being true. Now. the building Of seven briEa- dimes. In the ahoFt space of seven months. f3ttiuss them out. rigging then, up with sails made of Indian manties with the means they mad for carrying On such work.--ttiH if not a palpAbie fiction Is . very inapxohAhle story. par ticuiariy when we take into considera- tfon that these vessels were made ssa- worthy. and hadto descend the Misis- kansas to the Gulf and shen across Co sctna point In Mexico. It is a tale that will do to tell the marinea hut ola sailors. old eearien and ship car pentera win never believe that t is true%
 l OTHER DEFECTS FOUND
 IN HHE 0RzaKNAE STORIES l The story of the fns specimens of l pearls and martin skins being found h the country are equally fabulous with others. Pearls are not to bs l found ct the present day. nor have | bean since ! knew or heard of the country. and the martin is an animal that never inhabited the country. And ! there Is little probability of there ever having been at that day a trade sf | advantakeoug, among the Southern 1 Indians as would induce the NortherT I Indians. in whose country d few mar. tins might be found. to trade at sucf l distance from homes on martin skins aIone.--Sor almost all the othel animals that the Indians hunted fol their flesh and skin. were in alrnosi as great abundance. # not as greal I west. than in any other portion o the United Gtatea I If you win notice ix many of thl f minor occurrences of the expedition they give the day and date month and year; but no date Is given when th' 1 hero of the expedition dies. Now i | those that had made mention Of D ! Soto,s dying aS some point fn ATkans T as. haA kn6wn the kime he ala das they would in ialI probability hsv
 given us the precise time as well~m
 the place ct which ne dleds gaS. J From the Indian tlsMdfSssn and 4egr i. what these wrote after they return kea to Europe. think 3e more th q I probable that they negafE knew awha became of De Soto. and the few n1el l that wer with him when he did die I Fable Is. fable and history is hia tory and these men thodght it bes