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This was Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, des. tined for thirty years to range as ad- vance-guard of European civilization the far western Canadian wilderness, to choose for settlement the spot where today stands the Canadian city of Fort William, and to leave his name to be borne far into the ages by the United States city of Duluth at the ex. treme westerly point of that great lake whose secrets he so thoroughly sought out. With Du Lhut came his brother, Charles Greysolon, Sieur de la Tour. efte, and together they took to the || wild, free life of the forest as though to that manner born, just as did so many gallant members of their class both in France and Canada. Fitted by nature to command, Du Lhut pene- trated farther into the west than any before him except Radisson and Gros- eHiers, leading a troop of wild cour- eurs-de-bois, incapable of discipline but courageous and indefatigable, He gained an unrivalled knowledge of tha western savages, their languages, cus- toms and mentalities, Bitten far more deeply with the vis. us which fires the insatiable explorer than with the passion for the wealth which his work brought to other men, Du Lhut was a splendid representa- tive of his sovereign and of the white man's law amid the wastes of savag- ery. In June 1680 he rescued from sla- very among the Sioux in what is now the State of Minnesota, Father Hen- nepin, a Recollet missionary of the partly of the indomitable La Salle, and in the manner of a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police of a later day, caused the ferccioux Sioux to make apology and repara- tion. In 1683 Du Lhut accomplished an- other feat in the execution of justice, which, again, would do credit to the fine traditions of the red coated Rid ers of the Plains. In October of that year Du Lhut was at Michillimackinac 'lin the strait between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. There he heard that two Frenchmen, fur-traders, had' been murdered somewhere on the shores of Lake Michigan by an Indian named Folle-Avoine, a member of the Saul- teurs, the Algonquin tribe which lived at Sault Ste. Marie. Then came word that Folle-Avoine with a number of his people had returned to Sault Ste. Marie for safety with his nation from the wrath of the Sioux whom he had injured. There were twelve French- men at the Sault, but they dared not arrest the murderer, especially as his relatives declared that never should their lands be reddened by the blood of one of their own people, Du Lhut felt that he would be fail- ing in his duty to' the Governor of New France, whose commission he carried, and to his race, if he allowed this murderer to go unpunished. Un- hesitatingly he started by éanoe for Sault Ste. Marie. With him went a few coureurs-de-bois and one of the Jesuit missionaries at Michillimacki- nac, Father Enjalran. Three miles from the Indian village which was hard by the trading post, Du Lhut landed with two gentlemen adventu- rers of his company and the mission- ary. They struck across country that they might arrive unseen and unher- alded, lest some of the savages should warn Folle-Avoine and he should dis- | Stirring Tales of Canada's Early Days First Trial and Execution Upheld Prestige of Whites in Heart of Savagery. | appear. Suddenly Du Lhwt and his | men stood in the Indian lodge, arrest- ed the astonished Folle-Avoine with all due, ceremony in the face of a blackly-scowling assemblage of rela- tives who, cowed by the Frenchmen's high-handed procedure, made no move. They bore him off with hearts beating furiously and with unconcern ed mien to lodge him behind the palis- ades ini a cell of the fort. There, by Du Hut's orders, six Frenchmen stood guard over him night and day. Practised forest diplomat as he was, Du Lhut knew that what he had ac- complished was but the least part of his task. Immediately he called coun- cil of the braves and chiefs. They came in sullen silence, smoked infin- ite tobacco as they squatted on the ground, and listened, Du Lhut addres- sed them. "Brothers," he said, "Ono- ntio, your great father at Quebec, has given orders to me, his servant, that fit there should chance to be any whose minds are so evil that they should kill without cause, in time of peace, any of their French brethren, I should di- ligently seek out the guilty from the innocent. For, your great Father wills not that the whole people should surf- fer for the crime of one or two, un- less, perchance, they shield the crim- inals. "Brothers, it is for you to declare yourselves in this matter so that, if there be any mischievous spirits a- mong you who are the accomplices of Fole-Avoine, I may know who they are. You shall see that no fear whatever shall prevent me from do- mg my duty." Deep, guttural Ho! Hol's came from the inscrutable savage faces. One by one the warriors rose and left. Then followed council after coun- cil of the savages among themselves. Finally they called in Du Lhut. It was not Folle-Avoine who was guilty, they said, but Achiganaga, an Ottawa chief, and his two sons who lived at Kiaonan, eighty miles away where the murder had been committed. In their craft, they thought that Du Lhut would be unable to seize Achiganaga amid his own people and in such an inaccessible spot. Du Lhut, however, had anticipated them. Some time