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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LutlAN. UTAH 'Fort Necessity ALES of CHIEFS T and By OF MODERN TECUMSEH Fort Frederick 1' t Curly air WORLD All Continent! United, It Theory. EDITHA L. WATSON of Hit fount ry on th Indian for their fores. Without tho red men on coal of "Tb England and Nova boot la la of th nut ago aa that of th British Isle, Ira new, Germany and bjwlu, and la altogether very Ilk It "Moreover, throughout then two roal districts, through th rnllrt length of tb Appalachian mountain on our aid of th ocean and In Scandinavia on th other, th mountain ridge run northeast and aouthwest, a If they wrro all parta of th saiu tho ay stem, and tn varloua way rmka match surprlaingty. theory," b write. New IVuttsylvania, IN EARLY HISTORY tft Til pacific ocean rcwrnildr a great pond. while the Allnlillc ocean reaemblea a great river. Thl I viue of th Interesting piece of e Ideur brought forward to support th Wef Iho theory that all ener bjpotbi-a- l lb continent were one united InHern' Really New Idea to a tingle continent, Ir. Harlow Fhapley, fatuou Harfor Christmas P.eaent vard astronomer, has suggested sink Here la an advertisement which aptag a three Bill abaft Into tho earth peared recently in on of th Urgeat aa a mean of testing tho egetier of Berlin's dallies, a transcribed tn bypolhrsl. th magaxlne l.o, Iarit: The evldnr for th theory I "A German writer of worldwide summed up by Edwin Tetiliy Brew- reputation will writ the atory of the ster In bla Interesting book, "2 hi Ufa of anyone who may desire It, tn Hustling Planet." manner guaranteed to be artistic, "Contrast th Atlantic ocean with based on personal note of those who th Itclfic be write. "Thor ar wish to order, marked and curlou difference beIt la the nicest rort of present for tween Iho two, though then aro a (Tiristmaa burh a atory would bring good deal obacured by our ordinary Joy to th entire family. Befor this, map and ar beat lo bo looked for one could not bar offered tho atory n a globe. of one's life to one's friend or ac"Tb Pacific I a round baain, a quaintance. Th price depends on sort of gigantic pond, but th Atlan- th number of page." tic I a aort of gtganlic liver that world wldo' reputation of "Th wind from tb top of the earth to thl writer la questionable," remark tb bottom, alway of about th th Bari magaxlne, "but h did not me width. speculate unwisely. Many person In fact," Brewster ronilmies, "tf might like to have a true blstury of coast of on went by the hsp the their own lives, and pay handsomely on the two aide of tha Atlantic one for It If U were Intereating (from might well My that South America their point of view). To sea oneself The Idea If hae cracked off from Africa, th tho hero of a novel eastern extension of ltraxll one occuwestpy Ing the gulf of Guinea, th Whara'a tka Istsrprstsr 7 ern end of the Sahara belonging to Erom Washington diplomatic cirthe Caribbean region, Greenland lammed up against the west coaat of cle there float to my big end ready Norway and Newfoundland one of core a delightful little episode of Sir Kama Howard and the bell boy. h'lr the British Isle. "If one could push the two Ameri- Estue quite enjoy telling, o I hear, can eastward and a little north, o how he walked briskly Into the foyer that Greenland lay agulnst Canada of the magnificent Mayflower hotel, for a moment to speak on one aide and Norway on the other, and atopiM-with Newfoundland and the British with one of the bright buttoned In the lobby. After be isles pushed Into the North sen, the servitor walked on, an assistant manager fit would be surprising. There really la not a little reason who had noted the Incident, went for thinking that the uniform width over to the boy and said: "What of the Atluntic and the remnrkable did the ambassador want!" I don't know," answered th bellfit between Ita two side la something more than accident There la a good hop, "lie couldn't speak English." deal of evidence to show that during New York Morning Telegraph. most of geologic time, and up to what for a geologist la rather a reLightning Freak A perfect picture of a tree, showing cent date. North and South Amer lea actually were parts of Europe-Asl- branches and leaves, waa Imprinted A fries but cracked loose and on the chest of Jack Walsh, one of two men killed by a lightning bolt floated off." The horse and the elephant are near