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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08

In Babylonia the first domesticated
horse appeared about 1000 B. @. 1t
was introduced into Egypt by the
Hyksos, or shepherd kings, who came
from the north and east of Syria, and
conquered lower Egypt in the Seven
-teenth century B. G. In both these
cases 1t is to be noted that the horse
was preceded by many centuries by
the OK and the ass. From these facts
ard few other scraps Of evidence
one may picture the first domestica-
ton of the horse as occurring in cen
trail Asia. Probably it was accom-
plished by a people of nomadic herds
men to whom the convenience Of rid
ing would be obvious. Sooner or later
the mounted nomad came to realize
the measure of his advantage over the
man who Travelled and fought afoOt,
and was encouraged to wander far
Their afield. conquering as he went. In
any case. the horse (either as a
charger or yoked to a chariot) be-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
Edna Ferber
Copyright by Edna Ferbers
'WNU service.l

always, a white felt hat, broad
brimmed and rolling. On occasion he
simply blubbered Shakespeare, the Old
Testament, the Odyssey. the Iliad. His
speech was spattered with bits Of
Latin, and with occasional Spanish
phrases, relic Of his Texas days. He
fiattered you with his fine eyes; he
bewitched you with his voice; he mes
merized you with his hands. He drank
quart of whisky day; was almost
never drunk, but on rare occasions
when the liquor fumes bested him he
would invariably select hapless vic
tim and, whipping out the pair of
mother-o'-pearl-handled six-shooters he
always wore at his belt, would force
him to dance by shooting at his feet
a pleasing fancy brought with him
from Texas and the Cimarron. After
ward, sobered, he, was always filed
with shame. Wine. he quoted sadly,
is mocker, strong drink is raging.
Yancey Cravat could have been Tin
fact was. though most of America
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
FoREwoRD
-.


Only the more fantastic and improb-
able events contained in this book are
true. There is no attempt to set down
literal history Of Oklahoma. All the
characters, the towns, and many Of
the happenings contained herein are
imaginary. But through reading the
scant available records, documents,
and histories (including the Oklahoma
State Historical library collection) and
through many talks with men and
women who have lived in Oklahoma
since the day of the Opening. some
thing Of the spirit. the color, the move
ment, the life of that incredible COM
monwealth has, I hope, been caught.
Certainly the Run, the Sunday service
in the gambling tent, the death Of
Isaiah and Of Arita Red Feather, the
catching of the can of nitroglycerin.
many Of the shooting ARRAYS, most de-
scriptive passages, all Of the oil phase,
and the Usage Indian material COM
plete-these are based on actual hap
penings. In many cases material en-
tirely true was discarded as unfit for
use because it was SO melodramatic,
so absurd as to be too strange for the
realm of fiction.
There is no city of Usage, Okla. It
is composite of, perhaps, five exist
4 ent Oklahoma cities. The Kid is not
meant to be the notorious Billy the
Kid Of an earlier day. There was no
Yancey Cravat--he is blending Of a
number Of dashing Oklahoma figures
of past and present day. There is
no Sabra Cravat, but she exists In a
score Of bright-eyed. white-haired, in
tensely interesting women of sixty-fiye
or thereabouts who told me many
4 range things as we talked and rocked
an Oklahoma front porch (tree-
faded now). ~
Anything can have happened in
fahoma. Practically everything has.
EDNA FERBER.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
Ancient Glass

The residents of ancient Pompeii
used glass In their windows. but as
late as the Fourteenth century Rich
ard II issued a writ to scour England
to find enough glass to repair the
windows in just one castle. and near
the close of the Seventeenth century
all of the great towns in Italy, with
the exception of Genoa. used paper in
their windows. For centuries glass
was regarded as luxury, and was
taxed accordingly. down to recent
times. Discovered by the Phoenicians,
according to Pliny the Second, modern
manufacturing methods have made
glass so common today that no one
gives II a thought. But the windows
of Americas first homes were provid-
ed only with parchment or oiled paper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
CHAPTER 1

