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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1922)
South African Rebels Are Conquered Red Men Have Occult Sect WAS SOLD FOR 35 CENTS torles representatives of 13 other rem ount tribes of the Shahaptlan family. Myths Show °oetic Quality. “ Primitive, without « system of chins or tendency toward agriculture, these tribes have a folk lore which often challenges the myths of Greece or Scandinavia. Where the Columbia t now cascades Its vay through narrow Yak mat Recently Assured by Federal defiles the Klickltnts believed a nat ural bridge once spanned its waters. Authorities They May Fl.h and Two sons of their gods, they ex Pick Bernes for Ten Years plained. quarreled to possess so fair a More Without Interference. land. The two shot arrows to deter mine the land they should occupy. To ¡ Wushington - A . they would put It. one son fell the region of the present- the wise men of the Children of the day Yakimas and to the other the . arrows have been assured by the Willamette valley. Great White Father that their tribe- "To Insure peace between the peo may fish, dig roots and pick berries for ples the chief god raised high moun ten more summers without Interfer tains but, so they might be friendly, ence from palefaces. he thr-'w a great stone bridge across iechnlcaHy, the Yakima Indians, of the ‘Wanna* (Columbia) river. This Shah apt Ian stock, have been granted bridge the Indians called 'Tamahna- freedom of their reservation. In Wash wos,’ bridge o f the gods. A witch | ington state, for ten more yours with woman lived on It and to her was en- | out acceptance of any duties and priv This girl was sold for thirty-five trusted all the fire In the world. After ileges of American citizenship. Intercession with the chief of the gods | cents—hut thut was eighteen years ®°ni® L300 of the Y'liklinas thus she won permission to build n great a g o , when she was a child of five; •re assured the untrammeled freedom fire on the bridge to which both tribes ] and she was sold to an American mis o f their trlhul customs," explains a might come und light their fagots. ) sionary and Ills wife She Is Kan En bulletin from the Washington head This net so pleased the chief god that I Votig, who was “ bought” on the quarters of the National Geographic he transformed the witch woman into I streets of Hang Chow by Mr. nnd Mrs. so< lety. ’ I bus not only are these In a beautiful maiden. \V. 8. Sweet, Baptist missionaries. dians made happy, but the friends of “ No sooner did the two chiefs be Later she was adopted by Hev. A. B. the Hod man will be given further o.e Harris of Philadelphia. She Is now port unity to study one of the more hold her than they fell victims to her n music student ut Oberlln college wondrous charm and set their people primitive groups o f American abo and she expects to study child psy rigines, who have not been spoiled l.y to hnttle so they might win her hand. chology and teaching at Columbia. For Then the god was wrathful. He de n too sudden Imposition of the white stroyed the bridge. But so the maid the last three years she has been run man’s civilization. and her lovers might be beautiful in ning u kindergarten In China. Derisive Name Stuck. death ns In life lie created three moun I be luklnms take their name from tains with snow-capped peaks. He a derisive nlckuniue, meaning ‘runa- who doubts this tale may see these Paroled Criminals Commit Most Crime Chicago.—Seven out of every ten «•nyf,’ applied by other tribes; and mountains for himself. Are they not they have given this name to the beautiful, nnd are they not perpetu crimes of violence In Chicago are com Yakima river along which they live. ally snow-crowned, ns the god, Sugha- mitted by criminals who are out on bond, say police officials. The crooks They call themselves ‘ Wuptulltuin ’ lie, decreed. at llhert.v on bond are the most meaning ‘Children of the Narrows.' in "The white men call them Mount vicious of nil criminals, authorities reference to the narrows of that river, less poetically designated Union Gaul Hood, Mount St. Helena, und Mount declare, and some wuy to curb this evil Is to he sought. Adams." on the maps. ‘•Dreamers” of Yakima Tribe Had Gospel Much Like Gandhi in India Today. MYTHS SHOW POETIC QUALITY A general view of Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, which was the center of the recent disturbances creutej by the striking miners. The rebellion was quelled by the troops. Pocket Mirror Beat Geronimo Apache Kid knew horses, and from time to time got remounts on the fast est nnd freshest horses In corrals he passed. The rangers plugged along on their nime ponies. Hut they followed the trail so fast that they drove the Apache Kid and bis hands to a field of fewer corrals aud more desperate straits. They surrounded the hand at Stink Apache Kid Used It, Says Noted Ran- ing Wells, so-called from the sulphur fumes that rise from Its pit. As the ger in Recital of Story of His law circle closed In the Apache Kid Eventful Life— Has Remarkable made use of a smoke screen. The Experiences as Ranger. wind was blowing from his band to Chicago.