OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY DEC 4 1913
STRANG
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STORES
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CORNERS
PECULIAR INCIDENTS OF THE
GREAT DRY LAND.
HUMAN HAND OF SOLID STONE
Little Stories of a Strange People and
Strange Customs
M. J. Brown, Courier, Oregon Ctiy
There is a junction at a little Ari
zona town where a branch of the
Santa Fe runs north to the grand
canyon. The train was two hours late
and fifty or more passengers were
killing time.
Three cowboys drove a big nail in
the hard mud, and then from a mark
ten or twelve feeet away they began
pitching nickles fit the nail, the near
est one taking the three.
Soon some miners, ranchmen and
passengers took a hand in the gam
bling and as there soon became a
shortage of nickels as one or two
made steady winnings, then someone
would propose a quarter tnrow to
get the nickels back into circulation."
The quarters soon were bunched up
as the nickles had been, when a
ranchman about half drunk, dared
the others to make it a dollar a throw.
All dropped out but five. They mark
ed their dollars and went to it, and
five dollars changed hands about
every five seconds.
After a few minutes the five se
lected a "banker." He had a box of
safety matches. He sold each man 25
for as many dollars, and when the
train came they were getting about
as quick action on money as any
gambling layout I ever saw, and I
was told one man had lost $100 and
another $50.
This incident is typical of Arizona
and New Mexico. Gambling sesms to
be in the air, and about ,90 per cent
catch it. I remember three years ago
of being at a cow camp for dinner,
located on a mountain and overlook
ing a railroad about five miles away.
There was a flag station on the des
ert. A train was coming, and every
man, including the cook and myself,
bet one way or another, on whether
or not the train would stop that day.
It was the daily gamble. One man
took all bets, big or little, either way.
I lost 50 cents. I gambled there was
nothing the train should want to stop
for.
In Needles, Cel., one hot night the
last of September, there was a big
crowd around the big depot, as the
eastern train was in and stopped a
half hour. There was a bunch of
young fellows, plainly from the east,
and they attracted much attention,
by their noisy ways and swagger
tourist uniforms.
One of them was dolled up in En
glish style, and he was certainly an
advertiser.
This big station is a get together
place for many Indians and squaws,
who have all kinds of beads, robes,
turquoise and like stuff to sell.
The "fresh" boys would go from
one to another,, pull over their stuff,
ask the price, try to "jolly" the In
dian girls, and attract attention.
One fat squaw had some boys'
bows and arrows. The English coun
terfeit took a bow, looked at it, took
an arrow and shot it away across the
track. The other boys laughed loudly
at tho l.l,,n,lV t,.l..l,o ti,,. .... uv.
handed back the bow, the 200-lb,
squaw threw her arms around him
hung on despite his struggles, and
nuggeu mm iiKe a near.
Tho fellow didn't object verv stren
uously for he appeared to rather like
the attention and the crowd he was
attracting.
Just then a baggageman, who was
onto tne game, sang out, just as
drill officer would call "present-
arms." uniy tins iellow called
"Body LICE."
In a second the boy "was on," and
ne struggled ana cursed to get away,
Then three other smiaws ioinivl in t.hn
hugging match, and it was only when
the station policeman laughingly forc
ed them to "break away," that the
fellow was released, and he ran into
his 1'ullman, followed by the jeering
crowd.
It was my bet ho didn't finish with
that suit of clothes, and it was a bet
witn no takers. I long ago learned
tnat "distance lends enchantment1
ami lainiiiariiy lends "seam squir
reis.
yearn after the driver told me a scare
story or two.
A one armed Indian is a sight you
probably never saw. They are few.
I met one, a Navajo, on horseback, or
rather he stopped where we were
lunching, and asked the driver to
put some tobacco in a cigarette paper.
