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IE.HONOR FOR INDIAN FIGHTERg ofTON.Dther-Com-chantnbinePlain 1 ther the n in irried trade fur-thing At a Socia-e for flxe i. $4.25 cent 3ture, The s is a re-with1 wasowncor-r the•oper-stion,pend-;ettle.fixedThewere e the irties large price ill be f anyinde-Pitts-com-r the; cap-:nfer-noon, was lit. it nbine in aING.ident,West Virginia to Erect Nonament to Levi Morgan.The courthouse square in New Martinsville, \V. Va.. has been selected is the site for the monument to be erected in honor of Levi Morgan, the trapper, by the commission created by the legislature of West Virginia for that purpose, says a Cumberland (Md.) dispatch to the New York Tribune. The state appropriated for the monument. and it is the intention lo put aCAbronze represent a lion of Morgan iutrapper costume on a massive granite base.Levi Morgan was one of the early settlers of West Virginia and the first of Wetzel county, building and occupying with liis wife and children a fort on the north side of Pishing creek before the arrival of any other settler, lie was the sun of the Kov^ Thomas Morgan, the first white man to make ahome in West Virginia, settling atBunker Hill, on Mills creek, Berkeley county. Levi was a broth. ;• of Zach* well Morgan, for whom Morgantown. W. Va.. was named after his personal bravery had saved tlie town from destruction by the Italians.Levi Morgan divided ids time in his later years between raising corn, scouting with the English and killing Indians. Ho was a firm believer that the only good Italians are dead Indians and li\;ed up to his belief, claiming a record of over 1lt;M Indians killed In his lifetime. One of his exploits, related In a letter found a few years ago. occurred five miles from New Martinsville, at Morgantown. He was working In the field, having left liis wife and children at home. Two Indians drove the family out of the house, firing several shots after them. They ran to a log stockade Morgan had built and locked themselves in. The Indians had come to Morgan’s home chiefly to steal.ammunition and had fired their last shots at the retreating family, but which warned Morgan of their danger. When he appeared, the Indians attacked him with their knives. Morgap had left his gun at the far end of the clearing and was unarmed. lie succeeded In doubling up one Indian with a kick In the stomach and knocked the other senseless with a stone. With one of their own knives he killed them both. One of these Indians he skinned and. tanning the hide, made a powderhorn and bullet pouch of the skin.His great-great-grandson. Aaron Morgan. was a member of the legislature that honored the old scout with a monument.Sufferers nearly alwa; from the pa remote ana through sev poison mayyears, or un' the first littlpearance — • oreast, or s gives the fir: To cure C nently all t eliminated f f it driven is the only r seated, obsti When all th of the syste disease neve Cancer beg following leA small piin below the ear*if c no pain or einee, and I si forgotten aboi not begun to ii Ifrh ; it woul little, then sea ^ould not h« ront-'-wc l for} when my jaw swell, becoir painful. The' £an to cat ar until it was as half dollar, wh of S. 8. S. and ed to give it a r.nd it was x« what a wo”dlt; It had from th« heal and after entirely. Tbit no signs of tt continuesCancer, coming informa write our ph make no chi THE SWIF'You will indigestion yourself. I when you d« need plenty gested. Ko result of yea something 1 some elemei i And it is tlu• Chas. W. i street, RideFor OMrs Winslo used for ohi the child, t pain, oures emedv for dLhu
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Massillon Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 10, 1901
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