Show CHIEFS CHIEF'S GRA GRAVE VB WASHED AWAY Learn Mystery of Tecum- Tecum Tecumseh's Tecumseh's seh's seh's Resting Besting Place n Ij By JAI Special JA WIl iun S lal Correspondent of 01 o The Copyright lUG l by The Th Consoli- Consoli Consolidated C dated oll-dated dated Press Pros Association WARDSVILLE O Oat t July 3 1 Out Out ot oC the th e 9 oC o a 4 a century a redskin hu hf spoken lo lo- lilt lift Ille en the spot hither hither To T um bi Indian war war- warnor war nor prophet renowned In North n oni And Dd tory story lot was was thC he delu years year ears ng apo o with with- with with-a IL bullet from the gun un ot an n American colonel lodged in his hi breast Chief of o tho th Walpole Island l nd who says ys 76 years year ye r ago ato his hl hi passed on the th tribal secret con con- concerning concerning con Tecumseh who tell fell In the war ot of 1812 without realizing his dream of ot an Indian pole to stem Item the tho th march ot of the pale lace face has haa ha Indicated the th suppo supposed ed d spot pot long lone jealously j l guarded from Irom the whit hite mans mans man's ken its His story was wal told to a Canadian newspaper newspaperman newspaperman nun man A A C C Carty GRAVE CRAVE WASHED AWAY AWAT It was as 01 from the th grave on n the banks ot of o the th Tham Thames 1 riter SO tomile miles front Irom rom Detroit and a mile west ot of o Ward In western Ontario that the th renowned Shaw Shaw- Shaw floe noo brave braT is II I said Mid to have hav entered the happy appy hunting ground Today no totem pole pol In tribute No bones ere sero er found neither was there ther evidence of o the pipe and tomahawk k burled with according to tradition The Th streams ot of a cen- cen century century cen century tury have hav eaten away the th embank embank- embankment ment An old pIece ot of o horn horns was wa the only evidence 0 picked up by Carty From where here the searchers searcher stood Blood tood a WOo wood that should have covered ered the south bank has baa become II a clad clad turf clearing An old oak was gone ton ono from th the th- west nest brink of otan an old ravine An old log lot house of 01 a pioneer that should ha hae e stood on the th north aide ld of o the road near at hand was waa nowhere to tobe tobe tok be seen The river flowed with Ith only a 0 ripple where there th should have been the tb rapids rapid end and ford across which old grandfather and another warrior had carried the th body ot of their leader r At least SO 60 feet tet of ot the th taco face ac ot of the cliff clift was gone rone Probably Te- Te Tecumseh Te went down with the th clay clayto to be washed down downS stream stream past the battle batti field where rl r be b met methis his death and on Into Lake St Clair that Is la It K the tho th tra- tra tra tradition ditton Is II the th answer to the th riddle of his burial place But the while fearing lie he Is II gone rone stilt sUll bold to the th pos pos- pos I that his bones are In the little clearing breaking oft off at atthe atthe the present brink of o the th cliff WOULD r FIGHT AGAIN Old Chief being being an Indian Is a confirmed traditionalIst 1 traditional traditional- 1st L His jig tory not that of o the printed page par but that ot of the tb lore Jore gathered front the th pow wows around the th fireside lie He H still lUll trav trav- tra travels v els eta In la spirit th the trackless range ot of the th N North rth American continent once the redskin domain Te- Te Tecumseh Tecumseh T to him him himI Is I more mor than a beloved hero chieftain hero ho h hr i crouching star atar or panther Ho He H could journey lourney with him In memory through Florida Georgia Ia North Carolina Indiana Ohio and adjoining states once one the roving grounds ot of the Shawnees whose spirit was Shawn the th Spill of ot the th south Ho He could still fight on the banks of the th Wabash But those thosa thos are oth other r- r daT though today as he wistfully stands on the tb terrain overlooking the Thames he h hoOke Ills his bronzed fist fiat and exclaims If It we w e had money would fight fl ht |