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The Parker post., 1915-04-24

New York. - The government at
Washington gave permission recently
to a band of Sioux to hold a modified
sun dance on one of the reservations
out in the Northwest. 1t was explained
that the resident agent had lnstruc-
tions to confine the ritual of the cere-
monial to it's purely religious features,
eliminating those fanatical demonstra-
tions, designed to appeal to race pre1u-
dice, which have worked so much IN
jury in the past. 1t was sun dance,
under the clever manipulation OF the
cunning Sitting Bull, which led to one
of the most frightful Indian wars.
While the sun dance is the best
known by name to white man, yet 1t
is by no means the most important
of aboriginal seasonal feasts. When
Capt. Sam Geer of Tallequah, Okla
the Indian Nation" as it is still
called by old-timers in the West-ar-
rived at Hempsteady L. l., few days
ago. on a short visit, he told how the
Euchie were making rain" to save
the corn
"In the southern part of the old
Creek reservation, in what was the In
dian territory is located the Euchie
village, which holds the remnants OF
a once powerful tribe that was sub
dued by the Creeks many years ago,
The Parker post., 1915-04-24

to the northwest, why, it is perfectly
plain the stringss would be cut in pass.
ing over the sharp edge, and, conse,
quently, the medicine man would lose
his hold on the clouds.
"'Then If there should be no rain
Mr. Medicine Man would make it con.
venient to find buried hatchet the
following day, while If there should be
rain he would be careful to say moth.
ing of hatchet or Of hatchets?'
"'Well, something Of the kind
"'And the COW tails?'
THAT feature Of the performance
l have tracked back to the early days
when the Greeks. Choctaws, Seminoles
and the Chickasaws were known as
MeescOcees. The Euchies were a
neighboring tribe, and, doubtless, Dor
roWed much Of their medicine from
the older and larger organization. The
Meescocees inhabited the country east
Of the Mississippi river; but occasion
ally the young braves crossed the bis
stream to hunt on the buffalo grounds
some distance to the west When they
got up herd Of buffalo the game, Oh
The Parker post., 1915-04-24
INDIANS STILL MAKE Rain" AS DID
THEIR FATHERS IN THE LONG AGO
Efficacy of Tails Storm Producers Article of Faith
With Euchie Medicine Men-Interesting Ceremony in
Which Indian Prays for Rain for His Corn
No RAIN No Pay for Performer.

who understood the language could
not distinguish the words. This, no
doubt, by design. 1t would not do
for the members of the tribe to know
all the medicine employed on such an
occasion. They might witness the the
atrical display; but without the pre-
else form Of the communication to His
sak-i-ta Eemisa they were powerless to
make medicine on their own account
THE prayer concluded, the medicine
man closed his hands, which all the
while had been Extended, and drew
them slowly to his breast He began
another prayer in an undertone ex-
tended his hands, opened them when
at the full length of his reach, closed
them and drew them to his breast as
before
Seems to be pulling on unseen
strings l remarked to John.
That's whatever; he's jist doin'
that same, replied the guide.
After repeating the string pulling
performance dozen times, the medi-
cine man, still muttering prayer,
reached over the side of his tub and
picked up the COW tails. He shook
them in the air over his head with a
quick, jerky motion, laid them down
and began again to pull on the unseen
strings in the northwest. Three times.
at regular intervals, the medicine man
shook the tails. Then he stepped from
/ the tub; emptied the water on the
! ground, and retired into the forest to
! the northwest, taking tub and tails
with him.
| Later l asked the old chief Of the
! Creeks the meaning of the perform
ance l had witnessed at the Euchie
! village.
First began the chief. let me tell
you that only few Sundays ago
heard white man preacher pray for
rain. Now, what was the difference
between the white mans appeal and
that Of the Euchie medicine man? You
don't care to say, eh? Well, I'll tell
you the difference, and a very impor
tant one it is, from the Indians stand
point. If the medicine man brings
rain he saves the corn crop, and, in
return for his services, he receives
portion Of the crop raised by every
Indian in the tribe No rain, no crop;
no crop, no corn for the medicine
man. The white man preacher gets
his corn whether he brings rain OF
not
But tell me If the medicine man
fails, what excuse has he to offer:
Those chaps always leave hole
through which to crawl. without dis
turbing the popular belief In the eff
cacy Of their medicine
You observe replied the chief
who was an Indian Of some education
that the rainmaker seemed to be
drawing on unseen strings" from the
northwest The rain always comes
from the northwest in this country
and those strings" were attached tC
rain clouds. He was sure to draw the
clouds to himself, and there would
surely be rain unless some enemy OF
his, or Of his tribe, had planted a
hatchet, edge up between him and the
clouds! If Ratchet had been burr I'd
The Parker post., 1915-04-24
Sorority of War-Makers.

Il do not think that any of you are
ignorant. my friends, that the greatest
wars have taken place On account OF
women-the Trojan war on account OF
Helen, the plague which took place in
it was on account of Chryseis, and the
war called the Sacred War on account
of Tneano. This war lasted ten years.
The Crissaean war, which also lasted
ten years, was excited on this account,
because the Crissaeans carried off Me-
gisto. the daughter of Pelagon, and the
daughters OF Argives as they were re,
turning from the temple.
And whole families have been
ruined owing to women; for instance,
that of Philip, the father of Alexander,
was ruined on account of his marriage
with Cleopatra, and Hercules was
ruined by his marriage with Iole"-
By Athenaeus "a. d. 300).
The Parker post., 1915-04-24
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO IT.

Just after We finished running off
the paper last week a cheerful party
remarked well, the paper is out.
You can take it easy for a few days,
can't your Yep. Nothing at all to
do Abso-LOOT-ly nothing Once
the paper is printed all an editor has
to do is to sit around watching the
little bills come due, and gently shak-
ing his money brush until enough dol
lars drop off to pay those, these or
them bills. When the editor is not
running off his paper his favorite
pastime is to recline on divan,
smoking a fine full Favored Clora de
Lima cigar and watching the sub
scribers struggling with each other to
get on his list and pay the furtherest
in advance. If he becomes ongwayed,
he puts out his cigar, slips it in his
pocket and saunters, nonchalantly,
down the boulevard de Maine, just to
hear the merchants clamor for addi
tional space as with tears in their
eyes they dog his footsteps And the
way the news hunts up the editor is
pleasant to contemplate. When the
paper is out the editor goes to his
desk, leans back in his chair, looks
wise and waits till the day before
next press day when the people line
up in front of his office and then file
past his desk and tell him all the
news Of the week. He writes it up in
fifteen or twenty minutes and hangs
it on the hook. The compositor
shakes the copy over the cases, says
a few mystic words and the type flies
into place and after a few passes the
forms are ready for the press again
and the editor goes down and de-
posits some money in the bank. It's
the greatest snap in the catalogue.
Now if the editor could only do away
with press days his joy would be
complete.-Clifton Mining Journal
A true life is at once interpreter
and proof of the gospel-Whittier
The wonderful thing about a man
Is his power to become.-E. Bosworth.
The past and the future are shadows
The present is ours for aye,
To US 1t is given to build our heaven
In the kingdom of today.
Anon.
Opportunities do not come with
their values stamped upon them; ev-
cry one must be challenged d.-Maltbie
r Babcock.
The Parker post., 1915-04-24
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Aura G. Bernard, her heirs or as
signs:
You are hereby notified that l, the
undersigned, have expended during
the years 1913 and 1914, the sum of
two hundred dollars i'm labor and i'm
provements upon that certain mining
ing district, Yuma county, Arizona,
and more particularly known as the
Moll, which sum was expended as
follows, to-wit 500 for the year 1913
and 500 for the year 1914, as will
appear from certificate filed in the
office of the county recorder of Yum
county, state OF Arizona, in order to
hold said premises under the provis-
ions of Section 1924, Revised Statutes
OF the United States, being the am
cunt required to hold said mining
claims for the year ending December
81, 1913, and the year ending Decem-
Der 81, 1914.
You are hereby further notified
that il within ninety days after this
notice Of publication you fail or re-
fuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditures as co-owner, your
interests in said claims will be-
come the property OF the subscriber
ooid Thn
cunt due and unpaid for your portion
OF the work is as follows: One Hun
dred Dollars. c.. w. GRAVES.
First pub. Jan. 2; last pub. ......
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-09-16
NEWS GOES TO NAVY
Sailors in Distant Waters Get
Days Events.
Two Hundred Word Message is Sent
by Radio Every Evening to War
ships-NeW Joy in Base
ball Results.

