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The Washington times., 1934-12-08

These repairs might easily be
made over the holiday period
which is commonly poor
time for promotions of this
Sort-folkS' minds being on the
Yuletide, rather than athletic
pursuits. If this we're done,
little momentum would be lost
at the Hunt Club from its
normal operation.
Furr To Be Sold
Within the month the man.
Agerial contract of Phil Furr,
Washington's wei er weight
champion, will more than likely
be transferred from the hands
Of DR.. A. Goettling to those of
Ralph Murdock, local trainer
and handler.
DR.. Goettling is family
friend of Furr's and came into
the picture only when Phil was
being turned around pretty Sc
verely here, it not being be-
1ieved in many quarters that
Furr's wrist was injured as
severely as he claimed-the dis
Senting report of the boxing
commission doctors being re-
Sponsible.
DR.. Goettling adduced evil
dence in the form of X-rays and
diagnoses from reputable spe-
cialists here to the effect Phil
was not shamming and personal
" supervised PhilS route to
recovery so that he could meet
and defeat Bob Wilson, now de-
parted for Australia.
Grove Sells Out
Meanwhile, not satisfied with
the handling of F'urr by his
previous manager, DR.. Goettling
bought the fighters contract
from Harry Grove for s100, got
the boy ready to fight Wilson,
from which their joint interests
totaled in the vicinity of $500.
Having vlndicated the young
ster in the eyes of the public,
DR.. Goettling now wishes to de-
vote all of his time to his prac-
tice and will soon dispose of his
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Pickups and
PutOutS
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
Reds" Megaw's plea to Santa
Claus is that one block Of the
forthcoming Campbell Sweep.
stakes be assigned his George
town Recreation Bowling alleys
:. Preston King, 18, son of
George King, is an experienced
hunter -. always accompanies
his dad on hunting trips. it.
fluffy" Leemans and Red"
Rathjen, George Washington U.
gridderS, have been helping
"Chibby" Rice in preparing the
MariOns for tOmOrrOw's football
engagement with Maryland A.
c.. Bill Shepherd and Jimmy
Dunn, ex-Western Maryland
College fOotballerS, played with
the Lancaster, Pa, pros against
York, Pa, last Sunday. and
neither gained much yardage
Couldn't get going" Shep-
nerd remarked afLer the game
E. he should have said, II
didn't have that powerful West
ern Maryland line clearing the
way for me-. Joe ZubriS, for
mer Mt. st. Mary's lineman
who'll appear with the Wash
ington Stars against the Ala
bama Stars today and with the
Washington Nationals against
the Mohawks tomorrow, is be.
ing eyed by the Boston Red
skins of the National PrOfes-
sional Football League. ZubriS
is a greatly improved football
player since leaving the college
ranks. Elmer Kimmel, of this
city, has been awarded a cross
country letter at Dickinson Col
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
WOOD ANNEXES
AUSS|E GOLF

SYDNEY, Dec. 8.-American
golfers. continuing the mad pace
they have set during their cur
rent Australian invasion, filled
the first seven places at the end
of y holes today in the Lakes
open championship.
Craig Wood, shooting a record
round of 81 for his final round,
was in first place with a total
of 283.
The other six invaders finished
as follows: Paul Runyan. 287;
KY Lafoon. 288; Denny Shute,
290; Harry Cooper, 293; Leo
Diegel, 295, and Joe Kirkwood,
296.
Whenever you wish to know the
correct time of day or night tele-
phone District 1000, the office of
THE WASHINGTON TIMES.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Six-Day Bike Race
Ends Tonight

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Streaking
into the lead after wild night
of desperate racing. the Letourner-
Debaets team early today for the
first time led the eleven remain
ing combinations around the
wooden saucer at Madison Square
Garden as the grind of the six-day
international bicycle race entered
the home stretch. The race ends
this midnight.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Wolverines Open
1934-35 Court Year

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. g.
Michigan will open it's home
basketball season here tonight by
matching baskets with it's Wash
tenaW county rival, Michigan
Normal. The game is expected
to draw something of a crowd
particularly of those who believe
the Wolverines will make a come
back this year after having gone
through their worst season in a
long time in 1933-34.
II you wish to know the correct
time of day or night telephone
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, DIS
trict 1000.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
LOndOS to Wrestle
Vic Christy Here

