^Trappers First
$aw Scottsbuff
100 Years Ago
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Grant Shumway Tells Story
of Discovery and Naming
of Nebraska Mountain
Five Years Later.
, Lincoln, Aug. 18.—How 100 years
ago this month Scottsbluff mountain,
one of the beauty spots of Nebraska,
was first noted in chronicles of man
and the story of the tragic death of
Hiram Scott, for whom the mountain
is named, was told today by Grant L.
Shumway, state secretary of agricul
ture and formerly a resident of
Scottsbluff.
“One hundred years ago, when the
mountain was discovered, it was a
feature of pronounced personality
crowned with evergreen, and abound
ing in mountain sheep and other wild
game," Shumway said.
Trapping in Mountains.
“Hiram Scott was one of the enter
prising young men with General Ash
ley. who in 1823, went through the
Scottsbluff country, then a wilder
ness, into the mountains in search of
beaver. After the release of the trap
pers under Ashley some two years
later, Scott met Narcisse Le Clerc.
They organized the Northwest Fur
company, the orginal Northwest Fur
company having become part of the
Hudson Bay company.
“They were on their way to St,
l.ouis in 1828 to dispose of their first
collection of pelts and formerly
launch their company. Just above
Platte canyon, at the rock bottom
ford, Scott was taken 111 and left
l>ehind with Roi, 'the man of the
desert,’ and Bissonette, ‘the squaw
man,’ to be taken by a moose hide
. boat through Platte canyon and to
, overtake the party at the ‘big bluff,’
; 100 miles down river, where they
? would tarry and trap.
Irving Tells Tale.
j “Washington Irving in 'Captain
• Bonnville’ tells the rest of the story.
• Ater a few days the boat was
’ launched, and was upset in the
: canyon and ail provisions and am
munition were lost.
i “The three men reached the shore,
i however, with nothing but their hunt
' ing knives, and after some difficulty
^arrived at Laramie fork. While search
| for food, Roi and Bissonette came
1 upon the fresh trail of LeClerc and
! party, and they abandoned Scott in
1 the wilderness.
“On reaching the ‘big bluff,’ they
found that the others had not waited
as agreed, so pushed onward. Upon
• overtaking the party, they improvised
• the story that Scott had died from
• exposure and fever.
I “The following autumn, trappers
1 returning from civilization found a
I skeleton at the spring on the side
- of the mountain which was declared
to be that of Hiram Scott. His hunt
ing knife Identified Scott. He had
1 walked or crawled 70 miles before his
.resolute spirit took Its flight,
jjj/ “After that, the mountain in west
j ern Nebraska was called Scottsbluff,
! and the old trappers, when wandering
by, always made it a point to visit
1 the spring, where the remains of
• Hiram Scott were laid to rest, to do
I homage to one of their number who
I had perished in the wilderness. The
' grave is entirely obliera^d in the
lapse of years.’’
Boys Leave in Huff to See World
But Police Officers Tell of the Many Returns After
One Night or So Spent in the “Great Open
Spaces.”
Boys will be boys, and despite this
passage of time they change very
little: their dreams and actions are
the same as those enjoyed by their
fathers. Police records show that
during the year an average of one
hoy each day leaves home, usually
in a fit of temper, to become a "pead
Shot Pick," a "Nick Carter,” or a
"Captain Kidd.” But the records also
show, like the boys of generations
gone, they come quietly home again.
Usually after one night iri the open
and the indefinite postponement of
two or more meals.
When dad was a hoy the facilities
for getting a long way from the
scene of domestic trouble were much
more inadequate than they are today.
But even so, police captains state,
today ihe youngsters fail to travel
very much farther than boys of
other generations.
At the police station the officers
tell of sobbing parents who come to
them to ask aid in finding a son who
has suddenly disappeared, and 'iof
sullen boys found who want to go
home, but are too proud to say so.
Then they tell of the accounts given
by relieved parents of the return of
the prodigal.
tiirls Uttle Better.
Girls are little better than hoys,
hut they do not try to run away:
just forget to inform mamma that
they are going to spend the night
with a friend. There are almost as
many girls, though, as there are boys
who leave home.
One "case" that the police laughed
about was of a boy who wished
above all else to emulate "Captain
Kidd.” For months, it later devel
oped. he read stories of pirates on
the Spanish main. He gloried in
blood-curdling stories of treasure
seized and buried. Pong into the
night, after he had been sent to bed.
he would read such tales.
As a natural result of his fascina
tion for the life of a pirate, he
learned to love the water and wanted
to swim all day long during the sum
mer months. His mother was wor
ried about the swimming and at last
parental objection to the practice
was voiced. George was forbidden
the privilege of swimming when older
members of his family were not
present. Naturally, the boy went
swimming Just the same and. as
naturally, word of disobedience came
to his father.
After a stormy interview In the
garage, where a razor-strop figured
actively, the burden of orders seemed
to great for George's young shoulders
to bear. The next day he left. PTn
like the leading figures In his favor
ite books, he left no note to tell of
his whereabouts.
Parents Frantic. .
