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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH With Loaded Dice Played With Luck died. then six of Ten years Shanghai to sailing, town exploiting an and wandering again have ended for John Murphy, he fears, in his arrest here on the prosaic, uninteresting charge of forging checks. Murphy has every characteristic of the paper novel hero except that, as he says, he may not be unjustly accused in his arrest here. But he blames his trouble on liquor, he says he is never going to. touch it again, and Give me just one more chance, and ru show my family and everybody else that I can go straight Son of a wealthy family, Murphy was recently disowned because of a second marriage. He has sailed before the mast, he knows the dens and byways of Shanghai, he has succeeded brilliantly in a business venture, his success has been swept away in an hour. What a novel could bfe written around his life if the end were different! But perhaps only in the paper novels can the ends be different. I spent my boyhood' In Sioux City, Iowa, he said in his county Jail cell. My mother Is wealthy. My brother, Frank, assistant general manager of the Cudahy Packing company of Omaha, is also wealthy. But now they have no more use for me than a canary bird around their house In 1913 I went to Notre Dame university. But Is met Dorothy Boas there, and it was only a few days before we got married. Two boys were bom to us, one five years old now and - DETROIT.- . HE Sioux have taken to the war, path again ! Half a century ago that would have meant a strange restlessness among their young men In spring, an Impatient waiting un-a til the prairie grass was green enough to fill out the lean sides of their war ponies, and then the throbbing of war drums to send them forth against the white man. But this year Its different , The Sioux will fight the white man in the United States Court of Claims, and legal documents and the oratory of lawyers Instead of war club and lance will be his weapons. For the great Dakota nation has filed suit against the United States for a total of nearly $220,000,000 which the Indians say is due them for lands seized by the government. Added to this amount is enough interest to bring the total up to nearly three quarters of a billion of dollars, making it one of the largest suits ever filed in any court In this country. The biggest item in the bill which the Sioux are trying to collect from Uncle Sam is for $156,000,- 000 in payment for the Black Hills of South Dakota which they say were taken from them by force of arms and in violation of all sacred treaty obligations. So they are going to make one last fight for their beloved (Black Hills), for which such tribal heroes as Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, Gall and Spotted Tali once fought so valiantly and so unavailingly. Back of this legal action is a story through the fabric of which runs a shining thread of gold. To pick up that thread you must go back to Fort Laramie, the old Fort Laramie of the American Fur company, the Laramie of Jim Bridger and Kit e Carson and the other mountain men. Past this famous post ran the Oregon trail and over it in 1849 were hurrying thousands of men with their faces set toward the West, toward the gold fields of California. The reckless slaughter of game by the Argonauts Incited to fury the Ogalala and Brule Sioux. When the Indian depredations became unbearable, a grand council of all the tribes in that region Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Crow, Gros Ventre, Mandan and Arikara was called at Laramie government. There in 1851 the tribes signed a treaty guaranteeing undisturbed passage for emigrant trains. The lands guaranteed to the Sioux included the Black Hills. But as the tide of emigration flowed on and continued to frighten away the buffalo, the Brule Sioux renewed their attacks on wagon trains. Then Gen. William S. Harney appeared on the scene with 1,200 soldiers. At the Battle of Ash Hollow, Neb., he won a victory which many consider little more than a massacre of Indians who were trapped ami would have surrendered If given the chance. But he did his work so thoroughly that the Sioux were willing to sign a treaty at Fort Pierre in March, 1856, in which they again to travel In promised to allow the peace. The Sioux were then left in undisturbed possession of the Hills for nearly a decade. In the meantime Spotted Tail and his Brules had renewed their depredations along the Oregon trail and they nearly put both the Overland Stage line and the Pacific telegraph out of commission. The government was too busy with the Civil war to repeat Harneys measures, however, and Old Spot was pretty much boss of the whole country. In 1865 the thread of gold appears again. This time the gold was in Montana and Idaho and the rush of miners there led to a demand for a better route to the new diggings. Accordingly congress authorized the construction of a road from Fort Laramie on the Oregon trail to Bozeman, Mont, to run diagonally across the country west of the Black Hills and skirt the Big Horn mountains in Montana and Wyoming. Incidentally, it ran through the heart of the Ogalala Sioux buffalo ' , range. ,v Red Cloud, a young Ogalala chief who had risen to the position of the greatest leader of the Sioux, actively