Graham guardian., 1911-01-27
JANUARY 27. 1911.
Be a booster and shout for
Stafford.
A PROPHECY

Our campaign for Statehood, as
foreseen by an Apache Seer OF
Equivocal Antiquity:
In the year that the sun was hot
and bright, the rain fell, the rivers
and Time came on like hunter close
up to a deer; or, as warrior, dressed
in the blanket of night, steals with
in arrow leap of the camp fire of a
pale face, the Spirit of To Come
showed me things of his time, say
ing: In the day the red mans sun
has set in the big west water, though
our men will still be the bravest and
our women the prettiest on earth,
and the white men think they rule
the earth on the spot, pow WOW is
to be held to get one big hood for
them all, statehood, and all the
male men of one and twenty years
and upwards will start out to make
it and spread it on constitutional
poles over their heads. like buffalo
hide over a tepee. Even in that
day will / pour into a few of the
pale ones some old spirits and hank
erings of bygone tyrants, that will
lead them to thwart the people, lest
they get proud and lazy. Twill do
so because they forcibly took our
lands and game, giving US disease
and firewater. The men that | shall
fill top full of these old spirits will,
because they like darkness, shouts
and high perches, be called owls,
which. being interpreted, is poo
poos' with US.
In that day another skukum
poopoo, in the service of his Queen
Copp, will make sturdy kicks and
tumbles to keep the masses from
putting that big hood over their
heads. lest they get heady and hold
their Queen at naught. This poopoo
is to tarry in a little burg to be
called Biz Bee, or Dig Less. In
his clamor and travail against the
hood, he will sprinkle the whole land,
storm the air and almost darken the
sun with dark liquid, so that he
will be called the night maker and
the king of cutie fishes. This poo
poo is to hight Lo We.
This poopoo and all that have
been initiated and taken the first
degree in skukumry, belong to the
popular tribe of Demos, and wor-
ship his image in the golden calf.
But the masses of the same tribe
will say this is a false image. and
they will worship Demos in a small
silver image. and particularly in a
huge female statute standing in
their biggest harbor and holding
aloft in her right hand a torch.
In that far day there will be
another tribe of the pale faces,
whose camp will be over against the
mountain Gold. These will be the
dudledings, which. being interpreted
is with us Wah Hy.
The chief Of these will wear
first long black robe, then a big
ger one that he will always be try
ing to paint purple. He will hc
very silent and will look just like 81
owl. In the day Of the big ltoG
pow WOW all the lower dudledings
will run to the rolled one, saying:
Oh, interpret and declare to us this
day about this hood, and what things
we must do it. And he will ope
his mouth little and teach them,
saying: Pap, app, ppa, fodder, fed.
The which all shall copy verbatim
and pray the wizard of the tribe to
unriddle, who straightway will say
it meaneth, Bewar, the Bar; that
this was found on the shield of an
old Highland Scotch Chief, whose
totem was a black bear; that this
chief had won his spurs, his title
snd iis living by raids into the Low