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Show Indian Children Kill Baby Brother Little Fratricides Preserve Absolute Silence When Confronted With the Crime. Special to Thc Tribune. WODENA, Utah, June 22. While Indian Jack of Eagle Valley, sixteen miles west of Statellne, was hauling a load ofs hay to Statellne and while his squaw, with other Indian women, was picking weeds for a farmer in the valley, a tragedy was being enacted at his tepce. Indian Jack has two boys, 3 and 4 yenrs of age, and a daughter 7 years old. His squaw on returning to her topee in the evening after her work was finished, missed the youngest child, and by no amount of persuasion could she induce the other- children to tell what had become of their little brother. A- search was instituted and tho three-year-old child was found lying on the slope of a hill unconscious, presenting pre-senting a death-like appearance, although al-though life was not entirely extinct. Owing to the bloated appearance of the child it was at first thought that it had been bitten by a rattlesnake. A hasty examlnatoin, however, showed three ribs broken entirely away from the backbone and its little stom- acn caved in. to an appearance it Having Hav-ing been crushed with stones. Life not yet being extinct, the frantic mother bundled up the child and started for Statellne, but It died on thc way. Indian Jack, the father, is on educated edu-cated and Industrious man and is heart-broken over tho death of his boy, as he apparently realizes that he was the victim of thc oldor chlldrens' anger. He sayH that for some tilmc they had manifested a strange antipathy for their brother and that he frequently caught them within the past ten days abusing him. The two culprits exhibit true Indian traitn by maintaining a singular tnpi-j tnpi-j turnlty and by stoically refusing to answer an-swer any questions whatever as to what they dl'd. |