The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 25, 1933, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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I (|y silver "squill in "Our Dumb
. northem boundary of
*""? .ml Oid Mexico. ? region
wsrJ"***the ,tatfof. yuh'
If Svtito, New Mexico, Arixona
*h0, L of California, there are
M hTbo thttn a mi11*0"?*0"16
Rl million?wild horee., free ?
V " arsert winds, as unbranded
i^Vtelope, ?nd as untamed as the
1^ ' Over these empires of
IS rtey ">am ?" th*y "Q| *8
I ,,i? lit" twin ""lir110"'" Md
?,v$*;iothed wlth<thunder.
I^nie conception of thle vest reI
f the Hlue Still, *nd Its unKL
condition, may be had when it
I ltd that, if one were to make,
Boise city, Idaho, a starting
*?'. ;jm. could ride straight north
Irihe headwaters of the Yukon and
MZ cross a fence. Or one could go
wELiM south through , Southern
ISio Nevada, Arizona and Old MexI
to the Pacific Ocean and never
|J L turn aside for wire or rail.
EL one could go East for a thous*
lind miles with the same,open spaces
I Wore hint
w^js give some idea of the reI
_ over which these untamed crea S,
roam, a kingdom of the Wild
Ly times the size of Europe. Thcpe
Itemcnts will seem like exaggeraBlions
to those who have never visited
'these vast domains, yet, on a grand
Ki^le of approximation they are ab
(olutely true. '
I The wild horse shares his territory
vith the elk, deer, 'bear, cougar, and
1,11 the other creatures of the wilderI
ifss. He hears the- singing of birds
which keep far from town, the crashI
;ng 0f antlers in deadly combat, and
the yapping of the coyote, that little
skulking gray brother of the wolf,
that greets the twilight and the
Wking of the day with his mourn|
ful cosmic cry.
r Wild horses distribute themselves
with a nice eye to several things.
Always there must be plenty of grass,
ind several different places to drink.
Then, the country must not be too
twd' A horse is too heavy for
mountain running. He selects his
home according to numbers. If there
I is a smajl "band," smaller grazing
ground will do. If there is a large
"band," he must have more.
I It is quite well known to those of
aswho grew up with wild horses that
I they observe a clearly defined social
system and order of family life which
positively prevents inter-breeding.
They are organized on the Patriarch
il plan. The females are collected
into groups of from ten to fifty, and
Ate always presided over by some
lordly male, that is sure to be a re lentless
tyrant. These groups, which
Bare usually called "bands," locate in
tome regioi: which strikes their fan
<y. and if not molested will remain
there indefinitely.
| If in a snowy country each "band"'
fill have a "summer rafige" and a
K*rinter range." These are occupied
according t.. the seasons.
B7 Having collected a nucleus for a'
following, the male builds it up by
liny methods well known to polite
human society. For instance, he will
lake long. Military journeys to some
lettlement. and endeavor to lure away
domestic stuck, and in this he is
Wully su ' ssfu 1. "With wide-open
louth ai,.; flattened ears he will
drive th. -tolen females to his
"hand," a- once they have become
member- wilderness fraternity
then- rur... from the ranches im jKdsauhy
mo as wild as the othI
&rf]et.n onc knight stormed
the cast:. another, taking every
^'n? A ' . these chieftains of the
Unfenoec :: go boldly amTlake by
force th.- tire group of another
**ie. j: no patriarch ever sur
fade re ; following without first
jw* ui . battle with the invader.
|lofse ,ts are ferocious and
^ead.y .r extreme, in which the
&<i.a:r.r. ,j <-ach other with their
J*tr' ar- angle one another with
If one goes down the
r ? ( ! upon him trying to
5?h r. rt th sheer weight.
i./ A whipped, outclassed, the
will wander about until
^ r'as <1 another following and
a' range.
B T'?\
r'' -o a process of weeding
' ^ x a male deletes his own
'Pur.t.' m his "band." These
" out join other societies
> . so that there is a
:.rtg of members going
| between the different
' ' "v.s way wild horse blood
f ep; ' ' y pure. As the young'
UH ^eir "bands" new
L ' - pre-emted, and so the
| ' ''' ' " - species is extended.
L '" "> lone rider approaches
L_ ' ' groups the patriarch, al^
4f " '^okout for danger, gives
*nort of warning, The mothers
eir (""its awake and the 4<band"
r t"g"'her and dashes away in
?Ppo?iu, direction. Usually the
neep51 h<ftween the intruder and
Ud n ?Wlnc* driving in the. laggards,
Peking the entire group at full,
speed.
The territory of one "bend" is never
invaded by another "band." These
range rights are strictly rospeeted,
so that each male reigns in absolute
splendor alono.
In the summer time wild horses go j
to drink around ten o'clock each
morning. When within half a mile of
the spring, or. water-hole, they fall |
into single file, with a selected leader,
and go down one of their trails in a
long string, but always very cautious-1
ly, for a wild horse has inherited
from his pre-historic ancestors the
fear of what may lurk for him at
his drinking places. While drinking,
some are always on gpard. They
never all drink at the same time.
k To proteot themselves from flies
they often roll in the mud and let it
dry on their bodies, Ibut this is not
generally practiced among them.
