The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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Hermen Lehman, Famous Indian.
In Not in Reality A Red Man,
But Was Or.ce An Apache Chief
By DAN W. HOLLIS
<!<> the scalping act. An 1 *Vy i, ink of
I * " ......... ' 3 11 **•«*
Ht; n Lehman is the most famous '-bat might have happouei, to them
V
Imih.u living today, if, indeed he
couli he celled an Indian. Born of
German parentage on Squaw Creok
near Fredp, irksbnrg. he was captured
by tin Ap e hie Indians in 1870 at the
age of II and taken to the Indian Ter
ritory. now Oklahoma, where he after
ward he -.-ante chief of the tribe.
It v;.« after he was grown before
Herman Lehman returned to (he par
ental roof and the ways of the white*
man. In the meantime he had become
a prescient fighter of the white man
This
!’ id they lived in those wild lay
i his story as told by him
His Story
Mv father died when I was a years
guns were taken by the Indians, who Loyal Valley to where my mother had
■ looked upon them with great curiosity moved.
They snapped the triggers and noticed "I was tanned like an Indian, black
j a spark fly from the flint, hut they as any of them, and had been raised
didn t understand It. When the pow- on wild meat, and looked as wild as
d -, fried a bit a gun went off and the any Apu< he warrior you might have
Indians were badly frightened at the found.
not1^ | “My mother said: ‘That is not my
“The old men often told me stories son. My son is a white man; this is
when they found that I was greatly in- an Indian.'
terested in those strange tales. They 1 “| told her 1 was a white man and
'!d me many strange tales of a great her son. She rolled up my sleeve and
’■ace that lived here before the Indi- looked for a scar.
■ 1 knew but little about him but ,anH They knew of a gre. t race, but1 “ ‘He's my boy.’ she said, and I
who knew him teil me he was | f!-sir talfts were only legend. Rut these ' never saw anyone so happy In all my
tie, man, a fine. Christian gentle ' !Y toI'i me and retold to the young (life as she was. She had prayed all
o and I’m glad I hud such a fa tan boys and young warriors. There ’ these years that she might live to see
•r. I am trying to be such a mar. much valuable history in these tales me again."
**lf now. I lived with w mother • b>!d me.
■r on Squaw Creak w!t -.i the Captured by Rangers
with the bow mid arrow and engaged
in ail the fights of the Apaches, who' (now Oklahoma) a;, i
were a bad tribe of red men, as
Lehman says.
Son;; learning the use of t.he bow
si ••! arrow, which was the great joy
His Advice to Children
Then turning to the boys and girls
ithes captured me in 1870. when “Bilt 1 HIU!4t not keep you too long, who stood in awe at this strange
as a litle hoy. ' 111 wint to know how I got bank to tale of such a strange man. Mr. Leh-
"They took me to the Indian Terri- civilization. (man in a very serious but calm voice.
i. aurse I K°t into a fight with the Tex- , said; ‘‘Boys and girls, mother is a
Mr.]' ' pretty badly scar d n.i tv to j as Rangers and they were making It j wonderful thing. Your mother would
|!n fro™ nty nu*;‘. • first j >’u‘- fur ns. Captain Billet of San An-1 pray for you the same way mine did
Ping they did to me was to punch
•I*** through my ears and brand me
1 toaio was in command.
an ! pride to the white Indian boy. he
fell to hunting and fighting with that,
Instrument just as any other Indian
might have done. He forgot his n;
tive language, almost. In time, and
came to speak the tongue of the Apa-
che and other Indian languages. His
natural ability and his courage mad *
him a daring man arnog his adopted
brothers and with his training or edu-
cation by the red chief, he became i
wonder man among them.
The hardships, the trials, the train
ing and the i;To that .Mr Lehman led
as an It. lite w .• rrior and chief is one
of the me<• iri.ius and interesting of
fronti' r tale.-.
Mr. Lehman >.; now living in O'.!*
honia and is in business us an Ameri
can citizen, loved and admired by
many friends. He, of course married
a white girl, and has reared a larg*
family. He is now GO years of age.