/, AL the venables sat at Sunday din
ner. All those handsome inbred Ven
able faces were turned, enthralled,
toward Yancey Cravat, who was talk
ing. The combined effect was almost
binding, as Of incandescence; but
Yancey Cravat was not bedazzled. A
sun surrounded by lesser planets, he
gave out radiance SO powerful as to
dim the luminous circle about him.
The Venables, dining, strangely re-
sembled one of those fertile and dra-
matte family groups portrayed lolling
unconventionally at meat in the less
spiritual Of those Biblical canvases
that glow richly down at one from the
great gallery walls Of Europe. Though
their garb was sober enough, being
characteristic Of the time-1SS9-an
the place-Kansas-it yet conveyed an
Impression as of purple and scarlet
robes enveloping these gracile Shout
ders. You would not have been sur.
prised to see, moving silently about
this board, Nubian blacks in loin-
cloths, bearing aloft golden. vessels
piled with exotic fruits or steaming
with strange pasties in which night
ingales' tongues figured prominently.
Blacks, as matter of fact, did move
about the Venable table, but these.
too, wore the conventional garb of
the servitor.
This branch of the Venable family
tree had been transplanted from Mis-
sissippi to Kansas more than two
decades before, but the midwest had
failed to set her bourgeois stamp upon
them. Straitened though it was. there
still obtained in that household, by
some genealogical miracle. many of
those charming ways. remotely orien-
tai, that were Of the South whence
they had sprung. Unwilling emigres,
war ruined, Lewis venable and his
wife Felice had brought their dear
customs with them into exile, as well
as the superb mahogany oval at which
they now sat. and the war-salvaged
silver which gave elegance to the
Wichita, Kansas. board.
AS the family sat at its MONDAY
meal 1t was plain that while two
decades Of living in the Middle West
had done little to quicken the speech
Or hasten the movements of Lewis
Venabla and his wife Felice (they still
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
River Resume. Old Channel

Some years ago DR.. Sven Hedin.
Swedish explorer of central Asia, pre-
dicted that in % years the River
Tarim, in Chinese Turkestan, would
abandon it's course and return to an
ancient channel farther north. Accord
ing to a report by the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Sci
ence, the prediction has now been
fulfilled, and the Tarim is running
where it did 1000 years ago.-Path-
finder Magazine
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
Are You "Hitting
On All Six?"
INSTRUMENTATION
Heart--Are They All 1OOoo?

LIVer-St0mach- boWeIs-NefVeS
Heart-Are They All 1OO9o?
Folks, the human body is just like q
good car, everything must be in work.
ing order if you want real performance.
You can't expect to feel 100 % if your
liver and stomach are out of order,
nerves jumpy or bowels tied up. You
weak, respondent people who have
been trying to get back the vim and
endurance of earlier years will be de-
lighted to see how icklystrength, and
energy return thru the use of Tanlac.
Go to your druggist now and get q
bottle of Tanlac. Tanlac has helped
millions so there is no reason why you,
too, can'tbegin today to revitalizeyorr
entire system. Money back guarantee.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
Old New York orphanage

The Leake and Watts orphan home
of New York is one Of the oldest
orphanages in the United States. The
home shelters 400 boys and 100 girls
who have no homes or who came from
broken homes. 1t was founded by
George Johnk Leake. son of Robert
Leake. commissary Of stores for the
English in the Trench and Indian
wars.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08

Earliest Use of Horse Probably for Warfare

came in very early times an impor-
tant factor in war. The use Of the
horse for the workaday purpose Of
transport and tillage is comparative
ly a modern development; in Britain,
for example, oxen were the common
pillow animals until the end Of the
Eighteenth century.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08
Nature's Prov;,;on

There is not one grain in the uni
verse to be spared, nor so much rs
any one particle of 1t that mankind
may not be the better or the worse
for, according as It's applied
L'Estrange.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08

M e diu M" a n d
personality Plus"
sketches have en-
tertained millions
Of readers. In her
m ore ambitious
production, IS o
Big" she gave to
America q char
acterization that
is today ranked
as q classic Of our
literature, q n q
n o w 8 h Q h a Q
turned to the his
torical romance
and gives US "Ci-
Maroon and to
this she brings all
Of the glamor and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08

