~The Cen
CHAS. R. KURTZ, Proprietor.
HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Logan, the Famous Indian Chief,
Murdered in Ohio.
A FRIEND OF THE SETTLERS
Remarkable Speech by the Old Chief in
which he Laments the Loss of the
the most of his Kindred
bution from F. P. Green
(Chief Logan, mentioned in the follow
ing narrative, is the same who had a |
wigwam in this section and fora time
went back and forth over
comprising Nittany, Bala Eagle, Penn
Kishaquoquillas vallies.
were named Logans Gap, Logans Spring,
Logavos Branch, &c. In a future chapter
we will furnish other interesting inci.
dents concerning the great Logan.)
In the immediate vicinity of Reedsville,
is Logan's Spring, named after the sec. |
ond son of Shicalamy, a distinguished
Indian chief, who died at Shamokin in
1749. Logan resided here for some time,
whose family was afterwards cruelly
murdered, at Baker's, near the mouth of
Yellow creek, on the Ohio river, above
Wheeling, as appears from the follow-
ing :—
**About the latter end of April or be.
ginning of Mav, 1774, I lived on the
waters of Cross creek, about 16 miles
from Joshua Baker, who lived on the
Ohio, opposite the mouth of Yellow
creek. A number of persons collected
at my honse, and proceeded to said
Baker's and murdered several! Indians,
amoung whom was a woman said to be
the sister of the Indian chief, Logan.
The principal leader of the party was
Danie! Greathouse. To the best of my
recollection, the cause which gave rise
to the murder was, a general idea that
the Indians were meditating an attack
on the froatiers. Captain Michael Cres-
sap was not of the party ; but I recollect
that some time before the perpetration
of the above act, it was currently report.
ed that Captain Cressap had murdered
some Indians on the Ohio, one or two,
some distance below Wheeling.
Certified by me, an inhabitant of Shel.
by county and State of Kentucky, this
15th day of Nov. 1
799
CHARLES PoLKR.
On the 15th day of
dentally the
Baker, the person referred
Nov 1799, I acci-
met upon road, Joshua
to ia the cer.
tiicate signed by Polke, who informed
me that the the
1774, opposite mouth
creek, was perpetrated at his house by
thirty-two led by Daniel Great.
house ; that twelve were killed and six
or eight wounded
a sister and other relations of the Indian
chief, Logan. Baker, says, Captain Mich.
ael Cressap was not of the party; that
some days preceeding the murder at his
bouse, two Indians left him and were on
their way home ; that they fell in with
Capt. Cressap and a party of land 1m.
provers on the Ohio, and were murdered,
if not by Cressap himself, with his appro-
bation ; by being the leader of the party,
and that he had this information from
Cressap
murder of Indians in
the of Yellow
men,
among the slain was
HARRY INNns.
The following extract from John Sap-
pingtou’s statement, proves conclusively
that Logan's family was not killed below
Wheeling, as Dav, in his Historical Col-
lections of Pa. states (p. 468.)
“Logan's family (if it was his family,)
was not killed by Cressap, nor with his
knowledge, nor by his consent, but by
the Greathouses and their associates.
They were killed 30 miles above Wheel.
ing, near the mouth of Yellow creek.”
Jefferson's of Virginia, Appendix p
30-'46
Nore. —Logan’s people were killed at
the mouth of Yellow creek, on the 24th
of May, 1774 —CoMPILER.
In the autumn of the same year, Log
an was urged by the Indians, who were
anxious to be relieved from Lord Dun.
more’'s army, who had waged war
against them, he sent his speech, in a
belt of wampum, to be delivered to Dun.
