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<' dc- CLT," C' C_ 'y ' < Cc 9^ c cL <^ c^ c c cc c^ Cc c < ^ V •CI?: cc < -^ C ^ ^ ^ C? CC ^^X^ <^<^ <:<3: C c ' c dec ' ' ^ -'^- driver d <^c d «^ 5^^ 4^- ^<^ dc <: <^: ^cc<' d -i >^-:dc. d - ^^ ^cc «aa^ cd' ^ cc^c: d/dl dcd tiiiiiiiii liiiis oz« AUPY COUNTY P>\PILLIO|^, ]^EBRA;iKA, JuLY 4TH, 1876. Papilliom Timet Print. / :'' "J GENTENKIAL HISTORY OIE* SARPY PAPILLTON, JUr.Y 4, 1870. S. D. BANGS, Historian. It is stated that in 1S05 Manuel adventurer, with his At the time that Na| oleori was Lesa, a Spanish party, visited the site t-n which first Cousu! of France, the French Bellevue is situated, and upon Dossessions in North America were now viewing the magnificent panorama exposed to the marititne power of before them, Capt. Great Britain, with whom France that was spread with a spontaneous burst of was at war, and vvere really a source Lesa admiration, "Belle vue!" of weakness to the mother country exclaimed, by which from their remote situation and tlieir (or beautiful view] a name it has since recognized. liability at any moment to fall into been the hands of the enemy In 1810 the American Fur Compa trading post at In this emergency Napoleon re- ny established a Francis l^e solved to abandon his cherished no- Bellevue, and appointed suc- tions of colonial dependencies which Roin Indian Trader, who was could not be protected, and entered ceeded Ijy Joseph Robideux, who his into negotiations with the United served a term of &ix years, when supplied by Cabanne States for their relinquishment. place was John In 1803 a treaty was consummated until superceded in 1824 by Col. distinguished In- between the two countries, which se- Peter A. Sarpy, the in that curt'd to the United States the whole dian Trader, who continued thirty years. of this vast territory for the sum of capacity for about Indian §15,000,000. In 1823 Council Bluffs The F^ouisiana purchase (although Agency at FortCalhonn was removed its lim- unauthorized by the Constitution) is to Bellevue, and included in an imperishable memorial of the its the Omaha, Otoe, Pawnee and wisdom of Jetlerson's administration. Pottowatamie tribes of Indians. Merrill, a It extended the broad domain of In 1834 the Rev. Moses the Republic from the Mississippi to Baptist Missionary, ci-ected a Mission stone the Pacific. It opened out its im- House among the Otoes, A the mense resources to the struggling chimney still remains to point masses of the old and new world, spot where a faithful Missionary sac- and States and Territories have rificed his litein"the discharge of his in at the arisen within its borders possessing duty. He died 1535, and buried on the every variety of soil and climate, and request ot his wife was wife rich in mineral and agricultural Iowa side of the Missouri. His wealth. and child returned to ths New Eng- In 1804 an expedition ivas fitted land States, and the river has long all traces of his out by the U. S. Government, under since washed away commanil of Capts. Lewi- and Clark, lai^t resting place. The property on tor the purpose of exploring this which the Mission stood is now owned resided newly acquired Territ ry, and a viv- by John F. Payne, who has id description is given in their jour- there thirteen years. nals of their ascending the Missouri In the fall of 1834 Samuel Allis the river in boats from St. Louis, and and Rev. John Dunbar, under touching at a point 9 miles above the direction of the Presbyterian board mouth ot the Platte river within the of Missions, arrived at tne agency at present limits of Sarpy County. Bellevue, in company with Major John Dougherty, Indian Agent to Bellevue was established. This year the Otoes, Omahas and Pawnees, Col. Sarpy's ferry boat from St. .Ma- where these Indians were paid their ry's to Bellevue was constantly eni- annuities. Messrs. Allis and Dun- ploynd in crossing- over gold hunters bar opened a school among the Paw- on their way to California, nees at Council point, up the Platte, In 1852 Major Barrows, Stephen which was afterwards abandoned on Decatur and others projected a town account of the hostility of the Sioux, organization at Bellevue, which and Mr. Allis returned to Bellevue seems to have existed oidy in name, and taught the childien of