After this was done the Indian with
one hand cave the paper and tobacco
a roll and he had a better product
than I could have made with both
hands, and sitting on the ground,
Years ago a trader and relic hunter
came into the reservation, and made
bis home there the most of the time
Finally he mrried an Indian girl, but
after a few months neglected her and
was away from the reserve the most
of the time. Une day ne returned,
gathered together his belongings and
at night attempted to slip out. His
Indian brother-in-law, warned by the
deserted wife, laid for him. The white
man was buried the next day and the
Indian was taken to Gallup to have a
shattered elbow attended to. Blood
poisoning .set 'in and the arm was
amputated: There were no witnesses
to the midnignt duel, ine inaian saia
it was self defense, and his arm,
shattered with a-.44 bullet, was pretty
good evidence. And this was the story
of the only one-armed Indian I ever
saw.
Here are a few of the strange
customs and characteristics of the
Pueblo Indians along the Rio Grand
that Dcrhaps you do not know:
The child belongs to the mother;
the father cannot own a house. The
pueblos (villages) are divided into
many clans, all named, like Green
Corn People, Wolf People, River
People, etc; and people who belong
to a clan cannot marry into the clan.
They must marry from another clan.
Win all Indian tribes of tho south
west, I am told descent is from the
mother, not the father.
Some of the southwect Indians put
their dead in the tops of trees to
mummify; others burn the bodies and
all belongings with them, Dut tne itio
Grande tribes bury them, and with
them many a string of beads, tur
quoise, silver ornaments, etc., that a
relic hunter would take a long chance
to get, as some of them are of great
relic value. Jiut nearly au Dunais are
near, and often in the center of the
village and if a white man attempted
to disturb them he would be killed like
a coyote. I have seen Indian burial
grounds, where the dead had been
buried for so many hundreds of years
one upon another, that there was al
most more bones than dirt, and arm,
leg, rib and skull bones were stick
ing out of the ground all over the
burial yard.
FOR SALE work horse, also one
9x12 rug and one 8x10 nearly new.
J. H Bellan, Route 6, Box 64 on Pa
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f $7.15. Finder please leave at Courier
office. Reward.
Up in the Monui country we stnn
ped at a little trading store, and while
we dianK ginger ale the trader show
ed me a human stone hand, not mumi
ueu, not osiiied, but stoneficd
petrified flesh.
It was but part of a hand, broken
diagonally across from the thumb
joint to tho wrist joint. But it WAS a
human hand.
He said some miners found it and
traded it to him for groceries. They
set off a blast to break up a big rock
wall at tho mouth of a shaft, and a
few days Inter found this part of a
mum many rods irom tho place of ex
plosion. '
The guess was that at the foot of
tins blutt an Indian had been buried
years ago, and that tho mineral sub
stances that seep down ninny of these
vims mid turned trio body to stone.
The explosion probably blow open the
grave and shattered tho stone man.
incy searched in vain for other piec-
The hand was perfect, partially
closed, the culm- of iron ruht, and the
minute wrniKles und ports of the skin
were almost as easily seen as on a
living hand, and where the break was
could be seen tho ends of the cords
and arteries.
I tried to buy it, but as ho had
written to a .museum about it, he
would not set any price until ho heard
irom tnem. it was certainly a strange
sight to see that human hand lying on
the counter.
In the Moqui country ono day, tir
,ing of the ride and taking a cross cut,
: I ran across two or three feathers,
tied to a twtft and the twig bont over
and stuck in the ground. These are
"prayer sticks," the Indian's way of
supplication, and they ure always hid
den in some obscure spot And the
driver told me he would not care for
the contract to take mo safely out of
the reservation if V molested those
sticks and the Indians knew it. I had
a yearning to take that prayer me
dium home with me, but I lost the
The Navajos have some peculiar
habits and characteristics. Altho their
reservation adjoins the snake-tending
Moqis, yet they shun a rattlesnake as
much as a white man.
The Navajos are great meat eaters
and will live entirely on game if they
can get it, yet they will not touch rab
bit meat if starving. They will lie
down by a prairie dog hole and wait
all day to catch him, and his meat is
in great demand, but no rabbit stews
for a Navajo.
The Novajos are, I believe, the
only Indian tribe of the southwest
that does not live in villages and the
only tribe that lives almost entirely
on meat. They do not even live near
neighbors and their hogana (houses)
are built back from the roads and
trails, hidden from view by a pile of
rocks or. a hill.
