Show A Ai i y N f toV ZA C Fx 3 r y w r CA Y Y J Y e c w x G f j. j t y v S f By ELMO MO s SCOTT WATSON I i OTHERS S DAY last J year was the more significant because of pI plans tans tans- 4 i w which were under way f for r the erection erection i tion of ot memorials to one of t the le st heroic tykes tn-Ies of the world fJ ha las la's et per er the known tn v i the pioneer ml mother th I lr- lr of ot Amer America ca One of them was the titer T selection by popular vote amo among g the twelve twel models model submitted d l the w ii df t In ns U. U P. P tin f. f pf f e j a t cI t. Str Si pf tX the design e I r. r by y Bryant nt for the theU h heroic statue of oT the pl er woman woman wl which R. R W W. Marla Maria d df an nIl Oklahoma oil t proposes propose t tg erect t i t ithe the famous Cherokee Strip wit lit ii his state us as a D p perpetual r rem reminder of t ra t. girt t pl played d women by In tile Uie winning of th Wet The ether was the completion by A. A Proctor of hIs bis Pioneer Mother statue statue statu which was Inter pre presented seated to I Kansas ansas City Mo Mh by Howard Vander- Vander slice and er erected rt d In Pe Penn n Volley Valley park pack In iii that city Mothers Mother's day I this year which Mch w will Ill i. i he be c e ee e rated tro throughout JI t U j t c country t on r raty I y will find nd another project f under way y for further fron fron- orE the mother e with enduring Ig men memorials memo o. o rials The of the American Revolution ne area are planning In to to JUrI mark rk N a OJ Old d Trails rond rc ro d across the tle country Atlantic to Jo the the Pacific with twelve Madonna of the Trail r markers one one one- ea each cacti h In Maryland Pennsylvania a y W West st Virginia lnla Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri I Kansas Colorado New pw Mexico l Arizona Ail and Cal Cal- These markers rs Pack each 18 13 feet tall 11 represent F sent rent nt a 8 typical nl pioneer mother r She hohls holds a n babe In Ip ht her r arms and a small boy clings lIn R t to her skirts skirls 1 n us she fares fares' the dangers and privations of of the j VP Wf SL t t. t The model for far the Madonna l made by hy byA byA i. i A of St St. t. t Louis was sele selected tell from a large number which were wIe submitted DIU and It Is to erect the statues In time tIme dedication dedica t tion on Mothers Mother's day clay Rut the ploll pioneer Cr mother her Is not the the only type of t I Is to be he e honored with memorials this year for or I are are now now going lIin Ju forward vard for f r paying a II similar ti tJ to hi two mothers of a n rare race which nl occupied Otis continent lor long before the pioneer mother made malle her appearance Both are familiar names nime In American Pocahontas history history and an or SacaJawea as she Is oft often n known toe CInE ne of the outstanding features of the Westminster Westminster West minster Abbey hl v of ot America the Washington cathedral which which Is to he hullt built on Mount St St. overlooking o the Potomac at Wn Washington will he the lapel Chapel of or Women omen The Washington ha has selected It what It considers to be bet bethe bethe t the e twenty greatest st Christian women singe e the 11 tenth of Christ and they will he honored with glass windows In the Chapel of Women Thirteen n women saints have ha been selected Il t f are re Phoebe Cecelia lne Helena Helen Ursula I Ont lp Hil HlIla th l-th I e l le Edith aIDt Margaret Irene find and Other women who lime have achieved nI le d Immortality by their Christian fortitude their coura courage e and their piety arid and will lit hr honored homed are Anne of Bohemia wife of 01 f Richard II of England Mother Superior rip rItt Starr annon iulia Joan Join of Arc Stile the Immortal u Maid of nr Orleans Lady lane Jane who who was beheaded t In the Tower of London and Wp Wesley ley mother of 01 the founders of Methodism And Arid last but hut not least In that galaxy g. f of gnat great women Is the fhe Indian girl whose kindness ss and service ser to the hp first colonists ts In America have kept Pi ht her r memory bright ht for three centuries centuries- F. Everyone Is familiar with the story of how then but hut thirteen years old saved the p life of rapt apt 3 pt John Smith Sinful when he was vas captured cap cap- captured by the Indians and ordered to be put to death by chief Powhatan But ut few of us are familiar with later Inter history t tas s the wife and mother has hns been quite lost sight of 01 f In the maiden and heroine of ot the Burliest bit of romance In American history a 