Washington the Oldest in
habitant of Port au Prince, Haiti,
can't remember the time before now
when the Haitian tropics received the
baseball scores every evening
Somehow one doesn't associate the
thought of the blue Caribbean and
scorching semi equatorial sunshine
with the thought of New York, 4;
Pittsburgh, g." But it's an actual
fact, just the same
Not only baseball scores, but the
latest word about the kaiser and the
war penetrate the tropical evenings.
The officers and men of Uncle Sans
warships in West Indian waters are
now able to learn of the things going
on at home and abroad.
Every night the days news Is boiled
down to 200 words and Is telegraphed
to the naval wireless station at Key
West, Fla. Then the wireless sparks
begin to jump and out over the gulf,
the Caribbean and the South Atlantic
flashes the news from home"
Capt. w. II. Billiard superintendent
of the naval radio service, Is the man
who conceived the idea, and through
his suggestion Secretary Daniels OBJ
tained the cooperation of a news
agency and telegraph company
Only officers and sailors who are thou
sands of miles from home, in strange
waters by strange shores, can fully
appreciate the value of a service Of
this kind.
The men are more interested in the
baseball scores of the National and
American leagues than in any other
point Of the days news, The latest
boiler explosion west of Pittsburgh,
however, gets their avid interest.
The naval radio service looks upon
the idea as a great development Of its
resources. For several years the serv-
ice has been sending out the official
Washington time through the Airing
ton (Va.) station and the radio station
at Darien, in the Canal zone This
time flash has been sent broadcast
over the continental United States,
neighborhood waters and distant
American dependencies
Not long ago some 800 jewelers. in
formed Secretary Daniels that they
had equipped themselves with radio
apparatus just to catch this twice
daily time fash from Washington.
Time signals are said to be of i'm
tn oh
seas, which now possess for the first
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-09-16
ENJOYS SENT HOME IN PAST

Washington. Sept. 13.-The requests
for recall of foreign diplomatic repre-
sentatives made by the United States
follow:
COUNT DE MOUSTIER minister %
France. Charge: Politically and NOR
ally OF, nsve" Transferred to the
Court OF Prussia. 1883.
NJ EDMOND G. GENET. minister OF
France. Charge: 'procccdinEs and
criminal maneuycrs.' In hitting out
prfvateers against Great Britain and
violating neutrality. Recalled 1893.
bR. MARCOLETA. minister OF Mica
ragua, Charge; Efforts to defent
negotiations between United States ana
Costa Rlca and Nicaragua" Official
relations suspended but new credcn-
nab presented aud accepted in sue
teedtng administration 1853.
HE%RY SEGrR minister Of Salvador
Charge; violation Of neutrality OF
United states I'm respect OF Il conflict
between Salvador and Guatemala and
Nicaragua" Recalled 1868
NIX CATACAHY, minister Of Russia
Ctarge "Ahugp ~ the president and
personally unacceptable" 1871.
SENIOR ~ HUY DE LONE. minister
Of Spain Charge. Attack on prcsi-
dent Mckinley as weak and bidder
for the admiration % the crowd. be-
SIDE being o would-be politician. who
trscd 20 leave door open hchlnd HIM
ref while keeping on good terms with
me jngocs of his party" Resigned
MARQUIS or CASA YRTGO. minister
~ Spain. Charge Attempt 20 tam
per with the press" TO advocate Span
lsh interests 1ggs
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-09-16
RAILROAD WILL MOVE OVER
Tracks Will Make Way for New Boul-
evard in Home of Pittsburgh's
ultra Set"

