The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1922, Page 2

(HEAD-HUNTING “HAS” HISTORY ‘BY HENDERSON the British “Unadmin- | istered Territory” HUNT HEADS APR., MAR. "Skulls of Men, Women and Children Over 12 Years Old Are Acceptable Rangoon, Aug.‘ 1.—Ralph E. Hen- derson, a-Harvard graduate ‘who has spent the past eight months travel- ing in southern Asia, has just com- pleted a trip through the British “unadministered territory” of north- eastern Burma, and into the Chinese province of Yunnan, neither of which have been thoroughly explored by white men. 5 . Among the wild tribes .encounter- ed on this trip were the head-hunt- ing Was. Hitherto little has been definitely known concerning the life and customs.of this tribe, as most of those who intruded upon Wa terri-, tory failed to return. The Was. do, not hunt .heads primarily from .c nibalistic motives, .but. rather -be- cause of their belief that their crops will fail unless .some fresh human skulls ,are imported every year. Under ‘this impression,, they organ- ize head-hunting expeditions every spring, and it is small consolation to the unfortunate traveler-.who falls into their hands. that it ,is paly: his skull that is, wanted. Writing of the wild Was, Mr. Hen-. derson says: “The Was are especially keen on hunting heads during February, March and April—just before the planting season. ‘From ‘the Wa angle of looking at it, the. business isn’t the madness we ;take , it, to be. It is a convention, and quite as rea- sonable as afterngon tea. Every de- cently religious Wa knows that un- Jess the seed grain is properly ¢harmed and conjured with a human head, the crop raised from it.will be a‘failure. And who wants to starve? In fact, if worst comes to worst, and there are no.heads forthcoming from raids on neighbors, the Was prefer to take the head of some feeble per- gon-in-the village, rather than run the risk of scant crops and conse- quent empty stomachs. “In February, March, and .April then, :the wild Wasmen -go a;hynt- ng. .Of course, any-head that of- Mers itself to-be collected is regard- ed_as fair game, and it behooves the man working alone cptting jungle .or the woman hoeing alone in the field to be cautious. when the Was are afoot.:;A common artifice: is to. bar- ricade some jungle highway, and’ lie ‘Completes Long Trip “Through| in ambush, some just behind the barricade, some on either side to rush down on the flanks.of any par- ty caught in,the trap. Superstitions Reasons. “Heads of men, women jand chil- dben sover 12.years old are accept- able. -Heads marked with small-pox, for superstitious reasons, are -not. desized. .A successful foray is one which yields one or more cerpses. Immediately the heads are ,cut off and put in bags. Then back home;go the rejoicing Was, not neglecting to ‘take the bodies along forthe larder, ahd raising «tremendous whooping, and :hulabaloo along the way. At home‘ there .is a. ceremony.to per- form. .--The wife or mother of the * man who made the kill takes the head out.of the bag and procceds to wail over it formally. She must wash the blood from the dead face, and wail an incantational’ song as she,does.so. She must, work Herself into a sentimental frenzy, -which) feat under.the circumstances is us Wally easy of -performance. If he: wailing lacks the ring .of genuine- yess her husband helps to supply that. which ing by beating her. :“This song, strangely enough, be- feeches the aid of the,spirit of the head, and addresges if,as @ anighty; Baler. : ‘It :is, this, spirit, which ,is to Promote. .the growth’ of ;the crops, and it.must be.treated with great reverence. Isheard this song.once. “Atter ithe ‘head has been ,washed and wailed. ove: into the dead .mouth, spirit. ‘Then the head is thrust ue idy on a pols. A jbasket of .seed @ice).,is put under it and left few days. .As the, head decays, the droppings. fall ,into the. seed paddy, and sare thoroughly .mixed with .it, _ The paddy is. then ready and a-good crop is, ured. DIES NEAR BEACH Dickinson, N. D., Aug: 1—The people of -town and county were shocked’ upon |hearing that. Thomas Dunningham, .an old timer here, had djed unexpectedly at his farm, two niiles north of Beach, the cause be- ing heart failure. He had suffered azmild attack a few days before, but