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Show THE IMIIiX MOVEIIESr. A short time ago a number of articles ar-ticles api9redinthcjournaIsofthe country, setUng forth claims made by numbers of Indians that Uicy had seen the Savior auu received lib !ersnni! teaching. The dispatches referred to were reproduced in the News and created no small degree of Interest. It appears that Dr. King, an Indian by birth, and by profession a healer, has visited and conversed wtli Porcupine and others who have stated tliey liaJ seen the Chris'.. The Doctor is an old resident ol Mantf. He was interviewed in-terviewed a few days ago by a rep-n-entatlte of Uie KcffUr, of Y.ti-rairu. Y.ti-rairu. and we hereappend the result, as appears iu tlie columns of that jaj-er: The reporter asked. 'Well, Doctor, have you read the pipers, ami seen t be account of Uie Indian Porcupine; No I have not. but I bare seen Porr iptne himself, I have b.on dear up into Idaho in ordr lo see him, and beat what be bad to say.' " 'How did you burn of his ling there if you have not seen too ae coudls In papers? "Well, my uneb. who wmoneof the ptrty of IndUns wbo went lo seo the Savior, wrote to me lo eome up into Id iho and m him lwfore be went back home, ami also to e Porcupine, ard I went.' "'Well, IlMtor, I haveexna to ask you a few iiuestfons abaut thw maUer, and if you wilt giro ins a stnteinsnt of what ou knair abaut h. 1011 will oUbB in-.' " 'All rbrht.' til the dvetor, ami he proeesihs!: A year ao Usl June, an Indian of the btoax NaUon Hawed Oscar, had a dream that Christ had come on the earth and lie was to iret tbe Indians ami go oat into Nevada ami km Him at a renain time and plan. He mi (pina startlnl at Ins dream, Iwt did n make any elf rt to 30 on his mission. Two nfcrhu after be hal the same drm-n, ami this impressed im-pressed u-elf on his mind, iw much Ibat be told it to other 1 of his tnlw, ainl tried to set tbsui to gx; but tbey would not listen t bint. A;un the third lime he had tin dream two days later ami this time he succeed! hi mtkiag the Imlmns believe him, and memliers of his tribe started on their pilgrimage. xres of Imlian, (neyenns. Crows, and from many other tribes, imnetltaem anl lh-y lournejtsl, as best they could, to their desMna'ioii, sulfri:miay privations ami hardships hard-ships ah Ie in rnate. Porc-Jii and my unde the latter from the Indian Territory, ami tho former from Idaho, were amoug ths number, roirnnim had been a ery bad Indian prior 10 thl-,ha 111 xnl a term in tbe guanl bou'ss at tae past for stealing. At the appointed time ami flare, the place being Walker tax, Nera-li, Indians were a"mble.l from various natioiis,each tribe speaking their own dialect, anil not being able t tin Jr-stand Jr-stand their neighbors. As night ap projebed. thev saw a ier-oaee roni- ing frvtm the ea: and ths Indians were satislied from his appearance that be was Indeed the Christ, and tbey saw him surrounded with a bright light. As be appmacbej, tbe halo of lirht about his heal shorn iinluamly anil made him appear to tbe uiitiitoretl eyes of the savages pre-emlnendy pre-emlnendy grand. During hh Slav at this lime he said not a won), and after remaining sua them a short thus bo l.ft thorn, mono knew how or when. Tlxt next day he ajnin apaanil and soke to them all day long, ami in such a language that each one of the different tribes of Indians understood his meaning per.'eaty. lie iustruoled tbelmlians ami jnie them a set of coramaodmeulsand appointed I'oreii- plne as one of His dts4es to go forth and preach His savings to all peode, ami instrneteil him not to a Id to or take from what he hail beard. It was this that my undo wrote, an 1 then I went up north to see about it, ".Veil, dietor, you met Poreuine now what ilo you think of him, and of tbo-o s'ateinems:' akl the re Ir:er. ' -Well, I tbhik they are all true. I believe Porcupine to if an inspired inanof tiod;' and here tbe doctor grew earnest. -Why l'oti-upine was only an ignorant Imlian. a very ignorant ignor-ant man, ami bal in his ignorams-. and now when he talks, he uses lan-suae lan-suae that is good ami Incomes vtry elooen'. lie will staml as If meditating for several minutes, ami then raUitiz bis ees and fTiMi.lli, hbtarmstosnanls l-ten he will de-clare de-clare with great fcnorllie things be has seen and beard ami knows; and deehtriBg to tlie people that they must repenL, Why, among tho-e Indians who are very tM.l eo4e he 1ms caused them to throw away their weapons ami eoas from their evil practices. Il is not the Indians abme. but also many white jnopbi believe hinu" "Wlih what Indians was ho when you met blm, iloctor:" "He was with ab lit five liumlnsl Crow Indians, away up in the northeastern north-eastern part of Idaho. He does a great ileal of healing b v faith ami the bit ii. ou of hand-, as also does his followers. He says H is one of the gift, ami bh-MHgn that Jesus liestowed uism him." Doctor King seemed ery earnest about all he saal, and gave tbe iui-lre-ion of a man who was thoroughly thorough-ly ennvinced that wliat lie id was true. |
