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BERLIN, May 25.-One of
the birthday gifts for the
bachelor ore al m leader"
Adolf Hitler, consisted of
1856 baby outfits, complete
with cradles, from the women
of the reich's civil servants
association.
One half of the layettes
were decorated with blue rib
bons, for boy babies, and the
other half pink, for girls.
The gift will benefit an APP
proved list of needy mothers
of large families.
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Miss Elizabeth Ayala, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ayala,
student at the state college for
women at Tallahassee, arrived on
the Cuba this morning from
Tampa.
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Miss Consuelo Carmona, who
was visiting in Tampa for a while
with relatives, WINS returning
passenger on the Cuba this morn
ing. ..a. ~ ..s
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Jose Piodela, clerk in the Of
flee of the county judge, who was
in Tampa for several weeks for
an operation. returned this morn
ing on the S. S. Cuba much i'm
proved in health and will resume
his duties in the office in a few
days.
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Mrs. Gabriel C,1banas and baby,
who were spending a week with
relatives in Tampa, returned on
the Cuba this morning.
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VIM. R. Porter, president of
the First National Bank, who
was in Miami for a few days on
business, returned on the plane
yesterday morning.
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PRINTING-Quality Printing at
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Miss Edith Brockell, of Miami,
was an arrival by plane yesterday
to join a party of friends who
with Judge H. H. Taylor are
spending a few days in Key
West.
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Miss Marjorie Roberts, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Rob-
erts of 1907 Petronia street, ar
rived Saturday afternoon over the
highway from Tallahassee, where
she has been Attending school at
Florida State College for Wom-
en-.
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Miss Puro Vivo arrived this
morning on the Cuba from Tampa
and will be the guest of her uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Baldwin Cor a while.
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Donald Williams, FERA &C.
counting department. left yester-
day for Miami and from there will
go to Jacksonville for a confer
ence with officials.
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Miss Oceana Hopkins, of the
WPA department of women's
work who was in Key West for
about one week, left yesterday
afternoon by plane for Miami.
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Mrs. Cleora Banding and son
Jack, arrived yesterday from Fort
Myers by plane to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Blanding's sister,
Mrs. Lorraine Schumacher, this
afternoon.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-18
Uncommon
Sense .

And step by step since time began
] see the steady growth of man.
Whittier was a kindly old Quaker
gentleman, with a devout belief in
Providence, and
Living and CHEEKY optimism
Learning regarding his fell
low creatures.
Moreover, he was right.
That is not so easy to believe in
these days of racketeers, but we have
advanced since the times of the iron
creeds of the older days.
Naturally. human nature hasn't
changed much.
The phase of it which is being
exhibited in central Europe just
now is not pleasant to behold.
But Whittier lived in a time when
men still talked of the old days
when men and women were burned
as witches and when religious pref
udices were rampant.
Throughout the country today re
Hgious tolerance is to be found.
Education, which in old New Eng
land was confined chiefly to the vii
lage schools, was often in the hands
of poorly educated men, filed with
prejudices.
All the great systems of hospitals,
schools and opportunities for adj
vancement have been built up chiefly
since the time when the educational
center of the country was confined
largely to the states along the Attain
tic seaboard.
There was little ease, and more
hard work than was good for the
men and women of the time.
But through it all the people lived
and learned. By the time when Emer-
son, Whittier, Thoreau and many 9TH
er really able and broad mined men
had begun their work of building
and teaching, the West was still
wild in the sense that parts of it
were populated by savages, and the
greater areas were still forest and
prairie.
How astonished would the men
and women of that time be if they
could come back and look at the in
dustrial development of the country!
=
Today there are few ''backwoods'
districts. The schools are every
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Death IN ABSARAkA .l., SCOTT x;1:,:

