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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-03-22
Hdrlingen Scouts ActiDe
During Week; Plans Made

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and VII also handle TRANSPORTATION
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b1EnSss manager O. rhe troons
records and finance
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with the committee and helped 70
outline the duties @ the group.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-03-22
Matamoros Honors
Renito yuarez Day

In celebration c. the birthday OF
Bentto J0zrez o national hero q
Mexico. II government and city
offices were closed Saturday II
Mz<ar1cr0G
Business wEx conducted as usual.
although numerous flags few above
federal Buildings and we're scat
tered over Tie city
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-03-22

NERCIs March Z|Fzzs
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TIE Legion club roors here. ~ TIE
regular Eeslng c. the KEEznx &C
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break the Un51r pIot recn-c frun
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q short talk
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-03-22

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14
THE PULL
Of the
MINOMETER
ByI Frank Dobie,
Awthoy of &C oronado's Children" and Other Books

cedar trees There amt more'n 10 billion up
there to inspect, guess.
According to Benito, his own father had been
in command of the last Spanish detachment
to leave the Colorado River mines, and he
himself had been Q boy with then. There
wasn't O dozen men in the outfit all told. and
the time must have been about ITO. A rock
that I'll describe d'reckly bears out that date
Historyu tell you that long about this time
the Indians in Texas got so bad the Spaniards
had to draw back from all their outposts and
mines. Everybody knows about the San Saba
massacre. That was just one incident.
Well, the little band, headed by Benitos
father, had just finished closing up the mine
and Smelter on the Colorado. Their original
orders were to cover up all signs of the work
and then take all the sheltered ore to Mexico
City. But they'd lost so many men and horses
to the Indians that they were forced to leave
IS jack loads of the ore in cave close to the
mine. They set out with them eight jack
loads and no more.
AS soon as they broke camp, almost, they
begun to see fresh Indian signs. BY shutdown
they were seeing signal smokes on the hills
all around them.
THE commander ordered halt and, as near
as can make it out, that halt was up on
what we now cali Barton Greek. Mature told
his men that they would eat supper, rest their
mounts little and then try to escape in the
dark. He gave orders against anybody making
a fire and then walked down to the creek. It
was barely running and when he got next to
the water he seen moccaSin track so fresh the
sand was still quivering in them. He realized
then that they were surrounded and it would
be useless to try to get out
He ordered his men to throw up q kind Of
barricade. Then as soon as 1t was dark they
dug q hole and buried their bullion, together
with directions to the main storage. OF curse.
they covered up the place so the ground would
look natural The only marker they left was
q. fiat rock with the peculiar signs on it I've
already drawed. That rock was fastened in
the crotch of o young cedar.
After dark the Indians began hooting like
owls in every direction and crying like coyotes.
Such carvings on never could fool Shore
enough frontiersman, for no wolf or bird ever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14

all the treasure hunters have
known Yves Burton is most in
tense, most persistent most fer
tile in his narratives. He it was
who found Rattlesnake Cave, on
the old Chihuahua Trail, and by
che intervention of fate barely missed finding
the bars of gold stored in it. He can talk for
days and days and nights and nights Of the
lost Bowie Mine on the San Saba River and
could-though he won't-uncover for you
rock carved, over Bowie's name, with a map
to this famous lode He can tell splendid tales
Of the gold hidden in the Mission Conception
at San Antonio of the Quantrill loot buried
somewhere along Devils River, of the Sam
Bass cache near Round Rock, and many an
other hoard of secret wealth.
He has maps, letters from prospectors and
Mexican derrotercs (charts) that fill half a
trunk. His room is a museum of curious
rocks, Indian arrowheadS, old guns, fossils,
powder horns, bullet moldS and OF charred
wagon irons he has picked up near critical
places. On foot, and otherwise, he has traced
out ancient trails all the way from Louisiana
to California. He knows where the head Of the
Queen of Spain is to be found engraved on q
boulder alongside the San Augustine Trail. He
Is familiar with secret mountain passes down
in the Sierre Madre. He started for the
Klondike during the great rush, but turned
aside to look for the Custer treasure in Box
Elder Canyon, north of the Big Horn Noun
tains. He once located an obscure Spanish
crossing on Red River, only to find that the
tree his chart called for had been swept away
by flood.
I don't know how old Yves Burton is. He
gets lame sometimes when it Is cold, but he Is
still tough as nails. His face is weathered like
an old saddle, but his voice is soft and fresh
and he laughs with fine gusto. He is an
efhcient mechanic, and when he Is not putting
shaft down on Packsaddle Mountain or prose-
cutting some other similar enterprise he makes
living at his trade. One time down in the
brush country south of the Nueces, when he
and were 20 miles from nowhere, he made
over Ford engine with nothing but a piece
Of barbed wire and mesquite picket
us father, who was born back in the days
OF the Texas Republic and is still living
knows more than Yves does, though he does not
hunt 50 much. Many night have listened
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14

