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...father was member of a gang of rustlers who ran cattle from Montana to the Mexican border. Young Lee soon found out what it was all about. When his father and mother quarreled, Lee ran away. He joined some Ute Indians, learned all about horses and cattle, became their No. 1 broncobuster. Says Buster Sage: no man should stay too long on a bucker; 20 seconds is plenty. Once he stayed 30, and was sick and dizzy afterwards; when he stayed three minutes, he had to be carried off, bleeding from the nose and mouth...
...past many years there has been much talk of changing the name of our city. It seems that the Postoffice Department gave our first settlers a choice of two names; Ute and Grand Junction, there being no alternative. Grand Junction was naturally selected as the better...
...called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany. The others fought for the U. S. So did Schumann-Heink, singing. Now she is on a farewell concert...
Squatted in teepees, wagons, automobiles, or lounging through the streets of Lawrence, were many famed chiefs and their followers- Chief Bacon Rind and his Osages, John Quapaw, and his Quapaws, White Buffalo (with pink ribbons in his albino locks) and his Cheyennes; many a Comanche, Arapahoe, Creek, Sioux, Winnebago, Ute, Pueblo, Navajo-all to the number of 1,500. Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing...
...addition to this generous act of the Imperial family, three Jap- anese associations, organized after the earthquake, engaged to contrib- ute $50,000 in cash and materials for the construction of the school and a foreign community centre. A committee of Americans and British accepted the courteous offer...