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tn comfy home he ever knew. Though,
as the colonel was fond of saying, Il
never stayed quiet in any n place
more than six months in my life. ]
was born travelling and I've been at it
ever since" In the course of his life
he made 81 round trips from coast to
coast, on which he learned to know the
length and breadth Of the United States
life the palm of his hand.
His three-quarters of a century OF
life was timed SO that he saw and had
a mind which understood, perhaps the
most mOmentous and quickest changes
OF scene that were ever made upon the
stage of history.
Growing up in the west when its very
name spelled laWlesSneSS and danger
when a boy of fourteen was a man
dressed like a man and was supposed to
have the courage of one, he lived to sec
that part Of the country developed into
one OF the most progressive sections OF
the United States.
He saw the deserts bloom under IT.
rigation and great cities spring III
where the sands covered the ruins of Q
past civilization upon which he loved
to specialization the colonel was ar
ardent archaeOlOgiSt and held the hon
Orary degree OF doctor OF observation
from the Smithsonian Institution. He
saw railroads built across these sands
and over the mountains. He Jaw the
advent Of the bicycle, considered a mar
vel Of fast locomotion compared with
the horse. He saw the first feeble at
tempts OF the inventors of the horse
less carriage grow into the luxurious
motor a Of the present day. He was
invited to take a trip in the famous
airship which carried Lieutenant Byrc
to the north pole.
A far cry from his first trip acros;
the country in a prairie schooner OF
his second, which was accomplished
partly on foot, partly on a bike and fin
ished on the back of a blooded horst
which he bought in Bath, Me-, and rode
proudly back to California.
His Route Took Him From Here
After the troubles between the white
men and the Indians were someYhat
abated and the west turned it's atten.
ton t growing up, Colonel Stanley
Identified himself with all the project.
OF the country, he could not settle dowi
to any routine occupation, but variotl.
county offices seemed made for him
In his huge sombrero, leather leggings
flannel short and ~rattlesnake skin liz
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Colonel Stanley Last of the INDIAN ScoutSS
Life Spent SSEm Route FROM Here to There

