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Show gp WILD Ml 9 DEAD EAR MYT1 Azed After Murdering His 'jmiother, He Lives Naked in Tepee Thirty Years. ,'Keial to The Tribune. iHtfTTON', Utah. Oct. 12. Incpegut, tho iH ut Indian, probably one of tho Et unusual speclmon3 of human exlst-E exlst-E pn tho continent In tho last thirty-He thirty-He y4" ,s dead- Baraum- ,n his cx 'Bbltlon of tho "WJld Man from Borneo." tHhll many othor attractions, novor pro-'J;Hced pro-'J;Hced - raoro wonderful showing of hu- 'mLn life than Incpesrut. jHfammer and "winter alike he lay In hlo 'Bpte wIl,cn consisted of a few sticks ;Kth tome race around the top. White Hlurs remember that thirty years ago . Hj habits were the tame. Unkempt ,K unshom, he presonted a pltlfu) ap-'Hinuice ap-'Hinuice that la lmposslblo of descrlp- K; Food, consisting: of blt3 of meat, mHou, ere ' 001-0 and flcraps of bread, Hire thrown to 'him as If he had been . Hf animal- He woro no clothing- what- Her, not evon a breech clout. During -H) coldest weather his straggling beard I ''Hd hair froze In the Knows and Ice that ) Hma Into his wickiup. Haj many of the Indians tell the story ! :'Hnepegut, more than thirty winters -Ho, while on his way from the Spanish HKtk oounrry to tho Uintah Indian rcaer-iHlIon, rcaer-iHlIon, hfl became enraged with his moth- Hud. In a fit of anger, slew her. Real-Hop Real-Hop his crlmo ho went Insane. That -Hvhat Inopegut means. "Insane." I3o- Hn that time he was known as Toomlta, 'Hhleh In the TJto tongue means "winter .H5s." Whllo tho Utes frequently moto .Hit punlshmont for murder, tho fact that 'Hjomltu went Insane protected him, and Htrluc all the yearn slnco tho atrocity 'HI has done penance. 'Hwy years ago the Indians attempted : Ho rid the tribe of Tnepegut They blind-' blind-' Hided him and In a wagon and on horao- Htcx took him a two days' trip Into tho -Kiirt of tho Uintah mountains. They Ht film there to perish. It was not to flk When thoy arrived home there lay HjW crazy Ute, curled up In his tepee. 'H had beaten them back many hours. ',Hfuday morning his brother, Provo "Hjiok, found that ho hnd finally departed Hr the "happy hunting grounds." |