Mineral Point

But if you just give them to me, I'll be all right with that as well.

I won't be able to do in order, but – Mineral Point, Stoughton, Luxembourg, Rapids.

Yep.

Coleman.

right, let's review the ones you said, because now I'm confused here.

Luxembourg

Rapids, Mineral Point, Stoughton.

Okay.

Yeah.

Like, we got married in Mineral Point.

Go back to Viroqua.

Viroqua is, yeah, totally

Oh, that's great.

Yeah.

I was really into like the whole lore of the artists in Mineral Point and all their like friendships and the, and like they all put out pride flags in June now.

Have you seen that? And I just, when we went in, I taught there in June.

They were now reduced to a state of utter starvation, with thirty miles of country to be traversed, and the whites had discovered their campfires the night previous across a small lake.

If they could cross the Wisconsin before an attack was made, the fish of the stream would furnish them a meal and the river itself a protection the militia were in motion at daylight and within a few miles of the forlorn band along the trail lay the bodies of famished men women and children some dead others helpless and exhausted to the last degree by fatigue and hunger these wretched and worn-out creatures if still living were bayoneted upon the spot the exasperated frontier man now finding his victim within reach imbibed the ferocity of his enemy dealing instant death to every one that fell in his power in fact early in the season general atkinson had found it necessary to place a guard over his indian prisoners in order to save their lives an instance is known of a decrepit old man to whom a loaf of bread had been given and he suffered to depart he had not passed out of hearing when he was despatched by the bayonet and his food distributed among the murderers at a fight near the mississippi just previous to the final action at the bad axe a fine young chief about fourteen years of age was taken with silver bracelets on his arm the militiaman who captured him was only prevented from butchering him on the spot by a threat from a lieutenant of the regular service that his own life should instantly answer for that of the prisoner in such plight were the fugitives and with such a spirit their pursuers were rapidly approaching the foremost of the mounted men fell in with the scattered divisions of the enemy about two miles from the river the party attacked fought desperately the mounted squaws provided with rifles joined in the engagement and the main body succeeded in crossing with a loss of about thirty their fate is well known on the second day we passed the foot of the blue mound it is a high hill of regular ascent overlooking the country and serves as a beacon to the traveller thirty miles distant at night we slept in a blockhouse in the mining district within sight of the station a newly-made grave lay at the roadside in the midst of a solitary prairie the person over whom it was raised had ventured too far from the house and approached a thicket of bushes suddenly a band of concealed indians sprang upon him with a fatal whoop on their tongues his scalp heart and most of his flesh were soon stripped from the body and a savage dance performed about the remains the country is still prairie with scattering tufts of inferior timber the huts of the miners had been deserted on account of the difficulties now terminated and the business of making lead was about to recommence occasionally a farm might be seen running out from an island of timber and supplied with comfortable buildings but most of the improvements were of a temporary nature consisting of a lead furnace and the cabins adjacent the process of reducing lead ore is very simple and rapid the furnace is a face wall about two feet thick located upon a gentle slope of the ground with an arch or passage through the centre on each side of the arched opening and in the rear or uphill side two wing walls run out transversely to the