| Show JOTTINGS FROM VERLAND SIL the camp am P meeting 0 methods of th the e indian messiah MORE OF THE AFTER GLOWS BLOWS the indian Blied lefrie dances captain sam hla sugar and coffee to a now deal by the great spirit converts who hear the red bed angels sing sine the met glahs blahs plata plain talk the two neton the color lino line to no be drawn captain saras peace dance chrit christ to appear on mount blount grant next spring Vino iaiA CITY carr ST ner doc bica 29 1800 at last we havo have had a fall of mow sufficient to gilve us excellent sleighing for several days however in tho the last two or three days it has been rapidly thawing and ud it if tho the sleighing Is to continue wo we mast soon have another fall of snow tho the condition of tho the atmosphere at thu the present writing Is such that aliat rain rather than snow la Is indicated small avalanches la of 0 snow came today to day pitching down dow train tho ilia roots roofs an over the town to the delight ot of the small boy and the terror of trian females A or GLOWS in the last weak wo hive have had bad two or three very pronounced after glows one of these was so brilliant and so lighted up all this wits lillas to the eastward of 0 tho the city that the sun seemed returning though ll it had disappeared behind the sierra nevada range at least an hour before tho appearance wal the same BS as that in issa which followed tho the tremendous eruption of on the th ot august of that bear was tho the same fame redness ot of the western sky and tho the tame game apparent return of the light of the sun the phenomenon would appear to indicate that the there has been an unusually unus nally violent eruption ot of someone bome fome ono of the be many great volcanoes scattered throughout the tha world in regard to the condition and periodical 0 outbursts ot of many of 0 these we know but vaery very little for instance nho alto knows what thoro thoe tm ano a immense volcanoes discovered by bit james ross halt half a century ago on an antarctic continent may bo be about we may however expect hect to have news ot of thebe and other antarctic wonders in the course of t two we or three years as baron Norden skia id and tile tho australians will go on art an expedition of exploration to that region in the autumn ot of next ncik year though tho the grand explosion at took look place august 26 1883 it was not until late lit in november following that wo we had our mot most brilliant after glows and they continued I 1 through file ho greater part parl of january abst tho the pre arit ont afterglow may have beer bean dauwd by the outbursts noted some weeks ago among tile volcanoes of south and central america Amer lct or tho the volcano up in ID the behring sea THE INDIAN MEDICINE the snow storm put an end to tho the dancing of the pluto and shoshone indians just u lien they were becoming well warmed up to tho the work ork the big dance anco at austin was followed by ono one at battle Aloun mountain which in turn was followed by ono one at smoky valley in shoshone territory holli both clutes and shoshones Sho participated in chest dances tho the concluding dance was at walker like lake and it is said that riot not fewer that indians indiana were present tile homo home of tho the messiah being near walker lake hera were present many arrange indiana indians about the time this dance ended the snow storm came this must have been somewhat discouraging as the avowed object of at ill the dancing was to propitiate the great spirit arid and bretall upon him not to send any more such groat great snows snowa as an those which last winter burled buried the earth arid and killed oil off the lack jack rabbi ts ta lot tor for the r snow storm wo we should have had a big dance at this place the dance hero was to have been called callo dby by captain sam ills object was to bring tile tho indians together and make to them a great peace speech lie ho said ho he wished to speak to both indians indiana and whites white 4 haw iia wants ants no trouble in nevada whatever may happen in places to the eastward A WHO DONT WAST WANT TO 00 BACK TO IN INDIAN DIAN captain sam was wag in great distress of 0 mind some two weeks week sago ago when soldiers were being ordered west perhaps some joker pretending to read the news to him had him that the philes were to be wiped out at all events event ho he crime came to my house on oa thanksgiving morning before I 1 was oil out ot of bed when told I 1 was sleeping Ble but would see sea him down town at noon lie said ho he could not wait to be must sea me at once it was in vain that my wife tried to lo send it ito im away ho he simply would riot not go finally my wife told him she would see sea whether I 1 was awake passing through along a long hall my wife opened my bod bed room door whon when I 1 asked to in a low torte tone who was at the door low as was the voice in which I 1 spoke captain sam w who he probably had an ear advanced w well ell within the front door heard roe me lie at once charged to IQ along the hall like a wild buffalo almost upsetting ray my wife in the rush ho he made grasping my hand band in both of hia bit as I 1 lay in bed sara gasped out my ity dear old my aly dear old Ir lendl for some time he would say nothing more tears were mere rolling down his his