the Paw- In this year the Hev. Mr, McKinnoy nees at the agency, bu"lt a log dwelling house some dis- Gen. Fretnont after exploring the tance north of the Mission House, South Pass, stopped at the Indian where he resided with his family, but Agency on his return in 1843, and shortly after resigned and the vacan- sold his mules and wagons at auction cy \vas supplied by Kev. Wm. Ham- and then descended the Missouri ilton, who arrived with his family liver on boats to St. Loa's. June 6th, 1853. In the fall of 1846 Rev. Edward In 1853 the Indian agency build- McKinney, acting under instructions ings and blacksmith shops were of the Pres. Board of F. Missions, orected on the plateau south of the selected a site on the South-east part Missio;: lands under thn direction of of the plateau at Bellevue for a Mis- Major Gatewood, the Indian agent, sion House and school for the Otoes < /n the 9th of Fel)r'iary, 1854 the and Omahas, which was approved by Bellevue Town Co. was formally or Hon. Walter Lowrie, the Sec. gan zed with Col. P, A. Sarpy Ste- of the Board on ins visit in the spring phen Decatur, Huam B. Bennett, of 1847, and the buildings were com- Geo. Hejjiier, James M. Gatewood, menced in the fall of 1847 and com- Geo. T. Turner, P. ,f. McMahon, A pleted in 1848. W. Hol.ister and A. O. Ford as the In 1847 the first detachment of original proprietors of the town, M( rmons undei Brigham Young, known as the "Old Town Company." their leader, reached the Missouri About this time Col. Manypenny- river on their journey to Salt Luke, coinmissiuner of Indian aifairs and in a weak and destitute condition. Major Gatewood, Indian agent, held but were relieved by the generosity a council with the Omaha chiefs, with of Col. Sarpy, who furnished them reference to selling their lands to the supplies, sheltered them from U. S. The Indians appointed Logan the storm- of winter, and in the Fontenell, a half-breed, as their head spring crossed numbers of them over chief to assist in negotiating: a treaty his ferry at this point free of expense, and a delegation (if chiefs headed by Council Bluttd or Bellevue [as it Fontenelie proceeded to Washingtoj. was now called] had become an im- A treaty was entered into March l^ortant point on the Missouri river, Uhh, 1854, and ratified June 21st, and the present Council Bluffs was 1854, which extinguished the Indian known as Mormon Hollow, or Kanes- title to a laige portion of Nebraska. v.lio. On the 27th of May, 1854, a bill The ti'ading oost at Bellevue rn- was approved by congress, organiz ceived thn furs and robes collected ing the Territories of Kansas and from the trappers and traders along Nebraska, which received the sanc- tlio Upper Missouri and Yellowstone tion of the President. The Territo- rivers, which were floated down the ry of Nebraska, extending north of Missouii in Mackinaw boats, and af- the Kansas line to the British pos- terwards ie-ship[)(^d to St. Louis. sessions, opened up a country that is Fieigh s and merchandise directed unsurpassed for fertility, although at to Council Ijlutfs landed at the trad- one time regarded as* part of the ing post. Groat American Desert. In 184!i the Nel)raska post office at The 4th of July, 1854, was ob- served with much enthusiasm. An Deputations and citizens from Ne- immense vine-clad arbor was erect- braska City, Plattsnsouth, and other ed near the agency bnildings; the points, waited upon Gov. Burt, each star spangled banner floated in the urging their respective claims fo" the breeze, and a salute was fired for location of the Capitol, and it was each state in the Union, including his intention to have examined each one for the new territory. D. E. point and then decided upon the Reed acted as chairman. Among the most meritorious one for its location; toasts was one by L. B. Kinney, viz: but being prostrated by sickness he "Bellevae. the belle of the west; the was unable to do so, and a<^ter his center of our uni->n," which was r^- death a pubh'c meeting was hekl, at sponded to in appropriate terms. which the acting Governor made a Another toast by Stephen Decatur, proposition to locate the Capitol at viz: "Nebraska! the Key stone of Bellevue uroviding the Mission and the federal arch," elicited the wild- Town Co. would donate to him 100 est