Show !i the GUNNISON )att!e of Thames 125 Ended Career of H Harrison' Victory on Sen W of "The Most Extraordinary Indian Col R M Johnson Helped Make Of the United States C WvMern ELMO SCOTT n a 'charae'e VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAH Years Ago Great Red Man °"ly ' l'r r 125 October day ago there died in one of the great-- f 1st Indians the American has ever known Continent Tecumseh a is name was of the Shawnee hieftain Lbe and the engagement in fjjich he was killed was the This jattle of the Thames attle is not nearly so well Ameri :nown to the average can as a dozen others of less-- r after-natimportance but its makes it one of the engageinteresting aost ments in the history of the Jnited States ' “ ti Qears The pi nown The other twin ame of Tikamthi was given the or Tecumtha and eaning One Who Springs dicating that he belonged to the an of the Great Medicine Pan-e- r or Meteor So the Shaw-e- s knew him as the Crouching anther or the Shooting Star but story would write him down as 'ecumseh When the twins were six years d their father was killed in the attle of Point Pleasant W Va here Andrew Lewis and his frontiersmen defeated Chief and his Shawnees Aft that young Tecumseh was aced under the care of an elder other who taught him the ways warriors until this elder broth was killed in battle with the hites on the Tennessee frontier 1788 or 1789 rnstalk A Fighting Heritage With this fighting heritage him-il- f soon distinguished as a warrior but one who more humane and chival-u-s toward his enemies than s common among his tribes-e- n He fought in two great bat--s of that period— at the defeat St Clair in 1792 and at Fallen robers in 1794 when “Mad An- - smashed XWayr m toe Indian the pow confederacy that a wen formed by Little Turtle leader Reconciled to accepting peacq the whites Tecumseh l ye -eV° take part in the Treaty nSl®nville and gathered a band of young war R who roved over the pres-- ? Ohio and Indiana L Mttling down on “it rver in Indiana about reraaihed there for a ‘h Peacefully occupied hating until the continued ° ibe whites upon t lanment aas n guaranteed to the In l the Treaty of Green- v to action pa thSe ground that the Ohio g wbSTlrr bl0”tM 10 “ t nlS 7 cornmon he denied 6blgle tribe 10 seU ° lh® whites When the Loveri)ment refused to WhPf!?nlple and bean Purchase of )r lanrfV°r erii feDt M“r orm a grcat Snntii00 of all the Western te' oThow” tr‘uCs or the pur ib Ohio river as b°undarlr edertttimC '"tSuo no The Death un’u if Tecumseh at the Battle of tie Otewa and Little the Mian f u!ed m a suc'n a m heme the Shivneo leaflet hoian vi Min other tribirs and enlisting their suppoit No doubt lie was doomed to failure just as the (tlier Indian leaders had failed but the chances aie that his attempt to hold back the tide of white settlement would have come neater realization than theirs had it not been for his brother the Prophet Tecumseh probably realized that the Prophet was a charlatan but he was glad enough to have the aid of Tenskwatawa's influence over the superstitious savages in forwarding his plan He could not foresee that the character of his twin brother might make him more of a liability than an asset to his cause For that was exactly what happened While Tecumseh was attempting to enlist the Southern tribes in his confederation the Prophet on November 7 1811 precipitated the attack on the forces of Gen William Henry Harrison at the Tippecanoe river which ended so disastrously for the Indians Not only was the Prophet thoroughly discredited among the Shawnees by that defeat but it dampened the ardor of other tribes for Tecumseh’s scheme and he saw his elaborate plans crash to the earth Embittered by this disappointment and still unreconciled to accepting American domination over his country Tecumseh welcomed the outbreak of the War of 1812 and cast his lot with the British as a possibility of regaining control of his ancestral lands Nearly all of the war chiefs followed his lead and Tecumseh soon found himself the nominal head of more than 700 Shawnee warriors Made a British General Gen Isaac Brock commander of the British forces in the West immediately recognized the genius of Tecumseh and made him a the Thus brigadier-genera- l Shawnee chieftain had the distinction of being one of two Indians who ever held such high rank in a white man’s army The other was Gen Ely S Parker an Iroquois who served on Grant’s staff during