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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
STORIES OF
GREAT INDIANS
a.. Elxa<. Cnola Ml<zason
Copyright. 1877. western Newspaper Union.
CROW KING, CHIEF WHO DEFIED
MEDICINE MEN
By Elmo Scott Uoison

TRAZY HORSE was brave with 6
~ berserker recklessnesS; Sitting
Bulls daring was tempered with pru
dence; but another Sioux CHIEF
showed higher form of courage-tht
courage to defy superstition and SCOT
at the pretensions Of the medicine men
at the height of their power among
his people. He was Crow King OF
The Crow (Kangi-"crow; :" Yatapi-
liking" or "chief'') of the Hunkpapas
High Bear, Crow Kings brother, had
fallen i'll of tuberculosis which the
big medicine man Of the Hunkpapas
called the evil spirit, whereupon Grow
King told him TO cast it out and he
would pay him well. Although the
medicine man used all his charms and
Nominations High Bear still coughed
So the sorcerer changed his ''medi-
cine" frequently finding q new ex-
cuSe for doing so and always charging
Crow King Il certain number of ponies
|. for each new charm used. Other medi-
|. cine men were called in and soon Crow
Kings herd was almost wiped out.
Then High Bear died.
Crow King decided to put these
quacks out of business. He summoned
all of them TO a feast, where he asked
to be allowed to see the charm by
which each worked his wonders. Each
one proudly produced his fetish-a
bears claw, rabbits foot, VOLTS eye
and a weasel's skin. Then Crow King
calmly dumped them into the fire.
The medicine men were Mortified !;
they expected to see the defiler drop
dead. But Grow. King defied them to
prove the potency of their charms by
bringing vengeance down upon him.
From that day the power of the medi
cine men among the Sioux waned.
Crow King had been a great war
rior of the Hunkpapas. He had
fought at Fort Phil Kearney. AT the
Battle of Little Big Horn he had led
the first charge which swept over the
hill where Custer made his last stand
and the shock of this onsetJ had SO
shattered the resistance of Clusters
men that their humiliation a few
minutes later was made certain. He
had fed to Canada with Sitting Bull
but later he had denounced that leader
as coward and a fraud and had
brought his band back to the United
States to surrender
When he settled on Standing Rock
reservation he became leader of the
progressive element among the Hunk
papas Because Of his prowess in bat
tie and his craftsmanship they had
honored him, but to the day of his
death, In 1885. they held him in high
est esteem because by one bold stroke
he freed them from superstition.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
old ACE.
Certain Foods Known in Asia
Minor as Life Preserving.
System of Diet Of the Early World
When People Lived for Hum
dreds of Years.

1t may interest readers to hear
of a system of diet which Is that or
the early world when people lived
hundreds Of years without growing
old. heard of it while travelling in
Asia Minor from an Armenian woman
of sixty of very youthful appearance,
writes M. ID. Forbes in the Saturday
Review. Traditions on diet and long
life had been preserved in her family
from very ancient times.
Her father had lived to one-hundred
and fifty and her grandfather and her
grandmother also. She attributed her
youth to certain laws Of diet and to
particular sweetmeat, kind OF
sweet paste, which she claimed was
one of the foods of the patriarchs
and enabled them to live to their
great age. 1t prolongs youth and re-
tards old age, and is made from two
Of the life-preserving foods mixed
with honey and other ingredients. She
believed that old age and disease were
due to unsuitable and wrong combina-
tons of food and that longer youth
can be achieved by keeping as strictly
as possible to the diet of the ancient
world.
She divided food into three classes
the life giving. containing the pro-
telds, fats and carbohydrates; the
life preserving, only six In number;
wine, olive oil, youhort (fermented
milk, butter, honey and dates; and
the life destroying, Ave in number,
which should never be eaten, and con-
sist of flesh of meat, tea, coffee, beer
and spirits. Her own diet consisted
of wholemeal bread, eggs, vegetables,
some of each Of these life-preserving
foods, and lentils, and at the midday
and evening meals some of the sweet,
meat, the latter being very essential
part of the diet. She claims that 1t Is
possible to maintain youth and vigor
up to very long time on this diet.
have tried 1t now for seven
months, eating only very little fish
and fowl. 1 have grown much strong
err my friends tell me look much
younger, and Il have entirely got rid
of a troublesome throat affection and
cough which l suffered from for years
and which + always feared would de-
velop into consumption Medicine and
an operation failed to do me any
good, but this diet seems to have
eliminated the germs from my system.
for / am entirely cured.
There are such a number Of systems
nowadays that one Is apt to think
very little of them, but / can testify
that this system will yield the fullest
results, only 1t must be conscientious.
" carried out, and, whatever else Is
eaten, the life-destroying foods should
be given up.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
WILL UNEARTH OLD CITIES
American Scientists Have Been
Granted Permission to Make Elk
pIorations In Asia Minor.