made a noise that would echo, while the human
voice can't be kept from echoing. If there Is q
bluff or anything to echo against even when
initiating animal sounds. The brush all around
the camp seemed alive with Indians. The Span
iards figured their time had just about come.
While it was still light enough to see though, the
commander had noticed little opening under
some rocks back Of the barricade. It was wen
hid by low brush and here he placed his boy.
He gave him a gun, but told him not to use it
unless he was attacked, and finally warned him
not to come out until the Indians had all left.
D'reckly the fight was on.
From his hiding place the boy heard the war
whoops as the Indians attacked. He heard
the crack Of the Spaniards guns. Then he
heard the hand-to-hand grapplings. The
sounds lasted long time. Finally the groans
and yells and the heavy breathing of the men
scuf1ing stopped. Then there was a war dance.
About daylight next morning the boy stole
out of his hole. His father and the other men
were laying all around with their scalps OF.
The Indians hadn't left gun or an animal.
With only the sun to guide him, the boy struck
southwest.
It was the rainy season and some days the
sun didn't shine at all. The boy got of his
course and wandered around every which way.
He wouldn't shoot for fear of showing his
whereabouts, and before long, anyhow, his gun
got so heavy he threw it away. One time he
found the carcass of a deer that coyotes were
eating on. He filled up on meat and took some
with MN. MOSC OF the time he lived on Wild
COOLERS, frogs-anything eatable he could lay
hands on. Finally, after weeks Of wandering,
he struck kind of road. He followed it and
at last reached San Antonio.
It was just village then and the people we're
so scared Of Indians that the whole garrison
was out every day herding the stock. The boy
rested here for q while and then went ON home
with q party bound for Mexico City.
He was the only person left in the world now
that knew the location of the 8 jack loads Of
bullion on Barton Greek and the rs loads hid
in the cave. His relatives wouldn't hear to his
coming back into the desperate Indian country.
] guess they didn't have to tie him to hold him
after all he'd gone through. He just kept put
ting of the trip until he'd be listle older and
things had sorter quieted down.
But that Quiettng down business was q long
time a-coming. BY the time the Indians got
of the war path-tf they ever did get of it.
Mexico was fighting against Spain for inde~
pendence. Then along came the Texas Revolu-
ton. After that was the Mexican War with the
United States Then raids and one thing and
another kept the border country In stew until
the Civil War was over. Besides, you know how
Mexican puts of everything he can until
manana.
IA /ELIh when manana finally got around and
w Benito Mature found himself In tie Colo
RADIO hills he was 108 years old. The country
had more or less settled up. It had srowed
up with brush and washed out with GFlllies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14

to him sing ballads Of the oIden times and
tell of his experiences driving cattle to Kansas
before the Civil War, following the ComancheS
with Sui Ross minute men and catching
mustang cows" on the BrazoS
If this characterization sounds romantic 1t Is
because the essence of romance Is reality. The
honesty and goodness and hospitality and
cheer Of these Burton people often come TO
this world. I shall never forget them. In
setting down the tale that fellows only wish
my inscription had the flavor of the voice /
qucte-WeS Burton's.
The blamedest prospector in seven counties
'cepting me is old man Crumley. He used 10
be Baptist circuit rider, and his father be-
fore him was q missionary down in Mexico.
Some folks used to call this missionary Way
Bill" Crumley, because he had so many way
bills to old mines and treasures. He's been
dead long time now, but his son inherited all
the old documents and then gathered four
times as many more.
The only chart of Crumley's, though, that
ever took much stock in was one to rs jack
loads Of bullion hid in a cave near where
Dagger Holler runs into the Colorado River.
That's about Is miles above Austin. We're
working that proposition right new, but to
get the story straight I'll have to go back
considerable.
Along after the Civil War peculiar Mexican
showed up in the hill country northwest of
Austin. He called himself Benito Mature and
claimed to be 108 years old. After while he
let it out that he was locking for cedar tree
with rock between the forks marked like this:
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He said that If he could locate that tree
with the rock in it he could place his hand on
eight jack loads Of bullion. He offered the
whole jagg to anybody who'd lead him to the
tree. He could afford to be generous, for with
them eight loads fun directions would be found
to rs more jack loads on up the country and
the original Colorado mine and smelter besides.
Well, this talk set several settlers to inspecting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14

In the Magazine of Next Sundays Star
Beginning Sunday June FL outstanding feature of The
Stars Sunday Magasiue zVH be series of four complete by
Booth Darlington Each of these stories be considered among
the gems of modern felton, zittem by master of his craft; they
ideal Summer felton,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14

r all the treasure hunters have
known Yves Burton IS most in
tense, most persistent, most fer
tile in his narratives. He it was
who found Rattlesnake Cave, on
the old C.hihIlah lla Trail and nv
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-12-25
Regular Meeting Dates

