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    TITTC NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Coronado Revisits Seven
Golden Cities of Cibola
Hie Jeweled Armor of Spain's
Grandeur to Flash in the
Sunlight of a New
Quivera.
THE REVENGE OF EL TURGO
Goronado Returns to Nebraska and
Views Its Wealth of Fame,
Cities and Villages
' after 400 years.
-By DR. H B. ALEXANDER.
University of Nebraska.
3fMiH!.stovii, Vn wiih founded In
1607, tho IMIkHhih sighted Capo Cod
ta 1020. But It was three qunrtorrt
at n century enrller, In 15-10, flint
Tnsqucz de Coroiindo made Ills con
iquerliiK expedition Into the I'uohlo
country of New Mexico, and In the
oprlng of the following year (lint lie
itnterejl the Missouri Valley and blazed
a trull Into the prairie country, which
fthe Indians had fatned to him as the
(golden hind of Quivera.
, merlcans of the Middle. West are
prone to think of the Atlantic coast
Dancing Women of Quivera Welcome Tatarrax, Monarch of Dreams.
atutes as the truly "historical" portion
wf their country, but the future Is
tiltogether likely to flml out most
fuscinutlng chapters in the story of
tho opening up of the great cpntlnen
fctl Interior ot North America, n Htory
which begins with Coronado and con
tinues on through tho days of the
ftruppers and traders, Indian lighters
and railroad builders, to our own
fUme, for tho canvas-topped prairie
chooner has not even yet camped
on its last claim, and the speeding
tourist car stjll occasionally passes
him bobbing nlong tho westwurd road.
If not yet, certainly In the not distant
future tho Middle Western American
will wako up to tho fact that Ameri
can history Is his In as rich a sense
us any oastornor or southerner may
lulm,
The rapidly growing popularity of
Historical pugeants In tho Middle West
la a symptom that tho awakening Is
at hnnd. Community after community
t presenting tho drama of the settle
ment of tho West to Its people, tho
oldors rejoicing In the recollections
aroused by the pictures of the past,
tho youth getting a now understand
lng of the tales of pioneer days heard
jtrom their fathers. A unique feature
of such a pageant was Inaugurated In
Shenandoah, Iowa, recently, when for
a day automobiles were banished from
tho streets, only horse-drawn vehicles
being allowed, while tho citizens
overywhere searched their attics and
utorage for old garments and revived
tho costumes of the past. Everybody
took part In tho celebr itlou, and when
tho pageant came off seating was Im
possible for tho crowd. It Is in fact
the groat value of pageantry that It
represents participation by groups
representative of tho whole connnun
lty, oxen In larf,e cities.
The year 1022 la marked by an un
usually Interesting pageant event, or
rather u pair of them. When Mexico
threw off the Spanish yoke, a hundred
yeurs ago, tho now government In
vited Into Its territories trade from
tlio United States, which before that
time had been rigidly restricted by
Che Spanish government, wllch was
fearful of American encroachment
One of tho first consequences was the
opening of tho Santa Fe trail, the
Elizabeth's Coaches Aroused Envy.
In the end tho husbands capitulated,
"anil after u while divers great ladles,
with as great Jealousy of tho queen's
displeasure made them coaches, and
rid tboin up and duwuo tho countries
to. the great admiration of all be
bolder." Safety.
"Yes," said Mrs. Pluglelgh, "I al
ways keop my dog tied up. I never
can bo sure when some tramp mllit
come along and bite him or steal his
(bono "
first and most fatuous of the over
plains trade routes. Tack mules, In
18'Jl!, broke their way with their mer
chandise. It Is the centennial of this
event which Is to he celebrated I"
Santa Fe, at Its September fiesta this
fall, a celebration which is likely to
prove one of the most Interesting ever
put on In tiie west.
