Word: pawhuska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Stink (Ho-tah-moie), circa 75, famed Osage Indian recluse; in Pawhuska, Okla. One of the many legends about him: Down with smallpox about 50 years ago, he went into a coma, was thought dead, put out for the vultures. When he revived, his tribesmen treated him as a ghost, ostracized...
John's companions were dogs-scads of them, all the imaginable cur-mixtures. In summer he would come into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...
From West Virginia he headed into Oklahoma where he spoke at such places as Nash, Jet, Cherokee. Ponca City. At Pawhuska, Kaw Indians were joined by Osages and Pawnees in putting on war paint & feathers to welcome their fellow tribesman. Along the way were barbecues, stomp dances, W. C. T. U. receptions...
...Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt "101 Ranch" and Wild West show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said...
Died. Tom Bacon Rind, 84, onetime Chief of the Osage Indians; of cancer and pneumonia; in Pawhuska, Okla. Towering 6 ft. 4 in., he adhered strictly to the old-time tribal customs, deplored the "civilization" of his oilrich braves. Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed...