THF WFStÆrN NFWS. URRY. MONTANA Thursday, AnytM 1, 1935. PAGE SEVEN ! TTh® P® O Housewife's Idea Box o 00n)@ @ D Golden I Phantoms y \ FASCINATING TALES OF LOST MINES 1 \'y.\ CW.N.U. Bg Edit km L. Wmttmm & \) □ □ THE HILL OF SILVER ß h FEW years more than a century ■ --s A ago, a company of eleven men set **$ out from Sau Antonio, Texas, to search » for a wonderful silver mine, This mine was supposed to be near the old For Your Playing Card* ■ ■ " " fort of San Luis de las Amarlllas, on Playing cards of all kinds become the San Saba river. It was known to sticky after long use or in damp legend as the Hill of Silver, and a weather. You can easily correct this ;T>;i vast fortune in that valuable metal awaited the man, or men, whd should condition: Spread your cards out flat on a piece of paper. Sprinkle be lucky enough to find It. m them lightly with talcum powder or -r It—or something like It—had been cornstarch. Thoroughly rub It into "found" many times before. The In­ 'y :t 1 r the cards. They will feel as good A D dians knew about it, and rumors of Black Partridde Sdvind Mrs. Helm Its wonders had reached tlie Spaniards as new. THE HOUSEWIFE. . JL ^ (£) UM0CPWOO 0 A- of Mexico as early as the Eighteenth —- —- UHOtRiMoao Copyright bv Public Ledger, Inc. g century. The Apaches indicated its WNU Service. m "t. direction; the Llpuns brought silver [♦I ■m, I Wf.'-ik-.- * \ from Its veins to San Antonio; the “Twilight of the Gods Comanches knew its location, and the Kl Seen Only in Finland The Famous Sauganash Tavern Caddos, Wacos, and Tehuacanas, who Thousands of years ago Ice and survive only by their names on maps of the south, fought off the white men water from the Arctic ocean to the By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A ■â; /\ Who traveled near it. Don Fernando Baltic sea covered what is now Fin­ VERHEAD the shriek of iron wheels de Miranda, lieutenant general of the land. Like the Hollander, the Finn on Iron rails cuts through the bang­ lias for generations been capturing A.; province of Texas, found a mine which ing, rattling roar as an “L” train his country from the flood and with­ v he claimed was of vast extent, and rounds a curve and grinds to a ■mt ■v; from w-hich he brought samples of ore, out wars or treaties of peace is an­ stop. Down below the clanging of and reported that he had been told of nexing every year vast territories of street car bells, the honking of i\J even richer mines farther on. Early virgin soli, as virgin as Venus rising automobile horns, the shouts of fl eastern adventurers established a little from the waves. Yet, according to l A newsboys add to the bedlam. smelter for gold and silver; some dis­ a correspondent, so much • remains uncaught that Finland can boast of Through this canyon of steel and A TheTreottj Elm tance away they hud a mine, which stone flows an endless stream of Shabbona they claimed had been worked by the being the Lake district of Europe. ■y hurrying humanity and raucous Spaniards; all this was somewhere in Here are more reed-rlmmed water truffle. For this Is Lake street, the the extensive territory of the Hill of spots than In any country on the passed Into the possession of a mightier race; northern boundary of Chicago’s famous Loop, Silver. continent. It Is larger than the on a summer day In the year 1935. already they were strangers in the land of their The little group of eleven men from British Isles in area, so that from On a summer day a hundred years ago this nativity. . . . San Antonio were not hunting blindly. the confines of Lapland to the busy same Lake street, then little more than a dusty “Before quitting forever their ancient council Their leaders were James and Kezin Baltic It enjoys every variety of trail along the bank of the Chicago river, was ground the warriors Indulged In a last great war Bowie, who were supposed to have summer climate. Still more striking dance. The matchless charm of Irving has Im­ echoing to a more hideous discord than could seen with their own eyes the fabulous are its contrasts of light. The lu­ be produced by all the modern street’s “L" Wa-Baun-See mortalized the Moor's farewell to his beloved wealth of this hidden mine to which minance of its summer nights re­ land. More dramatic In Its picturesque savagery, trains, street cars and motor vehicles combined. they were going. James Bowie, who veals aspects of natural beauty which I Over In the council house beyond the river 800 suasion by the agents and traders one after an­ and worthier far of the life he had led, was the the human eye Is privileged to see Pottawatomie’s