The Evening Herald from Ottawa, Kansas • Page 15

the cetsfon and: went' to Iowa agaln.t The two bands were not affiliated Jul HZD 3 If Ht SETTLING THE COUriTY 1913 Co. Ottawa rooimdlrv H. C. BRANSON, Manager i 1086 5. lWe small for We T7 Castings of IMrmi-StfeeL Jrass and Aluminum Work, no job is or too do all kinds of Machine us.

give our closest attention to every job that comes into our 'ART PLAYED Seme History of The tribe of Ottawa Indians for which the city of Ottawa was named came to Franklin County in 1833. This is the first Indian tribe which Itermanently settled in what' is now Franklin County. There had been many roving bands of Indians over the -Kansas plainj for hundreds of year; before. Coroiiado in his search for the fabled riches of old Quivera had met them. The entire Southwest from the Mexican border was inhabit- fl Tnlinna v.

i cen cil i ni time 01 me d'scovery of America ir. 1492. One of the first white "men "to 'oe come with the Kansas tribes was Juan de Onate who met them in 1601 and he crlled them in hfs writings the "Escansaques." These were the Kansas or Kaw or Kansas Indians. Many different forms appear in the histories regarding the name of ibis tribe, i ne Osage, the Pawnee and the Padouea or Comanche Indians also inhabited the Kansas plains when the white man came. But.

it was not until 1833 that th Ottawa tribe came here. Two other! great bands of Indians came a lew John "Tauy" Jones. TIIE DY MAM IN i i i Get bur prices before you let machine work. your contracts for foundry or FOUNDRY CO. KANSAS.

Phones, Bell 85, Independent 318 Local Indians. years later. The Sauk and Fox tribes came in 1836 and the' Chippewa's followed in 1837. The word -Sans is often, referred to as "Sac'pr The Ottawas were known as "traders" and were a part of a tribe to which the Chippewas and the Potta-watomi cf the great Algonquin family alto belonged according to the re cent history cf Kansas by Blackmar. In 1648-43.

the Iroquois destroyed the Hurcns along the straits of Mackinaw ana rne ottawas narborea the Hurons. Then they fled to Green Bay from the j-lnrurlateJi Iroquois.r back to the shores of Lake Michigan and the Mississippi. hey were re moved to Fi anklin' CounSy in '1833 by ia. the trf.aty of weregiven a reservation in this county. ,1 The Chippewas wercaIso known as the jib ways, which meant to "roast till puskered up," Professor Blackmar says.

They lived along Lakes Huron and Superior and were fierce warriors. They were often engaged in vwar with te whites until 1815 when these trou- fcles wore settled by treaties. But this tribe made life. miserable' for, tno Iroquois, the Sioux and? the Foxes. Two large bands of, the tribe from Southern Michigan were trans erred to Franklin County in 1836.

Some Chippewas had come with the Muncies a3 early as 1S20A The Muncies had lived on the Susquehanna riv- er and some came from Canada. The United States had a record of only seventy-two of this tribe in These were all living, in Franklin County. The Sauk and Fox were once in lower Michigan and became separated later and lived in the Green nay country as separate tribes. A war was declared on the two tribes and they fused again. Black Hawk was a Sauk chief and a member pf the "thunder" clan.

They gained lands in Iowa and then came to Franklin anri Osage Counties, Kansas, in 1837. While the Foxes were away on a buffalo hunt, the Sac chief the Kansas lands back to the" Unitcel States The Foxes would not ratify HELPING YOU SELECT A vl ha4 -n BUSINESS INCREASING OTTAWA OTTAWA, MANY CONCRETE CULVERTS BE-ING BUILT BY MARTIN METHOD. An Order Came From Flagstaff, Recently for One To Make a SHo Form Next for Farmers. It has been only a few years since the concrete bridge or culvert was practically unknown. But it is reuug- nized now as the best form of culvert of bridge and a Franklin County man is doing a great deal to revolutionize the bridge buildin? business.

He is i Frank P. Martin of Williamsburg bridges. The Martin Concrete Form Company is one of the most prosperous busi nesses- in. the county although it hasj been organized for only one year. Charles H.

Martin and Fred P. Martin te the sales managers and hare of- in the Underwood building' ct this cttjr. The Martin forms are In over 100 counties in the state of Kan-! I- -will. 4jeasnd Missouri. Oklahoma Is anoth-j reteiveu recently lor one oi lue lurms Clayton I Charles Spangenberg, 67 years old, watchman for the Wabash Railroad, rat In his chair before bin shanty.

First and Dock streets, yesterday aftern'on. dead, his warning flag tightly In his hand. Patrolman Katky about 3 o'clock yesterday stopped to chat with tlo watchman, as was his daily custom. He noticed his greeting brought no rrsponse and Jclcecr Investigation showed the watchman was dead. How long he had been dead is a matter of conjecture, but from the condition of the body it must have been srmo time.

DeatY Is thought to have beeii duo to gastritis, from which Spangenberg had suffered about a year. Spangenberg resided with his wife. Mrs. Margaret Spangenberg. at 3229 North Broadway.

He had been employed by the road many. crthau nsaa'dent tot the United States In The Indians Today. Caleb and Nothing Nomadic or primeval about those names, nor1 is there much of primitive aspect, aboutthe two men and their surroundings a group of hills seven miles southwest of Ottawa, But Ignatius' Caleb and Robert McCoonse represent two royal Indian familiesand families that were once at the head of two Indian tribes which the sole occupant a. of the Chippewa Hills. Neither of these men i is a full blood.

