Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 228, Ed. 1 Monday, June 27, 1927 Page: 3 of 12
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one of the meet stubborn and sueceasful
fights ever made by a limited number of
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pitched their tents and went to work
and in a abort time established, what
waa known as a trading poet.
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Commander will maintain apy
given speed,up lo 68 miles per hour,
longer, more smoothly, and at less
expense per hour trpveled„for
'gasoline, oil and rrpaim, than any
other stock automobile now being
built in the United States."
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good stores
180 miles away.
Adobe Walls Past Establiwhed.
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j And thus the fight went on from
daylight until late in the afternoon of
that long summer day. After the first
grand charge-ths repulsed enemy made
a wider circle, circling around in every
‘directin, some approaching an horse-
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And up to
a short time something like 16 men ware
helping repair the roof by placing a
prop under the long ridge pole.
This had taken some time and, as
some of the buffalo hunters wanted to
get an early start for their camps,ba
number of them did not go back to bed.
The stock waa grazing on the creek
bottom east of the buildings and Billy
Ogg, a young man stil In hie 'teens, was
sent by Hanrahan to drive in the hornes.
Indiana Righted.
Just, at this time Willtom Dixon, who
was busily engaged in rolling up his bed
in front of the blackamith shop near
where his loaded wagon stood all ready
ran.
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By ELLEN J. BUCKLAND
Regietend Neese
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Monday and Tuesday
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the deers and break down the walls,
bait to no avail. The substantial build-
ikgs refuned to yield while the steady
fire of the defenders aent many an
Indian to his "happy hunting ground."
1 Horses went down on all sides be.
fore they withdrew out »t close range.
Flee times as absorbent as ordi-
nary cotton pads, it enables one to
wear sheereat (rocks and gowns
without slighitest fear of embarrass-
ment. Also deodorizes, thus ending
all danger of offending.
Eight in. every 1# better-class
women employ it. Once you ate it
MOONOFFERS
NEWROYAL"
Fifty-Three Years Ago Today
Battle of Adobe Watts Fought
. Between Indians and White Men
and you’ll never be
behind anything else I
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running horses. The bodies of theshrd
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you’ll neyer again dare the uncer-
tainty o( old ways.
Obtain at any store simply by
aying "Kotex.* Box contains- if
Be stre you get the genwiae. Only
Kotex itself iejUN” Kotex.
KOT ex
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This country was the home of the of the running horses,
buftalo at this time. Thousands of them the bronzed, half-naked riders glittered
.wind. Over all were splashed the rich
unly waiting for. their favorite hour, just colors of red, vermilion and ochre, on
the buildings were awakened by the After this they resorted to all kinds
crocking of a cottonwood ridge pole of ways to aid their wounded comrads
which supported the roof, and fearing who were coneeslsd in the tall grass, to
A Powerful
Inseeticlde
wolked out to blend into a pleasing and
ertistic combination. In fact, the now
Royal models represent the ultra De
Luse cars in the company’s 1928 of-
ferings.
Covering as it does a price range from
- $995- to- $2,295 -and- including the six-
aixy, series, “A" apd Diana models' the
l aw Moon line offers the motoring pub-
lic an unusual line-up from which to
choose the car or eara best suited to its
all the loose stock in front of them, ap-
parently to add confusion to the acene.
There was never a more aplendidly
barbaric eight. Hundreds of warriors,
the flower of the fighting men of the
Southwestern Plains tribes, mounted on
their finest horses, armed with guns and
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Previous tu the battle one of''the
medicine men of the Comanches had
held a medicine dance to determine the
advisiability of the attach and had de-
clared in favor of it, telling the Indians
they would be able to ride up quietly
and knock their vietims in the head
with clubs; that his medicine was so
strong the white men's gunsjould not
go off. They came very near sueceed-
ing; bad it not been for the providen-
tial eracking of the ridge pole, which
eaused the men to be awake, this story,
might have had a different ending.
After the battle Adobe Walla waa
the place to the ground. Quantities of
proviaions such as flour, coffee, sugar,
dried fruits and rice had been left three,
but the Indians were quspielous and
would not Ml any of it.—
Besides the three men killed during
the fight there were two others killed
Inter. Billy Olds, the hutband of the
only woman at the Walla aceidentally
shot himself while descending a ladder,
and George Huffman, who was killed by
the Indians out on the open prairie.
Thio makes the five men whose bodies
lio there today.
There to no more beautiful spot ea
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abandoned as a trading post and buffalo
hunting almost broken up on account
o: the noise modi' throughout the coum- —
try about the Indian attack.
Every borer had either been killed
or driven off during the fight and when
more could be secured the most of the
men went back to Dodge City. News of
the battle was telegraphed to Fort
Mavenworth. Kan., and the United -
States troops in command of Gen. Nel-
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in the apring of 1874 a man by the saddle was emptied at every shot. These
models to date, the color scheme in both
the' interior and exterior having been. I
peedn,. and offers a much wider choice
of body color combinations than hete-
tofbre. In fact, the new line is literally
drenched in color. Decoratively speak-
dug,color combinations conatieute the
geminating ilea in automobiles and
Noon, it will be recalled, waa one of
the first manufacturers to feature col-
ors in ths decorative theme of automo-
bile bodies.
