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Show THK SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. ITAII News Notes i Pnviltf It's ItH f Utah (.drr," N'o," it the ld one said if un fairies should uti till v da, rn We Ins." the l "mm fittf lead?, tailed h' Fairy. fairies C.IWNJnOX t run i ir.tero'.-t.- ed I gV.ly ovtf rtr f., chui! n n ihtaU.t, They ave it'd King of (Si Cud d a they went by a pat on .!s wii m. at sniil, emh ib turn: going to rod tomorrow, ar ti'l you?" "Ves." ,.:d li e King of Urn Cloud, when Mr Ntm wears that handsome red u,t Ju-- I I fore he f- - t ! L and when I.' fi'ries i.r glowing nml 1 k .ow ll Is a hint for rol I'm In xt diy. net o rtay at I a gl.i l. I'.ous'i, "I am I :,ve a r. c writing to do." each cloud fairy Writ ns?" ad-and ami f.;ry In turn. said the King of ti e Clou U "I uni ring to wilt a list of Ihe we're in huve this autumn. r..Iiiy d.i "I'm going to give iheiu to iheArmy of Raindrop bo ilu-- will lnw Jut work, and Ju- -t how to, arrange tln-l- r how to arrange fit lr ptuy." That's a good Idea," ruld Ihe sun fairies. And the cloud fairies all raid: "Thata g sn idea." "Ves." a'd the King of the Cloud, "and I shall have Mr. Sun alga hls 1 1 "ure In-i- fr d "?, - JOUXLimt ZKTATCD SPOTTED CALF n&jxwLiArr ZFAvarJ 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 4 M ERICAS Indian day come on September 25 and Indention nr that It will be butt widely ' wml tbl jenr than at anyIn lime tlnee It waa originated llllnnla In 1911). The pun' Amurleun Indian day la to footer more cordial relntlona and a bet- tA the ter understanding red and white rare, but more peclnlly to bring to the attention of the whiles the many accomplishment of the Indian. of In lew of Unit feet, the recent notetwo hooka, written by Indiana, I worthy. for In both My People, the Sioux.' by Chief Standing Itonr, puidlshcd by Houghton M'.f-f-t in ooinjmny, and lamg I at nee," by Chief Buffalo Child Long I a lice, pnhlhhid by tbe Cosmopolitan I.ook corjmrutlon, the white man ean find an accurate portrayal of the Indian character. exemplified In the life atorlea of these of two of the lineal type of North American Indiana the Sioux and the Rlnrkfect. For what Chief Stamllf.g Pear aa.va In the preface to his hook applies to both. He write: The preparation of thla book haa not been with It I Jnrt a mereaa to th any Idea of white race; to brtna my people before thetr ' In a true and authentic manner. The American Indian hae been written about by hundred of of authors of white olood or possibly br an Indian mixed blood who hna spent the creater part of hla In a life away from a reservation. These are- not position to write accurately about the struggles and dlsappotntm nta of the Indian. White men who have tried to write stories about the Indian have either foisted on the publicif some they Impossible "thriller"; or, n have been In sympathy with the Indian, have wi.t-teand not accurate was which from knowledge reliable. No one Is able to understand the Indian race like an Indian. A brief review of the career of Standing Peur will show how eminently tilted lie Is to Interpret his people of the ted nice to the white race, lie wus born in IStiS when the Sioux were still muimds, whose proud spirit hud not yet been tamed by military conquest and by being penned upon on reservations, wltere they came enough Into contact with a certain class of white mail to lme their primitive virtues corrupted by that contact. As a boy be lived In the bufi'ulo-skttipi of the old time Plains Indians and received front his elders the spiritual and physical training which resembled that of the Spartans of ancient times; hs a young man he kuevv the thrill of the buffalo chiise and the Intertribal war? which develop'd a race of first class fighting nun of whom General F. W. Benteeu once said Tlu-- (the Sioux) are the greatest warriors that the sub ever shone on. Although too young to have a part In the last stand of the Sioux against the I'nlted States government In the War the fact that he was the son of an of 1S70-7of the Sioux and one who was chief hereditary prominent In both the war and peace councils "f his tribe gave Standing Pear an unusual opportunity to know the facts about some of the in cidents of