more, by a faithful interpreter, Under
an oak, still standing in a field of one
Wolf, seven miles from Circleville, Ohio,
fo a southern direction, the following
speech was delivered by the person who
carried the wampum, It is a pure,
native specimen of heartstiridng and
soul-moving eloquence :
“I appeal,” says Logan, ‘to any white
man, to say, if he ever entered Logan's
cabin hungry, and he gave him not
meat ; If he came naked and cold, and 1
clothed him not. During the last, long
and bloody war, Logan remained idle,
in his cabin, an advocate of peace. Such
was my love for the whites, that wy
countrymen, as they passed, said ‘Logan
Is the friend of the whites.’ I had thought
of living 1::cng you, but for the mjuries
of one mau, Captain Cressap, last
spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked,
-Contri- |
the country |
After this chief |
i
| murdered allthe relations of Logan, aot
| sparing even my women and children, |
| There runs not one drop of my blood in |
| any living creature. This called on me
| for revenge: I have sought it, I have
| killed many; I have fully glutted my |
| vengeance. For my country, I rejoice
in the beams of peace. Bul, do not har. |
| bor the thought, that mine is the joy of
| fear,
| not turn on his heel to save his life.
He will
Who
| is there to mourn for Logan? Not one!”
Logan pever felt fear,
(Logan had been misinformed, in part,
as to the leader of those who murdered
{ bis family ; it was not Capt, Cressap, but
Daniel Greathouse and his associates.)
John a distinguished
Moravian Missionary, says, ‘About the
year 17
Heckewelder,
72, logan was introduced to me
by an Indian friend, as son to the late
reputable chief, Shikelemus, and as a
triend to the white people. In the course
of conversation, I thought him a man of
superior talents, than Indians generally
were. The subject turning on vice and
| immorality, he confessed his too great
share of this, especially his fondness for
liquor. He exclaimed against the white
people, for imposing liquors upon the
Indians; he otherwise admired their in-
genuity ; spoke Yi gentlemen, but ob-
served the Indians unfortunately had
but few of these neighbors, &c. He
spoke of his friendship to the white
people, wished always to be a neighbor
| to them, tended to settle on the Ohio,
below Big Beaver; was (to the best of
my recollection) then encamped at the
mouth of this river, (Beaver) urged me
to pay him a visit. I was then living at
the Moravian town on this river, in the
neighborhood of Cuskuskee. In April,
773. while on passage the
Obio for Muskingum, I called at Logan's
my down
settlement, where [ received every civility
I could expect from such of the family
as were at home,
“Indian logan,
after the death of his family, ran to this:
reports concerning
that he exerted himself during the Shaw.
aunese war (then so called) take all
the revenge he could, declaring he had
lost all confidence in the white people
to
At the time of negotiation, he declared
his reluctance to lay down the hate het,
not haviog (in his opiuion) yet taken
ample satisfaction ; vet,
the nation he would do it.
sions, from time to time, denoted a deep
Life, said he, had become
he
| what pleasure was; he
better if he had
Report further states, that he became in
measure delirious, d
for the sake of
His expres.
melancholy
a torment to him knew no
thought it
never
more
had
been existed
some eclared
he
would kill himself; went to Detroit. and
on his way between that place and
In October, 13
Miama was murdered St
while as prisoner on my way to Detroit,
I was shown the spot where this should
have happened.’
FROM THE AUTO BIOGRAPHY
OF COL.
SAMUEL MILES
Hox. Freo KurTz,
DEAR Sik: [am very much
interested in the Historical Review you
are giving each week in the Democrat.
It is not only teresting but instructive.
Everyone having reliable information
should send it in to vou for examination;
in that spirit I quote you from my great
grandfather's (Col. Samuel Miles) auto.
biography (the original masuscript of
which is in my possession.) He originally
enlisted at the age of 17in a onmpany
raised by Isaac Wayne, father of Gen.
