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re-erkALLEN TALKSTO ROTARIANS(Continued from Page 1)there had been an accident there. He found that a little Indian boy, going to sleep beside the railroad track, had thrown one of his arms across a rail and a pasenger train came along and cut it off. They called my dad to fix him up, which he did in the open air with millions of flies and almost as many hound dogs scratching flies. In the course of time the boy was well and strong again. The Indian boy’s father came into my dad’s office and asked what the bill was. Dad told him the amount. He said he did not have any money, but he had a fine horse worth just that much. Dad knowing that it would be that or nothing, took the horse.The horse was as wild as he could be and threw two boys as high as this building, but the third fellow was smart and took him into a freshly plowed field, where he broke him. A fast running horse, he was as stubborn as an Indian. Riding him to my dad’s office the first few times, he would never turn right or left, but would go on a dead run to the office, and going home, he would gallop right into the bam.Indians Love SportsIndians are wonderful swimmers and skaters, which at that time was very popular, and there were many fine places to skate. Naturally, we skated as much with the Indians as with the -whites, and had some very exciting games of hockey, etc. with them. One day my brother and a bunch of whiteMrs. Jacob Aalbers and dam well-kept farm near Otley. The were myriad and of beautiful cole, per 100 lbs...........$4.89lbs.................$4.99 ...• • ......................10cgallons.....................rU ....................!69clU ......................59c ...3Zen ............................21c10cboys skated up the river to the reservation, a distance of three miles to play hockey with the Indians. This place was just above the dam. The game becoming faster and faster, my brother skated out near the main channel. The ice was very thin and he went through at a depth of 18 feet. He was a good swimmer, but he had on winter clothes which, to say nothing of skates, made it difficult to keep his head above the water. As soon as he would try to get on the edge of the ice it would break, and down he would go again. He was just about exhausted when one of the Indian boys ran up on the bank, grabbed a long branch, skated out as far as he would dare, laid down on his stomach and told another Indian to do likewise and grab hold of his feet, and so on, until about 20 boys formed a human chain, then they slowly slid forward, the first Indian pushing the branch ahead of him until he got the branch in reach of my brother, who had still enough strength left to hang on to it until pulled to safety.Several years ago black smallpox got started among them. As they had not been vaccinated against it, over half of them died, leaving only 300. To date they have increased to 452. About 190G the government built for them a good school with a staff of fine teachers, but at that time the parents would not let their children go, so the school was turned over to the sanitarium for Indians with T. B. from Nebraska, the Da-kotas, Wisconsin, etc., where they receive the best of treatment.
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Pella Chronicle
Pella, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 07, 1938
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