South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-26
HAPPENINGS IN AND ABOUT TOWN
Indian Chief On
Trail of Notre
Dame Reporter

too. the pup reporter who is hiding
Z his scalp from a thirsty tomahawk
This game Of hide and seek began
last week when "A student OF the
University of Notre Dame thought
ne would turn press agent. 50 he
picked on Jackson Glen Berryhill,
heap big Injun from Sapulpa. Okla,
and grOOmed him for publicity.
/ Chief Berryhill made his debut in
/ The News-Times OF last Monday.
but he did not like the way ne was
I advertised and hesitated not the
least ia letting the world know his
/ embarrassment. Through some
I friends he invited the reporter 10
7 come around to get a bigger story,
I bat the willy newsgatherer. with no
I visions Of a pipe OF peace feast
\ clouding his judgment, turned down
/ the invitation. for he knew that il
I he faced the indian some one else
/ would have 10 write the story
\ When the transient press agent did
\ rot call around 70 his room in Walsh
/ hall Jackson's face flushed a deep
/ er red and his slumbering anger
woke like a sick man from a dream.
\ and he muttered, Ugh. Me getch
/ Um."
Berryhm Plans Revenge.
He wrapped his blatant blanket
\ tighter around his wide shoulders
/ and slipped a rusty tOmahawk in his
\ hip pocket Che happened TO be
\ W caring his trousers at the time),
\ but ne did not stamp out Of the
/ room like the villain does in the
/ second act-he merely sat down.
\ pulled on mis- long pipe. and with
/ that stoical nature Of his fore
/ fathers he sat and sat. planning a
\ means whereby he could add an
\ other scalp 10 his mural decora-
\ tons
The reporter who lives in South
\ Bend was in the habit of taking the
! $50 car TO the city. Thursday as
/ he was coming down the main path
/ from the university building. he
\ espied a heliotrope colored blank
I ct in the crowd Of people waiting
/ for the car. He lost no time in
making tracks for cover. Jackson,
/ INDUCING in indian slang, waited
/ at the car line until the supper bells
/ called him 10 the mess room.
Betrayed by Blanket.
The redman made several other
attempts TO get him. but his noisy
! blanket betrayed him. He has not
/ tumbled to- the cause of his failures
/ so we hope he does not see these
/ lines. Since this little game started
I between the two, many stories are
i circulating around the campus that
/ eNaggerate the tone Of romance in
\ the life Of the CklahOman. At the
/ risk of life and limb we are able
| To- release a story which is so accu-
rate that it needs bit the signature
/ of the hero 10 make il reel.
a year ago Jackson Glen Berry
\ hill shook of the traces of the
/ wild and woody west. donned store
/ clothes, and came 10 Notre Dame.
\ His first appearance on the campus
! caused no excitement. for the stu
dents accustomed to Mexicans.
{ Spaniards. Greeks, Filipinos. and
/ Chinese did not note the peculiari-
I ties of the brOnzed stranger. II
was not until a week after school
\ opened that Berryhill blossOmed out
as a "neap big Injun". lie was call
ed Chief.
Assigned tO BTownsOn.
Jackson was assigned quarters in
| BrOwnsOn, "A dormitOry hall for il
| was thought the environment OF the
place would settle him. IL did not.
The novelty of his new surround
ings, Which at first made him timid
began to wear off and his second
impressions were concealed in the
l mutterings of a new lingo. But
Jackson liked the fellows and they
I liked him, but the BrownsOnites
would not forgive him the offense
of wearing a zebra striped blanket
which some Indian maid had given
him before ne kissed and said good
. bye Big Chief did not bring the
/ blanket with him wherever he went,
ne wore il only on formal occasions.
such ass at the athletic contests and
! I'M the study hall. lie could not
bear 20 have his shoulders exposed
i'm the study hall, SO he got permits
sion 10 wear the offensive blanket
by pleading his infrmity 10
\ draughts.
Like the Sunday morning buns.
the beds in the Brownson dormi-
tory are hard. Yet they were too
soft for Chief 10 sleep in. lie used
20 wrap his blanket around him and
curl up on the floor. Many morn
| ugs when the project would look
] in his compartment and see no In
dian and later at the breakfast table
when he saw the Chiefs place va
cant. he went out with a horrible
suspicion. but afterwards the Chief
I would be found asleep under his
bed where he had rolled in the eX-
. element of healthy dream.
Regular Jim Thorpe.
Many other customs were violated
hy this social inconoclast. But dur
ing his years residence in Brown
son hall be endeared himself in the
hearts of the more active students.
Ee played tackle ON the Champion
ship Inter-Hau team and was never
once scalped He made a name for
1 himself as "a Splinter by doing the
so yard dash fast enough 20 win
I few points for HroWnSOn He was