face wall between which the wood is laid the ore is placed upon it and a continual fire kept up the lead gradually separates from the dross and runs into a cavity in front of the arch the mining district east of the mississippi must include ten thousand square miles galena or lead ore is found in veins or threads more often in a square form of various sizes and running in all directions with the horizon they are liable to disappear suddenly to enlarge and diminish in size to combine with other materials rending the operations of mining very uncertain their course is generally straight and not curved seldom exceeding a foot in breadth the analysis yields eighty five to ninety per cent of lead of which the first smelting of the furnace extracts about seventy five per cent it requires skill and experience to discover the vein but very little of either to work it when discovered the limestone formation of green bay and lake michigan extends to this region embracing copper ore at mineral point and at other places at this time the government leased the ground to practical miners who rendered a proportion of the product in kind in consequence of the derangements of the times although the supply was small lead was then dull at three cents per pound the supply appears to be inexhaustible in one respect this region differs from the mineral regions of other countries there are but few veins that justify a pursuit to great depths and although they are very numerous the pits and trenches are easily filled up and the rich soil left capable of cultivation the great drawback upon the agricultural prospects of the mining district arises from the consumption of the little timber that grows there in melting the lead how long the presence of this mineral has been known and its value understood is not exactly known but there are mines which were worked by the french soon after they ascended the mississippi the indians could scarcely have found use for it before the introduction of firearms among them arriving at galena we found the place crowded with people the mineral riches of the dubuque country were well known and it was expected that general scott would secure the title to a considerable tract west of the river including the richest mines the negotiation was still pending at rock island relative to the purchase thousands of adventurers lined the eastern shore of the mississippi ready to seize upon the possession and preemption rights in the new territory the moment they became perfect in this case as in many others guards of soldiers were necessary to keep the whites from taking unlawful occupancy of indian lands it has become fashionable to abuse the government for its conduct towards the red man my observation has on the contrary led me to admire rather than to condemn the folly and practice of the federal authority in this respect believing that in general its magnanimity kindness and protection demand the lasting gratitude of the indian race but with a frontier settler it is otherwise the wrongs of the indian are individual not national offences when the pioneer crosses the boundary line agreed upon by the two people through their proper agents he is a trespasser and his life taken within their jurisdiction is not cause of quarrel if he persist in usurping occupation we may admire his enterprise in pushing forward beyond the range of his fellow-men but must condemn that morality which allows a forcible seizure and detainer of property to be right parties of men such as locators and surveyors on indian ground may be considered beyond the protection of the government and if killed while persisting and maintaining possession contrary to the will of the owners their loss is not the subject of retaliation But beyond the lines mutually established, the red man ought not to push his revenge, and the early massacres within the acknowledged limits of our jurisdiction made it a duty in the government to preserve the integrity of its territory.

