The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-11

life, his plans were still unrealized
Public life held him in the cities and
at the agencies or on long journeys
Eight years thereafter, when the
home had become ruin, when cream
of fortune to come to him from a
steam wagon he had invented had
aster, he died in New York still yearn-
ing for the home life which he had
been denied.
st. Paul Home Also Burned.
Once before fire had destroyed his
home, but that time he was able to
rebuild above the ashes of the lost
structure. 1t was Sunday morning.
T. M. NeWson relates in "Pen Pic
lures of st. Paul." published in 1886,
that Mr.. Newson, then employed by
Major Brown as printer, saw the
editor walking up and down the bluff
and peering across the river.
Major Brown explained that he had
seen his house burn down on the
opposite bluff, then known as West
ST. Paul, and that he was anxious
about his family.
so that the ferry boat could not run.
Brown walked up and down the
bluff for some time," Newson relates,
when all of sudden / missed him,
and casting my eyes down the river
there he was, jumping from one cake
of floating ice to another at the i'm
minent risk of his life. Now gliding
down the stream, now caught in a
gorge, now struggling to gain the
shore; now safe!"
"By George, it was narrow es-
oape. but we are all here" he said
to Newson few days later when his
employee found him with the rem
nants of his household goods and his
wife and children about him. With
/ in few days Major Brown had be-
gun to build new home, and he
worked with the same courageous
spirit that evoked from this hero of
the Birch Coulee massacre in 1862 at
the close of the Indian outbreak. the
remark to his comrades trapped with
him by the Sioux in the little camp
Of white soldiers: "By George, we
have got into a fix. boys. Now we
must fight to get out Of it And
when bullet hit him in the Shout
Ger: "Well, boys, that won't do. Don't
waste your ammunition, but make it
count, by Georgew
iii Repaid by Redmen.
Broad-minded, progressive, kind OF
heart, and by nature cool, serene and
hopeful, Brown was i'll repaid for the
just treatment that he is said to
have given the Indians in all his
dealings with them, and yet this
fairness of his doubtless had some
thing to do with the warning that
was given Ellen Brown on August Is
1862, when with her brother, Samuel
she crossed the river at their ferry
| and drove up what is now the Sibley
trail toward Hardwood, the William
son and Riggs mission-to deliver the
4 family washing to an Indian woman
An Indian at Little Dog, village OF
the red man, warned them to turn
sacring the white people at the low
er agency and intended to lay waste
all the paleface homes and settle
ments. A second warning was given
/ them on their journey and incredu-
lously they told their mother Of il
when they returned to their home.
1 The family consultation, the flight
behind teams of oxen just as the old
clock in the house sounded the hour
of a. M, their mistaken course in GO
! ing toward Fort Ridgely, which took
them into the midst Of hostilties;
their capture. by Indians in ambush
and the courage of the mother, her
self Sisseton Indian, in demanding
their lives be spared, is thrilling