The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 07, 1911, Image 2
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MEWS OF 11 WEEK
LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
M EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Motaa From Foreign Lande Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Qraat South.
) * Southern.
iL W. Fuikerson camp. United
Confederate Veterans of Tazewell,
Tonn., ban been formally mustered
Into the National Guard of the state
of Tennessee, J. t>. Nelms has been
commissioned as captain of the com
pany. The veterau militiamen for
warded to President Taft at Wash
ington a tender of their services to
*90 to the Mexican border in the event
Of hostilities. Thin is the only com
pany of Its kind In any militia or
ganisation In the Southern states.
Utile Hock, Ark., wu* shaken by
mn earthquake. Mirrors were shaken
walls, desks and chairs in of'
rolled about and windows clut
tered. x near panic occurred in the
Voothweetern Telegraph and Tele
phone bulldin.
So alarming has become the Indis
criminate shipment of cotton need and
ootton seed meal itno Alabama from
41etricta Infected with the boll wee:
Vll that Stata Commissioner of Agrl*
aaltur* It. F. Kolb has called a spe
cial mooting of the state board of ag
riculture to ahemble in Montgomery
adopt drastic measures for the
lonforoement of the state lawg on this
?abject.
' Four hundred children, mostly in
the primary grades, leaped from the
'window* of the I till school building
' ''At Piedmont college in Demorest
Qa^ and wore saved from deuth when
?ro waa discovered eating its way
( through the structure. More than a
aooro of children were injured, but
?ono fatally, owing to the short dis
tance they Jumped. When the alarm
was aounded the flames had gained
? ouch headway that punic reigned, pu
plla and teachers alike piling headlong
from the windows.
After blowing \\p the Hank of Lan
caster at Lancaster, Tenn., exchang
Sng volleys with the cashier, VV. T.
"y'L Slmpsbn, and shootiug up his home,
. four robbers executed their departure,
on a freight train, carrying with ihem
approximately $3,000 In money. The
j; robbers, before beginning operations,
cut all wlro communication with the
outside world. The cashier was un
"hurt, but a hat for which no claim
Ant could be found in tho village, was
tound perforated with bullets.
General.
Discussing the proposed extension
,cf International arbitration in the
-jrelchstag, at Derlln, Germany, Chan
cellor Von Bethman-Hollwegg classed
universal arbitration and universal
disarmament as ideals impossible oi
realisation. 'The nations, Including
Germany," said tho chancellor, "have
bean talking disarmament siueo the
jflrat Hague conferonoe, but neither In
Germany nor elsewhere has a practi
cal plan been proposed. Any confer
ence on thla subject is bound to be
JCrultless."
The Talue of tho (Ire drill was dera
cmstrated when tire waB discovered
la publla school No. 43, tho Bronx.
'New York. Although smoke was drift
ing through the building and the odoi
?ct burning wood and paper permeated
the halla and classrooms, 2,900 little
.children responded to the tire drill
signal and in perfect order marcned
down the building oh they do several
tlme? each week. In two minutes all
war* on the street watching tho tire
naea. The blaze did only trilling dam
..'*ge.
! At e great meeting of churcnmcu
?end statesmen In Ixmdon, England,
ft? celebrate the tercentenary of the
xerlsion of tho English translation ui
the Bible by a commission which com
gpleted the ao-called King James vei
Aloja In 1611, Premier Asqulth and
rWhltelaw Held, the American ambtu
esdor. who were the principal speak
era, seized the opportunity to euio
gixe the arbitration movement. In
Shis address Mr. Asquit(i said: Tin
I.ngliflh liible belongs not oulv to tho
subject of King George, but to the
whole English-speaking wond. One of
the truths which has been slowly real
lied, and which now 1 believe is firm
ly rooted In tho faith of Christian
men and womer on both sides of me
Atlantic is that war between English
speaking people would be not oniy h
crime against civilization, but an un
forgivable breach of these few com
mandment** which aie enshrined in
the^- New Testament.