applause. acres off the North and of the M's- Bellevue h.is the credit of publish- sioH Reserve, which was indignantly ing the first newspaper in the terri- refused, and in a few dajs Omaha tory, which appeared on the loth of was selected as the future (^apitol of July 1854. and was entitled "The the Ter'-itory. Nebraska Palladivm''' —D. E. Reed, As emigration poured into the editor and proprietor. It wa& print- Territory, it was deemed necessary to ed at St. Mary's, Iowa until the mid- oiganize claim clubs t« protect actu dle of Noveml)er, 185-*-, when it was al settlers in the possession of their brought over the river and placed in claims on the public laods, and the the south wing of tlie McKinney first claim club north of the Platte House. V)r. E. N. Upjohn, now re- river was organized at Bellevue in siding in the county, struck off the the tall of 1854. with Judge Wm. first paper avd 'I'homas Mo'lon set Gi1m<.r as President and James up the fir»t column of the first news- Gow, C. T. Holloway, and Abner W. paper printed in the territory. It Hollister as committee to draft a died a natural death in April, 1855. censtitution and by-laws. In Octol)er, ISS-t the Territorial of- The boufidaries of the various fic irs appointed by President Pierce counties in the Territory having been for this "^1 erri.ory be -an ta arrive. defined, Douglas County included all Gov. Francis Burt o' South Caro- of what is now Sarpy Conty, and on lina, and his staff landed at BelUevue the 20th of November, 1854, was on the 8th of Oct., 1854. followed appointed four Councilmen and eight shortly after b^ the Secretary, Hon. Representatives, in accordance vvith Thomas B Cyumiiig. On the 11th tho first sensus returns made by the Chief Justice Feniier Ferguson ar- acting Governor. The County of rived at the same place, each of whom Douglas was divided into two elec- were received with the honors due tion precincts, viz: the Omaha and their respective stations. Gov. Burt Bellevue precincts. exhibited symptoms of disease on his Nov. 30th, 1854 having been ap- arrival, which proved fatal on the 18th pointed by the Acting Governor, T. of Oct., 1854. Hq died at the Mis- B. Cuming, as Thanksgiving day, it sion Hou e of a disease that baffled was observed at the Mission House the shill of Ms physicians, who be- with services by Rev, Wm. Hamilton. stowed on him the most unremitting At the election for Representatives attention. H« also received the ut- to the Territorial Legislature, held most care and kindn. ss from Rev. Dec. 12th, 1854, Bellevue precinct Wm. Hamilton, V ith whem he was polled 93 votes, and elected S. A. staying as an invited guest. His re- Strickland Chas. T. Holloway, Ste- mains were taken to Pendleton, phen Decatur, A. W. Hollister and South Carolina, his former home, un- Philander Cook to serve as members der a buitable escort. at the first session of the Territorial Legislature, which convened at Oma- his father being French. He was ha January KJlh, 1855, but were not educated in St. Louis; spoke English allowed to take their seats. fluently, and was at this time about At this seasion of the Tiegislature thirty years of age; of medium Bellevue was incorporetcd a.i a city, height; swarthy complexion; black In the la:ter part of January, 1855 hair, and dark piercing eyes. In the D. E. Reed was appointed postmas- middle of the summer of 1855 a pro- ter. The postoffice was held at the cession might have been seen wend- Jfission House, where his wife i-jg its way towards the old home of taught the first white school In the Logan Fontenelle on the bluffs over- Territory, looking the Missouri river and above Nebioska Lod^e No 1 of A. F. & the stone quarries at BeUevue. It A. M. was instituted at Bellevue in moved slowly along led by Louis March 1855, although meetings were San-so-see, who was driving a team held at tht> old trading post in 1854. with a wagon, in which, wiapped in A number of complaints .vere made l)lankets and buffalo robes, was all to Major Hepner, the Ind an agent, that was mortal of Logan Fontenelle, that depredations were being com- tne Chief of the Omahas. On either milted by the Omahas on the persons side the Indian chiefs and braves and property of the whites, and a mounted on ponies, with the squaws council was held