that last stand. And It may be noted In passing that historians of the future might well take Into consideration Standing Pear's narrative before writing again of such matters as the Battle of the Little Pig Horn where Guster perished, the death of Crazy Horse In the guard house at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the now famous affair at Wounded Knee which some white historians have called a "battle hut which the Sioux to this day call a massacre." Standing Pears education (In the sense In which the white man uses that term) began when he was one of the first group of Sioux children to school for Indians, at enter the Carlisle. Pa.. In 1S79. It continued there for several years, was supplemented as an employee of ,T.hn Wannmaker at hi store In Philadelphia and continued as an employee of the government on the Rosebud and Tine Ridge reservations, as a member of Buffalo Bins wild west slow both In npH-aranc- e repre-M-ntntlv- aelf-glor- blood-curdlin- y newly-establishe- d movie actor In be now live. Tbe this country and abroad and aa southern California where dlalntice which Standing Pear of the Klous hits covered In following the white nmn'a road" Is nothing less than amazing. In the abort apace of sixty years there lias been written In the history thousand )enrs of of this Individual at letnd racial history, a glanl'c stride from hartmrlMii to what we call "civilisation! Soon after Standing Benr wits born bis pojde aaw for the first time a ranroad train on the I'n ton I'ueillc railroad, which was then being pmdied west. With mixed emotions of amazement nnd feur they wutched this great snake" go puffing across Hie prairie, little realizing that It was to he one of the vital forces In bringing about the downfall of their nice at the hands of a more powerful nnd ruthless type of civilization. The halve i.ttltude of the Sioux toward the railroad. ns well its toward many other of the tilings In the puges used by the white men. ns rctlei-tecomof this red matts book Is the t pos.-lhdifference between the ttie great mentary upon Standing Bistr of IStiS nnd the Standing Pear of PCS. And reading tills, the white man may learn how unjust he has been to the red man not unjust In the sense that he robbed the Indian of his lands nnd Ills freedom and Imposed upon hint restrictions hateful to a free spirited ami roving people, hut unjust In Ids attitude toward the Indian, the attitude which .made Idm expect the red man to adopt almost overnight a social and economic order which the white man had evolved only after centuries of painful effort. It Is this fact which makes the rending of hook ns those written by Standing Pear nnd Buffalo Child Long Lance especially appropriate to the alms of American Indian day. For by tloing so, the American of the present day, no nintter how Indifferent he may be to the "wrongs perpetrated upon the Indian by Americans of pst generations, can come more nenrty having an adequate understanding of the Indian point of view, both past anil present, nnd thus he ntde to do Ids share In avoiding further Injustice to a brave people who still form a not inconsiderable part of the population of this country. What Is true of Chief Standing Rear ns nn authentic Interpreter of the real Indian Is no less true of Chief Buffalo Child Long I.nnce, nnd the history of hls life Is ns romantic a record of transformation ns Is flint of the Sioux chiefs. What that life wns Is Intimated by Irvin S. Cobh, who wrote in the foreword to "Long Lance" this: It was an altogether another and a different book that my friend Buffalo Child Lons; I.nnce mlpht have written. He mtpht have written to tell how he won scholastic and athletic honors at Carl-Isl- e and at Manlius; of how. while masterlna th white man's tongue, he learned half a dozen trtbnl languages ether than hls own; of how, having received a presidential award of appointment to West Point, he threw awav thnt most cherished dream of hls the dream of being a Indian officer In the regular armv to cross the line In 1916, and at the first call for recruits for overseas service, to enl'st In the Canadian forcea: of how. going In as a private, he came out at the end of the World war as a captain of infantry, hls body covered with wounds