the Civil war There was a strong bond of Tefriendship between Brock and cumseh which continued until Brock’s death at the Battle of 1812 Queenstown in October General Proctor his successor which of the qualities lacked all had won the admiration and reDespect of Tecumseh for Brock leadspite the aid of the Shawnee er and the 2000 warriors of the allied tribes which he placed at the British Proctor’s disposal leader soon proved himself such cowa bungler if not actually a foreard that Tecumseh clearly of the triumph saw the ultimate Americans "''He" Covered Proctor’s retreat before Harrison’s army after on Lake Perry’s decisive victory Erie until he became disgusted with the British commander and to retreat farther declining forced Proctor to make a stand river near the Thames on the Ontario present site of Chatham sure that Even then he was not could he if Proctor would fight ‘ avoid it British the of His low opinion commander was soon Justified At the first attack by Harrisons fled to Ms cartroops Proctor his per riage accompanied by tonal stall a When the some mounted Indians the BritAmerican cavalry broke lmme- ish line Proctor’s soldier their amts down threw diately Within five was after the first shot was force British fired the were prismost of them Turtle Jn was the situ Before the Thames rom an old wood cot) the battle Tecumseh with a presentiment of disaster had told his fi lends that he would never leave the battlefield alive So he bad laid aside his British general’s uniform and gone into action diessed in his native costume Under his leadership the Indians stoutly resisted the onslaught of Col Richard M Johnson’s mounted men and it was not until Tecumseh fell that the savages at last gave way Who Killed Tecumseh? The slayer of the Shawnee chieftain is unknown Since there was nothing in his dress to distinguish him from any other war- - $Jut“ °nVery different when lh Kc Indians men struck the of IlDoist Trimming Stars Chaplin's Find Hidden Ambitions poetic tribute by one of Ohio’s vharles A Jones early bards was the author of th® WATSON history of Tecumseh in 1768 when the wife of ef Puckeshinwau of the Shawls in the Indian village of Plus on the Mad river near the Ohio resent site of Springfield One of ave birth to twin sons lem was given the name of referring to a dance instrumattle or some similar ent Later he would take the ame of Tenskwatawa meaning Open Door through which he ould lead his people to a new nd better life The whites would whose now him as The Prophet as a demagogue when comined with the statesmanship and lilitary genius of his brother ould be one of the most serious of ireats to white domination ie Middle West that it had ever of the greatness the fact that despite pioneerprejudice against the Indian he was the subject of a TECUMSEH ' p4$sin9 ' American History" But Also I Reputed Slayer of Tecumseh V Indicative Tecumseh j rior no one on the American side knew when he fell or whose bullet it was that killed him But that did not prevent several Americans from claiming that “honor” In fact the question “Who killed Tecumseh?" became a famous one to American political history When Col Richard M Johnson was a candidate for vice president in 1836 his partisans who hailed him as “The Hero of the Thames" claimed that he was the slayer of the Shawnee chieftain because to those days success as an Indian fighter was a strong recommendation for political preferment The claim of Johnson’s followers was based upon the fact that during the battle of the Thames he had killed an Indian supposed to be a chief who had wounded him and was advancing upon him with upraised tomahawk when the Kentuckian shot the Indian with his pistol They asserted that this chief was Tecumseh Johnson Claims Corroborated More than half a century later what appears to be a corroboration of the claims of the Johnson partisans appeared to the In a letter Century magazine to the editor of the Century Benjamin B Griswold of Carroll asserted that to 1842 he was Md present when Johnson gave an account of the incident and "remarked that for some time a doubt had existed whether the Indian killed wtfs really the formidable cMet or not but he added in terms entirely unqualified that circumdeveloped recently stances had removed all uncertainty as to this fact He gave no information showing what circumstances had determined his question but simply spoke with positiveness on the subject" This