The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 March 1927 — Page 6

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Out In Wyoming—where hats are hats—they are going to dedicate the Buffalo Bill museum in the neat future and they want President Coolidge to speak. A delegation from Wyoming called at the X\ h>te House, nrrvented the President with a real hat. ami offered him a ride on a real horse. In the group left to right: Mrs. Winter, wife of Representative Charies Winter of Wyoming; Miss Cody Allan, grandniece of Buffalo Bill; I resident Coolidge; Senator John B. .Kendrick of Wyoming, and some Wyoming beauties.

First Photograph of Japanese Emperor’s Funeral

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Thte is <>ne of the first photographs of the funeral of the late emperor of Japan to reach this country. It shows bearers of the sacred sun tlfig and the - sacred moon ’flag marching in the procession from Asakawa station to the mausoleum. The sun flag Is on the right.

RICHES AT 112

Ben Hodge of Poplar Hliiff is the oldest man in Missouri. «hd may »oon be the richest, if the reports from England he recently received are a erifled, to the effect that he is chief heir to the estate of his grandfather, who died a multimillionaire. He lives alone upon a small farm and bi more active than most men of fifty, taking <;tre of all the farm work, and devot In* Ma spare time to hunting and Ashing. He vll* celebrate hip one hun drvd twelfth birthday In April What he will do with his money U not announced.

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Ad informal snapshot at Ezra Brainerd. Jti, of Oklahoma. who has been named by President Coolidge as a member of the interetate commerce commission to succeed Frederick 1. L A CAief Emerald Source A few emeralds have been found in South America, but practically the whole of the worlds supply comes from the Oral mountains In Russia, where, also, most of the world's supply of platinum tea been/produced. Six Faara’ Freedom Ab eagle has been caught on the south coast of Asia Minor wearing a ring stating that ft was released durtog a zoological congress at Riga six rears ago " . '

Polar Flyers Get Highest Honor

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The much-cox eted Congressional Medal of Honor, which was awarded by act of coogresa to Commander Richard E. Byrd. U. S. N, retired, and Warrant Machinist Floyd Bennett. U. a N.. for their flight over the North pole on May 9. IWM. was conferred oh the intrepid flyers by President Coolidge at the While House. High officials of tiib navy. Including Secretary Wilbur and Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, wit nessed the presentation.

They Are Taking Jaunts in the Air

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Henry B Dupont, of the powder-making family (left), and J. W. Beretta. New York engineer, dropped into the flying field of the Western Air Express at Los Angeles, completing a jaunt from Detroit. They immediately fell to grooming their plane for a hop to New York.

FROM HERE AND THERE

Volcanoes under the sea sometimes lift new islands above the surface. Salt Lake City is said to be the most perfectly lighted city in the country. Govnrnroent scientists say that snow rarely tails at one time to a of more than nine inches. The population of Greater Rumania numbers about 1T.00G.000 people, of wxw 14000.000 «

The glow of Manhattan Island tn visible far out at sea on a clear aight. Some tribes of California Indians did their cooking in watertight bas kets placed over hot stones. The robber fly is fierce and cruel in its attacks on bees, wasps am? other “game” that It hunts for food. The United” States will have a pop«; lation of 12X288.000 by 1980. the bu re«u of the census estimates.

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Headquarters In Peking of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin. war lord or nor»nern China, who is stubbornly resistii advances of the Cantonese. The building, of which the gate is shown, is the Shunehenwangfu, a former palace.

Tells of Early Life on the Plains

Old Texas Ranger Helped Bury Victims of Comanche Indian Massacre Tahoka. Texas.—“ You're the bravest kid I ever saw," an officer in the Union army once told I. P. Metcalf, better known locally as “Uncle Ike.” "I'm not brave; I’ve just got too derned much pride to be » coward.” the then youthful fighter quickly retorted. It was probably that “pride” he spoke about while doing service in the Civil war that has marked “Uncle Ike” as a successful fighter, and “Uncle Ike,” Civil war veteran. ex-Indian fighter and former member of the Texas Rangers, has led a quiet life as j “marrying squire” of Tahoka for the i last few years. “Uncle Ike” Metcalf took his first step onto the fertile plains of Texas in 1868 as one of a detachment of Texas Rangers. Entering Lynn county, or what is now called Lynn county, from the southeast, the rangers marched northward to the Tahoka springs, on the west side of Tahoka ! lake, about nine miles northeast of the present town of Tahoka, where they pitched camp and spent ten days. Tells of Trip to Plains. Metcalf had been stationed at Camp Cooper, six miles above Fort Griffin on the Ciear Fork branch of the Brazos, as a member ot the Second Texas Rangers. The occasion of his first trip to the plains he says was this: “Along in the summer of '6B about 60 negro soldiers, either of. the Sixth or Tenth cavalry. 1 don’t remember which, from Fort Concho, where San Angelo now stands, had been sent to the plains under the command of a Lieutenant Gilbert on the trail of a ’‘bunch of Indians who had been stealing horses from outlying ranches. As the days went by, fear for the safety of the negroes grew. No word was heard from them. Then, one day in August, orders were received at Camp Cooper for the 36 Texas Rangers staj tioued there to start a search for the negro troopers • Settlements Near Forts. “The only settlements in western Texas in those days were centered around Fort Griffin. Fort Concho. Del Norte, where El Paso now stands, and