and his breast glittering with medals bestowed for high conduct and gallantry: of how he fought rs aIn sniper, a a the trenches raider, as a leader of forlorn hopes and across No Man's Land, of how his own people conferred upon him the chieftainship of one of the four principal bands of the Northern Blackfeet: of how, beginning as a reporter on a western Canadian paper, he has earned for himself distinction as a writer of magazines. He might have told these things, but, being an Indian, he didn't. And I far one am glad that he hae written this one For here, sinking his own engaging personality, hls own Individual achievements In the background, he depicts graphic phases of a life which has altogether vanished, of a race which I know of no man better Is rapidly vanishing fitted than Chlet Long Lance to write a true hook abouL the true American Indian and I know of no book on the subject which better reveals the eptrit of the Indian In the years that are gene and the spirit of times the tike of which will never be seen again Although Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance Is n younger man than Chief Standing Boar, hls recollections of his childhood are of those of a people la-s- le eorperatlaw. a child-trainin- j, T?e tn fratu.e l-- e Nip- r b!g pul! h- -r ee of the tsl of the Ssnrrte which I in be held Sp 12. 15 nd H, S, W. Chpwn tr the pulUcg eetet In of Ma".tJ h hundred leiwt charge, lie ripeti a order lh ranteL letter Jut BRIGHAM riTY- -h of ram. I rHmber local tho Iy Ih-- r II. r Geary (Iitveffti ti tn tee . Invi'-the chief errJtix0 fcfcmt an In IVarh the to n day ti. pxrlirJpa.e 11 15. f,- - iv tie hr r off Srptetitl-eCr'.hrr f rutt!' cr.t turn of the rttl hv ai Mgai.'rd thei. itr: ti.fi I Hefid ll-fc!r pejrh fec.i' ah MYTON Farmer who reSle elon to Mt. Kmmrn. Ali msH and BlurMl, water when fxrre ha been uHt'-er e d irrirition purpose, arc havieg re ule In the rxSini of grain I th! retru It. So" of the field l' buh W poL.clng from thirty to furty cm:de-af-- r 3-- . of wheat to the rre. A portion of the prrln hi alreadv bora cut d some ha !ccn ihrarhed. PROVO Arcord'ng to Jhn F. Mendenhall. ntanarrr of the t'tah County Fair avzorintion. every rffort I be'n? mad? to bring to the fair thin jear a greater exhibit In all department A better program of her e raeing together with epecial entertaining h a-- I xvcll under wa?. The fair oner. FeptemVr 27 and will continue fur three day. WASHIN'STON'-S- Lake alt leade In per- f as primitive aa the Sioux from which Standing Peur sprang. They were the Black feet, culled the "Tlgern of the I'lulns who were the ruling tribe e Mrkrd centage of grain In post office receipt in the month of August, a compared wi.h Augurt of last yer.r, according off-rfigure made ruhlic at the of th postmaster general. The grain Is 7.f2 per cent, from $103, 911 to $117,420. Onlv four out of fifty large citie in the United Svat, Included in thii txhuhxtion have a larger gain. 4- - of a wild domain known as the northwest territories In Canada until ISkO when the province and Saskatchewan came Into being of Alle-rtGo among those Blackfeet today nnd they will tell you of their thoughts at feeing their first white men no lately did "civilization" touch heir lives. laing lattice's first remembrance Is of un Intertribal bottle which took place In northern Mon-t.m- n perhaps on the very nM,t where today some automobile tourl-- t Is camping! And Chief Buffulo Child Long Lnrn-- Is scarcely thirty years of age. Like Standing Peur he received a Spartan training nnd learned to ride, to shoot and speak the truth, and reading In their books of the qualities which this train'ng developed in the Indian hoys makes one wonder if perhaps the modern "civilized American might not lean some profitable from these "Imrimrluns." lessons in Although of different tribes and tribe? which were undent nnd hereditary enemies there Is s striking similarity between the narratives of this Sioux and this Rluckfoot. Both bring out very forcibly the qualities of honesty, generosity, true reverence and simple kindliness of the primitive Indian character before It was Influenced by the white mans ways. A typical Incident Is given In Long loinces hook in telling of a buffalo hunt. It was the Indian