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"Father went to St. Joseph last spring. When wo were coming back he said he could not fight the white men, but would go below and steal horses from them, and give them to his children, so that they could be comfortable, and then he would go away off.
"Father also told me that he was getting old, and wanted me to go with him to carry his hun- dles. He left his wives and his other children be- hind. There were sixteen men and one squaw in the party that went below with us. We had no horses, but walked all the way down to the settle- ments. Father and I were picking red-berries, near Scattered Lake, at the time he was shot. It was near night. He was hit the first time in the side, just above the hip. His gun and mine were lying on the ground. He took up my gun and fired it first, and then fired his own. He was shot the second time when he was firing his own gun. The ball struck the stock of his gun, and then hit him in the side, near the shoulder. This was the shot that killed him. He told me that he was killed, and asked me for water, which I gave him. He died immediately after. When I heard the
first shot fired I laid down, and the man did not see me before father was killed.
"A short time before father was killed an Indian named Hiuka, who married the daughter of my father's second wife, eame to him. He had a horse with him-also a gray-colored coat that he had taken from a man that he had killed to the north of where father was killed. He gave the coat to father, telling him he might need it when it rained, as he had no coat with him. Hinka said he had a horse now, and was going back to the Indian country.
"The Indians that went down with us separated. Eight of them and the squaw went north; the other eight went further down. I have not seen any of them since. After father was killed I took both guns and the ammunition and started to go to Devil's Lake, where I expected to find some of my friends. When I got to Beaver creek I saw the tracks of two Indians, and at Standing Buffalo's village saw where the eight Indians that had gone north had crossed.
"I carried both guns as far as the Sheyenne river, where I saw two men. I was scared. and threw my gun and the ammunition down. After that I traveled only in the night; and, as I had no ammunition to kill anything to eat. I had not strength enough to travel fast. I went on until I arrived near Devil's Lake, when I staid in one place three days, being so weak and hungry that I could go no further. I had picked up a cartridge near Big Stone Lake, which I still had with me, and loaded father's gun with it, cutting the ball into slugs. With this charge I shot a wolf. ate some of it, which gave me strength to travel, and went on up the lake until the day f was captured, which was twenty-six days from the day my father was killed."
Here ends this wonderful episode in our contaet with the Indian raco in Minnesota. It commenced with Little Crow, in this instance, and it is proper that it should end with his inglorious life. With the best means for becoming an exponent of In- dian civilization on this continent, he has driven the missionaries from his people and become a standing example of the assertion: "Once an In- dian always an Indian."
Little Crow has indeed given emphasis to the aphorism of Ferdousi, "For that which is unclean by nature, thon cans't entertain no hope; no wash- ing will make the gypsy white."
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PRINCIPAL EVENTS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.
1659. Groselliers (Gro-zay-yay) and Radisson visit Minnesota.
1661. Menard, a Jesuit missionary, ascends the Mississippi, according to Herrot, twelve years before Marquette saw this river.
1665. Allouez, a Jesuit, visited the Minnesota shore of Lake Superior.
1679. Du Luth planted the arms of France, one hundred and twenty leagues beyond Mille Lacs.
1680. Du Luth, the first to travel in a canoe from Lake Superior, by way of the St. Croix river, to the Mississippi. Descending the Mississippi, he writes to Signelay, 1683: "I proceeded in a canoe two days and two nights, and the next day, at ten o'clock in the morning, found Accoult, Augelle, and Father Hennepin, with a hunting party of Sioux." He writes: "The want of respect which they showed to the said Reverend Father provoked me, and this I showed them, telling them he was my brother, and I had placed him in my canoe to come with me into the villages of said Nadouecioux." In September, Du Luth and Hen- nepin were at the Falls of St. Anthony on their way to Mackinaw.
1683. Perrot and Le Sueur visit Lake Pepin. Perrot, with twenty men, builds a stockade at the base of a bluff, upon the east bank, just above the entrance of Lake Pepin.