Murders committed by whites upon Indians, either in their own country or otherwise, have been the crying enormities resulting from the contact of civilization with barbarism.

if it can be shown that our authorities could have prevented these individual outrages of its citizens it will then be connected with the primitive encroachments of one race upon the other that it should enforce agreements and cessions entered into in good faith and retain territory acquired by just war can scarcely be considered a national sin is the government of the united states in fault because the aborigine is unable to secure his own territory against individual intrusion or because in his thirst for whisky and baubles he chooses to barter his patrimony for a drink or a bead the intelligent indian himself draws a distinction between the official acts of the nation and the unauthorized proceedings of traders and speculators on the part of the former they have to acknowledge that they have been permitted to occupy grounds long after they had agreed to depart that their dissatisfaction with compacts was not shown till after the presents were received and sometimes not until after payment had been made that the compensation has been faithfully tendered and implements schools and artisans provided free of expense they would be forced to admit that gratuities and presents above the stipulated price have been bestowed to purchase peace and to obtain the fulfillment of their previous engagements and to acknowledge that after the receipt of the increase they still forced the united states to war to obtain what they had bargained and paid for the fate of the indian cannot fail to raise a deep sympathy in the mind but to maintain that it is not the duty of the government to secure by all upright means the title to those lands is equivalent to the proposition that the earth was designed to produce game and not the bread of life to sustain but one human being upon a square mile capable of maintaining one hundred the case of the socks and foxes has been recently quoted as a strong instance of the injustice practiced by the american nation upon indian tribes the assault upon black hawk at the sycamore creek was the act of frontier men under arms and if acting under any authority derived the same from the executive of illinois it was the result of a border feeling which permits the destruction of an indian upon the same principle that it does the wolf no murders had been perpetrated upon the whites or other acts committed that called for summary punishment the attack was a rash and unprovoked affair but it is equally true that the party assailed were in force in a country they had ceded to the united states and had agreed to abandon after this transaction general atkinson who commanded the regular troops assembled upon the mississippi made every effort to induce them to return peaceably and confined themselves to the territory allotted them and accepted as their home their prompt refusal left no alternative the generalship of their chief prolonged the contest five months without any offers of surrender on the part of black hawk and his brave band they resisted until starvation and force compelled them to do that which had been urged upon them from the outset to retreat towards the mississippi when at last overtaken upon its banks reduced in numbers emaciated by hunger worn down by incessant toil they still fought with their little remaining strength till their force was either killed or captured it is also to be recollected that this band had always been among our opponents in war when an opportunity occurred always attached to the british interests and received british presence they were taken as prisoners by military force arms in hand fighting to the last and breathing vengeance in the prison after their capture under such circumstances what rights were left this people as a tribe or nation their miraculous attachment to their chief and to each other their wonderful endurance under hardships and privation boldness skill and bravery in fight must command our admiration but their political rights which might have been retained by complying with the offered terms were lost by resistance and conquest the treatment of black hawk and other prisoners has often been matter of animadversion of all the men women and children captured by our regular troops only eighteen were put in confinement these constituted the influential men of the tribe who never flagged in their efforts against the government black hawk it is true from motives of prudence being well cognizant of our power was in favor of peace he was also an indian who had a sense of honor as well as policy a man in whom those who knew him confided but he had exerted all his influence and skill against us in the campaign just closed and however patriotic towards his own people he was decidedly a dangerous enemy of ours wisheat one of the chiefs in confinement continued to fire his rifle from behind a few logs till he was secured and sent to the rear and his only regret during confinement seemed to be that he had not been able to kill more whites the enmity of the prophet is well known napope the ruling chief was only second to wisheat in his fury against the white man and always counselled for resistance the two sons of black hawk were perhaps less harmless in the forest than in the cities but their detention insured the good conduct of the father and tribe with the exception of black hawk they spent their time at jefferson barracks with a ball and chain on one leg a precaution the necessity of which was never doubted by those acquainted with the circumstances that personage fond of multiplying his wrongs has charged us with loading chains upon him during his detention upon the mississippi i am unable to say in what condition he was brought from the sioux country when he was taken to jefferson barracks where he was lodged in the guard-house with his confederates four of the eighteen were transported to fortress monroe from which they were soon liberated and escorted to their homes where they met their fellow-prisoners and such of their brethren and sisters as had survived the war their band was merged in that of keokuk and their nationality forever gone there remained however life hunting-grounds and annuities as before galena lays about seven miles east of the mississippi on the north side of fever river up which stream boats come to town in high water block houses against indians were standing on the heights overlooking the place which may have contained two thousand inhabitants it had all the business air of an old place though sadly deficient in cleanliness and comfort the quiet of its people was again most completely destroyed by the appearance of the asiatic cholera the night previous to our arrival and the first victim a young lady was borne along the street on a bier as we entered section seven Section 8 of Articles from the Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 1, by Lyman Copeland Draper.

Alarmed at this and other hostile signs, he rapidly descended the river to Prairie de Cheyne, where the people had all taken shelter in the garrison, and where he heard of an attack on a government boat, which had been up the river with supplies for the garrison at St. Peter's a short time previous.

Hastening immediately to Galena, he notified the citizens of their danger and advised them to build blockhouses for their protection.