Pittsburgh. -Sewickley the home
of Pittsburgh's ultra set" has ac-
complished the unbelievable. To
make room for the towns boulevard,
which the residents were determined
to have, the Pennsylvania Railroad
company has agreed to move its main.
line tracks from the present right of
way to "A new route.
Old railroad officials here say that
not in the history of railroading in
this country have they ever heard Of
a like instance. The new boulevard
is to cost $1,5OO,OOO, and is to run
through the boroughs of Edgeworth
aud Scwickley for a distance of three
miles.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-09-16

A report has been issued by the
United States bureau Of labor statis-
tics on tho Industrial conditions in fac
tories making lead storage batteries,
particularly with relation to the dan
ger of lead poisoning In the con
struction OF lead grids the workman
is exposed to the lead dust and lead
fumes. In some plants provisions of
hoods and eXhausts over the kettles
serve to minimize the danger.
Another danger lies in the making
of the lead oxide when this work is
done by hand; but, in some factories
this work Is done by machinery, which
Is inclosed so that there is practically
no danger to the operators. Alto
gether conditions in the United States
are considered decidedly bad com
pared to conditions IN the same indus
try In Germany and Great Britain.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-09-16
Passes Away With Indians
March Toward Progress.
Relics of Red Mans Former History
Disappear as He Adopts the Arch'-
lecture of the White Man-Ex-
amples Of Patience.

Chickasha, Okla.-Xhe grass houses
in which the Wichita Indians lived
were, until a few years ago, one OF
| the most common sights of the res
ervation in Caddo county, is miles
west of this city, but they are being
rapidly displaced by the white mans
house. At the present time there are
only four left in the entire reserva-
| ton.
These grass houses represent In
dian ingenuity, patience and skill per-
haps more than any other Telic re-
naming of their wild life on the prai-
rie. They were built by the squaWs
and took months of preparation before
they were ready for occupancy, but
when finished offered the Indian war
rior secure retreat against all kinds
of weather
The suuaws commenced their work
early in spring by selecting a num-
Der of tall young trees that would
serve as poles. Usually elm or pc
can trees were chosen. They were
stripped of bark, sharpened at one
end and laid in the sun to season
during the summer and fall. Inc
bark was torn into strips and put to
dry.
When this was done the squaws'
work was finished for a time When
fall came they would go along the
swamps and rivers where the grass
grows tall, strong and wiry, and
would collect bundle after bundle OF
this grass just as it began to dry.
After the grass was all collected
it was made into bundles, all of the
same size, and all packed as solid as
wood, so as to resist the rains ana
SHOWS of winter. Then the squaws
were ready to begin the actual build
ing of the home.
The first step was for the Indian
brave to decide just where he wished
his new home to stand. When this
was decided on, the squaws drew
large ring just the size that the new
house would be when completed, and
in this ring they set the poles, three
feet apart.
The poles were all brought together
at the top in the center Of the house
and securely dashed together with
strips of bark. Outside of this frame
was covered with a network Of bark
strips to hold the poles secure in their
places and to form a foundation upon
which to fasten the grass.
Then the tedious work began. The
bundles of grass were fastened to
these strips SO close together that 1t
was impossible for any rain to pass
through and the Indian might feel
himself safe from any storm.
The last stage Of the house was
the hanging of the door. 1t was made
in the same way as the rest of the
house, and was IN separate piece
hung from the top of hole cut for
a doorway.
A hole was also cut in the south
side of the house to carry off the
smoke from the fireplace, which con
sisted Of deep hole dug in the eX-
! act center of the house When this
was all done the house was com
pleted
With plenty of help from sister
squaws the mistress of the house was
able to finish her home within three
weeks after the work Of putting ii
! together actually began.
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DUMBA'S RECALL
ASKED BY i. s.
FOR STRIKE PLOT
LANSING Tells American Ambas'
sador to Inform Vienna
Government.
SOUGHT TOTIE UP U.S.PLANTS
Austrian Envoy Told Secretary OF
State That He Acted on Orders
From His Government-Arch
bald Says He Is Innocent.

