The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-22
HOCON JEWELLERS
WILL QUIT NORTH
FOR INDIAN LIFE
Bride and Groom, Who Have
Been Living In Woods, to
Sell Their Home
"CALL OF THE WILD"
HITS CARLISLE MAN
Educated In American Col
lege, He'll Go Back to
Forefathers' Life

Civilization has no charms for the
full-blooded Navajo Indian even
though colleges have given him the
education of the elite and the ties Of
the marriage bond link him to the
land of the pale-face.
While the snow flies outside the
doors of his foot-thick house. built
Of logs and chinked with cement.
Rrom which may e viewed the
stretches of Beardsley Park, the city
and Long Island Sound, the dreams OF
Yosemite. (Joe Smith. in English) are
of the dull drab desert, with its waves
of heat in the summer sun, the curl
ing smoke arising from the hogons
Of his ancestors and the brilliant red
and green and yellow Of the blankets
as they slowly lcreep upward on the
doorway loom Of his tribe.
Yosemite, with his bride, formerly
Miss Riggs, employed in I've Kresge
store in Main street, and living with
her father, John T. Riggs, In Fox
street will soon journey to Arizona
and New Mexico where Yosemite will
again take a place in the councils SO
long presided over by his father.
This advertisement, appearing else
where in the Farmer has behind it the
reversion to. nature:
FOR SALE+Six room buhga-
low at a sacrifice on account
Of leaving state. Inquire at Log
House, Beardsley Park Ter
race.
Eyes, it is true, I shall sell my log
cabin" Yosemite said, when found
Yesterday. IT can no longer stand
the so-caIled civilization. People
don't live right here. They have too
much heat in their houses. They
overhead and cannot live the long
terms of life that are granted to
those races who live according to na-
ture's laws.
ct shall take my wife back with me
70 the tribe. I am happy with her
and will make her most happy, among
my people where she will be like a
princess
''My father lived to the age Of 10S
years. The people Of my race think
nothing of working at the age OF 80
and 80 years. : They live according
to the laws of nature.
stWill you be welcomed back to the
tribe?" Yosemite was asked.
''I am of a race of chiefs he said.
s"To the race OF chiefs the hogons OF
the. tribe are ever open"
Yosemite, known under the pro-
nunciation Of the Indian name of the
great western valley as Joe-Smith, is
graduate of Carlisle University. He
has been in Bridgeport for nearly two
years where he has worked in the
Remington Arms Co. and other fac
tories as a machinist, plumber and at
other trades with equal facility. His
grasp of conditions, customs and
modern methods is said by those in
timately connected with him to be re-
markable. He speaks excellent Eng
lish.
Early last spring The Farmer dis
covered that he was erecting six
room bungalow of logs, of the primi-
tive type Of the early frontier days.
When completed the bungalow was
entirely modern, with large cobble-
stone freplaces, hardwood floors and
Beardsley Park terrace is imposing.
On June IT before Justice Clarence
S. Winton, Yosemite and Miss Edith
Riggs, Of 200 Fox street, were mar
ried. They began married life in a
typical hogon, of the Navajo type, a
mound of earth over heavy Frame
, work Of tree limbs and thatch.
Mrs. Yosemite easily adapted her
self to her new conditions, sleeping
upon the ground, and dressing much
as the Indian squaws in heavy buck
skin clothing and moccasins.e She is
anxious to begin her life among the
Navajos on the government reserva-
ton where her mission may be that Of
greatly uplifting the race.