farewell to Chicago, Driven west­ was to become one of the martyred Indian warriors had assembled that morning. other of the chiefs agreed to sign the treaty and heroes of the Alamo, was said to have In few other places. Now they hud crossed the river and were ad­ It was concluded on September 2Ö. It provided ward by the advancing tide of civilization, In the At moments, Time himself seems final moments of their expiring tenure of their joined the tribe of Lipans who guarded vancing eastward In Lake street toward Fort for the cession of the Indian lands west of Lake the mine, for the express purpose of to utilize the golden nail of which homeland the warriors gave a demonstration of Dearborn. Michigan, also their remaining reservation In learning Its location. Having succeed­ Lope de Vega writes, to stop the their devotion to their ancient Ideals, by staging "Their only covering was a strip of cloth about southwestern Michigan, a tract of about 5,000,000 ed, he organized this company to go hastening whirl of his wheel and the the loins and a profusion of paint of brilliant acres, and their removal within three years before their conquerors such an exhibition of sun waits above the western skies savagery as appalled the stoutest hearts!" back, fight off the Indians, and secure colors with which the face and body were hid­ beyond the Mississippi river. as much as they could of the rich to start afresh a new day's run. That exhibition was the farewell dance which eously decorated. Their hair, long, coarse, and In return the Pottawatomles were to receive ore. Finland has the twilight of the gods, black, was gathered in a scalp lock on top of 5,000,000 acres of land In the West; the United took place on Lake street that August day 100 and light and shade are obliterated. years ago and of which Judge Caton has left us The old fort was only 150 miles from the head and profusely decorated with hawk and States was to transport them to their new home 8an Antonio; both Bowles had been at The Finn far from home la more eagle feathers, some strung together so as to and pay the cost of their support for one year; such a graphic description. The story of It forms homesick for his twilight lakes than the last chapter of Qualfe's "Chicago and the the mine. Putting these facts to­ extend down the back nearly to the ground. Led and various sums of money, totalling almost $1,- gether, one might suppose that the for anything else, and I do not by a band of musicians, the procession moved (XX),000, were to be expended In their behalf. On Old Northwest,” the last paragraph of which blame him. reads ; travelers would head straight for the slowly, the warriors advancing with a continual the face of It these terms were very liberal. But, source of the treasure. But for some dance. In front of every house along their course as was so often the case In the white man’s deal­ "Thus did the red man play his savage role to the end. It was a brave show which he obscure reason, they wandered about Frame Included a stop was made and extra feats were performed. ings with the Indian for his lands, there was a for three weeks, following James The musicians produced a discordant din of "Joker” concealed somewhere In the proposed enacted that summer morning, but it was nothing Roll dev. 8 eupertone priimta & more. For him the scepter of power had depart­ Bowie, who was "looking over the lay 1 enlargement In E*»el F rame hideous noises by beating on hollow vessels and deal of the land," and finally wound up or i enlargement! without ed, and this was his final farewell. A few weeks Frame. 25c coin. Reprint! 3c ea. striking sticks together." Thus writes Milo M. Of the $1,000,000 appropriation, $320,000 was about six miles east of the fort—where Qualfe In his "Chicago and the Old Northwest." set aside for the payment of a $16,000 annuity later he took up his weary journey toward the _M. W. PHOTO SERVICE sunset and Chicago knew him no more. The they were attacked by a large band of Fargo N. Dak. But an even more graphic description Is to fol­ for a period of 20 years; $150,000 was to be hostile Indians. A day or so before, low—the words of a man who witnessed that expended for the erection of mills, blacksmith red man had vanished, and Chicago and Chi­ cago’s future were committed to the care of a friendly Comanche had warned them scene. shops and houses nndUthe employment of physi­ of the projected raid, so they were On the corner of Lake and Market streets cians, blacksmiths and mechanics; and $70,000 another and mightier race." T( lay remnants of the once powerful Potta­ prepared