When quenching his thirst the wild
horse will take a few swallows of
water, then fling up his head and look
about him to see if anything is trying
to creep up and spring on him, When
done drinking, l\e usually whirls, as
if under great nervous tension, and
dashes away like a thunderbolt.
Wild horses do not always go to
the same spring to drink. This is
sort of an innate precaution 'observed
by many wild animals. Having
drunk their fill they usually stand, or
lie, near the water-hole till about four
in the afternoon when they, move
away to their feeding-grounds, and
do not drink again till noon of the
next day.
It is a very interesting fact that
wild horses do not feed twice in the J
same direction from their springs. I
Today they move away to the west. I
Tomorrow they feed to the east,
so on. In this way they keep their J
range fresh all the time. The trails I
which come down to each watering-1
place always fade out a little way I
back on the slopes. These paths are
made when the horses come in to
drink, not when they leave the spring.
Wild horses always keep their feet
in perfect condition. One never sees
long, over-grown hoofs on the range,
like those which develop in stalls.
Just as a deer polishes his horns on
the hushes to keep them sharp, a
horse will travel just enough to keep
his feet in good order.
There is a beauty, and grace about
a wild horse, and a pride of movement,
with a bounding, unfettered
spirit and redness of nostril and
flashing of eye, which pass like a
shadow when they are captured an
"broken." And though they may go
wild -again, after returning to their
unfenced home, this beauty and spell
nfever return to them. Once the
withering touch of . Man has reached I
them it never departs.
Wild horses have facial expressions,!
just like humans. 'Some are coarse,
ugly, with sinister, inky eyes. Others
are pretty, dainty, with the most
lovely eyes and expression imaginable.
They are also moved by the
same feelings of attraction or repulsion
which actuate us. Often, one
sees cases of 'falling in love" among
them, in which some handsome young
male and some dainty, graceful female
become deeply attached to each
other, so that wherever seen they are
together, and if separated in any
measure they become frantic till they
are reunited.. These exhibitions of
sentiment are very interesting as well
as very beautiful.
Wild horse mothers are very devoted.
When it is warm the colts lie
at full length on the ground and
sleep very soundly. Upon the appearance
of danger the mothers seek
to awaken them by touching them
with their muzzles, or by quick, short
little snorts. If this does not bring
them up she will paw them with her
foot. These colts are long-legged,
and when very young will run with
the "band" for hours at full speed.
Also, wild horses get homesick.
If driven to a corral and finally maa"
tered by rope and harness, they will
seem to surrender to the inevitable
and to be content with their lot, but
one should not be deceived by this
seeming docility, for deep within him
the wild horse retains a clear recollection
of the old range where he was
born, and a changeless Jpve for it,
too, and some day he will go back.
Numberless cases are known where
such horses have been taken hundreds
of miles away only to come
back at last. If the owner happens
to be keen of eye, and to have a good
understanding of wild horse nature |
he may detect a pair bf these exile ,
some day standing very close togeth-1
er, their heads in opposite directions.
He will see them touch noses often,
indulging in some mysterious communication.
Also they will be
themselves, very watchful, and seem
ingly not in the least hungry. These
are the symptoms of migration, /in
sometime that night they will vanish.
For, among many other thing* Hi
the heart of a wild horse is homesickness,
and you may be sure he
knows the way back. ^
Raymond Poincare, World War
president of France, on Sunday celebrated
hi?*7dd birthday anniversary
at Sampigny, France, on Sunday.
T "Z
Air Route Leads
To Great Capture
Fort Worth, Texaa Aug, 15.?A
storm, sufficient jn intensity to force
an American Airways pilot from his
course, brought about the capture of
JIarvoy Bailey and the discovery of
the "prison" where Charles F. Urpchel,
oil millionaire, was held while
his abductors negotiated for ransom.
Urschel reported to department of
justice agents an airplane regularly
passed over the house at 9:16 a. m.,
and 5:45 p. m., daily, except one Sunday
morning, lie noted the date he
failed to hear the plane.
Agents checked all airplanes whose
pilots Hew regularly through t^e
south west. The check narrowed to
the American Airways. Pilots' logs
and weather charts during the period
of Urschel's nine-day captivity?July
23 to July 31?were closely scanned.
They discovered that.one pilot, on a
Sunday morning, had swerved his
course to miss a storm.
The pilot was asked to plot the
course he took away from his usual
route. The agents took the arc he
made and completed a circle, then
took to the air to search that area.
They spotted the hide-out, aided by
descriptions of the place as given by
the oil operator. The capture followed.
No Time To1 Boast.
Dallas, Texas, Aug. 15.?The federal
government's challenge to the
crime world's master minds held a
new meaning today with jail bars
framing the faces of Harvey Bailey,
one of the nation's most desperate
gunmen, and nine other persons arrested
in three states.