Jim Londos, heavyweight wrest'
ling champion of the world, tackles
Vic Christy, the California whirl-
wind, Wednesday, December IL,
at the Washington Auditorium.
Joe Turner, at first, was going
to send Tor Johansen, 310-pound
bone crusher, against the cham
pion, but changed his mind when
Christy disposed Of Rudy Dusek
the other night.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Local Boy Captains
Soccer Team At
SwarthmOre

Paul Oehmann, 1916 Morri-
son St., Washington, D. c., a
junior at Swarthmore College,
has been named captain of the
varsity soccer team for next
year. He was graduated from
Mckinley High School. and is
an honor student in economics
at Swarthmore.
Oehmann performed at the
left wing position on the Gar.
net soccer team throughout the
season recently concluded, and
is also member of the lacrosse
squad.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

SAID GTll1:
"You say Cronin said that up
in Boston? Well, the lad is just
talking. I wouldn't part from
Myer for anything in the world.
Besides, Bucky Harris wants
Myer as his second baSeman
next year. That should make it
final"
The Myer reports came from
Boston, where Joe Cronin is said
to have limited to Boston scribes
that he might get the Griff sec.
ond-sacker. Joe also said he was
after pitchers.
Immediately the Boston scribes
jumped to the conclusion that the
new manager would get his man
from the Washington Club. This
report is also odd in that the
Griffs need all the pitchers they
have. Besides, Cronin is not par.
ticularly interested in the hurlers
now on the Washington staff,
since the two best moundsmen are
the lefties, Earl Whitehill and
Bob Burke. He told Boston men
he was after a right-hander.
To Keep Welch
Cronin put an end to Boston's
worries that Johnny WEIGH, stal
right-hander, would be traded
He said he liked Welch immensely
and hoped to land right-hande1
to team with the young hurler
AS to a first baseman, the new
pilot indicated he would string
along with the rookie, Babe Dahl
gren, providing no other initial
guardian could be corralled at the
baseball meetings next week.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
MEET in WATER

MERCERSBURG, Pa. Dec. 8.
MercerSburg Academy's swimmers
will be after their fifteenth con-
secutive win in dual competition
when they match strokes against
Lehigh freshmen here today.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
WOLVERINES ON ICE

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 8.
The London A. C. hockey team,
one of the crack sextettes of
eastern Ontario, will meet Mich
igan here tonight in what is ex-
pected to be a leading attraction
of the ice season.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Science Clocks Kick
At LOO, 900 of
One Second

READING FROM the bottom to the top Chinese
fashion, these pictures scientifically clock what hap
pens to football when it kicked for field goal.
They were made at the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology with Photographic instruments of preci-
sion and show Wesley Fesler's famous toe applying
the power which lifts the oval the bars. The
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
SILVER SPRING IDLE

Silver Spring Merchants are
without a football game for Sun.
day. The team has the use Of
Silver Spring Field. Call Robert
Linkins, Silver Spring, l73-M, be-
tween 7 and 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

business at their turnstlles.
There is little question that Laurel PM
lico and Bowie attract many dollars which
ordinarily might be spent at the rlngsldes
of local canvas promotions.
Houses at the latter have been so dis
couraging lately, what with one element or
another working against them, that no
little red ink has been scrawled across the
ledgers.
Boxing is almost sure to be centered at
the Washington Auditorium for that part
of the winter required for the Riding and
Hunt Club to comply with an order of the
,ion uesterdav to fire proof the building and
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Bears Installed AS 8-5 Choice
Over Giants for Pro Title

NEW YORK, Dec 8.-A complete "seout" is expected at
the Polo Grounds tomorrow when the Chicago and the
New York Giants clash in their pro football world series
game The Bears rule 8-5 favorites in the betting
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Griffith Denies Report
Of Boston Trade
For Myer

Clark Griffith president of the Washington Ball Club today
squeched the report that Buddy Mye his second
man. would 60 to the Boston Red sox in trade for some
Pale Hose performer.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

If you wish to know the correct
time of day or night telephone
THE WASHINGTON TINES, Dis
trict 1000.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
FRATERS SCORE

Sigma Alpha Kappa trounceo
the Lawrence Club, % to 81, in a
Community Center League, major
group, basketball game last night
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Johnson to Lead Basketball
Again for D. C.. A. A. u.