Anthony Wayne, was discharged in 1746 |
and shortly after reenlisted as sergeant
im Capt. Thos. Lloyd's company, Gov. |
Robt. Morris appointed him ensign. He
says, “As soon as the troops were col- |
lected and equipped we marched for
Shamokin, an Indian towa, the inhabit. |
ants of which had been very troublesome
to the frontier settlements, We crossed |
the Sasquebavna and marched on the |
west side thereof until we came opposite |
to where the town of Sunbury mow
| stands, where we crossed over in bateaux
| and I had the hovor of being the first
suan that put his foot on the shore at
| landing. In building the fort at Shamo-
kin, Capt. Levi Trump and myself had
| charge of the workmen and after it was
finished our battalion remained there mn
garrison until the year 1758. In the
| summer of 1757 | was nearly taken pris.
| oner by the Indians, At about half a
| mile distance from the fort stood a large
|tree that bore excellent plums in an
| oven piece of ground near what is now
| called the bloody spring. Lieut. 8. Attler
| and myself one day took a walk to thus
tree to gather plums; while we were
| there a party of Indians lay a short dis
| tance from us concealed in the thicket
| and bad nearly got between us and the
fort, when a soldier belonging to a
| Millok guard not far from us came to
| the spring to drink, the ludians were
in danger of being discovered and in
| consequence thereof fired at and killed
the soldier, by which means we got off
and returned to the fort in much less
time than we were coming out,”
F.P. Gunn,
Gellefonte, Pa.
CAMPS FOR |
CONSUMPTIVES
Free Homes to be Placed at Dis- |
posal of the Afflicted.
FIRST TRIAL IN CLINTON CO.
Tents Will Be Erected—The Common-
wealth Will Be at No Expense. |
Outdoor Life to Be Encouraged
for the Afflicted.
The Dauphin County Medical society
has invited Forestry Commissioner Roth.
rock to talk before it on his proposed
scheme for the care of congumptives, and
he has accepted,
Dr. Rothrock says the scheme contem-
plates tke establishment of camps on the
reservations of this state |
may be the |
purpose where persons suffering fiqm
various forest
which suitably located for
consumption and who have not the means
to go to California and other places for
their health, can spend several months |
in the summer,
It is probable that the first camp will |
be opened on the reservation in Clin.
ton county, which has an elevation of
2000 feet above the level of the sea and |
is free from consumption because of the
purity of the air. This reservation has |
an area of 45,000 acres and is adjoined |
by two other large reservations.
It is,intended to erect big A" tents
with permanent foundations and anchor.
ages, so that they will not be blown down
by the heaviest storms. These tents will
have heavy wooden floors and will be
placed 15 feet apart. A wooden platform,
raised fromthe ground and covered, will
extend
that the
rainy days
aloug the front of these tents, so
invalids can take exercise on
The intention is to allow the
people who care to avail themselves of
this opportunity to live gut-of-door lives.
Dr. Rothrock said that the state will
not be asked to contribute one penny to
he already has
the
The patients will be furnish-
the enterprise, but that
enough money subscribed to cover
expenses
ed with shelter free of charge, but they
will have to make their own cooking
arrangements. They will be required to
rigidly adhere to the fish and game laws
for the preservation of the forests in.
cluding precautions in the use ot fi
There
phin county, this si
Te
is a forest reservat in Dan
ion
le of the Lykens val
ley which bas an elevation of about 1400
feet, where a camp will be estab! ished if
the plan succeeds
The ultimate result of the idea is the
establishment's of consumptive camps on
of
be districted for the
every healthy forest reservation the
state, which would
purpose
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Kicked By a Horse.
Ellis G. Eyer, at his home in Warriors.
mark valley, met with a severe accident,
last week. He was taking the borses to
water, riding one of them, when another
of the animals kicked at the one he was
Eyer on the left leg
the
Dyer once before
on and struck Mr
breaking the large bone between
knee and ankle, Mr,
had the same leg broken near the same
place,
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Water Election.
At the coming local election, Feb. 19
the citizens of Millheim will vote for or
against bonding the for water
works to amount of $10,000. This will
town
| be the fourth time the question of water |
| works was submitted. That live town
certainly needs something of the kind, |
either by the boro or private corporation.
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Altoona Preparing a Welcome.
The residents of Altoona are prepar-
ng to royally welcome 63 boys who
have been fighting in the Philippines for
nearly two years with the Forty. third
regiment. Mayor Gliva appointed sev.
eral committees to prepare for the re-
ception. They are expected 10 return
in July.
