The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-03-17
ECHOES FROM THE SOUTHLAND.
1853 S. w. LIST St., Miami, Fla
Mar. 10, 1922.

Dear Opinionites:
Another week full to the brim has
gone. The New England Society
took one whole day for its picnic at
Cape Florida Tuesday. The Society
chartered a boat and about hun
dred and seventy went down the bay.
for an all day visit and sail. Plans
were made at the business session
for three events this month and then
the season will be about over. On
or before April Fools Day, many
tourists fool themselves into think
ing it's "June" up north.
Mr. H B Moulton of Lisbon arrived
the first of the week and will spend
ten days at the Royal Palm. He
came along with Mr. M A Brown of
Boston who came to join his family
who have been spending the season
at the hotel.
DR.. CORTLAND Van Camp and DIR.
Dorrance, both of Campbell soup
fame are visiting in Miami. We can
say that their soups are even better
known here than they are them
selves for they are convenient and
nutritious and take so little time to
prepare. Down this way, where
there is nothing to do, people are
buster than in any section of the
country shave or a hair cut and
visit to the bank easily makes a
busy forenoon of it. Y,
They tell that the residents of
Hialeah are suffering from a new
epidemic-sun burn on the roofs OF
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Bugs" MCGOWAN practising stunts
for the circus performance. Ever
try staring the sun in the face? It's
hard work and long on sun burn but
then Bugs" is worth watching even
under these conditions.
We hear that London has given us
new name for our flying boats
from Nassau and Bimini They call
them the Cocktail Express"
We wonder if this is new Ford
Joke. 1t is credited to College
Chatter in the De Land News:
"For sale-Ford car with a piston ring.
Two rear wheels and one front spring.
Has no tenders, seats made of plank.
Burns lots of gas, darn hard to crank:
Carburetor busted half way through.
Engine missing, hits on two;
Three years old and four in the spring.
Has shock absorbent everything.
Ten spokes missing, front axle bent,
Tires all punctured, not worth a cent,
! Get 'er started II run like the deauce.
VIII burn either OH or tobacco juice.
If you want this care apply within
It's a darn good Ford for the shape it's
in"
Yes, we have had another murder
down here for Chief Ja"k TiPertail
was found shot through the heart
Wednesday morning, shortly after
midnight. 1t seems that Tiger all
Charlie Billy and Charles Weber met
at the dock at the Tropical Gardens,
where a colony of Seminoles are
camped. about midnight, and that
the white man gave the two Indians
drink not forgetting himself.
Charlie Billy left the chief and the
white man, Weber, to talk over
trade in feathOs and the next thing
Charlie Billey heard was shot and
his chief passed out on the "long
sleep" accusing the white man of the
crime. Tigertail was fine specimen
of physical manhood. He was select
ed as the model for all the Hialeah
signs as the best specimen of the
race to be found in southern Florida.
He was different" from most
Indians for he was considered alb
solutely honest, never begged and
was always reliable He cam. from
the Big Cypress. For the first time
in the history of the Seminoles, an
Indians body was buried by white
men in a white cemetery. But other
wise the Indians customs have been
maintained in the ceremonies. The
Indians of this tribe believe that the
evil spirits of the departed return
at death and so they are afraid of
dead bodies and refuse to see or
handle them more than necessary.
They insisted that the undertaken
remove the body and the earth
around it as the earth is considered
to be the fertile abode of evil
spirits. The great spirit Ojus
beckoned to the chief and he respond
ed but his evil spirits still domipat-
ed the air over the matched houses
of the little village and as soon as
the echoes of the shot died away,
activities began. Every man, woman
and child wrapped in the individual
blanket left the village and remained
away until the removal of the body.
Immediately scores of tiny fires are
kept burning to keep a smoke screen
above the houses that Tigertaips evil
spirits NAV not return to modest his
wife and family. While the smoke
twined and twisted upward, an aged
Indian squaw gathered together
every possession of the dead chief,
for every trace Of him was removed
from the camp. Within four days
the smoke screen will be discontin-
ued for it is believed that Jack
Tigertail will then be with the other
braves at the court of Ojus. Mean
while the family mourning has
begun. His wife and five children
have taken up new quarters and she
has partitioned off small space on
the elevated floor, three by six feet,
and placed about it net screen.