mans Job to provide the meat for the family by killing the buffalo and the In dlnn woman's Joh to follow the hunt nnd skin and dress the dead animals. Lone Lance writes: Each wife knew which animals hnd been brought down by her husband by the arrow which hnd For everv tndinn had his arrow been left tn It painted a eertain way, so that anythlna he k lieda tf he shot with it could easily be identified buffalo with a bullet he would circle book and hurl one of hls arrows In its body, so his wife would know It was hls The young son of our late medicine man. White Dog, was sitting on hls pony among us boys He was carrying on his back a quiver full of his dead fathers 'arrows, which hls mother had given h.m to play with. One of the women came over to this lad and took out one of White Dogs arrows acd walked out on tbe field nnd pulled one of her own husband's arrows out of a buffalo bull and stuck White Dog's ariow in the hole She said nothing to anyone; but later we saw White Dogs widow squatting over the buffalo, skinning It and sobbing quietly over the bloody pelt. Just as Standing Bear has written In Ids hook some real "Indian history from the point of view of the Sioux, so has Long Lance written the . story of the relations between the white nnd red races from the point of view of his people, the Blackfeet And there Is no more thrilling and Inspiring (if a person admires pure "grit In a man. whether he he white or red) story anywhere than his account of the epic of the Indian out law. Almighty Voice. Almighty Voice was, the son of Sounding Sky and Spotted Calf, who were Long Lances foster parents, wherefore he knows whereof he writes in telling thnt warrior's story. Almighty Voice became an outlaw through an' unfortunate chain of circumstances. By mistake he laid killed a steer belonging to the government of the Northwest Territories and tie was arrested by the mounted police and lodged In Jail. One of the police Jokingly told him they were "going to hang him for killing that steer, little realizing tlte terrible effect which this Joke would have on the untutored Indian. But Almighty Voice escaped from Jail and then began what was perhnps the most famous man hunt In the history of that famous organization, noted for the fact that It always gets its man." It Is true that the mounted police finally did get Almighty Voice but at a terrible cost. The hunt for him lasted two years. Finally they cornered him, hut it was not until artillery was brought into action and tbe place la which Almighty Voice and two companions were entrenched thoroughly shelled thnt he wns finajly conquered. And when he wa? conquered, he was no longer able to harm his attackers. For Almighty Voice bad died fighting. Lip. Th). of the blyg? rll other here western citie Photograph of Chief ntaodlog Beer, reartrag poor. Other photographs, llaoghlea Nlllls coo. Ifeeh row rt rap Coaoiopelllaa g rrp county l. rVpi fr the Frepaiat-an- a t!e oirm of r ' followed llama Fiiy whctvu-- r i i.t. Ah. aueli a game and Uh a eba-- e ae ,he b-Iley followed her over Ik rb'Uds. II ey ran Bad ey JtlUped. They J over eat l other. Jut, 1 i ey I' peat. A ru'c-beper !rriy Run of their m e i," W et a)) t f I'leh rmintf re txiff made by the grower. I'tah raiwtf Curding te V. J, of e-- hrr Tie Ute hae fork individual f fram maty la 0,fk0 hm, IROVO iey finally agiscd it Be SUM furim would be (he and the uu fjty chou w Fairy, IL.me lBow I i.lius toe mherv.tr I The tloud fairhs and it." tun relarra In IuH tf pprxiitely Iw have drx-a- U IB la the Sell Let Matkjerje recrjv.rf return per km ?r ytir 12 bs-m- ar the Le-tUw- k re t go l Ud Ufore ji.i Fit-tu- of lb aftef ) U U-- e l tfteat l vbii Iff that Mat Iter I Safi Kt4 rare of WUrnt-JW- tir uu faWlre, Rail. ! bats j.lajp I?? cloud fairies be the IMvt-- r ! Ur tf FLAME FAIilY la t oe M .... MaryOrahamBonrier SALT LAKF-- < ; C.r.CE'J RIVER Fivers the Melon day. Green annual festival, waa cfUbrated Monday by one ef biff Liffffet lv t crowds ever to assemble at cf Last jeer's crowd C eon River. 