Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-26

1nen, as always, boys needed no in
PRODUCTION to be friendly and the fact
that Hinton was white didn't bother
the Indian youths nor did their tawny
skin abash him. They came together
in a friendly pow-yow.
The new hat was magnet. They
admired it. That was nothing. Hadn't
young Hinton admired it from the
time he paid the storekeeper SO in
good money to get it? And he still
did. Whether he thought it possessed
IA charm that would save it from
harm or not, he doesn't know now.
But he does know that he decided to
encourage the craftsmanship of those
Indian boys with their bows and
arrows by using the hat as a target.
So the Indian boys got their bows
and arrows and all went out to see
the result. Alack, alas, what foolish
things boys will sometimes dol Look
ing back to that distant day, while he
may admit it was a foolish thing to
do, Mayor Hinton of today gets de-
cidedly enjoyable laugh out of the
result. He recalls that when the In
dian boys. had finished they proved to
him that while William Tell might
have hit only the apple when it was
target upon his sons head, he was
convinced that it would have been
foolish to take chance on having
the Indian lads shoot at target that
close to his head.
Gets a Promotion
The hat was completely ruined, a
worthless bit of tattered felt with a
band, but the Indians we're pleased
and he didn't feel disposed to chal-
lenge their rights to ruin his SOM
brero because he had entered into the
sport in fun. So he let bygones be
bygoneS, even though it meant hat
gone, too.
The outfit got the bullion to Globe
and reloaded with coke and made
their return trip. That meant three
weeks. That completed his freshman
cause in the University of Hard
Knocks He took up his next course
as the man at the jerkline. He took
the next load through as the driver
and with a helper and still he was a
lad of only II years.
On the second trip, he had another
experience with the Indians that came
close to proving serious, although it
was accidental and not an intentional
bid for trouble on Hinton's part. He
was camped near Rice river. There
were some Indians camped near. In
dams had habit of coming shopping
around the camp after the white
people had eaten to see if they could
find eny food or coffee. This Indian
founa a good supply of coffse and
poured some into tin cup. Then he
motioned to Hinton to hand him the
sugar to Sweeten it. Carelessly reach
ing for the sugar, it happened that
Hinton picked up the container With
the salt and the Indian doused salt
into his coffee.
Meets Famous Scout
That resulted in an aggravated In
dian. He blew the coffee from his
mouth and ran believing into the
camp of his tribe, apparently believing
that he had been given a death
potion of something But after some
little time the Indians were convinced
that the incident was not done with
intent to damage anyone and they
forgot it,
1t was on this "trip that Hinton first
met AL Sibert, long famous as q scout
and guide, a frontiersman active IN
many skirmishes with the Indians but
who escaped death in those trying
times only to meet his fate a few
years ago when horse fell upon him
and killed him.
The greatest bother and aggravation
that the Indians caused Hinton while
he was engaged in freighting was to
throw boulders in the trail road and
make it necessary for the men to
stop and remove them, and some OF
them were so large that it was a task
to get them out of the way.
Becomes Range Rider
At the end of the third month IN
freighting. Hinton shifted to a range
rider in his uncles service with his
headquarters near San Carlos. The
stock handled was cattle and horses.
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