Kitting in witli theSnnta Ko cele
bration, like a mated shoe, Is tiie
pageant being prepared by the Ale-Sar-Hen
of Omaha ,to be given In
their city the 18th and ll)th of Sep
tember. This Is to celebrate the ex
pedition of Cornnado Into Quivera,
the drat advent of white men Into
the Missouri Valley. The subject Is
(lttlng In a double sense, for it repre
sents the Spanish penetration, back
In the Kith century, eastward Into the
plains country, 'just as the trail cen
tenary represents the beginning of the
American movement westward. And
again there Is a dramatic propriety
in the fact that Coronado on part of
his course actually followed -sc Colo
nel rwltchell of Santa Ke states
the route of what was later to be
come the gieat trail. In any case,
frcirii Santa I'V In the eastern itodcies
to Omaha on the Missouri represents
the territories roughly dHned by
Coronado's Journey, the wh'te man's
discovery of the Great 1'la.ns of
North America, and it Is a happy
coincidence that the two cities cele
brate the history of the region with
in a fortnight of one another.
The "Ak-Sar-Uen pageant, entitled
"Coronado in Quivera," will occupy
two evenings. Tho first evening, Sep
tember 18th, will deplclt tho depart ur?
of the army of Coronado from the now
ruined and abandoned Pueblo of Pecos,
about thirty miles east of Santa ire.
This Pueblo was tho largest In New
Mexico at the time 't the conquest,
but Its cacique, henrlng of tho prowess
of the Spaniards and of their terrible
weapons and animals, thought dis
simulation better than resistance.
Accordingly, with great show of friend
ship, he Invlt- .1 Coronado to his town ;
there the Spaniards were feasted, and
there they were told tnles of tho
golden. land of Quivera and its ning
nltlcent monarch Tatarrax, far to tho
east. The device was one used by
Indian nations In both North and
South America to get rid of unwel
come guests, and generally they suc
ceeded, for the Spaniards were full
of credulity. Certainly '"Srtnndo took
tho bait.
At Pecos there were a couple of
plains Indians, either captives or
guests, the one called by the Spaniards
"the Turk" from his fancied resem
blance to a Moor, the other named
Ysopete. It Is supposed that these
Indians were Wichita or Pawnee, of
the Caddoan stock. The cacique of
Pecos cleverly used these men to In
llame the Imagination of tho Conquis
tadores. Their tales and tho display
of a gold trinket or two were sutll
dent, and the Spaniards set forth.
Hrlelly, this is the plot of the page
ant for the tlrst evening. The scene,
three hundred feet across tho front
nnd thirty feet high, will represent
me memo or feces, Hunker, on either
side by the Spanish camp rnd a ennui
of tepees representing visiting Indians
from the Croat Plains. There will bo
an Indian dance, typifying the nntlvo
life of the Hod Man. Then the Crier
cf Pecos, In fantastic costume, will
tell of the coming of the wonderful
race of strangers, thuniler-breathlni;
The Spanish nnny will eater. Invited
by the Cacique. There will be gorge-
ous nances or entertainment, each
sldo, Spanish. and Indian, wing with
tho other In the splendor of its shows,
Aztecs, aioors, sspim.su Warriors and
women, masked Pueblo people, etc
Cllfts will be Interchanged, and the
Spaniards will discover the gold
cleverly offered by the Cacique's poo-
D ascribed.
A teacher In Kngllsh In one of our
colleges describes a money-lender as
follows: "He serves you In the pros
out tense, lends In the conditional
mood, koops you In the subjective, and'
ruins you In tho future."
Ten Per Cent Will Do.
A Washington scientist bus discov
ered that people who eat i eaniits J.b
orally have a line growtliofhalr. We
shall expoct a commission from the
peanut venders for passing this In
formation along. Moston Transcript.
pie. Then will follow the excitement
of the dramatic scene, in which tho
tale of Quivera is unfolded. The
Turk and Ysopete will appear, and
with trumpets and banners the Span
ish troop will march forth on Its wild
quest, to tlio great chorus, "Henrts
of tho Conqulstndoros, a feature of
the music written for the pageant by
Henry Purmoit Humes, formerly of
Omaha, now of Chicago. Immediately
the temper of the scene wilT change;
from a great festival of entertainment
it will turn to a, carnival of vlndlctlvo
hate and the mallclon Joy of tho In
dians In the success of their rase.
