Cape Girardeau

I used to love, I remember watching a high

school game in Cape Girardeau, Missouri tomorrow.

You remember when college football started playing games on a Thursday in the 80s? It was like, this is the coolest thing of all time.

The NFL followed suit.

They had to send him down there for a week and just park him.

They shot in Cape Girardeau, right?

I believe that's correct.

And Ben Affleck refused to wear a Yankee cap and almost halted production for days.

And just a, a sobering, somber day in this country.

And, you know, all the people that lost their lives, all the heroes, and there are all kinds of different, uh, ceremonies this morning, I know, in Cape Girardeau and Jackson-

Yes

... you know, um, and other, you know, places.

On comparing this with the report of last year, it will be found that four new schools have been established, and that the increase in the number of children for this year is 243. measures were duly taken to carry into effect the acts of congress of the twenty fifth may eighteen twenty four i go back to this because its provisions have but just been executed and of the third march eighteen twenty five the former having for its object the formation of treaties beyond the mississippi the latter the establishment of peace and boundaries between the various tribes of the upper mississippi and the lakes also another act of the third march eighteen twenty five authorizing the president to cause a road to be marked out from the western frontier of missouri to the confines of new mexico and which act also makes provision for holding treaties with the intervening indian tribes for the purpose of obtaining their consent to the marking of said road and to the unmolested use thereof to the citizens of the united states and of the mexican republic Advices have been received of as late date as the 21st September last from General Atkinson and Major O'Fallon, the commissioners appointed to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of the 25th May, 1824, at which period they were at Fort Atkinson, on the Missouri, to which place they had returned two days previous to the date of their letter, after having penetrated the country as far as the 2,000-mile creek, and fully accomplished so far the objects of their commission.

it only remained for them to treat with a few tribes the mahas ottawas missouri and panis which they expected to accomplish in twelve days when they were to descend to st louis and report in more detail it is understood that general atkinson is on his way to this city bringing with him the treaties and that the entire object of the commission is accomplished returns have been received from general clark and governor cass the commissioners appointed to mediate at prairie du chien between the sioux sac fox iowa chippewa and winnebago tribes and to establish boundaries between them in this work of mercy the commissioners have been successful treaties have been entered into with those tribes by which their long and bloody wars have been terminated and boundaries assigned to them as the surest guarantee against future hostilities messrs reeves sibley and mather the commissioners appointed to mark the road from the western frontier of missouri to the confines of new mexico and to hold treaties with the intervening indian tribes are engaged in the performance of those duties With the view of adjusting certain claims of the Shawnee's Indians for lands, in exchange for a tract hitherto occupied by them at Cape Girardeau in Missouri, and for spoilations of various kinds and improvements left by them at Cape Girardeau, General Clark was directed in March last to adjust these claims, and authorized, should it be necessary, to treat with the Osage and Kansas tribes for the extinguishment of their titles to lands for those Indians.

this arrangement has been accordingly made and in accomplishing it and following up the views of the executive in providing a country for such tribes of indians as may think proper to emigrate and join their friends in the west but especially to secure a country for the creeks in pursuance of the obligations of the general government in its compact with georgia the commissioner very judiciously embraced in the negotiation for the accommodation of the shawnees at that meeting an extinguishment of the indian titles to three or four millions of acres of land in missouri and arkansas and nearly one hundred millions of acres beyond the western boundaries of missouri and arkansas reservations are secured to the ossages and kansas to the first a tract of fifty miles front parallel to and about twenty-five miles west of the western boundary of missouri and to the kansas a tract of thirty miles front parallel also to the western boundary of missouri and about fifty miles west of it both running back to the spanish line a judicious arrangement as to space between those two reservations and between the frontier of missouri has been effected thus all the titles of indians to lands within the limits of missouri except a few reservations have been extinguished and a country represented to be fertile and in all respects desirable provided and in sufficient extent beyond the boundaries of missouri and arkansas for the accommodation of all the tribes within the states which should they incline to occupy it it is the policy of the government to guarantee to them lasting and undisturbed possession at the same time treaties of peace and friendship were entered into between the osage and delaware the shawnees weahs piankishaw and peoria tribes of indians and subsequently a treaty has been concluded which assigns to the shawnees fifty miles square of lands in the south-west corner of missouri with the privilege of exchanging them for a like quantity of land on the kansas river which it is believed they will prefer for lands of theirs hitherto occupied by them at cape The same treaty provides for payment for improvements abandoned by them at Cape Girardeau and for spoilations committed on their property there.

From the representations of a deputation of Cherokees of the Arkansas and the Shawnees who accompanied them in February last, it was believed that if they could hold a council with their friends in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, they could induce them to emigrate and join them on their possessions in the West.

this was the great object of their visit directions were issued to governor cass to meet them at wapaugoneto in ohio but nothing was accomplished except that deputations of some of the tribes intend in the following spring to visit their brothers of the west it is probable that the object of that meeting may in the course of the next year be in part at least realized the quapaws it is expected will commence their removal from arkansas to the country south of red river on the first of january next in conformity to the provisions of the treaty with them of the fifteenth november eighteen twenty four and measures have been taken to fulfil the provisions of that entered into with the choctaws on the twentieth january eighteen twenty five nothing suggests itself to me in the way of improvement in the administration of the indian department as it is at present constituted but under the modification which i have had the honour to suggest to you in my letter of the fifteenth instant benefits of a valuable description might be anticipated i will do myself the honour in obedience to your instructions to make the remaining parts of your directions of third october the subject of a future and special communication I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Thomas L. McKinney.