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Show The Spanish Flag In Kansas. In the northwestern part of Republic Repub-lic county, Kansas, on tho sito of an old Pawneo Indian village, stands a granite monument erected by tho state, commomorating a unique Incident Inci-dent In American history. Hero on September 29, 1806, Gen. Zcbulon Pike, leading a straggling band of American soldiers on an f.plorlng expedition ex-pedition through the unknown country coun-try beyond the Mississippi river, came upon a Pawnee viuago m wmca Spanish flag was flying. After much maneuvering and almost at the point of the bayonet Pike forced the Indians, who outnumbered his nd ton to one, to haul down the flag and hoist the Stars and Stripes in its place. |