The Russian foreign oftlco tele
graphed the Russian minister at I'e
kin that China's reply to Russia's til
timatuin is satisfactory. China's re
ply la an attempt to prove that she
acquiesced in Russia s demands.
That President Taft and Senators
Aldrlch and Penrose urged the elect
ion of William lxmnier as senator
- inom-Illinois in order to obtain a
*ote for the Payne tariff hill was the
harden of testimony given by Kdwnru
lllnea, a Chicago lumber dealer with
large interests in the SoiXh, before
..the Illinois senato investigation coin
; mittee.
f\~ The **wetsM wero victorious In
?option elections in seven out of eight
& cities In Indiana that voted on the
' .question whether or not saloons,
~ llcb had been eliminated in county
Ion elections,. should reopen.
Guerrilla warfare has been formally
mad by the Mexican insurrec
tmg td"wr'decree Issued by
L Madero, and made public
Pgfo. The decree authorizes the
vepebilo of Mexico to be or
late seven groups of states,
i aad the promise of a law
to widow* and chll
' Tbe 111 feeling which hM existed
tor *ouw tiroo between white aud eol
?red resident* of l*urel, Ptl?w#rt,
culminated la a race riot, resulting In
tb? death of a white boy, thy ?ertou?
injury of two white men and minor
Injuria to a number Of white and
colored men, end damage to a num
ber of buildings. A mob of armed
negroes swooped down upon a crowd
of spectators In the main thorough*
fare of the town and fired u volley of
bullets arid buckshot into the crowd,
killing <>iys and wounding many.
Francisco Bonora, a Federal Holdler,
1? dead and three men wounded as a
result of the explosion of threo
bomb* In C'alle Diablo, in Juarez, Mex
ico. The first explosion occurred lo
the street In front of the La Favor
ita dam-o hall, and uh the reveller*
ran out, owinen shouted that two men
on top of a roof opposite the dance
hall had thrown a bomb. \ A number
of apodal policemen and soldier* who
were in the hall dashed ihtd the build
lug, and more bombs were hurled at
them.
A dimpled brigade of blue and
brown-eyed babies will leave New
York on a long journey to homes and
mothers. Hlxty little foundlings will
make the trip to tilt vacant crfbu la
as many homes In Texas and Okla
homa. Two sisters of charity, an In
vestigator and four nurses from the
New York foundling hospital will
have charge of the cooing cargo.
Dr. I). K. Pearson of Hinsdale, ill.,
will celebrate hlu ttlst birthday on
April 14 by the distribution of |300,?
000 to schools And religious organi
zations. Tills will make his total
distributions of recent yours uearly
five million dollars, most of which
has been given to small colleges.
Two masked men forced entrance
into the home of A. T. Rogers, ut
I^uh Vegas, N. M.,' and compelled Mrs
Rogers to surrender her two-year-old
baby. The kidnapers left a note for
Mr. Rogers demanding |12,000 in cash
if the parents wunted their baby back
alive. The money was paid and tlie
child recovered. One of the kidnap
ers (j^aa partially Identified as Dennis
Hart, a notorious postofllce and bank
robbers, who recently broke Jail at
Albuquerque.
Supreme Court Justice James Aloy
sius O'Ciorman (Hem ) of New York
City, was elected ('lilted Stales sen
ator from New York by the legisla
ture after the most protracted sirug
gle over this position ever held in
the Empire State. On the linal bal
lot, the 04th, ho received 112 votes
to 80 cast for Chauncey M. Depew,
w hose term expit'ed March 4.
A survey of the work that is being
done by the National Association for
tho Advancement of Colored 1'eople
was given at the annual conference
of the association in Boston by Os
wald Garrison Villa rd, a Now York
newspaper publisher, who Is chair
man of the executive committee of
tlie association. Mr. Vlllard In the
tieglnnlng of Ills address (dated that
tho association was organized be
cause the "situation of the negro in
the United States called for a strong
militant organization to defend his
rights and forward his causes. There
can be no doubt that a wave of col
or hysteriu is sweeping over the
country."
