| Show 1 Prairie Chickens Wiped Out When the first while white settlers ap I pea poured red In lon Nebraska and Kan itan Kansas sas the country fairly swarmed with prairie chickens They rhey were hunted bunted and trapped their nesting places were broken up Ul b by tion and they the were Indiscriminately shot with powered high repeating repenting firearms i A writer of or the day says that It was no uncommon sight to see a farmer come corne to town with a bobsleds filled with Ith prairie chickens which he sold at a dollar a dozen The They were exterminated e except In I some remote sections of the West First Settlers' Settlers Wives Paid For in Tobacco The first permanent English set In this country was Jamestown Jamestown Jamestown James James- town Va settled almost entirely by young men who for Cor the most part were misguided adventurers nd who expected to stay In America a little while and then return to England Eng land laud laden with gold and sliver silver like the Spanish conquistadors In there were OO men at Jamestown and only 40 10 acres of land under cultivation they had hadnot hadnot not come for that There was much discontent and turbulence among them To Induce them to remain and cultivate ate the tobacco which was already coming Into demand In Eu Eu- Europe Europe rope the London company which hud hind brought the young oung m men n there finally made arrangements to send out a number of oC young joung women to tobe tobe be wives wires to them In 1617 ninety I hJ vi an v were cre sent out om for tor Je Je On reaching the colony these women were allowed to make free ree choice among the eligible bachelors And each ench young joung man who was thus suited with a wife bound himself I It t to send to the company In London i pounds of tobacco to pay the cost of bringing his lady to the col colI I on ony Y Within two years jears ears young women had been sent out In this I wn way ant and v were ere comfortably settled In new homes t |
