xii CONTEXTS CHAPTER VII. INDIAN TEEATIES. page Prairie du Chien in 1825— Second Treaty in 1830— Treaty of 1837— Doty Treaty in 1841 — Treaty of Mendota in 1851 — Land Open to Settle- ment — Prairie Island Indians 74 CHAPTER VIII. INDIAN TROUBLES. Half-Breed Tract — The Location and Purpose — Issue of Scrip — Difficulties Which Ensued — Threats ami Recourse to Washington Finally Settle the Matter — Spirit Lake Massacre — Investigation by Red Wing Men — Uprising of 1862 90 CHAPTER IX. BEGINNING OF THE COUNTY. Boundary Lines Given — First Election — "Judge" Young and His Ballot Box — Imported Yoters — County Officers Appointed — First Session of Board — Court House Resolution — School Districts — A Few Early Ses- sions — Court House Contract — 1849-1858 97 CHAPTER X TOWNSHIP SYSTEM. An Experiment in County Government — Members of First Board of Super- visors — Two Chairmen — Party Feeling High — Sheriff Preserves Order — Another Version — Court House Trouble — Meeting of Second Board — Resumption of County Commissioner System — History of Court House — ( lounty Poor Farm — Political History 110 CHAPTER XL DR. SWEXEY s NARRATIVE. Denton and Gavin — Aiton and Hancock — Bush, Bullard, Post, Snow and Gould — Potter, Young and Day — Sweney, Freeborn and McGinnis — Friendliness of the Indians — First Winter — Arrival of the Scandi- navians — Digging Potatoes — Fishing in Stream and River — A Sporting Clergyman — Some of the Indian Braves — Farming in the Old Indian Cornfield — Squaws as Farmhands 120 CHAPTER XII. TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES. Organization ami Original Names — Belle Creek — Belvidere — Burnside — Cherry Grove — Central Point — Early Settlement 142 CHAPTER XIII. CANNON FALLS. First Settlement — Platting the Yillage — Village and City Incorporated — Water Power and Mills — Fraternities — Hotels — Newspaper — Modern Cannon Falls— Industries — Business Houses — Schools — Commercial Club — Banks — Cannon Falls Township — Early History — Veterans of the War 159
