The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 20, 1920, Page 17

ar * rattle * j * abel Cleland No. WRESTLING WITH AN AVID and Pegey have had a wonderful trip, miles farther away than Snoqualmie or Su quamish, and they have met some Pioneers whe came to Puget Sound before the Indian massacre you know about, The very oldest pioneer they met has to have just three more Dirthdays and he will be 100 years oki! “Remember earty day stories?” he said. “I'm only a young fel low of 97, but I could tell you gome stories.” He held out is hand to David. “See these fingers?” be asked, showing the children two fingers of his left hand which Were twist ed. “See! One points north and one points south—got that playing Baseball the yoar I was 60, “But what you want is a story about Indians, I knew you ‘When I came out here there was only one way to come—that was in a cance. “There were a few settlers at Alki Point, Seattle hadn't even « name. Nobody had moved over to Elliot Bay, “There were thousands of In @tans—Indians everywhere, on the Sound, on the beach, in the woods, It was Indian country when I got here, I tell you. “1 slept on the sand with a reck for a pillow, waked In the morn. | ing half covered with snow, But I guess it didn't hurt me any, Hore Tam yet! The oldest pioneer taughed quite a bit before he went on. “1 was thinking,” he said, “how these Indians tried me out. I was easy ADVEN OF THE 134 INDIAN | made Indian agent by the govern ment, and if I was going to be | the agent for the United government I had to be t ‘ {chief} mustn't let them think any Indian would get the best of me tn any way. | “One day they brought tn a young Indian who had the name of being @ great wrestler. There | were three of these wrestlers in | the tribe, but this one had never | been thrown. | “One and another would come | to me and say, ‘You better throw |Pukpuka. If you no throw bun, | you no great Tyee? “Well, I knew tf I ever wrestled with an Indian and he \downed ma, I'd have to leave. | They wouldn't obey me: wouldn't respect me; I couldn't stay—that’s all, So I refused, “You ‘fraid? they taunted. "White chief ‘fraid! White chief | ne strong to throw Indian wrest ler? “Wen, by and by they got me mad. And I was a pretty wiry fellow, anyway. Add a little gin fer to it, and I was hard to ham die “*An right,” [ eal, Dring out your man! “IL wae risking my Tfe—one white man among 1,700 Indiane—eavages who cared no more for s puman life m the Beach. red—1 wae mad! et for the maten others before my strogeie with the great wrestler of the tribe “T threw the first man without any trouble, Dut there were two mora I must down a second and stronger an attempt with the L | eee TURES TWINS Barton. SNOOPY SKUNK TALKS BNa 3 Tingaling threw up his hands. “Oh, Mr. Skunk, don't + mind him, he doesn’t know anything.” Snoopy Skunk was telling Mr. ‘Tingalmg what he wanted to have d@one to his house, and the fairy Jandlord didn’t dare to contradict dim, “Nom said Snoopy, “T havent be gun, There are some more things I Wish beside the lavender bedroom and waxed stairs and the house turned around” was a wicked twinkle fn his as he talked, for he knew #« well @s you and I know, thet Tingaling | ‘was afraid of him, although Naney and Nick were puzzled why it should | be so The fairyman wisn't afraid of any other of the animals, no, even Deing frightened the time Oscar Owl) @wallowed him by mistake. Snoopy put his hands in his pock- ets, and his head on one side, and Dalanced himself on his heels and toes, “It's a fine day? he said equint- fing at the sky. “Oh, no! It isn’t.” contradicted Wick. “It’s going to rain.” “Snoopy stopped rocking. “What's BX THORNTON W. BURGESS Bowser the Hound Turns Back HEN Farmer Brown's Boy had dug way down to the very bot- tom of the house in which Reddy Fox had lived with Old Granny Fox 4 had found no one at home, he f Mpought that Reddy had simply gone t, : You see he didn’t once think that Reddy might have moved. Ol Mis tah Buzzard, railing high up in the Blue, blue sky, had looked down and grinned as he saw how hard Farmer Brown's Béy was working, and ail for nothing. Now Bowser the Hound had been gmiffing around while his master was @iggzing, and he had found just a wee, wee trace of Granny and Reddy Fox, It was a good many hours gince they had been along there, but there wan still just a tiny bit of @cent in some of their tracks, just enough to keep Bowser sniffing and gniffing for more. Bowser n 4 @hat it led away from the house which Farmer Brown's Boy was yg Working so hard to dig open. “J don't believe there’s any one at home,” said ser to himse gt gust try to follow these tracks and Perhaps I will discover something.” fo Bowser the Hound, who is very, wery patient, kept sniffing as he ran ack and forth this way and that way. Every once tn a while h would get such a «trong smell of ) Granny or Reddy Fox that he would ope’ big