Salt Lake Times | 1890-04-16 | Page 1 | Meat Axe Talks

MEAT AXE TALKS. Ho Says All White Men and Half-breeds Will be Drowned. Denvkk, April 10. Meat Axe, tho big Shoshone medicine chief, has predicted pre-dicted that a big flood will occur in July and wash out the heartless pale faces. He says the visitation is a retribution retri-bution for the unjust conduct of the whites in confining tho Indians on reservations. res-ervations. . Runners have boon sent all over the reservation aud to the ("rows, Sho-shones Sho-shones and Sioux to herald tho calamity. calam-ity. A rush to the Wind River mountains moun-tains is expected. Meat Axe says all the whites and half-breeds will be drowned.