resisted this violation of the treaty of 1851. The government sent out a commission to' At first, neither Red treat for a Cloud nor Spotted Tail would treat, but in June, 1866. they were persuaded to come into Fort Laramie for a council. In the midst of the council Col. H- - B. Carrington, with a force of 700 soldiers, arrived at Laramie uijder orders to build forts along the new road. Red Cloud hotly denounced the white men for trying to steal the road before the Indians had a chance to say yes or no." "Are we to give up the sacred graves of our ancestors to be plowed Daup for corn? he demanded of his tribesmen. So he withdrew from the kotas, I am for war! council. Spotted Tail, however, was won over si " l bull ; signed i he treaty kilowing the road the other years I went west, got a Dorothy Job as quartermaster on the Pacific Mall lines. I spent months in Shanghai ; then I went around the world on commercial ves- sels. I have been an able seaman, a steward almost everything on a ship except commander. "Finally I drifted to Texas, and there, with a buddy, . y I built up a big plant It In Custer. was during an oil boom, and they wanted tents as badly as they did bread. Just as we were about to sell out, fire destroyed our plant. Two years ago I went to Then last January I got drunk In Fort Worth, Texas, and overdrew a bank account Friends got me out of that I married Grace Gennings, a little girl from Gainesville, Texas, and g. started again. But again things went wrong. Mother came to visit ns, and didnt like Grace because she had teenth Indian blood In her. She dis- owned me, although she Is keeping my two boys. So I came to Detroit on my way to Buffalo, where there Is a $4,000 position waiting for me. Then somebody I think they were dicks told me how to find liquor here, and for days I was In a bootlegging joint. I got Into this trouble and here I am. If I get out, it will be a different story. For I can still get that Job In Buffalo, and Grace Is coming north to Join me, and Ill never look a bottle in the mouth again. , The novel might yet have a happy , ending. one-six- ; , Pah-sap-pa- old-tim- long-haire- d by-th- e gold-seeke- trans-Missou- ri right-of-way- .; to-b- e No sooner 'bad Fort Phil Kearney, Fort C. F. Smith and Fort Reno been built than Red Cloud laid siege to them. In December he cut off and killed 91 soldiers and officers in what is popularly known as the Fetterman massacre and for the next year he waged his war so successfully that the government was forced to sue for peace. The ' peace commission arrived at Fort Laramie early in 1868, but Red Cloud sent word that he would have nothing to do with them until the forts were abandoned and the soldiers were withdrawn from the country. It was not until November 6, after the last soldier had marched away, that he appeared at Fort Laramie to sign. He had won every point for which he had been fighting. It was a square backdown for the government and a complete victory for the Ogalala leader. This treaty, besides providing for a permanent peace between the Sioux and the United States, gave to the Indians all of the present state 6f South Dakota, west of the Missouri river, including the Black Hills, for their absolute and undisIt also expressly turbed use and occupation. agreed that Into the country north of the Platte river and east of the Big Horn mountains no white man should enter without permission cf the Sioux. 0 In 1871, surveyors for the Northern Pacific railroad began laying a route along the south bank of the Yellowstone river. The Sioux declared this was a violation of the treaty of 1868. The government ignored the protest and forts were built . along the line of the railroad. Heretofore there had been two outstanding figures in the drama of the Sioux fight for their land Red Cloud of the Ogalalas and Spotted Tall of the Brules. Now enters a third, Sitting Bull, chief and medicine man of the Uncpapas, whose territory was now being profaned by the iron The Brules and the horse of the white man. Ogalalas were indignant, but would not join In a general war. So the work proceeded. Once more the golden thread appeared. In 1874, Gen. Phil Sheridan, commander of the department of the Missouri, decided that effective control of the Sioux along the Northern Pacific depended upon establishment of a military post in the Black Hills. So he sent Gen. G. A. Custer to make a reconnaisance of the region. The Indians declared this a violation of the treaty of the most flagrant sort. Custer finished his scout and made a glowing report on the region. To cap it all, he added one word gold I When the word went out, Gold in the Black Hills! there was a stampede. Sheridan tjied In His soldiers vatn to stem the tide of captured the miners, escorted them out of the Hills and destroyed their outfits. But no display people of military force could keep a gold-ma- d from this promised land. In 1875 Prof. Walter P. Jenney, a geologist, under military escort (another violation of the treaty, the Sioux declared), explored the Black Hills and corroborated Custer. There was nothing to do but try to buy the Black Hills from the Sioux. The government sent a commission to treat with them. By this time the Indians were convinced represented a vast storehouse that of wealth for which the white man would be will-lnto pay almost any