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Show The Indians Expecting a Messiah. The Indians of Tongue River agency, Montana, out of their ancient superstitions supersti-tions and a crude idea of Christianity gained from missionaries, have evolved a Messiah of their own. Their medicine men assert that tliis spiritual leader is white, that he lives in the mountains, and that he i soon to come forth to de- ' I etroy the pale faces and restore the Indians In-dians to supremacy on the American continent. con-tinent. He has stars on his hands und feet and a spsar wound in his side. The excitement over the expected adveut of a red men's redeemer is o great that troops have been detailed towHth d- j i relopmeutsand aver troubl?, , |