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Show llow the Ditgers Live. Sax Francisco, Aug. 13.-In the Yoseui-ite Yoseui-ite valley aud elsewhere the Dinger Indians In-dians gather grass seeds and grasshoppers in the summer and prepare them for winter win-ter use, building storehouses to hold them. These are made by putting four poles into the ground, bringing the tops together, and placing others across about four feet from the bottom, which are formed into a platform by means of other saplirura lashcU together with grass ropes. The fotd is then securely packed in and the whole carefully thatched with grass, which grows two and three feet long, floe and tough. Acorns are guthered in large quantities iid the shell i" removed vi;ry dexterously by women, and the peeled acorns are then packed in largo ba.skets, covered tightly and lot down into the Jlerced river, which is clear as crystal. Here they are left twenty-four urs and then are taken out. The action of the water removes all the bitterness and leaves them sweet as chestnuts chest-nuts They are then laid out to dry, after which they are ground into meal by means of two stones by the womeu. This is tightly tight-ly packed iu baskets and stored in separate sepa-rate caches. The Indians grow yery fat upon this food, which is made into a sort fThTliiggcrs make some beautiful baskets bas-kets of flue grasses woven so tightly that tlK.y will hold water.and sbme of them are still used to boll food in. They put red hot iu the basket!-which th.1 food is and thus the water is made to boil 1 nc Sefve the grasshoppers into ditches ... which they have fires burning, and th j wav their wings and legs are scorched oif, ,h. bodies look not unlike sartmp. sh torniK qu't. atmportant part of the n- ,.e diet and the mountain lakes and itrlfms arc' "ive with them. The bucks f atih the flsh and the squaws dry tnem Rerries and wild fruits abound, and are hefed bv all alike. Some are sold, some g Jr f bnt most are dried for winter use. PineDirefnut?are also gathered in great Thesf'Diggcrs seldom if ever hunt Ihey are n!iai,d hair matted witn men's clothing consists of a few greasy oiu rags and a blanket. |