The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-15

as true of the second. Zone day in
October, 1917, a year after the estab-
lishment of the second Fort Dearborn,
Samuel A. Storrow, who was making
a tour through the Northwest, APP
peared on the north bank of the Chi
cago river, and shortly after entered
the fort, where he was received as
one arrived from the moon,'" writes
Quaife. "The little establishment at
Fort Dearborn constituted miniature
world, with interests and ambitions
quite detached from those Of the larg-
er world outside"
Such were the conditions which ex-
listed during the early history of Chi
cago-the era of the two Fort Dear
borns. That era came to an end in
1888 with the events, the centennial
Of which furnishes the reason for the
exposition two years hence. One Of
these was the incorporation of Chica-
go as a town, decided upon at meet
ing held on August 5, 1888, at the Sau-
ganash hotel, Chicago's first hostelry,
where a total Of II votes was cast for
incorporation and one against and the
town election held five days later
when % votes were cast, electing four
trustees and a president of the town
board. (By way of contrast it may
be remarked that in the recent cleo
ton to choose a worlds fair mayor"
for Chicago, more than 100000 votes
were cast.) The other events was the
converting in September, 1888, of the
greatest Indian council ever held in
Chicago at which the Pottawattomies
and allied tribes coded all their lands
west of Lake Michigan and their re-
naming reservation in southwestern
Michigan, a tract of some five million
acres, to the United States and agreed
to remove beyond the Mississippi river
within three years.
The final act in the frontier era of
Chicago came in the summer of 1885
when the tribesmen assembled at Chi
cago to receive the last payment Of the
annuities granted them under the
treaty and to prepare for the journey
to their new homes in the West. On
that occasion they staged last great
war dance as gesture of farewell to
their ancestral homes. This war dance
was a procession from the council
house along the bank of the river, past
the Sauganash hotel and then finally
came to an end in front Of Fort Dear
born.
John D. Cation, future chief justice
of the Supreme court of Illinois, stood
at window in the second story Of the
Sauganash hotel and looked down up
on this scene: "Leaping, dancing, ges-
ticulating and screaming, while they
looked up with hell itself depicted on
their faces, at chemokoman (white)
squaws in the windows, and BRAN
dished their weapons as if they were
about to make a real attack in deadly
earnest, the rear was still On the 9TH
err side of the river, 200 yards off
and all the intervening space including
the bridge and it's approaches, was
covered with this raging savagery glis-
l6UiuS Ill Tic sui, IcSklllS Will
streamy sweat, fairly frothing at their
mouths as with unaffected rage, it
seemed as if we had picture of hell
itself before us, and q carnival of the
damned spirits there confined, whose
pastimes we may suppose should pre-
sent some such scene as this"
"Thus did the red man play his
savage role to the end" writes Quaife.
1T was brave show which he enact
ed that summer morning, but it was
nothing more. For him the scepter of
power had departed and this was his
final farewell. A few weeks later he
took up his weary journey toward the
sunset, and Chicago knew him no
more. The red man had vanished, and
Chicago and Chicago's future were
committed to the care of another ant
mightier race"
d6. 1881. Western Newspaper Union,