There will be n war dance a genuine
one by native Indians; a meteoric
shower In the distance will foretell
HfiiHtor to tlio Spaniards; the cacique
will deliver his curse upon theii a
tremendous baritone solo ; and the first
night's performance will end wIMi a
great chorlc appeal to the Gods of
Destruction to 'ill upon the depart
lug strangers.
Tho second evening of the pageant,
September ,10th, will represent the
army of Coronado In the Missouri
Valley, In .,e fabulous Quivera. The
pageant again opens with an Indian
lance, done by native Plain Indians.
Following this comes a funtnsla, un
imaginative representation of Tatar
rax and his people, not as actually
was to disclose them but as visloned
In tlio drama of the Spaniards. Tlio
scene will represent' the dancing
women of Quivera, waving boughs
rom the fabled tree with Its pendu
lous bells of silver and gold. It will
show the ornate symbolled bargo of
the monarch, beating -atarrax, "mon
arch of dreams," and his prophet, who
will foretell the near approach of tlio
new order of things. Then it will
fade, us a dreaiii fades, nnd in the
distance tl.e army of Coronado will
be seen approaching.
The burning of a distant village,
after u brief combat, will be emblein-
itlc of the adventures of the Journey.
The Spaniards will enter, led by "the
Turk." Then will follow the drama
of tho revealment, when Coronado
and his followers discover that they
have been deliberately misled, in the
hope as "tho Turk" boasts that thev
will perish In the wilds. For this
treachery "the Turk" (who, after all,
was a hero of the Indian race) was
executed, ere the disillusioned Span-
lards turned bad: on their course.
But In Coronado's report of the coun
tries discovered, made to the King of
Spain, he did picture the prairle-land
as rich and fertile, capable of sup
porting many cattle and growing rich
vineyards. For lilm It was no "great
Vinerlcun desert," as long It seemed
o the tlrst explorer from the east.
It Is therefore with especial propriety
that in tho pageant of "Coronndo in
Quivera," following ills tlrst disillusion
ment, Coronado should be represented
as foreseeing tlio great future of tho,
prairie country, his Qulvoru.
The pageant closes with this vis
ion of the future as foreseen by Coro
nado, in a kind of npocalypse. First
tho trappers and. traders and early
explorers pass in view, with their
packs and dogs and ponies. Next tho
cowboy days are Indicated, and ufter
them the farming settlers with their
ox-teams and prairie schooners. Tho
Indian wars are Indicated by soldiers
and mounted Indian warriors, who
had tlrst seen horses when tho troop
of Coronado wound over their hunting
grounds. A chorus, "Hall to the City'"
greets a symbolic representation of
tho city of Omaha, "The (late of the
Prairies," emblematic of the final and
full white man's occupation, ncclalm
ed by rainbow dancers, emblems of
promise, for after nil there is no
region on earth with such conscious
promise as is ours.
Hut tills Is not nil. Coronado's
quest was disappointed in its actual
I'atarrax, but if It be viewed ns u
quest of the Ideal through the cen
turies It is condng to a kind of reali
zation In the Pageant movement nnd
In such pageant-fos'erlng organiza
tions as Ak-Sar-Hen Itself, with King
Ak-Sur-Hcn as the monarch of the
new dynasty. Tiie pageant, therefore,
will show, before the grand llnnle,
the emissaries of this new "monarch
of dreams," come to receive their
commission from the past, from Coro
nado and from Tatarrax and fm.7i
all the wealth of Nebraska's grea:
tradition. At the close, the whole will
be massed In a great spectacle, as It
were, telescoping the centuries In ono
brilliant vision.