to fight, but one man was ECZEMA stood a “vile, two-storied barrack’’—Mark Beau- was to be devoted to educational purposes and killed and three were wounded, and To quickly relieve the itching and blen’s Sauganash, Chicago's “lending hotel." watomles, "the People of the Place of the Fire,” the encouragement of the domestic arts. All of there were no means of oaring for the burning, and help nature restore From Us second-story "parlor" windows, a group these were enterprises with which no fault can live In Kansas and Oklahomh, far from the west­ ern shores of I^ake Huron where the early injured. So, as soon as they could akin comfort, freely apply of white people, mostly women, looked out upon be found. move them, they took their casualties a terrifying spectacle. One of the group was a Considerably different, however, were certain French explorers first found them. Their tribal name Is written large In the history of the Old back to San Antonia, making the trip, future justice of the Supreme court of Illinois, other clauses In the treaty. One of them was though crippled and halting, in ten Resinol John D. Caton, who has left this account of what that goods and provisions to the value of $125,- Northwest—as allies of tiie French In the wars with the English and ns aids of Pontiac in his days. he saw ; 000 should be distributed to the Indians, one Perhaps reasoning that If he had portion when the treaty was signed and the re­ vain attempt to halt the advance of the Briton “It was mid-August, the morning was very after he had wrested control of North America gone straight on to his objective the warm, and the exertions of the warriors caused the mainder during the coming year. Another was expedition would have met success, Quick, Pleasant perspiration to pour forth almost in streams. Their setting aside the sum of $110,000 for "sundry from the Frenchman. During the Revolution, however, they sided with Great Britain in her James Bowie organized another party, eyes were wild and blood-shot, their counte­ individuals In behalf of whom reservations were of thirty men this time, and started Successful Elimination asked, which the commissioners refused to war against her rebellious colonies and again nances had assumed an expression of all the in 1812 they took up the hatchet against the out again for the silver treasure. This worst passions which can And a place In the grant' Among these Individuals were white time he led them to the right location, Let's be frank—there’s only one traders and half-breeds who had married Into Americans. Although many an American fron­ breast of a savage; fierce anger, terrible hate, tiersman had felt the wrath of the Pottnwnto- but legend disagrees as to whether he way for your body to rid itself of dire revenge, remorseless cruelty, all were ex­ the tribe, and members of their families. The found the mine or not. the waste material that causes acid­ propriety of their being paid money which be­ mles, It was the Fort Dearborn massacre on Au­ ity, gas, headaches, bloated feelings pressed In their terrible features. Their muscles gust 15, 1812, which wrote the name of the “Fire stood out In great hard knots, as If wrought to longed to the Indians was dubious, to say the and a dozen other discomforts. Nation" Imperlshnbly In red In the annuls of tiie That there actually la a Hill of Sil­ a tension which must burst them. Their toma­ least Your Intestines must function and United States, ver In that region la substantiated by the way to make them move quick­ hawks and clubs were thrown and brandished But more astounding than that was another records In the archives of Mexico. clause which provided for the payment of $175,- Just as the Pottawatomles were great as a ly, pleasantly, successfully, without about in every direction with the most terrible people, so were some of their chiefs and warriors According to these records, the mine griping er harsh Irritants Is to chew ferocity, and with a force and energy which 000 to various Individuals to satisfy claims made outstanding among those Indians whose names was worked In the early days of the a Mllnesia Wafer thoroughly, In ac­ could only result from the highest excitement, by them against the tribes concerned in the are recorded in the white man's history. There San Saba mission. When the local cordance with directions on the bot­ and with every step and every gesture they ut­ treaty, "which they have admitted to be Justly Indians uprose and killed everyone at tle or tin, then swallow’. due. Of this provision Andreas, the Chicago was Makahta-penashe. "The Black