Ancient cities In Asia Minor, buried
six centuries before Christ, are to be
dug up and explored by American
scientists to whom permission has
just been granted by the Greek gov
eminent, according to cablegram re-
ceived at Washington by Prof. Ed
ward Capps of Princeton university,
who is chairman Of the board Of man.
ayers of the American School OF
Classical Studies at Athens. Doctor
Capps was formerly United States
minister to Greece.
This concession Is the first to be
granted to any foreign society since
the negotiation by the foreign powers
of the Treaty of Sevres. The ancient
site of Col0phOn, one Of the original
IL cities constituting the Ionian con-
federacy In the Sixth century, B. c.,
will be the first excavation work at
tempted. Colophon was a powerful,
rich and large community for many
centuries, and It's ruins are said to be
among the most impressive In size of
any of the buried cities of Asia Minor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
Cars Pulled by Balloon.

Hochstauffen, near Bad Reichen.
hall. in Germany, will soon have ont
Of the most peculiar railways in the
world. 1t win run up steep noun.
tain side, and will be operated by a
balloon.
The mountain is so steep that no
ordinary way of locomotion would do,
so 1t has been planned to hitch a bal
loon to the car that makes the ur
trip, and have 1t practically lift the
car to the top of the hill. But the
car will be held to the earth by
clamps that will retain the wheels
close to the rails, and the upward ten
dency of the balloon will furnish the
power.
The big bag of gas will be 81 feet In
diameter, and will have a lifting
caRacity of about 10000 pounds
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
Claims Record for Hen.

A man living in Union Rock, near
Belvidere, N. j., has Plymouth Rock
hen which is ready to meet all Corners
as claimants for the title of champion
egg producer of the United States and
Canada. According to the owner this
bird lays two eggs day on most days,
and is so ashamed of her performance
when she produces a single egg that
she withholds the usual boastful
cackle. He says she has maintained
the two-a-day speed since last spring,
with very few holidays. The eggs, ac-
cOrdlng to the owner, are well formed
and of H.. -jal size.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
cTORlES OF
GREAT INDIANS
CHIEF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE GOT
UNDESERVED FAME
By Elmo Scott uoison