ennes, who we're on their way to join
Sitting Bull and his forces in the at
tack upon Custer. Colonel Stanley pre-
pared to fight as long as there was a
white man to fire a gun, for he well
knew the fate of captives who fell into
the hands of the red men on the war
path.
The determined defense of the white
men routed the Savages and the Colonel
always thought that not one of the at
lacking party escaped, until not long
before his death, driving through the
Arizona desert, he met a toothleSs and
Wrinkled old Indian brave who claimed
to be a survivor of the battle Of Pom
pegs Pillar.
Stanley is said to have once faced a
Central American firing squad and
lived to tell the tale with only a few
bullet wounds to remind him of the oc-
casion. This is probably the only TIME
that Stanley was ever fired at without
giving good account of himself. In SO
much respect was his proves with his
gun held by the Indians that after the
battle of Wounded Knee, where he was
cut off from his command and shot his
way to safety, he was known to his red
brethren as "Old Dead Shot," a name
NY WIllCll llC Was duCCtlUlldCSly hllOWu
to his friends all the rest Of his life.
Colonel Stanley's father was an Eng
lishman-a gentleman a%dventurer, who
sought an outlet for his energy in the
excitement of a new world. His mother
was n OF the Chase family of Rhode
Island, whose stock figured in Revolu-
tionary times. In the gold rush Of '49
the Stanleys-bride and groom be-
came pioneers to California. Apparent
ly they did not strike gold, for at the
time Of their sons birth they were jour-
neying back east by the covered wagon
route to collect some money that was
coming to them from the sale of the
Chase farm. 1t was where the city of
Dayton, O., now stands, then only a
backWoods settlement that the little
caravan halted n stormy night in
January, 1853, and before morning an
other member had been added to the
party and young King Stanley had
bounced his energetic way into the ex-
citing world of his time.
Later the lure of the great west once
more laid hold of the Stanleys, and the
two months old baby was again carried
across the continent, this time in the
direction Of the Golden Gate. to his
beloved California which he claimed as
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he was the typical sheriff or county
marshal. His knowledge of the Indian
dialects and customs made hi minval-
liable to the government in its peaceful
negotiations with the Indians. He lived
with various tribes and was made medi-
cine mad among the ArapahOes through
certain fascinating tricks of sleight-of-
hand and spirit rappings which he had
learned in the old days Of hanging
around Barnum'S museum IN his visits
TO New York. He was offered the place
IN the Wild West show made vacant by
the death of Buffalo Bill, but he could
MT see enough action in the job-to
mimic the stirring scenes of his youth
seemed almost a dissertation to the
man.
So the colonel became a trail blazer.
With his unfailing originality he had
found an occupation peculiarly fitted
to his talents. He had been interested
in automobiles since his first curved
dash OldS runabOut. Later he had a
Maxwell, known from Maine to Cali
fornia as the desert bat, in which he
def1ed all weather and all or no roads.
For several years before his death, he
had been employed by the Chandler
Automobile company as publicity man,
In this capacity he drove from town
to town, his territory the length and
breadth of the United States, promot-
ing good roads and tourist camps, lee
turing on out of the way beauty spots
OF the country, on Indian mounds OF
the bayou country and the midwest,
on the prehistoric wonders which lay
buried in the Arizona desert and the
necessity for museums in the west to
pyeserve it's fast disappearing relics. He
was interested in the National parks
project.
In towns all along the different trails
to the west the Colonel was known and
liked, and his car, lettered with t he
slogan he had made his own, EN- Route
From Here to There" was hailed with
delight.
En- route was the colonel-footing it,
riding a mustang, driving a car fitted
with a radio or flying in the air. From
the hillside in ensico where his active
stocky body has at last come to rest,
his friends can picture the colonel, with
his far-seeing blue eyes, the eyes OF a
plainsman, gazing out over the beauti-
lul Westchester hills en- route, with the
rest Of humanitl, from Here To
There"
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N 49, Has GWn Motives to Commsnsf for Many Beautiful m
NY U11(I1411 IVvIIS0(e Works. Cdman and Leranem arr FUnotA Among V
Y ~~AO ~ T@e Who Haze Turned Aboriginal Love Songs Into v
y Popular mmnmnN Melodies lutte Ranked First Among Musical hwnmmsU Used by Indians j

tne voices of the women, who usually
sing ~ q high monotonous key like a
chorus If katydids. The accent Is very
pronounced in singing as in playing.
Contests in singing by soloists are
Spoken OF by McClintock. According
to d.. Cadman, in such contests the
vocalist IS always careful to give the
originator credit and will preface his
singing by saying this is a Crow song
or this is a Blackfeet song" or this is
the song that Blackbird sang with his
medicine pipe bundle"
The musical instruments of the North
American Indians were largely confined
to the drum of the tambourine type,
various kinds of rattles and the flag
eolet The drums among the plains
indians are made of tanned hides,
stretched tightly over a framework with
only one drumming surface. Gourds
were used at rattles where they were
obtalnable and various other devices
where they were not. In his dancing
today. the Indian frequently ties strings
OF small bells along his moccasins
which Jingle in a rhythmic way with
the movements of the dancers. Whis-
ties usually made of bone are also
common.
The flute is usually made with five
or SIX holes and is played with three
fingers on each hand. The Indians
have the regular scale, the other notes
being produced by harder blowing.
Striking effects are obtained. In some
OF their calls the players initiate bird
songs and other sounds OF nature.
The flute, according to DR.. Cadman
was pre-eminently a serenading instru-
ment like the guitar Dr. mandolin among
the people of southern Europe. The
Indian love call songs are regarded by
him the most interesting Of 'their melo-
dies. Unlike the nocturnal serenaders
OF the white race with their "by the
moonlight" the Indian lover played his
flute early in the morning.
The Indian mothers have their cradle
songs or lullabies with which they
quoted their babies. The words OF
some Of these songs were not of an
exactly quoting nature. threatening
the child with q bear or DOGGY but they
doubtless at least served to keep it still
They also have other domestic songs
some Of them of very pleasing nature.
The various gambling games Of the
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COLONEL KING STANLEY, last of