at the Mission House and relatives of the deceased, e.v- in Bellevue, in April 1855, at which pres ed their grief in mournful out- were prest^nt White Cow, Yellow cries. Hs remains weie taken to Smoke, Standing Hawk and other the house which he had left a short chiefs, vith Henry FonteneLe, a half time before, and now, desolate and breed, as in'^.erpret«r. The agent afflicted, they related the incidents told them that the tribe must not stay of his death. He had l>een killed i)v longer to harrass the whites, but the Sioux on the Loup ii'ork thirteen must leave for their reserve provided da3'S before, while on a hunt with the for them in the treaty. The chiefs Omahas. Hiiving left the main body replied by stating their grievance in with San-so-see in pursuit of o-ame, having to leave their olil hunting and while in a ravine that hid them grounds and home; that they could from the sight of the i/uiahas, they not restrain their young brave« from came in contact with a band ol Sioux stealing from the pale faces when on the war path, who attacked them away from the village, and appealed San-so see escaped in some thick un- to their father to ask tho great father de brush, while Fonten. lie stood*his at Washington to send them more grouid fighting desperately and ponies and guns, as they were ])oor killing three ol his adversaries when and needed them to defend them- he fell, pierced with 14 arrows and selves when attacked by the Sioux. the prized scalp lock was taken by In an interview the writer had with his enemies. The Omahas did not their chie' I^ogan Fontenelle the day recover his body until the next day. before the Omahas left foi- their re- It was the wish of Col. Sarpy to have serve in .June 1855, he expressed him interred on the bluff"8 fronting himself as dissatisfied with the Gov the house in which he had lived, and ernment in sendi-- a weak and de- a coffin was made which proved tco feuceless tribe of less than 1,000 small without unfolding the blankets souls to be massicred b^ the Sioux, which enveloped him, and as he had having thousands of warriors; and been dead so long was a disagreea- that a company of troops should be ble task. After putting him in the sent with them to afford [)rotection. coffin, his wives, who witnessed the But he added, pointing to his Colts scene, uttered the most piteous cries, revolver, "if attacked I am good for cutting their ankles until the blood six of them." The sequel proved his ran in streams. An old Indian wom- fears were true. an who looked like the witch of En- Logai? Foucenelle wasa half breed, dor, standing between the house and — the gra. e, lifted her arms to Heaven Chief. To one of their number and shrieked h'^r maledictions upon Ne-ko-ma his reputed wife —he was the heads of his murderers. Colonel more than once indebted for the pre- Sarpy, Stephen Decatur, Mrs. Sloan, servation of his life when attacked an Otoe iialf-breed and others stood by hostile Indians. She had been over the grave where his body was the wife of Dr. Cole, the surgeon of lowered, and while Decatur was read- the post at the Indian Agency at ing the impressive funeral service of Fort Calhoun. Her influence with the Ep'scopal Church, he was inter- the trioe was unbounded, and to rupted by Mrs. Sloan who stood by please her they were often feasted at his side and in a loud tone told him Sarpy's expense. She is now living that "a man of his character ought at the Omaha Agency enjoying a to be ashamed of himself to make a pension from his estate. Bnt T am mockerv of the christian religion by digressing. The con versation turned reading the solemn services of the xapon the action of the Acting Gov- church." He proceeded, however. ernor in removing the capitol from u itil the end. After the whites, Bellevue to Omaha; the killing of headed by Col. Sarpy, had paid their Hollistpr by Dr. Henry, and other last respects, the Indians filed around topics of general interest in the new- the grave and made a few demon- ly organized Territory; and while strations of sorrow; the whites dis- Sarpv portrayed in glowing colors the persing to their homes, and the Indi- noble traits of the red man arid the ans to relate their own exploits and injustice and wrong they had suffered the daring of their dead chief. at the hands of the whites, he was COL. PETBB A. SARPY. interrupted b} a tall, gaunt looking specimen of humanity, who ap- In April 1355 Col. Peter A. Sarpy proached him and said: "This talk was keeping a store at St, Marys, about the Indians as good, brave and Towa, then a station on the stage intelligent may suit you traders route from St. .Toe to Council Bluffs. who have been enriched by exchang- As my destination was Bellevue Ne- ing your gew-gaws for thei'' valuable braska, 1 stopped here and alighted buffalo robes and defrauding them of from the stage with Col. Gilmore, a their annuities; but I have lived friend of Sa'-py, who received us among them too, and I know them with a cordial and affectionate greet- to be a lying, thieving, treacherous ing. We were invited to the store race, incapable of distinguishing where reireshments were served, and right from wrong, and the sooner I had a good opportunity to observe they are exterminated the better it the ec3entr)C't!es of our worthy host. will be for the country," Sarpy ad- He Vras about 55 years of age; rather vanced to the front of the speaker, below the medium height; blae'c hair, and in an excited manner addiessed dark complexion; well knit and com- him in reply: "Do you know who I pact frame, and a heavy ijeard that am, sir?" With emphasis: "I am had scorned a razor's touch for many Peter A. Sarpy, sir; the old horse on a year. His maiiner was command- the sand bar, sir! If you want to ing; his address fluent, and in the fighl sir, I'm your man, sir! I can presence of the opposite sex polished whip the devil, sir! Choose your and refined. Col. Sarpy was of weapons, sir; bjwie-knife, shot-gun French extraction, and educated in or revolver, sir! I'm your man, sir!" St. Louis, where his relatives occu- He snapped his pistol at the lighted pied high social )30s;tions. He pre candle ©n the table, a distance of ferred the freedom of the western about three paces, which left us ixi prairies to the society and refinement total darkness, when the stranger of civilized life, and was never hap- availed himself of chis opportunity pier than in visiting the Omaha to make his exit by the side door, wigwams under the b'uffs near the glad !:o have escaped the unerring old trading post, who looked upon marksmart, who might have ex- him as their Ne-ka-gah-he, or Big tinguished him in like manner. ers in wagons. The Bellevue dele- At th 3 fall election in 1855 Gen gation .net the Omaha delegation, eral L. L. Boweii was elected Coun- commanded by Col. Thayer (since cdman from this part of Donglas (^., Gen. Thayer) at Saling's Grove, and the next spring he secured a sep- Scouts were sent in every direction erate Election District embracing the to find the trail, but no traces of it present limits of Sarpy Co. could bg found. A council of war Our first justice of the peace was was held and these hardy veterans Squire Griffin, who was an eccentric commanded to make /orcer? marches charicter and had peculiar notions of to the Pawnee village; recover the dignity of his position. In ap- the cattle, and strike terror into the pealing to" his legal knowledge, he ranks of the red skins. At night used to say: "Tf the Court under- they camped neai a stream in a grove stands herself, and she thinks she do; lying about eight miles South-west, the law reads thus." His form of an known as Langs Grove, and at pres- oath was also peculiar, rounded as it ent Aver's Grove, and as many were was with the "financial period." tired and hungry, loud murmurs of Commanding the witness to hold up discontent ai-ose when a few stale his right hand, he proceeded: "You crackers and a piece of rusty bacon do solemnly swear thai the evidence was apportioned by the commis-ary you shall g'ive in this case shall be as rations for each recruit. While the truth, the whole truth, and noth- they were sleeping on the dead leaves mg but the truth, as you shall answer with the stump of a t'-ee for a pillow, at the great day Twenty-five C'^nts." some dreamed of hotne, ethers of In the trial of a suit before him in the mo'row. A few who were awake which B. P. Rankin and S. A. Strick- heard the tinkling of cow bells not land were opposing counsel, thev be- far fiom the camp. 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