Hhiludelphla. Walsh wa standtwo good examples which supitort ing under a tree when It wa hit by the theory of land bridges or an orig- the bolt and the electricity was disinal united continent, Iavld Diet charged In equal density from all part of the tree to the spot on comments, In the New Tork Fossil remains of the Walsh's chest, so that a small Image horse are found In certain rock lay- of the tree was thus burned on tho body. ers slightly older In Europe. The fossil elephant appears first In Africa and later In North America. Altogether Out of It "Does his wife still piny second Brewster believe the evidence la fiddle to that other woman?" better for the Wegener hypothesis. "She' not even In the orchestra." "The coul point very much to tills either side, tho rn tiro history of tho would Revolution ho changed, and no story of tho War of 112 U completo without mention of Tecumarb. Thl Indian, a Flmwneo, wst a rommlHttoned brigadier general of Br.tUh troop, and Commanded 2.0 v) Ind.an warrior Trumbull, tb hi tormn, tali him th most oxtraor-dlusrIndian character In United hmte history. lie wa born near Springfield. Ohio. In 1708, tho oa of a Shawnee chief nd a woman Mid to bar been a Creek. Ilia elder brother bceamo head of th family after bla futhefa death In th battle of Point Pleasant, when Tecumseh wa only all year old. Thl brother raised him to young manhood, and was himself killed on the Tenneaseo frontier In 17sS. The border war recruited Tecum-oat an early age, and be wa at eager a warrior aa any of hi tribe, but It ran against bla Inclination to torture prisoner, and bo did ail In bis power to atop thl awful practice. He and bis brother Tenskwat-wthe Prophet," were entirely lulmlcal to the white men. They 4 adopted the stand that the white ELMO WATSON SCOTT In one part of the country and By slay t the have another part. of all tli OT the There waa room enough for all, and 1 v kv celebration held during this. tho 7 i t "j : tucb an arrangement, Tecumseh Wahlngtun M centennial year, wa thought, would be both peaceful and the dedication last nimnb of a lie claimed that the projiitible. fort In a mountain meador Ohio valley belonged to all tbo ow niir Uniontown, Pa., aa a tribes in common, and that no one l!. mill shrine to the Futlier of Ilia tribe had the right to sell or cede Country. For tills little fort, con-- ' lated to Washington by Captain Van Braam, land from thl territory. Thl clulm slating only of a log cabin circled who seems to have had only a sketchy Dutchman H V ' s pointed to Teeumseh'a great Ideal, hy a log atoitnilo, wit Fort Necesulty, shore translie the French langnage. knowledge of the confederation of all the weston July 3, 1754, George Washington began the "death" or lated that passage as "the killing" ern and aouthera tribes. If this military career which wa to place bla name of Jumonvllie, whereas the French Interpretacould be a boundary among those of the great enpluina of all time tion of it was "assassination." Immediately the between accomplished, the whites and the Indians ami where, aa the fatnoua Voltaire expressed ceelliig 300), we preiwired for onr dtfetise In French mined the cry of treachery on the part could be established and enforced, it, wa tire.! the cannon shot In the woods of the best manner we could, by throwing up of the young Virginian, asserting that Jutiion-vill- e he reasoned, and the whites would America which set all Kurope aldae. small entrenchment, which we had not time had been an ambassador bearing a peacebe permanently checked. With this The affair at Fort Necessity had Ita origin to perfect before our sentinel gave notiee, about ful message to the English In regard to the In mind, the Intrepid Shawnee In the clash between the Uritlsh and the French 11 o'clock, of tlicir approach, by firing his piece, dispute over the western country. Just as Wash plan for the control of the Interior of the North which he did, at the enemy, anil, as we learned lmd been a similar ambassador to the vidled every tribe from the head Ington of the Missouri river to Florida, AmerUiin continent. To make good her claim to afterward, killed three of their men, on which French posts In 1753, and thnt by Washington' with tome success. the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and to check they began to fire upon u. at alsuit COO yards own admission in the articles of capitulation meeting the westward expansion of Knghsh