YRS IR Rar TAR, Pa — By ELMO SCOTT WATSON RY {to little picture a frame a few city only great where ceases day But out here these lost in the never X 7 night. sounds are muffled and pling of the stream and of the wind in the branches elms and maples around the ‘here sits a gray-haired woman, dimmed and head bowed by the weight of nearly a hundred years, dreaming perhaps of the fa ther's people ru which but few {to venture. That was might have Cook county CAgo Rager, or the Pottawatordies, tawas, made her home for more than three-quarters of a century. The other day she slipped quietly into end less sleep and her death snapped the last link between the modern metrop- iis, and the little stockaded Fort Dearborn from which it It was the la of the Dearborn mi frontier edy which in the history of the curiously Fort William Henry the East, which forms climax in “Last of the Mohicans.” For her father, Alexander of the friendly Pottaw: chiefs whose friendship for the wl saved one of utter horror, was a half-breed, the trader and an Ottawa In who was born at Mackinac, 1780. He made his home mother’s people and other confederated 1 by “Mad Anthony” Wayne at Battle of Fallen Timbers In 1704. Al though he was only five years old at the time Robinson retained a vivid recollection of what he on that memorable and In vears often told his thrilling story his white friends. Latér he married a Pottawatomie woman and bee chief of that tribe. rip- the murmur of the house, eyes long ago when her led a white wilderness into it men had dared the picture which you seen until recently in the forest preserve near Chi- Mrs, Mary Robinson daughter of Alexander Robin- Cheg-Chu-Pin-Quay, where § , chief of Chippewas and Ot- 0nN Chicago, Fort trag st echo, too, iSsacTe, an West is analagous to the massacre in the Cooper's was one that bloody affair from a Scotch dian woman, Mich., in with his son of and saw thes crushed |aw occasion to ent site of Chicago in 1803. formed a fast friendship Kinzie, often called “the Chicago,” a trader and who settled near Fort He with John father of silversmith Ivearborn in probably influenced him role which he did on the of August 15, 1812, For some time previous to the mas- gacre the little garrison commanded by Capt. Nathan Heald had been alarmed by various hostile acts of the Indians who were hanging around the post, but affairs did net become threatening until the middle of the summer. Then on August 0 Heald re- ceived orders from General Hull at Detroit to evacuate the post, degtroy the arms and ammunition, Sati ats the stores from the government fac- tory among the friendly Indians and proceed to Fort Wayne, Ind. Although Heald realized fully how perilous the execution of this order would be, he had no other choice but to obey. So the evacuation of the fort was planned for August 15. to play the fateful day In the Capt. William Wells, a famous frontiersman who had scouted for Wayne, hastened to Dear- born from Fort Wayne With 15 friend- | ly Miami Indians to escort command to the post in Wells’ niece, wis Heald's wife, and Wells well the temper of the Ind Fort Dearborn, was willing life, if need be. The day the evacuation the goods were distributed among the In- dians who had begun to swarm around | the post as soon as the news that it | wis to be abandoned had spread, all of the extra ammunition large store of whisky were destroyed. Although It is virtually certain that | Heald's command would have been at- tacked anyway, this destruction so In- furiated the Indians that meantime Indiana. | Wells, | . knowing | inns around | to risk his favorite Rebekah before but | and a the garri-| That evening Black Partridge, al friendly Pottawatomie chief, came to | Heald and warned him that his young warriors were bent on mischief and he probably could not restrain | But it was too lute then to turn back. The next morning there issued forth from the fort “the saddest procession Michigan avenue has ever known" the garrison of Fort Dearborn march- | to what they realized was their | the head of the column | rode Captain Wells, his face painted | black in anticipation of his fate, Next came the regular soldiers and in the | rear, in wagons, rode the women and | children, guarded by the citizens who | had been | as militia. A mile of the fort the In- dians, hidden among the sand hills, | attacked. The struggie was brief, but in the short time it lasted there were deeds of heroism which would fill | volumes, enrolled by and a half south Heald When the battle was over, 20 reg- militia, 2 women and children were dead and the re. of the Indians as prisoners. Captain Heald had surrendered to Black Bird, the principal Pottawatomie chief, when he saw that further resistance was use- they were overcome, Both he and his wife were badly wounded, Some of the prisoners were tortured to death that night and others saved for ransom, Among the latter were Captain and Mrs. Heald, because the Indians realized that they could de- mand a large sum of money for the commander, and they were turned over to Alexander Robinson, The next day their captors set out for the St. Joseph river in Michigan where the Healds were lefi.in the cus- tody of a few Indians while the other Indians sped away to take part in an attack on Fort Wayne. In their ab- gence, a chance to escape presented itself. Alexander Robinson was prevailed upon to conduct them to Mackinac in his birchbark canoe, for which serv- ice Heald was to pay him a hundred danger to returned 8) reg himself when rarding the his tribesmen caped, Robinson, accompanied by his 300-mile journey, the entire length and after 16 days ar- where the Healds were turned over to the British com- mander, Captain Roberts. They were They Lake paddled of Michigan Louisville, The Ky. Indians had burned Fort Dear after but it rebuilt in Robinson again made home near the fort and became known as 8 steadfast friend of the whites. At the outbreak of the Winne- bago war in 1827 it was due to his efforts and to those of two other Pot- tawatomie chiefs, Si and Saug- anash (Billy Caldwell), that the Pot- tawantomles did not join the Winne- bagoes and attack Fort Dearborn. 1832 Robinson held his tribesmen in check when they would have joined Black Hawk, the Sac leader, in hig war against the whites. Instead of turning hostile, Robinson and some of his warriors served as scouts for the armies of General At- ich final- Robinson Lewis the 1816, MARSACTS, was iabbona Again in Black Hawk. in 1820 and his name appears on the two treaties of Prairie du Chien of 1820 and 1534. By these treaties the sum of £5,000 was granted to Robinson for his serv. fees to the whites and each of his chil- dren, a son and two daughters, was given $400. In addition he was given a large tract of land on the Desplaines river near Chicago and there he lived until his death in 1872. His wife and son died the next year and the land came into the possession of his daugh- ter, Mary Robinson, who had married Francis Rager, a trader, Later the principal part of the land was purchased by Cook county to be used as a forest preserve, but acres, time. 75 years on the border of civilization but utterly apart from it. During all her lifetime she never rode In a street car or automobile and during the last 80 years of it she never vis the ting fragment of the wlliderness forgotten past until last chapter of Indian history in the old Northwest, Better Than Farce The commercial traveler found himself stranded In a manufacturing town in Lancashire and decided to visit the local music hall. He found the place closed, however, On the way home he ‘happened to pass a large hall whence issued roar after roar of hilarfous laughter. He walked up to the entrance and in. quired of the doorkeeper what was taking, place, “Amateur dramatic society, explained the doorman, “Ah” sald the other, as there came another burst of laughter, “doing a comedy, eh?” “No, sir,” came the grim retort, “they're doing ‘Macbeth’ !"-London Answers, sir,” Eat Eels and Live Long Baron Kihachiro Okura's retire. ment at the age ‘of ninely-one brings to light an important fact. He at. tributes his longevity to a diet of rice and eels. 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