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Show Death of an Old Indian. The teleirraph from Los Angeles brings us the following dispatch ; "i Capitan Juan, at one time a prominent member of the Cahoiila tribe of Indians, died recently from an overdose of pinions, at the advanced age of 10-3 years." Captain John was a noted Indian, and was more or less known to every resident of Southern California. He was a man of powerful physique, over six feet high, and his head was nearly double the size of an ordinary mas s. He was the first Indian child baptised at the Mission, San Gabriel, after it had been founded almost a century ago. lie always claimed to be a good Indian and a friend to the whites, but it is thought he occasionally forgot his friendships and committed thefts and other offenses of a graver character. char-acter. Luring his old age a habit of drinking strong waters was contracted, and he would occasionally get snakes in his mocassins, and then he would be difficult to control. Some years ago he visited San Francisco and made his headquarters at the office of the Provost Pro-vost Marshal, on the corner of Sansome aud Washington streets, and during his walks about town attracted a great deal of attention. One night he went home a little the worse for liquor and was locked up in the office, and during the night he got up, and with an iron bar succeeded in demohshing a heavy iron sa'e that was in the room. When asked the next morning why he had done so, he replied that he thought he was fighting persons who were going to kill him. He's gone now, and it is to regretted that a worse Indian was not taken in his place. Bulletin. |