settlement distance, but without effect; we immediately be had "assassinated" this peaceful messenger. Ills brother, In the meantime, had beyond the Alleghenies, the French had erected called all our men to their arms and drew up at GreenAs for Washington he was most decidedly established headquarter a fort at Preqtie I.de, now Krle, Pn., had built In order before our trenches, but as we looked In England because ville, Ohio, and was working along both and bad" home at in Fort I.e Iloetif on French creek and had also uiion this distant fire of the enemy only as an his unfortunate expedition hud apparently pnt similar lines, while advocating a reseized the British trading post of Venango. artifice to Intimidate, or draw our fire from us, the English in a very had light The result of turn to the ancient Indian manner In 175.1 tlov. Hubert Dinwiddle of Virginia we waited their nearer approach before we re(his fiasco and other indignities which he suf- of living. The Prophet sent his emselected t'.eorge Washington, then only twenty-on- turned their salute. fered led him finally to resign his commission issaries as far as Tecumseh himself years old, for the difficult task of demand"They then advanced In a very Irregular man- and It seemed that the military career of this had gone, each bearing the message ing thnt the Freneh cene their encroachments ner to another point of woods, about CO yards future great leader was ended almost at Its of rebellion. Interested men from upon T.rltlsh soil." When Washington returned off, and from thence made a second discharge; f these tribes In turn came to beginning. Winnies Safa with the Information thnt the French had no upon which, Lion's Skia for Monarch visit theProphet and to hear from his finding they bad no Intention of However, his defeat did result in the resoluWlnnlfred Woggins, being told to Intention of giving up their forts, Dinwiddle The principal use of a lion's skin attacking us in the open field, we retired Into tion of the British ministry to force matters to own lips the plans which he had Late In our trenches and still reserved our fire, as we decided upon more drastic action. Is for rugs with the heads mounted. put her money where It would draw a crisis, so there came about the arrival of Gen. formulated. 1733 he sent a party of men under Captain In some parts of Africa, however, the most Interest, promptly put It num of from their expected great superiority The Prophet, however, had beIn her stocking. Salt Lake City Trent to build a fort at the Forks of the Ohio, bers that they would endeavor to force our Edward Braddock In America to command the come they are still the Insignia of royto act Tecumseh combined British and Colonial forces which were where Pittsburgh now stands, and to hold It trenches, but, alty, and their use as cloaks or gar- Deseret News. finding they did not seem to in- to eject the French from the Ohio valley. The and he had moved to Tippecanoe, against any attacks which the French might tend tills either, the colonel gave orders to fire, ments is restricted to the reigning result of that expedition "the bloody business Ind., at the Invitation of the make. Money to Bo Admired monarch. which was done with great alacrity and un- of Braddock" It coland here their followers has been aptly called Is too Both North Carolina and the home govern- dauntedness. well known to be dwelt upon extensively. Even lected, becoming more and more obment had promised aid to the expedition, but simple skull, combined with a jaw "We continued tills unequal fight, with an It did result In disaster on the banks streperous as they gained In faith Fossils Proof of when no troops had arrived by the last day enemy sheltered behind the trees, ourselves though which resembles that of a chimof the Monongnhela that July day a year later, and numbers of Man? Antiquity of March, 1754, Dinwiddle ordered Washington without shelter, In trenches full of water, in a panzee. it was Braddock who made Washington an Tecumseh was away on his The most ancient being known and his 300 Virginians to proceed to the Ohio, settled rain, and the enemy galling ns on all Fifty thousand years ago a people on his staff and who gave him his errand, and the Prophet did not which can be called man was discovthere to help Captain Trent build forts and sides incessantly from the woods till 8 o'clock chance to win Neanderthal were living in the called enduring