Eastern Star, first and thirt Monday evenings of each month at s o'clock.
 Red Cross, first Monday evening of each month at 7:30 o'clock in the library.
 Auxiliary, American Legion, third Wednesday evening of the month at s o'clock in the Legion Hall.
 Civic Club, first Saturday after noon each month at 2:3O o'clock in the library.
 Chamber of Commerce, noon luncheon each Monday at Wran- gell Hotel.
 Bremen, first Monday evening each month at o'clock in Fire Hall.
 Town Council. first Thursday evening of each month at 8 o'clock in City Clerks office.
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INDIANS BUILD MODEL VILLAGE
 ON TY0NEK RESERVATION

There is rising from the forest of the Tyonek reservation, on the west shore of Cook inlet. model village, where the Natives of that region will make their future homes and where the business of the reservation will be carried on, reports the Anchorage Times. The work of surveying the village is well under way. Under the capable direction of Simeon Chickalushen, streets are being cleared and homes erected. By spring most of the residents of the old village, more than two miles south of the new location, will have moved and it is expected that another winter will find new school building in use in the new settlement.
 News of the activities of the en- terprising natives was brought to Anchorage recently by Frank Smith, who makes his home near the reservation and who was call ed upon by the natives to assist them in setting up their sawmill so that they might cut lumber for their new buildings and timbers for various purposes. The mill is operated by a Fordson tractor and the trees which are being removed from the streets and lots are be- ing utilized at the mill.
 The Natives have a novel way of removing the big trees from the Istreets and building sites. They attach a rope near the top and anchor the other end of the tackle in the ground, thus making it an easy task to pull the tree over, with axemen at the butt to chop the roots as the tree hears the ground When down, the trees are trimmed, cut into saving lengths and dragged away to the mill.
 The new townsite has many ad- yantages over the old one, being situated on high ground, beyond the reach of the extreme tides. A creek flowing along the edge of the townsite will keep the com munity supplied with pure water, and there is a splendid beach
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fronting the townsite.

fronting the townsite.
 1, Is expected that the occupa- tion u ihe new townsite will re- suit in lmprcRlug the health of the villagers. In the past there has been much illness because of the unfavorable conditions, resulting rom a poorly selected townsite, subject to occasional overflow. The Hew homes will be on high srounu and they are being con 5tructed with a view to providing the occupants with the real com fCrts of home
 Mir. and Mrs. D. KrenoY, who are stationed at Tyonek as rep resentatives of the office of Indian affairs, Mrs. Krenov being in charge of the school, are rendering the villagers valuable aid in their progressive undertaking.
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The visitor had been talking about aviation when little Jane piped up and said 'I was up in the air once myself, but I forgot how it feels"
 Why, Jane,' spoke up her mother, you were never in the air in your life.'' "Oh, Mother" corrected Jane, have you forgotten that the stork brought me here?"
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Mrs. Joe Collier, wife of the Ju- neau boxer, was admitted to the tubercuiar annex of the Government hospital at Juneau. The Collier children were placed by the parents with the Bethel Beach children's home at Juneau.
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Dr. w. J. Pigg is building an ad- dition to the rear of the Wrangell hospital.
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M. l.. Burke and his sister Miss Clara Burke, spent Sunday ln Wrangell.
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The next Ladies Night at the Bills Club will be held Friday, January s, at o'clock.
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c. J. Leeds, foreman for the Bon Alaska Mining Company, is in town from the Groundhog Basin.
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William Royalty and family Of Craig are in town for the holidays.
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A. O'Reilly, logging man of Eros ty Bay, went south Tuesday to spend the holidays with his family in Seattle.
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COMING EVENTS