MYTH the possible exception O
w Sitting Bull and Curley, Clusters
Grow scout, more transformation has
been written about Rain-In- The-Fact
(Itiomagaju) chief Of the Hunkpapas
than any other Indian who ever lived
When he died September II, 1905, the
word was flashed all over the country
thu 1.-THE Indian who killed Genera
Custer Is dead"
During the Stanley expedition uI
the Yellowstone in 1873, Rain-In-The
Face murdered two civilians who haC
strayed from Clusters command 9
crime for which he was arrested by
Capt. Tom Custer q year later an6
imprisoned at Fort Abraham Lincoln
N. d. He escaped and after joining
the hostiles under Sitting Bull he Is
said to have sent word back to the
fort that he would have his revenge
on the whole Custer family and on
Captain Tom In particular.
Out of this threat grew the story
that Rain-In- The-Face after the battle
Of Little Big Horn had cut out Tom
Clusters heart and eaten a piece of it.
Mrs. Custer in her book Boots and
Saddles" makes such an assertion, but
Rain-In- The-Face in telling his life
story to DIR. Charles A. Eastman, the
noted Sioux writer, denied any such
deed and Ut Is reasonable to believe
that the Hunkpapa warrior would tell
- Il An.rf n
MoreNthan that, DIR. Porter and Gen
eral Benteen, who found Tom Gus
ter's body after the battle, have stated
positively that, he was not mutilated
In this way.
In Longfellow's poem 1.-THE Revenge
OF Rain-In-T The Face" he repeats the
story, although he makes Gen. George
Custer the victim of the atrocity in
stead Of Tom Custer. This may be the
origin of the yarn that Rain-In-The-
Face was the slayer of Custer.
The circumstances connected with
his killing the two civilians from Gus
fer's command showed that he was "a
ruthless, savage warrior. His bold at
tack on Fort Totten, N. d., in 1866
with two companions, an act of sheer
Z hravado growing out of dare, and
his endurance of the worst tOrtures of
the Sun Dance without murmur
proved that he was man utterly in
different TO pain, danger or death.
After the Sioux wars were over
Rain-InThe-Face settled on the Stand
ing Rock reservation and In 1885 APP
piled for admission to the Hampton
school, an effort which inspired a
second poem labout him-this time
from the pen of another great Ameri-
can poet, John G. Whittier On the
reservation Rain-InThe-Face became
an Indian policeman.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
This Cat Very Much at Home.

"A Nova Scotia farmers wife was
working about her house one morning
when she was surprised by seeing the
latch of the door lift several times.
On opening the door she. found one of
her cats at the latch. Since then the
cat does not wait to be let In, 1t just
lifts the latch and walks in. The
same cat invariably goes with her at
noon TO the henhouse and has lunch
with the fowls. 1t sleeps In front Of
one Of the horses at night, and Is fire.
quently seen seated on one of the
cows backs taking it's morning sun
bath. The cat takes its breakfast d.
rect from the COW. One case of farm
product going straight from producer
to consumer.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07

An Indianapolis physician on his
way downtown one evening recently
was approached by man who asked
for a lift.
"Say, Doc, can you let me have q
diner asked the man.
"Why, certainly" said the physi-
clan, "but where have l known your
"You don't know me-" said the man
"Then how did you know / was o
dOctOrT
"Oh, l call everybody Doc."-In'
dlanapolis News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
WITH THAT FIRST MILLION
Harold Hope Has Planned 20 Have
Many Things, but the First 10
q Marble Swimming Pool.

"Wnen I make my first Million"
said Harold Hope carelessly, I'm go
ing to build my house."
Harold has so many things to do
when he makes his first million that
there Is some anxiety In the minds OF
his friends as to whether the money
will suffice to pay for them all. A
million doesn't 60 80 very far nova
days, you know, observes a New York
Sun writer
my house." continued Harold, un-
disturbed by any doubts on that score,
as not going to be like other peoples
houses. Obi it's going to be very
original house in many ways. And
the one feature of II that delight In
more than anything else about my
house is the swimming pool.
"rve always from childhood wanted
to have my own private marble swim
ming pool, with tame seal In 1t to
skylark with me when I take my
plunge. And my dream is going to be
realized when make my first million
and build my house. i haven't quite
decided whether to have seal or
sea lion. Whichever I select, I'll prob
ably end by getting pair Of 'em."
) Harold's eyes kindled at the
thought, and he exclaimed:
won't 1t be wonderful to have
those beautiful animals to sport with
In the water? You see, seal swims
for enjoyment. 1t swims for business,
too, of course, but when 1t hasn't any
business to swim 1t just swims for
enjoyment. If you watch 'em In their
tanks at the aquarium or the zoo
you'll see that they take positively
voluptuous Joy In their element.
There's an infinite graceful aban.
don In the air with which they circle
round and round ON their backs, or GO
plunging like porpoises, making ire
mendous splash, playing tricks on each
other and then at intervals rearing
themselves out of the water, pointing
their noses as high as they can, and
trying to look as II they never broke
plate. M
"And the sea lions have the most
beautiful eyes In the world, bar none
II don't even except the CRATES, the
Lamas or the antelopes. And they're
very gentle when you domesticate 'em
and train 'em. bet they'll enjoy hav-
Ing q master who swims with 'em
every day. OF course I'll get young
ones and break 'em In gradually to
swimming with me.
you see, I'm very much the same
class OF swimmer as the seal family
Maybe was sea lion in my last life
Anyhow, l make myself one with the
water, just as the seals do. ! love to
slide lazily down among the roots of
the water lilies, and mosey around be-
low the surface with very seal-like
Joy in the element. And l look for
ward to having great games with my
pet sea lions when l battle In my
marble tank in the house / mean to
build when make my first million"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
Russia,s snarled Finances.

