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Show Uintah Indians Believe in ! ! Sky Message About Railroad: BETJF.VING that a message recently re-cently taken into the Uintah basin ba-sin in an airplane, announcing that a railroad is soon to be built into tiie country must be true, because be-cause it "came f'oni the clouds." Indian.1' In-dian.1' of the basin who own farms are already con.slderin i a i sing trie prie of land they have for pale, ar-.-ording to a message from the T'intah basin whii-h reached the. Commercial club yesterday. J I ere t of on- the Indian f t'ne territory have Ignored the talk of the piopoaej railroad and have parsed it by with an uk h ! and a shrug of the shoulders. However, the news ;hat "fame from the clouds," has aroused them, for tin-y believe that a message thai arrives from t'ie air mui-1 bo I r;j tl: ::i. r The message referred to wa? taken J from Salt Lake into the Uintah basin by Lieutenant C. C. Nutt of the gov- j ernment "flying circus," which recently recent-ly exhibited in Salt Lake. Indians from 'all parts of ti e basin came to ' witness the arrival of the plane at My- I ton. They were awed by the performance, perform-ance, jind surrounding C. 1. KiU'her, who had charge of the flyini,' field, a.sked what It all meant. "Tile hu.e bu d carried a message that a railroad v.-'.!i soon he built linking us with the J ourside world," Mr. Klteher answered. j Tho news spread rapidly amonjr the Indians, who now fuiiy heib've li.at the railroad will become a rcahtv soon, and. with an eye for business, have, after several week..;, f! -ru red out that their laud values vill bo increased. |