Word: potlatch
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While this agreeable potlatch was going on, below the Rio Grande many Latin Americans were talking to their hearts' content about the Russo-German War. Last week these over-all reactions were reported in a survey of Latin American public opinion...
...Alexander and "Huck" Bryant joined the hunt but followed an idea of their own. They knew that the bushes along Potlatch Creek near Julietta make a perfect hideout. They went and looked. Sure enough, there lay four men asleep, and a fifth whom the alarms had not mentioned. The boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while...