Bird," fierce Mllnesia Wafers, pure milk of tered the most frightful yells. In every Imagin­ leader In the massacre of Dearborn's hapless the mine, It was considered politic to able key and note, though generally the highest historian, has said, "It was an apportionment of magnesia In tablet form, each equiv­ i| the ready money of the tribes among all the garrison. There w Wlnamac, “The Catfish,” abandon the place for a while, until It alent to a tablespoon of liquid milk and shrillest possible. who boasted of Rl should be safe to return and continue "The dance, which was ever continued, con­ whites who could bring a claim against any s part In the tragedy until of magnesia, correct acidity, bad Spemlcalawbn, operations. But during the years after li sisted of leaps and spasmodic steps, now for­ Indian. The honest debtor and the unjust and ie Shawnee friend of the white byeath, flatulence, at their source, men, killed him and ended his boasting. And tills massacre, so many things of great and enable you to have the quick, ward and now buck or sideways, with the whole dishonest claimant absorbed the fund. How large there was Pesotum, the slayer of the famous Importance occurred to the Spaniards, pleasant, successful elimination so body distorted Into every Imaginable unnatural a portion of it represented robbery, theft and Capt. William Wells and one of those who cut and so many of those who knew the necessary to abundant health. position, most generally stooping forward, with perjury will never be known until the great book location of the mine were killed or re­ Mllnesia Wafers come In bottled the head and face thrown up, the back arched Is opened on the last day." Certainly it was one out and ate the heart of that gallant frontiers­ turned to Mexico, that the Hill of at 85c and 60c or In convenient tins down, first one foot thrown forward and then of the most shameless Instances of greed, fraud man to Win for themselves some of the courage Silver became actually lost. at 20c. Recommended by thousands withdrawn, and the other similarly thrust out, 0 and dishonesty in the history of our dealings for which he was fumed. of physicians. All good druggists But not all of the Pottawatomie names con­ Several years ago sliver bullets were frequently squatting quite to the ground, and with the Indian, common though those things carry them. Start using these pleas­ nected with the massacre connote savage cruelty. found In the bottom of San Saba all with a movement almost as quickes light­ have been from beginning to end. ant tasting effective wafers today. For there was Toplnabee, who tried to restrain springs, and this find served to bring ning. Their weapons were brandished as If they Shortly after the treaty was signed $80,000 worth the lost site to notice again. It Is said would slay a thousand enemies at every blow, of the $125,000 worth of the goods which the the murderous fury of the young braves, and Wa-baun-see and that other Wlnamac, or Wlnne- WNU—X while the yells and screams they uttered were Indians were to receive were distributed to them that treasure seekers are now hunting SI—35 over an area of more than 2,500 sqiiare broken up and multiplied and rendered all the in addition to the first year’s annuity of $10,000 meg, who tried In vain to save Wells after he miles, hoping to find the wonderful more hideous by a rapid clapping of the mouth In cash. "The Indians profited little by the had been wounded. (Incidentally, It was this same Wlnamac who brought the fatal order for sliver hill. with the hand. wealth bestowed upon them" says Qualfe. "The * • "When the head of the column had reached greater part of it quickly passed from their hands the evacuation of Fort Dearborn from General the front,of the hotel, leaping, dancing, gesticu­ to the coffers of the traders, much of It In ex­ Hull to Captain Heald and whose fame la per­ Other lost and hidden treasures of lating and screaming while they looked up with change for bad whiskey ; and the red man was petuated in the city of Winamac, Ind.) Texas Include the famous “Nigger, Advertisements head," In the wild country along the hell Itself depicted on their faces, at the ‘che- probably more Injured than benefited by the mess Be It remembered also that it was a Potta- mokoman’ (white man’s) squaws In the windows, of pottage for which he had surrendered his tomle chieftain, Makntapnke, “The Black Part­ Rio Grande border. There is not much Best Guides and brandished their weapons as If they were birthright." ridge," who saved Mrs, Helm, the wife of a young of a story to go on In the search for