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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN. UTAH Echoes of the uster Tragedyi VENTILATE TO CET COMFORT FOR HENS 1 mMSFj Simple Methods of Admitting Froth Air. can IT'S COOD NEWS that you enjoy But that's only half tbs story. a GOODYEAR. The Custer .Battlefield Today (Picture of Lieutenant Harrington, Court United 6tatoo Military Academy.) Mias Grace Alleen Harrington as postmanter at the United States Military academy. Cadets at the academy know kites Harrington a the diminutive lady on whose kindly face there Is mall to a smile a she puu-eout tlu-lthem. But to others, familiar with West Tolnt history, she is the symbol of one of the most tragic episodes in the greater tragedy of the Custer tattle. For the la the daughter of Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, a subaltern in Capt. Tom Custers C troop of the Seventh cavalry, who died on the Little Big Horn, A native of New York, Harrington wa graduated from West Point In 1863. His first duty was in North Carolina, but desiring more active service he was transfererd to the Seventh cavalry In 1S72 and joined that regiment In time to participate In several minor Indian fights. lie was on leave In 187(1 when the Seventh cavalry was ordered to join General Terrys army, which was to be tent Into the field against the hostile Sioux and Cheyenne. Upon hearing of this, Harrington Immediately telegraphed that he was giving up his leave and rejoining hit troop. 8o he was one of those who rode away from Fort Abraham Lincoln In North Dakota and took the trail which led to the Little Big Horn, to death and to otter mystery as to his end. For Lieutenant Harrington was one of the three officers (the other being Lieutenants James E. Porter of I troop and James R. Stnrgis of E troop) whose bodies were never found, at least, not Identified after the battle. Of them a noted authority on Indian history, E. A. Brinln-stooA Trooper With Custer," in hla book, writes: Nothing was ever learned of their fat and while It ha always been supposed that they were killed, but possibly not identified, yet, it is not beyond reason that all or one of them may have escaped, badly wounded to die in some place. Some writers have Insisted that they were doubtless captured alive and tortured to death that night In the Indian village which was flushed with its bloody victory over Custer. The Sioux, however, always have maintained that they took no prisoners on the occasion of the Little Big Horn fight. Not only Is the Ignorance of her father's fate one of the tragic incidents in the life of the woman who Is postmaster at West Point, where so many of Custer's officers were once cadets, but there is another tragic memory which she has carried through life a memory of her mother, who suddenly disappeared several years after the Custer battle. Amnesia it would be called nowadays, Miss Harrington says, "but at that time it was ascribed to grief and the uncertainty of what had happened to my father. Several times we heard from Indians that a lady dressed in black had been seen on the battlefield. Other reports came from Indian Territory. We Investigated all these rumors and finally after two years we found her In Texas where a severe attack of pneumonia had served to bring back her memory so that she knew who she was. But she was never able to give any account of her wanderings while she was gone or why she was there. Tragedy also stalked through the life of Miss Blanche Miss Harrington's great-aunwho was postmaster at West Point for almost 50 years. Appointed by President Polk in 1847, she served In that post until 1897. As a One young girl she was engaged to an officer. afternoon this officer brought his horse to the , Miss Harpost office to show my rington tells the story: While exercising him and demonstrating his good points, the officer was thrown and killed. This aunt never married, remaining true to the memory of her first and only love. One big thrill did come to her In her later life. While on leave of absence from the post office, which she spent in Europe, Miss had the honor of being presented to Queen Victoria." The war record of the nnrrington family dates back to the birth of the United States, for among the family papers in Miss Harringtons possession is the honorable discharge of her Niles, who was a soldier In the Continental army. This historic document Is signed by George Washington. In the Civil war members of her family participated In many engagements as volunteers. Over Miss Harrington's desk in the postoffice hang two pictures. There in the busy turmoil of mail distribution for the 1,260 cadets at the academy and an equal number of regular officers and soldiers, is a constant reminder of devotion to duty, the cornerstone of Miss Harringtons life and that of her distinguished ancestors. One of them is a picture of her father as a cadet and the other a picture of him as an officer in the regimentals of the Seventh cavalry, the uniform worn when he disappeared forever. The picture of him In cadet uniform Is enclosed In a frame made of beads and these beads were obtained by her mother from Indians in Dakota perhaps from members of the same tribe whose warriors rode over the troopers of Custer and his coptalns and his lieutenants in a red wave of savage triumph that fearful day on the Little Big Horn fifty-siyears s a CadetH&vy Moore Harrington By ELMO SCOTT WATSON year hnve pawed alnce the C, corse Armstrong dramatic close, his nnme has Wept alive fur more than half century the memory of that tragedy while other battles tnnch more Ira lrtunt historically have been all but forgotten. Scarcely a month , a without there appearing the news of the day gome echo of Custer's Last Battle" to recall our minds what took place on the Little Ilig Horn river In Montana on that fateful day In June. 1ST0. It may be an Item referring to one of the "last survivors of the Custer battle who have bobbed up with such regularity during the last five decades and who hnve so easily been proved to be fakes. As a matter of fact there were many "survivors" of the Custer battle If the term "Custer battle" Is Interpreted to