Dayton tribune., April 21, 1922, Image 5

South African Rebels Are Conquered
Red Men Have
Occult Sect
“Dreamers” of Yakima Tribe
Had Gospel Much Like Gandhi
in India Today.
MYTHS SHOW POETIC QUALITY
Yakimas Recently Assured by Federal
Authorities They May Fish and
Pick Berries for Ten Years
More Without Interference.
A general view of ....... . burg. Union of South Africa, which was the center of the recent disturbances created by
the striking miners. The rebellion was quelled by the troops.
Pocket Mirror
Beat Geronimo
Thought Its Flash in Battle
Was an Order From the
Great Spirit.
FIRST USE OF SMOKE SCREEN
Apache Kid Used It, Say« Noted Ran-
Oer In Recital of Story of Hie
Eventful Life—Has Remarkable
Experiences as Ranger.
Apache Kid knew horsea, and from
time to time got remounta on the fast­
est and freshest horaea In corrals he
paused. The rangers plugged along on
their same ponies. But they followed
the trail so fast that they drove the
Apache Kid and ills bands to a Held
of fewer corrals and more desperate
straits.
They surrounded the band at Stink­
ing Wells, so-called from the Ailphur
fumes that rise from Its pit. As the'
luw circle closed In the Apache Kid
made use of a smoke screen. The
wind was blowing from his band to-
ward the rangers. The Indlans fired
the prairie. Then, under cover of the
smoke, they brought down some of the
rangers.
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Chicago.—Superstition resulted In
the surrender of Geronimo, the famous
Indian, and the Apache Kid used the
first smoke screen recorded In this
Colonel Is Wounded.
country, according to Col. Fred Owen«
Colonel
Owens did not escape. Two
of Chicago, a noted Texas Ranger of
of the Wolff boys with whom he had
half a century ugo.
Colonel Owens, an old circus man, lived when he first came to Texas fell
who earned his title as ranger, cow- In the rifle flre. Colonel Owens dragged
them through It and returned to get
boy, bronco buster, pony express rider his horse. Then he rode into a bullet
and participant In many Wild West
that caught him In the left thigh and
pursuits. Including those of Geronimo
and the Kid, made these assertions another killed his horse, which fell on
the colonel, crushed his chest, nnd left
here In a recital of his life, which has him unconscious. When he came to
been crammed full of action awl nar­ himself he was seven miles nearer
row escapes that read like the passage civilization, being carried on the back
from an old dime novel.
of a friendly squaw. The Wolff boy«
Fred Owens, when nine years old,
were saved.
was missing from bls home In 1
Recuperating he again took up the
Ingsburg. Ky„ one morning in 18o9. chase and helped to make It merry for
He hnd gone West.
the Apache Kid until that outlaw was
At eighteen, or In 1868. he became a run to cover In Big Benr canyon on
Texas Ranger and made such a mark the Pecos river, and died from a ran­
for himself that he was sent to the ger’s bullet.
Centennial at Philadelphia with other
He then broke 18 horse« to work
rangers to represent the lx»ne Star without line, bridle or bit, and their
State. In 1878-79 and 1880 he wm de­ performance was presented the first
tailed to the pony express through No time with the original Buffalo Bill
Mun’s Land. or the Indian territory. show In Omaha in 1884. In 1885 Col-
He was never held up, but many times onel Owens went back to Texas. He
outrode bandits bent on possessing the added to his string of “naked racers,”
valuables he carried.
as they were called, and presented
In 1881 he took the saddle again as them for two seasons with the Bar-
an active ranger. About that time num & Bailey circus, Then he sold
Geronimo, the most wily chief that them to that company.
ever gnve the American army trou­
He returned to Texas nnd took up
ble. was getting bad in west Texas. the trail of Bnss Scott nnd his band
Until Geronimo’s capture In the hills of cattle rustlers. This crowd was ex­
back of Chihuahua. Mexico, Colonel terminated 100 miles from Fort Stock-
Owens was a material part of his pur­ ton, but before their end Colonel
suit. And he tells a story of the In­ Owens hnd received a terrible wound
dian’s capture that mny not be part of that crushed In his left side.
the records of the War department,
1,000 Head Were Dead.
because Geronimo hnd few friends
This laid him up for some time, but
among white men. The colonel was he went on the Inst "big drive” of cat-
one of these few.