1.s Official Elated
Tctory officials are elated at the en-
thusiasm shown by distributors and
dealers throughout the country over the
new line. This week distributors and
deelers throughout the country are
h M ig a Royal Salon and according to
numerous reports from dealers, the pub-
lic is manifesting much interest in the
new cars.
The members of the Moon Royal fam-
ily among the six-sixty models are the
Royal roadster, the Cabriolet roadster,
the Royal two-door sedan and the
' Royal four-door sedan. The Royal road-
ster is distinguished by its plain pillow
type pigskin upholstery, and particularly
by its color scheme in which the body,
fenders (which are of the new plain
crown type), lamps and splash aprons
are all lacquered to match. Other fea-
tures include a smart hand tailored top
with natural wood bows, aluminum roil*
on rear deck, fully upholstered rumble
by bers and embeldened by the sudden-
ith dess ef the attack tried to force open
inson county, known aa the Adobe Walla .from a bunch of thickets. On drawing
hattleground. At thi place waa enacted r---- ----—“ “ —-
Following elosely Moon’s recent cele-
bration of its twenty-first anniversary
as a successful automobile manufactur-
ing company, and as a part ef thia world
wide celebratiom, cemes the announde-
ment of Its 1928 line of sixes and eighta,
-this company being among the first to
announce the new ears for 1928. The
new Moon line-up for 123 embraces per
haps the widest range of body styles,
types and sizes over put into produer
ti.fi by the company and includes three
chassis models with 26 distinct body
types. The now Royal models consti-
tute the outstanding feature in the now
line and the name “Royal,” it to said,
signifies the ultimate in interior and
eiterior refinements that have been
aeNieved in both Moon end Diana
A. C. Myers and Fred Leonard, • Biaek- biack and some on foot. h ___ .
smith shop run by Thomas O'Keefe, end confident in their superiority In
roamed over the prairies in summer and with ornaments of silver and brass. Be-
deseended to the valleys and creeks for hind this headlong charging host
protection and shelter in the winter. stretched the Plains, on whose horizon
Thia brought the first influx of white ' the morning sun was, lifting its morning
men into the Texas Panhandle, who first fires. The warriors seemed to emerge
sought them out for their meat and later .from, this glowing background.
a still larger nmber for their hides, the On they came, yelling like demons
latter retailing for $3 e.ch. As they and firing their guns. They kept close
wars so plentiful big money could be together so long that it looked as if
had inahe buniness, one man often kill- they meant to strike the buildings like
ing 60 buffalo a day. This necessititedt a huge wave. They were aplendd horse-
i large transportation to carry the gains j men and bad perfect control of their
to market and bring back proviaions and . horses, bat they werd not prepared for
ammunition for the hunters, the nenrest I the reception they got from the white
railroad point being Dodge City, Kan., men, for when they got within 50 yard.
D ECAUSE one woman told an:
D other, and because doctors and
nurses so urged. millions of women
are discarding old-time sanitary ways
for the new way called Kotex.
_ First, you discard Kotex ‘as
V easily as tissue. No laundry, no
Showing new versions of an al-
ways flattering mode in these
large hair hate for summer.
The trimmings are invariably
quite simple In effect of velvet
or grosgrain. Brims are narrower
at the back.
son A. Miles was ordered into the Pan-
handle
The fellowing fall these name Indians
made another trip to Adobe Walln and
finding the place deserted they burned
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to pull out for eamp, noticed a targe j while asleep la their wagon near the
In all the Panhandle country perhaps body of moving objects slowly advancing stockade. The three men were buried
name of A. C. Myers, 'a merchant of men at Adobe Walls who had faced
Dodge City, in compauy with 44 other death before in various forma knew at
men. nenriy’all of whom were buffalo thio time it would take a Bloody nerve
huntera, brought down an outfit of gro and a ears aim to pull them through
ceries and general merchandise; leaving and every man stood his post. Indians
the plans at the head of Moore’s creek,' fell dead and wounded on all sides, some
followed the Canadian river down to almost beneath the windowa of the
Adobo Walls creek, which flowa through ' buildings. Charge after charge waa |
a broad and fertile valley Bis miles in made by the determined but too eon
length. Here this little band of men., 1 ident savages, only to be met by the
some, of them hardened frontiersmen, dpadly aim of the white men.
AUSTIN, June M.—The state haa been
■pending about a half million a day
ecently. State Treasurer Hatcher an-
ounced.
HENRY PROPST MOTOR CO.
808-810 Polk St.
the Adobe Walla Indian battle took
place. A lovely little stream known aa
Adobo Walla ereek winds Ite way to the
river, fringed on each aldo with haek-
berry, cottonwoed and wihow trees,
white thehtuhblutte enthecnst arund
whose bese the Indians so confident of
victory that memorable June morning
of 1874, still stands guard over the
aurrounding coumtryr .
