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Show RHMDS GREET " BELGJANRULER King Albert and Tribal Chief Exchange Gifts With Equal Dignity. ALBUQUERQUE. X. M., Oct. 10. The palel'aoed chief of the Belgians greeted a T.m-viaed gravhaired, swarthy chief of tiie Xavajos at Gallup today. They shook l-aads sraveiv and each showed his respect re-spect for the other. The aged Indian bore himself with a dignity egual to that of the king. There was no condescension m Albert's, manner and no humility in that of the redskin. I The sun had not yet banished the chill j . of dawn when the roval special stopped j in the New .Mexican village at Gallup. I but there was a crowd of several hundred hun-dred at the station. Many of them had ridden a score of mPes to greet the Bel- j g ans. As the train stepped, the band of j JI'cha.Ts Indian school swung into the strains of the Belgian national an- them and then that of the United States, i A l.r.le band of braves, mounted on muslar.gs, sat watm? and watching, their faces expressionless, as the king, queen and prince descended from their car. After one war dance, his majesty expressed ex-pressed a desire to meet some of the Jrd'uns. and several of them were pre-sOMled pre-sOMled to him and his consort. Then Chief S lagitio. tribal judge, better bet-ter known as 1'ete Price, stepped forward with the d.i'r of the tribe, a handsome Xava.io blanket, which he gravely handed ; to Allien, who in turn pinned upon the . oid warrior's breast the silver medals of , his house. The grizzled Indian might have been thinking, as he stood proudly before the ruler of the Belgians, of the day when he, too. was the chief of many fighting men. He was the last to surrender to the regulars at Fort Defiance in the days w-hen Kit Carson was a guide, and be was defiant to the end. But once his par. ile was given, he kept it. There was no kick of color in the scene which greeted the Belgians. Braves in shirts of the gaudiest hues, and suuaws wrapped in blankets of, many colors, col-ors, wero grouped in an open space near . the station, some of the women carrying papooses The daughter of the chief was mounted on a mustang. When the braves had filed past Queen Plizab-nh. who stood beside her husband, in striking contrast to the place given their squaws bv the Indians, she asked to be presented to the Indian women. . Then she requested them to pose before be-fore her camera, end they complied, although al-though somewhat sullenly, for they view picturetaking devices with superstitious awe. They kept their eyes on the ground while thev posed. Next to the Indians, the most striking 'istirs was that of Dick Mattox. an "oid- t -per " who twirled a ferocious-looking j r-'s-.aehe as he sat on his horse on the edge of the crowd. While courted one o'"Ga:!ur's best citizens, he looked like the villain of a cinema drama of the |