| Show early chicago from the inter ocean mr gordon II the oldest settler of chicago now living recently delivered a lertura at the st matthews reformed episcopal church on my first year in the indian country he said there had been a in the announcement and hia lecture would not be upon early chicago but a ample narrative of his first years experience exper ienco in the indian country he wu not a lecturer bad never befaro tried to lecture and did not think it worth while to enter the field and try to learn at this day when he was seventy eight yeara old it was in 1818 that he a boy of 16 years entered the employ of the american fur company at montreal as a clerk to trade among the indians of the he was ahe youngest of the band cent out and it was to be bia first absence from home each blerk was allowed a small chest large elough to store acty one suit of clothes and in bis chest was a swallow tail coat the firel he ever had a great deal too big for him as was the vest and pinta loong but he was expected to grow and fill them out on the of may the clerks in charge of W W matthews and win Wall embarked on the st liw rance for the wet they were to go to the headd of the company and report to robert stewart manager on the liot their fare consi ate I of pea soup and ball pork the description of the trip up the st Lawrenc pat the rate of fio aleo a day with the crew wading half the time and puiking hiie boats against alio swift stream vai and iras followed by the globy faction and OF HALF THE before the arrival at goose hear mackinaw in time to celebrate he glorious fourth on the land bill in a very quiet manner at this i dand were the of the american fur company II 11 ere he took hi irl leison in indian trading and in a short time was detail ed to fd to the regions of the lake of the wood but in the meantime his father had been appointed T tutorial judge of arkansas and atari ed froia montreal to tho scene of hia official duties that he onig it nerive in limo for the fill f ill term ot court A wast oui to start from mackinaw Marki naw to st loin i and the youna indian trader relieved his cupo n nent to the wood mal il 10 go alte goldien Eol dien jphn II 11 km zie wui then at ali i pu aad hain a letter of atohi living at and alio atari was when they reached they on the bau or the river whore state street now ahe stream and he called upon mr Kinzie and wa kindly into the fancily fani ily but the light of mrs kin iio aud hr daughters the biral women he hil spoken to in monti iB made bini aud he died like a c bild lild they remained in chicago a week and then on their journey again dragging their boats through mud lake since known as adens ditch to gel to the Desplain eg river when they reached peoria they found fort dark on alre and a band of indians in their war dunces one ot these insisted that mr hubbard was not a canadian but an ameri en and him sw ingine a of in hia face and threatening lo 10 take his until he became no enraged that ho a shotgun shot gun and TO KILL THE but mr DiM champs the man in charge of the expedition knocked the gun ou and it ex io the air without hurting any one after this unpleasant oc carreno cur reno it was thought bato an immediately toward st louis which placa they in a week or two he town then had rubout TOO and after hunting over the whole place and questioning every other nun ho met ha found lia anther who hd pot on hi journey was the lot almo he ever saw hi v ho died ii on on tha wy baak to mckina he to an village where be wilnA ed an indian execution of a murderer the murderer was u cna dlin louan but had married anio tan in a drunken dpree be killed ft on of the chief and as he hotd not property to ransom himself lio would lave to death and led from justice lie took his cami ly and quietly left camp for a di s tant part of the engaged in trapping with tho ep eota lion money to pay tl bauboin in the airing he wag not and nearly starved custom to visit vengeance on tho ution rution r of the felon in oae he escaped aud the chief had nod to take tho life of one of the brothers of the indic bertra wife ahe brothen knew the of their bieter and her husband hut bound by an oath not to reveal the hiding to aavo one of tho br othera promised to hunt for and find the murderer or give up hia own lie ite went t his law and told him what had heen done and liko a brave man TUB rilO TO it aka the morning of ahi return that tho company eui and trailers visited the village and out in an space at tho chief and hia family while tho arbo wore gathered around in alio digance di tance waa beard tho dull found of the indian drum and tb death ng chanted by the murderer ai be advanced to his execution ui family were with him and they marched up to abo chief abo indiala banded to the chief the knife saying chief here is the knife with which I murdered your BOB ie provoked proTo ked uie by calling me a coif ard and an old woman and I killed him I am now ready to die by the lame weapon the chief took the knife handed it to hii BOH and told him to avenge big broU rrt death there was ot a u tb young indian steppe I bojt in front of the murderer who tood calm and revolute reio lute the knife wa lifted ia and into the breaid f the con damned man and then withdrawn followed by the hot lifeblood life blood there was not a groan or a sound made bu t the indian stood for a moment as his blood poured from ake wound and then fell dad the wife and children bad kept quiet until hewak dead and then threw themselves on the body in a of grief the chief approached the woman nd bai her husband had been a brave man and died like a brave he then adopted her and her chil dren telling them to make their home with the tribe mr II taid he should never forget this first execution which be looked upon as BO horrible ue returned to hay lat and resigned that was hii first years in the indian country |