Bull and his nephew, White Bull,
who took part in the Fetterman
fight, have proved that Red Cloud
had no part in this battle. Instead,
the ambush was planned and the
Indian warriors were led by Crazy
Horse of the Oglalas and Black
Shield of the Miniconjous.
Similarly, Mr.. vestaPs researches
have resulted in the truth about
another famous battle in the record
of the Eighteenth. This was the
Wagon Box Fight near Fort Phil
Kearney on August 2, 1867, when
Capt. j. w. Powell, Lieut.. J. C. Jen-
ness and force of 80 men beat off
an attack by an overwhelming num-
Der of Sioux and Cheyennes.
Wildly exaggerated stories have
been told of this fight-how Red
Cloud directed the attack of his
5000 warriors against the little
detachment of soldiers, crouched
behind the fiimsy protection of
wagon boxes set in the form of an
oval corral on the open plain, and
how the hot fire of the soldiers
with their new breech-Ioading
rifles and plentiful supply of am
munition 1000 rounds, in faet)
exacted a fearful toll from their
attackers. Powell himself esti-
mated the loss of the Indians as
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tribe, and Black Shield of the Mini
conjous.
OF course, some of the officers are
scornful of their foes. A few months
later one of them will be saying
boastfully "Give me eighty men and
1 will ride through the Sioux ma
toni" Within a week he will go out
from a fort with 81 men and not
one will return alive! But the ter
,ror of that day is still six months
away. Now the only concern of
their commander is to reach his OBJ
jective and begin the work he has
been commissioned to do.
On June IS the expedition reached
Fort Reno. Darlington decided that
it was not practicable to move the
fort as he had been instructed to
do. Instead he ordered the stock
ade repaired, left 200 men to gar
rison the post and pushed on to-
ward the north. On July Is he es-
tablished his camp on the banks of
the Big Piney creek, and two
days later began building the i'll
fated post to which was given the
name of Fort Phil Kearney.
Within a week Red Cloud struck
his first blow against the invaders
-stampeding a herd of horses graz
ing near the fort and killing two
soldiers and wounding three others
in the party sent in pursuit of the
raiders. From that time on until
its abandonment in 1868, Fort Phil
Kearney was virtually in a state of
siege.
Scarcely a month passed without
an average of 10 to 20 separate and
distinct attacks upon parties of
woodchoppers, herders or scouting
details and in most of these one
or two men were killed and a great
er number wounded. Not a wagon
train could pass along the Bozeman
Trail without being attacked.
One day a messenger dashed into
the fort with the news that one
such train, en- route from Fort Lar
annie, was corralled by the Sioux
and in imminent danger of being
wiped out. Darlington Immediately
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-18

the federal commissioners at Fort
Laramie assuring the commander
that "a satisfactory treaty of peace
with all the Indians of the North
west" had been signed!
During the next three months
Darlington sent repeated requests
to his department commander for
reinforcements' but ii was in vain.
Not until November did any arrive
and then it was only one troop of
the Second cavalry, 60 strong. In
December about 90 recruits joined
the battalion in the Mountain Dis
trict and these had to be divided
between Fort Reno, Fort Phil Kear-
ney and Fort C. F. Smith, which had
been established on the banks of the
Big Horn in Montana. acquisitions
for ammunition were not answered
and the allowances of the three gar
risons were reduced to a point
which made rifle practice for the
recruits impossible.
In fact, the stupidity Of the
higher officials in handling the
situation which faced Darlington
and his command is almost unbe-
IievabIe. "At Fort Laramie, when
all was peace, there were twelve
companies of regular troops, while
at Fort Phil Kearney, where all
was war, only four companies
were allowed" Thus reported
General Sanborn after a tragedy
had shocked the whole country in
to realizing how ironical was
President Andrew Johnson's con-
gratuIatory message to congress
on December that treaties have
been made at Fort Laramie and
all is peace in the Northwest!
Less than two weeks later, on
December q, the Indians attacked
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BY
JOHN BLAKE
g
c Bell syndicate.-wNU Service