In after years Geronimo told him
why he surrendered to the white man, OWNS FAMOUS NECKLACE
and It Is a story of the Indian’s super­
stitious nature. Geronimo’s pursuers
numbered among them n • nptnln Hil­
debrand. When the Indian was driven
into the hills nnd the chase became
hot, Hildebrand's command was crawl­
ing over the crags toward the redskin's
stronghold. Just before bls surrender
Geronimo caught sight of the face of
Captain Hildebrand and was ready to
fire. Then a bright light flashed over
the officer's features. This the Indian
could not fathom, and It drove all the
fight out of him.
Pocket Mirror Saved Him.
In those days troopers In the army
were resourceful men. A private in
the advancing line bad seen a point
of vantage and thought his captain
Should know of It. To move or call
would reveal his position to the In­
dians, yet he must get the attention
of Captain Hildebrand. Taking n small
mirror from his pocket he caught the
rays of the sun. Those reflected on
the face of Hildebrand, then In Immi­
nent danger of Geronimo’s rille. But
the flash beat* the Indian’s trigger fln-
gcr i[P R1iw the wonderful bright
light nnd thought It a message from
heaven to Identify Captain Hildebrand
ns the Great Spirit. Geronimo rnn up
his flng of truce, merely stipulating
that he should not be hung or shot for
his outrages if he surrendered. Ills
terms were accepted.
In 1884 the Apnohe Kid, n hnlf-breed
outlaw, and his band were marauding
in west Texas. The Apache Kid was
of the same tribe, but not related to
Geronimo. Yet he possessed all the
wiles and savage cruelty of his chief­
tain. Colonel Owens nnd his fellow
rnngers were sent after the Apache
Kid.
The chase was a hot one. The
Gives Beating to Wife
Who Wouldn’t “Doll Up”
Ralph Magarino, twenty-five
years old, a mot orma a of Brook-
lyn. N. Y., is different from most
husbands, for he not only does
not object to his wife using co»-
nietlcs, but he insists she do so.
Because Helen, bls spouse, re­
fused to use rouge and powder,
Magarino, according to the
charge, beat her. When Magis­
trate Llota heard of the unusual
cause for Magarino's alleged
(»eating of his wife, he ordered
the motorman placed on proba­
tion, pending a further Investiga­
tion.
Washington.—As they would put IL
the wise men of the Children of the
Narrows have been assured by the
Great White Father that their tribe
may fish, dig roots and pick berries for
ten more summers without Interfer­
ence from palefaces.
Technically, the Yakima Indians, of
Shahaptian stock, have been grunted
freedom of their reservation, tn Wash­
ington state, for ten more years, with­
out acceptance of any duties and priv­
ileges of American citizenship.
“Home 1,300 of the Yakimas thus
are assured the untrammeled freedom
of their tribal customs,” explains a
bulletin from the Washington head-
quarters of the National Geographic
society. “Thus not only are these In-
dlans made happy, but the friends of
the Red man will be given further op­
portunity to study one of the more
primitive groups of American abo­
rigines, who have not been spoiled by
a too sudden imposition of the white
man's civilization.
Derisive Name Stuck.
WAS SOLD FOR 35 CENTS
tories representatives of 13 other rem­
nant tribes of the Hhahaptlan family.
Myths Show Poetic Quality.
‘‘Primitive, without a system of
clans or tendency toward agriculture,
these tribes have a folk lore which
often challenges the mythu of Greece
or Scandinavia. Where the Columbia
now cascade« Its way through narrow
detlles the Kllckltats believed a nat- |
urul bridge once spanned Its waters.