1688. Perrot re-occupies the post on Lake Pepin.
1689. Perrot, at Green Bay, makes a formal record of taking possession of the Sioux country in the name of the king of France
1693. Le Sueur at the extremity of Lake Su- perior.
1694. Le Sueur builds a post, on a prairie island in the Mississippi, about nine miles below Hastings.
1695. Le Sueur brings the first Sioux chiefs who visit Canada.
1700. Le Sueur ascends the Minnesota River. Fort L'Huillier built on a tributary of the Blue Earth River.
1702. Fort L'Huillier abandoned.
1727. Fort Beauharnois, in the fall of this year, erected in sight of Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin, by La Perriere du Boucher.
1728. Verendrye stationed at Lake Nepigon.
1731. Verendrye's sons reach Rainy Lake. Fort St. Pierre erected at Rainy Lake.
1732. Fort St. Charles erected at the south- west corner of the Lake of the Woods.
1734. Fort Maurepas established on Winnipeg River.
1736. Verendrye's sons and others massacred by the Sioux on an isle in the Lake of the Woods.
1738. Lort La Reine on the Red River estab- lished.
1743. Verendrye's sons reach the Rocky Moun- tains.
1766. Jonathan Carver, on November 17th, reaches the Falls of St. Anthony.
1794. Sandy Lake occupied by the Northwest Company.
1802. William Morrison trades at Leach Lake.
1804. William Morrison trades at Elk Lake, now Itasca.
1805. Lieutenant Z. M. Pike purchases the site since occupied by Fort Snelling.
1817. Earl of Selkirk passes through Minne- sota for Lake Winnipeg.
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Major Stephen H. Long, U. S. A., visits Falls of St. Anthony.
1818. Dakotah war party under Black Dog attack Ojibways on the Pomme de Terre River.
1819. Col. Leavenworth arrives on the 24th of Angust, with troops at Mendota.
1820. J. B. Faribault brings up to Mendota, horses for Col. Leavenworth.
Laidlow, superintendent of farming for Earl Sel- kirk, passes from Pembina to Prairie du Chien to purebase seed wheat. Upon the 15th of April, left Prairie du Chien with Mackinaw boats and ascended the Minnesota to Big Stone Lake, where the boats were placed on rollers and dragged a short distance to Lake Traverse, and on the 3d of June reached l'embina.
On the 5th of May, Col. Leavenworth estab- lished summer quarters at Camp Coldwater, Hen- nepin county.
In July, Governor Cass, of Michigan, visits the camp.
In August, Col. Snelling sueceeds Leavenworth.
September 20th, eorner-stone laid under eom- mand of Col. Snelling.
First white marriage in Minnesota, Lieutenant Green to daughter of Captain Gooding.
First white child born in Minnesota, daughter to Col. Snelling; died following year.
1821. Fort St. Anthony was sufficiently com- pleted to be occupied by troops.
Mill at St. Anthony Falls constructed for the use of garrison, under the supervision of Lieuten- ant McCabe.
1822. Col. Dickson attempted to take a drove of cattle to Pembina.
1823. The first steamboat, the Virginia, on May 10th, arrived at the month of the Minnesota river.
Mill stones for grinding flour sent to St. An- thony Falls.
Major Long, U. S. A., visits the northern bound- ary by way of the Minnesota and Red River.
Beltrami, the Italian traveler, explores the northernmost source of the Mississippi.
1824. General Winfield Scott inspects Fort St. Anthony, and at his suggestion the War De- partment changed the name to Fort Snelling.
1825. April 5th, steamboat Rufus Putnam reaches the Fort. May, steamboat Rufus Putnam arrives again and delivers freight at Land's End trading post on the Minnesota, about a mile above the Fort.
1826. January 26th, first mail in five months received at the Fort.
Deep snow during February and March.
March 20th, snow from twelve to eighteen inches. April 5th, snow-storm with flashes of lightning. April 10th, thermometer four degrees above zero.
April 21st, ice began to move in the river at the Fort, and with twenty feet above low water mark.
May 2d, first steamboat of the season, the Law- rence, Captain Reeder, took a pleasure party to within three miles of the Falls of St. Anthony.
1826. Dakotahs kill an Ojibway near Fort Snelling.
1827. Flat Month's party of Ojibways attacked at Fort Snelling, and Sionx delivered by Colonel Snelling to be killed by Ojibways, and their bodies thrown over the bluff into the river.
General Gaines inspects Fort Snelling.
