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CoDYs FIGHT WITH YELLOW HAND

pion, and this circumstance,
coupled with the fact that, as
a hunter for the Kansas Pa
cific, he killed 1920 buffalo in
IS months, gave him the name
of Buffalo Bill.
Cody's adventures as a scout
and guide for the army on the
plains are almost without end
in the telling. For several years
he was chief of scouts for Gen
eral Sheridan, being attached to
various commands and per-
forming invaluable service. In
1872 he made a trip eastward
and was lioniZed in Chicago and
New York. James Gordon
Bennett, of the New York Her
aid, gave a great banquet for
him. He returned to Nebraska
and was elected a member of
the state legislature. About this
time the renowned Ned Bunt-
line wrote a play for him and
engaged Cody and Texas Jack,
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20 miles east of Sheridan, Kan
sas. The event was widely adj
vertised and hundreds of peo-
pie from as far away as st.
Louis went to see the match.
It was agreed that both men
should ride into the herd, Cody
taking the right side and Com
stock the left. Cody rode his
famous buffalo horse, Brigham,
and used a .50-caliber rifle
which he called Lucretia Bor-
gia. A man went with each
to the head of his part Of the
herd, and killing the leaders,
soon had the rest running in a
circle. He kept riding around
them, shooting, until he had 50
animals lying dead in a very
small circle. Comstock rode
after his animals and killed the
rearmost each time. He killed
only 46 buffalo and they were
scattered over a distance of
three or four miles. Cody was
cheerfully acclaimed the cham
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HOU Cabinet Officials
Wen National Situation
What They Consider the Days Greatest
Problems-The Outlook AS They See It.

