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(I II PAGE FIX THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 4. 1923. COLONEL PARKER, FAMOUS INDIAN FIGHTER AND NEWSPAPER WRITER TELLS EARLY HISTORY OF REGION om concentration centers ni!iiry Grreoe. It is a race between the ef- .acimies are absent and a harro inp ' fort to snatch those already here from starvation and the fresh arrival. f Penoieton Tribune Virile and active at KO year of ap. Colonel Frar.V .1. TaiVr. (nil nr veteran, and at one time a leading j light in tVe Inrlisn wars as a scout., ia visiting here this A-eok. Out stand ins in the character of the pioneer of the wpt, i the keen inn-n-vt he takes in topic? of the day. ard the remark able atore of accurate information he ha ahmit the cany hitory of the WCFtem FtRlCB. Cn!onel rarker and his wife are visitiTip at the home of Mr, and Mrs, L, C. Graham, their daughter and son-in-law, on l.e street, and the colon1 if exchftpinp stories with ufh old time residents here, as Ma jor Lee Moorhouse, who is acquaint ed with the Indian history hy actual experience. la Fanner Publisher. A. L. Schaefer, local businessman, revealed the identity of the distingm ished visitor when he told that it wa with Colonel Parker, as publisher of the Wal'a Walla Statesman, that be rot his first job. Colonel Parker re membered Mr. Schaefer as one of his printer devils, and went further with the story, tellinp of a broken down press, in which Mr. Schaefer fipurt'd prominently. "The press was down, ind all the expert mechanics in the country eouid not make it run. We had to pet to press and this printer's devil came to the rescue. He packed some old waste into a piston rod, sprinkled a little oil on the machine and then atarted it. It ran perfectly. That was the best I had seen in many years, the colonel declared as hi sat back in bis big chair and laugh heartily. He could not remember whether or not he pave Mr, Schaefer a raise in pay. but Mr. Schaefer re membered. Perhaps it is the long time s re vice which Colonel Parker has given to the public as & newspaperman thai has kept him so alert, for despite the fact that he has retired and is now lirnig at his country home called Snug Harbor in Lake county, Califor nia, he is always alive to current events. Wrote for A. P. A piece of reporting which won him instant fame has been told and retold in different forms for many years, and is a part of the history of the matchless Associated Fress ser vice of today. It was in 18S7 that Colonel Parker. then in quest of the elusive gold ir. Idaho, grew disgusted and sold al! his equipment and holdings in Idaho, and went ont to help some of his white friends, who were reported to be having trouble with the Indians. Suddenly the conflagration broke and the Boise Statesman, a representative of the California Associated Press at that time, requested Colonel Parker to cover the story of the Indian up risings for the Associated Press. The experienced man of Indian knowledge, proceeded to Florence, an old mining camp and near there ha found the first signs of wholesale murder by the Indians. Then he rode to the Salmon river and here discov ered the scene of the massacre of that name. Here it was that he met General Howard with his troops, and offered his services, concealing the fact from all but the general that he was a representative of the Associat ed Press. That night General Howard called for volunteers to carry a dispatch from camp to another troop camp, over the swollen Salmon river and through hostile Indian country. Par ker volunteered and five times he at tempted to swim the river aided by the general's horse and only gave up when exhausted and brought back to camp. On one of the attempts to crops the swollen river, the remem bered that he had a date with his best girl to attend a formal ball in Boise that very night. He did not fulfil it. Rivali Cry "Fake. The Indian situation grew serious and the next day started the well known Clearwater battle which lasted three days, in which the Indians were finally dispersed. At the end of the engagement the colonel seized en In dian's horse in full war regalia with all other appurtenances of war and rode by difficult! trail over S0 miles to Lewiston. Without slep and having little to eat for over three days, the faithful Associated Pre correspon dent wired his story to Boise. It was a deuiied account from actual obser-i ration t.nd included the troop casual ties. It was so much of a "scoop" that all other press services denied it, and the military authorities de clared it a faked story. It was veri fied after a week when the troops re turned to camp. when they returned, Parker was hailed a hero. He had rescued two wounded soldiers from the scalping knives of Indians, had earned ammu nition and water to other soldiers ail during the fight nig and had him self taVen an active part in the bat tle. Before the return of the troops, Parker had been called a slacker by the townspeople, as they had not known he had been in the engage ment. Ail the towns were full of preaa correspondents eager for news and nobody knew that Colonel Parker was the man who poftse.