Part 32 (1/2)

JOHN S FERSON ca that and the succeeding year he was principal in building a first class steam saw mill It was located on a bay in the western part of the city This ain Mr

Ferson has since removed to Dakota

SAMUEL MILLET settled in Pine City in 1869, and in 1870 erected the Bay View House, on an elevated plateau co a fine view of Cross lake and Kanabec river Mr Millet died in 1879, leaving a o sons and three daughters

ROCK CREEK

Was organized March, 1874 The first supervisors were Enoch Horton, Frank England, and S M Hewson Obadiah Heas town clerk Enoch Horton and C W Gill were justices of the peace Mr Horton was the first settler, he having co he raised the first crop Mr Horton was from Colchester, New York He was born in 1811, and came to Minnesota in 1862 He was the first posterton, Gill & Co built a saw mill in 1873, with a capacity of 3,000,000 feet This property has changed hands several times

CAPT ENOCH HORTON coe of twenty-two years, in New York, where he served twenty-eight years as justice of the peace and county judge He served during the Rebellion as captain of a coanized in 1880 The first supervisors were Edward Peterson, Alexis Kain and Joseph Heiniger It is a good farood farms The first settlement was e barn, hauling the lumber from Marine Mills, a distance of seventy miles The toas named in honor of Royal C Gray, who located on the Greely farm in 1854, in the northwest quarter of section 15, townshi+p 38, range 22, on the banks of the Kanabec river

WINDERMERE

Was organized as a town Jan 3, 1882 The first supervisors were August Schog, William Champlain and Frank Bloomquist

The towns of Kettle River, Hinckley and Pine City were organized, and Chengwatana reorganized by special act of the legislature in 1874, and at that time embraced all the territory in the county Since 1874, Mission Creek, Rock Creek and Royalton have been set off from Pine City and Winderes were platted at the dates named: Neshodana, by Clark, Cowell & Foster, in townshi+ps 41 and 42, ranges 15 and 16, in 1856; Fortuna, by W A Porter, surveyor, at the crossing of Kettle river and the military road, January, 1857; St John's, by M L

Benson, surveyor, in section 26, townshi+p 41, range 17, October, 1857; Midway, by Frank B and Julia L Lewis, proprietors, in the northwest quarter of section 34, townshi+p 40, range 21, Septe under the nae Hathaway started with the prisoner to Sunrise Five days afterward Hathaway's dead body was found, and the inquest decided that he probablyat the hands of his prisoner, who ain heard fro, Maine

THE BURNING OF A JAIL

March 22, 1884, a couple of young men, John Cope and William Leonard, were arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and confined in the Pine City jail, a wooden structure About three o'clock the nextthe jail was found to be on fire All efforts to extinguish the fla The fire originated from within, in all probability frotheir cells

A DISFIGURED FAMILY

Mr Redent at the Kettle River railroad station, called ured He was born without thu toes reseers of each hand and two of the toes on each foot are united to the tips but have distinct nails Of his four children three are disfigured like the father His grandchildren are er

INDIAN FAITH CURE

A wounpohile she was putting it in a flask Her face became terribly swollen and black The ht she must die After two days the Indian doctors held a h with their ic arts the woman arose, and, without any assistance, walked around distributing presents to the performers of the ceremony It was truly wonderful

She recovered rapidly

INDIAN GRAVES

The Chippewas bury their dead rave and covered with earth A loooden covering, soables resting on the ground The roof is covered hite or bleached muslin, and surmounted by a board cross An aperture about six inches square is left in each end of the structure The head of the grave is toward the west, and here are deposited offerings of fruits and trinkets of various kinds We found at one grave a broken saucer, an oyster can filled with blueberries, a large red apple, and a pair of old shoes Friends of the deceased visit the graves for one or two years, renewing their tributes of affection, and bringing offerings of fruit according to the season, and various foods, from acorns to dried venison, but in tilected and forgotten

STOICISM OF THE INDIAN