At every conference on the state
of the union"-as the old phrase has
it-tltat meets in Washington, for
mally or informally, the specters of
fevered Europe and the depressed
state of American agriculture attend,
hidden or unbidden. Every business
and every statesman knows that either
of these specters may upset every rosy
forecast of the commercial and indus
trial future. 1t appears that the spec
ter Of agricultural discomfort is about
to be laid SO far as it is within the
capacity of government to do 1t, but
there are many misgiv1ngs regarding
Europe, and a gnawing thought even
in the mind of the most determined OPP
ponent of economic Intervention in
Europe that by doing nothing to set
tie the problems of Europe we may
be doing everything to rear porten-
tous problems for ourselves.
1t is not surprising, therefore, to
find that several of the cabinet mem
bers who contributed their views to a
recent number of the Magazine of
Wall Street on what seems to them
worthy of remark, refer directly or in
directly to the incidence of the prob
lem of Europe n OF our agrlcultur-
al economics on the present condition
and the business outlook. The presi-
dent ave particular attention to the
agricultural position in his annual
message, and his disclaimer of re-
sponsibility for Europe betrays his in
ward concern. Secretary Wallace, in
his contribution to this symposium nat
urally devotes his attention TO the ag-
r~icultural question, but he finds that
the unsettled state of Europe is a ma
jor factor in determining it. Secretary
Mellon conditions his forecast of the
future on developments in Europe and
dwefls on the disparity between the
prices of agricultural commodities and
those Of others. Mr.. Hoover finds the
farmers distress obtruding itself in
all his calculations affecting commerce.
Some Are Optimistic
Every contributor to the symposium
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another frontier character, as
stars. The play was produced
in Chicago but when Cody came
on the stage he could not re-
member a line of his part. Ned
Buntline, who also had a part
in the play, seeing the scouts
embarrassment, helped him by
asking:
where have you been so
long, Bill?'
Cody glanced helplessly UP at
the boxes and suddenly spied a
prominent business man who
was very well known in public
life, and who had hunted But
falo with Cody. A happy idea
came to the latter and he re-
piled:
1--WE just brought Milligan
back from a hunt, and he's
still wearing his hair"
This scored a great hit and
the theater was, for minutes, in
a tumult of applause. There
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has been marvelously rapid, for, within
Is months after the bottom of the
slump, unemployment was practically
e%xtinguished and production was pro-
ceeding up to S. and 90 per cent of
normal. The readjustments are still
unequal in price levels between vari-
GUS commodities and between wage
earners and farmers. Nevertheless the
outlook is SO improved over a year
ago to be scarcely comparable.
'"The most distinguishing feature of
the slump was that for the first time
a major commodity crisis-the great
est we have ever faced-was passed
without panic. Our rapid recovery is
to be attributed to the fact that we
were not compelled In relief from fin
ancial panic to repair the vast destruc-
ton from bankruptcy that has inevltab-
ly followed such occasions. This fact
is in main due to the federal reserve
system which has successfully stood
the severest test that can ever be ap-
piled to it.
1.-The fall in the prices of agricul-
tural produce during the recent de-
preston was the most violent of all
commodity liquidations. In a general
way agricultural prices are upon the
DaSlS Oh ABOUT LIZ uOW, CuLlpdEcu "
pre-war 100. while industrial wages
and public services and manufactured
commodities are upon a basis Of some
what between 100 and 1870, compared
to pre-war 100. This is by far the
most serious element of instability
that remains of our domestic disloca-
tons due to war.
Farmer Is "Goat"
1.-THE slump was in part the rota-
ton of the business cycle in our pro-
ductive industries. Thirteen times
since the civil war have we passed
through these experiences. The peak
periods of booms are times Of specula-
ton, overexpansion, wasteful expen-
diture in industry and commerce. with
consequent destruction of capital. The
valleys are periods of economy and
gain in national efficiency. The obvi-
Gus way to check the losses and misery
of depression is to check the destruc-
tive extremes of booms. The intelli-
gence of a people who have solved the
prevention of financial panic and its
Interpretation into the widespread
waste of bankruptcy can surely apply
itself also to some measure Of the
solution Of the prevention of COM
slumps and their fatal inter-
probation in vast unemployment"
Secretary Wallace contends that
continued high freight rates, wartime
wages, and overproduction have
Continued on Page Ninel
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sounds at least a minor note of optim-
ism, but Postmaster General Work
dispenses with ali d~epreciatory quail
fications and boldly declares that we
are lin the midst of a commercial and
industrial activity such as this coun-
try has not seen before Attorney
General Daugherty mentions neither
Europe nor agriculture, but one sus-
poets that the danger of political in
lection from Europe was in his mind
when he wrote: II see nothing in the
flux and change of the times to alarm
those who are accustomed to base
their operations on faith in the United
States of America" OF course, Eu-
rope troubles Mr.. Hughes, and the
troubles of the farmers and other in
ternal problems are not ordinarily
topics at the state department. Sec
rotary Davis IN almost up to DR..
Works level of optimism when he de-
clares that industrial peace is near.
Secretary Fall also makes a charac-
t~eristic contribution to economic hope
~fulness when he speaks of the natural
riches yet at our command at home,
and the stores of them that await our
economic conquests of the tropics.
Perhaps the best approximation of a
composite Of statements that deal with
both adverse and similar topics is that
all is surprisingly well with America
at the moment, but tempered with ap-
~prehension, implied rather than spok-
en-, that the storms that rage abroad
may descend upon Is and dash the
fairest prospects.
Our Rapid Recovery
Secretary Hoover says the most re-
markable feature of the commodity
slump in our history was that it was
passed without panic. He says:
1.-THE outstanding feature of the last
fiscal year was that it marked the
low point in the most violent commo-
dity slump in II history. During the
10 months both prices and manufac-
turing production outside of foodstuffs
fell off roughly 40 per cent, some four
to five million people were unemployed
and business ~stagnated. Our recovery
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utmost resourcefulness and
courage. It was during his
service as a pony express rider
that his reputation on the
plains began to grow. In 1862
he joined the expedition
against the Indians in Kansas
as a scout, and the next year
enlisted in the Seventh Kansas
volunteers, seeing much heavy
fighting in Tennessee and Mis-
souri,. On this campaign he
fell in with his old friend, "Wild
Bill" Hickok who was a Union
scout and spy, and together
they had some thrilling adj
ventures and hair-raising es-
capes within the Confederate
lines.
After the war he returned to
his plains life, and in 1867 first
fell in with General Custer, for
whom he became guide for a
short period.
Cody was always Of a specu-
lative disposition, but his bust
ness judgment was usually not
good. His first bid for wealth
came about 1868, when he and
a friend, William Rose, know
ing that the Kansas Pacific
railway would cross Big Creek,
in Kansas, decided to buy a site
and lay out a town there, ex-
pecting to make a fortune from
the sale of town lots. Their
town they named Rome, having
in mind their intention of MAX
ing the place "howl" as a live
western city. They offered an
inside lot to anyone who would
build upon it, reserving for
themselves a considerable num-
Der of choice locations and all
corner lots. Rome shortly be-
gan to howl according to their
expectations, and soon there
were 200 houses, a hotel and
several saloons and stores.
They believed they were about
to make a killing" in a finan-
cial way. But about that time
a DR.. Webb, who was TOWNSHIP
agent for the railroad, arrived
in Rome. Going to work quiet
ly, he staked out another town.
site about a mile from Rome
and called it Hays City. He
then announced that the rail-
road would build shops there
and establish a division head
quarters. Within a few weeks
every building in Rome had
moved to Hays City. Flat
broke, Cody went to work as
buffalo hunter for the construc-
ton department of the railroad.
Cody's Buffalo Record
Cody was soon hailed as the
greatest buffalo hunter in the
world. Only one man disputed
the title. That was a scout,
Comstock, who was attached to
Fort Wallace. A trial of skill
was arranged with a stake of
$500. The place selected was
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not over 400 yards from us,
and the Indians were only about
200 yards behind them. We
dashed over the bluffs and adj
vanced on a gallop toward the
Indians. A running fight last
ed several minutes, during
(which we drove the enemy some
little distance and killed three
of them. The rest rode off
toward the main body, which
had come in plain sight and
halted upon seeing the skirm-
ish that was going on. We We're
about half a mile from General
Merritt, and the Indians whom
we were chasing suddenly
turned upon us and another
lively skirmish took place.
Zone of the Indians, hand
somely decorated, as a war
chief usually was when on the
warpath, sang out to me in his
own tongue: I know you, Pa
he-haska (Long Hair); if you
want to fight, come ahead and
fight me-
"The chief was riding his
horse back and forth in front
of his men as if to banter me,
and / concluded to accept the
challenge. I galloped toward
him for so yards and he ad-
vanced toward me about the
same distance, both of us rid
ing at full speed, and then,
when We were only about 80
yards apart, I raised my rifle
and fired; his horse fell to the
ground, having been killed by
my bullet. Almost at the sama
instant my own horse went
down, having stepped in a 60
pher hole. The fall did not
hurt me and | sprang instantly
to my feet. The Indian had
also recovered himself and we
were now both on foot, not
more than 20 PAGES apart. We
both fired simultaneously. Ny
luck did not desert me, for his
bullet missed me, while mine
struck him in the breast. He
reeled and fell. but before he
had fairly touched the ground I
was upon him, knife in hand,
and had driven the keen-edged
weapon to its hilt in his heart.
Jerking his war bonnet off I
scalped him, and as the soldiers
came up | swung the top-knot
and bonnet in the air, shouting,
The first scalp for Custer"
This was virtually Cody's last
service as a scout on the plains,
for the following year he en-
gagged in stage productions
which later grew into his Wild
show. Until a year or two
before his death at Denver he
remained in the arena with va
rious enterprises of the kind he
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after, however, Cody's dialogue
was wholly impromptu.

