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Near sandy Henryetta, Okla. (pop. 6,000), in the Old Indian Territory, Jackson Barnett, full-blooded Creek, worked his 160-acre allotment by day, rested his tired bones in a not-too-clean four-room shack by night. He was old#&151;60, maybe 70-he didn't know exactly. He was poor. He was illiterate. But he was a Govern-ment ward and he had learned that, so long as he stayed a good Indian, the Govern-ment would provide...
Near Cairo, Egypt, last week, the police commandant discovered, living alone in a six-foot shack, an Arab who said he was born at the opening of the American Revolution (153 years ago) and who remembered the massacre of the Mamelukes by Mohammed...
...Robinson record in politics dates from 1894, when he entered the Arkansas Legislature. He had just been graduated in law from the University of Virginia and had started practicing in his native shack town of Lonoke, Ark. In 1902 he "talked his way" into Congress, serving five terms in the House. In 1913, he resigned from Congress to be inaugurated as Governor of Arkansas. A fortnight later, Senator Jeff Davis* died and Governor Robinson was elected to replace...
...dirty little shack by a worn-out copper mine near the crest of the Bluebird Range in Montana, lives an old man with tobacco juice in his beard, holes in his shoes and memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept...
...flags designating corpses found by rescue parties; muddy-yellowish slime and jagged stumps where once were orange blossoms; rotting carcasses on the $500,000 ranch of Cinemactor Harry Carey; total estimated property damage of $20,000,000. The revolting waters had tossed one sleeping farmer in a lean-to shack to the top of the canyon, saving his life. But his brother and niece in a nearby cabin were sucked into a watery death. At Newhall a morgue was established in a dance pavillion; 50 bodies lay in rows on tilted boards; an old sign over the door said: "WELCOME...