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Show Thursday, June 7. 1931 THE TIMES-NEW- NEPI1I. UTAH S. PACE SEVEN WEUL Impossible for Dairy Herd to Get Enough to Hold Weight, Strength. ' ir sS-i- 0J O c V ,v - North Carolina Stat "" Rl J IK! ?lir. i Collrs. WNU aarvte. It Is falxe economy to make cattle depend entirely on pasturage for roughage at this season of the year. Yet many dairymen are Inclined to do so on account of the usual shortage of rough feeds in the spring. The belief seems prevalent that young grass will supply a sufficient amount of nourishment for Immature grass Is about 00 per cent water, and It Is physically for cattle to eat enough of It to maintain their bodywelght and strength and produce a prullt-abl- e ' LX,"7 , . 1' THE CHARGE ON ADOBE WALLS ; , av . f fFnm lh Painting bf - ' ity 't ,, ' the saloon, who were already awake and dressed. buffalo guns ID to the windows with their big their hands. I - Billy Dixon By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IXTY years ago this month there occurred a fight, the Btory of which has become one of the classics of 0 the Western frontier. That was the Battle of Adobe Walls which began on the early morning of June 27, 1874, when a war party of several hundred Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Kiowa Apache Indians attacked a buffalo hunters' camp, occupied by 23 men and one woman, located on the south fork of the Canadian river In what is now Hutchinson county In the Texas Panhandle. Characteristic of its ranking as a frontier classic Is the number of men who at one time or another have been called "survivors' of the Adobe Walls fight Seemingly every who was ever a buffalo hunter on the Southwestern plains In the 7ds has been accorded the distinction of "He fought at Adobe Walls" by amateur historians and Imaginative newspaper reporters, and this, despite the fact that there has been In existence for many years an authentic list of the actual participants which might easily disprove the claim advanced in favor of spurious defenders of that outpost of the fronold-tim- tier. Under the terms of the Medicine Lodge treaty 1807, the federal government fixed the Arkansas river as the northern boundary of the Indian country for the tribes of the Southwestern plains and guaranteed that white hunters should not cross that stream. But they did. In 1872 the mushroom town of Dodge City, Kan., sprang Into existence and became the outfitting point and center of activity of the hide hunters who, with their big Sharps buffalo guns, were constantly invading the red man's country. By the spring of 1874 the slaughter had been so great that the buffalo had been virtually wiped out near Dodge City. So A. C. Myers, who was In the general merchandise business in Dodge, organized an expedition to establish a trading post farther south where the hunters could get their supplies and to which they would bring their buffalo hides which Myers would freight back to the Kansas "hide capital." Forming a partnership with Fred Leonard and accomfrontiersmen, Myers panied by a party of d set ut for the forbidden Indian country. Among the members of the party were Jim Hanrahan, an old buffalo hunter who was going along to open a saloon at the new trading post; Thomas O'Keefe, a blacksmith; and two young buffalo hunters destined for future fan-"Billy Dixon and Bat Masterson. After a Jov Mey of 150 miles the expedition reached a spot on the Bouth fork of the Canadian where stood, the ruins of an old trading post, known as Adobe Walls, which had been built by William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, some time before 1840. A mile or so farther on, in a broad valley where there was a pretty stream called East Adobe Walls creek, Myers and his companions unloaded their wagons and set about establishing the sec ond lobe Walls which was to become even more famous than the first. ' Myers and Leonard built a picket house, 20 by CO feet In size; Hanrahan put up a sod house, 25 by O'Keefe opened his blacksmith shop rh a picket structure, 15 feet square. My ers and Leonard also built a stockade corral by setting big cottonwood logs on end in the ground. A short time later, Rath and Wright, leading merchants of Dodge City, decided to establish a branch store at Adobe Walls and built a sod house, 10 by 20 feet, leaving James Langton in charge of the new business there. To Adobe Walls also came William Olds and his wife to spen a restaurant , For several years the Indians had been watch' Ing with Increasing alarm the wasteful slaugh ter of th buffalo by the white hunters. So when in the spring of 1S74 a Comanche medicine mini named Isatal announced that he had t new medicine which would enable Diem to of 20-od- Chief Qoanah JC ; " ! fc: wipe out the white men who were exterminating the buffalo, he found the tribesmen ripe for such a crusade. The first Indian leader to agree to help In this laudable enterprise was a chief of the son of CynComanches, Quanah, the thia Ann Parker, who as a little girl had been stolen from her home In Texas and had become the wife of the great Chief Peta Nocona. Then the medicine man "carried the pipe" to the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas and Kiowa Apaches and they readily agreed to accompany their Comanche brethren. So a great war party of between 