-sed full knowledge of the battle. Iate on Pike Peak. .Some years ago. he rrw-t another civil war veteran in California and at their parting they declared that they would roet at the top of Pike's Peak on a certain day the following year. Cornel and Mrs. Parker were trav elling the next year and decided to climb Pike's Peak. Mrs. Parker re memhertd the old engagement on the way up and when they gut to the top her was the oth-r giar.d army man fritting duwn at an jiprovid table eating a p!te of bean. Trie greet ing was hearty but not surprising, and the couple was invited to sit down ar.rj join the repaxt. Hut Colone! Parker got back to his hin;ry. 'We chased the Indians across the Iolo Pass jito Montana nfter the Clearwater affair." he aid. Colonel Parker had been declared a decern i by the (juartermaster aerpeant when he left th etroopi at the ( learwaier atTuir to wire his story to the press, but General Howard, when he heard of it. took the press roiiospondcnt and Indian acout on his personal staff as a dispatcher. Soon after, the battle of Big Hole was fought. In this bailie over 7K In dlans with their squaws and children fought fiercely and almost amtihiiat rd the troops by setting fire to the tule pin needles and bunch grass, before they were routed, u the third day of that battle. General Coolidge with two other officers were badly w oundod. and Colonel Parker, who whs an Kr.g'ishman coming to this country in 164 in time for the last bait its of the civil war, crawled half !a mile for water to make the uf- f ring mtti a cup of tea, Coolidge Remained Grateful. That General Coolidge never forgot this service was revealed when the two met some years later, and the general, when he heard the name of t olor.ei Parker, reminded him of the incident. Colonel Parker was given hia com mission in 1M7 by the governor of Idaho for conspicuous service. He filtered newspaper work after the Indian wars and published the Walla Walla Statesman for many years. As he rose in his chair to say good bye, the old Indian tighter stood erect and extended the New Year's greet ings. He declared that he would have 73 more of them himself. "And dont forpet about Hank Vaughan, he said. " Hank and 1 became good friends. It bappned this way. I was out try ing to collect subscriptions for my paper and was having trouble with one man. Hank came along and ad vised me to go home, that I would hear from him. A few days later the ran who was giving me trouble sent $1-10, and I suppose it was by Hank's efforts that he did so. You see I was the n:an who killed Hank Yaughan in my paper. That is. 1 published a re port of his death given me by friends of his, who iattr brought Hank to my off.ee a very' DA'e man." CV.onel ar.d Mrs. Parker will visit a while longer in this section and ten return to their Snug Harbor. WAVES OF MISERY ENGULFING GREECE Impressive Description By Red Cross Worker pf Refugee Swarm. Heroic Details of Escape Under Awful Conditions Dramatically Told. (THE RED CROSS COURIER) The writer of this article, who is a member of the American Red Cross Relief Unit in Greece, has devoted his life to social service and has writ ten extensively from personal study of sociological movements in the Untied States. By WIN'THROP D. LANE, uppose 100,000 people should sud denly present themselves at the' out skirts of Albany. Minneapolis, New Orleans or any other good-sized Am erican city and ask to be received and given shelter. Suppose they hould be old men, women and chil drendriven from their homes by an earthquake or flood, made wretched wanderers overnight. They wouldl arrive in pitiable destitution, of course. Their feet would be weary and sore with the journey. They would be without food, without clothes, without money, with nothing but the rags on their hacks and such miserable bundles as they had been bie to gatner in the baste of their fisrht. They would choke every en trance to the city. The old men would be r.d in g over canes ; the young people wouid be heavy-laden; the ter ritied children would be crying and tugging at their mothers' skirts; the babies would be carried in exhausted mothers' arms. Swarming New Population. What would the city do in this emergency: It would throw open the public buildings, the schools, the churches, and try to find shelter for the despairing throng wherever it u;d. It would house