lieutenant of the garrison, from a warrior’s scalp­ this mine, but It Is said that a negro abput to make a real attack in deadly earnest, No doubt during the next two years the Potta­ ing knife and who later burled the remains of who worked for a ranch below San­ the rear was still on the other side of the river, watomles realized that fact and a sullen resent­ to Value 200 yards off; and all the Intervening space, Captain Wells. Then there were Sauganash derson found the ore and brought ment must have burned In their hearts at the (Billy Caldwell) and Che-chu-pln-quay (Alexan­ Including the bridge and Its approaches, was thought, especially ns the time drew near for specimens of It Into camp. He dis­ xperts can roughly der Robinson)—half-breeds but Pottawatomie appeared shortly afterward, and ever covered with this raging savagery glistening In them to Journey, both figuratively and literally, estimate the value of a chiefs, nevertheless—who saved the lives of more since then the hunt has been keen, but E the sun, reeking with streamy sweat, fairly toward the setting gun. Such was their feeling product by looking at it; but frothing at their mouths as with unaffected rage, than one white man that day. with no résulta Then there is that as they assembled In Chicago tn the summer of Nor can the roll call of the outstanding Potta­ even experts arc sometime» t. it seemed as If we had a picture of hell Itself 1835 to receive the last payment of their annuity deep spring one hundred miles south­ fooled by imperfections. before us, and a carnival of the damned spirits watomles be completed without mention of west of San Antonia, where "seven In their native land and to prepare for that Metea, their great orator, Big Foot, whose home there confined, whose pastimes we may suppose jackloads of silver" were thrown In A more certain method journey. village Is now the resort town of Lake Geneva. should present some such scene as this.” “Chicago had long been a favorite resort with early days when bandits attacked the for judging the value of any What was the meaning of this orgy of sav­ Wls., and Shabbona (or Shahopee), he who was transporting party. Not long ago manufactured goods is a the Pottawatomles. Here they had come to hold "Built Like a Bear," the peace chief of the tribe. agery by these 800 Pottawatomie Indians? To their councils and to receive their annuities. drouth caused the water to become knowledge of the maker’« answer that question It Is necessary to go back It was Shabbona who proudly bore the title of much lower than ever before, and a name and what it stands for. Here almost a quarter of a century before they "Friend of the White Man” and proved his right two years. In the early autumn of 1833 the had gained their roost signal triumph over the bucket which scraped the bottom of greatest Indian council ever held In Chicago to It during the Winnebago and Black Hawk the spring brought up a Spanish silver This is a sure index of value race that was crowding them ever westward. uprisings, not only by keeping his people from gathered there to consider the proposals of the Since the last great gathering two years before, coin dated 1742. and an assurance against care­ American commissioners. Gov. George B. Porter going on the warpath but by risking his life After every violent storm along the less workmanship, or use of the sprawling village had developed Into what more than once to warn settlers that the hostiles of Michigan, Thomas J. V. Owen, Indian agent must have seemed to the unsophisticated red coast of Texas, Spanish doubloons are shoddy materials. Advertised at Chicago, and William Weatherford, for the were coming. found on the Islands in the gulf—only products arc worthy of your man a veritable metropolis. The signs of civiliza­ The passing of the Pottawatomles took place cession of the lands of the Pottawatomles to the tion which it presented to their wondering gaze, ■ few at a time, of course, but still confidence and you 11 find it government. • full century ago but the fame of such men as enough to recall legends of Jean La­ V although crude enough from the point of view of these will help keep alive the name of the “Fire pays to read advertisements At first the Indians refused the terms offered the Twentieth century, must have brought home fitte, who Is supposed to have burled and to buy advertised goods. b> the commissioners. But after much per- Nation.” his wealth on some of these Islands, to them the realization that their birthright bad # Wtcttra H«w«pap«r Union, 5

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