600 and 700 mounted warriors set out for the buffalo hunters' camp and on the night of June 26 they camped about five or six miles from Adobe Walls, began painting themselves and their horses and preparing themselves for the charge against the hated white men. "Those men shall not fire a shot; we shall kill them all," was the promise of Isatal. That night at Adobe Walls 28 men and one woman slept peacefully, little realizing that a storm of savage wrath was about to be hurled against them. In Hanrahan's saloon were Hanrahan, Bat Masterson, Mike Welch, Hiram Watson, Billy Ogg, James McKlnley, "Bermuda" Carlisle, Billy Dixon and a man named Shepherd. In Myers and Leonard's store were Leonard, James Campbell, Edward Trevor, Frank Brown, Harry Armitage, Billy Tyler, "Old Man" Keeler, Mike McOabe, Henry Lease and two men known only as "Dutch Henry" and "Frenchy." In Rath and Wright's store were James Langton, George Eddy, Thomas O'Keefe, Sam Smith, Andrew Johnson and William Olds and his wife. Just outside the stockade two brothers named Shadier, who bore the nicknames of "Mexico Ike" and "Blue Bill" and who were engaged. In freighting hides to Dodge City, were sleeping In their wagons with a big Newfoundland dog at their feet About two o'clock in the morning Shepherd and Mike Welch were awakened by a report that sounded - like the crack of a rifle. They sprang up and discovered that the big cotton- wood ridge pole which supported the dirt roof saloon had cracked and was of Hanrahan's about to allow the roof to collapse. Hastily awakening others In the place, they set to work repairing the roof and this commotion aroused others who fell to and assisted them. Before going to sleep, Dixon and Hanrahan had prepared themselves for an early start in the morning for the buffalo bunting grounds to the northwest By the time the repairs to the roof of the saloon were completed, the sky was growing red In the east. So Hanrahan pro posed to Dixon that. Instead of going back to bed, they get ready to start out as soon as rt was light To this Dixon agreed and as he started ttf get his horse he looked down the vat- ley and there,' through the dim light of the morning, he saw-- a sight which almost paralyzed him for a moment A dark mass of horsemen was moving swiftly up the valley and the next moment it had spread p shat out like a fan and a mighty tered the stillness. Isatal was coming with his host of wild tribesmen to make good his prom ise to wipe out the buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls. Throwing his rifle to his shoulder, Dixon fired one shot then turned and sped toward the Hanrahan saloon as the wild charge of the Indians swept down upon him. But this hasty warning was enough to bring the occupants of half-bree- d war-whoo- "We were scarcely Inside before the Indians had surrounded all the buildings and shot out every window pane," Billy Dixon says. "For the first half hour the Indians were reckless and daring enough to ride up and strike the doors with the butts of their guns." And Andrew Johnson has recorded how the savages backed their horses up against the doors of the buildings and tried to push them in, showing a willingness to fight at close quarters almost unpar alleled In Indian warfare." But the steady fire of the buffalo hunters soon discouraged this and after beating off several attacks, the white men had a chance to take stock of their losses. Strange to say, there were only three. The two Shadier boys, asleep In their wagon outside the stockade, had been killed and scalped. Their big Newfoundland dog had evidently put up a fight for he was also killed and "scalped" a piece of hide having been cut from his side. Billy Tyler, one ol the defenders of the Leonard and Myers store, was killed early In the fighting and except for tiome minor wounds these were the only casualties. Time after time the Indians charged, but as their ponies were knocked down by the heavy slugs of lead from the buffalo guns and more and more of their warriors were killed or wounded. It began to dawn upon them that Isatal had been a false prophet. So the charges ceased. During one of these lulls a young Co manche, gorgeously appareled in war bonnet and scalp shirt and mounted on a fine pony, made a lone charge toward the bu!'.dings In the face of a hot fire from the hunters. Riding up close to one of the buildings, he leaped from bis pony, thrust a through a porthole and emptied It He then attempted to retreat but was shot down. This daring warrior who had hoped to make a great name for himself by his lone charge was the son of Horseback, one of the leading chiefs of the Comanches. By late afternoon the Indians had given up hope of wiping out the defenders of Adobe Walls and began to withdraw. After an anxious night of watchfulness the buffalo hunters discovered the next morning that only a few Indians were lingering around the place and they were soon driven off by some long distance shots. During the second day hunters from some of the outlying camps made their way unmolested into Adobe Walls and that night one of them, Henry Lease, was sent to Dodge City for help. On the third day a party of about 15 Indians appeared on a high bluff east of Adobe Walls, but they were quickly dispersed by a shot from Billy Dixon's rifle which knocked one of the savages from his horse. It