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Half a century and more ago Chief White Calf, leader of the Piegan and last head of the Blackfoot federation, made his name great. Sometimes he warred with the Crows and Gros Ventres. Generally he showed his wisdom by keeping on good terms with the Great White Father. When James Jerome Hill drove the tracks...
Great Northern across Dakota and Montana, White Calf was helpful. He made the treaty by which Glacier National Park was later ceded to the U. S. When he died at Washington in 1904 his fame and honor were such that President Roosevelt gave him a military funeral, sent his body back to Montana in a private car. But if White Calf had been alive last week he would have realized that the fame of his son, Two Guns White Calf, was even greater. Two Guns was but a papoose when his father was scalping his neighbors. Because of his father...
...Died. Benjamin Wood. 61, fourteenth of 15 children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood, chairman of the board of the Wood Flong Corp., manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). ¶Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting...
Investigation revealed that the sacks contained 187 volumes of the congressional record, brand new, bound in calf, beautifully embossed in gold, and complete since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating in Government at Harvard, and would perhaps be interested in legislative affairs. The senator, quite evidently a man with a sense of humor, took him at his word...
When he had faced the hearty but undemonstrative welcome of his family, peasants in the village of Blato who actually killed their fatted calf for him, Adamic changed his mind about making only a short visit. Louis Adamic became again Loyze Adamich. His Uncle Mikha gave him a dressing-down for not writing oftener to his mother. Uncle Yanez put off dying until he had seen his traveled nephew. Cousin Toné asked him to be groomsman at his wedding. Before Adamic had left Jugoslavia it was nearly time for him to be godfather to Toné's firstborn...