George’s frantic parents called the
police that night. The boy might
have been drowned, they said, but
the missing clothes and possessions
belled that belief. Police promised
to help and the parents returned
home.
About noon the following day
George came home. He slipped un
noticed to his room, replaced his ex
tra clothing and all of his treasures,
then quietly came downstairs. The
first thing he searched for was
"eats.” When a gnawing hunger had
been satisfied he sought a couch and
slept. George had learned in one at
tempt that soft beds and delicious
meals were not to be found every
where when one is a wanderer. He
has not tried to leave home since.
Other hoys that the police captains
remember are those whom the po
lice find, arrest, turn over to the
juvenile authorities, who in turn
send them back to their parents. One
boy who came in this class was
found peacefully sleeping In a freight
car in the Union Pacific railroad
yards not long ago. A special officer
of the railroad found him while
searching fur a thief who had broken
into a carload of merchandise. He
turned him over tv the police.
Couldn't Keep Hog.
The hoy, the product of an excel
lent home, told Captain Troby, when
questioned, that he had left home
because his mother refused to allow
him to keep a dog. The fact that
the dog in question was a mongrel
puppy, none too clean, made no dif
ference* Gregory, the boy, insisted
that he would not go home until he
was permitted to keep a dog, any
dog, Just so It would be a pet.
Gregory was placed in a cell in
the matron’s ward of the city Jail for
the night. In the morning he was
more than willing to go home, nor did
he Insist that his presence at hon»e
bp purchased by the promise of a
pet.
And so they go and come. Uke
the cat of the proverb, they always
come back. Borne, of course, absent
themselves for longer periods than
others and some manage to make
the absence cover a period of years;
but these are few and most of the
police cases are absent from home
only, one night. Much as their
fathers may have done before them.
Judge Inflicted in Texas
Squabble With Wobblies
Beaumont, Tex., Aug. 18.— The
recent controversy of the Industrial
Workers of the World with the city
of Port Arthur. In which the I. W.
W. threatened to flood the city with
its members as a protest against the
alleged heating of one of their num
ber by police, was brought into the
public eye again today on announce
ment that Judge A. W. Dycus of the
corporation court of Port Arthur, has
been indicted by the grand Jury
here.
It is recited In the Indictment that
.1. 13. Holland and John Murray,
members of the T. W. W., were false
ly imprisoned. They figured In uvws
reports from Port Arthur on .TVine
.80, when alleged mistreatment of
one of them was charged against
police officers. Included in the in
dictment with Judge Dycus was the
name of H. E. McBride. Port
Arthur printer.
Bible School Planned.
Bed Cloud, Neb., Aug. 18.—Encour
aged by the success of the vacation
Bible schools held here in the past two
summers, the hoard of religious edu
cation, a local organization composed
of representatives of the various
churches, has already announced an
other school for next year.
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Bakers Endorse
Higher Price for
Wheat in Meeting
Adopt Petersen Memoran
dum Declaring Increased
Wheat Price Would Not
Raige Bread Price.
Representatives of Omaha and
Council Bluffs bakeries' met at lunch
eon in the Omaha Chamber of Com
merce yesterday noon to discuss how
this industry can do its part in in*
creasing the purchasing power of the
farmer in the present wheat situa
tion.
P. F. Petersen, president of the
Petersen & Pegau Baking company,
wbo presided, expressed ills belief
that the increased purchasing power
of the farmer would be reflected
through increased patronage of the
bakerlea and he further explained
that the price of bread is affected by
the volume in any particular plant.
Fred Plate of the Jay Burns Bak
ing company asserted that the Omaha
baking concerns are interested in the
welfare of the farmers because
Omaha Is In the midst of an agricul
tural district, and It Is to the Interest
of this city to promote the welfare of
the farmers.
Quality Above Price.
J. J. Markey of the Markey bakery
stated that the housewife is interested
in a good loaf of bread more than
in the price of the loaf. It was the
sense of the meeting that any move
ment which will increase the con
sumption of bread will increase the
demand for flour, also for wheat, and
thus tend to Increase the price of
wheat. He stated that he believed
there will be strong competition this
fall among bakers to obtain supplies
of flour of a'quality demanded for
bread baking.
Others attending the meeting were
Milton Petersen, C. A. Birk. Omaha
manager of the Fleischmann Yeast
company; A. S. Sorensen of the
Omaha Rex Baking company, Law
rence Ortman of the Ortinan bakery;
Fred Weber, manager of the Schpltze
Baking company, and Bert Francis,
manager of the Quaker Baking com
pany, Council Bluffs.
IVtcrsen Memorandum Adopted.
The following memorandum, of
fried by Chairman P. F. Petersen,
was adopted by the meeting:
‘‘I do not believe that a material
increase in the price paid to the farm
er for wheat would increase the coat
of bread to tlie consuming public.
The price of bread will of course be
determined by Its cost of production
in a highly competitive field.
“I believe, however, that an in
creased price for wheat will increase
the purchasing power of the farmer
in direct proportion to that increase.