dIteI, however, COuy 5 uIdlOHue
was wholly ~impromptu.
Immediately after the Custer
disaster on the Little Big Horn
in 1876, Cody took the field
with the Fifth cavalry, under
General Wesley Merritt, who
came into action with a war
party of 1000 Cheyennes on
War Bonnet creek, in South Da-
kota. Cody's own description
of the battle follows:
eve arrived at the creek the
night of July 10th, and at day.
light the following morning /
went out on a scout and found
that the Indians had not yet
crossed the creek. On my way
back to the command I found a
large party of Indians which
proved to be the Cheyennes,
coming up from the south, and
| hurried to the camp with this
important information.
1.-THE troopers quietly mount
ed their horses and were or
dered to remain out of sight,
while General Merritt, accom-
panied by two or three aides
and myself went out on a little
tour of observation to a neigh
boring hill, from the summit of
which we saw that the Indians
were approaching almost di-
rectly toward us. Presently Is
or 20 of them dashed off to the
west in the direction from
which we had come the night
before; and upon closer obser-
walton with field glasses, we
discovered two mounted sol
diers, evidently carrying dis
patches for us, pushing for
ward on our trail.
1.-THE Indians were evidently
trying to intercept these two
men and General Merritt feared
that they would accomplish
their object. He did not think
it advisable to send any soldiers
to the assistance of the couriers
for fear they would show to the
Indians that there were troops
in the vicinity who were wait
ing for them. I finally sug-
gested that the best plan was
to wait until the couriers came
closer to the command, and
then just as the Indians were
about to charge, let me take the
scouts and cut them off from
the main body of the Chey-
ennes, who were coming over
the divide.
"'All right, Cody, if you can
do that, go ahead
Il rushed back to the COM
mand, jumped on my horse,
picked out Is men and returned
them to the point of OBJ
s~ervation. I told General Mer-
rift to give us the word to start
and presently he sang out: Go
in now, Cody, and be quick
about it..
Cody's Famous Duel
'"Ths two messengers were
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learned of their plans. In a
wild ride of many miles, holly
pursued by the lynching party,
the 1O-year-old boy got to his
father in time. Together they
reached Lawrence in safety,
and the elder Cody became a
member Of the first legislature
of Kansas and assisted in or
ganizing the territory into a
state.
Before he had reached his
eleventh birthday, young Cody
was employed by the famous
transportation firm of Majors,
Russell & Waddell, the greatest
freighting concerns of the pc
riod in the west. He worked
as a cattle herder in Kansas
for two years, but at the age of
IL he found himself on the trail
to Salt Lake City with a herd
of beef for the government
troops who were sent west to
fight the Mormons. It was on
this trip and at this age that
he killed his first Indian on the
Platte river, some 35 miles
west of old Fort Kearney. tt
was during the attack made by
the Reds on the cattle herders,
and young Cody at once be-
came a hero.
Cody Meets Wild Bill
Life on the freight trails be-
tween the Missouri and Salt
Lake in the sos was filled with
danger and excitement. The
wagons were huge affairs, ca
pable of carrying as much as
three and one-half tons of mer-
chandise. They were provided
with a double canvas cover
stretched over bows to protect
the freight from rain. Several
yoke of oxen drew each wagon,
the wagons not being string to-
gether and pulled by a dozen or
more yoke of cattle as was done
in later years. The train usually
consisted of 25 wagons and Is
drivers, with other employees
for herding, etc. The wagon
master was called the "bull wa
gon boss" and his word was
law. Majors, Russell & Wad-
dell had $50 trains, consisting
of 5000 wagons, $4,000 oxen
and 5000 men. Young Cody,
in his thirteenth year, drew $50
a month wages.
One of the drivers in the
train to which he was attached
was James B. Hickok, later ia
nous as wild Bill" the border
town marshal, who remained a
close friend of Cody until
Hickok was killed at Deadwood
in the middle los.
Becomes Army Scout
For a year or two Cody was
employed variously in trapping,
mining in Colorado and as a
pony express rider, and his life
was one Of continual hardship
and danger that required the J
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Becomes Army Scout