where; old prejudices and supersti-
tons have been forgotten.
There are Ravens for the afflicted
poor. 1t is possible for any boy who
has purpose and grit to get an educa-
ton.
And even in the black days
through which we just have passed
there has been practically no abso-
lutte restitution.
I do not quite agree with the late
Doctor Coue that "every day in ev-
cry way we are growing better and
better"
But in most ways we are growing
better, and are learning all the time.
And the longer we live and think the
more intelligent we become and the
greater grip we get on the fact that
only by mutual helpfulness can we
acquire real civilization.
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the wood train engaged in logging
operations on Piney Island, a few
miles from the fort and Caring
On detailed Capt. ]. W. Powell with
force of so men TO go TO its relief.
Two days before Powell had been
called upon for a similar duty and
had performed it efficiently. But
just as the detachment was about to
start out, Capt. W. J. Fetterman
begged for the command of the ex-
petition, pleading his senior cap
taincy as justification for the re-
quest. 1t was Fetterman who had
made the boast about riding through
the whole Sioux nation with so
men. Darlington, knowing his tend
ency to rashness, gave him specific
orders to relieve the wood train,
drive back the Indians. but on no
account TO pursue the Indians be-
yond Lodge Trail Ridge" and re-
peated those orders from the walls
of the stockade as Fetterman's par
ty marched out.
The result is familiar history.
Fetterman disobeyed his orders and
was lured into an ambush. Today
a tall monument of cobbleStones
stands on an eminence known as
Massacre Hill" on the road be-
tween Buffalo and Sheridan, Wyo.
1t bears a bronze shield with this
inscription:
ION this field on the 21st day of
December, 1866, three commissioned
officers and seventy-six privates of
the Eighteenth United States In
fantry and of the Second United
States Cavalry, under the command
of Capt. Brevet, Lieut.-Col VIM. ].
Fetterman, were killed by an over
whelming force of Sioux under COM
mand of Red Cloud. There were no
survivors"
This tablet makes no mentiona Of
TWO civilians who accompanied the
expedition, bringing the casualty
list of the so-called ''Fetterman
Massacre" up to 81. 1t also errs in
crediting Red Cloud with being
commander of the Indians Inves-
legations among the Sioux by STAN
ley Vestal, biographer of Sitting
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build a chain of military posts TO
protect travellers over the Bozeman
Trail. Accordingly Colonel CARING
ton, then stationed with his regi-
ment at Fort Kearney in Nebraska,
was ordered to establish, organize
and take command of the new Noun
tain District of the Department OF
the Platte.
At that time the district had but
one post in it-Fort Reno, 160 miles
north of Fort Laramie. Darlington
was directed TO move this post 40
miles westward, garrison it and
then with the remainder of his
command establish three other
posts-one on the Bozeman Trail
between the Big Horn mountains
and the Powder river, one on the
Big Horn river and the third on the
Yellowstone river.
So that is why we find the Second
Battalion of the Eighteenth march
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hot summer day 20 years ago. From
the clear Wyoming sky the hot sun
blazes down upon them mercilessly
and as they plod along the dusty
trail they look lOngingly upon the
cool promise of snow-capped Cloud
Peak in the distance. OF the 700,
only about 200 are veterans. The
rest are raw recruits from the East
scarcely the best>soldier material
to be pitted against such redoubt-
able warriors as the Sioux and Chey-,
ennes.
Luckily they cannot look into the
future and see what is in store for
all of them in this strange land of
Absaraka-the loneliness, the numb
ing cold of a Wyoming winter, the
hunger and the other privations, and
for some of them-a horrible death
under the stabbing lances or smash
ing war-clubs of the Sioux.
Perhaps some foreboding of
their fate has already come to
them-at that council at Fort
Laramie when Red Cloud, spring.
ing into the center of the council
ring and pointing his finger at
Colonel Darlington, exclaimed:
'You are the White Eagle who
has come to steal the road! The
Great White Father sends US
presents and wants us to sell him
the road, but the white chief
comes with soldiers to steal it be-
fore the Indians say yes or mol
will talk with you no more!
will go now, and | will fight you!
AS long as live | will fight for
the last hunting grounds of my
peopIe!"
So he stalked out of the council
and prepared for war, as did Man
Afraid of His Horses, hereditary
chief of the Oglalas, Crazy Horse
and American Horse of the same
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Foreign Words
and PhrCses

