Show INDIAN J TEPEE t ON FEDERAL SITE I IJ 1 q i y I f ft ff J s t f 5 t F p 4 Q t u j jP ji it z P e i af S cS S 55 X t S S f S 1 4 S S SS fA I 4 r b bS 5 S ks t P INDIAN WITNESSES IN FRONT OF OP THEIR MODERN TEPEE Redskins who have in back of Federal Building to be on the job for murder trial HE unique spectacle of Indian tel te tepees T THE pees pitched in the shadow of if I towering buildings may be seen in the I rear of the federal building where a score of Indians from southern Utah who will appear before the United States court as witnesses are camped campe The tents are arc in a vacant space west of the federal building which has been cleared for thi th new addition Accompanied by an Interpreter the Indians arrived in Salt Lake L ke yesterday While they are allowed al owed mileage and per diem which would enable them to put up at a hotel botel the stalwart braves their squaws and papooses prefer preter the wild environment to which they have always been ac accustomed accustomed accustomed A tent on a grav gray graveled graveled surface suits them better than a bed Food cooked a la Ia Indian style is more to the th liking of their taste than that served at the hotel or the best restaurant As incredible as it may seem In Itt Indians i I are fond of dog meat Seated on I Ithe the flagstones of the sidewalk on the north side of the federal building yes yesterday yesterday yesterday afternoon an old squaw whose hair and wrinkled features bespoke her advanced age might have been seen looking wistfully at the well rounded contour of a young dog which stood nearby not for a moment sus sue suspecting suspecting peeling that his precious carcass was coveted The Indians and their improvised camp in the heart of a big city were the cynosure of many eyes yesterday est rda While the young bucks walked aim aimlessly aimlessly aimlessly lessly about the tha th streets gazing at the varied display of goods and novelties in store windows the squaws seemed more inclined to stick near the federal building where they felt that they were w re under the protection of the strong arms arm of their good friend and provider Uncle Samuel The squaws brought with them many samples of their patience and handi hand handiwork handiwork handwork work in the shape of buckskin novelties worked In beads and bas has baskets baskets which they offered for sale to tha th passersby Mollie Rice an aged squaw the of Tom Rice who is alleged to tb t have been murdered by John Rice Uce Ice la is the leader of the female contingent of wit witnesses nesses flosses MollIe is 18 supposed to have been the innocent provocation of the murder Her Hr husband huband h band is said to have been beat beating beatIng beating ing her when John Rice took a hand and split her husbands head hood open with an ax The weight of the tragedy does not seem to bear heavily on the old squaw as 8 she laughs and chatters as merrily as a maiden of tender age Some Soine of the Indians are witnesses in inthe Inthe Inthe the Rice case caH and others are here to testify in the case of the government against Zhonne an Indian who is al alleged alleged alleged to have killed Charles Fitz a ti t keeper k per in the southern part of the state |