"The demand for workable compen
sation act by botli employers and em
ployees is so universal that It Is only ;
a question of time until a way will be '
found to place It upon the Btatue
books of thev arlous states." This
statement was Issued by the depart
ment of compensation for industrial
accidents of the Natloual Civic Feder
ation, after a meeting to consider the
recent ruling of the court of appeals,
holding the Wainwrlght employers' lia
bility act unconstitutional.
Tentative peace proposals have
been made by both sides In Mexico,
and on the administration side have
been acted upon. In the view of Don
Francisco peace is assured?if not
within a month. Diaz, it is reported,
in a mossage to the Mexican cong
ress, will insist that peace bo con
cluded.
Fire-swept, smoke-stained and water
drenched, New York state's magnifi
cent $27,OOl),uuO capitol stands a par
tial wreck by flames that started in
the assembly library, burned away the j
entire west wtng and did damages e3 [
timated at $7,0ou.(nH> before the fliej
was declared under control, after lag- I
Ing more than four hours. Five mil-f
Hon dollars probably could repair the
damage done by fire, but money can
not restore the historical records that
were the pride of the state library. j
Washington.
Dr Soemnn Knapp, one of the fore '
most experts of the department of ag* '
riculture in many parts of the world,
died at his home in Washington. He
was 7X >cars old IVx'tor Knapp was
Irom New York and his work in the
Orient and in connection with Ameri
can rice production in the South and
In promotion of various Southern
crops made him famous among agri
cultural investigators. Rheumatism,
which developed a complication of
diseases, cau.-cil h s death
The Democratic c.i .i u.s was note
worthy for its banm ny and the
smoothness of its progress, and tn"
Democratic members of the new
house of i epi ?>.-en'.ut. v es adopted
without change the committee a-- di
luents, the ecoi.otin ptogvam and trie
new rules piepared for tco:i.:ng
session by the < mni:. ti,"-; t...?t ha\e
Leen work'ng during ti?e las: r*on,\.
Important changes m p .eel an I
a general reorgani. it:nn of the h. i-e
will result from the action of 11:??
I>cmocrats. The power of nam i.*
committees was definitely taken from
the speaker.
A new counterfeit ten dollar I'nit
ed States note, a photographic pro- i
ductlon of the Buffalo note, not very I
cleverly executed, was announced by
tho secret service. It la of the 1901
series, boarlng the portraits of I^ewls
and Clark, the back of the note being
reddish brown Instead of green.
- Approximately JS.OOO.fFOO loss was
sustained by tho peach-growing Indus
try In the United Stateg east of the
Reeky mountains last season from the
brown rot, scab and curculio, it small
bettle, according to a department of
agriculture bulletin. The loss
about half the value of the crop.
Uncle Sam Has a Great Golden Hoard
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TO IT.
WAHHINOTON.?Uncle Ham htm
more gold In LI* possession to
day than ho has ever had before In
lw? life. Treasurer l^ee McClung
looked over hi* balance sheet recent
ly and found the government had
more than $1,000,000,000 In gold coin,
to say nothing of $126,000,000 in bul
lion. Never before In the history of
the government has it had ho much
gold piled up In Its coffers.
Not only 1s this a record-breaking
amount for the government to have,
but there Is more gold In the treasury
now than in the vaults of Great lirlt
ain and France combined, or of Ureal
Drltaln and Russia combined.
In other words, this government
has more gold, in gold coin and bul
lion, than any other two nations.