Two sons of their gods, they ex­
plained, quafreled to possess so fair a
land. The two shot arrow« to deter­
mine the land they should occupy. To
one s«n fell the region of the present- ;
day Yakimas and to the other the
Willamette valley.
"To Insure peace between the peo­
ples the chief god raised high moun­
tains but, so they might be friendly,
he thr'-w a great stone bridge across
the ‘Wanna’ (Columbia) river. This
bridge the Indians called • “Tamahna-
wo«,’ bridge of the gods. A witch
woman lived on It nnd to her was en­
trusted all the fire In the world. After
Intercession with the chief of the gods
she won permission to build a great
fire on the bridge to which both tribes
might come and light their fagots.
This act so pleased the chief god that
he transformed the witch woman into
a beautiful maiden.
“No sooner did the two chiefs be­
hold her than they fell victims to her
wondrous charm and set their people
to battle so they might win her hand.
Then the god was wrathful. He de­
stroyed the bridge. But so the maid
and her lovers might be beautiful In
death as in life be created three moun­
tains with snow-capped peaks. He
who doubts this tale may see these
mountains for himself. Are they not
beautiful, and are they not perpetu-
ally snow-crowned, as the god, Sagba-
lie, decreed.
“The white men call them Mount
Hood, Mount St. Helens, and Mount
Adams.”
“The Yakimas take their name from
a derisive nickname, meaning ‘runa­
ways,’ applied by other tribes; and
they have given tills name to the
Yakima river along which they live.
They call themselves ‘Waptallmln,’
meaning ‘Children of the Narrows,' in
reference to the narrows of that river,
less poetically designated Union Gap
tie from Texas. There were 5,000 on the maps.
head In the hen!. In Stevens Saucer,
“Tribal customs among all the
Texas, so called because the hills form Shahaptians, to which linguistic family
a giant saucer, a coyote barked and the Yakimas belong, are similar. The
n cowboy fired a shot at It. When Shahaptians ranged over what now is
the stampede was over one thousand northeastern Oregon and southwest
head of cattle were dead and twenty- Idaho as well as in Washington.
five hundred were lost.
“Offshoots of the Shahaptian stock
Returning to civilization. Colonel included the Nez Perce«, the ‘pinched-
Owens heard of a midget broncho nose men,’ whose leader, Joseph, won
pony born on the trail. He bought comparison with the march of Xeno­
this little animal, which was the great phon's Ten Thousand for bls retreat
trick pony “Cleo.” He trained “Cleo” after an attack upon white usurpers
and the animal was taken around the of his ancient home lands in Oregon.
world twice by Colonel Owens. “Cleo”
“Smohalla, ‘the preacher,’ founder of
died In 1918. Colonel Owens then left that mystic Indian band known as
the road.
•Dreamer«' also was Shahaptian. In
What la thought of him by showmen the Columbia river region, near the
Is evidenced by his initial, and since present-day home of the Yakimas, he
automatic elections, as chaplain of preached a gospel strikingly like that
their club. He can «till take the of Gandhi, leader of the non-co-op­
thumb, fore and middle fingers of hi« eration movement in British India to­
pistol hand, roll and crimp a cigarette day. After wanderlngj in the deserts
the cowboy’s way, in spite of the fact south to Mexico, during which he
that these three fingers are marred claimed to have visited the spirit
by the mark of a bullet that shot the world, he returned to counsel that In­
dians return to their native ways of
gun out of his hand.
Colonel Owens is still a Texas Ran­ living, decline Instruction or associa­
ger. He has never resigned, he has tion with white men, and above all
never been discharged. He Is a man follow their own gods. Chief Joseph
of quiet mien, and to meet him one embraced this faith.
"Disputes over land in the Yakimr.
would never realize he was one of the
valiant men that carried law and order reservation were made the occasion
for a federal military investigation of
to and over the frontier«.
this sect in 1884. Tne salmon thanks­
giving, the berry festival and the ghost
SHOT 102 TIMES, BUT LIVES dances were reported upon, and
seances marked by trances and bell
SergL Samuel Joseph of Kentucky ringing were found.
