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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Graf Zeppelin Soaring Over San Francisco The Graf Zeppelin as it appeared soaring over San Francisco after Its ocean from Japan. The photograph was transmitted over A. T. and T. wires. record-breakin- g trip across the Pacific Infantrymen in Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio Their numbers Increased. dXAttn? or1 TZAS3A301TJ&: Jioio by UnerHoof brUncfanvooctf By ELMO SCOTT WATSON. years celebration of American Indian d a y, wldcb Is observed on the fourth Friday in September, finds plans under way for honoring a great Indian, famous for his war against the whites, but a man of outstanding abilities and one who, Judged by any just standard, was a patriot and a hero. Metacom, ids father, Massasolt, sachem of the Wampnnnags, called him, but the whites who felt the force of ids wrath knew 1dm as King Philip or Philip of Iokanoket. They nil but exterminated ids people, they hunted him to earth and killed him and they subjected Ill's body to indignities as .barbarous as any indicted by their And now, nearly savage enemies. three hundred years later, his memory is to be perpetuated In a shrine to be erected by descendants of some of the men who fought Ills tribesmen. A Massachusetts archeologist and historian, It. F. llalTenreiTer, Jr., of Full Itiver, has purchased the historic ridge in Rhode Island known as Mt. Hope, the home of King Philip, and there will be built a fireproof memorial for housing Indian relics, a veritable shrine or New England Indian history. The Mt. Hope reservation Is a tract of more than 500 acres and contains many points of historic interest. Among them are the spring where King Philip drank, the rocky throne on a hillside where the leader held his councils with his braves, and the swamp wdiere he was killed by the men led by Capt. Benjamin Church. In this reservation too is the ground where 30 bushels of 1 corn were raised by the Indian women and given to the starving Pilgrims by Massasoit, who lies buried on a hilltop a few miles away. The story of King Philip Is the story of the leader of a lost cause, a champion of a weaker race whose attempt to stay the onrush of the conquering whites was foredoomed to failure. He was the first great Indian chief to attempt a confederacy of the tribes to resist the whites and he came nearer succeeding in his plan than did Pontiac, Tecuinseh or any aother red lenders who followed in his footsteps. "History has made him King Philip to commemorate the heroism of his life and death, says one historian. ne almost made himself a king by his marvelous energy and statecraft put forth among the New England tribes. Ilud the opposing power been a little weaker, he might have founded a temporary kingdom on the ashes of the colonies. Notwithstanding repeated usurpations upon his lands and liberties, Massasolt continued In his role of "Friend of the White Man to the day of his death in 1002. Near the close of his life, he laid taken his two sons, Wamsutta and Metacom,-tPlymouth and requested the governor, in token of frieii Isldp, to give them English names. To Wamsutta was given the name ol Alexander and to Metacom, the name of Philip, and Massasoit charged both of them to continue his HIS Warn-panoa- g o 7&4Sg. policy of friendliness to the English. But Alexander, who succeeded Massasolt as sachem, found that difficult for, as the number of white settlers increased, their desire for more land Increased and the Wanipanoags saw their territory passing rapidly Into the hands of the whites. More than that, the kindly feelings that had prevailed between the two races began to give way to suspicion and hatred on both sides and to harsh treatment of the red men at the hands of the white. Alexanders friendship became noticeably less and he was summoned to Plymouth to answer to charges of plotting against the English. Alexander refused to come and lie was This indignity brought by force. threw him into a rage and lie became seriously 111, dying upon his return trip to tiie Wampanoag lands in Rhode Island. His wife, Wetamee, and his brother, Philip, both believed that he had been poisoned by the English and resolved to avenge his death. But Philip, who succeeded him as sachem, clearly understood the power of the English and did not intend to make the mistake of acting too hnstiiy. For nine years after his elevation to sachem, he devoted his energies to observation and preparation for the Impending struggle. Philip made every effort to accumulate guns and ammunition for his warriors and even tried to obtain the formula for making gunpowder. He succeeded In getting a large number of firearms and many of his men became expert marksmen. All of these preparations had not gone unnoticed by the colonists who were uneasily aware that a dark cloud of disaster was hovering over them. Finally in 1671, Philip was summoned to a council at Taunten to explain the suspicious acts of his tribesmen. He asserted that he was preparing for defense against the Narragnnsetts, denied any hostile intent townrd the English, signed a new treaty and agreed to surrender all his guns. lie did give up some 70 of the weapons owned by Ids tribe but Immediately after his return to Mt. Hope continued to go forward with his preparations for war. For the next three years pence prevailed but still the uneasy feeling that they were on the verge of war troubled the colonists. By this time Iidlips plans had matured and he had determined upon opening hostilities in the spring of 1G7C. He become more Independent and bold In his attitude and when the governor of Massachusetts summoned 1dm to another council to make a new treaty, Philip sent Your govback tins haughty reply: ernor is but a subject of King Charles of England. I shall not treat with a subject. I shall only treat with the king, my brother. When lie comes I aib ready. At about this