This vast golden hoard represents
the accumulation of a long series of
years. It is not ascribed to any par
ticular financial development of re
cent occurrence, lly no means is all
this gold coin and bullion stored In
Wnshlngton. Any burglarious gentle
man who thinks he ran tunnel under
the treasury and find all this gold In
that institution is in error. The gold
i? purtly In the vaults of the treas
ury here In Washington, some of it
In la the vaults of the subtreasurles
and Home of it Is in the mints of i'hiV*
udvlphla and Denver. ^
An a matter of fact the greater
part of it is at the two mints named.
About $936,000,000 of the total coin
lit held in trust to redeem outstand
ing gold certificates.
Three years ago' the government
transferred $276,000,000 In gold coin
from Ban Francisco to Denver. That
task was accomplished at a cost of
$276,000.
Kaiser Wilhelm and the German
government have stored away a part
of the indemnity from France, which
can be used for war purposes at a
moment's notice, if need be. I)ut the
chest of Germany is small compared
with Uncle Ham's hoard pf gold.
Never before In the history 6f the
world was there anything like It.
If all (he gold coin and gold bul
lion pf the government were convert
ed into $20 gold plecea aud laid on
the ground side by Bide they would
form a string of gold pieces reaching
almoat half across the United States.
The string of gold would reach from
New York to Chicago and a good dla
lance beyond.
At the same time all this gold could
be housed In one room of dimensions
not very great. It could easily be
put Into a room CO feet long, 20 feet
wide and. 20 feet high. This would
leave considerable space to spare.
President Taft Leads Strenuous Life
and talks with j
members of congress and other offi
cials about Important matters.
After luncheon the president usu
ally oomes back to his office for an
hour or more of work. Then he goes
for a walk of Heveral mlleB through
the capital. After the walk he sees
more callers and frequently does not
get Into the White House until close
to eight o'clock?the hour for din
ner.
Although Mr. Taft probably likes
homo life as well as any other Amer
ican, he has accepted far more Invi
tations to "go out" than did hlB fcrede
cessor. The president has almost
completely forgotten a custom follow
ed by Mr. Roosevelt of not attending
social functions outside the White
llouso except those given by the vice
president and members of the cabinet.
Mr. Taft has frequently attended re
ceptions or balls given in honor of
his daughter, Helen, a debutante of
this Beadon. He has also lent his
presence at many other functions of
the season.at tho homes of friends and
at several public affairs. In addition
to all this social activity the presi
dent-has consented to make dozens of
speeches and to .attend many ban
quets of national organizations which
have mot hero in the winter months.
Altogether. It is seldom that Mr.
Taft gets through the "day's work"
until midnight. His average "sleep"
must not bo much over six hours *
night.
PIUCSIDENT TAFT has proved to
the satisfaction of official Wash
ington that'he can lead the strenu
ous life, oven If ho does not wade
through Rock creek every rainy Sat
urday afternoon and make 00-mlle I
horseback rides to show his physical
fitness.
During the past winter the president
lias gone through a program, official
and Bocial, that would have left many
a younger man gasping for breath. In
spite of it all the president today
looks as If he were in the best of
health, a bit pale from lack of golf
and plenty of outdoor exercise, but
still in good trim.
Anyone who thinks the president
has an easy time should remember
his daily schedule. He Is up before
seven o'clock, and with his physical
director, Dr. Barker, ho does some
Btunts which Berve to give him an
appetlto for breakfast.
Mr. Taft leaves tho-executive man
sion for his office shortly after nine
o'clock, nnd from the time he arrives
until 1:30 or 2 o'clock, he Is constant
ly with the cabinet or with callers
Many a day he shakes hands with
Dreadnoughts Showing Marked Advance
ONE of the last acts of the last con
gress was to make provisions for
two of the most powerful fighting ma
chines In the United States navy. The
limit of cost and time of completion
of the dreadnought Florida was ex
tended and additional funds were vot
ed for the new New York and the
Texas, the keel of which will he laid
In u few months. Kach vessel will
cost $0,400,000 and 3,000 skilled work
men will be employed In the New
York navy yard for the next three
years in the work of construction.