be- fore, he had heard of the complicity of Achiganaga and his sons. The Sieur Pere, at the head of a party of French soldiers and fur-traders, was already on the way. The Saulteurs ask- ed that Folle-Avoine be set at liberty. Du Lhut replied that the Sieur Pere would certainly return with Achigan- aga and his sons. If harm came to him there would be a war with the French. The French would undoubt- edly obtain possession of them dead or alive. If no further proof develop- released. This ended the councils. Taking Folle-Avoine, and. accompanied by only twelve Frenchmen, Du Lhut de- fied the young fire-brands who vowed they would rescue Folle-Avoine, and | returned by canoe to Michillimackinac, there to await Pere and his prisoners, These arrived on November 23th. Pere had acquitted himself of his com- mission most skilfully. In spite of the large number of warriors whom Achi- ganaga had kept with him when they should have been scattered on the win ter hunt, Pere, showing a resolute front, had arrested the chief and his sons, and had encountered no oppo- sition. It smoothed his path that there were cighteen Frenchmen win- teripg at Kiaonan. The prisoners were lodged in the guard-room at Michilli- mackinac, Summoned by Du Lhut, the chiefs and sachems assembled next day from Sault Ste. 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The cross-examination finish- ed, the court stenographer stood up and in Algonquin and in Huron read out the record. Folle-Avoine acknowl- edged that these were the words which he had spoken. He was forthwith re- moved under escort. Then were called the two sons of Achiganaga. They were subjected to the same treatment. Impressed by the solemnity of the occasion and of the assemblage, artlessly they told their story. There was little need of witnesses, for, they accused each oth- er. When they had heard their words recalled to them from the little white sheet of the court stenographer, as- tounded and dazed they admitted them and were in their turn led away under guard. Then came Achiganaga himself. Folle-Avoine, with his simple cunning, had isiplicated the old chief, perhaps as catching at his eminence and influ- ence for salvation. Stoutly the old man denied that he had ever had any 'knowledge of the villianous plot. Du 'Lhut's most searching questions could not shake him nor open any loophole in his testimony. r Du Lhut recalled Folle-Avoine and Achiganaga's 'two sons, and dramati- cally confronted them with the old man. Once more reading them their answers, he put tem through a fur- ther gruelling cross-examination. The sachems and the chiefs drew hard up- on their pipes as the climax came. The three young prisoners admitted their guilt and failed to implicate the old man, who was able by his questioning of them and by the convincing charac- ter of his story to establish his inno- cence of all complicity. "Ho! Ho!" the sachems cried in their excitement, "Each of you accus- es the others and convicts himself, It is enough. Your lives are at the mercy of the Frenchman." The trial was over. The jury had rendered its verdict. Achiganaga was released. sachems and the chiefs in another council. "Brothers," he said, in sum- ming 'up, "It is established that two Frenchmen have been robbed and murdered. The murderers are known and have been convicted. You know what is the custom amongst you in such cases. What say you?" There was no response, and one by one the savage aristocracy arose and stalked silently away. Next day the indefatigably diploma- tic Du Lhut assembled the savages in yet another council, this time, on ac- count of the weather, in the spacious cabin of the Ottawa chief Brochet. "Brothers," he addressed them, "You heard my question yesterday. Tell me what is the custom among you in such cases." - Du Lhut waitied. There came no answer. Du Lhut spoke again. "Since you are unwilling to declare yourselves, 1 will undertake to settle this case. To- morrow you shall know my sentence upon the prisoners." ; Again the savage dignitaries strode out in silence. Du Lhuat knew their custom. It was that, when the nation of the murderers wished to remain at peace with the na- tion of the murdered, the nearest rela. tives of the guilty slew them themsel- ves, one man for each victim of the murder. He wanted to force the In- dians to render the French the same justice as they would gach other. It was 1 he saw, however, to hold more councils, which only Sestited in a prodigious consumption of tobacco. On November 29th, Du Lhut con. vened a court of all the leading French men there. The stenographic record of the trial was read. The unanimous opinion was that, as all were self-con- fessed murderers, all three should die. Du Lhut was very cautious. He was setting a precedent for the future. The relations of the French with all the western Indians hung upon his ac- tions. He decided to avoid the slight- est suspicion of vindictiveness, He re- 52 gels i £ Next day Du Lhut convened the' the ridge illumining some of the fur rowed, harsh, inscrutable faces, the flickering beams of the fire in the cen- tre of the earth floor playing on oth- ers, the chiefs sat motionless. There was no "Ho! Ho!" no grunt of ap- proval, but all drew hard upon their pipes, and the smoke puffed furiously upward. They had not though: that this Frenchman, alone with a handful of his people in a far wilderness