Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1914 — Big Chief “Two Guns” Up in Air in “Eagle Canoe” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Big Chief “Two Guns” Up in Air in “Eagle Canoe”

NEW YORK. —Chief Two Guns White Calf of the seeing New York party of Blackfeet Indians sat beside Ralph M. Brown in his Thomas flying boat the other morning and spun over the Palisades at Dobbs Ferry. It was Chief

Two Guns' first air trip, but It came very near being his last. As Mrs. Two Guns and the party were shading their eyes and watching 1 the flying boat Hse gracefully from the water and soar over the Palisades toward the happy hunting grounds’'' Chief Eagle Calf, who Is the interpreter for the party, told Agent Charles R. Griffin that he anticipated bad medicine for Chief Two Guns before the flying canoe came to earth.

He had just spoken the words, according to Griffin, when the flying boat ran into an air pocket, swerved to one side and then, taking an angle of 60 degrees, dived for the Hudson. Barely 100 feet over the water Pilot Brown got the.boat under control and' It took to the water like a duck and skimmed across the river to the party. Chief Two Guns lost no time In getting to land and after gesticulating and uttering a series of "Hows” said in perfectly good English, “Heap fine eagle canoe. Ugh oof! Me no ’fraid!” But be did not Interpret his Indian grunts, and If grunts mean fear in Blackfeet he granted louder than the exhaust from the engine when the eagle canoe took its downward course, according to Pilot Brown. - / . \ “He hung on tight,” explained Mr. Brown, "and don’t you forged U, b*