There are many features dances,
choruses, songs, spectacle, which will
appear In the two-evening pageant
that cannot be noted In this brief nc
count. Mention should bo made, how
ever, of the "Prairie Vesper," to bo
ijlven by some six hundred Omaha
school children as a sort of a curtain-
raiser (the real curtain Is to be tho
evening sky) on ench evening. Tho
Idea of It Is to glvo the open-air spirit
of the prairie west In symbolic form,
with ditiut and motion. For back of
the white man, buck of the red man,
under and around us all, Is the great
house of life which Is the land Itself
and Its arching skies.
Koreans Refuse Halr-Cuts
Koreans do not cut their hair or
beard, believing that by so doing they
would dishonor their parents. Any
hair that may haniien to fall out
saved, and with lluger-nall pairings,
put in the collln, so that a dead man
or woman may go back to another
earth Intact
The Gentle English Way.
Ills voice stopped oxrtctly like
when you hit a neighbor's gramophone
with a well-aimed brick. II. O. Wells,
in the .Magic Shop.
FIFTY LOSE LIVES
IN TRAIN WRECK
Failure to Recognize Signal is
Given as Cause for Fatal
Disaster.
FO REGULATE INDUSTRIES
President and Senator Dorah WIW
Urge Legislation on Industrial
Relations Before Next
Congress.
Sulphur Springs, Mo. Failure of an
engineer to heed a block signal caused
tie reur.ond collision on the Missouri
acltic here In which almost lift v nel
sons were killed and about thirty-seven
iijiihmi, twenty-live seriously, accord.
Ing to John Cannon, assistant general
uaiiager of the road.
Tniln No. I, a fast passenger, ves
Ibtilivl, steel train, runnin-; at full
ipeed. crushed Into No. U2, a local
omiHtM'd of five wooden day coaches,
i baggage and an express car, us the
'iigine was taking on water with the
unities stretching back on a trestlt
over Uhilse creek.
Tin- Impact hurled two of the local
coaches down a fifty-foot embankment
edging the Mississippi and telescoped
four oilier coaches, crushing a nuinbei
I passengers to death In their seats
Both trains were behind time and the
fast passenger, running from Fort
Worth, Texas, to St. Louis, carried
SO passengers and the local 1X'
persons.
Most of tho Injured, it Is said, were
Boy Scouts who were returning froit
neir summer camps at Ironton, Mo.
iliom 100 miles south of the disaster.
A relief train from Ponular Blurt
was manned by union men now on
strike, who offered their services when
the report of the disaster reached that
town.
Will Keep Old Scale In Effect.
Chicago, 111. Illinois coal operators
refused to attend the meeting of union
ollicials and operators called for Cleve
land by John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, but sub'
mltted a proposition tp Frank Far
rington, president of the Illinois
Miners' union, which, If accepted,
would result In reopening of Illinois
mines.
"Acceding to nnd being governed
by the request of the president of
the United States," the proposal tc
.Mr. Farrlngton said, "we are pre
pared to at once open our mines for
work, paying tho wage scale in ef
fect at the expiration of the lost con
tract. To Urge Industrial Legislation.
Washington. When the two big
strikes now pending are settled, the
entire question of industrial relations
will bo tackled by President Harding
and Senator Borah, chairman of the
senate committee on lubor, In an ef
fort to drip- up a code of principles
that can be enforced.
The president outlined such a code
In bis message to congress last De
cember. The difllculty thus far in industrial
relations is that some of the prin
ciples which Mr. Hnrdlng avows art
fundamental have not been accepted.
The capital and labor conference held
In Washington under the last admlnls.
tratlon was wrecked at the very start
because tho principle of collective
bargaining through labor unions way
deemed offensive.
Chicago Street Car Strike Ends.
Chicago. Surface and elevated rail
cvay employes voted 0,022 to n.OSO tc
accept a 10 cent an hour slash It
wages and return to work, thus ending
a strike which paralyzed the clty'j
electric transportation syito,m for six
days. Shortly ufter the result of tin
vote was announced the first elevated
train was pounding toward the "loop."
Will Handle Complete Output.
Pittsburgh, Pa. The governmc
coal supervision board is moving 11,
000 cars of coal a day, according tc
Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Thl
movement will handle the complete
output of producing mines, furnlsl
considerable more coal for necessarj
Industries and stimulate further pro
ductlon Hoover declared.