Troops of the Fifth Regiment relieved by those of the First.
1828. Colonel Snelling dies in Washington.
1829. Rev. Alvin Coe and J. D. Stevens, Pres- byterian missionaries, visit the Indians around Fort Snelling.
Major Taliaferro, Indian agent, establishes a farm for the benefit of the Indians at Lake Cal- houn, which he called Eatonville, after the Secre- tary of War.
Winter, Spring and Summer very dry. One inch was the average monthly fall of rain or snow for ten months. Vegetation more backward than it had been for ten years.
1830. August 14th, a sentinel at Fort Snelling. just before daylight, discovered the Indian eouneil house on fire. Wa-pa-sha's son-in-law was the incendiary.
1831. August 17th, an old trader Roeque, and his son arrived at Fort Snelling from Prairie du Chien, having been twenty-six days on the journey. Under the influence of whisky or stupidity, they ascended the St. Croix by mistake, and were lost for fifteen days.
1832. May 12th, steamboat Versailles arrives at Fort Snelling.
June 16th, William Carr arrives from Missouri at Fort Snelling, with a drove of cattle and horses.
Henry R. Schoolcraft explores the sourees of the Mississippi.
1833, Rev. W. T. Boutwell establishes a mission among the Ojibways at Leech Lake.
E. F. Ely opens a mission school for Ojibways at Aitkin's trading post, Sandy Lake.
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1834. May. Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond arrive at Lake Calhoun as missionaries among the Sioux.
November. Henry H. Sibley arrives at Mendota as agent of Fur Company.
1835. May. Rev. T. S. Williamson and J. D. Stevens arrive as Sioux missionaries, with Alex- ander G. Huggins as lay-assistant.
June. Presbyterian Church at Fort Snelling organized.
July 31st. A Red River train arrives at Fort Snelling with fifty or sixty head of cattle, and about twenty-five liorses.
Major J. L. Bean surveys the Sioux and Chip- peway boundary line under treaty of 1825, as far as Otter Tail Lake.
November. Col. S. C. Stambaugh arrives; is sutler at Fort Snelling.
1836. May 6th, "Missouri Fulton," first steam- boat, arrives at Fort Snelling.
May 29th. "Frontier," Capt. Harris, arrives.
June 1st. "Palmyra" arrives.
July 2d. "Saint Peters" arrives with J. N. Nicollet as passenger.
July 30. Sacs and Foxes kill twenty-four Winnebagoes on Root River.
1837. Rev. Stephen R. Riggs and wife join Lake Harriet Mission.
Rev. A. Brunson and David King establish Kaposia Mission.
Commissioners Dodge and Smith at Fort Snel- ling make a treaty with the Chippeways to cede lands east of the Mississippi.
Franklin Steele and others make claims at Falls of St. Croix and St. Anthony.
September 29th. Sioux chiefs at Washington sign a treaty.
November 10th. ' Steamboat Rolla arrives at Fort Snelling with the Sioux on their return from Washington.
December 12th. Jeremiah Russell and L. W. Stratton make the first claim at Marine, in St. Croix valley.
1838. April, Hole-in-the-Day and party kill thirteen of the Lac-qui-parle Sioux. Martin Mc- Leod from Pembina, after twenty-eight days of exposure to snow, reaches Lake Traverse.
May 25th, Steamboat Burlington arrives at Fort Snelling with J. N. Nicollet and J. C. Fremont on a scientific expedition.
June 14th, Marryat, the British novelist, Frank-
lin Steele and others rode from the Fort to view Falls of St. Anthony.
July 12th, steamboat Palmyra arrives at Fort Snelling with an official notice of the ratification of treaty. Men arrived to develop the St. Croix Valley.
August 2d, Hole-in the-Day encamped with a party of Chippeways near Fort Snelling, and was attacked by Sioux from Mud Lake, and one killed and another wounded.
August 27th, Steamboat Ariel arrives with com- missioners Pease and Ewing to examine half-breed claims.
September 30th, steamboat Ariel makes the first trip up the St. Croix river.
October 26th, steamboat Gypsy first to arrive at Falls of St. Croix with annuity goods for the Chippeways. In passing through Lake St. Croix grounded near the townsite laid out by S. C. Stambaugh and called Stambaughville.