For a year or two Cody was
employed variously in trapping,
mining in Colorado and as a
pony express rider, and his life
was one Of continual hardship
and danger that required the
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-18

sid Hunt was In his fathers auto
mobeal and II bunked Into another
automobeel, causing n aNsldent. and
Sids name was In the paper amung
those injured. and this aftirnoon wen
! went erround TO Mary Watkinses
who was setting on her frunt steps
but SID with with his he'd all tied
up like a axsldent, and Mary Wat
kins was looking at him as II he was
a CRATE hero or somebody. me think
ING, Aw heck, enybody can get In
aNsident.
Giving me a ideer. and after sup
pir l tied peece OF wite stuff err
round my rist and put some red ink
on the outside for blud and stuck
my arm between the buttins OF my
coat as IL I couldent hold II rite and
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not, and Just then Puds slmkins
came Up holding his neck away over
on one side with big hunks of
sticking plaster on 1t. Mary Watkins
saying. wy Puds. my goodness. !
declare, did you get hert too7
Good mite. should say l did. but
wat do 1 care. saved some ladys
life, sed Puds, and sid Hunt sed.
Aw. was your name IN the paper =?
And Puds sat down with his neck
on one side and I kepp setting there
with my tied up arm stuck out and
Sid kepp setting there with his he'd
tied up. and Mary Watkins jumped
up saying, My lands. people will
think this is a hospittle. I'm going in.
Wich she did.
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went erround TO Marry watkinses
and who was erround there setting
with her agen hut sid Hunt with
her he'd stlll tied up. and wawked
up and Mary watkins sed, wy Benny
watever are you holding your arm
like that for?
Its wonder 7 wasent killed. I
sed. And / took my arm out and
showed her my rist tied up with the
red ink and all her saying o mer-
sey. wat looking ob1eck. however
did you do It?
1 was rosculng some little dog
from being ran over by trolley
car. l sed.
Aw. was your name In the pa
per? sed sid Hunt. Me setting down
without saying weather Il was or
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-18
SUNSHINE PELLETS
by W. f. Thompson