eyes wire were red and ills his features twitched in such soch a ludicrous way that I 1 began to believe him drunk that ho be had begun a at t the wrong end of the ilia white roans mans thanksgiving at laba however ho be managed to lo toll tell me that lie ho was in great trouble about tile the news front from tho the east lie ile feared that soldiers would bo be sent cent to kill off tire the plot because of one ot of their number having started the dancing craze ile iia said he desired to live lit in peace with the whites ile ho had heard beard ilia preaching of 0 the walker lake messiah and tho the state of affairs lie ho predicted would not suit him aam sam at all lie had almost grown up among tho the whites llo lie had become accustomed to their kind of 0 food and clothing arid and ito he could riot not now go back to the old indian fashions faRbion vi said he 1 11 I must have my notion my sugar coat and list hat arid and pantaloons but the walker lake preacher says when hen the change comes all indians will wear buckskin on their legs have havil buckskin coals arid and wear no hats all will have feathers on oil their heads then there will bo be no coffee no no flour floor no anything a try t bing good all meat ineat and grass seed bond I 1 dont want this it at still cried sam lie was much comforted aben ft hen I 1 a assured him that lie ho would nover never seo sea of the kind that it was all talk I 1 told hint him that whito oven men iula often said that at such a time lime tile the old world would burn up and a new one bo be made but nothing ever overcame camo of it it etwas was all more mere foolish talk I 1 tried lit in vain to get sam to go down town telling I 1 would meet inert min bin at noon at the arid and talk further about the troubles but ho would riot not go 11 lie e said he war wa all ready to talk arid and lio li must talk while in a state of pre preparedness well then sam said 1 I myself tor for the singe go ahead and say a allyon I 1 you have to say captain saru sam then their turned loose his hia tongue and aal talked almost m without stopping to breathe brei iho for two mortal hours at the end af pf about two hours lo he turned to me and said now I 1 am tired I 1 can talk no moro more perspiration was pouring down its his laco face and the large voice with which ho had commenced had died away to a whisper having completely exhausted himself lie said goodby good by and marched away at once TUB THI CAUP CAMP METHODS OF THE MESSIAH in his bl long talk captain sam gave me a full account odthe of the leah ings prodoc tlona thins and exhortations of the alessi messiah all sam sain was at alabau valley at the time of the cibit of bannocks liau Ban nocks cheyenne alphs hoes and other strange indians lio says bays the messiah first calls upon all to join in the singing and dancing he then falls upon tho the ground and for about an hour lies as though dead lie ile then arises arid and tells what he has seen saying lie he has visited the other world in the spirit that its wonders havio been revealed repealed to him in a I 1 llon islon but tile the heaven ho he visits in his fits dreams la is not that of the white people itis ills iho tho blest abode of the great spirit and ills his red children it is immediately overhead ile ho points upward and says it is there there above ou ell there above you at this moment are gathered your fathers your mothers your grandfathers your grandmothers your children all who havo have gone cone before you to the spirit land they rather above you while you sing arid and danco dance I 1 can see sea them they look down upon youl they are above you in tile tho homo provided lor for them almin by the great spirit they are not in the heaven ot of the god of the white bite man that is far faraway away in the ilia cold north I 1 know nothing of that heaven it does not concern mo me to know inow for jt it iq 1 riot not a heaven for indians why should you care lor for the heaven of the w m bite men your old lathers fathers and old mothers are arc in the heaven above you do you want to leave them and go away to the ilia heaven of the m white bite men are you white men that you should wish to KO go to that heaven look at your hands look at your laces faces aro are you white men no you are indians the white mans heaven Is no place lor for you you are arc indians the god of the m white hire iiams heaven will not know you you must go let id iho 1110 hua hulion on of the ilia god ol of tho the re red duren mun there awalt await you all who have gone beloro before you cafter 0 alter exciting tile the people with exhortations like this tile the messiah bless fah starts a certain song lie ile calls upon women and all to join in tile song and m when lien the lite OIL ex el lewent il tit at the highest lie ho looks lock up into tile the heavens beavon vi and criesont cries crie out sout 0 1 I teo boo them above us its they are they gather above us they jon join in the singing our old ohl mothers and grandmothers grandmother are now singing just above ln do you not hoar boar there brother so saying ho he grasps the ilia shoulders l of one of the visit ing ini indians arid and pointing upward cries tho the whole hole air ll is quivering with the chant the joined voices of both met men and women tile tho indian op