With a gun one day I went out
after the noon lunch to get a rabbit
and climbing over a lava hill I ran
onto an Indian home, half built and
half dug into a hill. Behind the house
was a squaw on her knees before a
loom weaving a Navajo blanket. The
dogs rushed out at me as 1 started
down the hill and I halted. They held
me at bay. So long as I kept that
distance they laid down and watched,
but the first step forward they
growled in an ugly way. I wanted
very much to see the squaw work, but
the dogs said no. She paid absolutely
no attention to me. The man I was
with said if the Indian had been at
home he would have welcomed me,
in the hope of selling a blanket, but
the dogs were trained to guard the
squaw.
The Navajos are wonderful silver
smiths, and considering that their
tools are littlo more than a hammer
and a piece of iron to pound on, they
turn out some beautiful rings, Jarace
lets, and other articles, and they can
be bought a little above the cost of
the silver in them.
Silver is the metal and turquoise
the gem of all Indians. I never saw
a gold ornament on an Indian, and
they told me if I would offer a In
dian a gold finger ring he wouldn't
accept it.
But they will trade anything they
have, their horses and saddles for the
coveted turquoise. It is said there is
but one turquoise mine in all New
Mexico, northwest of Santa Fe, owned
by the Tiffany jewelers of New York,
yet the Indians go far back in the
mountains and find it, and lots of it.
But no inducements are potent to
make thorn reveal the source.
On all their jewelry is the blue
stone, some polished, some in the raw
quartz. It is to them what the dia
mond is to us. They set them into
handsomely carved bracelets, ear
rings, and many other articles. I
I have seen Indians with strings of
turquoise beads twelve or fifteen feet
long, looped around their nocks sev
eral times. It is difficult to get these,
for the reason tho Indians woulH
rather have them than tho white
man's money. Some of their bridles
are wonderful works of Indian art,
inmost covered wan silver mount
ings and turquoiso settinirs.
And their water iars. I was offer.
cd one that would hold about ten
quarts for a dollar, but I had no way
to carry it, as I was iroincr in instenH
of out The squaws make this work,
and some of tho desiens are really
artistic.
Thev aro a treat nconln. tliosn Tn.
dians. Going from one tribe to anoth
er you will find such pronounced' dif
ferences in customs and ways of liv
ing, yet mix two tribes and you could
not distinguish them.
They are all more or less sun wor
shippers, but they do not take to re
igion to any extent The Cuthnli
work hard among them, but have lit
tle success.
Taken up Black mare, about five
years old, weight about 700, taken up
Wednesday, Nov. 26. J. S. Goulds,
Oregon City, Rt. 2.
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Lost Red leather purse, containing
something like $1,7.00 in gold and
silver; a money order receipt for
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A Thrilling Tale of Adventure
in the Canadian Northwest
JACK CHANTY
By
HULBERT FOOTNER
Author of '-Two on The Trail," Etc.
HK STORY opens with Jack Chanty floating
idly into camp perched upon his raft singing to
the accompaniment of his banjo, little dreaming that
while he had hidden himself from the world,the World,
or at least an important part of it, was coming to him;
for on that day Garrod and Linda found his retreat.
And Jack Chanty was the last man Garrod ever want
ed to see again.
Mr. Footner knows and loves the wilds and he
has here told a very dramatic story of the adventures
of Garrod's party guided by Jack Chanty, of the mys
tery at home that Garrod tries so hard to hide and of
the jealousy of Linda and the trader's daughter
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CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
HOLIDAYS AT HOME
LOW ROUND TRIP FARES
VIA T
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Notice
I nm shippincr apples to Oreiron Citv
market, ns my own market cannot
use all my apples. They are not "Hood
River npples but are stood enoutrh for
anybody, and I don't expect fancy
prices. My apples may be found at
Larsen & Co., and Elliott's.
R. S. Coe.
The Exposition Line, 1915
Between all points in Oregon, also fro
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limit Jan. 5, 1914. The New Year Fares apply only
between points in Oregon and between Oregon and
California.