time, too, a Rhode Island settler who was a good friend of the Indian leader tried to dissuade him from war. Philips reply Is hisThe English who toric. He said : came first to this country were but a handful of people, forlorn, poor and distressed. My father did all in his power to serve them. Others came. Real Burning Bush The Inflammableness of the plant Is due to this: that on Its stalks are ndnute reddish-browand One oi the most remarkable of these secrete an ethericglands, oil. The plants Is flowering now in the rock glands develop fully soon after the garden at Kew the gas plant" or blossom begins to fade, but they shrivburning bush called dictamnus. el up when the fruit begins to form. When n lighted match Is applied to, London Answers. a shoot of it there comes a brilliant scarlet flame. Like a flash of lightForty Mile of Water Tunnel ning It travels up the length of the There are sugar plantations on flowering shoot, without Injuring it. Kauai, Oahu and Maui, in the Pacific, The best time to make the experiwith 40 miles of tunnels and ditches to ment Is when the flowers are fading. carry life-ging water, and a famous i' My fathers counselors were alarmed. They urged him to destroy the English before they became strong enough to give law to the Indians and take away their country. My father was also father to the English. He remained their friend. Experience shows that his counselors were right. The English disarmed my people. They tried them by their own laws, and assessed damages my people could not pay. Sometimes the cattle of the English would come Into the cornfields of my people for they did not make fences like the English. I must then be seized and confined till I sold another tract of my country for damages and costs. Thus trait after tract is gone. But a small part of the dominion of my ancestors remains. I am determined not to live till I have no country." Members of the infantry rifle team Despite Philips plans to open tin war in the spring of 1C7C, the conflict was precipitated in the summer of OLD STONE BUDDHA 1075 with the famous attack by the Indians on the town of Swansea. For the next fourteen months the war raged with great fury. Of 90 English towns in the war area, 52 were attacked and 12 were destroyed. For a time it looked as though Thilip's dream of extinction of the hated white invaders of his country was to be realized. But as the colonists began to recover from the havoc which Philip had wrought in the early weeks of the war, the tide turned In their favor. Some of his allies were defeated, others deserted him and began to help the English. The appointment of Capt. Benjamin Church, a brave and skillful soldier, as commander of the colonists forces, added to several acts of treachery by his own people, spelled doom for the Indian leader. Philip became a fugitive, hunted from place to place like a wild animal. Ills wife and only son were captured and sold as slaves In the West Indies. My heart breaks, said Philip when he heard of this. Now I am ready to die. Finally his hiding place was betrayed to the English by the brother of an Indian whom Philip had slain for proposing to seek pence with the English. Finding his camp surrounded, the chief attempted to flee along a path guarded by a soldier and the Indian traitor. The soldiers gun missed fire, but that of the Indian, This Is the oldest stone Image of filled with two bullets and a double charge of powder, brought the chief Buddha In existence. It was recently down as he ran. acquired, after long negotiations, by Philips conqueror's proved that the Okura museum of Tokyo, Japan. they were but little less savage than he had been. An Indian executioner ONE MILLION VOLTS was ordered to cut off his head and quarter his body. His head was sent to Plymouth and there exhibited on a gibbet for 20 years. "Such was the fate of Philip, wrote Edward Everett. He had fought a relentless war, but he fought for his native land, for the mound that covered the hones of his parents; he fought for his squaw and papoose; no I will not defraud them of the sacred names which our hearts understand he fought for his wife and child. Today a monument stands at Plymouth, erected there during the Filgrim tercentenary celebration In 1620, which perpetuates the fame of Massasoit as the friend of the white man. Soon another memorial Is to rise to his son, King Philip, whose fame also deserves to be perpetuated even though he was the enemy of the white man. For King Philip was a fighting man and a patriot and the kindlier judgment of a later da? will no longer deny him the honor due him. aqueduct on Oaliu taps four valleys and traverses a tunnel 14,443 feet long. One plantation uses more water than the city of San Francisco, says Nature Magazine. Thousands of artesian wells dot the countryside. In 1926, about 770,000 tons of sugar worth $65,000,000 were raised on the 6,449 square miles that comprise this daub of land. The pineapple crop bring a revenue of nearly $34,000,000 annually. water-surrounde- d California has a lion farm. Tills photograph from Berlin shows what one million volts look like. It was made during an experiment h.v Professor Matthias. The Insulator chain Is 2.15 meters in length, with r,0 periodic Intcrehanging currents of 1,000,000 volts grounded. taking part In the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Letter From Germany Breaks Record From Berlin to Washington, In less than seven days, was the time made letter received by W. Irving Glover, second assistant postmaster general. Tbe letter was carried from Berlin to Cherbourg by plane, crossed the ocean on the Bremen, shot off by plane when 500 miles at sea, and rushed from New York to Washington again by air. by a Lady Bird Who Won the Air Derby Mrs. Louise Thaden of Pittsburgh, who won the womens air derby from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, C io, being greeted on her arrival at th Cleveland airport |