— Superstition resulted I d ward the rangers. The Indians fired the surrender o f Ueronltno, the famous the prairie. Then, under cover of the Indian, and the Apache Kid used the smoke, they brought down some of the first smoke screen recorded In this rangers. Colonel Is Wounded. country, according to Col. Fred Owens Colonel Owens did not escape. Two of Chicago, a noted Texas Hunger of j of the Wolff boys with whom he had half a century ago. Colonel Owens, an old circus man, lived when he first came to Texas fell who earned his title as runger, cow In the rifle fire. Colonel Owens dragged boy, bronco buster, pony express rider them through It and returned to get and participant In many Wild West hls horse. Then he risle into a bullet pursuits. Including those of Geronliuo that cuught him in the left thigh and and the Kid, made these assertions another killed hls horse, which fell on here In a recital of h!s life, which has the colonel, crushed hls chest, and left been crammed full of action and n ar him unconscious. When he came to row escapes that rend like the passage himself he was seven miles nearer civilization, being carried on the back from an old dime novel. Fred Owens, when nine years old, of a friendly squaw. The Wolff boys was missing from his home In Fleru- were saved. Itecuperatlng he again took up the Ingsburg, Ky., one morning In 1859. chase and helped to make It merry for He had gone West. At eighteen, or In 1808, he became a the Apache Kid until that outlaw was Texns Hunger and made such a mark run to cover In Big Bear canyon on for himself that he was sent to the the Tecos river, and died from a ran ger's bullet. Centennlnl at Philadelphia with other He then broke 18 horses to work rangers to represent the Hone Star without line, bridle or bit. and their State. In 1878-79 and 1880 he wss de performance was presented the first tailed to the pony express through No time with the original Buffalo Bill Man's Land, or the Indian territory. show In Omahn In 1884. In 1885 Col He was never held up, hut many times onel Owens went back to Texas. He outrode bandits bent on possessing the added to hls string of “ naked racers," valuables he carried. as they were called, and presented In 1S81 he took the saddle again as them for two sensons with the Bur- an active ranger. About that time num ft Bailey circus. Then he sold Oeronlmo, the most wily chief that them to that company. ever gave the American army trou He returned to Texns nnd took tip ble, was getting tad In west Texas. the trail of Bass Scott and hls hand Uutll Oeronlmo's rapture In the hills of cattle rustlers. This crowd was ex back o f 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 had received a terrible wound dian's capture that may not he part of that crushed In hls left side. the records of the War department, 1.000 Head Were Dead. because Oeronlmo hail few friends This laid him up for some time, but among white men. The colonel was he went on the last “ big drive” of cat- one of these few. In after years Oeronlmo told him why he surrendered to the white man. OV/NS FAMOUS NECKLACE and It Is a story of the Indian's super stitious nature. Oeronlmo's pursuers numbered among them a Captain Hil debrand. When the Indian was driven Into the hills and the chase became hot. Hildebrand's command was crawl ing over the crags toward the redskin’s stronghold. Just before hls surrender Oeronlmo caught sight of the face of Captain Hildebrand and was ready to fire. Then a bright light dashed over the officer's features. This the Indian could not fathom, and It drove all the tight ont o f him. Pocket Mirror Saved Him. In those days troopers In the army were resourceful men. A private In the advancing line had seen a point o f vantage and thought his captain should know of It. To move or call would reveal hls position to the In dians, yet he must get the attention of Captain Hildebrand. Taking a small mirror from hls pocket he caught the rays o f the sun. These reflected on the face o f Hildebrand, then in Immi nent danger o f Oeronlmo's rifle. But the flash beat the Indian's trigger flrv ger. He saw the wonderful bright light ami thought It a message from heaven to Identify Captain Hildebrand ns the Great Spirit Oeronlmo ran up his flag of truce, merely stipulating that he should not be hnng or shot for Recent photograph of Mr. and Mr*. hls outrages if he surrendered. Hls | James H. K. Cromwell, son and daugh terms were accepted. ter-in-law of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury of In 1884 the Apache Kid. a halLhreed rtiilad olphla. Mrs. Cromwell waa Mi*s outlaw, and hls hand were marauding Helpline Dodge, daughter of Mrs. In west Texas. The Apache Kid was Uorare E. Podg^of Gross Point. Mlrh., o