The budget Of the soviet govern
ment for 1892, presented to the con-
gress of soviets by M. Krestinsky, the
eommissar Of finance, and finally
adopted by It, carries appropriations
aggregating 1877. 100000 gold rubles.
The estimated income from railways,
licenses, leases, customs, is SIS 100000
gold .ubles, leaving an expected deficit
OF 1902, 100000 gold rubles. "a gold
ruble is equivalent to about 81 cents.)
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
Woman Radio Expert.

One Of Americas foremost women
radio experts is Mrs Charles e. Cut
ter, Of Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Cutter was
one Of the first women wireless oper.
ators. For some wears she was en-
gagged as a radio instructor and now
she is actively interested In a radio
manufacturing company.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
CHIEF VALUE OF SANDY SOIL
Roots of Plants Are Permitted to Pass
Through Readily, but 1t Dries
Out Quickly.

The chief virtue of sandy soil is that
che roots of plants can pass through
1t readily; its chief fault is that 1t
dries out too quickly. Clay soil holds
water we'll, but it tends to pack and
harden. Both types of soil need stable
msnure-it loosens up clay and helps
sand to hold moisture.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
Remarkable Animal Freak.

A strange animal Is on exhibition in
the st. Johns museum, says New
fOundland reader. 1t Is a cat with
the wings of bird and was killed at
Greenspond. 1t may be stated that
the animal could not fly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-09-07
Cause for JOY.

Ted-There must be some subtle
charm about being a first nighter. I've
often noticed what happy bunch
they are.
Ned-Why noti Those fellows gen
orally get In on free ticket
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-19

At the eleventh hour, the wed.
ding Of Brenda Bond, Boston 40.
ciety girl now on the New York
stage, to Jack Payne Smith, a
Back Bay clubnaan, was cancelled.
Mutual agreement" was Misa !
Bonds only explanation
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-19

Robert Louis Campbell, nine. q
Brownsburg, Ind, edits and print,
the 'Hoosier Boy" a four.psss
paper and does all the work hin.
self. Robert secured his literaT
background by reading over 10t,
volumes, drawn from the Browns
burg Public Library.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
NeU Book For This State

A NEW BOOK has just been published Olympia from the
~ office of the secretary of state setting forth information for
the traveller homcbuilde and investor 1t contains III
and beautifully bound heavy green paper
the leading industries of the by and
tusey illustrated with photoengravngs colored of THE
MOUNTAIN faces the title page In the write of King county
The following is said of VashonAlaury islands;
''Vaslon Island located Puget Sound I'M.
portan part of King county There two of this island
connected by shmus Portage The smaller portion
known Maurey Island distinguish larger body
It's total front 4S miles and there approximately ~
miles of land in the island Orchard fruits and berries
flourish wanuts and almonds can be grown.
"The island famous for Strawberries, which appear earlier
the market than in other Of the Puget Sound district
Pears rapidly becoming important fruit product Green
houses located here that the larger cities close by Saw
mills gravel pits diaries and of the supporting
industries Of the island Boats with jacent cities and
roads lead to ali the around the island These
Burton Labeua Cove Covos Portage EHport Center Dock
ton and Vashon all actively progressing into well developed dis
tribuung points for their various localities
The book would be improved if modern map the
inserted and the population Of the villages and cities
Also space should be given the Puget Sound
section the poultry industry. With the official being
made by Puget Sound pouymen which be duplicated
America the book should be modcnzcd keep apace with the
industries Of the state The poultry business years. will lead
all other industries in the northwest section of Washington Ask
for copy from j. Grant nke Secretary Of State Olympia
P.S The spelling of Mauy should be corrected in issue
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
What More Shall We Say?