The dreadnought type Is one of
very recent date. Through her alli
ance with Japan Qrent Firltaln was !
the first to learn the lesson of the all- I
big gun ship, and Immediately set
about solidifying it in steel. Some of
our own progressive navy officers had
earlier read the lesson in the wnr
\slth Spain i>nd plans of the IT. 8. S i
Feasible and tht V. S. S Fossible had j
been drawn and pigeon holed. Then i
when the British Dreadnought went
overboard and the type which she
embodied was revealed, there was a
hurried dusting off of the pigeon
holed plan and a clamor for appro
priations wherewith to build the
ships.
The main battery of the new shlpi
will consist of ten 14-lnch guns, while
the secondary battery will have over
a score of flve-lnch weapons. The
guns of the secondary battery are In
tended for repelling torpedo attack. ,
These guns have a range of five miles
and an extreme rapidity of*flre, each j
being capable of firing 15 shells a
minute. With 12 available for a !
broadside that would mean a rain of
180 shells a minute, which could be
concentrated on any attacking flotilla.
While it Is inconceivable that any
llotllla would have the hardihood to j
make a daylight attack on any vessel I
of this typo, yet It is Interesting to
calculate the volume of fire that |
could be directed against attack by a
dreadnought of the New York typo.
Suppose that the destroyers of an at- I
tacking flotilla had a speed of 30 j
knots. They would then be able to j
traverse the five-mile "danger tone" j
In the ppaco of ten minutes. Hut In I
that lurid ten minutes the guns of the
dreadnought would be able to hurl
1,800 shells at her foes.
Work Planned for the Extra Session
Amu i we NT
50UT M TO WFST
Willi.I" reMtntf In C.oorRia, President
Taft p iv" consul* Tabic attention
to certain i* rti.w.s <>: his ir.? ssh^o to
riJiiprt's-f II. \< > t.t i.. t! c so::th soto
I,v for i fst l> : ? ?? ' |>: ivn y. (!.o Mux
Iran war. and ttl.<r q.h-Jt ion? of
s'.ito wo'.jld t * down. TJ.ere wili
probably bo t ?? i ? ?? iinpo! t:t* m?-s
sages to tho ox'ra M^s'on fit r<:igress
Al least th?t 1m t! ?? ;.'tvs nt ?xi>ecta
tlon of the execut \o One will deal
solely with rccij.rot i:y. another with
tariff revision and a third with the
Mexican war.
The war messafio \s 111 come In connec
Lion with the rnquost for an apprcprl
atlon to meet the expenses of the "ma
neuvers." Thero will be a deficiency
In the allowance for army mobilisa
tion. This must be uiado up by con
Kress, and in asking for the one, or
five, or ten million dollars with which
to meet this expense, tho president
will outline the reason for the army
morenent. Already An Inquiry by
congrftM la scented In this connection.
If the proposed movement upon Mex
ico collapses and the troops be re
*v ? ~2
" }-?i- ??? -
I turned to thetr posts, congress will
want to know tho reason why they
: woro assembled.
If President Taft believes that the
1 Democrats In tho present congress
| are going to pass the reciprocity bill
, to carry out the Canadian agreement
land then go homo and wait for the
regular session of congress in Decem
ber before they do anything, he la
very much mistaken
i Tho Democrats declare their Inten
' tlcn of keeping faith with the presl
dent and passlrg his reciprocity meas
ure J\;st as quick as possible, but they j
?.r?? not goh-g to stop there. There |
was no understanding with the presl
?lout prior to the catllr.g of the ex
ira session as to what legislation
should be attempted beyond the ear
? rv.iig out of the reciprocity compact.
Messrs Clark and Underwood told
f tho president that It was ' their pur
] pose to revise the tariff It la stated
j that tho president thoroughly under
stood the situation, and for this reason
the reports which emanated from At
lanta that the president expects the
oongree* to pa*s reciprocity *nd theft
go home are discounted. :
mJ p'
Heroin* Honored. |.