f the same tribe, but not related to widow of the noted motor manufac Oeronlmo. Yet he possessed all the turer. She Is the present owner of wiles nnd savage cruelty of his chief | the pearl necklace, valued at $825,000 tain. Colonel Owens and hls fellow —one* the property of Empress Cath- rangers were sent after the Apache > erine of Russia—the sale j d which ' caused a lawsuit between two big Jew Kid. The chase was a hot one. The elry bouses. Thought Its Flash in Battle Was an Order From the Great Spirit. FIRST USE OF SMOKE SCREEN ■S Gives Beating to Wife Who Wouldn’t “Doll Up” ! ■ j I I I Itnlph Magartno, twenty-five years old, a motorman of Brook lyn, N. Y„ is different from most husbands, for he not only does not object to hls wife using cos metics, but he insists she do so. Because Helen, hls spouse, re fused to use rouge and powder, Mugurino, according to the charge, beat her. When Magis trate Liota heard of the unusual cause for Mugarlno's alleged beating of hls wife, he ordered the motorman pluced on proba tion. pending a further Investiga • i i i tion. ■ i i i i ■ I ■ I i ■ I I ■ ■ ¡I .U tie front Texas. There were 5,000 heail In the herd. In Stevens Saucer. Texas, so called because the hills form " T r i b a l customs among all the a giant saucer, a coyote barked and Sbnhapt ana. to which linguistic family the » uklinus belong, are similar. The | n cowboy fired u shot at It. When nhuhaptlans range I over what now Is the stampede was over One thousand northeastern Oregon and southwest head of cattle were dead and twenty- Muho as well as In Washington. five hundred were lost. Offshoots of the Shuluipthin stock Returning to civilization. Colonel Included the Nez I'ercep, the 'plnchod- Owens heard of a midget broncho nose men,’ whose leader. Joseph, won pony horn on the trail. He bought comparison with the march of Xeno- this little anlmnl, which was the great phon a Ten Thousand for hls retreat trick pony “Cleo.” He trained “ Cleo" after an attack upon white usurpers It Breaks Record in 1921, and being more than twenty times the average annual rice exports In tho and the animal was taken around the o f his ancient home lands In Oregon. for First Time Exceeds five-year period, 1910 to 1914. world twice by Colonel Owens. “Cleo" ' Smohalla, 'the preacher,' founder of died In 1918. Colonel Owens then left tlint mystic Indian hand known as Shipments of Cotton. Lxports and Values. the road. 'I»reamers' also was Shahaptlan. In The principal agricultural exports What Is thought of him by showmen the Columhlu river region, near the during 1921 und their declared values Is evidenced by hls Initial, and since I present-day home of the Yuklmas, he were: automatic elections, as chaplain of preached a gospel strikingly like thnt Wheat nnd wheat flour, $551,000,. their club. He can still take the of Gandhi, leader of the tinn-co-op- 000; cotton, $534,000,000; pork and thumb, fore and middle fingers of his eration movement In British India to | pistol hand, roll and crimp a cigarette day. After wanderings in the deserts Pork and Pork Products, Including pork products, Including lard, $240,- 000,000; leuf tobacco, $205,000,000; Lard, Follow Cotton on the L is t - the cowboy’s way, In spite of the fact south to Mexico, during which he corn and commeal, $97,000,000; sugar, that these three fingers are marred claimed to have visited the spirit Many Commodities Show In $40,000,000; rye. $14,000.000; con by the mark of a bullet that shot the world, he returned to counsel thnt In crease Over 1920. densed nnd evaporated milk, $38,000,- | gun out of hls hand. dians return to their native ways of 000 ; cottonseed oil, $24,000,000; rice, Colonel Owens Is still a Texas Han living, decline instruction or associa Washington.—Wheat was king of $21,000,000, and barley, $21.000,000. ger. He has never resigned, he has tion with white men, and above all Aniericun agricultural exports In 1921. Exports which showed an increase never been discharged. lie Is a man follow their own gods. Chief Joseph An analysis of the 1921 exports of In quantity over 1920 were; 32 of the principal agricultural prod of quiet mien, and to meet him one embraced this faith. Wheat, cotton, corn, rice, barley, would never realize he was one of the "Disputes over land In the Yaklm- ucts grown In the United Stales, made pork and pork products, except bacon, vallnnt men that carried law and order reservation were made the occasion public by the Department of Agricul oleo oil, cottonseed oil aud eake, re to and over the frontiers. for a federal mllltnry Investigation of ture, shows thut more wlieut was ex fined sugar, gret•!! apples, eggs, to. tills sect In 1884. The snlmon thanks ported during last year than In any bncco, dried npples, dried apricots and the berry festival and the ghost preceding year In history of the coun dried prunes. Exports which showed SHOT 102 TIMES, BUT LIVES giving. dances were retorted upon, and try, and thut for Ihe first time the ex a decrease In quantity were: Wheat, seances marked by trances and bell port value of wheat und wheat flour flour, rye nnd rye flour, oats, beef, Sergt. Samuel Joseph of Kentucky ringing were found. exceeded the value of eotton exports. Has Record for Stopping Ger Exports of corn In 1921, Including baron, butter nnd cheese, condensed “ Todny the Yakimas may roam at milk, potatoes, hops, dried peaches man Lead. will over an area neurly as large as conuneid converted Into terms of com, and raisins. were larger than In uny year since that of Rhode Island. The treaty by Wheat exports totaled 279,949,000 Lexington, Ky.