The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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:i Invoicing days are near at hand and our large stock must be cut down. Youd better 'i
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Lowest in Price.
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On all Suits, Overcoats, and
Pants.
Our well-known rule of marking
everything in plain figures at strictly one
price makes this a genuine bargain chance
BOY’S CLOTHING
One-Fourth OH
Figure it for Yourself
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PANTS.
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There’s Better StocK in
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They’re Sold for Less
Margin than regular
shoe houses can af-
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That’ the Reason.
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You’ve Tried the fAest,
Now Try the Best.
We sell more Shoes than
any two stores in the Territory,
There’s a Reason
for It.
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Ladies’
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Men’s Wool Undershirts, - 45cts ;i
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Men’s hcavy-Heeced cotton shirts & d’ws 45cts ■!
Men’s heavy-ribbed shirts - 35cts I;
Men’s 50-cent fancy dress shirts, - 35cts J
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RELICS RECENTLY FOUND TELL OF
SANGUINARY FIGHT.
Spot AS here thff Arm, of Ilie .Sap and
lrox ludiaiiM Hag Kxtermiuateit Proved
lolleve Moon Near I lilcagn - ] mpo.
Itthoo of tlie Kvent.
Indian relics ihat have been dug up
at the Glenview Golf grounds, jix miles
west of Evanston. Chicago’s aristocrat-
ic suburb, furnish evidence that here
was once fought om of the bloodiest
and most eventful battles of .Indian
days. This battle is supposed to have
been fought more than 170 years ago.
and resulted in the complete extermi-
nation of the army of the Sac and Fox
Indians that swept down from Wiscon-
sin and invaded the Illinois river coun-
try. Opposing the Sac and Fox Indians
were the united armies of the French
and Indians, consisting of the Cbippr-
Avas, the Mascoutens, Menominees, and
Kickapoos.
At that time the French had es-
tablished a trading post here, which
was known as Fort Miami. This and
not Fort Dearborn, as many contend,
was the beginning of Chicago as a
trading center. Had the invading In-
dians been victorious, the trading post
would have been abandoned and the
central point of commerce established
somewhere else on the lakes.
Hundreds of arrow-heads were
found, un.d there were spears (the fav-
ored weapon of the Kickupoo), axes,
war clubs, tomahawks, and in fact.
B'lmost every instrument of war known
to the aboriginal tribes. Adjoining the I
fence of the golf grounds and directly
south was found an Indian mound,
from which were dug out partially cre-
mated skeletons, a French breastplate j
I made of German silver, numerous other
; metallic devices, and flint-locks and old !
i medals. From the nature of the relics I
there is no doubt that many of them |
belonged to the Sac and Fox Indians.
Others were those used only by the
Kickapoos and Mascoutens of the 1 Hi- j
; nois confederation. And then there Is
also the style of battle ax or war club
employed in battle exclusively by the
Chippewas and Menominees.
The discovery makes clear the disap-!
pearance of the detachment of the Sac '
and Fox Indians that were not killed
at the battle of Plano. This latter was
' the engagement that many erroneously
believe to have taken place at Starved
Rock. The great army of Sac and Fox
came down from Wisconsin over tha
• Green Bay trail. They attacked thu
French fort at Detroit and were re-
pulsed by I)u Poisson, who called to
Ins aid the Pottawatomies and Miami!
and other friendly tribes. Proceedinj
on south-westward the Sac aid Fox cn.
countered the Ottawa Indians, and by,
them were driven to the Mississippi
river. Here they opposed the fierce
Sioux, and by them were driven east-
ward again. The tribe settled in th»
Fox liver valley, about-fifty mile: west
: of Chicago, in time they recuperated
from their repeated defeats ami start-
ed out once more to get vengeance on
the french and Indians who were in
peaceful possession of the fertile val-
ley of I lie Illinois. They advanced in
two divisions. Intending to surprise the
nem.v. They came upon the French
and' Indians unexpectedly, liowevi r
and were separated. One detachment
was driven front the Illinois river up
the Fox river to where Plano now is.
There all of this division were killed.