Winfree johnson reapponted chairman today of the
basketball division of the District A. A. u for the 193435
season by William Russell president Of the organization
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

camera shutter clicked at the rate of hundred
thousandths of second and the views made
under the supervision of Prof Harold Edgerton of the
NJ. I. T. Electrical Engineering Department. Note in
the lower picture that the diameter of the ball is
duced about half when the toe points into it for
kick. international News Photos and Times Staff
Sketch.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

District Commission yesterday to freproof the building and
arrange and exits in accordance with the local
regulations for public gatherings 15OO people.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Murdock to Purchase
Ring Contract of
Phil Fur
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Shorts Editor

With football and horse racing in the immediate vicinity
Of Washington for the winter think the fight pro
oters and wrestling mpresaros expect little better
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20

that for hundreds of years have been
made around camp fires and over peace
pipes.
Greatly different from the oral
speech of the Indians, the sign langu-
age was believed so difficult that with
the passing of time, fewer and fewer
redmen bothered to learn it. Accord
ing to ethnologists, it is one of the most
remarkable systems of communication
ever employed by mankind, and was
used over a greater area than any other
system.
In the early days, before the coming
of the white man to North America,
Cape Cod redmen were able to converse
easily with the Pueblo builders of the
southwest, almost 1000 miles away,
with the sign language.
And with the Indian a slowly pass
ing race, scientists desire to hang on
to the visible shreds of his traditions
and civilization, so that in future CEN
turtles, the North American Indian
language will not have become the ex-
tinct speech of an obscure people, such
as the famed Etruscas of Roman, italy,
whose writings to this day have never
been deciphered.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20
Indian Comes to Rescue of Sign
Code Feared Lost With Passing
of General Scott, Indian Linguist

When Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott,
doughty Indian fighter, died several
weeks ago, scientists feared that a great
study in American Indian lore never
was to be completed.
For Mole-I-Gu-Op, 1.-The man who
talks with his hands," as the white
haired army officer was known among
his red friends, was said to have been
the only white man to master the IN
dian sign language, that most obscure
system of communication among the
tribes on the continent.
From 1877, when Scott, who had been
adopted by owe a score OF admlr1ng
tribes, { nbarked on his military career
on the c"ect plain borders, he made a
special hobby and study OF the sign
language. He used it afterwards with
such success that enemy braves often
refused to fight when the man who
talks with his hands" appeared before
their council circles to plead with them
to refrain from going on the warpath.
At an early date General Scott de-
cided that the Sioux sign language
was the most used, since that tribe
was considered the most powderful.
Gradually he learned that each tribe
LUZ ~ PO4 "AN A~
began to tabulate all the systems.
In the main, the one sign method
was a universal language from coast
to coast, handed down from n gen.
Grafton to the next. It consisted of
symbols made by moving the hands and
fingers, though having no resemblance
to the present deaf and dumb method
Of speech.
His compilation Of cards, at death,
numbered more than 1000, each con-
tanning a word and its equivalent sign
language symbol. But many of the no.
tations were incomplete. Pending ON
pletion of his work, he had made a
movie of some of the signs and CON-
piled a dictionary.
When the Smithsonian institution,
which had been ~bequeathed SCOTS COL
lection, wondered how it could carry the
work to completion, it began to search
for some Indian who still knew the
sign code.
Fortunately, officials soon found
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20

Fort Peck was about two and one
half miles above the Big Dry on the
north side of the Missouri river, near
Spread Eagle bar. It was built on a
high bank, the ledge of the bluff at that
place being so narrow the rear of the
stockade was against the hill and there
was barely enough room in front to
turn a team and wagon. One observer
said it looked as though the locaters
were searching for a place where the
steamboat could go to the fort without
any trouble"
The fort, Mr.. Hilger adds, was con-
structed after the usual plan for the
trading post of that Era There vas a
stockade of wooden logs set side by side,
two bastons and a number of log
buildings set inside the stockade, in
Guiding cabins for men, warehouses,
stables and a blacksmith shop.
The personnel consisted of the trader,
clerk, Interpreters and other employees.
There were probably not more than Is
or 20 men at the most.
The country of the Big Dry, across the
river and south of the fort, was a great
game territory, especially for b%uffaloes.
At M time in the late sixties and early
seventies as many as 1000 men hunted
in this section. However, MI. Hilger
points out, the rich" thing was the
Indian trade, perhaps because the red
mans goods could be purchased cheap
ly and he, in turn, would pay high
prices for goods regarded as of little
value to the white
Milk River agency, on Milk river at
the mouth of Peoples creek, was the
nearest Indian agency to Fort Peck 1t
was moved to Fort Peck in 1871 and in
creased trade at the post a hundredfold.
The new owners of Fort Belknap prob
ably made complaint about this, for a
special agency was established at Bel
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20
Lost Child Is Found
Asleep in Woods

