CHAS. ¥ XURTZ Proprietor.
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Some Short Sketches of a Noted
Indian.
LOGAN, FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF
After Whom Many Points of Interest in
this Section are Named—Incidents
Reported—Logan Mourned the
Loss of his Kindred.
CHAPTER XI,
(This chapter we devote to that re
markable Indian chief, Logan, of whom
we gave a partial account in the Demo.
crat of February 14th, and with it makes
up the entire history of Logan so far as
we find recorded.)
MINGO CHIE]
LOGAN, THE
The name logan is inseparably con.
nected with the early history of Centre
and adjoining counties, and has been
perpetuated by applying it to a spring in
Mifflin county, to a township and a vil-
lage in Clinton couunly, to a gap in
tany mountain, through which he once
had a path, and to a stream, a branch of
son of celebrated
who dwelt for man
Logan was a
chief, Shikellimy,
years at Shamokin,
now Sunbury) and
was there converted to the Chri
ligion by the Moravian
He had his son also bapti
the name by which he was eve
miissio
wards known, in honor of Jar
at that time secretary of the Province of
Pennsylvania.
Logan made
Kishacoquillas valley
Mifflin The place he selected
for his wigwam is a few
Lewistown, at what is still
““Logan’s Spring.” The
count of the great chief was
1842, by william Brown, Esq,
After reaching manhood,
his abode for a while in
, in what is vow
county,
miles above
as
following ac-
known
given in
one of
the first actual settlers of the Kishaco-
P. McClay,
then member of the state senate
“The first
said
uillas valley, to Hon. R.
q 3
time I saw that spring,”
the old gentleman, “my brother,
James Reed and myself had wandered
out of the valley in search of land, and
finding it very good, we were looking
About a
about for mile from
springs.
his we start separated to
thi + 5 1
get a shot a ling along,
looking alx f
the bear, w
the spring
joiced to see
killed a
a
bank and |
against
Fite 1
vag
J
> water on the op;
my head dow:
of tall
whether
sufficiently
then
to determine : but rifle
and fac
of his gun, threw out the
apon seizi
IE my
og him, he knocked up the pan
priming and
extended his open palm toward me in
After putting down
at
This was Logan. the
token of friendship
our guns, met the
and shook hands
we again
spring
best specimen of humanity I
white
ever
He
speak a little English, and told me there
F E
met
with, either or red cou'd
was another white hunter a little way
down the stream, and offered to guide
me to his camp. There I first met your
father, We remained
valley a week,
selecting lands, and laid the foundation
of a friendship which never has had the
together in the
looking for springs and
slightest interruption.
“We visited Logan at his camp at
Logan's Spring, and he and your father
shot at mark at a dollar a shot Logan
lost four or five rounds and acknown edged
himself beaten. When
to leave him he went into his
we were about
hut and
brought out as many deerskins as he had
lost 1s, and handed them to Mr
McClay, who refused to receive them,
alleging that we had been his guests,
doll
and did not come to rob him ; that the
shooting had only been a trial of skill,
and the bet merely nominal.
drew himself up with great
said : ‘Me bet to make you
best ; me gentleman,
dollar if me beat.’ So he was obliged to
take the skins or affront our friend,
whose nice sense of honor would not per.
Logan
dignity and
shoot your
and me take your
mit him to receive even a horn of powder |
in return,
“The next year,” said the old gentle.
man, "I brought my wife and camped |
under a big walnut tree on the bank of
Tea creek, until I had built a cabin
where the mill now stands. Poor Logan
(and the big tears coursed exch other
down his cheeks) soon after went into
the Allegheny, and I never saw him
again.”
The above was confirmed by a daugh.
ter of Mr. Brown, and the following
added :
“Logan supported his family by killing
deer, dressing the skins, and selling
them to the whites, He had sold quite a
|
| parcel
| in buckskin breeches,
When this
to a tailor, who dealt extensively
receiving his pay
taken to the
{ mill it was found so worthless that the
it at
tempted in vain to obtain redress from
the this he
matter his friend Brown, then a
| in wheat. was
miller refused to grind logan
tailor. Failing in took the
before
magistrate, who heard the case and
the chief
hand to
the as 1 ce that
the skin
awarded a deciston in favor of
A writ give
the constable, with
wa
that would bring the money for
ed Indian could not com
the little j
th
magistrate
But the untu
prehend by wl
would force the tailor,
The
down his own commi
the
him the principles and operations of ci
again
to pay the debt.
sion, with the arm
of king upon it, and explained to
'
Ogan listened attentively and
Make
law,
claimed, ‘Law good !
pay
The fo)
Logan are gathered from variou
lowing incidents
“When another and a younger
ter of Judge Brown (afterwar
ter’s wife
her
that
regret she
shoes to give mo
B
with secre
cheerfulness, she
quest. The hours of the
slowly away; it was ne
her little one had not return
Rong
as the sun was
chief was
seen
with his charge ; and in a moment
more
the little one trotted mother’s
arms, proudly exhibiting
pair of moccasins on her little feet
product of Logan's skill.