There *r* two monuments, to .Han
nah Dustln, s heroine of early colo
nisi New England. One I* Concord
N. H.. snd tho other at Hoterbill
Mass.
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HeTTueMtNT ON
> ANIUAN0
LEGAL confirmation of the prlncl
pie of community ownership of
land, of which the philosophy of
Henry George la an extension,
has now been supplied In a decl
ilon of Judge George Crow of East St.
.xmls upholding a grant of land In com
mon made 186 years ago to the reBl
lents of Kaskaskla, 111., by his most
Christian majesty, Louis XV. of
France.
The decision also recalls the ancient
renown of Kaskaskla, the oldest settle
ment of white men In the Mississippi
valley and the provincial, territorial
md state capital of- Illinois. Kaskas
cla'B capturo by Virginian troops under
3en. George Rogers Clark conveyed
Illinois from Great Britain to the Uni
ted States, and opened the way for the
conquest of the northwest.
Judge Crow's finding repeals a law
passed by the Illinois legislature au
thorizing the village to sell Its com
aions of about 6,000 acres. The law was
enacted at tho Instance of tenants of
the common land, who claimed that
ihe century's experiment In community
Dwnership had proved a failure.
Kaskaskla, now a large Island oppo
site Fort Gage, 111., was a peninsula
when the settlement was founded In
1700 by Jesuit priests, Fathers James
jravler and Oabrlel Marest. The Mis
sissippi river dug a deep channel
across the base of the peninsula 30
years ago, so that, In the opinion of
many lawyers, Kaskaskla, the first cap
ital of Ullnois, Is aow a part of tho
state of Missouri. j
No record of the French king's grant
has been preserved. It was confirmed,
however, by a patent issued in 1743 by
Uov. Pierre Vaudreuil of tho province
of Ixjulslana, and by Edme Gatlen Sal
mon, commissary general.
From the flrBt, It is believed, a
juasl-pi ivate ownership of land existed
n that portion.of the parish which was
under cultivation. Rut almost half of
the parish was a commons proper, part
n grazing land upon which the Bottlers
pastured their cattle, and- part in tim
ber land, where they hunted.
The farm land, because of peril from
Indian marauders, was divided on the
French arpent system. Each settler's
tract consisted of a ribbon of land 193
feet wide and three miles long. 1
Ry this means, although the farmer
;ultivated several acres of land, he was
not isolated from his neighbors, at
whose elbows he almost literally
worked. This system made possible a
common protection against savage at
tacks.
There Is no record showing whether
the early settlers paid rent for their
farm land to the community. That
they were merely tenants, however,
was recognized when a petition to per
mit the purchase of tho land waq pre
?onted by them to the United States
government, soon after Illinois became
i territory.
The petition was granted and the
cultivated land passed from common
.nto individual ownership. The le
gality of the proceeding is doubted
by lawyers, but It has stood almost a
century, too long to be reversed.
To differentiate the farm land from
the commons, the government sur
veyed a lino between thenl as a boun
dary, known today as the Grand Line.
The commons was regarded as of llt
;lo value, because the_ expense of,
clearing it of timber to make farming
possible was considered prohibitive.*
Forty acres of It was devoted to a
snce famous race track, whlgh had
stalls for 600 horses and a mile
course. The settlers hunted through
the forests and looked with disfavor
upon the swamps at the tongue of the
peninsula..
But about.the middle of the last
century the timber business became
profitable, and soon, numbers of saw
mills were busy cutting down the
wodda. The river continually depos
ited soil at the end of the point, build
ing it up at Uu rata of about a mile In
'5 years. The swamps - disappeared
ind turned Into land of* the highest
fertility:
la 1161, at the request of the reel
laRtt Un p^rtalu th<\ laciatetiura
*. ? . ?
empowered them to leaae the com
mona to farmers, the rent to be paid
Into the village treasury. Part of the
land wiib surveyed Into 40-acre sec
tions and offered for runt at one dol
lar an acre per year. The leases were
to run for 60 years.