COLONEL KING STANLEY, last of
the Indian scouts, who lent so much
- color to the life of our western from
tier in the Shooting Sixties and Sew
enties," died not long ago at a New
York hospital of cardiac asthma.
Colonel Stanley, who up to the time
of his death looked and walked like a
well preserved mar of AS, had had ID
years of life so full Of adventure that
its narration sounds like the continuity
of what is known to movie fans as a
western" Born in a prairie schooner,
left by the death of his parents when
he was 10 years old to grow up alone
on the plains, at IA he was plotting
wagon trains across the Rocky noun
tains, fighting Indians and the equally
Warlike and dangerous bad men of the
frontier.
He became acquainted with Buffalo
Bill and spent days and nights roaming
the wilds with this last of the famous
riders OF the pony express and from
him learned much of the lore Kit Car
son and the o theirs whose exploits have
thrilled boys, big and little for four
generations. He vas one Of the pail
bearers when Cody was borne to his
last camping ground. Later Stanley
passed on to young Theodore ROose-
welt coming west on the verge OF q
breakdown, much of the plainsman's
wisdom and experience taught him to
shoot and to ride like a true scout lay
ing the foundation Of a lifelong friend
ship.
Served as Aide to Custer
The title Colonel was given STAN
ley through his service under Generals
Miles, Crook and Howard in the vari-
Gus campaigns against the Indians and
in the border disorders, in which the
regular army officers made use of the
Indian scouts, and from his service as
aide with that most picturesque and
appealing of all the military figures OF
his day-General George Custer.
Colonel Stanley CHANGED not to be
with Custer in the fatal expedition or
the Little Big Horn, but two days be-
fore the defeat of Clusters command
Stanley was conducting a wagon train
across the plains in what is now the
state of MontanaI There were about
40 men in the company besides a num-
Der of women and children. Suddenly
when they were in the neighborhood Of
Pompey's Pillar, they we're ambushec
and attacked by a band of 200 Indians
supposed to be a detachment Of Chey-
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-06-06
Edison Scholarship Entries Open