Edna Terber has given to America
many great stories. Her Roast Beef
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08

am not aware that any commu-
nifty has a right to force another to
be civilized-Mill.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-05-08

the actor, QaSn OF the Ianauc.
No room seemed big enough for his
gigantic frame; no chair but dwindled
beneath, the breadth Of his shoulders.
He seemed actually to loom more than
his six feet two. His black locks he
wore overlong, so that they curled a
little about his neck in the manner
of Booth. His cheeks and forehead
were, in places, deeply pitted. as with
the pox. Women. perversely enough,
found that attractive.
His mouth. full and sensual, had
still an expression of great sweet
ness. His eyelashes were long and
curling. like beautiful girls. and
when he raised his heavy head to look
at you. beneath the long black locks
and the dark lashes yen saw with
something Of bewilderment that his
eyes were deep and unfathon able
ocean gray.
Now, in the course Of his story, and
under the excitement of it, he left
the table and sprang to his feet, strid-
ing about and talking as he strobe.
His step was amazingly light and
graceful for a man of his powerful
frame. His costume was Prince Al
bert of fine black broadcloth whose
skirts swooped and spread with the
vigor of his movements; a pleated
white shirt, soft and Of exquisite ma
terial; a black string tie; trousers
tucked into the gay boot-tops; and,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
Transferred from Califor- nia National Forest to
 Juneau for Work

Wendell Moran, Junior Forester United States Forest Service, has been transferred from the Eldorado National Forest, California, to Alas ka for duty with the district organ ization here, it was announced to- day by B. F. Heintzleman, Asst Regional Forester. He will make his headquarters in this city.
 l MT. Moran will act as assistant to Junior Forester Raymond Taylor. His work will be largely confined to research studies and forest growths. He will arrive here about March l.
 MT. Taylor, who is now in Yale University taking special forestry course, is on leave of absence from the Forest Service. He is expected to return here next June.
 MT Moran is a graduate from the School of Forestry of the Uni versity of Washington. He took ad- vanced work in Forestry in Cornell University and has been with the Forest Service since that time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
TOURISTS MAKE. M ORE BOOKINGS. THAN LAST YEAR
w. E. Nowell Tells of Tray el Coming on Alaska
 Company Ships

| Economic vuilGiicioils must be on the mend in the States Willis E. Howell, Juneau agent of the Alaska Steamship Company, said today. i Travel, tourist travel particularly is an accurate barometer of the general business trend. My ad- vices from the company's head quarters offices in Seattle are that advanced bookings to Southeast and Southwest Alaska for the approach ing tourist season are heavier than were similar reservations for sum- mer months at this time last year 2
 MT. Nowells information covered bookings up to yesterday, February 3.
 Comparison of Bookings
 Last years advanced booking books at this time," he continued, were before the acute financial and trade depression and before the agricultural drought. Many of them were cancelled in consequence of these later happenings. Present bookings have been made during the worst period of business and farm recession. They are certain to stand, and to be increased rath- er than decreased.
 Notwithstanding cancellation of many advanced bookings last year, the record for 1880 showed fine business by the Alaska Steamship Company in Southeast Alaska. It was the travel to Southwest Alas ka that fell off noticeably.
 More Boats Needed
 "The patronage experienced last year on the Southeast run and the recently heavy reservations for this year, are the reasons why the company has decided to operate three vessels-the Alaska, Alameda and Northwestern = to Southeast Alaska ports exclusively during the approaching season. And in addi- tlon, Of course, these ports will be served by the Aleutian and the Yu- kon, which will go to Southwest ports.
 T feel confident the approaching tourist season will be the best in Alaska Steamship Company's his tory, and the best, too, for all cities in Southeast and South west Alaska. Schedules have been to give travellers long day. light stops in all ports, particularly in Juneau, which has so many at tractions-mountain, glaciers, tim Der, fisheries, gold mining and mill ing, fur farms and good roads for long motor drives
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03

Exeter, Cal, grape growers are placing their products in cold stor- age to await a better demand dur ing the winter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
PILOT ECKMANN
 IS TAKING REST

SEATTLE, Feb. 3.-Pilot Anscel Eckmann, who has returned from the north after a futile search for missing Pilot Robin Renahan and his companions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher, is resting here to- day prior to resuming regular flights between here and Victoria.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
SHUNGNAK SCHOOL HOUSE DESTROYED

The Shungnak school house was completely destroyed by fire Jan uary 20 according to radio advices received by Charles w. Hawkes. worth of the Office of Education. The advices came from Superin- tendent Morlander, in charge of thes Kotzebue Sound district and stated everything in the building was lost There are two teachers at Shungnak but they live in a cabin and not in the school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
WANTED
MISCELLANEOUS