- At various times other sections of
the commons were opened to settle
ment on the lease system. One sec
tion became known as "ten;cent land,"
because the board of five trusteed In
charge of the rents leased It at ten
cents an acre per year. ? j
It was charged that th?* friends ol
the trustees profited by the nominal
price and that their opponents were
excluded from participation.
Then cauie the convulsion which
rent the peninsula from the main
land of Illinois and set the channel
of the Mississippi to the east instead
of the west of Kaskaskia. The histor
ic site of the old vlllago was almost
completely engulfed by the invasion
of waters, and only one corner of the
old state t>ouse, the first In Illinois,
was spared.
The villagers had foreseen the
catastrophe, and obtained permission
from the legislature to move the town
two miles further Bouth. As a con
sequence, It Is said that little proper
ty and no lives were lost.
In the meantime, there Krew up a
bitter antagonism between the tenants
of the commons and the residents in
the village of Kaskaskia. Governor
Vaudreull's grant expressly vested the
ownership of the commons in all the
inhabitants of the Immaculate Con
ception parish, which included the en
tire island.
Hut for more than a century, the
villagers excluded all but themselves
from a voice In the government and'
the expenditure of the rents. The
tenants were not permitted to vote
for village trustees.
The settlors' resentment was the
greater because they outnumbered the
villagers three to one.' At present the
vlllago has 60 voters and Jhe rest ol
I the Island dbout 150.
Judge Crow's decision, anticipating
the final determination of the Su
preme court, ia that title to the com*
mons of Kaskaskia 1b vested forever
in the inhabitants of the Immaculate
Conception parish. To this extent it
was gratifying to the insurgents, but
it disappointed their wish to purchase
the land outright instead of renting it.
Some of the leaseholders, who had
lived on their farms for 50 years and
seen thoir children and grandchildren
grow up about them, feel that the
land already belongs to them "by vir
tue of long occupancy."
In the meantime, the Mississippi
river 1b laboring to convert the entire
island into commons, by tearing away
soil from the upper shore, which is
owned by individuals, and depositing
It upon the south shore, which is com
mon land. Old inhabitants assert that
within the last 60 years two miles of
soil have been added to the commons.
This accretion was one of the sections
recently opened to renters.
The present Kaskaskia, venerable as
it is, is the daughter of a still older
Kaskaskia, an Indian village on. the
Illinois river near Utlca, which was
discovered in 1673 by Father Mar
quette. There ho established a mis
sion, the first In tho Mississippi val
ley.
* Twenty-seven years later, the Kas
kaskia Indians, who were on the peril
ous frontier botween the warring
tribes of Illinois and Iroquois, deter
mined upon an exodus to a safer situ
ation. I>;t by prleat8',s they settled up
on the fertllo site of the present Kas
kaskia.
In 1763 the Illinois territory was
ceded by tho French to Great Hrltaln,
which took possession of Kaskaskia in
1765 and appointed as governor the
Chevalier de Rocheblave. In 1778 it
was wrested from Great Britain by
General Clark, commanding an expedi
tion of Virginian troops, called "Long
Knives" by the Indians. Virginia
ceded lllifJfciB to the United States In
1874 and six years later, when Illinois
was erected Into a territory of the
United States, a governor was sta
tioned at the capital. Kaskaskia.
As hasrlieen related, but Tew of tho
ruins of the old Kaskaskia remain to
day. The destruction wrought by the
flood of 1844 wrb completed by the In
vasion of-the Mississippi rlTOfT ""r"'
Even before that time the house In
whlcb^ General I^afayette slapt In
18ft had been carried away piecemeal
by souvenir hunters. Therf.still re
main*. however, the aneteftt- parish
(Mil, which was founded In Rochetle.
France, and whose peal waa the first
heard between the AUeghenlee and
the- Mississippi river. ?
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