The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-28
STAMFORD
LONE INDIAN THE LAST OF
 MIGHTY STAMFORD TRIBE.
D. G. VandsOn of "Old Pan'' Answers Warrant For Arrest But is
 Exempt From Taxation.
Especial to The Farmer)

Stratford March 28-It has been discovered through the personal tax canvass that only one full bloOded In- dian survives in this town. His name is Henry Pan Pease and he is the grandson of "O1d Pan" and a direct descendant of the ancient tribe who peopled the shores of the Housatonic when the first Stratford settler drop. ped in and began to swindle the In- dians out of their furs and gobble up tax list and warrant was issued for his arrest by Prosecutor Ivan Warehouse who did not know that there was an anicent agreement by which all Indians are exempt from taxation. The ancient reservation was on Straw berry hill and there are many people now living in Stratford who can re- where he lived with his wife all sum- mer and fished for shad and dug clans in the river and sound. Pease appeared before Judge Peck last night and offered to pay the tax if he was obliged to but the judge told him that he was exempt and now the pros. ecutor must apply to the selectmen to have the tax abated. Pease still draws his allowance from the town persuant to the agreement by which his ancestors disposed of their land to the town of Stratford but he is the last and when he passes on to the happy hunting grounds there will he nothing but a memory left of the red men who welcomed the whites to the shores of the Housatonic and aided them in many ways. Paul Halstead of Bridgeport, an oysterman, who was on the list was brought in by Sheriff J. J. Williams on a warrant said that he believed that his personal tax was payable in Bridgeport, but as he liv- 1 +, ,tr. was laid Judge Peck decided other wise and assessed Halstead s8 which covered the tax and the expenses of collection. George Bebon came in and paid s5 as his contribution paying the sheriff's fees and mileage. The tax of Frank Spartolda was abated by the Selectmen
 on his way home from Florida where he has passed the winter. He an- nounces that he is very much im- proved in health and will surprise his friends when they see him.
 Misses Hazel and Ruth Barlow who have been the guests of their aunt Mrs. c. B. Hebbard of Warwick ave- Waterbury.
 Mrs. Ava Baker is very i'll at her home on King street.
 The first games in another pool tournament began on Tuesday night at the Cupheag club. Sylvanus Dick inson now leads the bunch.
 Yesterday the lease by which Uncle Sam will hold the present post office building was filed in the town clerks office yesterday. It is a voluminous affair prepared in the office of the secretary of the treasury at Washing ton and binds the U. s. government on the one part and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. TAvkk1 AI.~ years. The office is the most commo- dious and in matter of appointments the best the town has ever enjoyed.
 Over 150 tickets for the Board of Trade banquet have already been sold and the prospects are bright for a big time in Redmen's hall this even- ing. The speakers will be Mayor Clifford B. Wilson of Bridgeport and Attorney w. L. Wilder of New York, a summer resident of Putney in this town. Rev. E. J. Craft is unable to attend as he had made a previous en- aggement to preach at St. Peters church in Monroe. A Bridgeport cater CT will supply the eatables. Probably there will be as many ladies as gen. tlemen at the board.
 W. B. Futile is exhibiting the most novel and inexpensive drinking foun- tain for chicks which has yet been invented. Attached to Mason fruit jar the affair has all the advantages of the expensive kinds in so simple a manner that tits a wonder no one ever thought of it before''
 A new series will be opened at the meeting of the Stratford Building and Loan association next Monday night at Wilson's News Room
 The infant daughter, of Frank De LOrnee born Sunday morning, died Wednesday evening
 
 in ten days to talk. on sewer ques- tion