land flowing with milk and honey, and the Chippewas looked 

 upon it with envious eyes. They proceeded to get it. The 

 Chippewas spreading over Wisconsin had worked westward 

 toward Mille Lacs lake and mixed with the Sioux at this point. 

 There were a few cases of intermarriage, and finally a Sioux 

 brave killed a Chippewa who was courting one of the maidens 

 of his tribe and whom he desired for himself. Relations be- 

 came strained and later four Chippewas were killed by jealous 

 Sioux. Immediately, at Fond du Lac, where they had lived, 

 the warriors were haranued and aroused to action by the 

 father, an old chief and father of the murdered braves. The 

 call was sent out and warriors came from the north shore, La 

 Pointe or Chayonanugon, and as far east as the Sault. The 

 war party stealthily slipped down upon the Dakotas and massa- 

 cred them in a wholesale manner. Thus the war between the 

 Sioux and Chippewas began and continued to the middle of 

 the last century. The battle just spoken of was about 1679. 

 At this time, a certain chief, Bi-aus-wah, led the Chippewas 

 to many victories, both against the Fox Indians in Wisconsin 

 and the Sioux in Minnesota. He lived at Fond du Lac and 

 succeeded in driving the latter tribe out of the coveted ter- 

 ritory by numerous battles, one being at Shell lake, witnessed 

 by French traders, and another at Fort Douglas on the St. 

 Croix, in which over a thousand warriors took part on either 

 side. It is told that the Chippewas returned with over three 

 hundred scalps from this fight. By 1730, the Chippewas were 

 in peaceful possession of the country west of Superior to 

 Leech lake, but still carried on a border warfare with their 

 ancient foes until some fifty or sixty years ago. 



There were 400 fires this year on the national forests of Utah, 

 'Southern Idaho, Western Wyoming, and Nevada, or fifteen more 

 than in the most disastrous season of 1910. Yet the cost of ex- 

 tinguishing them was only one-third and the damage only one- 

 thirticth'of that of the earlier year. The difference is largely due 

 to better organization now, and to more roads, trails, and tele- 

 phones. 



