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Title: A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit Lake massacre, and the Indian troubles on the northwestern frontier ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Roderick A., 1831-1918
Subjects: Massacres -- Iowa Spirit Lake Dickinson County (Iowa) -- History
Publisher: Des Moines, The Kenyon printing & mfg. co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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it was finally decided togo on and complete the courthouse according to the originalplan. This was accordingly done. County warrants were sodepreciated at that time that tEey were worth but abouttwenty cents on the dollar, consequently this work provedexpensive to the county. The work was done in detached por-tions, but was finally completed in 1868. The ofiices in the lower story w^ere occupied by the countyofficers in their several capacities. An arrangement had beenmade with the officers of the schof^l district whereby the dis-trict bought seats and seated the court room in considerationof having it to use for school purposes, and as there was buttwo terms of court a year, they did not conflict much. Theold courthouse was used for almost every imaginable purpose.Revival meetings, dances, traveling shows, political gatherings,in short, anything that would bring a crowd met there onequal terms. These conditions continued to the time of thel^urning of the courthouse in February, 1872.
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CHAPTER XVIII. DISCOURAGING CIRCUMSTAXCES APPREHENSIONS OI INDIAN TROUBLES MEASURES FOR DEFENSE —THE :minute-men—last hostile indian KILLED IN IOWA THE TOWNSHIPS—COUNTY GOVERNMENT THE FIKST BOARD OF SUPERVIS-ORS THE BREAKING OUT OF THE WAR THE CALL FOR TROOPS HEAVY ENLISTMENTS RE-NEWED APPREHENSIONS OF INDIAN TROUBLES GOVERNOR KIRKWOOD APPOINTS JUDGE BALDWINTO LOOK AFTER FRONTIER DEFENSE ONE IN-STANCE SHOWING THE NATURE OF THE DANGERTO WHICH THE SETTLERS WERE EXPOSED, \\K disastrous effects of the ))aiiie of lsr)7 upon emiijrationand settlement were f(dt with increasing severity. As liasbefore been stated, emigration almost entirely ceased andthe few that did come during the year and a half preced-ing the breaking out of the war seemed to l)e of that class whocame to the frontier because they could find nothing else to do.They lacked the intelligence, energy and enterprise that char-acterized the first settlers. The population was now shifting,as many of the first who had come h

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