The other detachment was the main
part of the army. Desperate over their
ree-nt adversities they rallied every
young Indian that could bend a bow
and made an advance on the combined
forces of the French and the four tr ibes
of Indians. They were under the lea
dership of Pemotissa, chief of Die Fox.
Shortly before starting out they were
joined by another hand of Sac and Fox,
fresh from Wisconsin, and Pumoiisra
was made I he leader of the entire
army. •
At the advance of the great army ol
the Sac *tind Fox the French and In-
dian forces retreated from Fort Miami
and made a stand on the site where
the Glenview golf grounds are now lo-
cated. They bad little time to fortify
themselves when (lie entire army
United, bore down upon them. They
fought until every man was dead. IV
atoussa himself was killed.
Every indication seems to n ,int to
this battle as one of the most impor-
tant of Indian days. The lvi< capo a
and Masi.outcn Indians are known to
have been jn this vi.-l: ily in ,in>.s.
days. These two tribe.- woi*o f ,:y
allied. Th'y belonged to what Is Inowi:
as our Illltiii confederation, it i. pi-j.,
able that the present golf m vends
were the sit,- of an Indian vi! 1 uy ant
that the 1 attic took plei • at t v vil
lag'- 1 hero is but slight nviitmn of
the early French Fort .Miami, and its
origin is unknown, it was probably
one of the I.a Salle forts.
Of late there has developed among
the native Hawaiian*, especially among
the younger men. a desire to i ngugr iri
a .sea-faring life.
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Some churehes make very s-jcatssful
burial clubs.
ANIMALS THAT TRAVEL.
I I<|< king !o New Torfc fruit:
Swell, Migrations of Squirrel*.
According to men who have hunted
nnd trapped in the mountains of Dela-
ware. Mister and Sullivan counties,
New York, for very many years there
lias occurred within the last dozen
/ears a veritable invasion of those
mountains by-the opossum from re-
gions further south. Ton years ago
there was scarcely one of the animals
to be found In the state. Then they
jiegan to appear, being numerous in.
one sei-tlun one season and pushing
on a little farther north before the
next.
'I heir coming has been welcomed by
the hunters and trappers, but not by
the farmers. The latter tind the opos- j
sum a nuisance, as It lias a liking for ,
poultry and eggs. It will crawl into
a hen coop, drive a setting hen off her
n i. and eit the eggs will, li the farm-
pi was counting on to make broilers,
li prowls In tlie woods where most j
u thu turkey nests arc made and robj
those.
P is au easy matter to trap the a til-
me.!, for it seems to have none of the
shyness of the fox and raecoou, an.I
will walk into the most obvious steel
D-ap. box trap, or deadfall. When
caught it. is only moderately valuable,
its skin being worth a little more than
that of the muskrat. It is hunted
chielly at night, as coon are bunted,
dogs being trained to follow it and
bark iri a peculiar manner when it is
treed.
Tin migration of different sorts of
game is nothing new. Stories of the
migrations of squirrels are as old as
the first works on natural history, and
i heir journey mgs from part to part
of tl»> United States are well known.
Tie most remarkable feature altout
squirrel migrations lies in the method
they sometimes employ In crossing
water. They have been known to put
pieces of hark into the water and drift
on these In the current of a river until
brought close enough to the bank to
jump off. They sometimes disdain all
such cautions methods of crossing
water and swim as boldly as muskrats,
Tlie mountaineers of eastern Ten-
nessee and western North Carolina,
says the New York Times, believe that ’
Hie scarcity of deer on their old hunt-
ing grounds is due to the fact that the
animals have migrated. They do net
mean by this that they left one at a
time as the country became settled,
but declare that they were numerous
a dozen years ago when the country
was no wilder than it Is today; that
there came a season when the deer
tracks, with few exceptions, led to-
ward the south, and that the next
year they were all gone, while reports
coming up from the great pine forests
of Georgia and Mississippi told of an
unusually large number of the ani-
mals.
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Maxwell, William Albert. The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1902, newspaper, January 3, 1902; Yukon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911521/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.