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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON coming of August "AuguM, America' Month of Battles," It Ima been called because so muny dra rjT co inatlc and Important engagements In our history have bovn fought during that month brings the anniversaries of two famous massacre which offer an Interesting study In historic parallels.1 In both cases the commander of a fort, putting Ida fulth In the word of an enemy, led out from the shelter of Its log walls bis little garrison of men, women and children, who were set upon by a horde of savages, who killed until the wutera In the lake, on whose shores the fort stood, figuratively ran red. In both cases the commander realised fully the dunger hito which he was leading his people and In both cases he was compelled to evacuate by orders from Ida superior officer. And upon the heads of these superior" officers who were certainly Incompetent or stupid. If not actually cowardly the blood of the unfor-tunut- e victims whom they sent to their deaths must rest until history finds some new facts to absolve their guilt The twd massacres were those which took place at Fort William Henry on the shores of Lake George In New York on August 0, 1757, and at Fort Dearborn on the shores of Lake Mlchlgnn In Illinois on August 15, 1S12. Fort William Henry was built In 1755 by Sir William Johnson, the gallant baronet who won the powerful Iroquois confederacy of Indians to the side of England In her struggle with France for possession of North America. It was the base of his operations during the futile campnlgn of 1755 against the French, was abandoned when winter came, repaired again the next spring and wns again the base for General Winslows equally futile campnlgn against the French at Crown Folnt In 1750. When the campaign of 1757 opened. Fort William Henry, which hnd again been repaired and strengthened, wns the most advanced British post In the direction of Canada and wns the one which would hear the brunt of the attack by an army of 8.000 men which the cble French general, Marquis de Montcalm, was preparing to launch against It. In the face of this tlirent, the earl of Loudon, British commander In chief, had weakened the possibility of resisting Montcalm's attack by sending a large part of the British and Colonial forces on a useless and doomed-to-failurexpedition against Loulsbourg In Nova Scotia. Fort William Henry was held by Lieutenant Colonel Monro with a force of 2,140 men. Eighteen miles away his superior officer, Gen. Daniel Webb, held Fort Edward with an army of 6,000, but, although Webb knew In advance of Montcalm's plans, he made no attempt to summon the colonial militia to his aid and even when be learned from his scouts that the French general was concentrating his forces at TIconderoga, he made no attempt to concentrate his own forces at either William nenry ot at Edward. Montcalm appeared before Fort William Henry on August 4 and after the usual formal demand for Its surrender, which was refused, opened fire upon It with his battery of 12 and For five days Monro held out gallantly against the superior forces and the superior artillery of the enemy, hoping all the time that Webb would "march to the sound of the guns." But no help came. The fort was being pounded to pieces, his garrison was weakened by sickness as well as by death from the Frenchman's artillery, and half of his cannon had been rendered useless. On the morning of August 9 Montcalm planted his heaviest guns within such close range that further resistance would have been futile. So Monro was forced to surrender with the honors of war. Under the terms of the capitulation the garrison of Fort William Henry was to march out, unarmed hut retaining their personal belongings, and to be escorted to Fort Edward, after giving their promise not to serve In the British army again for eighteen months. As a token of their -- 0-- x v.A-HE pj Irlsh-Amerlca- n e e, brave defense, the chivalrous Frenchman allowed them to take along one piece of artillery, a Unfortunately they left In the fort a supply of liquor and the Indians, who swarmed Into the fort as the garrison left It, found this "flrewutcr." Their thirst for blood aroused by the stubborn defense of tbe garrison during the siege and .maddened by tbe liquor, the Indians gathered In a threatening mass along the column of marching English. One of the most vivid descriptions of what then took place Is found In a classic In American literature, J. Fenlmore Coopers The Last of the Mohicans." Although that book Is fiction, there Is probably an element of truth In the dramatic scene In which he depicts an Indian attempting to steal a shawl from one of the women, who wrapped her baby In It, whereupon the savage seized the child, dashed Its head against a rock and then tomahawked the mother. Front that point Cooper continues: At that dangerous moment, Mngua placed his hand to hi mouth, and raised the fatal and appalling whoop. The scattered Indian started at n the coursers bound at the sigcry, nal to quit the goal; and directly there arose such a yell along the plain, and