THE BAM OF SEWARD FOR SERVICE
. RUNAWAY INDIAN GIRL
ENDS HER LONG HIKE;
A SECOND PAAVO NURMI
SHE MAKES HER WAY ON FOOT
ACROSS THE STATE OF KAN
SAS TO A TRIBE LOCATED IN
OKLAHOMA.
RULO, Neb., Mar. 4.—Cora Duquis,
a 16-year-old Indian girl, crossed the
Nemaha River on the ice recently
like ’Liza in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
and then, throwing away her shoes,
outran the officers, who were after
her, and walked all the way across
the tate of Kansas and got to her
tribe down in Oklahoma where she
is now “resting.”
Cora had been in the Kansas In
dustrial School but escaped from
that institution three or four
months ago and came to an Indian
reservation a little way from Rulo.
The Kansas officials found where
Cora was hiding and came up after
her. Henry Bell was leader of the
officers.
Cora and a white girl friend
were found living in a shack on the
reservation. Bell went to the shack
after them. As Bell came in the
back door, the girls ran out the
front. Bell essayed to follow and
was met by an Indian with a big
gun in his hand.
Halted by an Indian
“You stick ’em up,” grunted the
Indian.
Bell grabbed his gun and got
three bullets through his hand.
Then Bell “stuck ’em up,” as he
had been commanded to do. The
Indian took Bell’s pistol and got
away before Bell’s friends could
come to his rescue.
Meanwhile the two girls were
headed south and running like
deer. The posse took out after the
two girls. They expected the girls
to stop when they reached the
Nemaha River, about half a mile
from the house. The girls stopped,
but only for a moment. The river
was running full of ice. The girls
got right down to business, climbed
out on the ice cakes and, picking
their way, made the opposite bank.
Then they took to the timber.
The officers came down to town,
crossed the river on the bridge, and
went back to where the girls had
crossed. They found the trail in
the snow and were soon playing
hide-and-seek in the timber with
the girls.
White Girl Soon Caught
The white girl, being only a
sprinter, was soon tired out and
was captured. But when the offi
cers got the Indian girl out in the
open and away from the timber,
she reverted to her aboriginal self,
threw off |ier shoes, discarded that
portion of her clothes which inter
fered with her movements, and in
a couple of minutes was running
like a deer toward Oklahoma and
the tribe, 400 miles away.
The white officers simply were
not “in it” with the Indian girl,
who soon left them far behind and
out of sight.
Advices from Oklahoma are that
Cora has shown up down there and
that the officers can have her by
coming after her. They say she
made Ihe entire distance on foot.
Officers are not going after her.
They say she can keep her freedom
if she’ll just keep away from this
part of the country.
The bridge club will meet with
Miss Sylvia Sexton tomorrow at
1:45 p. m.
Mr. Ericson lias just completed a
train.
! Danzig Is Larger Than
Some American States
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—
i DANZIG, March 4.—The Free City
of Danzig, which is battling against
the attempt of Polish authorities to
encroach upon the independence
granted it under the Versailles treaty,
is erroneously called a free city. It is
in reality a free state. Its area is
754 square miles of land and exten
sive water areas embracing great ship
ping basins and highly developed can
als which make it the best harbor on
the Baltic, the center of an immense
grain, sugar and lumber trade.
Danzig is seven-tenths the size of
Rhode Island and has a population of
364,000—that is as many people as
there are in the state of Vermont or
New Mexico. The so-called city has
12 times the area of the District of
Columbia and about five times as
many inhabitants as Nevada.
It was one of the most important
cities of the Hanseatic League and its
buildings of the fourteenth, fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries are gems of
gothic art which attract artists and
architects from all over the world.
Such great ships as the Columbus, of
the North German Lloyd, and many
other big liners in the Atlantic trade,
were built in the shipyards at Danzig.
It is a highly industrialized center,
thoroughly German in its culture and
traditions, over 90 per cent of the pop
ulation being of German blood.
Besides the city of Danzig with a
population of nearly 200,000. the terri
tory includes Zoppot, the largest sea
resort on the Baltic, and a score of
small cities and towns ranging in size
from 20.000 to 3.000.#
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TEXAS - LOUISIANA
CANAL AT LAST IS
ASSURED IN PART
CONGRESS APPROPRIATES $9,
000,000 FOR INTRACOASTAL
WATERWAY; HAS GREAT SHIP
PING POSSIBILITIES
HOUSTON, Tex., Mar. 4_Major
General George W. Goethal’s vision
of a great waterway, with present
tonnage possibilities of 7,000,000 tons
annually, connecting the great South
west with St. Louis via the Mississ
ippi, soon will be realized with the
administration’s agreement in Cong
ress to $9,000,000 for the Texas-Lou
isiana Intracoastal Canal.
Gen. Goethals was detailed to
survey the possibilities of the pro
posed canal, running from New Or
leans across Louisiana and down
the Texas coastal region to Browns
ville, with the result in the above
prediction.
Cost of Entire Project.
The entire project would have
cost approximately $16,000,000, ac
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the canal in that Houston will be
the rail terminus for shipments to
Eastern points.
The intracoastal canal was the
dream of C. S. E. Holland, Hous
tonian. who first conceived the idea
20 years ago.
Wild Rabbits Attack
Indian Chiefs Daughter
Little Pocahontas, 6-year-old daugh
ter of Charlie Laughing Horse, a
half-breed trapper and rancher re
siding in the angle above the junc
tion of Skull and Bloody creeks west
of Beaver Hills, Missouri, may owe
her life to her young pet wildcat.
The little miss last week was return
ing alone to her home from the Lost
Pond school which she attends, she
having been kept in for whispering
for some time after the regular
daily session was concluded, her lit
tle brother and sisters having de
parted without awaiting her.
Pocahontas had proceeded about
half of the three miles from the
schoolhouse to the Laughing Horse
domicile and was crossing a small
tributary to the Skull when she
was attacked by a drove of enraged
jack rabbits, which were hunting in
the vicinity. Her failure to arrive
home with the other children was at
once noticed by me young pet wild
cat, which the teacher had forbid
den her to bring to school and the
cat started out along the trail to the
schoolhouse to meet her. He had
gone about a half mile from the
house, evidently, when the little girl
was attacked by the giant hares and
her cries of terror as with a stick
she attempted to beat off the fero
cious pack, must have reached his
keen ears, for just as the girl had
thrown away her stick and was at
tempting to climb a tree, the cat
landed amid the beasts which were
trying to pull her down.
The rabbits immediately turned
their attention to the cat and only
acknowledged defeat and made off
after he had killed several of them.
Residents of the vicinity are un
able to account for the strange ac
tion of the rabbits, which usually
are peaceable enough, unless they
had been driven to eating the poi
sonous loco plants along the creek
when the heavy snows covered up
their other sources of food supply.
The little girl suffered no serious
injuries in her unusual experience.
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