1839. April 14th, the first steamboat at Fort Snelling, the Ariel, Capt. Lyon.
Henry M. Rice arrives at Fort Snelling.
May 2d, Rev. E. G. Gear, of the Protestant Episcopal church, recently appointed chaplain, ar- rived at Fort Snelling in the steamboat Gipsy.
May 12th, steamboat Fayette arrives on the St. Croix, having been at Fort Snelling, with members of Marine Mill Company.
May 21st, the Glancus, Gapt. Atchinson, arrives at Fort Snelling.
June 1st, the Pennsylvania, Capt. Stone, arrives at Fort Snelling.
June 5th, the Glancus arrives again.
June 6th, the Ariel arrives.
June 12th, at Lake Harriet mission, Rev. D. Gavin, Swiss missionary among the Sioux at Red Wing, was married to Cordelia Stevens, teacher at Lake Harriet mission.
June 25th, steamboat "Knickerbocker," arrived at Fort Snelling.
June 26th, steamboat Ariel, on third trip.
June 27th, a train of Red River carts, under Mr. Sinclair, with emigrants, who encamped near the fort.
July 2d, Chippeways killed a Sioux of Lake Cal- houn band.
July 3d, Sioux attack Chippeways in ravine above Stillwater.
1840. April, Rev. Lucian Galtier, of the Roman Catholic church, arrives at Mendota.
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May 6th, squatters removed on military reser- vatiou.
June 15th, Thomas Simpson, Artic explorer, shoots himself near Turtle River, under aberration of the mind.
June 17th, four Chippeways kill and scalp a Sioux man and woman.
1841. March 6th, wild geese appeared at the fort.
March 20th, Mississippi opened.
April 6th, steamboat Otter, Capt. Harris, arrived. Kaboka, an old chief of Lake Calhoun band, killed by Chippeways.
May 24th, Sioux attack Chippeways at Lake Pokeguma, of Snake river. Methodist mission moved from Kaposia to Red Rock, Rev. B. F. Kavenaugh, superintendent.
November 1st, Father Galtier completes the log chapel of St. Paul, which gave the name to the capital of Minnesota. Rev. Augustin Ravoux ar- rives.
1842. July, the Chippeways attack the Kapo- sia Sioux.
1843. Stillwater laid out. Ayer, Spencer and Ely establish a Chippeway mission at Red lake.
July 15th, Thomas Longly, brother-in-law of Rev. S. R. Riggs, drowned at Traverse des Sioux mission station.
1844. August, Captain Allen with fifty dra- goons marches from Fort Des Moines through southwestern Minnesota, and on the 10th of Sep- tember reaches the Big Sioux River. Sisseton war party kill an American named Watson, driving cattle to Fort Snelling.
1845. June 25th, Captain Sumner reaches Traverse des Sioux, and proceeding northward arrested three of the murderers of Watson.
1846. Dr. Williamson, Sioux missionary, moves from Lac-qui-parle to Kaposia. March 31st, steamboat Lynx, Capt. Atchinson, arrives at Fort Snelling.
1847. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, organized. Stillwater the county seat. Harriet E. Bishop establishes a school at St. Paul. Saw-mills begun at St. Anthony Falls.
August, Commissioner Verplanck and Henry M. Rice make treaties with the Chippeways at Fond du Lac and Leech Lake. The town of St. Paul surveyed, platted, and recorded in the St. Croix county Register of Deeds office.
1848. Henry H. Sibley Delegate to Congress from Wisconsin territory.
May 29th, Wisconsin admitted, leaving Minne- sota (with its present boundaries ) without a gov- ernment.
August 26th, "Stillwater convention" held to take measures for a separate territorial organiza- tion.
October 30th, H. H. Sibley, elected Delegate to Congress.
1849. March, act of Congress creating Minne- sota Territory.
April 9th, Highland Mary, Capt. Atchiuson, ar- rives at St. Paul.
April 18th, James M. Goodhue arrives at St. Paul with first newspaper press.
May 27th, Gov. Alexander Ramsey arrives at Mendota.
June Ist, Gov. Ramsey issues proclamation de- claring the territory duly organized.
August 1st, H. H. Sibley elected Delegate to Congress from Minnesota.