through the arches of the weeds as seldom burst from human lips before. They who heard It, listened with curdling horror at the heart, little Inferior to that dread which may he expected to attend the blasts of the final sumwell-know- mons. More than two thousand raving savages broke from the forest at the signal, and threw themselves across the fatal plain with Instinctive alacrity. We shall not dwell on the revolting horrors that succeeded. Death was everywhere, and In his most terrific and disgusting aspects. Resistance only served to Inflame the murderers, who Inflicted their furious blows long after their victims were beyond the power of their resentment. The flow of blood might be likened to the outbreak of a torrent, and as the natives became heated and maddened by the sight, mnnv among them even kneeled to the earth and drank freely, exultlngly, hellishly of tbe crimson tide. The trained bodies of troops threw themselves quickly Into solid masses, endeavoring to awe their assailants by the imposing appearance of a military fropt. The experiment In some measure succeeded. though far too many suffered their unloaded muskets to be torn from their hands, in the vain hope of appeasing the savages. S-- -t ? I To the credit of the French commander it must tie said that he did all In his power to restrain the Indians. At the risk of their lives, he and members of bis stnfT threw themselves between the savages and their victims and he Immediately summoned his French regulars who stopped the massacre. But before that could be accomplished more than fifty of the English, Including some of the wounded men who lay In a temporary hospital, were killed and scalped, and some two hundred were carried away Into captivity by the Indians who took them to Montreal to he ransomed. Not all of the two hundred survived, however, for, according to one authority, some perished at the stake and ns a final touch to the horrors of the Fort William Henry massacre, one band, railed the Fold County Cannibals, roasted some of their prisoners and ate them. So the exact loss of the English on that fateful day will never be exactly known, although It Is certain that Coopers statement that .between POO and 1.500 fell In this unhappy affair" Is an exaggeration, aa is often the case with the creator of "Leatherstocking." Aside from the fact that the Fort William Henry massacre was one of the most tragic events In American history. It was also a significant one. For Frances failure to control her savage allies, as Illustrated by this Instance, nerved the colonists to the resolution to resist to the utmost an enemy which used such allies and in the long run that resolution contributed to the downfall of the French power on this continent Fort Dearborn, whose log walls were to be the genesis of the second largest city in the United states and the metropolis of was built In 1S'3 by Capt John Whistler of the United States regular army. In line with the government's policy of establishing posts on the new western I tbe prUe, said Wan to tbe siZ""., other dogs. said I "They the right hadn't lijKd neck, and that I should weigh ZION NATIONAL TARK -- A sur-ve- y a pound or two or of the national parks of southern three more to be Utah has been completed by the tb right site." commission appointed by the eecretary "if they said of the Interior to survey the educasuch thing how tional possibilities of all the natural did you manage to parka of tbe country. The committee get the very first Is working under a grant of $10,000 prize of all?" asked made by the Laura Spellman Rockethe other dogs. memorial for thin purpose. feller "Because the Judge gave It to me." OGDEN Shipment of lambs to the said Wan. "Tbe ones who did all Ibis talking were tbe ones whose dogs Ogden stock yards was reported today to have reached a high peak by Jams did not win. K. Wallace, market observer for the It was poor sportsmanship." "It was." said one of the other dg federal department of agriculture. w ho had won second prize. One hundred and fifteen double dec "I think people don't know what loads of practically all fat lambs from the word sportsmanship means when Idaho and Oregon ranges are reported are such poor sports as to be en route to Chicago and Omaha. The they fWMtfriMO TQ6 beaten and then argue about lL day receipt in the sheep division to"If a dog lived In an alley and fed taled 15,965 head. frontier to protect the wave of settlement which out of garbage cans I wouldn't fight COALVILLE Progress on the wort was sure to follow tbe Ixtulsluns 1urrhuse. In or he annoyed If be hnppened to win In connection with the construction ol of the command 1M0 Capt. Nathan Heald took first prize." Echo dam and the building of ths alarma time within short and begun bearing the "Tbat'e jawt right Idea," said the new roadways around the reservoii ing rejiorts of the activities of the grent Shawnee other dogs. "Well, It's tbe people, chief, Teeumseh, who wns drenmlng the old dream not the dogs, who do the arguing ait for the Park City branch of the Union Pacific railroad and the Lincoln of I'ontlae of uniting all the Indian tribes to wipe over