The farmer will then be In a position
to buy bread from the bakers Just
as he did in 1920 and 1921. For ex
ample, the farmers are today buying
only one-third as much bread baked
by Omaha bakers as they bought in
1920 and 1921. *
"This loss of business naturally in
creased the overhead cost of produc
ing the decreased volume of bread.
It is safe to predict that the farmer
will he paid a higher price for his
wheat and that with this increase
in his revenue, lie will In turn furnish
a better market for bread baked from
wheat flour.
"This increased volume of bakery
business will probably lower tfie over
head operating costs of baking bread
so that the price of bread may re
main stable even though flour prices
increase."
Indians Sail for England
to Work in Movie Picture
New York, Aug. 18.—Twenty-eight
Arapahoe Indians from the tribal
reservation in Wind River, Wyo.,
with one exception attired in native
costume and with their faces smeared
with paint, sailed for Kngland today
on the Baltic, where they will take
part in the prologue of a motion pic
ture depicting western pioneer life.
The oldest of the Indians was Reft
Hand, one of the two men living who
witnessed the Custer massacre. “Reft
Hand," alone was dressed in the con
ventional garb of the paleface. A
papoose strapped in a basket on a
squaw's tiack attracted much atten
tion as the Indians stood in the
ship's slern.
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Blair Resident
Seeks Divorce
Children of Realty Dealer l li
able to Rear Stepmother,
Claimed.
Another case in which the children
of a widower refused to tolerate a
stepmother and persuaded the father
to file divorce papers, came to light
when Mrs. Celia Rodgers of Blair,
Neb., was handed a summons ifl Ho
tel Castle Thursday afternoon, a few
hours after she was released from
Jennie Kdmundson Memorial hos
pital in Council Bluffs. Her husband
asks absolute divorce.
She met her husband, she said,
about the first of the year fh Omaha
and May 26 they were married in
Kansas City, Mo.
John J. Rodgers, the husband, is
real estate and insurance dealer at
Blair has left her "stranded” several
times In Omaha, she declared, be
cause of the persuasion of a son,
Thomas Rodgers. He refused to pay
for the hospital expenses and would
not permit her to have visitors, she
told her attorney, A. I,. Sutton.
The cross-petition will be filed by
Sutton in the near future, asking
separate maintenance.! t
Men Exploring Canyon
Ahead of Schedule
Flagstaff. Ariz., Aug. 17.—Govern
ment survey ora and explorers who
loft Lee’s Kerry, Ariz., August 1, in
four specially constructed boats for a
300-mile trip through the canyon of
the Colorado rJver made a landing*
Friday night a* Grand View on Hance
trail, east of Grand canyon, accord
ing to information received h'*re to
day.
The surveyors were traveling eight
days ahead of schedule and expected
to pass Bright Angel trail in the
Grand canyon in four or five days.
High and rough water was encoun
tered during tin* first leg of the trip,
according to the report and one boat
was stove in but was able to continue
after repairs. All members of the
expedition were well, th»* report said.
Hammond Hopeful of
Hard Coal Settlement
Hy I'nliersal gerrles.
■Washington. Aug, IS.—Chairman
•fohn Hays Hammond of the United
States coal commission told President
('oolidge he was hopeful that the
anthracite operators and miners
would reach an agreement at their
joint wage conference to be resumed
Monday at Atlantic City.
The chairman declared It would
be suicidal for either party to be
responsible for a suspension of the
anthracite industry at this time. He
added he had too high regard for
both operators and miners to believe
either would take such a responsibil
ity.
Flut in case an emergency does
aris>^ the chairman told newspaper
correspondents, the government will
be forced to take other steps to pro
tect the public against a fuel cr.sis.
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Man Freed of Murder Charge
Sues County for $82,400
Denver, Aug. 18.—George Griffith,
youth, whose home is near Carthage,
111., and who wag held in the Arapa-.
hoe county Jail from December 24,
1322, until July 20, last, as a suspect
in the killing in Deertrail of Howard
Hamilton, a world war veteran, and
the wounding of Hamilton's com
panion, Pearl Coeur, today filed suit
for $82,400 In United States district
court against Arapahoe county of
ficials.
Griffith alleges unjust Imprison
ment. He was freed by a grand Jury
last month. He charges that he lost
$200 a month in salary as a result
of being in jail.
Norfolk Legion Fleets.
Norfolk. Neb., Aug. 18.—Guy Par
ish, private in the infantry during
the world war, has been elected com
mander of the Norfolk American Le
gion post.
Coal Crisis Over,
Coolidge Told
Operators and Miners to Ne
gotiate on New ^ age
Seale.
By International New« Service
Washington, Aug. IS.—President
Coolidge this afternoon was formally
advised by John Hays Hammond and
George Otis Smith, members of ti.•»
United States coal commission, that
the deadlock between the anthracite
operators and miners had been broken
through conferences at New York and
negotiations looking to the establish
ment of a new wage scale would be
reopened at Atlantic City on Mon
day.
The coal commissioners arrived in
Washington shortly after 3 o'clock
and were received by the president in
his residential quarters at the New
Willard hotel.
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