pealed to becomes on infected n c led with tho general excite there appear to be aces voices it in the air above and tho indian soon jm im agines lie ho itches hears that of 0 ills his dead mother or some other cither relation who Is in spirit land ko ile cries that lie ho hears tho the voice of ills his mother singing in ill the air over his hii lead head and by ills his extravagant eions or of joy others are arc also carried away find and imagine they hoar hear above tho the singing of dead dad friends Irl ciula captain sam acted this whole scene for ino a it was exactly as if lie ho were trying to closer the tor for nio me a revival meeting lie ho hat had witnessed among tile n whites blies pacing brick back and forth in my iny sleeping room with his eyes rolled heavenward lie he cried 0 0 1 I hear bear my old my good olo mud derl and as ho paced dacci to and fro sani sam emphasized tile tho fe feel c I 1 urn um nood good by striking himself reso resounding e d ing blows on oil the breast it Is snot not difficult to imagine such a scene as sam tried to di scribe 11 choso hose who have witnessed among whites an exciting religious revival led by a vigorous and earnest exhorter cx horter may e easily as ly picture what hat tile the same game would bo be among tho the ignorant and superstitious judi indians an in their dances tho ilia majority imagine they seo cc and amil hear whitmer whatever their pro prophet illet tells them he sees arid and hears amid tho the din of tho the monotonous ini drums and tho the dolorous chant of hundreds of voices tho the indian convert gazing heavenward soo soon 1 1 imagines that lie hears joining I 1 in n tho h 0 song tho the one familiar voice ot of his elead dead mother and in the smoke that rolls above front from a hundred fires he sees faces looking down and hands beckoning THE MESSIAH ALL FOR foil THE R BICI captain sam says that while the be prophet advises all against taking up arms arid and going to war mar against the ilia whites ho he says that it rives gives lafin no pain to know that they are to be swept from the laco face of tile earth by the great spirit ile looks upon such extermination with indifference it concerns concer ns neither him nor his people it la is work wok that belongs to the ireat groat spirit lie ile asks tile the indians why should you caro care for this thing which Is to befall the whites bites you yon are not a white man look at the color of your hands and faco face you are arc a red man and you are troubling yourself about this thing the great spirit Is going to do a though you were white you have been so much among tile the white men that you have bogun begun to forgot forget your being an indian hut lot stop look at the color of your hands captain sara sam says that the prophet always stops the most of those who disagree with him by asking them who they they should find fault with m what hat has been ordained hy by the ilia color of your skin one would mould tale take you to bo be an indian Irl dlan lie ho will say but b u t when you open your mouth a 1 bite man mail speaks the messiah appears to have a sharp tongue captain haul bete has a wholesome fear of him lie says he hols Is big medicine but lie he dont know whether for or good or bad that which salo saiu cannot gel over Is tile tho bring nig to 0 o lifo life of a girl by thu the I 1 messiah mob alah it appears that about a year ago a young girl at the walkr walker lake reservation to all appe appearance aranco died after silo had lain as dead for some hours the messiah wa wad sent sell t for and at once restored the hild to life the whites whiles of the reservation say that the child was in a trance or a lit of somo some kind but w m hat tile the whites whiles say dons does not detract from tile tame fame of the prophet among the ilia Ind iaus nor lessen their faith lit in the of tho ilia miracle tile the indians ulso also bellove believe that their prop liel diet caused a great rain to come lit in drought parched the whole country this rain was wai brought by tho the protracted effort at alabon valley hero a dinco d inco was kept up for forn nearly earlys a v eek at about the time of tile the I 1 ballot isit of tile stranger indians so much rain fell that the ranchman ranchmen ranch men said raid tile the indians ought to havo have another danco dance to bring about a cessation of tile the dally daily dow dom tho the indians took this seriously arid and as they aro are always ready to turn an honest honert penny somo of them waited upon loading lending ran ranchman ranchmen ranch climen men to aR ascertain certain what they would be willing to pay to have lave the rain stopped slopped they in their innocence of heart and great faith firmly believed thic that lit in answer to their supplications ions tho the groat great spirit had sent tile the rain and that lie a would boar bear and heed beed their prayers m acro ere they to ask to have it stopped AV AS old oin As it liaa has boon been suggested by some that the may make uso use ot of hypnotism in causing those lio lie desires to ta lit li fluence to see and hear whatever lio lie wishes I 1 endeavored to mc ascertain ertain from captain sam ills his methods of procedure all I 1 could glean was that the prophet kept tho the visiting indians near him and that |