PIANOS, Radios, Sewing Machines, Monographs, Expert Piano Tun-
 ing. Radio and photograph re- pairing. Anderson's Music Shoppe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
LYCHNOBITEs UNITE

BERLIN, Feb. 3.-Latest on Ger many's immensely long list of "ver- cine" is an organization to make things more interesting for night workers. Calling itself the Ma tional League of German Night Workers, it aims to obtain official consideration for folks who want to play checkers in a congenial cafe after the 3 am. closing hour
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
FISHING BOAT
 BURNS, SINKS
Canadian Craft Goes Down Captain and Mate
 Are Rescued

EUREKA, Cal, Feb. 3.-The fish ing boat Vertex, of Vancouver, British Columbia, burned and sank. Capt. Adolph Miller and Mate Adolph Webstad, aboard the craft, escaped in @ skiff and were picked up by the Coast Guard.
 The blaze was started by a back fire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
P.-T. A. MEETING PUT
 OFF UNTIL THURSDAY

Postponement has been made oi the Parent-T e cher Association meeting that was scheduled for this evening. It will be held Thursday evening in the auditorium of the grade school.
 Usually the association meets the first Tuesday in the month, but on account of presentation tonight of the local talent musical comedy, The Beauy Shop" the association s meeting for this month has been put over until the first Thursday evening in the month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NORTHBOUND

Alameda due at midnight to-
 night. Has days mail.
 . Norco due Saturday night.
 SCHEDULED SAILINGS
 Queen scheduled to sail from Seattle February 4 at 10 am.
 Q Princess Norah scheduled to ,
 sail from Vancouver Feb. { at 9 pm.
 . Northwestern scheduled to sail { from Seattle Feb. T at g pm. { Ncrthland scheduled to sail { from Seattle Feb. 9 at pm. ( . Admiral Farragut scheduled { to sail from Seattle Feb. Il { at 10 am. . SOUTnBCUND SAILINGS ( No steamer westward. LOCAL SAILNGS { Q Estebeth leaves every Thursday | night at pm. for Sitka and [ . wayports. | . Pacific leaves every Thurs . day at 10 am. for Peters ( . burg, Rake and way ports, . .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03

Creamery butter production in 4141 factories in 1929 totaled l. 597 OPT ,000 pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
WENDELL MORAN ELECTION FATAL: ASSIGNED HERE MANY ARE DEAD

BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. B. Thirty-seven persons are reported killed and 75 wounded in disorders in yesterdays Congressional elec- tion. It is asserted that more were killed in the Cartagena area.
 Fifty persons were killed during the recent campaign.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
NORCO SAILS
 WITH TWELVE

SEATTLE, Feb. 3. = Motorship Norco sailed for Juneau and way ports at 3 o'clock last night with 12 first class passengers and no steerage assengers aboard for Juneau are Dave Ramsay and Mar garet Bailey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
THE EMPIRE Is the Medium

Through which the general public can always have It's wants supplied.
 Closing time for classified advertisements: 2 P. M.
 Closing time for display ad- vertisements: II A. M.
 Ten cents per line first in- sertion.
 Five cents for continuous subsequent insertion.
 Count five average words to the Hrs.
 Minimum charge, 50 centa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
FIND BRONZE AGE GRAVES

KISKEROS, Hungary. Sixty graves of the bronze age, about 4,500 years ago, have been found by the school master near this town in the center of the Great Plain of Hungary. The Hungarian National Museum is supervising ex- work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
TIDES TOMORROW
IDENTIFY BY FOOTPRINTS

COLOf.. DO, Ceylon, Feb. 3.--It is easier to identify a person by his footprints than by a fingerprint, says G. M Manwaring, Superir- tendent of Police in Colombo, where native footprints are used for personal Identification.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-Pair dark trimmed glasses. Please return to 523 Kennedy Street. Reward.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-25
Memorial to
DR.. Palmer
To Be Built
d. A. r. Have Taken Steps to
Raise Funds for Very
Worthy Tribute
PUBLIC TO CONTRIBUTE
Honor Will Be Done Pioneer
Physician of Sank Centre
Community