Ladies Aid and St. Philips Guile meetings discontinued until aftel the New Year.
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". H. Warren is expected home today on the City of Seattle.
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M. B. Dahl, Geo. Davis. Louis Lero and H. Dannenberg sailed for Tacoma on the Shamrock No. 9.
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m1tted to write Ietter DacK nome. It was not addressed his parens. The following items are taken from the Sentinel files of December 2S, 1916:
 by St. Philips church in the gym nasium on Christmas night. The program follows:
 Song, primary class.
 Defamation, Marion Meyers.
 Piano Solo, Miss Margaret Grant.
 Play, Mrs. Johnson's class. News boys Neil Grant, Eugene Wheeler, Eddie Loftus; Aristocrats Ruth Lindman, Helen Fletcher, Mar garet Pennycook, Vernon Myers. John Osborn.
 Play, Raymond Wheeler, Olga Hansen, James Waters, Gertrude Osborn, Kendall Northrop, Mar garet Northrop.
 Recitations: Erma Grant, Herbert Bradley, Marjorie Johnson, John Grant, Gertrude Osborn.
 Song, Dorothy Johnson, Marjorie Johnson, Theodosia Royalty.
 Recitations: Doorthy Johnson, Theodosia Royalty, Lottie Blake, Minnie Johnson, James Wheeler, Margaret Pennycook.
 While Capt. Jinks was having little diversion by attending pie ture show Wednesday night, burg lars entered his store through rear window and helped themselves to several cases of Carnation milk, groceries and jug of gin.
 Mrs. Livesay left on the City of Seattle for Thane where she will spend some time with her son, Rob- ert Livesay.
 Several children's parties have been given during the holidays, Constance and Charles Emery en- tertained fifteen of their friends Saturday afternoon, Helen Fletcher gave a party on Christmas Eve, and Glenn and Catherine Matheson en- tertained few little girls Tuesday afternoon.
 Al Osborn has purchased the shoe repairing shop from Harry Eastman.
 The Moose Lodge gave a card party and dance Friday night at the Redmen's Hall First prizes at cards were won by Mrs. Marion Mckinney and Arnt Sorset, con solations, by Miss McMurray and Chas. Benjamin. Dancing followed cards. During the evening supper was served in the banquet rooms. Harry Eastman and William Ky an are getting ready to spend next season in the Atlin disrict.
 Miss Margaret Grant arrived on the Dolphin to spend the holi- days at home.
 In the Post Intelligencer of De- cember Is, there appears a hand some cut of Carl Carlson who is at tending school in Seattle He was the winner of cash prize in the literary contest conducted by the P. l. two weeks ago.
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Fred Bronson of Juneau is spend ing the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Bronson.
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Is YEARS AGO THIS WEEK News Items Taken From the Sentinel File of Dec 2l 1916

lodge session at which A. w. Guth- rie of Union Bay. Arthur Meyers and Weston. Dalgity were initiated
 into the order. Guthrie found the trail treacherous and slippery and almost lost his temper at times. Meyers never opened his mouth to speak from the time he left Wran- gell until he arrived at Point Bar row. At Dawson Weston was per mitted to write a letter back home. It was not addressed o his parens.
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Chips Cole, well known boat builder. arrived from Juneau on the Dolphin and will be in Wran- gell for time.
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 the Dolphin and will be in Wran- gell for a time.
 B. M. McKew, c. J. Leeds, w. D. Grant, Dan McShane and c. A. Gus ker are in from Groundhog Basin for the holidays.
 At the meeting of the Arctic Brotherhood Wednesday Steve D. Grant and James Green were ini- tiated into the mysteries of the or der.
 Walter Waters and family left on the Dolphin yesterday for Seat tie where they will spend the next three months.
 A large crowd enjoyed the exer- cises at the Presbyterian church Christmas night. The following pro gram was given.
 Recitation, Gladys Tamaree
 Christmas Carol, Louise Ross
 Recitation, George Anderson.
 Shepherd Song, Native children.
 Recitation, Harold 0ttesen.
 Song, Glenn Matheson.
 Recitations: Marion Goodrich, Leonard Roaming, Catherine Math- eson, Mary McTague.
 Song, Lennie Engstrom, Marion Goodrich, Gladys Tamaree. Ger trude Goodrich, Etolin Coulter, Net tie Prescott, Glenn and Catherine Matheson, George and Weston An derson, Laura and Leonard Ron ming, Nellie Nagle.
 Song, Viola Walsh, Edith Horg- helm, Jennie Roaming, Louise Ross, Elizabeth Churchill, Kathryn Lof- tus.
 Song, Lillian Barron, Gussie Leonard, Belle Hood, Irene Coul- ter, Edna Sinclair, Florence Bill lion,
 Recitation Nettie Prescott.
 Song, Laura Ronning
 Solo, Holy Night, by Mrs. W. H. Warren, accompanied by MT. Warren.
 Presents were distributed by the boys class members: Donald and Willie Sinclair, Henry, Arnold and Harry Roaming, Andrew and Elton Engstrom,, Lester and William Camper, George Churchill, John Coulter and Jack Ross.
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Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Green left for Tacoma on the Dolphin.
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James Nolan, No. 2, chairman of the entertainment committee, presided at the A. B. smoker We'd nesday evening which was attended by over one hundred men. The smoker was preceded by a regular
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Auxiliary card party, second of series, Tuesday evening, Dec. 29, at the Legion Hall at s o'clock. General admission of 50 cents in- cludes refreshments. Prizes at each party and grand prize at last party.
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Quarterly meeting of the Cham Der of Commerce will be held at the Bills Club rooms, Saturday eve ming, Jan. 2, at 7:30. Election of officers.