News of a frantic search for a lost
child through the forest north of Plains
only to find her asleep after a night
alone in the woods, reached Plains a
few days ago..
Patsy Eggleston, 4, of Paradise, wan
dered away from her parents, MI. and
Mrs. Fred Eggleston, while her elders
were making camp.
Defeated in their WI attempt to
find the child, Eggleston enlisted the
aid of forest workers and woodsmen,
who carried on an all night search.
Just as the III was shooting shafts
through the towering pines the morn
ing of the Fourth, the party came up
on Patsy, asleep. She was cold and
stiff, but when awakened her first call
was for food.
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Dauid Hilger, State Librarian, Clues Government
Report ON History of Old Fort Peck; 1t Was a Fur
Trading Post and Not Military Fort, So No Records

scarcely have been selected" Mitchell
wrote. 1.-THE buildings stand on a mar
row bench bottom at the base of a bluff
probably 100 feet in height, and, if the
river should cut away its banks at this
point as rapidly the coming as it has
the past season, both ground and build
ings will have been washed away. The
country, too, surrounding us is not
adapted to the purposes for which it
was selected farming). The bottom
lands for miles above and below are
marshy and liable to overflow . there
is not any land at this point under
cultivation or suitable for farming pur-
poses."
Major Mitchell was in favor of NOV
ing the agency to Wolf Point OF Poplar
river, which was later done. His de-
clarations regarding the farming pos
sibilities of the section may be disput-
ed by some present residents.
In 1874, Mr.. Hilger's sketch contin-
ues, Anvil Grant, brother of Ulysses S.
Grant, had been given a monopoly of
the Indian trade, and it may have been
about this time that Durfee & Peck sold
their trading post to the government
for an Indian agency.
Fort Peck had two periods of use
fulness. The first was as a trading post
from 1867 to 1871 and the second as an
Indian agency from 1873 to 1879. The
agency was moved to Poplar river July
IA, 1879. The period of II years was
without any unusual events.
Mr.. Hilger r%eiterates the statement
that Fort Peck was never a military
pest, although an occasional detach-
ment of soldiers guarding a freight out
fit may have stopped there. The fam
Gus chief and strategist, Sitting Bull
came to the fort when he returned from
Canada with his tribe to make his home
once more on this side of the line.
Granville Stuart's brother, James
died at the fort Sept. 80, 1873. James
Stuart was among the earliest white
men in the territory and N of the
party that discovered gold in the sum-
mer of 1862 at Gold creek, in western
Montana.
"He was known to everyone in the
territory at the time of his death ano
was probably more highly regarded thar
any other resident" Mr.. Hilger says
He was in charge of the agency dur
ing the absence of Major Simmons. HI
was taken i'll, but he diagnosed his all.
ment and kept notes on his symptom.
until he died, sitting at a table with
his head on his arms"
His brother, Granville, heard of tn,
illness and was on his way to him from
Deer Lodge with another brother ant
several friends. When they reache,
Fort Peck, Potte-has-ka, or Long Hair
as the Indians called him, had died
His brothers had the body placed in
metal casket, and it was returned hun
dredS of miles to his home in Dee
Lodge.
Historians also tell that at one tim,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20