September 3d, first Legislature convened.
November, First Presbyterian church, St. Paul, organized.
December, first literary address at Falls of St. Anthony.
1850. January 1st, Historical Society meeting.
June 11th, Indian council at Fort Snelling.
June 14th, steamer Governor Ramsey makes first trip above Falls of St. Anthony.
June 26th, the Anthony Wayne reaches the Falls of St. Anthony.
July 18th, steamboat Anthony Wayne ascends the Minnesota to the vicinity of Traverse des Sioux.
July 25th, steamboat Yankee goes beyond Blue Earth River.
September, H. H. Sibley elected Delegate to Congress.
October, Fredrika Bremer, Swedish novelist visits Minnesota.
November, the Dakotah Friend, a mouthly pa- per appeared.
December, Colonel D. A. Robertson establishes Minnesota Democrat.
December 26th, first public Thanksgiving Day.
1851. May, St. Anthony Express newspaper begins its career.
July, treaty concluded with the Sioux at Tra- verse des Sioux.
July, Rev. Robert Hopkins, Sioux missionary drowned.
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August, treaty concluded with the Sioux at Mankato.
September 19th, the Minnesotian, of St. Paul, edited by J. P. Owens, appeared.
November, Jerome Fuller, Chief Justice in place of Aaron Goodrich, arrives.
December 18th, Thanksgiving Day.
1852. Hennepin county created.
February 14th, Dr. Rae, Arctic explorer, arrives at St. Paul with dog train.
May 14th, land slide at Stillwater.
August, James M. Goodhue, pioneer editor, dies.
November, Yuhazee, an Iudian, convicted of murder.
1853. April 27th, Chippewas and Sioux fight in streets of St. Paul. Governor Willis A. Gor- man succeeds Governor Ramsey.
October, Henry M. Rice elected delegate to con- gress. The capitol building completed.
1854. March 3d, Presbyterian mission house near Lac-qui-parle burned.
June 8th, great excursion from Chicago to St. Paul and St. Anthony Falls.
December 27th, Yuhazee, the Indian, hung at St. Paul.
1855. January, first bridge over Mississippi completed at Falls of St. Anthony.
October, H. M. Rice re-elected to Congress.
December 12, James Stewart arrives in St. Paul direct from Arctic regions, with relics of Sir John Franklin.
1856. Erection of State University building was begun.
1857. Congress passes an act authorizing peo- ple of Minnesota to vote for a constitution.
March. Inkpadootah slaughters settlers in southwest Minnesota.
Governor Samuel Medary succeeds Governor W. A. Gorman.
March 5th. Land-grant by congress for rail- ways.
April 27th. Special session of legislature con- venes.
July. On second Monday convention to form a constitution assembles at Capitol.
October 13th. Election for State officers, and ratifying of the constitution.
H. H. Sibley first governor under the State con- stitution.
December. On first Wednesday, first State legislature assembles.
December. Henry M. Rice and James Shields elected United States senators.
1858, April 15th. People approve act of legis- lature loaning the public credit for five millions of dollars to certain railway companies.
May 11th. Minnesota becomes one of the United States of America.
June 2d. Adjourned meeting of legislature held.
November. Supreme court of State orders Gov- ernor Sibley to issue Railroad bonds.
1859. Normal school law passed.
June. Burbank and Company place the first steamboart on Red River of the North.
August. Bishop T. L. Grace arrived in St. Paul.
1859. October 11th, State election, Alexander Ramsey chosen governor.
1860. March 23d, Anna Bilanski hung at St. Paul for the murder of her husband, the first white person executed in Minnesota.
1861. April 14th, Governor Ramsey calls upon President in Washington and offers a regiment of volunteers.
June 21st, First Minnesota Regiment, Col. W. A. Gorman, leaves for Washington.
July 21st, First Minnesota in battle of Bull Run.
October 13th, Second Minnesota Infantry, Col. H. P. Van Cleve, leaves Fort Snelling.
November 16th, Third Minnesota Infantry, H. C. Lester, go to seat of war.
1862. January 19th, Second Minnesota in bat- tle at Mill Spring, Kentucky.
April 6th. First Minnesota Battery, Captain Munch, at Pittsburg Landing.