Returns to Birthplace
He makes frequent visits to Fred
ericksburg where he meets with old
acquaintances and talks over old days. I
This is one of ho greatest pleasures,
apparently, the.; fr. Lehman has. He
was a great di wing card at last,
year’s fair at Fi T'rieksburg, taking
part r.s an Indian oncer, swift and
fancy rider and umiksman with his
bow and arrow.
Telling Indian stories, especially to
tb" children, is a great joy to Mr Leh-
man. The children love to hear (ho
White Chief tell his stories for they
are strange but true. But the ap
plause and interest of the grown ups
was no less than that of the children.
But the children listened to the story
of the wild days and went home after
the strange tales to play a( Indian
again, and to shoot each other with
th'-ir iniaj inary bows or rifles and to
h
h a hot Iron, just as you might
ai l an animal so you would know
1 if it strayed away. Then the*
tsiied me off and 1 felt pretty good.
i »y placed me on a table with . >nie
id. befoie me.
The Indian Test
■ was a |de< ,■ of brea d and some
'■.I■ They stood about to watch m •
■it. ! was pretty hungry and the
f tiling I did was to iake the meat
i begin eating. When they saw
h • they pan : me on the back and
died me a good Indian for meat is
• Indian's food and bread Is the
Hite Ruin’s. Hail I eaten the lire.,
iir.-t they would have killed i j. idu.r
.1 me this after I hud . trn i their
. . Ullage.
"f wa.i trained up just as any other
i n hoy. I learned to ride and shoot
"ri the ways of the Indian became my
;ys. They would send me into dan-
i ;*:ous places many times when l
* ' i'l i have been killed, but what mat-
■ I that to them. I was only a white
>y. no kin to them, and it didn't mal-
it I did get killed.
Apaches Were Bad Indians
' The Apaches were bud Indians aril (
It was an aw-1 for me if you were missing. You ought
.,’'• A brother of my chief was ] to appreciate your parents, who love
c. off ,. jin the rest and 1 went to ] you as my mother loved me. You have
’ ' ' ! good homes and everything to make
' My horse was shot from under me you happy. What if you were taken
-> - aptain Oillet. He told me so af-1 away and compelled to live with wild
ter ward. The horse fell on my leg and men and grow up a wild man like l
. C “,Id, 11,ot eet l"’ Leaving me j was? I want to see you grow up to
f ,r daj,J the runten chased the oth- he good men and women, good Christ-
LEE HAZELWOOD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
OFFICE WITH
SPENCER-SAUER LUMBER CO.
Parties desiring any information in my line of
work or who may wish to confer with me will
ring A. R. Weber, Manager of the above firm,
at any time between 7 a. m. and 6 p. m. and he
will see that you get in touch with me at once.
MEMBER LLANO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
at ) killed many of them
A Fugitive
i matt isitd to get from under my
h >rs i ami _
.hrough the
inn men and women, and not as I had
to grow up.”
There was pathos in the old white
'ed about 200 yards chief’s voice as he reached the cli-
1! grass. Pretty soon niax of his story and little boys and
1 *a rangers came back and tried to Kiris who stood about gripped the
I ‘^n‘* r ’ I ; “ ! the ground and bands of their parents a little tight-
ly
' w'utnp, wump. wump as er as they thought of those wild days
i ■ nearer, but they did not of the frontier and the wilds of the
?'ii* * me. When they went away I red man.
r>"; ‘1 Ui) little to see if they were] Was Still a Wild Man
go. ‘ I rv. .de my way back to camp The calm which followed the major
(.hr*, days, going all that time ! climax of this gripping story as told
without food or water, and I was near- by this strange man, who has lived
!> le.-o They fed me soup and other j such a strange and wonderful life was
" ’,d Cood u,Ml l)rousht lre around- j (ben broken by a shrill war whoop by
Made a Chief ] the speaker, accompanied by wild ges-
"Thet; the chief called the warriors tures which made everyone, both old
together and said: ‘This is my boy. He and young, jump and then they
is brave; he went to the aid of my laughed and tlie speaker laughed, too.
broth s when you cowards ran away, and continued his story for a while.