8 astory Et story ry which some sonic historians believe to be a 0 Pleasant piece of fiction Invented In by the doughty John many years rears after otter tile the event was Supposed opposed to have ha taken place although others bring ng forth evidence to prove pro that It Is sub ally true One of the paintings In lu the Capitol at Wash Ington Stun which attracts universal ersal attention Is the canvas CUn by John Gadsby Chapman named The rite Baptism Jj of Pocahontas It was this Incident In Inthe inthe the life of or Me tonka which washer was her ber Jer r real al Indian name which b gives her a place In Inthe ji the Ule h sari of Women omen In the National l cathedral hot In 1013 J she was converted to Christianity and h na a n solemn J ceremonial In the t little church nt at Ja she was S b baptised In the Christian faith with under lIi lie tho name of nf Rebecca Ca She Sh stands J ml H In r the he train of Unite those s wandering II children of r 1 the he forest furest forest rite the painter hat Chaj man mall who Jm at different time fl f few t I Indeed 1111 d and fur far ben he be- h n ii it'd ir from the fang fang fang- l of n a bar barroll roll i she he h fold Cold Of Ofu t i. i I h come ome laths in u U. U I It III iI 5 I 53 AZ A AT y z o 2 J t i 4 s I r. r w f m 5 k N NeY eY y F T r h 11 f c 7 y 1 A JA U a r uri J vim C Photograph of Pocahontas statue courtesy Virginia la State Chamber of Commerce of Seka statue courtesy J. J M. M Devine North North Dakota Dakota Da Da- 1 kota commissioner of Immigration 0 Her Ber baptism had been preceded by a base a act t upon upun the part of the En English lIsh who owed so much to her effort In is winning for or them the the- friendship n sl lp of the pow powerful Powhatan A certain Capt Thomas Argall had bribed some of the Indians to bring h her r aboard his ship where she was det detained de de- tamed t and taken to Jamestown and there held as asa asa asa a hostage for the good behavior of her tribesmen tribesmen Soon after her hen baptism sh she was das married to John Rolfe a young planter A son son was born to them and given the name of Thomas Rolfe bite About a 8 year later lIter Rolfe took his family to England where wh re Lady Rebecca as she was known was re rev received d at court and was the object of ot many flattering flattering flat fiat t attentions In 1617 they prepared to return to America Amerla but Pocahontas was stricken ken in an epidemic of smallpox and died at Gravesend a short time before thoy they were to take ship She was buried burled under the flagstones in the chancel of old St St. Georges George's church chuch In that city and although h attempts have ha been made In late years to loca locate e her rave no one knows for sure Just where It Is Her lIer husband and son sou returned to Virginia and the noIres became F iF F. F Vs Vos so that today some of the proudest families In that state claim as an ancestor One Une of her descendants was the famous John Randolph of Roanoke and another Is Mrs I Edith Boiling Bolling Wilson widow of President Woodrow Woodruw Wilson While the memory of Pocahontas Is to oe ne honored hon Tired red In the National cut cathedral SacaJawea or SacaJawea Is to co be honored with another monument men ment although where that monument Is to be located Is somewhat of a D question A bill prInting for such a n monument has been Introduced Into congress but until the problem of or where this Indian gh fIl t famous as a guide for the Lewis Lewis' and md lark Clark expedition died and Is hurled buried Is solved the passage e of the hill hili seems somewhat doubtful W Wyoming whose reps rep asking the appropriation for tor the then re are ure n monument believes es that she died on April 9 9 1531 at the age uge of more than one hundred years and andIs andIs andIs Is burled buried on n a bleak hill hili near the Shoshone agency on the Wind River reservation about sIx sir teen miles northwest of Lander Wyo W o The principal prin cipal a authority ty for this claim is s Dr Grace Raymond Raymond Ray nay mond Hebard librarian of the University df t Wyoming Wyo Wyo- years has studied the history history his his- ming mins who for or twenty and believes that she has hasy of tor tory y accurate account of ot the Indian womans woman's the only tier Her version and Its cor death an and burial place place- by Dr Charles A Eastman an educated edu- edu commissioned to take Clale an Gated Sioux who was wa the United been accepted by has hns Investigation In States bureau of Indian affairs On April 1 1 mil 1911 concrete slab was erect erect- ran