—Sergt. Alvin T. which this reservation, within the 1900. bushels, us compared with 218,287,000 I York nnd Sergt. William Woodtlll may Since 1919 the United Stales hns l.end hut not bordering the Columbia bushels In 1920. hut the value whs divide honors for capturing or destroy- j river, was set aside dates hack to the become nn exporter of rice, the ex- lng 'Germans during the World war 50's and Included among Its signa- ports of GUO,050,000 pounds lit 1921 $432,906,000 In 1921, as compared with $590.075.000 In 1920, h decrease ol hut at the Good Samaritan hospital more than $100,000,000. In this city is an American sergeant who probably stopped more bullets ; Exports of wheat flour were 10,- than any other soldier In Uncle Sam's J 800.000 barrels In 1921, with a de army, and, although hls merits are un , clared value of $117.0!X',.(XX), as com- sung, he has a war record that vies pared with 19,854,1X10 barrels, valued with those of York and Woodtlll. at $221,472,000 exported In 1920. He Is Sergt. Samuel Joseph of Hnz Cotton and Corn Exports. nrd, Ky., and he Is now at The hospi tal for his fifteenth operation. Up Cotton exports In 1921 totaled 0,078,- to date Joseph has had G7 bullets tnk- ; <Xjo bales of 500 pounds each, with a en from hls body; but he Is still declared value of $5342242,IMA), as com- afraid to go swimming, for he was hit ; pnr<sl with G,35D.( nni hales valued at 1011 times after being In the front $1,130,4410.000 exported In 1020. line of fighting for 15 months without Corn exports. Including com meal receiving a scratch. converted Into terms of corn, totaled The former sergeant's outfit was 1322208.000 bushels valued at $;xt,50G,- Company Q, Eighteenth Infantry. (XX), us compared with 2I.2.MMXX) bush First division, A. K. F. He was on els valued ut $33,1)32,000 exported In the Alsace-Lorraine front with French 1920. colonials, participated In the capture Irni>nrts of corn dropped from 7.784.- of Cantlgny. helped storm and take (XX» bushels In 1!*20 to 104,isx> hu«hels Mondltaor, was In the great drive on In 1021; rice Imports from 142.981,000 Soissons, was 45 days In the hottest pounds to 83.805,000 pounds. 4'hcese fighting on tt# Champagne front nnd Imports Increased from 15.1AM,ixx) participated In the sanguinary fight pounds In 1920 to 20,800,001) pounds In ing at Chateau Thierry and In the Ar 1921. gonne forest, where he received most Imports of eggs L: the shell Jumped of hls wounds, and was taken to a from 1,7*A).000 dozen to3.0fB.000 dozen. hospital to die, hta comrades thought.' The department asserts thnt en an For 28 months he remained In the alysis of American foreign trade Is In hospital. complete without taking Into account j both quantity nnd value, for although exports of many lending agricultural “ SPECS” STIR UP ROYALTY products show s Isrge Increase In quantity decllnty In value hnve grepfljr Young Ex Emperor of China Finally offset tho possible gnln derived from Adopts Glasses on Advlco of Increased quantity. American. W heat Leads in Farm Exports INCREASE IN CORN EXPORTS Little Girl Causes Ghost Scare ----------------------- Peking.—To wear “ specs" or not to wear them was a problem which re cently threw the Imperial household of the Chinese dynasty Into consternation when It was discovered that the sight of Asuan Tung, young ex-emperor, was failin g. # The American expert said It must be either ” specs" or falling sight for Usuan Tur.g. and “specs” It waa. Dr. Walter Frinklin Urine* of the American Institute for Scientific Re- search, who went to Antlgnnlsh. Nova Hcotla. to Investigate the ghostly visits tlons that had driven Alexander Macdonald snd family from their fnrrn home, has reported that the mischievous pranks of Mary Ellen, adopted daughter of Alexander Macdonald, were responsible for most of the manifestations. The picture shows I»r. Prince and hls party In sleighs with Inserts showing Mary Ellen sod Alexander Macdooald. O • ...................... Grocer Shoots Self In Sleep. Emimria, Kan.—John B. Gunderson, a grocer, shot himself In tne chest dnr- lng the night while he was sleeping with a revolver under hls pillow. The ' sound of a shot awoke Gunderson, who found he had wounded himself. i The grocer had carried the gun to bed I with him to protect hls store from , borglsrm.