Of the M white men who fought at
Adobe Walls, only one remains alive
today. That to Fred J. Leonard of Halt
Lake Sity, Utah.
The battie ground has been marked
with conerote markera at each corner of
the six aero tract deeded to the Pan.
handle Plain Historical society by Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Goble, owners of the
Turkey Track ranch. The corners of
the buildings have been marked in the
same way and the graves of the men
who loot their fives in the battle are
marked with simple granite monuments
suitably engraved.
Near the center of the grounds stands
a monument erected to the memory •<
those who participated to the battle. It
is of Oklahoma granite about ten feet
tall. On the eastern face ia inscribed —
the names of 28 men end one woman
who fought there June 27, 1114.
In 1924, on the fiftieth anniversary of
the battle, a two days' eelebrntion was ■
held neur the battiezround in which____
something lih. 300 pe.pl. took part
There was a wreat gathering of the
old-timers, nome of whom have sinee
passed away.
Contributions to the funds used In t.
eroding the monument and in marking
the graves eame from as far away aa
New York elty and Loe Angeles, Cal.
The people ef the Panhandle responded
moot liberally to Ue enune. The mark
tag of the hlatoric spots in the Pan-
handle has just . commenced and there
la no danger that the work will be ne-
glected.
white men against an overwhelming whoop aad came ea a charge, driving
number of hostile- Indians.
Mmtay, June 21, will mark tho fifty-
third anniversary of this historic battle.
. Mika bn the evening of June M. 1814,
a little band of white men, 20 all told,
went sbrenely to -aleep. most of them
out on tho open prairie, wholly uneon-
acious that there was campod within
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for the greatest
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the buildings was a ntoekade corral
built of large cottonwood logs, 200 feet
square, with bastions on the southeast
and northemat corners. The buildings
were all covered with a dirt roof.
About 1 o'clock on the morning of
June 27, 1874, the occupants of onei of
in one grave. That the Indians had
spent some time around the wagon waa
evident. The cover had been pulled off
and such previsiona ss were found were
removed. Both brothers had been
scalped and a large Newfoundand dog
whieh alept at the foot of the wago*
and had probably .hewn fight, had boo*
kiled aad a piece of hide removed from
hia aide.
The Indians making the attack war*
composed, of three tribes, the Cheyennes,
Kiowas and €omanchen Among the
noted chiefs were Quanah Parker, whose
mother was a white woman, Lone Wolf
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the wounded would get up, run 16 or
to steps, then drop into the grass again.
This would be repeated and enabled a
good’many to reach a place of safety.
• ll has never been known just what
the taxa of the Indians was in this
hattie. but from their own story after-
Wards, It must have been Very heavy,
for besides 16 dead ones left on the
ground, there were many indications of
wounded ones further out.
Three men were wiled, Billy Tyler,
who was shot in the beginning of the
fight through an improvised port hole,
and Ike and “Shorty” Shadier, two
brothers, who were surprised-and killed
seat, nlekei door pads, sturdy stub spoke
wood wheels in natural finish, mirror
and automatic windshield wiper.
A favorite member of the Moon Royal
family, judging from the demands of
distributors and dealera, on this model,
ia th. Royal four-door sedan, a notable
feature op which ia th. Cadet visor typo
of sunshade, one of the newest develop-
ments in this device. The Royal four-
doer sedan represents the utmost in
closed car refinement. One of ita chief
features ia the distinctily now patched
awing type windahield whish ia operated
by a regulator handle in the cowl bar.
Aa in all Moon and Diana closed bodice
thia ear carries a narrow front pillar
safety vision body which is being turned
out in a number of attractive color com-
binations. Hardware ia of Better silver
finish. Other equipment includes ailh
curtains, silk assist cord and robe rail.
Dome light, walnut inatrunmient board
and Interior trim mouldings, single oval
iyatrument panel, rear vtsion mirror and
Aomatic windshield wiper.
All Moen six-sixty models have crank-
case ventilator, air cleaner and thermo-
stat aa etandard equipment. Mechan-
loally the Moon six-sixty, line remains
»sestantially the same with the exeep-
tFof numerous miner improvementa.
T series “A” 11ns which is notable
for its continued success, has had added
to il a collapsible top Cabriolet roadster
priced at $,795, a four-door redan spe-
c and a Royal roadster. Mechanically
the series “A” Un. Is unchanged.
To the Diana models has been added
a collapsible top Cabriolet roadster, soli-
Iag fqr $2,295 aad which was recently
announced; a Royal roadster with lac-
quered fenders and small wood artillery
wheels. Mechanically th* Diana models
remain unchanged except for numerous
minor improvements which add to the
motor’s efficiency.
All Moon and Diana models are
equipped with tho latest development
in four-wheel hydraulic brakes and the
earn and lever type of steering gear—
two of the most notable safety features
ever devised for automobiles.
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Howe, Gene A. Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 228, Ed. 1 Monday, June 27, 1927, newspaper, June 27, 1927; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569083/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.