Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1913 — Page 12

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HAMMOND, IND. UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY Organized and charter issued by the treasury department of the United States May 2nd, 1906

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Today this bank represents over $1,300,000.00, the most rapid growth of any bank in Hammond. A growth that has been the admiration of the banking people, and an institution whose strength is unquestioned. Get the banking habit into your system, start a savings account. We will open an account with you for any amount from one dollar up. Give yourself a feeling of independence, known only to the man who has a bank account. The man at the receiving teller's window will gladly accept any amount, and to the working man who is unable to get to the bank during the day, we have made arrangements for you on Wednesday nights from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock. We pay 3 interest on savings accounts and time certificates. On savings accounts interest is payable January 1st and July 1st. Accounts opened by July 15th will draw full 6 months' interest, interest to be computed from July 1st. The success of this bank is due to the fact that we have ample Capital and Surplus to take care of the Legitimate Demands. Our money is loaned to our customers for the upbuilding of this community. We adhere to a policy which has been conservative, yet along progressive lines, and offer our customers modern facilities for the prompt and proper transaction of their affairs. -

GEO. II. EDER, President. A. IX TAPPER, Vice President. PETER CRUXIPACKER

H. M. JOHNSON, Cashier,

J. J. RUFF

CARL E. BAUER,

WM. D. WEIS, Vice President. L. G. EDER, Assistant Cashier. J. K. STINSON,

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BITS OF PIONEER AND MODERN HISTORY OF TENNESSEE RIVER

WHITE SETTLERS

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site' of the city, and pounce upon any expedition oL white men organized to explore the river. Whcle 'amities of white Tople were butchered by these Indiana. Some of the storie of their murderous deeds have no 7 trail el in Indian warfare. Women and children were slain in the presence of husbands BJ.-d fathers. Children were carried

away t the Indian villages aud either burned at the stake or held in the ost brutal captivity. Fate of the Brown Family. The i-tory of the melancholy fate of t. - family of Col. William Brown, of North Carolina, a man who ."ought under Light Horse Harry Lee in the Rev

olutionary war. is more - less familiar. CjL Brovrn came -own the Tennessee In a houseboat, having with him liis entire family, consisting of his wife and seven children., Two of his sons were grown. The other children ere small. On the boat were his jervants and his cattle, with which he intended to establish a home In the

Village of Chlckamauga Near Site of Chattanooga.

Nickajack Cave, Historic Cavern of Cumberlands.

Melancholy Fate of Family of Col. William Brown, North Carolina Pioneer.

(By J. G. RICE.) j The Tennessee river for s. distance of fifty miles above and below Chattanooga figured conspicuous- In the early annals of Tennessee, or rather In the -rly history of this section of the Ui.ite States. A number of Indian tribes fought each other as only the American, Indians could flght. fo possession of this strean.. From these conflicts that ' last: 1 through a long term of years there has come down to the present generation a wealth of legendary history and well-established facts that . do not grow old by repetition. When, the white man penetrated Into the wilderness west of 'the Virginia and North Carolina mountains, the Tennessee river was his main route of travel. A number - of' expeditions by whl:o men were mfc.de Irtu .his terrl- . tor.' ss early as 1750. but they either lost their lives In the tortuous chdjnn ' and" tumultuous waters of the Tennetsee or were massacred by Indana. The stories of ail of these adven

tures fills volumes and form one of

the most thrilling chapters of Amer-1

Ic.i history. Boek after beek has

been written on the topic and the public has read them with great interest. These books and stories are a part of Chattanooga's history. The Chickamanga Indians. ' From all reliable accounts, the Chlckamauga Indians caused the white pioneers more trouble and annoyance than all ethers combined in this territory. They were a worthless, murderous tribe, and enlisted .mder their standard every outcast white man that came among them and would promise to unite with the Indians la their campaigns ef pillage and murder. The Chlckamaugf3 "Lullt a village at the mouth of the Chlckamauga river, some frve miles above the present city of Chattanooga. They had for a gen

eral nlfting place, when too closely

pursued by an enemy, a large cave on

the side of Sand mountain, thirty miles

below Chattanooga. This cavern Is known as Nickajack cave, and is In

plain view from the depot at Shellmound, Ala., on the line of the?Nah

viHe, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway,

A stery founded largely on legend has

it that this cave was given its pre

ent name from the fact that a runaway

negro slave from North Carolina made

it his hiding place. His name w

Jack. The Indians called him "Nigger

jacK, ana nnatiy named the cave

Nickajack cave.

