OCR Text |
Show Met the Wrong Indians. Harry Wadsworth, assistant clerk of tho Senate committco on claims, la a great expert on Indian sign language lan-guage Ho ls credited with being ablo to converso with all kinds of red men. Recently he vas appointed Indian In-dian agent for tho ,3hoshone reservation reserva-tion In Wyoming. Seeing a band of Nez Pcrces Indians tho other day on a steer car, on which ho was also a passenger, Wadsworth commenced to attract their attention by his signs. Thoy eyed him suspiciously, but one, moro friendly than the others, eventually eventu-ally crossed over to the now Indian agent's seat. "I am sorry," said he very apologetically for a red man, "but I never learned the sign language lan-guage I can only speak English." ( i |