fame while Braddock hold back the fiery spirit of his peo- ered in Java. It was Imbedded In caves of Europe. They were disto defend the possessions of his majesty against at night, when the French called to parley. was winning only defeat and death. Not far ple. and fossil stratum plants containing the attempts and hostilities of the French. tinctly human, but In many ways reFrom the great Improbability thnt such a vast- from the reconstructed Fort Necessity Is the Gen. William Henry Harrison, w ith animals of at least a half million sembled the anthropoid apes. They Meantime Trent's little company of 33 men ly superior force and possessed of such an adwhere a Braddock was buried and part 900 troops, finally started for Tip- years ago. This being, called Pithe- had place had commenced a stockade at the Forks. But vantage would offer a parley first, we long, low heads, projecting faces, suspected of the dedication ceremonies held at WashIn April, a force of French and Indians arrived a deceit and therefore refused to consent that pecanoe to quiet the Indians. Near canthropus erectus, had a small head, and walked In a semi-ereposition. ington's little fort last month was the visit the town he was attacked by about with huge ridges over the eyes. Its on the scene and made them prisoners. They About 25,000 years ago they were they should come among ns; on which they of a military attache to the British embassy the same much of like tohse were teeth today, displaced by newcomers, the number of Indians, led by were promptly released and allowed to return desired us to send an officer to them and enIn the National Capital to Braddock's grave, who claimed to have and It walked erect. the home without harm. a people much like modern Washington, coming to gage their parole for his safety. We then sent there to a wreath in honor of the general the Prophet,of lay Next In age are the remains of 11 their nid, met the returning fort builders at Captain Van Braam and Mr. Peyronee to receive with power averting denth in batEuropeans. whom so dealt has history harshly. tle. Tlie engagement was a fierce Individuals discovered deeply buried Will's Creek, near the present city of Cumber- their proposals, which they did, and about midIiut the reconstructed Fort Necessity Is not one. At its end, Harrison's troops In a cave near Peiping, China. These land, Sid. night we agreed thnt each side should retire the only post connected with the Drew His Own Teeth stirring events were victorious, and the Indians people were much like the Java man, By this time the French had extended Trents without molestation, they back to their fort at in those Missionaries f hardships were illusAmerican of were times which the advanced. more were somewhat hut utterly defeated. Many of work and pushed it to a rapid completion, call- Monongnhela, and we to Wilis Creek; that we can visit. Near Hagerstown, Md., is Fort them were wounded, and 50 or 60 The associated animal bones indicate trated by ltev. A. II. Cropp, who today ing their stronghold Fort Duquesne. Here had should march away with all the honors of war Frederick which is also In lives on Bougainville, Solomon Isprocess of recon- killed. In spite of the Prophet's a period only a little later. been gathered a considerable force of Canadians, and with all our stores, effects and baggage. struction efforts of the Hagerstown pow er. the lands, now on furlough in Auckland, a through in Near Germany, Heidelberg, French regulars and Indian allies, a detach- Accordingly, the next morning, with our drams Chamber of New Zealand. The medical service comand associated with It was Commerce, found human Jaw to This during disastrous battle , Jumon-villeproved ment front which, led by Coulon de bebeating and our colors flying, we began our are the names of both Braddock and WashingTecumsehs enterprise, but the War mercial excavations. The stratum in on Bougainville Is limited, and scouted Washington's advance. On May march In good order, with our stores, etc., In ton. It was in Frederick Md., that Wash- of 1812, which broke out the follow which it lay was deposited In the fore he left on his furlough he wantTown, 28, at the head of a scouting party, Washington convoy; but we were Interrupted by the arrival ington first met Braddock on May 2, 1755, and Ing year, offered him an opportunity second interglacial epoch, probably ed to have several teeth removed. stumbled upon the small French scouting pnrty. of a reinforcement of 100 Indinns among the two days later arrived with him at Winchester, to relieve himself of some of the 250,000 years ago. The Jaw Is huge, There was no dentist available, but The Virginians Immediately fired upon the French, who were hardly restrained from atVa., whence they set out for Fort CumberIt has no chin, but the teeth are he had a set of dental Instruments. bitterness which was in his heart. 