‘Logan left Kishas quills
of the
who had settled in it, and
He n
obtain subsistence for himse f
1771, because number
Lhe ¢
scarcity of game 0 longer could
and family
with his rifle, and determined to ren
nove
10 a country where white settlers were |
féw and He i
the
Kame plenty ocate
Ohio river, the
at
Creek, about thirty
ing, and was there
iYUR
ag
here
sSionary,
cked the
red twelve
child
ren, and
more
gled
and his «
Logan re
wodies of the
heart the man , and if it
called for revenge, can the call be
1 He
dered
wounded,
won
atl buried hb ad, cared
for the and gathering
Shaw
ing
His revenge was terrible
around him his tribe, ioine the
nees in the war they were mmen
ou the whites,
How many victims
were sacrificed to it
no earthly record shows
The
prose ule
vigor with which the
1 by
Dunmore, governor of \
the |
overtures of peace. To se
WAr was
the white under Lord
reinia,
and
broaght
ndians to terms they made
ure this, Lord
Dunmore appointe the
Hy On
Sciota, in 1774, and invite all the hos
tile chiefs to be present,
He
sent |
Logan among
the number. refused te attend the
the
in Jefferson's
council, but the
fol)
“Notes on Virginia
'y messenger
wing speech, preserved
“I appeal to any white if
Ean s cabin hungry,
If he
came cold and naked, and he clothed
him pot? During the course of the last
long and bloody war
idle in his cabin, an advocate of peace
Such was my love for the whites, that
my countrymen pointed as they passed,
and said, ‘Logan is the friend of the
white man!’ [I had even thought to
have lived with you but for the injuries
of one man, the last spring, who, in cold
blood and unprovoked, murdered all the
man to sav
ever he entered 1s
and he gave him no meat ever
Logan remained
| relations of Logan, vot even sparing my |
| women and children. There runs not a
drop of my blood in any living creature,
This called on me for revenge,
sought it. I have killed many, I have
fully glutted my vengeance. For my
country I rejoice at the beams of peace.
But do not harbor a thought that mine is
the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear.
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Continued on page 4, column 3,
I have |
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 21.
BIG ROW AMONG
STUDENTS
Freshman Class Banquet at Mil-
ton the Cause
ESCAPADES
SEVERAL LIVELY
pped and Locked in sta
\ Few
ously Injured
Freshmen
Soph
more
feast’
the Democrat did not
themselves in women
not detected at the sts
John
Th
peaker
mpson has
Marshall
A Lommiss
’
been appointed hy 8
Pi
member of the Pennay An
to the Pan
falo. The
Harrisburg effectes
Ametican BE position at §
Commission at & meets K in
| av organization and
decided to erect a State ling at a cost
ou
on the Exposition’s ground
gislature, must take a
back
Peculiar Origin of a Slight Fire
At Loganton last Tharsday a little son
of John Geiswite threw a glass marble,
with which he had been play
sofa.
ing, on the
The rays of the sun
and heated it to such
fell upon it
a pitch that the
sofa caught fire, The flames were ex.
tinguished
done,
before much damage was
-
Tyrone's Troubles.
Suit has been instituted by the
of Tyrone against the Tyrone (
Water Co
borough
ms and
The plant is estimated to be worth f250,.
000,
State College Won,
| Lock Haven Normal gymnasium Satur.
day evening between State College and
the Normal teams. The score resulted
1110 4 in favor of the former.
+ to compel the sale of the gas |
and water works to the municipality, |
A very lively game was played {o the |
1901,
PROSPECT FOR SHAD.
It is expected that what stil] remains
of the the
be
old dam acro Susquehanna
rivey carried
of a few week
The
been repaired and the
it Columbia will away
the course 5, when the
'
es off break made last
never
| ly weakened
dam ha een grea by per
sons who have 10
tl . i
iL Jit
diate.
March
sunday, aster.