Has Record for Stopping Ger­
“Today the Yakimas may roam at
man Lead.
will over an area nearly as large as
that of Rhode Island. The treaty by
Lexington, Ky.—Sergt. Alvin T. which this reservation, within the
York and Sergt. William Woodflll may bend but not bordering the Columbia
divide honors for capturing or destroy­ river, was set aside dates back to the
ing Germans during the World war. '50’s and Included among its signa-
but nt the Good Samaritan hospital
In this city is an American sergeant
who probably stopped more bullets
than any other soldier in Uncle Sam's
army, and, although his merits are un­
sung, he has a war record that vies
with those of York and Woodfill.
He is Sergt. Samuel Joseph of Haz-
! ard, Ky., and he is now at Ihe hospi­
tal for his fifteenth operation. Up
to date Joseph 1ms bad 67 bullets tak­
en from his body; but he Is still
afraid to go swimming, for he was hit
i 102 times after being in the front
line of fighting for 15 months without
receiving a scratch.
The former sergeant’s outfit was
Company * G, Eighteenth Infantry,
First division, A. E. F. He was on
ibe Alsace-Lorraine front with French
qolonials, participated in the capture
of Cnntigny. helped storm and take
Mondltaor, was In the great drive on
Solssons, was 45 days in the hottest
lighting on the Champagne front nnd
participated in the sanguinary fight­
ing nt Chateau Thierry nnd tn the Ar­
gonne forest, where he received most
of his wounds, nnd wns taken to n
hospital to die, hl« comrades thought.
For 28 months he remnined In the
hospital.
This girl was sold for thirty-five
cents—but that was eighteen years
ago, when she was a child of five;
and she was sold to an American mis­
sionary and his wife. She Is Kan En
Vong, who was “bought" on the
streets of Hang Chow by Mr. and Mrs.
W. a Sweet, Baptist missionaries.
Later she was adopted by Rev. A. E.
Harris of Philadelphia. She Is now
a music student at Oberlin college
and she expects to study child psy­
chology and teaching at Columbia. For
the last three years*she has been run­
ning a kindergarten In China.
Chicago.—Seven out of every ten
crimes of violence in Chicago are com­
mitted by criminals who are out on
bond, say police officials. The crooks
at liberty on bond are the most
vicious of all criminals, authorities
declare, and some way to curb this
evil Is to be sought.
Wheat Leads in
Farm Exports
It Breaks Record in 1921, and
for First Time Exceeds
Shipments of Cotton.
INCREASE IN CORN EXPORTS
Pork and Pork Products, «Including
Lard, Follow Cotton on the List—
Many Commodities Show In­
crease Over 1920.
Washington.—Wheat wm king of
American agricultural exports In 1921.
An analysis of the 1921 exports of
32 of the principal agricultural prod­
ucts grown in the United States, made
public by the Department of Agricul­
ture, shows that more wheat was ex­
ported during last year than in any
preceding year in history of the coun­
try, and that for the first time the ex­
port value of wheat and wheat flour
exceeded the value of cotton exports.
Exports of corn in 1921, Including
cornmeal converted Into terms of corn,
were larger than in any year since
1900.
Since 1919 the United States has
become an exporter of rice, the ex­
ports of 600.050,000 pounds In 1921
Little Girl Causes Ghost Scare
“SPECS” STIR UP ROYALTY
Recent photograph of Mr. and Mrs.
James H. R. Cromwell, son and daugh­
ter-In-law of Mrs. K. T. Stotesbury of
Philadelphia. Mrs. Cromwell was Miss
Delphine Dodge, daughter of Mrs.
Horace E. Dodge of Gross Point, Mich.,
widow of the noted motor manufac­
turer. She is the present owner of
the pearl necklace, valued at $825,000
—once the property of Empress Cath­
erine of Russia—the sale of which
caused a lawsuit between two big jew­
elry houses.