them in the market place, possibly in factories, n unoccupied houses. When it had fiiied all the buildings it would prob ably find that some were still with out shelter. These would be gath ered in parks, vacant lots and other open places, or would walk the streets. The city would swarm with the new i population. Sanitary facilities in the buildings where they were housed would be inadequate. The poor souls who had destitution thrust so sud- . denly upon them would soon be living , in the midst of unspeakable squalor. The city would be unable to feed so many on such short notice, and there wouid be hungry stomachs. Many would become sick, and lie where they fell. Some of the women would be about to become mothers, and the corridors of public buildings would be the scene of births. There would be deaths, and unless the bodies were removed promptly the threat of pes tilence would be a very present one. This, on a much enlarged acale, ; was tne situation found by the Am erican lied Cross unit when it ar rived in Greece. Every seaport on the eastern coast of the country had seen its harbor entered by ships car rying refugees from Asia Minor. In Saloniki, with a population of 150, 000, there were 140,000. Athens, Pi raeus ftnd other places were full. No attempt could be made at once to count the numbers. Even the west ern seaports had received their ' thousands. The islands of the Aeg ean, lying thick in the path of the boats that had raced to the rescue and being the first points reached by me rescuers, were nnea witn scores of thousands. The country was choked and bursting with its hordes of helpless, penniless people. Rest Where They Stop. They remained substantially where th-y had been first deposited, and there they are today. Thousands Me on the cold stone floors of public buildings. Other thousands sit on the floors of schools, churches, movjufs, nynugogues; on bare ground un.'er the Jeaky roofs of warehouses; in factories, cinemas, cafes, railroad actions, buildings not completed. Many are squatting on the quays, keeping watch day and night over their miserable bundles. In tbt buildings each family has marked off a few square feet for jt sf If, drawn a line or put down a coat as a boundary, and settled itself to await a new habitation. On all sides it is adjoined by other fami lies. During the day some of the people go out into the open air, per haps to make the hopeless search for work. At night the area is a solid mass of bodies. The sick groan, babies cry Incessantly and all is confusion. In stench rises from the surface of the ground. Flies cover the babies. Epi demics of scarlet fever and other dis eases have started. Conditions are ripe for typhur-. In Saloniki a hundred people are dying daily. Suicides, caused by the unendurable conditions, are becoming more frequent. ''I have often seen people without bedding, sleeping on stone floors so wet that their clothing was wet. or if they bad found an old burlap bag to spread on the Poor it was wet to the touch,' says D. O. Hibberd, sen ior secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Athens, who at the request of Dr. A. Ross Hill, visited many of the Aeg ean islands for the American Red Crosa. Eat -St. John Bread." ' Wherever I ound refugees on stone or tile I found sickness, pneu monia, pleurisy and universal colds. I stepped into a school room, where S7 people from the Turkish tone (of Aia Minor) are quartered. The only personal effects in this room, aside from the ragged clothing on the backs of the people, was a single coffee sack stuffed with hap and an odd-shapped cooking pot. pathetically empty. For four days the only food that these people had eaten was St. Johns bread' the fruit of a variety of locust tree the tree that the Prodigal Son of the parable shared with the swine." Under the arrangement that has been made between the Greek Gov- j eminent and the Amriean Red Cross, I the housing of these refugees has been left to the Greek Government, the Red Cross assuming responsl bility for getting food and clothing for them. So far no suitable shelter has been found for the greater num ber. One fact stared Dr. Hill and his associates m the face. This was that not all the refugees had arrived. Greece was groaning under the weight of, hungry multitudes, and other hungry multitudes were about to descend upon her. Five Waves of Misery There have been five waves of mis ery and migration as a result of the debacle in Asia Minor. First came the several hundred thousand who fled before the advancing Turks as the Greek army was chased through Anatolia toward Smyrna and other Aegean ports; these came from the so-called Occupied Zone, taken pos session of by the Greeks more than two years ago and extending inland three hundred