Alb ovo. (L.) From the egg; from
the origin.
AID interim. (L.) In the meantime;
during the interval.
A la bonnie heure. CD In the nick
Of time.
Bis dat qui cito dat. (L.) He gives
twice who gives promptly.
Chateau en- Espagne. I'D A castle
In Spain; a castle in the air.
Coup de maitre. I'D Master
stroke.
Poeta nascitur, non fit. (L.) The
poet is born, not made.
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at least 90 killed and an unknown
number wounded. But imaginative
historians have boosted that fig
ure to 1900 killed and wounded
The truth is that Red Cloud, al
though present at the fight, took no
active part in it. The 1000 Indians
who made the attack were led by
Crazy Horse of the Oglalas, Flying
By and High Hump of the Minicon-
jous, Thunder Hawk of the Sans
Arcs and Ice of the Cheyennes. Six
indians were killed and six wound
ed. The soldiers also suffered a
loss of six killed, but the wonder is
that not all of them were slaugh-
tered, outnumbered as they were
more than 80 to 1.
During the next three years of
the Eighteenth's service on the
plains it took part in many other
skirmishes with the Indians. From
1870 to 1879 it was stationed in
different places in the South. Then
followed another period of service
in the Northwest until the outbreak
of the Spanish-American war when
it was one of the first regiments
to reach Manila in the Philippines.
1t played a prominent part during
the entire Philippine insurrection
and did not return TO the United
States until 1901. Twice later it re-
turned to the islands in the Pacific.
In fact, seven of the eleven years
between 1893 and 1909 were spent
in service outside the continental
United States.
During the World war the Eight
eenth was the first unit of the A. E.
F. to plant its colors on the French
front; it was the first TO capture a
German prisoner, the first to inflict
a casualty on the enemy and the
first to suffer casualties at the
hands Of the enemy. The records
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Eighteenth again came into exist
ence. During the Civil war the regi-
ment served with the Armies of the
West-under Grant and ROsecrans
and Sherman and Thomas. Written
on its battIefiags were the names
of Vicksburg. Stone River, Murfrees-
bOro, Chickamauga, Kenesaw Noun
tain, JOnesbOro and Atlanta. AT
Chickamauga the Eighteenth was
brigaded with the Sixteenth and
Nineteenth regiments and, as part
of Thomas famous Fourteenth
corps, its gallant stand in that bat
tie helped him win the nickname
THE Rock of Chickamauga."
When the Eighteenth was organ
lied in 1861 the man appointed TO its
command as colonel was Henry B.
Darlington, acknowledgement of the
Ohio militia for several years be-
fore the outbreak of the Civil war.
Although he rose to the rank of
brigadier- genera of volunteers dur
ing that conflict, at its close he re-
verted to his rank of colonel in the
regulars and with his regiment was
ordered west for service in the In
dian country.
In the meantime gold had been
discovered in Montana and the rush
of gOld-seekers to the new camps
followed. Their route took them
through the choicest hunting
grounds of the Sioux and Northern
Cheyennes, lands which the gov
eminent, under the terms of the
Harney-Sanborn treaty of 1865, had
solemnly guaranteed should be IN
disturbed by white invaders. But
emigrants 10 the Northwest, as well
as the Montana Argonauts, showed
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the white mans usual disregard for
the sanctity of treaties with the red
man. They slaughtered game waste
fully and the Indians, angry over
the violation of the treaty and the
destruction of, their principal food
supply, retaliated with attacks on
emigrant trains, parties of miners
or any other travellers through the
forbidden country.
Early in 1866 commissioners were
sent TO Fort Laramie TO make an
other treaty with the Sioux and
Cheyennes but, without waiting to
see the outcome of these negotia-
tons, the government decided to
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Uncle Mi6
Says: ~
It's Useless to Wish

Trouble not yourself with wishing
that things may be just as you would
have them; but be well pleased that
they should be just as they are, and
then you viii be at ease.
Let conscience be your guide: but
don't be so presuming as TO offer II
for the guidance of other people.
What We Do Counts
1t is not what we read, but what
we remember, that makes US learned
1t is not what we intend, but what
we do, that makes us useful.
Half the people that achieve fame
didn't start out with that intention
They merely followed their liking.
Don't find fault more than 10 per
cent of the time Nothing wearies
people like long listening TO fault
finding.
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of the War department show that
the Eighteenth suffered the great
est loss in killed and wounded OF
any regiment in the American army
during its service overseas. But,
distinguished as is this more re-
cent service, in the regular army
this regiment is known best for its
tragic history 20 years ago when it
fought the Sioux and Cheyennes in
Absaraka, the Home of the Crows"
e Western Newspaper Union
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SUMNER day in the year

SON"Lh Al sCSAA
1866.
North of historic Fort
80 Laramie a column Of
~ blue-coated soldiers is
marching along the
Bozeman Trail which
~ winds across windswept
upland plains and then
through deep mountain gorges into
the land known as Absaraka, 1.-The
Home of the Crows" This military
force of barely 700 men is the Sec
Ond Battalion of the Eighteenth
United States Infantry, setting forth
on an expedition which will make
that regiment forever famous in
the annals of the American army.
The Eighteenth already had an
unusual and a brilliant record. Or
ganfzed June &c, 1872, it made its
first appearance on the rolls of the
army during the second war with
England. Three years later it was
consolidated with the Fifth and
Thirty-ffth regiment of infantry
TO form the Eighth United States
Infantry, thus losing its identity and
remaining lost for 40 years.
Under the proclamation of Pres
1dent Lincoln on May 4, 1861, the
Eighth was reorganized and the
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sent an entire company of the
Eighteenth to the relief of the be-
leaguered train. When il arrived
at the fort it brought mail from
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-05-15
A FREE-FOR-ALL

The st. Thomas Mems Club will
be hosts at the May festival given
Wednesday, May 20, and Thursday,
May 81, at the st. Thomas Church.
Who is to be Queen of May? Are
you lucky? Do you like to fish?
Do you like to play bingo? Do you
like to hunt? Do you know what
the future holds in store for you?
Do you need a white elephant?
Do you like hot dogs, ice cream or
pop? Can you carry home prizes !?
Will you take a chance? If you
can, then don't miss the S. T. M. c.
May festival Of fun. Remember,
this is a st. Thomas entertainment.
You are bound to have q good time.
The admission is FREEl