there was no premonition that the next would be fatal. STRAIGHTEN THAT ‘BENT BACK ‘No need to suffer from that tired, dead ache in’ your back, that lame- néss, those distressing ‘urinary dis- ofders. Bismarck people have found how “to get relief. Follow this Hjsmarck resident’s example. £Mrs, J. B. Saylor, 309 Mandan ‘Ave., says: “From the experience 1 have:had with Doan’s Kidney Pills I¢cah ‘safely recommend them for ordeted kidneys. I had an attack some time ago and my eyes would sthart and my back ached and both- -efed -me a great deal. My kidneys didn’t act regularly, either. I began using: Doan’s Kidney Pills and they were not. long in relieving my trou- ble. I recommend them wilingly.” Price’ 60c, at all idealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs...Saylor had. Foster-Milburn \Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. (adv) to plant, WORLD SEARCH ON TO CLEAR UP NEW “WANDERER CASE” | : By. NEA Service San Francisco, Aug. , 1, — Police throughout ‘the world have: been ask- ed by San:Francisco authorities to arrest Walter Castor. The hunted man is, wanted for the murder of /Mre. Anne Wilkens, victim of a, slaying believed by police ‘to bea duplicate of the fanfous Carl) Wanderer case Ain Chicago. Mrs, Wilkens and her husband, Henry Wilkens, were riding .in’ an automobile when two men held them up. One of the attackers ‘shot. Mrs. Wilkens, ‘ The arrest of Arthur Castor fol- lowed. Authorities gave out’ a’ con- fession in which Arthur | charged that he and: his brother, | Walter, had been hired by the dead woman's husband to. perpetrate a fake’ hold- up. The husband was arrested, ‘al- though/he denied the charge. Arthur Castor’s defense is that he was engaged merely to drive ‘the bandit car, and did not know. that.a slaying was contemplated. He states that he doesnt know’ whether his brother or Wilkens fired the fatal shot. DEPORTATIONS OF ARMENIANS ARE DESCRIBED ‘Deportees Passed Through Arabkir-inFew Months ROADS STREWN WITH DE London, Aug. ‘Two Americans relief workers, J. H. Knapp and Miss B.. Bannerman Murdoch, who’ have arrived in Constantinople, from Arabkir-where \they have been or- ganizing relief among refugees, give further details of the deportations of Greeks and Armenians described previously by Major Yowell and Dr. Mark Ward. Arabkir:is in the in- terior: of | Anatolia, 60 miles west- northwest of Kharput. ‘They. esti- mate .that 10,000 deportees’ passed through Arabkir ‘between July 1921 and March 1922,' The: signed. report given by them tothe British Ar- menia Committee reads .as follows: “Beginning in July 1921 the first, installment of “600 deportees . of Greek men of, military age arrived. They .were all from the ‘Konia dis- trict. One ‘hundred and fifty of these were Armenians, and were sent on:to’Egin. The: balance were Greeks. ;About -150 of these remain- ed in Arabkir, and: the balance were sent on to the Kharput and Diarbe- kir districts, Then came an install- ment of about 260 to 300 deportees, mostly Greek, from. the Ordu dis- ‘trict. ‘There was.sometimes a man with his whole family, but generally women without any male members tof the family with them, and chil- dren. Herded on » Hill “To a large portion of these it was necessary for ‘us /to furnish bread. every day for the whole winter. There was another group of about 100 men over 50 years old; seme ap- peared to be 90 years old. These re- mained a few weeks and then all:but .& few were sent on to the Kharput area. A large drove of over 1,000 was the next installment to arrive in Arabkir in. th te fall. -They, were herded on a-hill above the city: within 200-yards of s running ditch of water. They were not: allowed to get water from this ditch, but were compelled to buy it. from vendors, On.a-bleak, cold morning a few days afterwards. they. were started on their way towards Kharput. It was a sight that one can never forget, to see middle-aged and. old women and men, to say nothing of the younger woynen and children, carrying on their backs large loads. of. bedding, food and faggots, and in their hands pots ang kettles, and perched upon their load a child. : Never Reached Destinations “Many of these were destined never to reach their destination, as ithe storm which was brewing in the early morning.on the