Show INEPEGENT DOING PENANCE I 0 i 1 I ih1iTJflJHffI IJJJ 4 > D h F ii iII j V p 1 c pa I I f i jS A j I Z W = te ss 4Pr I N Through the kindness of R Healy a photographer of Vernal Ulntah county coun-ty The Tribune Is able to publish a I photograph of ihcpcgent the crazy Indian In-dian who has for the past thirtyfour i I years been one of the moat remarkable I characters on the reservation His terrible crime and his no less terrible expiation form a chapter In the lore of the Ulntahs that can be verified from many sources From time to time the story has appeared In the newspapers but an illustration from life has never before boon given The crime for which Inepegent Is doIng I do-Ing his penance was committed In 1S67 I 01 earlier Either in a transport of passion pas-sion or accidentally he shot and killed I I his mother and sister He was tried before the tribe but the punishment he has since endured Is selfinflicted In the Indian tongue his name means crazy and that Is the view taken of his condition by his fellow tribesmen They accord to him all the superstitious supersti-tious reverence and awe with which dementia de-mentia Is regarded among that people Summer and winter he roams unsheltered unshel-tered and unclothed from place to place The above picture was taken In winter with the thermometer 7 degrees below zero It presents Inepegenl In his most comfortable aspect as he hardly ever occupies a tepee and the cloth over his body was furnished by the artist Near by him was a small fire not shown in which his arm had been lying until It blistered From time to lime tHe Indian agents have erected tents over the prostrate penitent peni-tent but he has Invariably burned thehi down His own people have more than once hud to chop him from out the Ice and snot to preserve his life With his big club In hand Inepegent I I I pursues rabbits and other small game which he devours raw This precarious I I means of existence falling he goes to I the house of his brother Provo Dick I and throws missiles at It until the inmates in-mates bring out food and leave It for him I Notwithstanding these privations and exposure the insane Indian Is fat and hearty and bids fair to round out his allotted span of life Mr Healy managed to get this picture after many fruitless attempts by giving Provo Dick 510 Dick 6scorted him to Inopc gents temporary abode about two and a half miles Cr9in the White Rocks agency took the club away from the crazy man to prevent possible violence and kept watch while the camera was focused and the plate exposed When the photographers head disappeared under the cloth the subject would open hs eyes and peep but the moment he I was before the uhile mans direct gaze he closed them again Several people have attempted to ex I hiblt Inepegent at various celebrations I the last effort being when the party was made up for the Elks carnival hut the fear he Inspires among the other oth-er Indians and the probable difficulty of controlling him have proven an obstacle ob-stacle |