miles. They had no time to bring anything with them. Next came the refugees from the neutral strip on the south of the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora; these fled when the victorious Turks, after the destruction of Smyrna, turned northward. Then came the rush of Greeks from Eastern Thrace, which was given over to Turkey by the treaty signed at Mudania after the Greek rout in Asia Minor; these trekked into Western Thrace and Macedonia and took re- j fuge in large numbers on the islands. They brought many of their possess ions with them. Heroic Details of Escape. The fourth wave was the flight of Greeks from Constantinople and its suburbs, and the fifth was the terror-stricken, epic escape of un told thousands from the interior of Asia Minor. The last two are still in progress. From Asia Minor nre coming Greeks and Armenians re siding in Turkish territory, who have fled in actual fear of their lives be cause of Kemal's reported edict that no Christian might continue to live in Turkish land. The heroic details of this escape have not yet been told. Wearing fezzes as disguises, travelling by night to escape detection, thousands of old men, women and children made their tortuous way northward to ports on the Black Sea and other thousands emerged at Adalia, Mer sina and other places on "the south coast. Within the past week ships have left Athens and other ports to pick them up. Only slowly did word of their plight reach Greece. The flight of these people will constitute one of the dramatic pages of history. To attempt to fix the number of refugees is for the moment impossi ble. Dr. Doxiades, Greek minister of relief, places the number at a mil lion and a half. It makes little dif ference what figure is named, for, as Burke said of the inhabitants of the American colonies, while we dis cuss a given magnitude, they are grown to it. Every other day or so new refugees arrive somewhere in Shell Fish1 I) i YOU ENJOY SIIKLL FTSIIf Oysters Clams Crab Sei-ved in any Etyle to your order. Our Sunday dinners are an attraction and should appeal to you.' Save the wife extra work Sundays by taking din ner with us just bring the whole family along. Elkhorn Restaurant Heppner The absence of the nirn will make the task of re-settling these people infinitely more difficut than it other wise would be. "If we had our husband, and hundred drachmae, we could start life fresh." said one young girl who was rescued in Smyrna. "It is not know ing where your husband is that makes everything so hard." These are some of the conditions that confront the American Red Cross in its effort to help Greece emerge successfully from one of the most difficult situations of modern times. rp acres in a roes Through the I nited States Reclama tion Service Another Farming State Added to Union. A 20-year review of government rec lamation work is contained in the annual report for the fiscal year end- last June of Director Arthur P. ed Davis, of the United States reclama tion service of the Department of the Interior, as the 17th day of June, 1M2, marked the completion of 20 years of operation of the national reclamation act. The investment of the government during this period has been, in round numbers, $135,000,000. which has ac complished the construction of works by which about 1,675,000 acres of former and Innd-m the West has been furnished with a complete water sup ply, and about 1.110,000 additional acres in private projects has received a supplemental supply. On govern ment projects the area comprises 31, 4f2 farms, at an average per farm of about 53 acres, supplying more than 30,000 families. With the investment mentioned the service has excavated more than 200.000.000 cubic yards of earth and rock, of which about 14.000.000 cubic yards have been placed in dams. Can als aggregating more than 13,000 miles have been built, including 27 miles of tunnels and 135 miles of flumes. Structures of all kinds and sizes to the number of 110,000 have been erected in connection with the work. Some of the Large Projects. Some of the large projects con structed are the Roosevelt dam, in Arizona which is 200 feet high; the Arrowrock dam, in Idaho, 349 feet high; Elephant Butte dam, in New Mexico, 306 feet high, and the Path finder and Shoshone dams, in Wyom ing. 218 and 328 feet high, respec tively. Reclamation work also included the erection of many other dams, ennuis and tunnel,, flumes, drains, power plants, telephone lines, roads, rail roads, pumping plants and a variety of other classes of incidental work. From an agricultural standpoint. the report said the reclamation ser vice has added another state to the I'nion, equal in value of its agricul tural products to that of the state of West Virginia or the combined values