is this Incident that gave rise to one of the myths about the Adobe Walls affair, different accounts of it placing the distance of the shot all the way from a mile to a mile and a half I By Dixon's own testimony "The distance was not s far from of a mile. I was admittedly a good marksman, yet this was what might be called a 'scratch' shot" More hunters came In on the third day and by the sixth day there were fully a hundred men gathered there. It Is among these latecomers that so many of the "survivors" of later years were numbered. But by this time the danger from the Indians had passed. The red men had departed for a series of raids In Kansas and Texas which soon brought the military Into the field and resulted In their eventual defeat But before the affair at Adobe' Walls ended there was one more tragedy, one which darkened the life of the brave woman defender, Mrs. Olds. On the fifth day her husband was coming" down a ladder with a gun in his hand when It went off accidentally, and she rushed from an adjoining room In time to see hia body roll from the ladder and crumple at her feet Today three monuments stand on the site of Adobe Walls. One is a small slab of granite which marks the grave of William Olds. Another marks the last resting place of the Shadier brothers. The third is a huge red granite monument which tells that "Here on June 27, 1874, about 700 picked warriors from the Comanche, Cheyenne and Kiowa Indian tribes were defeated by 28 brave frontiersmen" and it boars the names of the 28 who truly "fought at Adobe Walls." three-fourth- milk (low. Such practices are also liable to result In the cows eating weeds, wild onions, and buds In an effort to get a sullU'lent ration. When they do this, their milk is unpalatable and not good for drinking or butter making. Dry roughage provides the bulk feed needed and also much nourishment that Is essential to constant and profitable milk production. Another factor In heavy grazing of young pastures Is the damage done to the sod by extensive tramping and grazing before the soil has dried out The result will be a greatly curtailed yield later In the year. Temporary grazing can be provided by such grazing and soiling crops as cereals sown in the fail. Later In the summer, when permanent pastures are In good condition, the cows can gradually be Introduced to a more substantial green diet. However, a grain ration Is needed at all times. 1I ... C by Western Newtpacar trnloo. Pasture Seeding for Contract Acres Suggested 3-- A More Illinois land will be seeded to grass during the next two years than ever before In the history of the state, prophesies H. P. Rusk head of the animal husbandry department of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. movement Is This spreading throughout the state as a result of the government's corn-ho- g and wheat adjustment programs In which some 2,000,000 acres of land will be taken out of Illicrop production by nois farmers. A large percentage of this former wheat and corn land will be seeded to permanent or pastures for live stock and many Illinois producers are wondering what grass seeds or mixtures of seeds should be used. For early live stock carrying capacity of permanent pastures, all records at the University of Illinois were broken by a heavy seeding consisting of 12.3 pounds of 2.5 pounds of red clover, 2.5 pounds of sweet clover, 4.1 pounds of timothy, 1.6 pounds of clover and .4 pounds of white clover. This mixture may be used for seeding contracted acres, without violation of the AAA corn-hocontract, provided it Is In addition to the average acreage devoted to pasture in 1932 and 19M3 and is not pastured in 1934. "back-to-grass- " blue-gras- s, al-si- g Bees Are in Demand Were it nol that honey producing is profitable enough to Induce people to keep bees, it would be necessary to raise some type of Insect solely for the purpose of says Dr. E. F. Phillips, professor of entomology at Cornell university. In his recent address to the Empire State Honey ProSo necessary ducers' association. Is the service that bees render to the fruit growers of New York state that 600 colonies of them were imported last year to aid In polleniza-tlo- n in Niagara county alone, and in other counties throughout the region growers are renting colonies of bees for the purNot only do bees produce pose. a $2,000,000 honey crop annually in New York state but they pollenate d more than of the $15,000,-00- 0 apple crop as well. fruit-growin- g one-thir- Short Furrows The world crop of tobacco lis about 4,000,000,000 pounds a year. Unusually early crops are aiding a strong agricultural situation In California. For the first time In three years cotton planters of Peru expect to make a profit this season. With a market value of $53,247,-00- 0, tomatoes were California's largest vegetable crop last year. France is reported to be on an export basis with wheat although normally she Is on an Import basis. Approximately GOO farms were sold under foreclosure proceedings during the second six months of 1033 in Ohio. Mississippi ranks as the twelfth In the nation In cheese production, manufacturing more than 5,000,000 pounds last year. state Variety of Combinations That Are Designed to Complement. To enjoy the edible good thifigt Shakespeare play. A couple of of life U one of the prerogaMv of weeks ago we