"They'll never take me aliVe," Bailey
once boasted. But when he was
aroused from sleep to look up into a
machine gun, he changed his mind,
and remarked:
"Well, it looks like it's just too
bad, doesn't it?" A #
The machine gun slyaing of four
officers and their prisoner at Kansas
City June 17 an^l the ransom kidnaping
of Charles F. Urschel at Oklahoma
City July 22 are only a few of the
crimes charged up to Bailey by authorities.
Hansom for Urschel has
been reported a* high as $200,000.
Four of five persons arrested with
Bailey were held. They were Mr. and
Mrs. R. G. Shannon, a son, Armond,
and his wife, Mrs. Oleta Shannon.
The fifth person, Earl Brown, was
released.
At Washington, William -Stanley,
assistant to the attorney general,
putting before the nation the facts
of the government's decisive, smashing
cleanup of the Urschel kidnaping
and the Kansas City massacre, pointed
out the Urschel case was the first
in which the victim's family had notified
the federal government. He said
three confessions to the Urschel abduction
had come from among thoSe
under arrest.
"Thus," he said, within the course
of only a few weeks after the perpetration
of two of the most startling
and dastardly crimes in the annals of
American history, the law enforcement
arm of the department of justice
has reached out and captured the
parties responsible for these- out
rages."
Invoking, then, the might of the
government, he appealed to the people
to come to it for aid.
"This division," he said, "has aided
so unerringly in the apprehension of
the recent kidnapers that we are
asking you to consider carefully the
record of the.division and to cooperate
fully with it should occasion arise."
"It is ridiculous to think that the
gangster and rackoter, a negligible
proportion compared with the _ great
body of American people, is superior
to the mind, ingenuity and resources
of the nation. The department of
Justice will neither temporize nor
equiyocate in attacking this problem."
Attorney General Cummings expressed
belief that Bailey, an escaped
Kansas penitentiary convict, was the
leader of one of the country's most
dangerous criminal gangs.
Cummings said Bailey had been
identified as an operator of a machine
gun in the slayings at Kansas City.
The slaughter resulted when gangsters
attempted to free Frank Nash,
fugitive convict, while he was being
returned to prison, only to kill him
accidentally in the hail of bullets that
mowed down four officers, including
an agent of the department of justice.
Bailey, taken at a lonely farm
cabin near Paradise, in north Texas,
and the four others arrested there,
were being held here for probable
early return to Oklahoma City.
Bailey was captured Saturday, but
news of his arrest was withheld until j
Monday I* "the hope other members
of his gaf?g might return to the rendezvous.
Federal operatives, aided
by local officers, surprised him. They
said they found marked money that
had been paid to effect the safe return
of the oil operator.
Urachal went with the federal
agents to the lonely cabin and there I
identified it thoroughly, even to
finger-prints.
no time for hysteria
On the wave of every patriotic
movement, there ride a few overzealous
citizens who, swayej} by intolerant
notions, are prone to criticize
their ' fellowman without due
triaL All cases are not parallel it
must be remembered. The hat that
fits Tom Jones does not fit John
Smith. A little time and hell find
a hat to fit him without being forced
to wear a misfit.
There's no use to get all hot and
bothered about this N!RA, We a/e
all patriotic and want to do what's
right without inflicting undue hardship.
Some cases are moro complicated
than others and cannot be adjusted
overnight.
True, the bugle has sounded "to
war," but the man who goes to the
front without his gun is better off
at home. Preparedness is half the
battle, and it is suicide to go off halfcocked.
Every business man knows
this.
-So sit steady in the boat and we'll
see what wo can see. Keep a stiff
upper lip; attend to your own knitting
and rest assured that the other
man is doing the same. If he . isn't
attending it properly, Uncle Sam will
teach him a few tricks. But don't
condemn him until he has had an opportunity
to put his house in order
?in a business way, not haphazard,
guess-work plan?that will only bring
about trouble and worry.
This is a novel experience Uncle
Sam is undertaking. It's one that
requires cool, deliberate, cooperative
thinking and working together. It's
a plan embracing something that this
nation has forgotten in its mad
scramble to make money, the appli
cation of the Gordon Rtile in business
principles.
It is a departure from the cynic's
creed of "every man for himself" and
instead, a helping hand to those in
need of help.
Everyone wants to do what is
right. Few there will bo who deliberately
take advantage of an opportunity
to capitalize on his fellowman's
restrictions. But if such
proves to be the ca?e, there will be
t I - 1 .. ,=9
j
a way to force him into line.
Just don't get excited. Don't commence
yelling "unfair, unfair" until
the one fo whom your remarks are
intended has had an opportunity to
get hjs house in order. Thing's aro
going to work out /ill right and everyone
will shoulder his part of tho
burden.?Cobb County Times.
A tombstone weighing.400 pounds
is reported to have 1)660 stolen from
a cemetery at Fort .Worth, Texas.
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