Show BABE DADE RESCUED IN SIOUX MASSACRE Squaw Saves Childs Child's Life anc and Sells Him to a Family In Canada t NO JO KNOWLEDGE OF KIN ClaiM Child Gro s Gro to Manhood mill and DIlS DIl'S Without Learning Learning- of His Ills Pa rents Mankato Mum Minn lInn April 10 Stran 10 Stranger or than fiction lellon Is Its the story of or Charles Merrick 1 who sho when a toddling babe of 2 yen years escaped death at al the hands of or the time In- In hans llana as by b a n miracle and thought b by Ms mis relatives e to be he dead was unknown to them heni hit all ll of oC his life lire and passed massed away awn riot not knowing where lila his eel rel- were and the they I Ignorant of his exIstence cx- cx These relatives cs are arc scattered Minnesota lInne ta and the they timey will not know the time fact of or the time escape of Charles lerrick until the they read the time story of oC his strange e ca case e. e Tho stor story was told for Cor the first time timey hy y Ed Andrews until recent recently at the time end hend of oC an opera company lie learned he the story while at Albert In the territory where a n short time timea a igo go o his company played Since retiring from rom the time operatic business to live lI a quiet t t- t cr jr r life In Oregon he has taken time to his former Cormer home and relatives la tn his this city elU and amI to search for tor the time relatives oC if I Charles Merick Ier who In the car early days das raided In this vicinity The Time tale Is a elrd one and seldom had luaU Its counter counter- pl art lart rt James Stewart a frontiersman and In- In Ian llan trader Irader who for three fifty years fars has Imas been con employed b by the time Hudson Bay flay Fur our company and his wife wife good good Scotch oco- oco reside plc ilc reside at Prince Albert and It was received the Crom rom roni them that Andrews acts mets here re related When the they learned that mat ho was from Mankato and that he lie head had ad known the time Merricks the they were over over- Dyed Joyed S Brings White hite Child Chilli The Time Stewarts nt nl the time time lime of the Sioux In when a n considerable part art o of Minnesota was devastated b by the a and hundreds of oC whites were lain ln am lived at Winnipeg then consist consist- In ip g of oC a few Cew stores and residences being Lila tittle more than a n trading post One eyen- eyen even even- I ing a band of or Sioux that had been driven across the time border bordel after aCter the operations of tho the troops from Fort Snelling against th them m. m came to his dwelling for supplies A squaw had a s old 2 white child which when set sel down on the ground round ran to Mrs Irs Stewart cr crying ln the En English lIsh word which she knew mamma Mrs Stewart fed the time child and anti when simen the time In Indians Indians In- In retired It clung to her sobbing and had to be torn awn away by hy the time squaw Mra Stewart was a kind hearted woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man and recalled the time Incident several times limes during the night remarking to Her lier husband that the they ought to have kept the child In the time morning morning- the tho squaw re returned returned returned re- re turned with the bAb baby and the time latter a again aln run ran to Mrs Stewart with outstretched aims mit-ma Mrs i Stewart as she hall had done the evening evening- before asked time the Indian woman woman woman wo wo- man who time tile childs child's parent were Vero and where its Hs home bome bad imad been The on only rc- rc I ly ivaa a.- a. au the of-the head hend and U Dont Don't know Mrs Mra Stewart bargained for the child chIlli and obtained It for forn supply of bacon bacon ba ba- ba- ba con comm and flour valued at 5 She brought the lad up imp as ns ono one of or her own children I Tell Tell- the Bo Boys Boy's s gl Eight hl years later the time same Sarno squaw re re- re turned bJ begging food rood and amI Mr Stewart offered offered- her a liberal reward If Ir she dime would impart the time secret of or the childs child's residence and ami parentage This the time Indian consented to after aCter receiving a liberal supply supply sup sup- pl ply of or bacon and flour She said that the time Indians had massacred the ti-me entire family o of one Charles at Lac Lae qui Parle Pane Minn except this child and that when the time latter had nm run to her for protection she nbc he had laud placed It on her back and anti carried It on foot all Ill the time way to nm She hp knew more about lil time the child i than this timis Mr Stewart wrote to the time postmaster at Lac qui Parle asking about tho time matter matterand and th time the account o of the time massacre was verified except t that hat till the postmaster said that it had imad always been Iwen supposed the time en entire entire entire en- en tire family had been n killed He lie did not know of ort an any relatives that the time family had Time The Stewarts were never nt able to learn more of oC the time boys boy's relatives and ancl raised him as os their own son Kon giving him the time name of Charles Charls Merrick Stewart Time The young man maim graduated from the University Uni Ummi- ver verity df Manitoba and fitted himself for or a profession but hut his health failed and amid he went vent to San Francisco hoping to regain re ro- ro- ro gain lila his strength cs Arc tre Traced lie He became a stenographer and umI court reporter and amid later died at San Francisco of or consumption A few Cew hours hour before Ins his death he lie wrote a touching letter to Mrs OlES Stewart expressing his imis appreciation m o of oC what the family had timid done for him Mrs Irs Stewart told of or this with tears streaming down dowum tier ber face Cace She had loved the time ho boy boyS boyna na as S one of her sons Investigation by Mr Andrews shows that the time families of Charles and amid Samuel Merrick In time the CDs OOs lived at Traverse des Sioux near St St. Peter wh whore e they con con- a store In lam a lars large ack building They were traders Charles Merrick Merrick Mer- Mer rick moved to Lac qui tune where althe all al the time family was massacred except the time baby that kind hearted squaw protected |