I make him second chief and place “But though I had returned to the
him over you to do as he pleases.’ I white man's life, I was still a wild
:*>n made war upon the whites. ' "■as a big man then; big chief and man, and when I went hunting I'd
night with them ns a matter of j very p o id of myself. Continuing the kill a yearling or a hog if I could not
nurse just as any other of the tribe, i'hi *f s.n-i: 'll any of you talk back to find a deer. What did I know about
for then 1 was an Indian and >t any !’'m or refuse to do what he tells you I "" -------*•--
longer a white boy or man : could •' ;i > i him to shoot you like dogs.'
shoot a bow as well as any Indian and 4 would have done it. too. as quick as
'n was in the thickest of tli • fight
luiiun Territory I engaged in business source of sulphides. The salt mines
as a white man and later married a of northeastern Spain have been work
white woman and have raised a large ed from early times, but it is only
ta“1!ly' j within recent years that it has been
had a letter from my son in Okla- discovered that in addition to common
homa today. He says they are about salt this region contains much more
to strike oil on our land. Maybe I'll valulable potash salts used in fertil-
have some money yet." He smiled as izers. In Germany likewise, mines
a musical instrument began to play originally operated for salt have been
and he started up a war dance which found to contain extensive beds of
ended with another shrill war whoop, potash minerals.”
Ttie development of Texas minerals
resources, Doctor Sellards believes,
should continue along the lines of ad-
ditional studies of the minerals and
,r, . „. the geology of the deposits; second,
Austin. To.,, Aug. 24—Upon return dl8tributlllg information through pub-
HAS GREAT CONFIDENCE IN
TEXAS MINERAL RESOURCES
, , in-Miuuuiis uuormauon tnrougn put>-
ing after three months study of moth- , ,, , . .. .
„ Ic . , , . , hcatlons; and third, the economic de-
°f minfal P:odUCtl°n in Eur°Pe velopment of these resources.
F T" ?n AmeriCa’ Dr «'*«» regard to potash. Doctor Sel-
L. H. Sellards. associate director of salli the condition of occurrenc.
the Bureau of Economic Geology of
of potash in Texas. Iu both reg-
rigbt or wrong among the white man?
Broke Up Church Meeting
One day I heard a noise as of
I v >uid h ive kill d a jackrabbit. j shouting dow n under an arbor. The
><i.leacoring to drive buck th n< n “Now, here's one for you,” the white people, white people, were singing anil
' ’ horde of the white man who would vhtof chuckled. "The Indians made speaking. I slipped up with my bow
'stroy our buffalo. whisky out of corn They would and arrows, dressed as an Indian, and
"I learned much of the Indian h;s- i sprout it and then sleep on it—but j took a seat in the rear. When things
' and legends from the old men.
•; e of whom were over a hundred (
' - old They told of the coming of j mu., „ wum ^ouu n oe-> in*- people lurneu. aim seeing me
• white man tind his mysterious gun 'w ten stones and boil it. sprinkling thought they were attacked by Indi-
a a, ii.,,.,,i -1, i.......i some other small grain. It looked vel-! ans. ,p- --—*:— —-- *—>
~r£
of Texas mineral resources. In Spain , - . , , , .
‘ a;; fields remain to be explored in or-
Doctor Sellards visited mines of cop- dor t0 de(ermIne the aniount of pot.
‘T’ 1',ZinC a"d 8alt that were work ash present, the probability of success
ed as early as Roman times. In Ger- f , deTelopiBent of the Xexaa iaduH.
many and France he also visited coal, fry is pr0Iul8lngr he belleve8.
lignite, oil, potash and salt mines.
“A unigue feature of oil production
iu France and Germany is tlu* mining
of oil by shafts and by tunnels." be
WEAK, NERVOUS. NO APPETITE
said, "in these operations the shat* 1 "u■' i!1 a weak, rundown condition
is put down as in the mining of other ; ! ouht not sleep. I had no appe-
ti •? and no ambition. Then I took
*........ ..... * V «. . II urn
maybe I had better not tell you how got warmed up 1 joined the shouting
it - done, it might get you into trou- ' and gave a war whoop.
Then they would grind it he- j "The people turned, and seeing me.
V :toI—now it's all different. I enjoy
v iking and I don’t get nervous.”—B.
L ue. Mulvern O.