mouth and shout “Bow wow t the top of his lungs, His master wag wo busy digging that he took no notice at all, and so gradu lly Bowser’s voice sounded fainter fainter as he got farther and ther away. Slowly but surely Bowser the ound was tracking Old Granny Fox and Reddy Fox to the old deserted house which Granny Fox had chosen for a hiding place. Granny wag out a Watching Farmer Brown's Boy dig that?" he demanded sharply. “I say it's @ fine day. The sun's out” But it wasn't out any more than next year's roses! Tingaling threw up his hands, “Oh. Mr. Skunk, don't mind him,” he pro- tested anxieusly, “He doesn’t know anything,” pointing to Nick, “It's a | beautiful day, a most wondertully WEDLOCKED CR AUT [r= Doce. JUMBO SEEMS To FE LOST? TH HONE PAGE SAYS TH’ PRESERVIN SEASON [3 HERE, AND AN ABUNDANCE OF FRUIT! 1 MUST GET CLARICE TO PUT UP A LOT FoR TH’ WINTER! Tom, tour THis, WONDERFUL ? Vm Just LOOWNE INET GRAND To To ote w ican bIVE INA PLACE LiKE THis P AA ‘hMp, Sa AG 7 4.5 Annie Didn't Mean Peter. WITH THAT DAME ? THATS SHALLOW WATER THERG we Pole: AND IS UD IN HEAVEN! quisite day, Mr. Skunk, “Him! said Snoopy eytng him sus pleiously. “It tan't. It's awful! How | do you like my yellow’ petunia bed?” | jhe anked next. “Yeliow claimed Nancy, forget: ting Tingaling’s warning. “They're {not yellow, they're, pink.” | "Oh, no, no, no!” protested ‘Tinga ling. “She's color blind, Mr. Skunk. | Always was! Very sad! Very sad, }indeed! Your yellow petunias are | lovely, look like pure gold, I do love yellow petuniast” “Hm? said Snoopy. at all, They are pink? Nobody knew what to aay then. | Snoopy Skunk was getting more im | possible every mintte, Copyright, 1920, 8. B.A) “Not yellow open her old home and did not pay much attention to Bowser the Hound until she heard an extra loud “Bow- | | wow!” over in the direction of the old house where she had left Reddy asleep, Then her heart fell down, |down to her very shoes. She knew ony BEEN Rud "7000 HILES ON “THE NEW SPHEDOME (ER, ONNA DO ANY PRESERVING THIS YEAR SiR? YEH! Itt GONNA PRESERVE MY BANK ROLL! Runs a Lottery for Himself GENEVA, August 20—Tsing, a Chinese student in a university bere, won $2,000 on Spion Kop, winner of | the Bnglish derby, with @ system all| his own, He wrote the names of the horses on paper slips, dropped ‘em in @ hat and fished out one That one was Spion Kop and Tsing hastened to make his bet. Morals on Bargain “Oh, dear!’ sighed Granny Fox. “1 Counter, He Says lexpect I've got to lead that dog way COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 20 over in the old pasture on the edge “Morals are on the bargain counter jof the mountain and fool him there thruout the country,” r again just as I did yesterday. Oh, Rev. Daniel I". Ritt ear! It’s dreadfully hot to run. ur And I haven’t.tiad @ mite of break- | the fast, Oh, dear!" | igto ‘columbus pastors are You remember that Bowser the joining in condemning what they Hound never looks where he ts going term the laxness of present-day when following @ track. He just morals. rung with his nose to the ground. So, a8 usudl, he didn't use his eyes|atarted back for his master a@ fast this time, So he almost ran right/as he could run, for Bowser the into Prickly Porky the Porcupine,|Hound ts very much afraid of the who was taking a sun bath on the| thousand little spears which Prickly doorstep of the old house in which|J’orky carries in his coat, “Wow!” yelled Bowser, what It meant. She knew that Bow. ser would surely find the old de serted house, No Wild Birds for Germans Any More MANHATTAN, Kas, Aug. 20—| MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 20, The high cost of p rving fruit The Australian Zoological socte- this year has been solved by tho|ties have continued to block the Kansas bee growers. 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Such remedies|will begin to clear up, and you may afford some temporary relief,/will soon be rid of the disease as but you want more than relief; thousands of others have yo want a remedy that will rid} Get a bottle at the drugstore to you forever of the torturing dis-|day, write to our head physician, order. who will gladly give you full medi. Reddy Fox was hiding. “Wow!” yelled Bowser, and, put ting his tail between his legs, he Next story: Prickly Porky Enjoys Himself, Eczema, tetter, botls, pimples,|cal advice without charge. Ad- ulcers, irritations and scalp erup-|dress Medical Director, 613 Swift tiona, as well as all other forms of|Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga, Fisher, whole length, signed, and Yhen a chameleon is blinded 1 Pencil Sketch at dated 1767, realized $600 at a sale, | loses all power of changing ite color, Sale Fetches $600 Riad abstain 7, h°3 and its entire body remains of & LONDON, Aug. 20—A pencil| Presses for shaping and cutting] Uiform tint drawing by R. 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