mountai: joon ‘Geveloped into a blizzard and the, roads. were ‘left strewn with dead bodies. These. things were person- || ally seen by. us, and in. visiting one of the Armenian buildings . where. those. who were unable. to go Albino Monkey the most unusual speci One of ever received at-the London ‘| “| ed his help in disposing of their 1920 ‘later his’ death. ARTHUR CASTOR) on wete ‘left behind, we discovéred several dead bodies on the floor and a number of “éther persons dying, with their children hanging over them. The scenes were only, ,ex- amples of many others which we witnessed during the .deportations. Many of the women were unable to carry their children along, and were obliged to leave them.on the: road- side. We took in our orphanage about 20 of these.children, and sev- eral of them were unable to survive the starvation and exposure they had undergone prior to reqching Atab- kit. : ‘ Ill, With Typhus “Personally I visited in Kharput several ' hospitals ‘that: were ‘full of hundreds of Greek deportees, ill with typhus, and from one hospital it was reported that, as,many as 20 ‘a day were carried to the cemetery, ‘The stories of robberies ,and extor- (tions told us by: the deportees were universal. We were conyinc om the .p of, the Turkish “govern- ment j forwarding these denottess to other places on days when 1 weather .was extremely seyere,. that their intention was to subject, them to auch exposure that they .woujd perish. Their. policy of giying two rations of bread.a day to the depor- tees who ,were working on . their roads, WI sufficient. for their nourishment, and .then, cutting it down ‘when ,they showed signs pf weakness. to .one ration, showed that slow starvation was also,an- other method. for accomplishing their extermination. GROWERS’ POST Arrives jn: North: Dakota’ to Confer with Northwest Growers’ Officials Grand Forks, N. C. Jewett, :Porglan manager ‘of theg N61 i Associated, amjved’ . in 4,3Gys Forks .to' confer with officials of t! North Dakota Wheat Growers asso- ciation, whichis nt d: with that organization, “in regée@ to ‘handling. at pool inthis state this. fall. Mr. Jewett will: have ‘personal charge of the .North. Dakota.-poo] .and ,will spend, the summer months between the Grand Forks’ headquarters ‘a'd: the Minneapolis ates ‘agency ‘of the! organization, . ‘ Mr. Jewett is a former North Da- kotan, having. operated a string of banks at Bowden, Kesl, McHenry and Columbus from 1902 until 1909, when when he left for, Washington state on account of the ill health of his wife. He organized the First Na- tional bank in,.Palous, Washington, and in 1917.was appointed director of the Federal Lanw bank in, Spokane, Washington. “ His association with the wheat Growers was largely an accident. he said, for.at the time he was drafted to manage that organization he was still with the land:bank, Members of the association came to him and ask- pool. He consented to take a. two weeks’ vacation from the bank for this. purpose, and at the end of that time he was prevailed to take over the management permanently, under protest of his colleagues at the land bank. ANDREAS DELZIER DIES FROM FATAL INJURIES Napoleon, N. D., Aug. 1—While coming to town, Andreas Delzer met with a sad accident which caused his death Sunday evening. Mr. Delzer was driving a team and buggy when. suddenly one of the horses stumbled and_ fell, breaking the tongue of the buggy, chusing him to be thrown to the ground which re- sulted in the fracture‘ of several ribs and other internal injuries and ; Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Nagel of Streeter. He was laid to ‘rest at the Salem cemetery, 11 ‘miles northeast af Napoleon, Deceased leaves a wife, one son Jacob ‘Delzer,*one ‘daughter, Mrs. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE John Retzlaff, two: brothers; Chris- stian Delzer of Napoleon and‘Stephen Delzer of Ashley, who have the heartfelt symapthy of mahy friends.,.