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Show Desecration. For a long period the Indians around here have been accustomed ac-customed to bury their dead in tiered tie-red earth above the 10th Ward. About six months ago an Indian died and was buried there, a rifle being put iu the grave with him. Recently the In dians came there to attend to some of their religious observances, when they found that the corpse had been dug up and a few of the bones were scattered artund, the exhumation having been apparently made for the rifle and the body left f jr wolves to prey on. As a luafer of course the band feel "mad" and like fighting. This is an act of desecration that deserves severe p'jrj-i.-hmeat, could the mercenary scoundrel scoun-drel who perpetrated it be discovered. If the Indians are degraded and sar-age, sar-age, they still are human beings, jx-se.-sing many of the finer feelings (f their fellow men, among which is a strong veneration for their dead and the places where their remains repose. We trust never to be called on again to chronicle such a deed, whith public .-.critiinent will repiolate in the strongest stron-gest manner. |