Construction work on old Fort Peck,
for which the great federal project
near Glasgow is named, began in 1867,
according to a sketch received at the
United States engineers office, Glas-
gov from David Hilger, librarian Of
the state historical library at Helena.
A sketch prepared by Mr.. Hilger def
initely fixes the time as the all OF 1867.
The work was done, he says, by Abel
Farwer for the firm of Durfee & Peck,
who in that year made their entrance
into the trade on the upper Missouri.
Farwel was a white man who married
an Indian woman and vas familiar with
fur trade business, and ON friendly
terms with his wife's people.
Army engineers at Glasgow wrote to
Mr.. Hilger for the information as part
of a narrative of the old fort, which
will be incorporated in a history of the
project.
E. H. Durfee was a resident Of Leav-
enworth, Kan, and G. K. Peck lived IN
Keokuk, Ia, the sketch continues. The
firm owned a humble OF STEAMBOATS,
and, probably through the influence OF
William w. Belknap, secretary OF war,
and a former resident of Keokuk, got
valuable contracts to trade with In
dams.
THE government shipped great
amounts of goods and equipment fo1
soldiers and Indians up the river" Mr.,
Hilger continues. BOATS going down
would take great loads Of furs from
trading posts. All trading posts were
dignified with the title of fort, and
this m was named for G. K. Peck,
while Fort Belknap, built in 1871 near
the present site of Chinook, was nam
ed for Secretary Belknap. The firm
sold Fort Belknap a year or so after
it was built to another trading COM
pany.
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people put up ice at the post during the
winter and the following summer they
served the Indians with a new and
novel drink, ice water, which brought
them in great numbers to the fort.
At the time of the division of
Fort Peck, the Assinniboines were as
signed to the former and the various
agencies between Fort Belknap and
Sioux tribes, the Brules, Ogallalas, Te-
tons, Uncpapas and Yanktonais to the
latter.
When the Fort Peck reservation was
created in 1886, the name of the agency,
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Fort Peck, was given to the agency and
thus perpetuated.
Today, no trace remains of the fort
and it's location is almost across the
river at a point opposite where the In
take for the new Fort Peck water sys-
tenn is under construction. The only
indication that there was human life
at the fort is in death. Often, recently.
bones and rotten blankets Are observed
in a cutbank next to the river. This
wa the location of the old Fort Peck
cemetery, land which is now being
washed foot by foot into the Missouri
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20

KNAPP in 1873, with Major Fanton in
charge. Maj. w. w. Anderson was agent
at Fort Peck from 1878 to 1875, when he
was succeeded by Thomas j. Mitchell,
who was followed by Maj. N. E. Porter
in 1877. All Indian agents, for some
reason, were given the title of major.
Mitchell, in his annual report of Sept.
26, 1876, found fault with the location
of the post as an Indian agency, no
doubt a well-founded complaint.
"A more unsuitable location could
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20
O HIGH SCHOOL

Necessary Alterations Of the Interior
OF the Billings high school are to be
made before school begins in order to
minimize interference with classes
when work is started on the addition
to the structure, probably early in the
fall.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20
MOISTURE RECORD SHATTERED

Precipitation records for June were
shattered in Yellowstone park. It was
the wettest June on record, the prev
ious record having been made in June
Of 1908, said w. T. Lathrop, meteorolo-
giSt.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20
GAME COMMISSION MEETS

The Montana fish and game commits
sion met at Livingston July II to ON
duct a hearing on the petition of the
Park County Rod and Gun club re-
questing creation of a game preserve
near Mountain View cemetery.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20

Pleasant incidents Of history do not
I'LL so many pages as the distressing
ones.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-20

Richard Sanderville, T-year-old Black
feet brave and a close friend of Scott.
He has been induced to come to Wash
ington to clarity the intricate motions
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-12
PAGE FIVE.

casion to mention Donna's name.
Letters came seldom and, though
once Con handed one of them to
Madeline, he did not inquire
about the other girl or ask what
she was doing. He took it for
granted that Donna was married
and happy.
Often Madeline wondered what
Con would do when he learned
the truth. Several times she was
tempted to write Donna and beg
her to write letter saying she
was engaged to Bill or had just
broken an engagement to him,
but she hesitated.
The rehearsals went on, and
the dav for her public appear
ancc in the cage drew near. Then
one afternoon Con announced
that during the evening perform
ance Madeline Gabriel would en-
ter the cage Of Jungle cats.
"Never before. ladies and gen.
tlemen, has a woman faced a
cage of lions and tigers, sworn
enemies. Never before has a
woman dared such a death-defy-
ling stunt"
"God help you" muttered
Maize Vale of the Flying Wales
as she stood beside Madeline.
Id rather fall from the bars
than step into the cage with that
Bengal"
ITO Be Continued)