Montana boys who would like to COM
pete for the f%our-year scholarship that
Thomas A. Edison, famous inventor,
will award this summer for purpose Of
study in his laboratory, have until the
latter part of June to enter applica-
tions. Two score or more youths have
signitied their desire to represent Mon
will bring a boy from each state in the
union to his West Orange IN. J.) lab
oratory and select one of the 48 to car
ny on his work. This states representa-
tive will be chosen by the state board
of education. probably July /.
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and song may be entirely at variance.
This disassociation of the rhythm of the
dance, song and instrumental music is
one of the surprising elements of In
dian music.
The Indian music gives the effect of
being largely in minors but, according
to DR.. Cadman, major and minor keys
are about equally used but differences
in their use and arrangement from the
music to which the white man is &C
customed gives the impression. The
music frequently starts with a major,
a major again. A feature of Indian
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music is the abrupt breaking with
which many of the pieces close.
The theme of the Indian song is us
Tally short and cryptic. The auditor is
supposed to know the story that goes
with it. A large share of most of the
songs is made up of v%ocatives, CORES
ponding to our "tra-la-la" and "ho-
ho-ho." To the initiated listener, these
parts, because of their repetition, seem
to constitute most of the singing.
In their religious observances, games
and dances, singing and the beating of
drums or tom-toms accompany nearly
every phase of the ritual or ceremony.
The drummers gathered together chant
and beat their instruments at the be-
ginning of each dance. The singing,
like the dancing, is often started by one
or two individuals, then the whole as
sembly joins in, the men first and then
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The northwest Indian housewife
had few worries in keeping her bucks
stomach full. Anything from a grass
hopper to portions of a grizzly bear
or buffalo tasted good to him.
While most of the tribes in this re-
gion ate of bear, buffalo, deer, noun
tain goat, fish and birds, when obtain
able, they were not adverse to using
grubS, worms, insects, vermin and
grasshoppers if the bucks became too
lazy TO seek out the former. One writer
described the firing of a large tract
Of prairie land to kill and roast grass
down, Indians searched through the
ashes for roasted hoppers, which they
ate with great relish, he said.
In fishing seasons the entire tribe
would move camp to some favorable
site and several weeks would be spent
in filling the larders for winter. Dur
ing the fishing period, little but the
offal from the catches was eaten, the
better part of the fish being smoked
and preserved for winter.
Although horse flesh was not abb
horred by the tribes. it seldom has been
recorded that Indians ever killed their
mounts for food. This is true also in
the case of their dogs.
Certain tribes, notably the Nez
PerceS, dug camaS roots for food. These
were cooked into a sort OF paste and
were relished. Berries of all kinds were
also used.
Added to her job of hoeing corn,
building her spouse's hut or tepee and
countless other tasks, the Indian squaw
in most northwest tribes saw to it that
new groups of slaves captured by her
husband were properly tortured before
they were put to work.
The Nez Perces had torment down
to a fine art and their most artistic
forms were practiced by squaws OF the
hated Blackfeet. Often the prisoner
slave was burned with a redhOt gun
barrel, sometimes scalped, and often his
finger nails were jerked completely out.
Thus they were prepared for the next
stage of the ritual. They we're led out
of the stronghold at a stated hour for
several days and made to hold the
scalps of their friends on long poles.
Meanwhile the braves did q scalp dance
around them, while squaWs kept them
occupied with their develiSh ingenuity
at torture" as one writer described it.
Alexander Ross, a pioneer Of WASH
ington, told of a form of torture he
witnessed near where Pasco now stands.
The captives were met by a reception
committee of bowling squaws, dumped
off their horses, trampled, beaten and
dragged into camp. The returned war
riors formed two opposite rows, stand
ing Is feet apart, with the women
forming two more rows. The captives
stood in the center, stripped to the
waist and holding scalps of their slain
tribesmen in their hands.
The men kept up a monotonous
drum beat while the women mauled the
slaves with clubs, stoned them or
jabbed them with weapons. All the
while the prisoners were made to dance
and sing.
At the end of the ritual, when most
of the slaves we're unconscious, their
injuries were treated by their feminine
tOrmentors and they were bathed and
cared for with utmost kindness until
the next day, when the rite would be
repeated.
After five or six days of such treat
ment the slaves were attached to the
families Of their captorS and often
were shown many kindnesseS.
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Boat Trip Being Planned

Plans for a houseboat trip from the
Big falls of the Missouri river to Oma-
ha, are being formulated by Frank No.
Ian Of San Francisco, according to ad-
vice received in Great Falls. Nolan
contemplates building the boat below
the Big falls and drifting to the Ne
braska city. The journey would require
several weeks. At least one trip OF this
kind is made each year.
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Indians are usually accompanied by
song. Ethnologists have recorded about
1000 Of these game songs. There were
songs of celebration of victory as we'll
as songs sung in preparation for war,
Songs to deified animals and the pow
ers of nature, invoking aid in under
takings and for long life and freedom
from sickness are common. Ceremon-
les of the various dances, planting of
corn, hunting the buffalo were accom-
panied by song. AS the men ride their
horses about the camp, song is fire.
quent. Lonely riders by night appease
the ghosts along the way as well as
malign spirits by chants while at the
same time the singing serves to keep
up the courage of the traveller.
LA~;Aa~ l;~ssG aaSa iA- i-.l
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sation produced in the throat which
reminds the spectator of the putting
out Of the neck of a grouse. This pro-
duces a peculiar quality to the notes
which has been likened to the effect
produced on a violin when the same
note is slightly sounded several times
during the same stroke of the bow.
Another popularity is the marked
presence of rythm. both on instruments
and in singing. There is an evident
lack of harmony and the instruments
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sing monograph records as the foun-

using monograph records as the foun-
dalton.
Lieurance has of the largest COL
lections of Indian flutes in existence
which at the time of his tour through
Montana several years ago numbered
Is, gathered from many tribes. Among
the northern tribes, they we're made
from box elder, willow and cedar while
in the more southern tribes, sumach
and other woods are used.
The first work done in the investiga-
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-06-06

