Show TOMAHAWK IN OAK LOG ancient relic found by farmer near chester vt charles north who lives near the summit waa was sawing up AP an oak log in the wooda near his place a fow days ago when the teeth came in contact with metal says a dispatch from chester vt the lo 10 log had been felled the winter before north abandoned the saw and resort edlo an axe after ten tell minutes of labor he disclosed the butt of what appeared to bo be a hatchet firmly imbedded in the trunk of the tree ten inches in from the bar ba k A little more cutting and the hatchet fell out and proved to be an indian toma tomahawk hawl covered by rust but still in a fair state of preservation north could see sec traces of an inscription on the blade and carefully washing off the rust he was able to make maho out several words the name peter snow was visible whore where the blade had joined the handle and a little in front of was gen stai ks its army 1777 there wore were two to other which could not be made out and then the words white squaw A rough fine dra drawing ang of a red fox was sketched on the reverie side of the blade and below that two eagle feathers fea foa thors in 1777 gen john stark and his big new now hampshire militia marched from 4 concord N H to bennington vt A and camped for two months near lowell lake a short distance from where the tomahawk was found it Is believed that one of starks soldiers left the weapon in the tree and that the wood grew grow around it until it cov 10 ered it the oak was old and stunt ed but in full vigor when felled |