tbe prizes. out tbe white Invaders of their land. highway during June was very satisa were "There good many disputes In June, 1812, the United States went to war about my winning tbe prize," said factory, the report of Construetioi Engineer F. F. Smith to the commiswith Great Britain and Tecumm-h- , temporarily Won. foiled by tbe defeat of his boasting brother, the "No matter," said tbe other dogs, sioner of the bureau of reclamation You won It and you deservg It. You iTophct. at Tippecanoe, cast hi lot with the BritZION NATIONAL PARK The Jib have a handsome face and a beauti ish, which meant savage warfare on the northtunnel through western frontier. On July 29 Gen. William Hull, ful body." f driving the 5800-focemmnnder of the U. S. fort at Detroit and But you the solid sandstone walls cf Zion can"Thanks," said Wan. Hcald's superior officer, sent an order to Heald know I don't care so much for beauty. yon on the Zion-MCarmel highway I am very fond of cream. to evacuate the post, destroy all surplus arms and and at the My is now well over half-donammunition, but to give tbe good In tbe United mistress gives a lot of It to me. Yes. present rate of progress, there is States factory there to the friendly Indians cream Is fur better than beauty." every indication work on the first secaround the post and proceed at once to Fort said." will be completed by September tion "They commenced Wayne, Ind. It was this Hull, be It remembered, dog the final limit of the contract, it 22, whose blundering and general Incompetence wns who had won was announced by E. T. Seo.ven, part so soon to lend to the surrender of Ftetrolt to prizes In former here recently. superintendent, tbe British General Brock without firing a shot year, but not at All of Idahos 41 WASHINGTON In Its defense. this show, that counties have had maternity and inIleald's force at the time ihe order from Hull there were fine fancy work since the states acceptance was received on August 8 consisted of 54 regulars dogs this year, the maternity and Infancy act In of and 12 militia. Various hostile acts commuted which were brought and during the fiscal year ended 1922, up Id our own by Indians around tbe post during the preceding June 30, 1927, such work was carried months Indicated that the abandonment of tbe hind. in 43 of the counties. That inforon & be would to said ninrch Fort fort and tbe Yes, they Wayne mation is a part of the annual report home that our dangerous undertaking, wherens If he remained, of the Sheppard-Towne- r act, soon to be could no doubt count upon help from militia, dogs were Improvbe released by the Childrens bureau which the governors of Illinois and Indiana would ing all the time of the U. S. department of labor. raise, should the Indians attack. But Hull's orders and that we needn't SAT.INA Great Western Salt Comwere positive and left nothing to Ileald's discrethink foreign dogs tion. Being a soldier, he could do nothing but were the only ones pany last week purchased the holdings of the Salina worth noticing In obey. So preparations were mnde for the evacuacompany in Salina tion of the fort on August 15. On the previous the future." canvon. In addition to the 120 acres day the goods In the factory were distributed of high grad . salt beds purchased, 'That's fine." all among the Indians with the understanding that the dogs barked. the Great Western also absorbed the In return for these goods they were to protect the Well, said Wan, "I stirred up ai individual interests of Alford Jensen, garrison on Its retreat. According to orders Heald argument, and I mnde the show a lit located in t.e immediat vicinity, makhnd destroyed the surplus arms and a large stock tie different by not having the santt ing a total of 130 acres, which gives of liquor. It was disappointment over loss of winners as last year." the Great Western a holding of 700 these which Is believed to have Invited the InYou did Indeed. grinned one ni acres of high grade salt. dians to the attack the next day. On the other the dogs who had been a prize win SALT LAKE That Salt Lake not hand, to have given the sullen tribesmen the liqner the year before. is ideally located as an airway only uor and arms would have Insured the destruction Then they all received ribbons anc center for western America, but also of the whites, so In either ense the garrison of badges and cups and medals anc is winning widespread attention as Fort Dearborn was doomed. there was great rejoicing and huppi a prosnective radio broadcasting centakWhile preparations for the evacuation were ness at ' the dog show, while every ter, is the opinion cf Earl Glade, maning place, Capt. William Wells, a famous scout one forgot arguments and such sill ager of radio station KSL, who has had from arrived and an uncle of Mrs. Heald. things. . ruturned from the Pacific coast, just Fort Wayne with a small force of friendly Miami AnJ the dogs barked as dogs should where he has been in conference with Indians to help guard the retreating garrison. do to show they were the animals National When the march started the mxt morning. Wells Broadcasting company offieveryone had come to