the boat alluded to had already reached galena and as the fight shows some of the perils of river navigation during those early days we give the particulars in brief in descending the boats had to pass a narrow place between an island and the main shore the indians several hundred in number had stationed themselves on both sides and had also prepared canoes to board if necessary the forward boat was suffered to pass unmolested but when the second came within reach it received a discharge from the whole force killing one man and wounding another the fire was returned but with little effect as the crew were in a very exposed and awkward situation in this position of affairs an attempt was made to board and a strapping warrior jumped on to the stern seized the tiller and set the vessel ashore but not till after a bullet struck him dead at this juncture an irishman of the crew familiarly called saucy jack jumped ashore and amidst a shower of bullets shoved it off and escaped unhurt the boat proceeding without further molestation carrying off the body of the ambitious indian which was left at galena the sides of the vessel the boxes etc were riddled by over three hundred bullet holes this was a period of great suffering at galena the weather was inclement and two or three thousand persons driven suddenly in with a scant supply of provisions without ammunition or weapons encamped in the open air or cloth tents which was but little better were placed in a very disagreeable and critical position from galena general cass proceeded with the utmost dispatch to jefferson barracks a large force under general atkinson immediately came up the river in boats as far as the portage fort winnebago generals dodge and white sides with companies of volunteers following along each side on land and scouring out the lurking savages a force from green bay also concentrated on the same point and the indians beheld with dismay a formidable army in the midst of their country the result was a treaty of peace and the giving up of redbird who had a year previous massacred a family near prairie du chesne the reports made by the officers and men on the return from this warlike expedition first drew public attention to the unbounded fertility and exhaustless resources of southwestern wisconsin and the return was followed by a large immigration to the lead region it was while this force was on its march that mr brigham and his party returned and built a blockhouse at the point they had left and recommenced their diggings in the spring of eighteen twenty eight he removed to blue mounds the most advanced outpost in the mines and has resided there ever since being by four years at least the oldest white settler in the county the isolated position he thus settled upon will be apparent from the statement of a few facts the nearest settler was at what is now dodgeville about twenty-four miles distant mineral point and most of the other diggings where villages have since grown up had not then been discovered on the south-east the nearest house was on the o'plane river twelve miles west of chicago on the east solomon juno was his nearest neighbor at the mouth of the milwaukee river and on the northeast green bay was the nearest settlement fort winnebago not then having been projected the country at this time was part of michigan territory the northern boundary of illinois was so vaguely defined that the diggers on the mounds voted at the shoalsburg precinct for congressman for the succor state Soon after locating at this place, Mr. Brigham visited Green Bay in company with others to attend an Indian council in order to settle on certain boundaries between the whites and red men.

The line fixed upon was drawn from the head of that branch of the Blue Mounds Creek that heads east of them to that branch of the Pecatunaki that heads east of the mounds, and down these streams to the Wisconsin and Rock, respectively.

They beat Lake Country Lutheran 68-6 and Oosberg 64-9 at team sectionals.

Then at team state finals, They beat Mineral Point 42-31, Auburndale 35-30, and the Finals lost to Aquinas 38-32.

That squad...

Well,

That very first match against Aquinas, when Peter White only gave up a 12-5 decision to an absolute stud in Chase Heimerman, Cedar Grove, Belgium was a pretty darn good team.

But I think you and I realized after that point, it just kind of seemed like Aquinas just wasn't going to be denied.

It was, and I don't know if there's the home crowd to play into that at all, or that Aquinas might have been due for it, but senior girl Belgium, I think the big thing is, Steve, last year, maybe there were some question marks, like how would they do at team state, because they were in a sectional that maybe wasn't highly looked upon in the individual aspect, but they dominated their sectional, and then they came, like, Against Mineral Point, like, they made a statement.

They did.

It wasn't a prison anymore.

It was like Villa Louis or something like that in Lancaster, Prairie du Chien, Mineral Point area.

But Alcatraz, I never went.

Did you feel creepy when you were there?

Okay, but also in my research things that I've done,

they did that.

And also the newspapers, I would be like, there are so many articles about my great-grandparents where it's like, enjoy a visit with their daughter in Mineral Point.

I'm like, who cares? Why are you writing this? What is this for? It's

Next up is Clinton, who was a fourth in the Waterloo sectional last year with 128.5 points.

They beat Darlington 48-24 and lost 65-12 to Mineral Point, 54-23 to Pecatonica Argyle at team sectionals.

They're returning eight of their 10 stars and 85 and a half points.

Losing Logan Hendricks, who qualified for state at 175.

Well,

let me quick do one more for you just because this is the one.

Now, Mineral Point skewed this, right, because they were in Waterloo Regional, but the sixth place team was Partyville, and Partyville had six wrestlers.

That was the crazy thing, and they had 124.

Court documents state that Gallagher assaulted two Dubuque County Sheriff's Department deputies in the jail.

Robin L. Bensing, 33, of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, was arrested at 8.23 p.m. Tuesday at Mercy One Dubuque Medical Center, 250 Mercy Drive, on charges of operating a vehicle without the owner's consent and possession of methamphetamine, false report of an indictable offense, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Krista L. Hempel Anderson, 60, 20, 70 1⁄2 Jackson Street, was arrested at 6.50 a.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of West Locust Street on charges of possession of cocaine, disorderly conduct, and interference with official acts.

Ian D.