Washington. The senate passec'
with amendments the house bill grant
Ing an Increase In pensions to tht
widows, dependent children and' par
ents of veterans of tho war with
Spain, tho Philippine insurrection and
the Chinese Boxer rebellion.
Washington. A reduction of ?G,000,'
000 In the nubile debt ilurlni: .Tulv is
announced by the treasury. On July
ill tho gross public dent stood at $22
(ri7.!17H.8l)l as compared with S22.f)tt
ri81,7aS on July 30 and $23,771,237,009
on .luiy .n, a year ago.
Dublin. Harry .T. Boland, former
representative of the Sinn Fein In the
United States, died In n hospital hero
if wounds received In the Grand hotel
In Skerries, a fishing vlllago north of
Dublin, while attempting to ovado
capture by troops of tho national nrmy
Chilean Cabinet Resigns.
Santiago, Chile. The whole Chilean
cabinet has resigned, following tho re
tirement of Armando .Taramlllo, min
ister of the Intoiior, and Angel Gua
reUo, minister ot Justic".
MRS. ABBEY PROUD
OF HER BIG GAIN
.Weight Increased 39 Pounds and Nine
Years' Trouble Ended.
"I hardly see how I endured such
awful suffering, nnd if It hndn't been
for Tnnlnc I don't believe I would be
here todny," said Mrs. Mollle Abbey,
of Jennings Lodge, Ore.
"For nine years everything I ate
caused gas to form bo that It almost
drove me distracted. I didn't dare eat
any fruit and for four years If I even
drank a glass of cold water I would
suffer dreadfully. No one who didn't
see mo can Imagine the awful condi
tion I was In.
"But Tnnlnc chnnged all this nnd
now I'm simply feeling fine. My ap
petite Is splendid. I eat anything I
wnnt, have nctually gained thlrty-nlno
pounds nnd have so much strength
and energy I enslly do all my house
work. Tanlac is a wonderful medi
cine." Tnnlnc Is sold by all good druggists.
Advertisement.
. Childish Wisdom.
"Mnry, If you misbehave like that
you will make your mother angry at
you."
Little Mnry That don't scare me,
ehe nln't my wife.
To Insure glistening-white table
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laundry. It never disappoints. At all
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The Expert Accountant.
Tho Bride I'm in an awful mess
here, mother. I simply can't get my
expense account to balance.
Mother It's quite simple, my dear.
Deduct the Items you can remember
from tho amount you had to begin with
nnd call tho difference sundries. Life.
A TRUE RAT STORY
Auburntown, Tenn., June 22, 192S.
Stearns Electric Paste Co.,
Chicago, 111.
Dears Sirs:
Mr. Robert T. Donnell of Auburntown,
Tenn., came In our store tho other day
and wanted something to kill rats, bo I
sold him a box Stearns Itat Paste. And
he put some paste on six biscuits that
night and the next morning ho found
fifty-four bis rats. And the second night
he put out four moro biscuits with past
on them, and the second morning he
found seventeen more rats, making a total
of seventy-one rata In two nlghtR. and
there were lots moro that he did not And.
This Is some big rat tale, but, never
theless. It Is so. Just thought would
write to let you know that your rat
posts Is good.
Respectfully yours,
KENNEDY BROTHERS.
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Don't waste time trying to kill these pests
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Evidently, the nutolst who leaves I
broken glass on the pavement does.
not look upon himself as his brother's i
sweeper. t
The refusal of women to wear tho
long skirts proves that there can be
extremes In the styles to which wom
en will not go.
Americans are accused by a speaker
of "saving at the spigot ami wasting at
the bunghole." The simile has sur
vived the use of both.
Notwithstanding a woman's fond
ness for bargains, nothing makes her
madder than tho suggestion that she
Is wearing one of them.
Prom the hospital comes word from
a pedestrian who stood for his rights
against the motorists that lie is now
stniidlng on crutches.
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