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ininatn,atIndian Girls Keep Watch Over Ancestors’ Graves.While the Garrison Made a Sortie for Legal Defense, a Marshal, by Court’s Order, Demolished the “Fort.”on»r-t.5r.onayneKansas City, Kan.—After four years of unceasing vigilance the garrison of the Indian ‘fort in Huron cemetery was defeated by a trick and the building demolished. The three Conley sisters, defenders of the burial ground of their ancestors, were tempted to make a general sortie for the legal de-^ | fense of their home, the tirst time It had been left without one of the sisters in charge. Meanwhile another branch of the law visited the fort and left It in ruins.While the three sisters—Ida, Lyda and Lena—were in the Wyandotte eounty district court hearing the arguments in the last legal step taken to hold the cemetery, W. H. Mackey, j I United States marshal, and two depu-11 ! ties tore down the “fort. In accord-ance with an order issued by Judge ! Pollock in the federal court, the marshal and his men removed the building, broke it to pieces with axes and threw the pieces Into the alley In the rear of the cemetery. The men had finished their work and left the cem-ir‘ etery before the sisters knew what was happening.Miss Lyda Conley said her mother's grave rested under the building The spirits of my father and mother, said Miss Lyda Conley grimly, and the spirits of my ancestors told me to build this watch tower and protect the noble Indians who lie burled here.The old Huron cemetery Is In the heart of the business district of this city. At one side is the Carnegie library and beside it the Masonic tein-ireneedntinneis-it-fcl-lieh-
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Benton Scott County Democrat
Benton, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 23, 1911
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