The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-23
ANOTHER LETTER FROM
Mr.. ELLITHORP
A Fishing Trip, Indian Burial Gus
toms, etc, In the Northwest.
PRESTON, MINI, Sept. 20

PRESTON, MINI, Sept. 20, 1909.
Editor of The REPUBLICAN:
The frost Of September Ist did no
damage in this section. Corn is about
out of the way of frost; some is being
cut.
We were delayed one day starting
North; we started on September 8th.
Left Preston at r. 80 p. m. and arrived
at Minneapolis at p. N. Enroute we
passed through a fertile country and
many prosperous towns, among them
Austin, Owatonna, Fairbault and
Mortified. The latter is where the IA
nous Jesse James and the Younger
brothers came TO grief away back in
the seventies. 1t is a town of ). coo in
habitants, ~ miles from Minneapolis.
1t has three railroads. the Great West
ern, Rock Island and Chicago, Milwau-
kee and S., Paul 1t is prosperous
and wealthy town. We spent one dav
at the state fair, which was going on
between Minneapolis and st. Paul. Min
neapohs has a population Of 80, 600.
There were as, 900 people at the fair on
Sept. 9Th. am not stuck on Minneap-
oils; while it is busy business place
they will come as near robbing one as
any city | was ever in. They charged
~ cents for glass Of ginger ale and
other things in proportion. Whether
the dealers try to fleece the fair visitors
or whether it is the general make up
/ am not informed. Ny wife and our
cousin Darius Broadwater were with me
on this trip. We visited Minnehaha
/ Falls and Minnehaha Park. 1t is a fine
place and there are many species of
/ wild animals kept there. Saturday
morning at 80 we left for Sandstone,
( So miles from Minneapolis, on the Great
Northern railroad, arriving there at u
noon. After dinner we hired a man
/ with an auto to take US Is miles in the
country. 1t was a great trip. Some.
times we rode, sometimes we walked,
sometimes we pushed. The road Is a
fairly good one, only there are short
sandy hills and the loose sand caused
/ all our grief, but we finally got there.
! Fishing was fine; the largest catch was
a pickerel two and a-half feet long ard
a five pound bass. We also caught a
! lot of smaller ones. Some of the lakes
are so full Of wild rice that it is almost
impossible to fish in them.
! The Indians were about through gath
ering their winter supply Of wild rice.
We visited the Indian village and their
burving ground. They have a bed quilt
put on flag pole at grave: they also
put feather bed, quilt and their gun
and tobacco pouch and money in the
coffin, as well as their hat and blanket
They wrap their dead in blanket and
then wrap them in pink cheese cloth.
then they make little coop over the
grave, ike chicken coop, with a small
opening in one end, and every dav for
while they put something in at the
opening to feed the spirit until they get
acquainted in their Happy Hunting
Ground
We spent week n Pine county and
left Sandstone on Saturday, Sept 18th
at $50 a. n, on the slowest train
ever travelled on. Had we been in
hurry We would have walked, but not
being rushed We rode through to Mime
apo;s. remained there about three
hours and then came to Preston. A
lady had sick COW and called a yeteri-
nary surgeon. After diagnosing the
case he said it was bad case of stran-
gulated hydrophobia.
Expect to oe in old Garrett county
next month if al goes well.
c. E. L.