popu- lous with their kind, would have dared to carry out this sentefice. Thea arose Le Talon, chief among the Ottawas. He pleaded for mercy, adduced the friendship of his nation for the French and their many services, concluded that, if Onontio had the merciful dis- position of which the French had spo- ken, he would grant the prisoners life. Another Ottawa chief reminded Du Lhut that Governor Courcelles had once demanded from him some Iro- quois prisopers whom he had taken, that he had handed them over and that the Governor had set them at h- berty. The French ought now to re- pay this act by handing over these pri- soners of theirs. Oumamins, chief of the Saulteurs, thanked the French for their restraint. No others spoke, Du Lhut replied that, if the prison- ers had been prisoners of war, noth- ing would have given him greater pleasure than to grant them life and liberty, but they were assassins and it Was necessary to make an example as a deterrent to others. They all knew well, he said, his friendly disposition toward themselyes, but that he feared none of them sufficiently to turn him aside from his duty. He arraigned them as guilty of the death of these young men. They had allowed their youth to think that murder was of no great consequence inasmuch as it could be condoned for a bale of bea- ver skins or the gift of a slave. That murderers among them had in the past suffered nothing more serious than this, had resulted in the present evil consequences, which would never have followed had the old men been wise enough long ago to have let the young men understand that the whole nation would abandon them if they were guil- ty of crime. Abruptly Du Lhut left the cogncil. He suggested to the missionaries that now was their opportunity to baptize the prisoners. This they did forthwith. Within an hour the preparations were all made. The condemned men were marched out to an open space two hundred paces from the Indian village. The French paraded full strength, forty-two. Four hundred saturnine Indians stood silent, immo- bile behind the Frenchmen. The firing party stepped out to its place in front. Du Lhut's sword flashed, the guns spoke, the murderers fell dead. Such was the first trial and execu. tion by a European court in the far west. Du Lhut had played his role with skill. Detective, policeman, attor- ney-general, judge, crown attorney, sheriff, executioner all in one, he had upheld the prestige of the white race and given example of the white man's justice in the heart of New World sav- agery. The lesson sank deep. For two days the chiefs and sachems sat sullen in their lodges. Then they held a council to which they invited Du Lhut, Each of the three tribes of Ottawas presented two belts of wam- pum, one to cover over, as their pic- turesque phraseology had it, the graves of the murdered Frenchmen, and the other to wipe away the blood, that henceforth their land might be clean. One hour later, after Du Lhut's exit, they repeated the same ceremony for Achiganaga and for the father of Folle Avoine. The next day Du Lhut gave a feast in the lodge of Brochet to pacify him because the sentence of death had been there pronounced without his permis- sion. At this feast the Hurons pre- sented three belts of wampum to Du Lhut to clear away all memory of the ugly affair. They presented also three belts on behalf of the Saulteurs, who had left. Two days later, presented by Du Lhut with everything they needed-- blankets, shirts, guns, powder, shot, molasses, tobacco, hatchets, knives, cord for beaver-nets, and two sacks of wheat, Achiganaga and his family set out for their distant home. The incident was closed. id An Italian Event. Pinnerolo, Italy, April 17, -- Queen Helena and Princess Nafalda have arrived here to be with Prin- cess Yolanda who is expecting the birth of a child within a few days. Princess Yolanda, eldest daughter of the king and queen of Italy, was married April 9th, 1923 to Count Calvi Di Bergolo. She has one child, a daughter, born January 27th 1923. 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Would Boycott Qrocers Who Sell Beer Niagara Falls, April 17.--The boy- cotting of all grocers. who handle the new 4.4 beer is urged by the local branch of the W.C.T.U. by unpani- mous resolution. All stores where the new beer is to be sold would be boycotted, according to the resolu- tion. At the Grand matinee and oH pen House JULIA ARTHUR IN "SAINT JOAN." Physicians everywhere fecommend it. ¥ His Lan, In a little town in the north Bro- ther Mac is trustee of the school, director of the local bank, and a pil- lar in the church. He is especially noted for his avaricious tendencies. On the right when the congrega~- tion were to hear the annual report of the officers of the church; Bro- ther Mac had dropped off to sleep during the sermon. His wife noticed him asleep while the secretary and treasurer was reading his report. She touched him just as the officer was saying, "Leaving a cash balance in the treasury of $126.30." Upon hearing this, Brother Mac arose and said, "Mr. Chairman, I make a motion we declare a divide end of six per cent." For children English print designs are stressed in frock and bloomer combinations, heightened in interest by bands of plain fabric. The importance of the jabot in- creases daily on the tailleur and the formal type of dress alike. on Wednesday, April 22nd,