Rice County, Minnesota - Chapter 44: Princirai. Events Ohkonolotiloaiiljt Arranged, 1882

Chapter 44: Princirai. Events Ohkonolotiloaiiljt Arranged

1680. Du Luth, the first to travel in a canoe from Lake Superior, by way of the St. Croix river, to the Mississippi. Descending the Mississippi, he writes to Signelay, 1688: "I proceeded in a canoe two days and two nights, and the next day, at ten o'clock in the morning, found Accoult, Augelle, and Father Hennepin, with a hunting party of Sioux." He writes: "The want of respect which they showed to the said Reverend Father provoked me, and this I showed them, telling them he was my brother, and I had placed him in my canoe to come with me into the villages of said Nadouecioux." In September, Du Luth and Hennepin w«re at the Falls of St. Anthony on their way to Mackinaw.

1683. Perrot and Le Sueur visit Lake Pepin. Perrot, with twenty men, builds a stockade at the base of a bluff, upon the east bank, just above the entrance of Lake Pepin.

Laidlow, superintendent of farming tor Earl Selkirk, passes from Pembina to Prairie du Chien to purchase seed wheat. Upon the 15th of April, left Prairie du Chien with Mackinaw boats and ascended the Minnesota to Big Stone Lake, where the boats were placed on rollers and dragged a short distance to Lake Traverse, and on the 3d of June reached Pembina.

1825. April 5th, steamboat Rufus Putnam reaches the Fort. May, steamboat Rufus Putnam arrives again and delivers freight at Land's End trading post on the Minnesota, about a mile above the Fort.

May 2d, first steamboat of the season, the Lawrence, Captain Reeder, took a pleasure party to within three' miles of the Falls of St. Anthony.

1827. Flat Mouth's party of Ojibways attacked at Fort Snelling, and Sioux delivered by Colonel Snelling to be killed by Ojibways, and their bodies thrown over the bluff into the river.

Major Taliaferro, Indian agent, establishes a farm for the benefit of the Indians at Lake Calhoun, which he called Eatonville, after the Secretary of War.

Winter, Spring and Summer very dry. One inch was the average monthly fall of rain or snow tor ten months. Vegetation more backward than it had been for ten years.

1830. August 14th, a sentinel at Fort Snelling, just before daylight, discovered the Indian council house on fire. Wa-pa-sha's son-in-law was the incendiary.

1831. August 17th, an old trader Rocque, and his son arrived at Fort Suelling from Prairie du Chien, having been twenty -six days on the journey. Under the influence of wliisky or stupidity, they ascended the St. Croix by mistake, and were lost for fifteen days.

1838. April, Hole-in-the-Day and party kill thirteen of the Lac-cjui-parle Sioux. Blartin Mc- Leod from Pembina, after twenty-eight days of exposure to snow, reaches Lake Traverse.

July 12th, steamboat Palmyra arrives at Fort Snelling with an official notice of the ratification of treaty. Men arrived to develop the St. Croix Valley.

August 2d, Hole-in the-Day encamped with a party of Cbippeways near Fort Snelling, and was attacked by Sioux from Mud Lake, and one killed and another wounded.

October 26th, steamboat Gypsy first to arrive at Falls of St. Croix with annuity goods for the Cbippeways. In pa.ssing tlirougb Lake St. Croix grounded near the townsite laid out by S. 0. Stambaugh and called Stambaughville.

May 2d, Rev. E. G. Gear, of the Protestant Episcopal church, recently ai)poiuted chaplain, arrived at Fort Suelling in thesteanilioat Gipsy.

June 12th, at Lake Harriet mission. Rev. D. Gavin, Swiss missionary among the Sioux at Red Wing, was married to Cordelia Stevens, teacher at Lake Harriet mission.

Chronology

May 24th, Sioux attack Chippeways at Lake Pokeguma, of Snake river. Methodist mission moved from Kaposia to Ked Eock, Kev. B. F. Kavenaugh, superintendent.

November 1st, Father Galtier completes the log chapel of St. Paul, which gave the name to the capital of Minnesota. Kev. Augustin Bavoux arrives.

1844. August, Captain Allen with fifty dragoons marches from Fort Des Moines through southwestern Minnesota, and on the 10th of September reaches the Big Sioux River. Sisseton war party kill an .American named Watson, driving cattle to Fort Snelling.

1846. Dr. Williamson, Sioux missionary, moves from Lac-qui-parle to Kaposia. March 31st, steamboat Lynx, Ca])t. Atchinson, arrives at Fort Snelling.

1847. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, organized. Stillwater the county seat. Harriet E. Bishop establishes a school at St. Paul. Saw-miUs begun at St. Anthony Falls.

August, Commissioner Verplanck and Henry M. Rice make treaties with the Chippeways at Fond du Lac and Leech Lake. The town of St. Paul surveyed, jilatted, and recorded in the St. Croix county Register of Deeds office.

1871. .January, Wm. Windom elected United States Senator. In the fall destructive fires, occasioned by high winds, swept over frontier counties.

November, amendment to State constitution, allowing any women twenty-one yeai'sof age to vote for school officers, and to be eligible for school offices. Rocky Mountain locusts destroy crops in southwestern Minnesota.

1879. November, State constitution amended forbidding public moneys to be used for the support of schools wherein the distinctive creeds or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect are taught. J. H. Stewart, M. D., elected to congress. Biennial sessions of the legislature adopted.

May 2d, explosion in the Washburn and other (lour mills at Minneapolis. (_)ne hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated to purchase seed grain for destitute settlers.