price. ' But they were divided In opinion as to what policy to pursue. One faction was willing to sign an absolute relinquishment, but another would not part with their loved Hills for any price. The valuation set upon the region by the Sioux ranged from $40,000,000 to $70,000,000. Believing that there was no chance of obtaining a relinquishment of the region, the commissioners sought the consent of the Indians to allow mining to be carried on under a lease system. They offered an annual rental of $400,000 for the right to mine and cultivate the soil, or, as an alternative, a sum of $6,000,000 for the outright purchase of the Hills. The councils, held at Red Clouds agency on the White river, were marked by scenes of disorder and bloodshed was prevented only by the firm stand of Young Map Afraid of His Horse, hereditary chief ef the Ogalalas. All efforts to effect a compromise proved fruitless and the council ended in no bargaip at all. The Sioux were desperate. The horde of miners was still pouring into the Hills. One camp alone, Custer City, had a population of The Indians also noted that the military 11,000. had slackened Its efforts to bar the stampeders. In the winter of 1875-7many of the Sioux, in , gold-seeker- s. Pah-sap-pa- h g 0 Sheriffs Nose Pointed Way to Cache ohio. The hills and the Tennessee have got nothing on that section of Erie county lying between Berlin Heights on the west and Oberlin and Amherst on the east when it comes to offering the moonshiner the isolation he deems so essential. A couple of weeks ago Sheriff Taylor of Erie county got a tip that there was a moonshine establishment somewhere between Berlin Heights and Oberlin, some five or six miles south of Vermilion in the heart of an almost virgin forest. With fjrnr deputies and two federal prohibition officers who happened to be In Sandusky Sheriff Taylor took to the woods in two automobiles. At the entrance to the forest the sheriff and his aidgs were joined by a dozen armed farmers. Theres an awful strong odor in this locality," remarked the sheriff as the searching party reached a bend in a ravine it was following. There was a pile of what looked like drift on the further bank of the stream resting against the trunk of a tree. Sandusky, ; cluding the Uncpapas under Sitting Bull and Gall and the Ogalalas under Crazy Horse, were hunting in the Powder river country. They held this within their rights, under the treaty. But the commissioner of Indian affairs decided that they must remain near the agencies assigned them and sent out word that unless they had returned by February 1, 1876, they would be considered hostile and soldiers would be sent to bring them in. They did not return, for they had not finished their hunting, so the Department of the Interior turned them over to the War department The result is history, the history of the great Sioux war of 1876-7It Includes the attack made by General Custer on the big Indian camp on the Little Big H.orn and the great victory won by the hosts of Gall and Crazy Horse; the campaigns of Crook and Terry and Miles, with their inevitable result for the Sioux. At the outbreak of the war Spotted Tail, who had become known as Friend of the White Man, held the majority of the Brules quiet. Red Cloud and his Ogalalas were surrounded by General Mackenzie before they could take the war trail, disarmed, dismounted and kept under surveillance throughout the war. At the end of the war Crazy Horse, having bean crushingly defeated by Miles, had come Into the agency and surrendered. Sitting Bull and Gall had been driven into Canada. Then another commission was appointed to treat with the Sioux. The document, which the white men had prepared in advance, gave the Dakotas certain reservations In North and South Dakota, where they were to receive specified rations until they were able to support themselves. But there was no mention of giving back to them the Black Hills or the buffalo country of the Powder and ' Yellowstone rivers. Gone were all the dreams of the Sioux of receivtheir ing a vast sum of money for storehouse of gold. There was no talk of being paid for mining rights or for the absolute relinquishment of the Hills. Defeated, dismounted, disarmed, there was nothing for them to do but sign the treaty offered them. There was a tragic note in the grimly humorous remark of American Horse, an Ogalala chief, when he said: If you have to wear gold slippers to enter the white mans heaven, no Indian will ever get there, for the whites have So the Black Hills and with them all the gold. the men of the Dakota nation signed the treaty and was lost to them forever. And that is why the Sioux are on the warpath today. The history of the Black Hills since 1876 shows that the Sioux price of $70,000,000 was not exorbitant, for many times that amount of gold has been taken out, not to mention the other forms of wealth which modern Industry has developed. Now they are asking for recompense of only $100 an g lands and $50 an acre acre for the ,, for the forest lands. 