A weakened, nervous condition
makes work a double burden. Let
Vino! give you the strength and vital-
ity of abundant health. A quarter
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wi'VU lightened and thundered, car
mg down the red man before its
, " t oar. The fii^t whites the Ap-
ia's saw were in the Mississippi Uiv-
They crossed on rafts of logs at
i ; oiut so wide the Indians did not '
, Him.i Kuril 11 nil u Imn (Koi- I»,,1
I didn't
som
low and made them drunk,
drink it.
Indians Got Drunk
hen drunk the Indians always
war; r.J to fight, and if they hail no one
them embark and when they laud ! ’ > D g!;; they would light among
* :ne Indians thought they had come j ‘hanmelve.-. The tribe was divided
up out of the water. These white men (against itself and fought until nearly
w**re received In a great spirit of
■ i M.lship and given presents of wild
The Fulghum Hatcherv
EMORY, . TEXAS
First Sight of Guns
‘Everything went well for a while,
Irr the white men mistreated the lu-
i .ns and the fighting began, with
gut ; on one side and arrows on the
other.
‘ The Indians were whipped in the
fire fight, but later at another fight,
when it was drizzling rain, the flint;
hr ks would not fire and the whites
w* > defeated. In this fight some
The meeting was broken up; the
preacher ran. He afterwards told my
mother she must keep me at borne.
With Quanah Parker
"But I could not enjoy civilized life.
I left home and joined the Comanches
in the territory where I remained
for four years as a wild man. Our
vhief was Quanah Parker, who took
the name from hi;- white mother, who
was stolen and raised by the Indians.
all were killed. 1 fought along with
the rest, for there was no staying out
of if At last my chief fell and 1 was
left w ith one of the others. I thought
if was a goa l time to get away, as I
had learned that 1 was a white man
and not an Indian. I started to leave,
end the other Indian told me be would j came civilized and look up the ways
kill me. I hid in a rock and waited my of the white man. Returning to the
time. He came and I shot an ar-_________
row into him: he fought, although
wounded hut I riddled his body and
minerals. Tunnels are then made jus*
above the oil horizon and excavations
made into the sanil. These excava-
tions serve as collecting basin* f, ■
oil. Iu some instances where there
are two oil sands the driveways are
made between the two sands, borings
being made vertically into the over- - ------------—........
lying oil sand and the oil collected in ceutury’a use has proved the value of
cadi catch basins beneath. Iu this ^his Cod Liver and Iron tonic without
way oil sands are much more thor oiI- You W*R love its pleasant taste,
oughly drained than in other methods Sol<1 ^ A H BRUHL, DRUGGIST,
of production.
“Formerly the sulphuric acid used
in the treatment of phosphate rock
for fertilizer purposes in America was
made chiefly from sulphides, a part.
of which was obtained from the Rio Canaers, Sealers and best grade
linfo mines in Southern Spain tin cans at money saving prices.
Since the extensive development of Bring a Beef etc., have it canned,
sulphur deposits in Texas, however, All work guaranteed.
COO
LIVER
&JRON
His father was a Mexican named No- - . _______ ... .... „„ eu,
cona. Parker was a good Indian and jsourC8 °f supply of sulphuric acid PHONE 79W
much liked by the w hites. ; has very largely replaced the earlier
“After four years i returned to my
mother who was still living and I be-
RESIDENCE 79J
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he was dead.
"Where was I to go? Other In-
dians were enemies; the white man
was my enemy and would shoot me
at sight. I was afraid to do any-
thing, so I wandered around for more
than a year from place to place, al-
ways keeping to myself.
Return to Civilization
"It had been learned that a white
lad was living with the Indians and
soldiers were looking for me. They
found me and told me that my mother
was living and wanted me to return
home. I agreed to go with them.
That night I was to sleep with the sol-
diers in a room, but I did not go to
sleep.
“What di.l I know about their inten
tions? I was wild and it might be a
decoy to get me off and kill me. I !
snored to make out I was asleep anil j
when the others slept I stole through j
Ifb" Th in ( deft The next [
they followed me. 1 saw them com- j
ir.g and hid in a fence corner. I knew i
they would find me so I jumped up j
and ran. leaping over an enbankment !
into a pool of water which was as cold |
as blue blazes. I was willing to go1
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