on un the spot a o simple Is supposed to te ie and there where cn for which the monument It Is proposed propose to place has been asked to make an nn app app- congress atlon South Dakota North and 0 On the other stand hand the studies of Dome Douie basIng their version upon historian of ot South Dakota be Le belleve Robinson veteran hell died December 20 1 1812 8 1 f at that hat ea a the Missouri river near the Manuel tisanes on F Fort Port rt of ot North Dakota Dakota- Along Alon g wl with h n boundary sou southern he of d death uth over o the date the dispute the Is a n dl dispute over and the he site of her grave e of ot her name North and South correct spelling Dakota Missouri and Montana say that it should be Wyoming and Oregon contend that It should be Sacajawea and a 8 compromise of ot has been offered History records few finer examples of heroic motherhood than this Shoshone Indian girl who at nt the age of sixteen as the wife of Toussaint Charbonneau Charbouneau a French Trench Canadian tr trapper was vas vas guiding g Lewis arid arill Clark on their magnificent adventure over the Shining mountains to Everywhere Everywhere Every where Salt Water Strapped on her back was her two months old baby Baptiste Charbonneau who as ns one historian has hns recorded was a bo boy boj child destined to go down In his country's history as the first baby to cross the Rocky mountains and paddle his toes In the Pacific Mother and andson son sun have already been Immortalized In three statues One which now stands In a park In Portland Ore are was made by Alice Cooper and was the outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing piece of sculpture at the Lewis and Clark Clarl exposition In that city Ity Another w was s' s made by Bruno for tor the Louisiana Purchase exposition exposition ex position in St. St Louis and the third made marle by Leonard Crun Crunelle lle stands on the state capitol grounds In Bismarck N N. 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D the gift of the fed federated crated women's clubs and school children of that state Considering the value of her services to this nation the erection of a fourth statue to her memory to mark the place where site she was wa burled buried Is eminently fitting and even then our debt to SacaJawea Is far tar from being paid The Thc nations nation ns n's s debt to a n third thin heroic mother still remains unpaid so far as a memorial to her ler memory Is concerned She was wm WInema Woman Chief better hetter known as ns Tobey Riddle a woman of ot the MOllo tribe who has often been called The UThe Pocahontas of the Iava Lava Be Beds For Tob Tobey y Riddles Riddle's friendship for the whites cursed caused her to risk her life In their behalf more than o pace oice ce dur during rn rag ing the Modes Modoc war It Ic Ore Oregon on ant and rl Call Cali f in 1873 1573 She and her husband Riddle n a Kentucky frontiersman were Interpreters for the peace commission which was trying to bring about a settlement of the difficulties she he he- tween the lullo S 'S and anel the army which had hen been sent serit n against them after hostilities had commenced late In 1812 Upon learning that the were planning to murder the commissioners when they met under a D flag of truce Tobey Riddle le knowing full well that it might mean depth death at the hands of her tribesmen betrayed the plot to the com commissioners commis- commis mis and tried to persuade them not to attend the council They refused to believe that the Indians would dare treachery and Insisted upon going through with the arrangements So they went to the council and the thc heroic Indian woman accompanied them Her ner warning of ot the Indians Intentions proved ed to be n a true one one In the midst of the thc council the opened fire on the whites killing Gen Cen E. E R. R S S. Canby and Rev nev Eleazer Thomas and seriously wounding A. A B Meacham When Tobey Riddle sprang to the defense defense de de- tense of Meacham and tried to pr prevent one ate of th thai from scalping him she was struck down But Rut her quick wit which led her to c exclaim Soldiers coming caused the to flee and no doubt saved sl life Tobey Riddle was the mother muther of C. C Riddle fUddle the handsome boy Charka larka mentioned by hy maD mangy writers of that period an nn educated Indian has written what Is 15 probably the most history of ot that lint conflict which has ever er he been en pro tro Tobey robey Riddle died filled iJ U. U liU WJ during an tin epidemic of ot Influenza which wept nIH tin rh residents of the thc Klamath in Ore i |