Yet Caleb was a chief of the Muncies and Francis McCoonse fatn Robert. waiT chief of the Cn nnewas a' a time when the two bands occupied the reservation throe miles wide and six miles long, now dotted with houses and divided into farm owned 'by half blood 'Indians and i wnjte families Here Before the Timber. "Yes, I. I'm-the oldest -'uu modestly admitted Ignatius a picturesque, dark skinned man of seventy-four years as he sat with his wife and daughter in a buggy on his- way home from the Mission Church in the hills one Sunday recently. "I was here before the limber was." As timher'now covers every hill in sight, the old chieftain's statement called for explanation.

It was ready. "You see, none of this timber is very heavy, except those big ones, there," pointing to a clump of natural oaks cf heavy trunk. TIt wa oare except those hen we came down in 1S5Q tc live." Caleb then told of the orgin of the two tribes; how the Chippewas originally came to Kansas from Michigan and the from Canada. The Muncies in Wyandotte; the: moved to tavenworth just below where is now the Soldiers finally divided a part goining to Oklahoma and the rest to what are now the Chippewa Hills. "Forty of us came down from Leav- enworth," the old chief explained.

"Drove down. Some in wagons and lots of ponies. sold our interes: at Leavenworth" for twelve dollars au acre. I went to Washigton three times on that land business for my people. Twice when Mr.

Grant was there," and the old man smiled broadly as he made mention of the white 7 jntimaieiy afiquamieu The Chippewas? Oh, they been here a hundred year." Don know when they came. They sold us an interest here for $2.50 an acre. There were forty of them then. There was plnty to- live on. We farmed and fished and hunted." A The cstory that Ignatius Caleb toM of theV Chippewa Hills disclosed the fact that among the thirty families nowln the hills there is but one n.1-blood.

That one is a Muneie with the very extraordinary' of lipomas. Practically everybody in Ottawa knows John Thomas and hia varied career. Caleb, the patriarch of the tribe, is a regular attendant at church. His sons are good farmers. In fact there are some surprisingly wejytept farms and farm yards to the hills The.

home of Ignatius Caleb was theffflirairie 1 it 1 li. 4 I V. 1 Having heard much8 of tie wards'lhe home Qf iloherMcCodnsc at Flagstaff, Ariz Eight of the forms have been placed in Franklin County townships. Ruder County in this state leads the list with nine formst The townships, which have purchased these forms, are greatly pleased, and the realize that the; are raving money by the Frankiiu County products. The forms are man ufactured, at Williamsburg.

When Mr. Martin first' patented a culvert form, it was a circular one. But Mr. Martin kept ahead with his work and now has a half-circle form. Bridges can built now with waterways of siv feet in diameter.

Mr. Martin ha3 recently applied for a patent on a form for building concrf them on Franklin County ferms next summer. DIED AT HIS CROSSING POST BUT ETAJ I WARNING FLAG. A n-t 1IM I A iJtC. Ol.

lllie UttUlD uu vcii.iica viu-3tu HIS' I Bkbbs "Good thtng McthuHelali was a man and not Slobbs "Why?" it to learn of the Chippewas. On a level snot fu.4t-atkf-tfiiM -r- Chnreh'; ar 'churcir malatilhed an cruer 0. Youirig Co. MONUM IP Manufacturers of Embiroideired Art Kedroom Sets-a Specialty he had been a woman we would iwv-er have known how old 6he really I va lf rm k-. ni for butchers.

$ets: -r 4 Ind. Phone 528 From our many designs arid large stock of finished monuments, yolk may obtkin suggestions for fitting memorials Our thirty-five years experience and reputation for high grade work has won us many patrons in every section of Methodist Protestant denomination, and the moral guide to the community ever since, the departure of the Moravian Society; which organized first mission there; standi one of the three remaining government buildings on the reservation. None of the buildings is now used as a dwelling Two are hay barns and another Is. vacant. The one nearest the road is a quaint wooden structure with a ston? chimney on the outside in true frontier type.

A low. porch roof in froflt of the door on "one. side from the only relief; on an otherwise square hu-. Just now it is doing duty as shelter for some bale? of straw. Just west of the government house on a steep' hill is the big frame house of Robert Coonse, son of Francis McCoonse, chief of the Chippewas here until his death fn 1862.

Visiting at the home of her brother Julia McCoonse, sixty years old and proud of her ancestry. She. was not sant than' the majority of her race. She. is the oldest descendant of the Chippewas in Kansas and7 although she has her maiden name she has oncy enjoyed the white man's invemicu- divorce.

She the her; race at Chippewa. Hiils inher ova brief way: -v "Good many Muncie here now-. Not much And In that' fict she seemed satisfied that she snouid represent some of that "Not much Chippewa." She didn't object tf hav ing it known that her own father cam-? from England In 1830 and was chief of the tribe at one time. Her father, -Francis McCoonse, Kdi in reality come front England. "He-was French and Indian and settled with his people in St.

Claire, Mich, i uai weret tie 'cam? ilii aur K-iiiyirrr- wis to Klnsas. ofhts ions went fi Oklahoma reveral years ago. one -ii son and the daughter remained here. Robert McCoonse is one of the influ ential men of nllT6rIootl. His farm is" large and Jie prdspers.

LThey trere peaceful" red men ho settled on the barren hills nearly 'a hundred years ago and those were peaceful ones who followed and joini ed them in 1839. The two tribes lived together and roamed the country ilonir the Marais des Crgnes River FoMfliniall this country. We also Embroider, Sofa Pillows; Dress- We carry the largest and most complete stock of modern monuments, both ornate and simple. Come and See Us in Our New Building. er Scarfs, Table Runners, Doilies, Pillow Cases, Tdwolsi and Full lingerie.

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