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i
Appointed by the Governor.
Tames Starford, of Philipsburg, has | through it,
been appointed by Governor Stone a
member of the board to examine appli-
cants for mine inspectors of the bitumin.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
| and trapping game,
| culturist
i with his
| rewarded for their investigations
14, 1901,
WANT GAME LAWS CHANGED. |
|
The many subordinate granges
throughout Pennsylvania will petitiun the |
governor and the state legislature to give
the land owner fuller control over his
| own premises with reference to killing
It is contended that
the land owner should have first right, !
The game seasons being short, the agri-
engaged
the
At
parades
ofttimes busily
1s
work, and consequently
“sportsman’’ captures all the game.
the same time this “sportsman’’
over the cultivated grounds of the agri.
culturist at his own will, and frequently
does considerable damage. The memorial
asks that hunting on cultivated grounds
be made permissable only when written
consent 1s given by the owner,
Killed a Wildcat.
At “Pond Bank,” out in the Barrens,
Hunter James Holmes, Jr., and his two
dogs ran across some tracks Instantly
the dogs followed the trail like a flash
to a nearby brush pile and, dashing into
{ it, began a terrific fight with a wild cat
at bay. Mr. Holmes meantime ran to
| the other side of the pile to capture the
animal if it should flee froma the dogs.
Losing in the encounter with the dogs,
the cat turned to escape and, with a
spring, jumped for Mr. Holmes.
The bunter caught it, and with one
hand preventing it from scratc hing with
its hind claws, with the other he slowly
choked the animal to death. He
have the pelt mounted Col Times.
full
ot
Voting Machines for $6
Fifteen of
machines which
the Mevers patent voting
are in use in several
cities and towns in New York were sold
by the city of New York at Port
for $6
chines were purchased by
the
Rich
1
mond the other dav
These ma-
the old own
boards in
Westfield,
during the wave of ballot
towns of Northfield and
Richmond county, in 18¢s,
reform which
the
followed charges of fraud at the
elections in and
chines cost #4
The inventor of this voting machine,
1593 18g4 The ma.
0 each
was Hile Meyers
mee a live business
man of Bellefonte, whom
many of the
Democrat's readers will remember
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Local lostitute
The teachers comprising the district of
burg and South Phi ipsburg
1 Burn-
boroughs, Rush, Suow Shoe and
Philipps
side townsh
hoid
and Saturday of this week at Phi
Ps, known as distri
wi their institute
ore hu ro
psburyg
They have a complete program prepared
for the has
eminent instructors in attendance
occasion and wi ec some
while
the best local talent will also contribute
to the success of the various sessions
The Hon Houck, Deputy
Superintendent of lustruction,
Henry State
iS among
the list of instructors and will speak on
Friday evening on the subject "A Glance
Backward.’
Trials without a Jury
In the House on Tuesday a bill was
introduced authorizing Judges to bear
and determine without a jury cases of as-
sault, assault and battery, CArrying con.
cealed deadly weapons, selling liquor
without a license, to minors or on Sun
day, keeping a gambling house or place
for gambling, malicious
cheating a hotel
keeper,
mischief and
or boarding bouse
saving to defendents in
such cases their constitutional right of
trial of jary by means of an election in
the nature of an appeal.
Senator Heinle, in democratic caucus,
spoke against the unfair apportionment
bill.
etc.,
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Successful Prospectors
Lock Haven Democrat : The men who
have been prospecting on the Kreamer
lands on Scootac creek have been greatly
They
have already gone through a vein of coal |
twenty. seven inches thick. Over a foot
| below this vein they struck another vein
of coal. They have already gone to a
depth of three feet and are still digging
The prospectors are of the |
opinion that the vein is nearly five feet
thick. The coal appears to be of good |
quality. After the men get through this
EXPANSION
IS EXPENSIVE
Congress will Appropriate an Im-
mense Sum.
TAXATION GROWS ALARMING
The Consumers are the Taxpayers and
Must Bear Burdens
Reaping the Reward of Imperial-
ism-——$20 per capita.