see. and sc cials ,1' to advance his the Indians led and guard against there couldn't possibly be any mi., the treachery which he felt sure would follow. take about the show being a regula ers. MT. PLEASAN . t. ..uge female In fact. Black Partridge, a friendly Pottawatomie dog show cinnamon bear and a young cub capchief, had warned Heald on August 14 that linden birds hnd been singing in his ears ar.d the white tured alive in the north fork of PleasPUZZLES men should be careful on the mavh they were ant Creek canyon, by J. C. Barton and about to make." But it was too late then to turn Will Brewer, were brought to Mt. What letters are the hardest work Pleasant back and, even though fearing the worst. Heald lecently and have been on en-The bees (Its). determined to go on. exhibition here, where they have been sen and admired by hundreds of specA mile and a half from the fort the Indians, What flower is often impressed on tators. J is hoped to dinose of the hidden among the sand hills, attached the head ttle boys? 'Ladys slippers. two bears to a nark or zoo in some fled at the first of the column. Wells Miami Mr. Barton has fire. Heald succeeded in rallying his soldiers and Utah community. Which of the stars should be rubjec charged with bayonet, driving the Indians batk. to game lawsi Shooting stars. previously killed two large bears in At the rear of the column the savages had this ran'on this summer. attacked the wagons bearing the women and chilOGDEN New bids were opened at no What asks questions and yet re dren which were guarded by the militia, who were offices of the United States bureau the answers? The many telephone quires cut down to a man. Captain Wells, who had ridroads fn the Kiesel building cf public bell. den back to the wagons to save his niece, was this morning on 9.89 miles of road shot down and killed, fighting to the last. But and some bridge work on the Salmon, 'What is always at the head of fash he was only one of several heroes, both men Idaho, to the Montana line section. out of date? The ion, always yet and women, who perished that day after fighting firms submitted bids and the Three 'etter F. desperately until the tomahawks of the savages Union Construction company of Ogden, cut them down. was low with its offer to do the work How is it that summer goes so Surrounded by the Indians, who outnumbered so for $129,476. is Because there often an Ryberg, McHugh & quickly? his force nearly ten to one. there was but one eening mist. Cowley of Boise were second with an of BuDe was high with an offer of thing left for Captain Heald to do to stop the slaughter. That was to surrender and that he What is the difference between a offer of $135,022, and L. T. Lawler did to Black Bird, the principal Pottawatomie school teacher and a robber? The $153 521. The engineers estimate on chief. In the brief conflict 25 regulars. 12 militia. teacher says hands down, the robber the work is $113,023.50. Reccommen-datio- n 2 women and 12 children were killed or so deswill be made that the contract says hands up. perately wounded that they died later. Many be awarded to the Umon Construction others, including Captain Ileald himself, were What Is the difference between man company. also seriously wounded. Some of the wounded and butter? The older man grows, MYTON Reports that are beginprisoners were saved by the Indians only to meet the weaker he gets. The older buttei a more terrible fate than captivity. For, ns was grows the stronger It gets ning to come in from those who are the ense at Fort William Henry, the massacre was irterested in the raising of bees and followed by an infernal orgy of torture in the Wanted Her Name the production of lorey in this portion Indian camp. The most of t!e prisoners were carwas getting acBetty of Duchesne county indicated that the ried away to Indian villages or to Canada and quainted with the new neighbor next outlook is promising for this season. were later ransomed. door. She was very enthusiastic about Several citizens of Mvton are engaged . Today a monument marks the spot where the "Parkers little girl." in this enterproise, W. Stewart, N. L. Fort Dearborn massacre took place. It stands at Mother said she snouldnt call her Zeoker brothers. C. T Petemon. the foot of Eighteenth street, near the lake, in that but "Jean Ane, or Elizabeth Bcggs. K. E. Miller, W. H. Paul. E. Chicago. Topping It Is a scene of one of the something like that." The weath t L. .Turner and othr.-- . most thrilling scenes in the massacre the friendly But I don't know how to call Her," conditions during the past few weeks I asked chief, Black Partridge, staying the hand of an Betty replied disdainfully, have been favorable for this industry Indian who Is attempting to tomahawk Jrs. Heim, ker what the front of her was railed .b- - rro bi.crs aav. the young Wife of Lieutenant Helm ud she 'tared at me." I jut Moon. or rotur dcar&ojw i BRIGHAM CITY Brigham CUy la now practically assured an airport by action taken by the local chamber and was pleased t.eo I. bad d prize. But all of them - Lioo m 9 WAN Urge ' GRAHAM BQNNH jNewoNoteoi i Jtt Privilege to Utah Fonr-year-ol- d |