T ;
quinox,
upon which the a
and
that
the ne
April 2
5 Or
-
Ihe
which was
Died
captured in
Fawn
The fawn Lo-
Thursday and which
WwW. GG
Rarton last
Mon
of the Wi
BL I
Walking rage
Messages to Mars
it Female
AYA
Skirt a «
With Famo
Was never slow
Wrote and played and drew,
I's Nk ton
eame, though
sudden style
ng
after while
became quite 11)
Wt, with martyr's ron =
Mrs
Ke Pt her cease leas ro
Araminta Dubbs
ind of
ne afternoon when she
fAweet
y at could be
Speaking, with much grace And life
On “The Duties of a Wile
To the Maids and Matron's Gui'd
All her eloquence was sti led
By
A card,
Whieh her
Speech marred
Dubbs’ soul had been unbarred,
Mrs. Dubbs repressed a sigh,
Said T'was mean of him to die,
Just as I'm about to reach
Finest part of all my spose 1
But, of course, she had to quite,
And that was the end of It ;
For, when she had baried Dubbs,
Nad to tell, nll of the elubs
Had another on her throne,
And she found herself alone
Khe
Who stubs
Her toe
On clubs,
Should heed the fate of Mrs. Dubbs,
From the Baltimore American.
————
We can see no reason why one’s uncle
should not be received in an ante.room,
Was
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS
of Interest Gathered From
All Sections
[tems
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
What Transpir Brief Men
tion
Over
ed Wort)
Past W
Lounty
LH lock Hav
position
} on
stone mason
e Markle
Rranted a peusion
Geors
COIR
Isaac Teessler’s sale Landen Hall
oun Monday, was a b g The sum
realized was $2400 ; the horses and cattle
brought $1100
The
Endeavors
Christian
will bold their anasual «
Wednesday
On Monday
burg, was taken
Mrs
to the Danvi
f Boals
Cc ASY
James Hass
um
Owing to the impaired health during the
past year, her mental faculties became
unsettled
Hess Philadelphia
th, to bring home
Frank went
Mor
Mrs
Sd
to a
day 11 his sister,
Ida Rothrock, who recent y had a
for
hospital,
cessful operation
the Methodist
A Authony
street, Loganton, Clinton county, Tues.
It the
young deer was chased from the moun
appendicitis at
fawn was captured on
day moming 18 supposed that
tains to town by dogs
Mr Mrs
Jacksonville, went
Harry Yearick,
to
and of
Niagara Falls
where he expects to secure employment,
They Mrs
Yearick's sister, Miss Fannie Johnson
were accompanied by
Amos Overdorff and family who lent
Nittany, Pa., two years ago, moved
Clintondale, Clinton county, this week
That is coming back pretty close to Cen.
tre county where they resided for many
YCArs.
to
Mrs. Nancy J. Bodle, of Fillmore, has
been granted a widow's pension of $5.00
per month; Samuel P. Bathurst, of
Roland, a pension of $6 oo and John
Coble, Jr., of Linden Hall, $12 00 per
| month,
| George Kister, of Aaronsburg, pur.
| chased a fine lot of fat cattle at Jonathan
Krape's sale last week. It is his inten.
| ou to open a meat market in Aarons.
| burg this spring. Al. Bower will have
charge of it,
Last Saturday evening, Ephriam
Frantz, of Port Matilda, and Miss Lillian
May Williams, of Martha, were united in
marriage by Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs,
at Altoona, They expect to go to house
keeping this week in Tyrone,
VOL. 213. NO.
12
FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Sele
and Original.
exercise some
growlet
ETOow !
When people go to ask 1}
JACK out,
The
the wall at ¢
crack shot
Those swinging
some politici
and *‘pull
Adamsburg in
have a National
little has one
When a knife bla
le
becomes dull, but
hers she becomes culling
E
Need not
look for the millenium until
everybody minds his or her own busi.
ness, neither will a band play at the
ushering in of the happy time
getting
late
Sickness is ess general in
‘cause the
sed
folks may think can't afford 10 be il
- —
Will Rebuild
burned last
the county of Perhaps
medical association has ra the fees
Poe mill fall, will be re.
Kettle
of
Shamokin, will rebuild the mill, having
built this spring, for use of the
lumber job lLamberman Gotshall,
still some lumber in Poe valley, while
the Kettle operation by Weibly Bro's will
furnish sawing for a period of six or
cight years. The length of the combined
tramroad for the latter operation, via
Garrety's and Poe valley, is 10 miles.
- —
Served Him Right.
Burgess Gleason, of Houtzdale, re-
cently fined a man $10 and costs for al.
{lowing his hotse to stand iu the public
| street several hours unprotected from
the cold. That was right, and if any
such cruelty is discovered in Bellefonte
just report it to Mayor Blanchard,
!
Street Caved In,
State College residents were treated to
A surprise Monday morning ith when
the part of Col avenue opposite Mrs,
he De caved or ais Mes,
Susan Erb's