Grievous
of the Fifty
capi-
Probable appropriation
sixth Congress, $1
f20
Money
States January 1,
500,000,000, pel
la
circulation in the
1901, $2,173,
in
per capita, $28.19
This simple statement gives a better
the
Treasury by the present Congress than
idea of the wholesale raiding of
a page of figures. It is not exaggerated;
indeed, the amount of the appropriations
is more likely underestimated,
Not since the civil has the
war per
capita of expenditures been so high, and
not since the year 15868, when the effects
of the great sectional struggle had not
yet been felt at the Treasury, had it been
half so high. This is remarkable, but it
is the
fact that only in three of the four years
is also true. More startling still
that that great war lasted did the per
capita of expenditures exceed the pres.
cot amount, and then, with the excep-
tion of 1864, only by a few dollars
The following shows the per capita of
or
expenditures different years from 1 to
igor; the figures for the last named year
being conservately estimated
“on
1901 ( Pst
The appropriati
CTIRTI IR | 2
ms for the fiscal year
made by the present Congress at its first
$0,562. The regular an.
1902 amount §£7413.474.804
ning these figares the tota
for
would be Hi
of appro-
fty-sixth
f 25 Hh
yriations the Fi Congress
¥
AL"
453
There is a serious side to this startling
There
lirectly rex
announcement is a hidden truth
in this that few wi wWniz
but the blighting effects w
and every hour of
immense sum of money must he
dd as sure as the sun rises
ana
is the way it figures
who cam ne
We has .
to pay fis ), 000,
$ blind or ignorant
and understand, viz
000 population
000 appropriations, or $20 per individua
Each male voter in the country, or work
ng
family of five,
that. If be has
three, the
from the
man, represents on the average a
reliable statistics prove
child, for
amounts to $60, taken
f labor for
ment pu If he
four children, the average,
total is just 100 per year
a wife and
lax
mcome govern
with
alarmmog
poses is blessed
He pays this indirectly in the increased
of
clothing,
drugs, tobaccos, whisky, beer, building
He dont it
directiy but the government gets it all
cost everything he consumes, on
groceries, shoes, hardware,
materials and such wee
the same, and he wonders why he must
work so long and hard and have so little
left for his labor, This will be felt more
in the coming yesr,
The cause of all this is first, the foolish
and unrighteous war we are waging
against the Philippines to seize their
coantry. The expensive operations in
Cuba and Porto Rico add much to it.
The general extravagance at Washing:
ton is another growing evil,
The policy of expansion, ‘benevolent
assimilation’ is the greatest evil of all
and these taxes are the direct result.
| The people ‘voted for these things last
fall and are entitled to have them. Yes,
expansion is costly, How do you like it.
|
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The Difference.
A boy can sit on a sled six inches
ous coal regiocs, to serve for a term of | vein of coal, they expect to find clay a | Mquare, tied to asleigh moving eigh miles
four years from March 1, 1901,
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Not a Big Run.
A gentleman who bas come from the
up river districts estimates that only
about 125 rafts will come down the Sus.
quehanna in the spring. Some of the
timber that will come down the river
will be of the best,
Scarcity of Hogs.
There is a great scarcity of hogs in |
Nittany and Sugar valleys. County
butchers are compelled to ship their hogs
from the west, This 1s the first time that
Clinton county farmers could not supply
the demand for bogs.
The fellow who lives in an attic sel.
dom complains of 100 high living,
short distance below,
Lock Haven Trolley Deal.
The Susquehanna traction railway, |
| an hour, but couldn't sit on a sofa for a |
dollar, says an exchange. A man will
sit on an inch board and talk politics for
three hours; put him in a church pew
VOL. 23, NO. 7.
|
FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
| Bright Sparkling Paragraphs— Selected
and Original,
The Man With a Big Mouth.