}- R. B SPENCER {f It'Means a Definite Period, There|Is No Such Thing, © ‘He Declares = * ' —_—_—_ 5 Fargo, N, D., Aug. 1—Theweather: man is trying to take away North Dakota’s most , pleasant ‘season: Joining hands with the small boy who tells his sister there isn’t) any: Santa Claus, .R. E., Spencer, U. S, Weather observer at Moorhead de- clares there is no Indian Summer, If it, means a definite period, re- curring at the same time each year, and marked by haze, smokiness, and greater warmth: than the weather preceding, there is no such thing, he says. He admits that there is usually a. period some. time. during the fall when the, weather is warm- er than it was: immediately preced- ing and that. forest fires sometimes cause a noticeable haze, jbut adds that there is no definite season, like this. ‘Americans first began writing about Indian summer in 1794. and since that time have made consider- able, of,a, fetish of it. Various writ- e. stated, ‘he says, that it ap- pears in September; that it comes only ig Qctober;:.that November is the time for it; and even that Janu> A Sudden Visit + Mikko , Liergki: and. Char! seaped death hen -thelr‘plane a Rockaway, Long Island. ‘ield. Murray, reserve eutenants, narrowly: crashed into,the front yard of a-home at They wereon.a.trial flight fram Mitchel, ary is the Indian summer season, The statement that it was predicted to colonists and explorers by the In- is without foundation he says. ¢ filaments . of white cotton s is supposed to be another sign of Indian summer. A quantity of that was.toSbe seen in the vicinity of Fargo a week or.two ago. BIG CATTLE SHIPMENT Zap, N. D., Aug.:1—Two hundred ninety head of cattle, filling ten ears, were shipped out of Zap last Saturday, going to the South St. Paul market. Among those shipping and who accompanied’ the stock were Pete Fetter two cars, George McErlain one car, John Wiedrich, Fred Mittelstedt each two cars and Fred Lang .one car. /Bert-~Qnstott had two cars ready for shipment but disposed of his interests to M. Sit+ ver, ‘ ~INN.D. JOIN? Dispatch Says That Two Or- ganizations Combine Grand Forks, Aug. 1.-—The U. 5. Grain :Growers -Asso¢iation of Norti Dakota has officially joined the North Dakota Wheat Growers . Association, according to: word received by A. J. Scott, secretary of the-later organi- zation from W. J. Church of York, N...D., one of the directors of the USS. Grain “Growers ».This action was tiken at a meeting of the board of directors of the U.S. Grain Grow- ers of North Dakota at Fargo today “HI A small dose of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin will bring sauick relief. MOTHER, when one of the children is constipated are | you going to'give the first lax- ative within reach? It is dan- erous to do so. Some have been known °to: rupture. the intestines of. ‘little children. Don’t be beguiled by the out- side sugary appearance. Look into the formula. Calomel is seldom necessary;, salts, minerals, coal tar, never! Unlike these, Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is admirable for children, as it.is for grown pocbles too. Mothers have een giving it to. children for 30 years. They*know it does not gripe, and is free from narcotics. ‘Theformula is, on every package, and you can see itis vegetable, just a com- bination of Egyptian Sennaand other laxative herbs with pep- sin Use it yourself and you will find it is not necessary to take: it every day, nor to increase the dese, and that-it is pleasant to the taste. Bottles can be had at all drug stores, and the cost is only about a cent a dose. Have no hestancy giving it to a baby in arms. It is absolutely safe. Half-Ounce Boitle Free Few escape constipation, so even if you do nat require laxative ct this momen lst me se you a Half-ounce Trial Bole of my Syru| Pepsin EREE OF CHARGE to that you wil have it handy when needed. Simply send your tame and address to Dr. W, B. Caldwell, 514 ‘Washington St., Monticello, tl. Write me today. and followed an ‘invitation of the! signing the latter's contpact, but no wheat growers to the U. S, Grainjadditional*fee shall be charged, Of- Growers recently, wafch was endorsed | ficials of both org ; by the North Dakota Farm Bureau| highly pleased with Federation. ~ | by the board, as i A. J. McInnis of Valley City, John} Wheat pooling in th Dawson of Mandan, and W..J. Church! most. effective when ¢ of York, all directors of the. U. Grain Growers of North Dakota, were named as directors of the North Da- kota Wheat Growers association. It was mutually decided that the mem- bers of the U. S. 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