Washington, Sept. 11.-Ambassador
penfeld at Vienna was instructed by
cable to inform the Austro hungarian
government that DR.. Constantin Dunn
ba no longer is acceptable as an en-
voy TO the United States, and to ask
for his recall.
Secretary Lansing formally an
nounced the action on Thursday
U. S. Note to Vienna.
Secretary of State Lansing gave out
the following statement:
THE department has instructed Am
bassador Penfeld at Vienna to de-
liver TO the minister for foreign al
fairs the following note:
Mr.. Constantln Dumba the Aus
tro-Hungarian ambassador at Wash
fngton, has admitted that he proposed
10 his government plans to instigate
strikes in American manufacturing
plants engaged In the production OF
munitions OF war The Information
reached this government through
COPY Of a letter of the ambassador TO
his government. The bearer was an
American citizen named Archibald
who was travelling under an American
passport The ambassador has admit
ted that he employed Archibald 10
bear official dispatches from him TO
his government.
by reason OF the admitted pur-
nose and intent OF Mr.. Dumba to con-
spire to cripple Industries of the peo-
pie Of the United States and TO inter-
rupt their legitimate trade, and by
reason OF the fragrant violation OF dip
lomatic propriety in employing an
American citizen protected by an
American passport as a secret bearer
OF official dispatches through the
lines OF an enemy Of Austria-hun-
gary, the president directs me to In
form your excellency that Mr.. Dumba
Is no longer acceptable to the govern
ment OF the United States as the am
bassador OF his imperial majesty at
Washington.
Believing that the imperial and
royal government will realize that the
government Of the United States has
nc alternative but to request the re-
call OF Mr.. Dumba on account OF his
improper conduct, tho government OF
The United States expresses its deep
est regret that this course has be-
come necessary and assures the i'm
perial and royal government that 1t
sincerely desires to continue the cor
dial and friendly relations which exist
between the United States and Aus
tria- Hungary LANSING
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Sept. 10, 1914

Germans destroyed Termonde
Reims bombarded by Germans
and famous cathedral damaged.
Battle Of the Aisne continued, al
lies left advancing and Germans
gaining in center.
Germans intrenched on the Sam.
bre.
Russians took Siniava, Sambor
and kazeshoW.
Germans advanced against Rus.
SLAMS In SuwaIki province.
Germans defeated by garrison OF
seven British at Nakop, Africa.
Bombs dropped on Antwerp by
German air craft.
President Wilson received appeal
from women of all nations and from
the general conference Of Friends.
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time an accurate means of checking
their chronometers, which is of the
greatest help in fixing longitude.
AS soon as the new wireless section
in the Philippines is completed 1t is
believed that an interchange of mes
sages between the Philippines and the
United States can be made in 80 min
utes.
The news bulletin service is re-
garded as of still greater importance
as an advance in the naval radio serv-
ice. 1t contrasts strongly, old officers
say, with the methods of only 80 years
ago, when naval vessels on distant
duty never got news from home ex-
cept when the relief vessel arrived
and they received orders to go home
and freshen up on events.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-09-16

Mrs. Richard Hood Cole, wife Of
the man who is in Washington as a
personal representative Of General
Carranza is of eastern birth, but is
now popular figure in the social cir
Giles of the Pacific coast. She Is fond
of outdoor life, however, and is fine
horsewoman, an expert tennis player
and a good shot. With her youth,
beauty and many attachments, she Is
likely to prove a notable figure in the
international life of Mexico and the
United States during the next decade.
The Coles come from Pasadena, Cal,
and their home there is one of the
show places Of that beautiful city.