resulted to another letter written by D B Cook editor of tellthe Niles (Mich) Mirror ing of an interview he had had with Noon Day chief of the OtHe said Noon to 1838 tawa Day had told him that he was near Tecumseh when he was slain and had helped carry his body from the field Later when Noon Day was taken to Washington by Gen Lewis Cass to see the “Great Whitt Father” President Van Buren and was introduced to Vice President Johnson he recognized him immediately as the man he had seen shoot So it Tecumseh at the Thames hat entire probable seems Johnson was the slayer ol the leader Shawnee great Where rolls the dark and turbid Thames His consecrated wave along Sleeps one than whose few are the names More worthy of the lyre and song Yet o’er whose spot of lone repose No pilgrim eyes are seen to weep And no memorial marble throws Its shadows where his ashes sleep Stop sti anger1 there Tecumseh lies Behold the low testing place Of all that of the hero dies The Caesar — Tully— of his race Whose arm of strength and fiery tongue Have won turn an immortal name And from the mouths of millions wrung Reluctant tribute to his fame Stop — for ’tis glory claims thy tear! True worth belongs to all mankind And he whose ashes slumber here Though man tn form was god m mind What matter he was not like these In race and color— this the soul That marks man’s true divinity— Then let not shame thy ear control Art thou a patriot?— so was he! His breast was Freedom's holiest shrine And as thou bendest there thy knee His spirit will unite with thine All that a man can give he gave— His life— the country of his sires From the oppressor’s grasp to save In vain — quenched are the nation’s fires Art thou a soldier? Dost thou not O’er deeds chivalric love to muse? Here stay thy steps— what better spot Couldst thou for contemplation choose? The earth beneath is holy ground It holds a thousand valiant braves Tread lightly o'er each little mound For they are no ignoble graves Thermopylae and Marathon Though classic earth can boast no more Of deeds heroic than yon tun Once saw upon this lonely shore When to a gallant nation's last And deadliest struggle for its own Tecumseh’s fiery spirit pass’d In blood and sought its Father’s throne Oh softly fail the summer dew The tears of heaven upon his sod For he to life and death was true Both to his country and his God For oh if God to man has given From his bright home beyond the skies One feeling that's akin to heaven 'Tis he who for his country dies Rest warrior rest! Though not a dirge Is thine beside the wailing blast Time cannot to oblivion merge The light thy star of glory cast WMle heave yon high hills to the sky While rolls yon dark and turbid river Thy name and fame can never di-e- Whom freedom forever loves will live Discounting the sentimentality of that poem so characteristic of the period to American lltera- - By Virginia Valr PITTS has been having lot of fun on her personal tour and has appearance learned a good many things about her own box office value ASU She has brought crowds to the theaters where she has appeared and motion picture exhave told hibitors her that it hasn't been fault that they haven't shown her pictures They've begged for them Any pictuie that she is in makes money for them it seems no matter who else appears with her “But you just haven’t been makMiss Pitts" ing any pictures to her said they There's a good reason why Miss Pitts hasn’t been making pictures these last months A number of other actors also big ones haven’t been making pictures either Not that she hasn’t been offered roles that she really wanted to play But the companies who sent for her wanted to cut her salary to the bone These days the big money is it seems to go to newlikely comers to the screen— foreign importations cute girls who are being built up Some of the big players have to swallow their pride and do and take the cut others stay off the screen Maybe that’s why you’ve been missing some of your favorites Miss Pitts has two opportunities to make her debut to New York as an actress one la a musical ahow that because of its authors la practically sure to be a hit the other to a play If her husband and children weren’t ao firmly established In California aha wouldn’t hesitate about accepting one — — Remember passing mention that was made here some time ego of Charlie Chaplin’s new screen find Dorothy Comtogore? 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