Nickajack is one of the largest cav

erns in the Cumberland range. The Indians used It as a storing place for the articles stolen from the white man. and f - a place of refuge in time of trouble. Finally they built a village near the cave and fortified it against any hostllu foe. From the village near the mouth of Chlckamau river, above Chattanooga, these India. - wouW srnde down the., Tennessee iu their canoes, conceal themselves in the numerous mountain coves and gorge below the present

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Four survivors who will talc part In oavelUng monument erected by daughter of that state on Chlckamauga

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nr world. The expedition was attacked in the most treacherous manner by the Chlckamauga Indiana it R'-.nnlng Water, near the present site cf a great hydro-electric plant being cor3tructed by Anthony N. Brady, of New York. Col. Brown and ur younar men who had spiked to e allowed to accompanying them on the expedition weri killed. Thu two grown sons were also murdered. Joseph Brown, a boy of tender years, his mother and two of his small sisters were taken Into captivity by the Indians and were .ved from death by an eld Cherokee chief and his wife. Joseph Brown lived with these Indians until he reached manhood. He worked his way out of tha Indian country, however ar.d finally guided an expedition . of wh:;e men to the Nickajck village In 1794. which resulted in U. . total destructlo- of the Chickamaugas. This expedition was organized at Nashville under the direction of John RoberUon. and was commanded by Maj. Ore. Brown found his mother, sisters and one brotaer among the Indians, jucr-eeded in rescuing them, and the remncnt of the family went, to a point near Columbia, Tenn., where Joseph Brown became a beloved divihe of the Cumberland Presby .a.n church. The Chickamaugas claimed to be members of the Cherokee nation, but they were in the main outcasts from all Indian tribes. The section around Chattai.ooga suffered more from them than from all jer Indians. The Tennessee in Peace. All along the Tennessee river today where these conflicts between the whites - Indians occurred in the latter half of 1700. one sees many evidences of industrial activity. The mountains are rch in mineral wealth, such as coal, iron, phosphate and building stone. This wealth is being developed by Chattanooga's captains of Industry, the raw material finding its way into local shops and factories, where it is manufactured into merchantable products and t.ent all over the south and Into foreign countries. The wterpower, so dangero-is to navigation a hundreu years ago, has been harneesed and made to produce electric current for manufacturing plants and trolley lines. Obstruction to navigation has been remove J. 1 the national government, and the Tennessee is now included in the list of rivers that are to be - -srmanently improved at public expense. . In scenic beauty, the Tennesseo river as It flows through the gorges of the Cumberland at Chattanooga baa few serious rivals and is the delight of tc Vista. During the Confederate reMklon In May trips will be taken over moat Interesting and historic Mo

tion of the river from Chattanooga to Hale's bar, where the lagre power plant and lock and dam are being compiet: a cost of $10,000,000. Thi trip covers the celebrated narrows, whirlpools and shoals that have figured so conspicuously In history. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee (1852) makes the following refer- ?e to the Tennessee river in its passage through the Cumberland mountains at and below Chattanooga: The Historian' Pen. "The passage ol thi river through the several ranges of the Cumberland uiounuuus Icruid one oi Mi moat remara..:e features in American topography, is unique, romantic and ptcturesque preisenUng views at once variegated, granu, subUne and awtuL. At the great Lookout, or Chattanooga mountain, cemmences a series of rap-

iaa, wuere, in its tortuous "'lndings along the be of the several mounuun ranges, the Tennessee .ivtr, contracted, into, a narrow channel, hemmed in by. projectiw cuffs an& towering precipice o- stone, das tics with tuxuultuoue violence from shot j ta shore creat

ing in its rapid descent over immense boulders ana masses of rocit a succession of cataracts and vortices. teau-, tiful and interesting in the extreme to the beholder, these rapids constitute a formidable obstacle to navigation, which is not entirely overcome by the agency of steam. Cherokee tradition . proline of accident and disaster to the navigation of the aborigines. It is fabled that a fleet of lnuian canoes, rowed by lichee warriors and destined for an invasion of the bhawnees at the mouth oi ;U Ohio, . was engulfed in the whirlpool

now Known as ine suck, iiviuzauon. skill and experience have diminished tii..e obstacles to commerce and navigation, but three-quarters of a century since :t was an achievement or no ordinary kind to pass through them, though at high tide. Even noi the voyager must be fearless and vigilant." It is one of the regrettable circumstances of cdvancing civilization and improvement that many of n: "ure's wonders and beauties are marred by the hand of man to make way for commerce. Since Mr. Ramsey wrote his bcok the United States government l as spent many millions of dollars removine obstructions to navigation from the Tennessee river neat Chattanooga. Huge boulders that In ages Dtst yere hurled from the mountain tops and cast lnt- the Tennessee i ver by some mighty force of nature, have been removed by the federal government an- much of the watery tumult destroyed. But the narrows are yet there, the mountain peais tower as high over the bed of the river as ever and tlie grandeur of mountain scenery remains. The element of danger, however, always attractive to the American spirit,- is not so pronounced now as it was h-n the rci man held undisputed away, over the Tennessee rives.