April 21st, Second Minnesota Battery goes to seat of war.
April 21st, Fourth Minnesota Infantry Volun- teers. Col. J. B. Sanborn, leaves Fort Snelling.
May 13th, Fifth Regiment Volunteers, Col. Bor- gensrode, leaves for the seat of war.
May 28th, Second, Fourth, and Fifth in battle near Corinth, Mississippi.
May 31st, First Minnesota in battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia.
June 29th, First Minnesota in battle at Savage Station.
June 30th, First Minnesota in battle near Wil- lis' Church.
July 1st, First Minnesota in battle at Malveru Hill.
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August, Sixth Regiment, Col. Crooks, organized. August, Seventh Regiment, Col. Miller, organ- ized.
August, Eighth Regiment, Col, Thomas, organ- ized.
August, Ninth Regiment, Col. Wilkin, organ- ized.
August 18tlı, Sioux attaek whites at lower Sioux Ageney.
September 23d, Col. Sibley defeats Sioux at Mud Lake.
December 26th, Thirty-eight Sioux executed on the same seaffold at Mankato.
1863. January, Alexander Ramsey elected United States Senator.
May 14th, Fourth and Fifth Regiment in battle near Jackson, Mississippi.
July 2d, First Minnesota Infantry in battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
September 19th, Second Minnesota Infantry en- gaged at Chiekamanga, Tennessee.
November 23d, Second Minnesota Infantry en- gaged at Mission Ridge.
1864. January, Col. Stephen Miller inaugur- ated Governor of Minnesota.
March 30th; Third Minnesota Infantry engaged at Fitzhugh's Wooods.
June 6th, Fifth Minnesota Infantry engaged at Lake Chicot, Arkansas.
July 13th, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth, with por- tion of the Fifth Minnesota Infantry, engaged at Tupelo, Mississippi.
July 14th, Col. Alex. Wilkin, of the Ninth, killed.
October 15th, Fourth Regiment engaged near Altoona, Georgia.
December 7th, Eighth Regiment engaged near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Regiments at Nashville, Tennessee.
1865. January 10th, Daniel S. Norton, elected United States Senator.
April 9th, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth at the siege of Mobile.
November 10th, Shakpedan, Sioux chief, and Medieine Bottle executed at Fort Snelling.
1866. January 8th, Col. William R. Marshall inaugurated Governor of Minnesota.
1867. Preparatory department of the State University opened.
1868. January, Governor Marshall enters upon second term.
1869. Bill passed by legislature, removing sea of Government to spot near Big Kandiyohi Lake -vetoed by Governor Marshall.
1870. January 7th, Horace Austin inaugurated as Governor.
1871. January, Wm. Windom elected United States Senator. In the fall destrnetive fires, oc- casioned by high winds, swept over frontier coun- ties.
1872. Jannary, Governor Austin enters upon a second term.
1873. January 7th, 8th, and 9th, polar wave sweeps over the State, seventy persons perishing.
May 22d, the senate of Minnesota eonviets State Treasurer of corruption in office.
September, grasshopper raid began, and eon- tinned five seasons. Jay Cooke failure occasions a finaneial panie.
1874. January 9th, Cushman K. Davis inaug- urated Governor. William S. King elected to con- gress.
1875. February 19th, S. J. R. McMillan elected United States senator.
November, amendment to State constitution, al- lowing any women twenty-one years of age to vote for school officers, and to be eligible for school of- fiees. Rocky Mountain locusts destroy erops in southwestern Minnesota.
1876. January 7th, John S. Pillsbury inaug- urated Governor.
September, Gth, outlaws from Missouri kill the cashier of the Northfield Bank.
1879. November, State constitution amended forbidding publie moneys to be used for the sup- port of schools wherein the distinctive ereeds or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect are taught. J. H. Stewart, M. D., eleeted to congress. Biennial sessions of the legislature adopted.
1878. January, Governor Pillsbury enters upon a second term.
May 2d, explosion in the Washburn and other flour mills at Minneapolis. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated to purchase seed grain for destitute settlers.
1880. November 15th, a portion of the Insane Asylum at St. Peter was destroyed by fire. and twenty-seven inmates lost their lives.
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