Jupiter himself cannot bring back
lost Observation-Disclosures.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-06-06
APPETITE
EASILY APPRAISED
WOULD EAT WHAT NATURE PRO-
VIDED, EVEN GRASSHOPPERS
OR WORMS ON MENU
Nez Perces Were Well Schooled in the
Art of T~orturing Their Captives, the
Blackfeet Being Special Objects of
This Form of Sport; Adopted Slaves.

The northwest Indian housewife
had few worries in keeping her bucks
stomach full. Anything from a grass
hopper to portions of a grizzly bear
or buffalo tasted good to him.
The Washington times., 1929-11-29
ON PLANT
|. Of DEAD MAN

CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-Once re-
ported dead, Fred A. Doggett re-
appeared long enough to have his
former business associate, Allen
L. Golinkin, arrested. After the
report Of his death, Doggett says.
Golinkin pocketed a $1,400 check
entrusted to him to pay off Dog
gett's mortgage.
Dogget was formerly superin-
tendent Of construction for the
city gas and electric department.
Golinkin is the wealthy former
head of the outdoor Lighting
Service. He was arrested at the
Congress Hotel, where he lives.
According to Doggett, he gave
the check to Golikin in 1923,
when both were connected with
the lighting company. In an Ill.
ness later, Doggett lapsed into a
coma and was reported to have
died.
Recently, Doggett says, he
learned that the mortgage pay
ment had never been made.
Golinkin, who was released on
bond, branded the charge a
'frameup."
The Washington times., 1929-11-29
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The Washington times., 1929-11-29
CHINESE RELIC
To MUSEUM

BOSTON, Nov. 20 QN.S)-
Chinese gold inlaid measure, one
OF the Oldest standard measures in
existence, which bears date SINH
Jar to about 81 A. D., was donated
20 the Boston Museum Of Fine
Arts, as the gift Of DR.. Denman
w. Ross.
The measure is Of pewter, in
laid with gold. At that time, the
Chinese used the decimal system,
and this measure, about four
inches shorter than our foot ruler,
y divided into 10 parts. Each
eection Is divided into tenths, each
division made by gold inlay.
Another gift Of DR.. Ross to the
R11useum was an old Chinese
bronze Jar overlaid with designs
ia gold and silver. 1t dates from
the early Han dynasty, second
century, A. D.
One of the only jars Of its kind
known to have been taken from
China, the jar inlay represents fig
ureS Of strange animals and peo-
pie, some Of them dancing. The
Jar is large, with four rings on the
shoulders through which were
passed cords to securely fasten
cover.
It was probably used for con-
Eaintng wine or other liquid, and
officials believed it had come from
the grave Of some high official or
dignitary.
The Washington times., 1929-11-29
Wife's Kinsmen Accuse
Doctor of Staying Her

HARRISBURG, Ill, Nov. 29.-
DR.. T. ]. Joiner, prominent ply
sician of Rostclare, . mining
town southeast Of here, is held
under bond on a charge Of muir
dering his wife. The warrant
was sworn out by her relatives.
Mrs. Joiner was killed october
30, while washing dishes, by a
shotgun in the hands OF DR..
Joiner, who said it was discharged
accidentally. An inquest resulted
in an open verdict.
The Washington times., 1929-11-29
New Afghan Monarch
To Enforce Dry La

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20
QN.S0. - Nadir Khan intends
to enforce total prohibition of
liquor in Afghanistan. The new
Afghan ruler made this known In
a proclamation generally outlin
ing his policies.
The Washington times., 1929-11-29

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