Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . hed the records of the District Court, but can findno record of the proceedings in the case, and the Clerk says theieare no records of the doings of that court prior to 1857, a fact ofsome importance and singularity. The Indians were greatly angered because Lott was not cap-tured, and made raids on settlers along the river. Ink-pa-du-a-tah,who had always been friendly with the whites, incensed by the mur-der of his mother and brother, joined in the spirit of vengeance,which, it is claimed, resulted in the massacre at Spirit Lake.
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . hed the records of the District Court, but can findno record of the proceedings in the case, and the Clerk says theieare no records of the doings of that court prior to 1857, a fact ofsome importance and singularity. The Indians were greatly angered because Lott was not cap-tured, and made raids on settlers along the river. Ink-pa-du-a-tah,who had always been friendly with the whites, incensed by the mur-der of his mother and brother, joined in the spirit of vengeance,which, it is claimed, resulted in the massacre at Spirit Lake. It is evident Lott was a mean man, as Guy Ayers told hisfather, for children and fools are said to instinctively tell the there was some palliation for avenging the assault againsthis family at Peas Point, which was within the neutral strip, opento settlement, and on which old Si, an ugly Indian, under atreaty made with the Government, had no right to go, yet therewas no justification for killing the chiefs innocent family. August Eleventh, CAPTAIN ISAAC W. GRIFFITH CAPTAIN ISAAC W. GRIFFITH IN the early days, very few persons were better known in PolkCounty and Des Moines than Old Churubusco, as Captain Isaac W. Griffith was reverently and most respectfully called,to distinguish him from Captain Harry Griffith and Colonel J. , veterans of the Civil War. Born in Trumbull County, Ohio, April First, 1820, he passedhis boyhood days with his father, assisting him in his trade as acarpenter. During that time, he acquired all the education possi-ble at the district schools, and one term at the academy at Farm-ington, a branch of the Western Reserve College. In 1838, when eighteen years old, he decided to come West andgrow up with the country, and came to Fort Madison, in no capital but a vigorous constitution, energy, and faith inhimself; among entire strangers, he took the first job that pre-sented, driving team and working on a farm, unde
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