mean the whole action which took place on the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1870. Those were the officers and men who were In the detachment of the Seventh cavalry, commanded by Maj. Marcus A. Reno, Capt. Frederick W. Rcnteen and CapL Thomas McDougnl, when Custer divided his command to attack the Indian village. They were the members of Troops A, G and M under Reno Troops D, II and K under Benteen ; and Troop B, which was guarding the pock train, under kJlTY-Sl- ly McDougnl. l, r : "Comanche HMm tragedy. For when Brig. Gen. Edward S. God frey, U. S. A., retired, died at his home In Cooks-towN. J., last April, it marked the end of the last of Custer's troop commanders. On the day that Custer perished. General Godfrey was Lieutenant Godfrey, commander of Troop K of the Seventh cavalry, and Troop K was a part of the battalion commanded by Capt Frederick W. Benteen, the senior captain in the Seventh, when Custer divided the regiment to make his attack on the Indian village strung along the banks of the Little Big Horn. Not only did General Godfrey play an Important part in thfe fighting which took place after Benteens command joined forces with the detachment commanded by MaJ. Marcus A. Reno, but In later years he became known as the leading authority on the Custer battle and the chief defender of Custer when the question was raised as to whether or not the disaster on the Little Big Horn was due to Custers disobedience of the orders of his superior, Gen. Alfred H. Terry. Not the least of General Godfrey's services to the memory of his dead commander was in refuting the slander that Custer had committed suicide when he saw that the destruction of his command was inevitable and not the least of his contributions to the truthful history of the Custer battle was his part in showing up as Impostors the various last survivors and Custer scouts who sought notoriety through the reflected glory of Custers name and who enjoyed for a little while their spurious fame. General Godfrey was born in Ohio and enlisted in the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil war, serving in the Twenty-firs- t Ohio infantry .from April to August, 1861. He became a cadet in the United States Military academy at West Point July 1, 1863, and was graduated in June, 1867, being Immediately appointed a second lieutenant In the Seventh cavalry. He was promoted to first lieutenant February 1, 1868, and while holding that rank took part In various Indian campaigns of the Seventh cavalry which added so much luster to Custers reputation as an Indian fighter. Appointed a captain of the Seventh In December, 1876, Godfrey took part in the campaign against Chief Joseph and his Nez Ierces the next year and at the battle of the Bear Paw mountain on September 30, 1877, he won the brevet of major and the Medal of Honor for most distinguished gallantry In leading his command into action where he was severely wounded. At the time of his death he was not only the only surviving troop commander of Custers regiment, but he was also said to have been the oldest living graduate from West But of Troops C, E, I, F and L, which were under the Immediate command of Custer and which were so quickly surrounded by the Indians, there was one and ONLY ONE survivor of "Custer's last stand and that was not a man, but a horse. That authentic "sole survivor was Comanche, the claybank sorrel which was ridden Into the battle by Capt. Myles W. Keogh of Troop I. Two days after the battle he was found wandering about the battlefield, pierced by seven bullets and so weak and emaciated that at first It was decided that the enly humane thing to do was to kill him. But Lieut. II. I. Nowlan, field quartermaster on General Terry's staff and an Intimate friend of Captain Keogh, prevailed upon the soldiers to spare Comanches life. His wounds were dressed and he was so well cared for on the steamer Far West, which carried the other wounded of Custers command back to Fort Abraham Lincoln, that he pulled through and lived to the age of twenty-eigh- t years. When he died In 1892 the Seventh was stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., and Professor Dyche, a naturalist connected with the University of Kansas, mounted the skin and today there stands In the Dyche museum at the University of Kansas the lifelike form of the only authentic survivor of Custers last stand. Or It may be an Item about some one who fought with Custer and who "escaped the massacre because he was detached from the In, nine cases out of regiment at the time. ten such Individuals werent within several hundred miles of the Little Big Horn on that day and have no more right to claim that they fought with Custer than have several hundred other men who were In the armies In the field against the hostile Indians during the campaign of 1870. Then again It may be an Item referring to some one who asserts that he was a "Custer scout, although the name of every man who ha a legitimate claim to that title is and all of them, with the possible exception of some of the Arikara Indian scouts who accompanied Custer on his last expedition, are now dead. Considering the amount of publicity that has been given from time to time to all these "last Point survivors, "Custer fighters and Custer scouts, Mention of West Point recalls the fact that It seems nil the more remarkable that so little attention was paid recently to the passing of another echo of the Custer tragedy was heard ago one Important and genuine actor in the Custer recently when President Hoover reappointed well-know- n r Be-rar- t, great-aunt- Be-rar- d ( by Western Newspaper Union.) ! ball la (Lie prkt You can put stout new Goodyear Speedway on your car r a Ceefreer Hr today at Ar iiwS print ye er No need to worry about old, rUky Urea no need to wonder whether tbey'U bring you bum safe every time you start on a trip w hen you can gel Goodyear value at three bargain price. And you ran bank on It they bargain I Full overall tires marked w lit the Goodyear name and house (lag. Built with patented Goodyear Supertwist Cord. Lite time guaranteed. Balanced lor long, even wear. 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