7(ht0 person was equaled If not Follow Me," Said Flame Fa.iy. name to my writing ulso. so lie will ste If he u( prows of the days I've cltos-- n for rainy ones, and the ottos for unshiuy oi!s." "Well," said Flame Fulry, "I gue-- s grown-up- s untl children wish they could plan for picnics, parties, uud everything." "Ah, said the King of the Cloud. "I wouldn't give them my list even if I could. iln-would stay at home on the rainy days Htid never start off any where, and its much nicer to have them go uheud and do things and huve a good time, rain or shine." And then they left the King of the Clouds and finished their game of and had a most exciting trip and following time. Then the sun fairies wont to hod. But that night when they played that game there was a red edg'ng the cloud-'- , just as thou::h they were flames, and It was really the Flame Fairy leading the others iu the game. Spoke to the Horszs little country girl, who had been away in the city for several years, finally returned to her country home. A She had, of course, forgotten much of the country lore that had been known to her, but the family did not realize it. She wus obliged one day to pass behind a team of horses, and the man in charge of the horses told her to speak to them before going behind them, so they would not kick her. She hesitated, and looked embarrassed. He told her again. "Speak to the horses, so they will not kick you, beStill she fore passing behind them. hesitated and he told her a third time. Then, giving a shy look to the very much horse?, and apparently embarrassed, she said How d' do," aud slipped on past. Need Not Suffer Little Girl Why are the chickens making' such a noise, mummy? Mother They want their breakfast, dear. Little Girl Well, If theyre so hungry why don't they lay themselves some eggs? Transmitter Too Teacher I wish you and your little brother would stop moving your cars. I never witnessed such strange twiteb-lag- s. Jack Aw, teacher we were only iracticing the Morse coda ex- ceeded by the asscnblare from all ovtr exstern and sou hnrn Utah, which c,,nrre,ra'ed hfre Monday to do hvm-a- p to the principal product of the va'ley the melon. rd MYT0NT The public will hlffh school of Daches-onon Monday, S'ptember 19. Several of the buildings are being put in better condition ar.d ne'v equipment provided. A total of twelve truck lines have been eMtablirhcd providing transportation for the pupils. The Duchesne county teacher institute will be held Thur-dx- y and Friday, September 6, and 7, at Duchesne. An interesting program Is being prepared. COALVILLE Coalville city council has named a committee to invest-iat- e the cost of in'ts'llng pipe from the flowing hot well in the recently acquired city park, with instructions ta report at the next meeting The services of Emil Hansen, landscape gardener at the Utah Agricultural college, have been secured to design the r.evv park grounds, and It is erpected this work will be under way within a short time. F1J.LMORE Opening dav of the Millard county fair, bednff held at Fillmore, was attended by one of the largest crowds ever assembled at a Hillard county fair. The exhibits in the department of agriculture, domestic science and art and education were effectively displayed in the recently remodeled old state canitol, the work of remodeling having just been completed in preparation for the establishment of a state museum in the old e y historic structure. RICHMOND The state road commission and the eommi,s;oncrs of Cache county have reached an agreement whereby the road commission will put the highway from the Richmond crossroads through Lewiston to the Idaho state line in good condifm and level up the detour that runs through Cove precinct. Both of th?e highways have been u'ed as a detour while the concrete highway in the north part of the county was being The two roads are to be constructed. class in first shape, it is said. put OGDEN W. R. Chaplain, head f the United States forest service grazing research at Washington D. C., conferred with officials of the intermountain forest service here for a shot time recently. Mr. Chaplir.e was en route to California fVom the eat. Ernest Winkler, chief of grazing m the intermountain forest service, returned to Ogden from southern Utah at the time of Mr. ChanFnes vi'.t, The ranees in southern Utah are very dry, but both cattle and sheep ar? in good condition, showing goad weights, Hr. 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