The daily progressive-miner., 1918-05-18
WILL
SHRILL OVER
battlefield

Inc WdTWuOOp VI luS 6iOAtS''e "'s'
ural fighter the world has ever known
the American Indian-will be
shrilled over the red fields of France.
With machine gun instead OF a TOM
ahawk, with new weapons, but the
old craft and courage, Sioux, Chey-
ennes, Apaches and the rest OF the
red tribes are on the warpath for the
German, whose civilized" warfare by
the way, shocks and disgusts the So
called barbarous Indians. Twenty
five thousand of them are now III
France with Pershing, and many more
are only waiting the call to the flag,
for which they are ready to tight as
valiantly as their hostile fathers ever
fought against it.
Two Indian chiefs, while antitlpat-
ing their summons to the trenches are
now in New York doing valiant volun-
| teer service in the War Savings
Stamps campaign. Almost every at
ternoon Chief Don White Eagle, a
Cheyenne OF the Wind River Reserva-
ton in Wyoming does war dance
and makes war speech in front o.
the War Savings headquarters, at the
phblic Library while Leon Roberts,
iariat expert and brother of the ia.
nous aviator, Lieut.. F.. M. Roberts,
"ropes in" stamp buyers. lts worth
the price of more than one stamp just
to see Chief Don White Eagles s2,ooo
costume, and if he wears it when he
/ GOES over the top the Germans in ms
sector are likely to die of heart fall
ura before he reaches them. Topping
j The fine buekskin and beads is mead
dress of thousand eagle feathers
/ with blood-red pompon This war
I bonnet comes close over the BLACK
eyes of bon Eagle and falls over his
shoulders and down hi Shack clear te
the ground. On tn ecrown OF his head
! ne wears the fierce gray-feathered
head and neck u or" Of the largest
eagles ever ohOl'
The second star of the team, which
also includes California Billy and sew
eral other cowboys, as well as New
York musician, Joe Williams, Is the
Sioux Chief Na-hee-a-ta, OF the plne
Ridge Reservation in South DAKOTA
and q scout with tn crank OF sergeant
who went through the Mexican cam
paistt With Pershing. He makes war
speeches, but his sell-chaser special
detail is that of selling War Savings
/ Stamps to pro-Germans. He, too, mas
a ferociou; feather war bonnet and he
can nut on an EXPRESSION to match
He holds the record for making every
German waiter in a certain hotel not
five miles from Forty-second street
buy at least one War Savings Stamp
HE lust shoves the stamps under
their Noses" was told by an admirine
onloeker, "and says, light You buy
stamrs!' They buy!"
indian Joe already has beeh ON the
western battle front. Also ne mas
been scalpea-at least his hair mas
been lifted. He shows the proof te
ANYBODY who asks him. He @eht ev
err on transport with lot OF horses
True to his racial love OF a tight, ne
insisted on being struggled into the
front line of trenches 'for the expert
epce." He got the experience, togeth
err with a shrapnel wound stretching
across the top of his mead almost from
ear to ear. Before the wound healed
a bout of typhoid fever came along
and the result is that no German can
get Indian Ioes scalplock-there ISM
ANY lock.
7 q suppose you are permanently IN
yalided?" | remarked to him.
What do you mean?" he asked
Both he and Chief Don White Eagle
are graduates of Carlyle University
and speak excellent English.