of the crops of Vermont and Connecticut. Ihe value of crops raised on farms on government pro jects in 1921 amounted to $49,620,800. exclusive of about $45,000,000 addi tional raised on private projects which were furnished water from works erected by the service. Average Acre Nets $42.85. The value of crops grown on irri gated lands in the federal projects in 1921 averaged $42.85 per acre, as I compard with $14;52, the average value per acre of the ten leading crops in the country as a whole the same year. Since the government projects began the delivery of water 1 the crops grown on reclaimed land have exceeded $475,000,000 in value, exclusive of the crop value on prt vate lands watered through govern ment sources and of the increased value produced as live stock and stock products. The increased value of the lands as a result of reclamation work by the government was placed at over $500,000,000. Director Davis pointed out that the reclamation projects have not been exempt from the vicissitudes of in dustrial conditions. "Sally Has Went, Be Sure and Come" Vice President Calvin Coolidge says that some years ago a Massa chusetts Congressman spent several weeks in a Maine village. The next summer he received a letter from his boarding mistress asking him to re turn for another sojourn. He re plied that he would be glad to spend another vacation nt her home provid ing certain changes were made. "First." he wrote, "your hired girl, Saliy. is persona non grata. Second ly, I think tho sanitary conditions would be improved about your house if the hog pen could bo removed far ther from the house." A few days later the Congressman received a letter saying; "Sally has went. We hnint had no hogs since you was here last summer. He sure and come." W. A. Kayea spent several days in Pendleton the pat week visiting with relatives. Ho returned home the first of the week to resume his duties at the Cohn warehouse. Miss Doris Mahoney returned to 0. A. C. on Sunday to resume her stud ies, after having spent the holidays with her parents here. SJ Its. If you haven't that new blue auto tag on your car you had better keep the machine in the shed, for the traffic cop is nicking uo all those who are driving around with the yellow tins. He is prowling around seeking whom he might devour and vou may he the next victim. 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There are 170,000 Fordson tractors in use wherever Power Farming is being done Fordson is showing superior service. If you are not using a Fordson now, start right The working ability of this remarkable power plant is cutting farming costs in half in almost every kind of work done, at the draw bar or from the belt Ask us for all the details call, write or phone. Latourell Auto Co. . Authorized Ford, Fordson and Lincoln HEPPNER Sales and Service :- Main Street OREGON iiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiii iiiiiMiiiiiiii milium illinium iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii: Harwood's DIAMONDS -:- WATCHES -:- JEWELRY -:- PIANOS PHONOGRAPHS ::- RECORDS -:- SHEET MUSIC 1 I. O. O. F. Uuildinjf, Heppner I i" immiimiiiii n imiiinmim mi inn iiimiiiiimiinni'iiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiinii iifi I CariLMmmle mmw swi;z the merry charmer In a comedy '.mm mm m v r fmm Hw AincW Magazine story by Arthur Sowers tode Directed by King Boggot FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 programs, as y ii . nr. J . ionows: Wednesday-Thursday, Friday," Saturday and Sunday-Monday; no shows on Tuesdays. Every show will be a fine one. Watch our advertisements and get our weekly illusr trated programs. SUNDAY AND MONDAY, JAN, 7 and 8 Henry Walthall and Pauline Starke in "FLOWER OF THE NORTH" From the story by James Oliver Curwood. A story of the Canadian Northlands in sum mer. See the heroine in the rapids, the spec tacular signal fire, the queer customs at "Fort o' God" and the big battle scene. Also THE MAVERICK, the romantic re flections of an old saddle horse. n comic of a wlerd jeeret soclcty-a rollicking furcc where the course of true love runs fant but far from smooth. NO SHOW TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 WED. and THURS., JANUARY 10 and 11 ACKIE COOGAN in "MY BOY" The story of a kid who adopted a man. The kid l In describable. To see him is to love him, that's all. Ho has a hundred new smiles for you, a hundred lovable pranks. This is the first Coogan picture we have shown, but we have some more coming, so don't foil to get acquainted with the "Kid." Also News Weekly and Comedy COMING . Frank Mayo in "THE MAN WHO WAR RIED HIS OWN WIFE" Alice Lake in "UNCHARTED SEAS" Buster Keaton and Priscilla Dean in "UN DER TWO FLAGS" Beginning next week we will show only four :