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Priced at, the pair I UU
$1.50
THE EUDORA GLOVES, of the finest French kid,
made with overseams and with env
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MEYER'S CAPE GLOVES, with Prix seams, all
sizes, in shades of tan and brown, at
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FRENCH KID GLOVES of extra fine quality, made
with overseams and with embroidered stitched
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gloves of unusual wearing quality at y I iU
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. FOR XMAS -SILK HOSIERY
IS ALWAYS ACCEPTABLE
We have just received a very large importation
of fine Silk Hosiery, including the most fashionable
colors as well as black. One or more pairs will make
a charming gift that will bring more than a pass
ing pleasure to the recipient. Why not choose from
these assortments?
50c A PAIR for Women's Fine Black Silk Hose,
made dwith elastic lisle garter top and heavy silk
tipped toe in lavendar, all sizes. Very special value
at this low price.
$1.00 a PAIR for Women's Fine Full-Fashioned Silk
Hose in black and the most fashionable new shades.
Cinderella Silk Hose With Gold Band Top,
Best &1. 50 Grade at $1.19 a Pair
Each Pair in a Fancy Holiday Box i
High-grade stockings, made with reinforced heel
and toe and with elastic garter top, all sizes. One or
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Silk Hose stockings that are well known for their
fine finish and unusual wearing quality. They are
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All sizes, in black only. Each pair in fancy holiday
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. Officers of State Union
Pres. Wm. Grisenthwaite, Oregon
City, E. 3. . , ,
Vice-President, J. Schmitke, Banks,
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Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
City. , -
Directors: A. R. Lyman, Gresham;
S. M. Hall, Clatskanie; E. L. Hellyer,
Beaverton, R. 2; P. H. HcMahon, New
berg, E. 2; J. W. Smith, Aurora, R.l.
Officers of Clackamas Co. Union
Pres. S. L. Casto, Oregon City, R. 3.'
Vice-President, J. H. Bowerman,
Clackamas, R. 1.
Sec. Treas. t . (j. Buchanan, uregon
City.
Directors: W. J. Bowerman, Clacka
mas, E. 1; J. C. Royer, Clackamas R.
1; Wm. Grisenthwaite, Oregon City,
R. 3.
Sec. of Washington Co. Union, T. J.
Elford, Hillsboro R. 3.
Bee. XamhiU uo. union, n. a. wow-
ell, Dundee.
Sec. Columbia (Jo. Union, Henry
Kratse, Clatskanie.
Sec. Muitnoman uo. union, a. jk.
Lyman, Gresham.
Officers of Clackamas Co. Locals
Damascus: Pres. J. C. Royer: Sec.
H. T. Burr, Clackamas.
Clackamas, ms. J. JN. bieDen;
Sec. W. S. Daywalt, Clackamas.
Eagle Creek: Pres. J. T. Rowcliff;
Sec. C. C. Longwell, Barton.
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamrath;
Sec. W. W. Harris, Oregon City, R. 3.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins;
Sec. G. F. Mighells, Oregon City R. 3.
New Era: Pres. Aug. Staeheley;
Sec. G. F. Knowles, Oregon City, R. 1.
Lotran: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sec,
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City, R. 2.
Canby: Pres. Ueo. Koehler: bee. K.
C. Brodie, Canby, K. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. U. D. Aoesling;
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Sunnyside, J. M. Besseler: bee. L,
E. Oeschlaeeer, Clackamas, R. 1.
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Ferns Mayfield, Springwater, K. 1.
Stone: Pres. T. Hi. Brown; Sec. M,
J. Byers, Clackamas, R. 1.
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Elmer Swope, Oregon City, R. 4.
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Sec. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon City.
tarus: rres. A. J. Kelnhofer, Ore
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gon City, E. 3.
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R. 2.
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Werner, Aurora, E. 2.
Highland, Pres. M. E. Kandle; Sec:
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Molalla: Pres. J. W. Thomas: Sec.
I. M. Tolliver, Molalla.
Springwater: Pres. J. M. Moeer:
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