Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1920 — Indian Sells Land for Plane; Heap Big Chief [ARTICLE]

Indian Sells Land for Plane; Heap Big Chief

Hiawatha, Kan.—Chief Harrison Connell, an Indian,. bought an airplane In Kansas City several months ago to give exhibition flights. He brought the plane to his home here, where scores ।of redskins assembled to see their chief fly. Chief Connell had sold his last eighty acres of Indian land and was preparing to fly high when the plane came down with a sickening thud. Chief Connell had $2,700 Invested in the machine, but sold It for SIOO to an oil man from Texas. . / A.