Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17

Even the Quapaw Indians, who once
trod this section, seem to have been
particularly impressed with the supe-
riority of the territory now included
in Jefferson county. For it is related
that when "The Dry Man" and other
chiefs of the tribe agreed in 1918 to
cede to the United States 29,190,650
acres of lands for $4,000 in goods to
be delivered at once and $1,000 in
goods every year, the Quapaws re-
served approximately 100000 acres
contained in parallelogram, part
of which forms the southern half of
Jefferson county. The territory north
of the Arkansas river was obtained
from the Osages. Six years later the
Quapaws were induced to cede the
100000 acres in the reservation for
$4,000 in goods, $1,000 in cash, payable
in eleven annual installments, and
$500 each to four chiefs of the nation,
in addition to concession that the
United States should convey desig-
mated tracts to 2 number of persons.
among these being Francis Imbeau,
Joseph Duchassin, Baptiste Socie,
Louis iBartelmi, Joseph Bonnie and
Saracen, half-breed Quapaw Sara
cen was to receive, according to the
treaty, eighty ares to be laid off so
as to include his Improvements, where
he now resides, opposite Vaugine's"
An Indians Val0r.
This Saracen who lived to be 80
years of age and whose body was the
first to be buried in the cemetery here,
was an heroic man and friend of the
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band OF wandering Chicasaws stole
two children from a trapper family,
living short distance below where
now stands Pine Bluff. The mother
appealed to Saracen. He promised he
would return the children to her by
midnight. When darkness fell, alone
went Saracen toward the Chickasaw
camp. Stealthily moving about until
he ascertained exactly where the
children were sleeping, he raised the
Quapaw warhoop and dashed among
the Chickasaws. Before these recov-
cred from their CONSERVATION suffi-
GENTLY to realize they were not being
attacked by the Qaupaw tribe, Sara
cen had secured the children and
made good his escape and promise
For he delivered them to the frantic
mother before midnight. A memorial
window, inscribed to Saracen, was
placed in the Catholic church, built
in 1888, in order to commemorate his
noble deeds
Prehistoric White Race Here.
That a race of white men existed in
the territory in which is included
Jefferson county has been gathered
from early settlers who obtained their
information from the Indians. That
this legend is not without foundation
of fact is indicated by an excerpt from
a report by Thomas Nutall, member
of the Philosophical Society of the
Academy of Natural Science, covering
trip up the Arkansas liver in 1919.
Mr.. Nutall wrote.
1--WE spent the evening with Mai.
Lewismore Vaugine, the son Of gem
tleman Of noble descent, whose father
formerly held considerable post I'M
der the Spanish government. Fifteen
miles above this place, Mr.. Vaughn
informed me of the remains of an
aboriginal station of considerable ex-
tent, resembling "a triangular fort.
which the Qaupaws, on their first ar
rival in this country, say was inhab-
tied by a people who were white and
partially civilized, but whom 1t length
they conquered by strategem."
French First Settlers.
Two or three families the explorer
encountered at "the second Pine
Bluffs" were thought BY him to be
the descendants of the ten F'renchmen
left in Arkansas by Cheyalier de Ton
ii in 1856.
Jefferson county was formed in 1929
from territory taken from Pulaski and
Arkansas counties, and the house of
Joseph Bonnie was designated as the
place for holding court and transact
ing other public business. Commits
sioners created later designated Pine
Bluff as the county seat, and the
county's publ business has been
transacted here since, save for short
while in 1882, when Antoine Barra-
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