Artificial Larynx Invented by Briton London. —While no positive prediction is made, the artificial larynx invented by Sir Richard Paget, London scientist, may eventually be substituted in the throats of men who have lost their voices through wounds or disease. The device has amazing possibilities. When it was first exhibited at a medical clinic. Sir Richard made it say “Hello. London • Are you there?” “My God, I love you.” and other sentences. Further, by being delicately manipulated the instrument simulated various inflections and accents like cockney and French and the sound of a boy with a had cold. The invention is constructed with a scries of tubes containing organ reeds.

SAYS SUN’S SPOTS ARE CAUSING AN EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA

Electrical Influence Stirs Bacteria to intense Activity, Declares Scientist Moscow.—Sun spots are responsible for the present epidemic of influenza, In the opinion of Prof. A. L. Tchijerski of Moscow university. Professor Tchijevsky is the scientist who, in a paper sent to the recent convention in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, predicted another great war tn 1929. due to solar agitation. He told the correspondent that the combined electrical influence of the sun upon the earth had Increased bacterial activity to the point where whole countries are affected by disease. Most poisonous bacteria are harmless for humans, he explained, provided they are not acted upon by the sun. He believes that, by isolating

a few other such forts. Indians In Oklahoma were allowed to leave reservations ahd journey into the western part of Texas to hunt the buffalo that grazed the plains in herds of from a hundred to| several thousand head. Frequently these Indians, not content with killing buffalo alone, raided scattering and isolated ranches, waylaid travelers, and even at times ventured down into Comanche. Brown. Erath, and other central west Texas counties. “It took a brave group of men to stzrt a trip across the plains fr ’ng the probability of meeting up db hostile Indians, the scarcity of watering places and the danger of becoming lost and running out of food, to say nothing of the lonesomeness of such a trip. All Eager to Go. “But when the orders came the whole bunch was rearin’ to go. Captain Brown of Erath county was to be in command. While we were getting ready to break camp and to start the trip that was to cover hundreds of miles that would take weeks to make» a mail carrier of the Dallas-Weather-ford - Fort Griffin - Fort Davis - Fort “Adobe” Del Norte line rode in and told us of a terrible massacre of a bunch of California immigrants committed by a band of Comanche Indians, that had taken place near the head of t>evil ? s river, between the present town of Odessa and Concho. “As this would not be much put of our way we decided to go by of the scene. We arrived at the heiid of the river some time later, which was known as Devil’s Creek springs, and found tha[t the immigrants had apparently damped there several days. Six miles northwest of there we found the most J hideous sight I ever saw. Thirty-six > people had been slaughtered. stripped of their clothing, and cut to pifeces. Not one white man lived to tell’the story of how it all occurred, but the story was silently told in the scene we saw. Mark of Comanches’ Work. “We kndw the Comanches had done the work, as the Comanches and Tonkawas were the only Indians that roamed in west Texas at that time. I never knew of a Tonkawa tribe harming white people, but the Comanches were always into mischief. “The liidians probably found the immigrants camped at the springs and waited for a good chance to attack them. When the. latter got out from under cover and on the plains the Indians sped down on them unawares and wiped out the entire group. “Nothing was left undone. They murdered and undressed their victims, took their valuables, cut their throats and stomachs open, scalped them, and left their bodies on the open prairie*. The wagons were burned where they stood, and their positions showed that little fight had been made, for if they had the wagons would have been corralled. Ashes, the dead bodies of 36 men, women and children, three dead mules, and one dead horse, and a few scattering feathers from mattresses, were all, we found. The number of hoof prints showed that the tribe of Indians had been a large one. “The story of the burial of the dead is almost too awful to tell. We arrived probably ten days after the massacre had taken place. Grave* were dug by the sides of the dead about two and one-half feet deep. One man would do the digging while another would bold up a shovel of burning tar near him to kill the odor. When