21 Freneh. Ten were killed, one wounded and tacking us and did ns considerable damage by land (Wills Creek), Md., on the of his Seating himself In front of a mirror beginning The him by human. high position given taken prisoner. Among the French dead was pilfering our baggage. disastrous expedition. and same find the of about giving himself an injection of Another the and he the British, Jumon'vllle. authority We then proceeded, but soon found It neceshe extracted the teeth Susnear After was raids cocaine, defeat mnde the of Braddock the Indian Piltdown, was allowed to yield, were not age The news of tills encounter was carried to sary to leave our baggage and stores ; the great Fort Duquesne and its commander immediately scarcity of our provisions obliged ns to use along the frontier of Pennsylvania, Maryland abused by the Shawnee chief. He sex, England, and consists of a very and Virginia beeame so alarming that Gov. Hor- fought In some of the most famous sent out a force under Coulon de Villiers, a the utmost expedition, and having neither wag- atio Sharpe of Maryland asked the colonial battles of the war, one of which brother of Jumouville, to attack the English. ons nor horses to transport them. The enemy legislature for an appropriation for a strong was the scene of to Great Meadows, had withdrew Perrys victory on Washington deprived us of ail our creatures, by killing, fort to be erected in the western part of Fred- Lake Erie. Proctor, retreating, where he erected a fort Although the place in the beginning of the engagement, our horses, erick county, which was eventually granted. was at first covered by Tecumsehs was unfit for defense, being surrounded on cattle and every living thing they could, even to Upon receiving the grant, according to the cor- men, but the Indian general refused three sides by higher ground, which was heavi- the very dogs. respondence of Governor Sharpe, I am prepar- to go back further than the Thames ly forested and afforded good shelter from on our of killed number was The side 30, to set off for the frontier, to put this river, and compelled Proctor to ing which the enemy could fire down upon the deand 70 wounded ; among the former was Lieu- province In the best provision of defense and make a stand and fight It out The fenders of the fort, Washington's force was so of tenant Mercier, Captain Mackays independ- that the bill will permit me and construct a battle which ensued, on October 5, weakened by lack of ammunition and other supent company, a gentleman of true military worth, strong fort and block houses for the protection 1813, was a bloody one, and the Britplies, that he considered it impracticable to would not permit him to re- of the North mountain. While I was at Fort ish and their Indian allies were retreat further. Hence the name of Fort Ne- and whose bravery till a second Frederick, Colonel Washington paid me a visit wounded, dangerously though tire, defeated by Harrison and cessity as Indicative of his desperate plight. shot disabled him and a third put an end to his and informed me that he was also raising a his troops, who had so completeA contemporary account of what followed has to carried as was the he Our surgeon. being We already have ly dispersed the Prophets army In strong fort at Winchester. been discovered recently In the Charleston life, men behaved with singular intrepedity, and we 200 men near and about Fort Frederick under 1811. (S. C.) public library in a copy of the South determined not to ask for quarter, but with our Colonel John Dagworthy. We face the bastions Previous to this engagement, Carolina Gazette for August 22, 1754, which bayonets fixed to sell our lives as dearly as and curtains with stone and shall mount on each had felt a presentiment of reads as follows: possibly we could. From the numbers of the en- bastion a six pounder. . . death, put aside his generals uni"Williamsburg, Va July 19. On Wednesday emy, and our situation, we could not