"May ask the cause Of this ex-
citement?" said tho stranger IN the
little village.
Certainly" replied the country
man. Were celebrating tho birth
day OF the Oldest inhabitant. She's
1o1 today"
Indeed! And may ask who II
that little man with the dreadfully
sad face walking by the old lady't
side?"
"Oh. that's her son-in-law. He,
been keeping up the payments or
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PAGE OF FUN AND FROLIC IN PICTURES AND PARAGRAPHS
THE BETTER MAN

I didn't understand it then,
When ! was eight or nine or ten
And little troubles came my way
My kindly father used to say:
Sorrow must come to man and boy.
Don't cry about a broken toy,
Don't fret too much because you lose,
Don't whmper over every bruise;
Remember when they knock you flat,
You'll be a better man for that"
When | had older grown, he'd say:
"Life's not n constant round of play
And there is work for all to do
And many an irksome task for you.
The time will come when you will find
That duty often seems unkinf:
You will be told to work when you
Have something else you'd rather do,
But Just forget your ball and bat
You'll be better man for that.
This is a lesson you must learn:
Joy is a thing which all must earn,
And it's beneath the heavy blows
That courage at its finest shows.
When you have something hard to do
Don't quit until you've seen il through: ,
Though happier you would be at play,
Never from duty run away.
Then, though you sprawl on failures mat
You'll be a better man for that.
Now | am older grown and
See with somewhat clearer eye
Just what my father saw back then
In all the troubled lives of men.
Hardships are builders of the race,
Strength grows by what it has to face;
He only meets ife's sternest test
Who gives the irksome task his best
Care does what pleasure never can
In fashioning the better man.
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90
Bu Bud Fisher
Ry Cuff Sterrett
By Billy De Beck

They were talking about a mu
tual acquaintance and the first mah
was full of praise.
Smart chap, that. and a nice fe!-
low to boot" he said.
The second man had Just received
evidence of the smartness in dues-
tion and was still sore about 1t.
You're quite right" he said. He
would be a nice fellow--to boot!"
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fronted by a burly stranger.

IT UIIIeu py d UuT y btI uHbtT'
What do you want?" he asked.
"WS're going to have a game Of
put and take. old chap" replied the
stranger.
Put and take!" gasped the old
man, shivering with fright.
Yes" said the burly one. "You
put yer hands up and I'll take yer
Watchl"
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l THANK you.

In India th' girls marry at tn age
o ten, but In this country they don't
gin 4 paint up an scout around til
they're thirteen. Contractor Al Bliz-
gard wuz fined $500 an thirty days
IN Jail t'day fer allowin' empty ce-
ment bags L blow over th' streets,
lie got OH sasS.
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We TOWNE GOSSIP
opyrIght Io22. by Star Company.
BY X. {. B.

FOR THREE months past.
IT'S BEEN quite dreary.
THIS ROOM of mine.
IN WHICH work.
f
DESPITE THE fact.
THAT ON It's walls.
ARE PHOTOGRAPHS.
OF MANY friends
THAT BRING to me.
RARE MEMORIES.
OF PLEASANT days.
AND PLEASANT nights
IN OTHER fields.
AND SOME of them.
SMILE DOWN at me.
FROM OUT their frames,
AND OTHERS stare.
AND RIGHT In front.
OF WHERE sit.
FRANK nAobN.
IN A thoushtful mood.
WITH ToUsLED hair.
SMOKES AT his pipe.
AND I light mine.
AND SWING my chair,
AND TILT !, back.
AND IN the smoke.
WITH GAZE intent.