the human organism from solar influence and submitting it to special electrical treatment, a quick and effective cure for influenza will be found. He also ascribes typhoid fever, hydrophobia .and toe bubonic plague to sun-spot activity. “Man,” he said, “is the slave of the sun and its vast electrical power. Alike in health and sickness, his welfare and behavior are not regulated by Providence or the unstable human will, but by the sun’s electro-magnetic force upon the earth, which is one common organism of which man is only a part. “My theory, that the present spread of influenza throughout the world is due to the sun spots, Is brilliantly supported by the history of epidemics for *he last thousand years. “For example, the greatest cholera plagues occurred during the periods

Well, There’s Nothing Like Being Generous Youngstown, Ohio. — George Seber, a farmer near here, went to his barn and found his cow proudly guarding a wobbly calf. As he looked at the newcomer, another stepped to its side. Seber called his children to see the twins and left. A cry from the children brought him back to see a third calf, that had been hidden in the. straw. Then he investigated and found a fourth asleep in a corner of the stall.

one man got tired digging he exchanged places with the tar burner. It took us two days to bury them.” With this grewsome task accomplished. the rangers doubled back to Big Spring, near which were the Kilpatrick and Coffee ranches, the nearest outposts to the plains country. F'rom there they journeyed to Wet Tobacco creek, which runs through Borden county, then to Moore's Draw, 20 miles southeast of the present town of Tahoka, and then to Tahoka lake. Never Heard of Lost Negroes. “We stayed at Tahoka lake for about ten days,” Uncle Ike says, “waiting and watching for the lost negroes, but never saw or heard 'bf them. We got tired staying there and moved to the Yellow Horse canyon and then to the Blanco canyon. While going down the Blanco we met up with a bunch of Comanches and had a little skirmish. One or two of our men were wounded and we killed 12 or 13 Indians. I don't remember which. From there we returned to our old camp. “Were we glad to get back? Man, civilization looked good to us.” But “Uncle ike” Metcalf had received the thrill that accompanies one in coming on the great, stretching plains of western Texas, and as civilization moved westward he settled in Lynn county and took up the more peaceful position of “marrying squire.” Since then he has married more couples than any other one man living in the plains or Panhandle country. Sneeze, but Don’t Sniff, English Doctor’s Advice London.— Sneezing one's way to health is the latest fad as advocated by Dr. Octavia Lewin and other physicians. “Never stifle a sneeze.” she advised health visitors and school nurses at Bedford college. “Remember, the fundamental fact of health is -sound, healthy breathing through the nose,” cautioned Doctor Lewin, who contjr.ued: “Never sniffHere is a verse to keep in mindr “ ’Sniffing’s bad for brain and head. Sniff not—blow your nose instead.’ “Lack of nasal hygiene is very largely responsible for defects of the eyes. It will be found that nearly all the children in our school who wear spectacles have clogged heads. “Humans should take a lesson from the animals. Take the elephant. If he. with a yard and a half of nose, can keep his head clear, surely we ought to be able to do something with our children. Even the little mouse and the canary know how to sneeze.” Australian Woman Has Young Lion for a Pet Sydney.—A woman resident of Prahran, a Melbourne suburb, has a seven-months-old lion for a pet. She is Mrs. Beraaseoni, the wife of a lion tamer formerly associated with a circus. Mrs. George Wirth, owner of the show, asked Mrs. Bernasconi to look after the cub when it was born, and she has brought it up. The animal disliked the cage provided for it. so the woman permits it to sleep at the foot of her bed.

of maximum sun-spot activity and declined shhrply when the activity; reached its minitnum. These sun-spot periods occur regularly in cycles of j 11 years.” Wins SIOO for Eating 84 Hot Dogs, No Rolls Newark, N. J.—Eighty-four “hot dogs” without a single roll! That’s the food-swallowing record Anthony i Luongo of Montclair, N. J., has chalked up for himself, and he is >IOO richer than before be tackled the yards of frankfurters that passed through his jaws. The SIOO was wagered at a previous “hot dog” consuming exhibition in Bloomfield, N. J. It required two hours and fifteen minutes to accomplish the feat. After 100 Years Edinburgh, Scotland.—Money left 100 years ago for a memorial to thetwo great Scottish heroes. Sir William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, is at last to be put to the use It was intended.

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