lot of the faint hearted have left the island With
have they gomez 1t doens muchfor they fail
they failed here But many have remained like Saul
stuff And the who have stayed the who have
the grit they the Vason ury wants. and these
the who IL win
There be three things VaonM auy island that
deru of four things that would mention
the bin money the bank Small
fruits gardening greenhouses and poultry But greatest
of these poultry What if eggs 10 per spar
spring weeks egg prices doesn't deter
mine great industry
Seattle and Tacoma will consume all the truck we can grow III
the garden and ready market for all greenhouse products
AS for small fruits there will always be demand home and
abroad for fresh fruit and canned fruit and codorage fruit
And grow it here in all perfection
for poulrywe haven't explored the edges yet of
possibility If there 20000000 laying hens the islands
100000 couldn't supply the demand for high grade
Matching all the breeding stock that be
shipped all the world. Pourymen uiteay good word
another Mr. Morgan the pace the last page of his
catalogue Stop knocking neghbor He's NOT your com
pettorfor there's competition in the poultry business H. c.
Ba has good stock and Morgan has good stock and Gilbert
good Carver has good stock and Reban has good
stock Covngton has good stock and Scgrst matches good
chicks and Butcher is making money of chickens and
Whitfield and Fraser and Wood and Wise and Ogyy and Toms
land Renouf and Socey and Park and thousand and
others whom haven't space to mention
We losing tails, about ready to jump ulledged
frogs into the pond of prosperiyes all JUMP TOGETHER
and my, what splash!
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
VQSh0n Island
Vashon Island Has:

A THRIVING State Bank; modern newspaper; wenty-four
N hour electric light and power service local and long dis
telephone services two accredited High schools many
schools prosperous churches of different denominations
the leading rateal and beneficial orders represented
mercial club development league five state park;
fifty miles graveed road miles of paved highways eight U.
post offices and several rural mail roues about thirty green
houses of which the largest of the Rocky mountains
about laying henshe worlds record hen being owned by
island pouryman record $50 eggs years. the strawberry
finds natural habitat here owning patch of sixty
aeres rspberrc gans and in commercial
quantities. ferry nesone from Tacoma to the south end and
from Seattle the north end which with the newly
paved highway of the largest daha farms the northwest
producing 300 varieties upodate nursery dozen gen
merchandise soes physicians DENTIST while the other
lines of trade well represented such three markets.
ral garages drug store insurance agencies Standard Oil supply
station where oils and gases pumped directly from their boats
Three steamboat lines maintain regular the west
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
The School Election

THE CAUCUS held Saturday night candidates for
n school director representative body of taxpayers parents and
citizens gathered. Three men mmed-Geo. s. Bonne,
Elmer armeng, and Martin jomsandto appear the official
ballot The Record has candidate All
have to schools kept going along sensible and approved
Ines Mr. Bonnel has much advancement made during
he has served member Of the board AS clerk of the
board he has been pansang and faithful looking after the
tails. Mr. Harmelmg has lived many years the island
of pose attends his business respected by all
who know him Mr.. Tiomsland of the first
the island He is proud father having the interest of his child
uppemos in his heart worker all the time and
which of the three chosen believe the
of the schools doubly assured.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
vashon Island Needs;

A candy factory
A modern bakery
A steam laundry
A canning factory
An Ice cream factory
rcfrigeratng plant
An all-the- ycarround hotel
modern cold storage plant
More boosters for both islands
Fewer knockers for certain sections
LIVE VASIION MAURY CLUB
Better transportation for the east side
AT least ONE NIGHT BOAT every night
new vision that the WHOLE of the island Is our HOME
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17

pass Que on the east pass during the aud from Tacoma
to the south end via Qnnrtcmasc harlor all varieties of and
bush fruits thrive on the island There large gravel bkcs
Worng ul capacity day of the years important dairy arml
truck farmers mih and single mills local fruit canney and
The ordinary restaurants hotels and lodges usual modern and
high class community.