7. Pah-sap-pa- The sheriffs keen sense of smell directed him to the driftwood. Sure enough there was a cache, all lined with canvas supported by a center pole in much the same manner that the circus big top is supported. And within the cache there was a still of fifty gallons capacity and about ten gallons of product Three deputies with rifles were placed In close proximity to the cache. The sheriff and his posse left Five minutes later the sheriff was getting into his automobile when shots were heard in the woods. The sheriff and posse made a dash for the still. Upon their arrival they found the three deputies with three prisoners In handcuffs. - - , Taken by surprise, three men from Lorain put their hands high above their heads and held them there until told they could take them down which was after the two deputies had encircled their wrists with handcuffs. The men arrested pleaded guilty to charges of violating the prohibition laws and were fined $800 and costs' each. They were without funds and were sent to Jail. s . , Brave Dog Saved One of His Charges two When sisters and were swept under by the current in Pines river, Revere, near the Lynn turnpike, Mollie, a beautiful collie pet, plunged In and dragged one of the children to shore. The child saved was Susie Sarno, five years old. Those drowned were Concetta Sarno, thirteen, and Edmond Sarno, eight. About two oclock Edmond ventured out too far. The current snatched him from his feet and he sank. Concetta heard his cries. She could not swim, but she plunged In In a desperate attempt to readb him. Little Susie did not understand, but blindly followed her brother and sister. All three were carried under and swept toward the bridge. Mollie was sunning herself on the sand bank when she heard the cries. She leaped into the channel, landing beside Susie just as the child was going down. . The dog seized her clothing and fought the current back to shore. The whole thing happened not 25 feet from the Lynn turnpike, over which a dozen autos were passing BOSTON. each minute. One driver, who went away before the police obtained his name, saw the dog and children struggling in the water. He applied his emergency brake, and, while the car was still bumping and skidding along, leaped from It over the fence and into the channel. Fifteen feet farther on the car bumped against the fence and stopped. In the meantime the dog had returned to the channel, as Edmond was again coming to the surface. She seized the child by the arm so forcibly that marks of her teeth were seen when the body was recovered, but her previous exertions had been too great, and the child again sank. The automobile driver who plunged . In from the moving car was not a suf- - ' fidently strong swimmer to battle the current and dive for the children. He was forced, like the dog, to make for the shore to save himself. , After recovering somewhat, the dog , seemed to become frantic with grief. She dashed crazily about the shore , and refused to permit anyone to touch Susie, who was still showing the ef- fects of Immersion. 1 -- Pah-sap-p- Black Snakes No Match for Small Boys Rivalry over a particularly GULPEPER, cherry tree between a small number of young boys and an innumerable number of large black snakes resulted in battle royal between the two forces and an almost Incredible number of FACTS ABOUT INDIAN SUMMER reptiles slain, according to the accounts of on eyewitness of the Bright-woo- d of our char - ' Indian summer is a term descriptive neighborhood. acteristlc autumn season and was first used by a It seems that these young boys, five Frenchman, Crevecoeur, in 1778, according to Pro- in number, had climbed a cherry tree, fessor Robert DeC. Ward of Harvard university. which was situated upon the edge of Crevecoeur called it "IEte Sauvage, of- which a bluff and surrounded by a large pile Early of field stones, and were feasting Indian Summer is a fair translation.writers thought the term received general use be- themselves upon the cherries, when cause of. the resemblance of this deceiving and one lad, uttering a piercing scream, let transitory season to the Instabilities of the Indian ro his bold upon the branches and fell disposition. From a weather mans viewpoint In- through the clustering fruit to the dian summer is Just a phenomenon resulting from round. His comrades hurrying down a sluggish movement of the areas of high one e tree were told that he had been low barometer, across the country, and the fixa tacked by a huge black snake that tion for a time of.high barometer in the south wit! d gotten between him and the trunk low pressure in the northwest, glvl? yejev rlie tree, lienee his exit by another weather. , southwest winds and re .ate. He said that the snake had gold-bearin- VA. of hurried Into the rock pile and that he thought there must be a den of them . there. The next day the boys again visited the tree and, finding no snakes about, all climbed It and were soon feasting upon cherries. Suddenly shouts arose from all over the. tree as each coy found himself menaced by one or more snakes, which had apparently swarmed up the tree after them, and again their exit was hurried and nn- ceremonious. -- ; ' - Enraged by this second attack, the boys went to the home of one of their number and procured a large Iron pot, such as Is used for scalding hogs, and, bringing it back to the scene of action, made a fire under It and heated gal- ions of scalding hot water. This they dashed from buckets upon the rock pile until It was saturated with boiling water and steam, and presently the snakes began to spring out, only to fall lifeless upou the ground. , ; ' , j . |