Paroled Criminals Commit Most Crime
Young Ex-Emperor of China Finally
Adopts Glasses on Advice of
American.
Peking.—To wear “specs” or not to
w ear them was a problem which re
cently threw the Imperial household of
Dr. Waiter Franklin Prince of the American Institute for Scientific Re­
the Chinese dynasty Into consternation
search,
who went to Antlgonish, Nova Scotia, to Investigate the ghostly visita­
when It was discovered that the sight
of Hsuan Tung, young ex-emperor, was tions that had driven Alexander Macdonald and family from their farm home,
has reported that the mischievous pranks of Mary Ellen, adopted daughter of
falling.
The American expert said it must be Alexander Macdonald,, were responsible for most of the manifestations. The
either “specs" or failing sight for picture shows Dr. Prince and his party In sleighs with Inserts showing Mary
Ellen and Alexander Macdonald.
Hsuan Tung, and “specs” It was.
being more than twenty times the
average annual rice exports in the
five-year period, 1910 to 1914.
Lxports and Values.
The principal agricultural exports
during 1921 and their declared values
were:
Wheat and wheat flour, $551,000,-
000; cotton, $534,000,000; pork and
pork products, including lard, $246,-
000,000; leaf tobacco, $205,000,000;
corn and cornraeal, $97,000,000; sugar,
$49,000,000; rye, $44,000,000; con­
densed and evaporated milk, $38,000,-
000; cottonseed oil, $24,000,000; rice,
$21,000,000, and barley, $21,000,000.
Exports which showed an increase
in quantity over 1920 were:
Wheat, cotton, corn, rice, barley,
pork and pork products, except bacon,
oleo oil, cottonseed oil and cake, re­
fined sugar, green apples, eggs, to.
bacco, dried apples, dried apricots and
dried prunes. Exports which showed
a decrease in quantity were: Wheat,
flour, rye and rye flour, oats, beef,
bacon, butter apd cheese, condensed
milk, potatoes, hops, dried peaches
and raisins.
'
Wheat exports totaled 279,949,000
bushels, as compared with 218,287,000
bushels in 1920, but the value was
$432,965,000 in 1921, as compared with
$596,975,000 in 1920, a decrease of
more than $160,000,000.
Exports of wheat flour were 16,-
800,000 barrels in 1921, with a de.
dared value of $117,696,000, as com­
parecí with, 19,854,000 barrels, valued
at $224,472,000 exported la 1920.
Cotton and Corn Exports.
Cotton exports In 1921 totaled 6.678,.
000 bales of 500 pounds each, with a
declared value of $534,242,000, as com­
pared wit|i 6,359.000 bales valued at
$1,136,400,000 exported in 1920.
Corn exports, including corn meal
converted into terras of com, totaled
132,266,000 bushels valued at $96,560,»
000, as compared with 21,230,000 bush­
els valued at $33,932,000 exported In
1920.
Imports of corn dropped from 7,784,-
000 bushels in 1920 to 164,000 bushels
In 1921 ; rice imports from 142,951,000
pounds to 83,895,000 pounds. Cheese
Imports increased from 15,994,000
pounds in 1920 to 26,806,000 pounds in
1921.
Imports of eggs tz the shell Jumped
from 1,709,000 dozen to 3,063 000 dozen.
The department asserts that an an­
alysis of American foreign trade k In­
complete without taking into account
both quantity and value, for although
exports of many leading agricultural
products show a large Increase in
quantity declines In value have greatly
offset the possible gain derived from
Increased quantity.
Grocer Shoots Self In Sleep.
Emporia, Kan.—John B. Gunderson,
a grocer, shot himself in tne chest dur­
ing the night while he was sleeping
with a revolver under his pillow. The
sound of a shot awoke Gunderson,
who found he had wounded himself.
The grocer had carried the gun to bed
with him to protect his store from
burglars.