The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-24
AMERICAN WOMEN
HAVE TAKEN PART
IN MANY WORKS
RUSSIAN WOMEN HAVE SET NO
PRECEDENT IN TAKING UP
ARMS

l
lean women may take up arms and
join their Russian sisters in the bat
| tie against Germany, as forecasted
recently by Elihu Root of the Ameri-
can Mission to Russia upon his re-
turn from that country, do not need
| to seek for such precedent in Eu
rope. The history of the Western
Hemisphere presents several pictur-
! eSque and inspiring instances OF
North and South American amazons.
according to war bulletin issued
today by the National Geographic
Society from its Washington head
Quarters. The bulletin, which is bas
ed upon a communication to the Soc
ety from Harriet Chalmers Adams,
the explorer, says:
Toby Riddle, is probably the only
North American woman who ever led
warriors into battle in the war be-
,ween the Modocs and the Pitt River
| california; Indians many years ago,
| this dauntless Indian maid, who had
previously received the title of Kat
chkona Winema (sub-chief) when she
fcarlessly guided her canoe through
the rushing waters Of Link River and
saved the lives of the two children,
assumed command of the Modocs when
that bands leader was shot down.
Mounted on her war-horse, she rush
ed to the head of her Indian column
and led brilliant cavalry charge
which resulted in a complete victory
over the Pitt River tribe
For Winema peace had it's glories
no less than war. When the Amer
can Peace Commission desired to
treat with Captain Jack, the Modoc
chief, she acted as an intermediary
and it was she who warned the Amer
leans. General E. R. S. Candy, Rev.
L. Thomas, Col A. B. Meachand and
Judge J. A. Fairchild not to go 10 a
Captain Jack (who was her cousin)
contemplated treachery In spite of
her warning, the Americans attend
ed the meeting. She accompanied
them and was instrumental in saving
Two of the number.
'Winema subsequently married
Frank Riddle, frontiersman from
Kentucky. She is now a widow, rs
years of age, and lives on the Kla-
math Indian Reservation, in south
crn Oregon, the United States gov
crnment allowing her a pension of
SIS month.
"A striking parallel to the heroism
and fearlessness of the Russian wom-
ems Command of Death is to be
found in the story of the women of
Paraguay during the Five Years War
when Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
all made war on the little republic.
In this terrible struggle, after prac-
tically all the men had been killed
and regiments had been formed of
boys ranging from II to Is years of
age, even the women were enlisted,
and struggled with desperate strength
! under a heartless ruler and general
until the country, which had boosted
of q poulation of $4,000 at the out
Of hD1
Inhabitants, 10000 Of whom were
women above the age of Is. When
peace was declared these women be-
came the merchants and farmers of
the land. re-establishing the CONNER
cial life of Paraguay
In the Philippines American sol
Giers on several occasions came in
contract with Sulu women warriors
In one of the last battles on the isl
ands the Sulus fortified themselves
in the bowl of an extinct volcano. 1t
was rushed and captured by Ameri-
dislnay, after the battle that num-
Der Of their antagonists had been wo-
men. Their figures were as slim as
those of the men; both sexes wore
their hair long, with handkerchief
over their heads and the women
wore trousers similar to those worn
in Turkey. Thus they were practic-
ally indistinguishable from the men.
The bravery of these women warriors
appears all the more remarkable
when ii is recalled that according to
the Mohammedan faith a man who is
slain while fighting Christians is
translated at once to heaven, but as
the women are not supposed to have
souls their sacrifice of life is without
hope of reward in hereafter.
THE history of pioneer days in
the West is punctured with many
thrilling stories of individual in.
stances in which women bore fi,.-
arms to protect themselves and their
families against the attacks of saw
ages"