hope for During the next two years, until the final form, and dressed himself in deerlast arrived In town. Col. George Washington and from the character of those we had capture of Fort Duquesne, Fort Frederick was skin; the British general no longer, and Capt. James Mackay, who gave the follow- victory, no on we to but encounter, mercy, expected a base for military supplies and a refuge for but an Indian chief and warrior, ing account to his honor the governor, of the terms we positively resolved not to sub- the Inhabitants of that region when the red who wanted to die as an Indian. It late action between them and the French, at mit to.that The number killed and wounded of the terror swept down upon them during the French proved to be a true forewarning, and the Great Meadows In the western part of this enemy Is uncertain." and Indian war and again in 1703 when the the chief fell In front of his warThe soap that mates 50 more soils richer, dominion. In the articles of capitulation, submitted by conspiracy of Pontiac threatened to drive the riors. It is said that on one ocsuds that took clothes snowy longer-lastin-g "The third of this instant July, about 9 was one hated English Into the sea. The fort also casion Tecumseh had exclaimed, without harm to hands o'clock, we received intelligence that the French, De Villiers which Washington signed, white without rubbing, to prove to be diplomatic dy played a part In the Revolution and the Civil The sun Is my futher, and the having been reinforced with 700 recruits, had word which was balls up, rinses clean, Never dainty things. left Mon.riignheln and were In full march with namite. It referred to the prisoners taken by war and now the people of Maryland hope to earth is my mother, and on her for Great softens water. du I bosom Sleur dishes, too. de will "dans l'assassinat restore a and as numit it state shrine. repose!" our as Washington preserve 900 men to attack us. Cpon this, (C. 1932, Western Newapiper Union. I The terms of capitulation were trans ber were so unequal (our whole force not ex- by Western Newspaper Union.) h MercoIizcdVax Keeps Skin Young Ml hI aka MM ad illtawei wfi NmW iundeed IveafiM I 1 owe law owl Ik hMa HaHw tm wAll nli. raw pm a m M mtm Uaelf t 4 V. ii. k1 Esrliswvsatsry Rwl When a motion la laid on th tab!, the expression t figurative. A record Is mad of this motion tn the minute and simply mean that the matter baa been laid aside for th present. It cmddfa!lon to be resumed when a motion la made to that effect or opportunity offare. Salt Lake Citys Revest off Hai V"' LivU I- -- HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Til Bathe 200 Room 1 a, Capt. George Washington. h-- g t rj RuiAs d Fort Frederick Gen. Braddock Radio coanoctao la ovary room. RATES FROM flJO ERNEST C Yon Know th Kiad Explorer From the Chinese frontier we pushed Into Tibet Fympathellc Lady We had a car like that. Had bad dizzy spells a World-Telegra- Tdirnit, ROSSITER, Mgr. W.ISII1 Jmm Afraid to leave bovue . . . feared aw- ful ditxineii would make her keel over. She Deeds Lydia E. Pmkham's Vegetable Compound in tablet form. N.mM of mn and womea VVTKIl on ecena linen ExperijroRUlon ence onneremnry. Wimped envelope PrtnM details. DopL E. Bor 4T4,Loof Beaeh.Caiif. VV W. N. U, 8a It Lake City, No. 32. Evened Up no Hey, waiter, there' turtle In this soup. Walter No, and there' no horeo In the horseradish. Diner far-of- over-eag- l, p fnr-of- SKI r Undo Eben 1 dont blame a smart man for mind," said Undo changin hi Eben, "but I kind o wish hed have made de change befo I took hla first advice." Washington Star. , Human Side of Apoa Ape display several human passions. The gorilla will fly Into fearful rage. The orang Is wonderfully affectionate to Its young. Gibbons have a sense of humor. They delight In mischievous play and, being tailless, will, when they have the chance, pull other monkey's tails as a great joke. Chimpanzees have a gift which dogs have never been known to display they can see a picture of themselves as a picture. They will recognize their own portraits, or grow- - excited If shown a study of a bunch of bananas. Among the gifts or powers which man possesses and apes lack It is remarkable that man can weep, but apes cannot. I Compliment come to this hotel I wish I had a month ago. Ah, you flatter my place. What I mean Is that I would rather have eaten these eggs then than now. Few are pacifists In a pinch, |