the epicure. What comprises these down to Log good ttiln;ti depend upon the taste got Angeles with of the person or of the family, and our show, the preferences. The real epicure I the KtiKi'ue O'Nell person whoxe taste Iimh had a hizli play, "Ah, Wil- degree of education In foods. . Il derness," and knows how to discriminate In dimore folks were bit's, both as to quality and to comlovely to me. 1 binations. I well remember hearing had received a Chines 'cutlemati of discernment lot of wires up say of one vegetable that "It flatter In San Francisco th meat." The hoiitemaker who on our opening sets a good table learn what to there and dident servo no tliut one dish may "Hatter" more expect any Let us mention, today, another. down here, but they give us a big some dishes which "Hatter" eaeh time here, too. It was one of the other. most sympathetic and "Well WishCranberry sauce flatters chicken, ing" first nlRhts I ever saw. We caper sauce does the same to mutbe to thought they were going ton, and apple sauce does to roast tough, and be busy looking at each pork, duck and goose. Cabbage flatother and niaby not notice the stae ters boiled corn beef, baked mara-ron- l at all. But they were not that way. and cheese do the same to They just looked like they felt, roust beef, and In England Yorkshire Here Is a bunch of actors that are pudding Is the accepted accompanidoing their best". The rest of the ment to beef. In Europe a salad cast outside of the (so called) star correct with chicken, goose, and was Just about perfect. Its the best other roast bird. supporting cast ever assembled on To Europeans a salud signifies the Coast. They really look, act and dressed lettuce or other salad greens feel like a family. with, possibly, the addition of a litUp In San Francisco I had re- tle chopped beet root or tomato M. ceived lovely wires from George slices. Other salads they have, but Cohan, who really plays the part In these have especial descriptive desNew York, and bis has been unani ignations. Salad, as an accompanimously declared the best perform- ment to flatter must birds. Is plain a Is he ance given this year. Well, unless otherwise specified. The salad lovely fellow, and I wish I had the Is served with the birds as naturally wire here, but I got It in the bank and regularly, ns are potatoes' or In a vault along with the one I got other vegetables. I never O'Nell. Mr from Eugene Turnip Is a recognized accompani thought I would ever get a personal ment of corned beef. It la also exwire from Eugene O'Nell. But the cellent with lamb. Sweet potatoes are. nicer are the they bigger they are preferable to white with ham. And he said this part of Nat Miller was bis favorite part of all his plays. Pineapple flatters ham. In India I am just picking wires as they ripe pineapple slices are put on top of a slice of bam which 1st then lay here that I have kept all this baked, or cooked In a similar way. time from the opening. Banks Win- The Juice extracted by the heat per remember timers him, ter, you old "White Wings." He lives out here colates through the meat, giving It a delicious flavor. Ham so cooked a with his charming daughter. Is reputed to be especially digestible. Winter, who Is married very Whipped cream flatters many des happily to Norman Spears, a news- serts which are complete without WinMr And paper syndicate owner. ter Is just fine. May and Bill Carle-ton- , this dainty addition. It goes with he was the leading man with cold desserts especially, even top Blanche Ring in "The Wall Street ping some Ice creams. Meringue be Girl" when I was with It, a fine ac- longs In the same class with whippedtor. Rita Donlin, Mike's wife. Mike cream. It can be used Interchangein many Instances, althocgh played with me in "Dr Bull", his last ably since it is more tasty when dell-- ' out Nellie lives Nichols, picture. here. Wasent she clever, and what cately browned, It belongs peculiarly to baked and even hot dishes. When songs she had! Frank Behring and wife, Frank on frozen desserts a hot iron "is fiehl runs the Sherman Hotel In Chicago above the piled meringue so that It, and has housed and mothered more alone, gets the force of the Intense of us performers than any other Inn heat. Ices with browned meringue are epicurean dishes. ' keeper living. The next In the pack tops A food which flatters another must man as any be is Chick Sales, as fine a something apart from the dish business ever produced, and what itself. That Is, It be'a Koprtritte an actor. If Chick ever had an ene- food served as a may , complement:. to": It, been world must have In It the my or it be an addition, to dsb" a plumber. Lowell Sherman, great itself may which, however, couM . "Kel,' actor, now even a better director. served without It. Sid Grauman, the best movie show' Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. man ever produced either East or .1 West. Eddie Cantor, who has been That Ought to Help'f, my good friend over many years, Banker Do you. kh'ow lyiyf says, "You have tried everything In the amusement line. There Is noth about checks and drafts? ' .,. X .".1. ing left but Grand Opera." Eddie Applicant Yes, sir, Xve !pi9rji& . knows how I like to sing with that furnace for years. ; .way terrible tenor voice. Now here is dear old "Bill" W. C. 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