I love the man who knows
From Hast to West
i ail
from North to South,
Who ku
WH A hing both great and small
And t
5 over it--the tele.
phone
The | s often a man with a
his
tory
Liquor aan her too oftea go
logether
T »J
account
The
rosy future
No, Maude,
tune is not
When a the
cold weather, he shakes one of his
many frien
society bad
to a
the feminine of for.
misfortune,
dear ;
this
best
man OHxes furnace,
friends.
Tell
man
meanest
know a
about the
1 be
your friend
you know, an will
meaner one
The billco
ting off till
On
dunned to
lector doesn't believe in put.
tomorrow what can be
day.
An Accident.
AN ler
*, who atten
Edward a
years of age
school, at Romola,
the noon hour, u
aboul a quarter o
ting off, while the s
a his head,
atling a
long in the skull
above the temple, while the other calks
nearly pierced his ear His escape was
certainly remarkable, for had the horse's
foot come squarely down on his head at
| ’
the high rate of speed at which they were
Euing
yal have crushed it,
-
t could not |
a Year
Railroad company
its with the Phila.
road yupany for
betyeen Keating
listan MM forty six
2 the Philade
of $60
PADS
phia
000 a
was
el to the
proms.
tion
he
make this seg
1 one it
line
tracke
agreed to send its trains over the
’
between these two
points
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Killed Near Laurelton
A
ed
Wilson B ngaman, son of H Binga-
man, of the
Laurelton and Pine Creek railroad last
Thursday evening 7. Coming from the
mountains one of the trucks jumped the
Laurelton,
Laurelton, was ki on
track about a mile above
He was thrown under the wheels and
He died in a short
time from loss of blood. His father was
engineer on the train by which he was
killed The young man was only 19
vears of age.
had a leg crushed
——
Williamsport's Oldest Man:
William Harris, Williamsport's oldest
man, celebrated bis g24 birthday anniver.
sary last Sunday and is still hale and
bearty. He was born in London in 1818.
He rode from Boston to Philadelphia on
the first railroad that wasever built, He
quit smoking over thirty years ago and
pever drank any wiskey., Mr, Harris is
able to read now, as he always has done
without the aid of glasses,
Ancient and Modern Proverbs.
"He who knows not, and knows not
| that he knows not, is a fool ; teach him,
| "He who knows not, and knows that
| he knows sot, 1s simple ; teach him,
“He that knows and knows not that he
| knows, is asleep ; wake him.
“But he who knows and knows that he
knows, is a wise man; follow him."
Arabian Proverbs,
State Buys Mountain Land.
The State Commission recently pur
{chased a tract of land of about 4.000
|
|
running between Lock Haven and Mill forty minutes and he gets nervous, twists | acres from Dr, P. P. Hyatt. The tract
Hall, has again changed hands. Here. | A0d goes (0 sleep. A man will 611 bis | is situated (a Hartley township, Usion
after it will be managed by Jacob Scott cheek with filthy tobacco juice until It | county, Armag township, Mifflin county,
and C. A. Mayer, of Lock Haven; J, | Tens down his chin and feels good; but a | gud Haines township, Centre eounty.
Henry Cochran, of Williamsport, and |
W. Bb Given, of Columbia. The line has
| been in operation six vears, and hereto |
fore was controlled exclusively by out.
side capital,
»
Methodist Conference.
The Central Pennsylvania conference |
of the Methodist Episcopal church will |
be held at Chambersburg, commencing |
on March 27th. The conference has
over 68,000 members
hair in the butter will kill him.
Big Fire At Watsontown.
The large nail mill plant at Watson.
town owned by Godcharles Brothers,
was burned to the ground Tuesday eve.
ning. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin. Loss about $10,000
partially insured,
. ———h
An old bachelor says a woman's heart
is like a honeycomb-fall of sells,
| The land is denuded timber land
i - EE as
Powder by the Car Load.
| It isstated that the tunnels of the new
railroad between Clearfield and Karthans
| will require 600 car loads of cement and
| at least that much powder,
ToCuren Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
All druggists refund the money if it falls
to cure. 1K. W. Grove's signature is on
each box. asc.