The Sank Centre Chapter of the
u. A. r. has engaged itself in a
very meritable undertaking. It's
members are raising a fund for an
appropriate memorial stone to be
placed in the cemetery at the grave
of DR.. B. r. Palmer.
DR.. Palmer was the pioneer pbv-
sician and surgeon of this locality.
and had amply prepared himself for
the practice of his profession. A
portion of his medical education
mad been acquired in Paris. At the
completion of his Collegiate Course,
ne had selected his native State of
pennsylvania as the region where
ne should apply himself to his life's
work. But the unexpected hap
pened; he found himself a victim
OF tubercular pulmonary hemor-
images forcing him to a change
of climate. He came to Mime
sofa led thither by the reputation
our State had already gained for an
atmosphere favorable for the amel-
ioration of pulmonary affections.
The Indian outbreak occurring at
that time prompted him to lend his
surgical assistance to the govern
ment, and brought him to the
stockade erected at Sank Centre,
which new settlement with it's sur
rounding territory was destined to
be, his lifetime home. He engaged
in what has been called a rough
and tumble practice.
The long distances he had to
travel in the country dependant
upon Sank Centre in meeting the
calls for his professional assistance
forced him virtually to a life in the
open air which brought to him
restoration of health. In this life
on the frontier he was stripped of
the many aids which come to
those who attend to the sick and
disabled in the older communities,
but his wonderful resourcefulness
was drafted to make good the de-
fciency and he was eminently sue
cessful. And in his devotion to his
duties he did still more. He placed
himself permanently in the affec-
tons of his patients. Of course the
adult generation to whom he min
istered has passed away, for DR..
Palmer has been in the grave for
nearly half-a-century; but there are
many now gray-haired men and
women who were his child patients
who are fond of mentioning his
kindness. And so abiding was the
human touch he seemed to estab-
fish with them that from the stor-
age of their memory they enjoy
CONTINUED ON Page Four)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-25
Grass Greens Are
Cause of Defeat
Locals Win First of Two Game
Series Sunday Afternoon
"Spic" Frank Medalist

Sank Centre golfers were parti-
cularly gracious hosts to the gentle
men from Long Prairie Sunday
when the two teams met for the
first Of two games for the 1881 sea-
son.
The visitors are used to playing
on grass greens at home and they
had difficulty in negotiating the
true but tricky Bent grass greens
on the Sank Centre course. The
visitors brought a large number of
men with them, more as matter
of fact than the locals could ac-
commodate. Maj. w. Mailer and
Capt. Chrysler, of. Long Prairie,
defeated Capt. Roy Scott, and Ed.
Peterson, of this city, three points.
Aside from this DETECTION every
other foursome was won by the
locals. Sunday was not a particu-
larly good day for golf. "Spic"
Frank, of Sank Centre, was media
list with a score of 80 for 10 holes:
The following are individual
scores, the names of Sank Centre
players are in black face type:
ID
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-06-25
Former Resident Died
inMonfana June 18th
John Chisholm Left This Conf
munity Many Years AgO-Fun-
eral Wednesday

John A. Chisholm formerly a
resident of Sank Centre, passed
away at the Columbus hospital.
Great Falls, Mont, Wednesday,
June II, 1881, after a short illness
with pneumonia. He was about 20
years of age.
The remains were brought to
Sank Centre and to the home Of
his sister, Mrs. Mary Buckley. The
funeral was held from the Church
OF Our Lady of the Angels Wednes-
day morning at 900 o'clock, con-
Quoted by the pastor, Rev. John
Fearon, who gave a fine tribute
to the life and character of the de-
ceased. The pallbeares, all old
old friends, were: Andrew Hend-
rickson, Frank Parker, Peter Con-
ley, AL Salmond, Tom Kinsella and
Harry Hooper.
He graduated from Coogan's Col
lege, Sank Centre, when a young
man. In 1882 he went to work on
the railroad for Michael Clarity,
contractor. He devoted the balance
of his life to railroading and min
ing.
Besides Mrs. Buckley other rela-
tives left to mourn the deceased
are: Dave Chisholm, Nashwauk,
Mimi; L. c. Chisholm, Glenwood,
half brothers; Katherine Bell CHS
holm, and Mrs. Jack Pullman, Los
Angeles, Cal; Mrs. John Heidger-
ken and Miss Lucy Chisholm, of
Sank Centre.
Old residents speak very highly
of the life and character of the de-
ceased.