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Show aanaaaasfasaaaasBnMasaBaanBanaiBBBnBBBBBBai THE INDIAN MESSIAH ij - Slxlrea Tribes Believe In Him, but the Snake Indians k do not. a. bm THE INNOCENT VICTIM "OfV" A MURDEROUS NCCRO!"" Tb Kounderlng or a Vaclil, and the llrowning nf -Lord. A BIG CONFLAGRATION IN OWCNSBURG. ,lltj Iu I'eftii-r of III Mother. KUJed Ills Father. Other- ..a ., -it Item. ,,, BT Telegraph to the s.i flOEItlLHILCS' 1IKJ. He lla-s Nome oeer Ideas About the Indian Hmtnb. Br. Paul, Not. 7. Gen. Mil, commander of the division ot tlie Missouri, Is here on his rt-turo from his western tour. Ittgarding the causes and nature of the religious "craze" existing among the vurious Indian tribes, he says: "I have been in theUtah.Moutana and Cheyenne reservations, investigating investi-gating this craze. You hive no doubt heard that the I udlan tribes are reported to believe thatyaMwsiab has come, who is to restore them to their former glory aud bring hack. ' the bufTalo and djhc tho whiter from the land. I have learned that this Ijelief exIsU among various'ttribes Sioux, Cheyeunes, -Illackfeet, Shoshoues nml other tribes. In all, the craze is extenjed, toslxteen tribes, the Snake Indian, being the only ones to repudiate, it. There is no doubt that many Italians Itali-ans who are holding this belief Iu the Indian Messiah nre sincere, aud a few have certainly seen some pcrvan on whom they look to be THAT MESSIAH. ' Several small turtles of Indians have gone westward from their fibes to some point, which, as ntar as I can locate It, Is in Xcvnda. There they have been shown soihe-body soihe-body disguised as Messiah and have spoken with him. I am Inclined tf) believe that there are more than fine person impersonating tills Mn-flah, as when the Sioux havu s;)ken with him he replied iu the Sioux language, an 1 to the Illackfeet he has spoken their tongue, aud s on, with the representatives of each nation na-tion or tribe, sieaklng their ow u language to each." "Who do you think responsible for tills Imposition upon the Indians?" In-dians?" "I cannot state ioItIveIy, but it Is my belief that the Mormons are the prime movers in it. Thi Is not a hard statement to Mieve, for there are 00,000 Mormons and they tlitm- elvea claim to lielleve in prophets and spiritual rnauifrstatiow1. and they even now claim to hold intercourse inter-course w ith tlie spirit of Joe Smith. Beside?, they hate had mls-lonarics at work among the Indians fur many j ears and have made many converts." NO IUjOOITjIIKD to in: rEAHl n. "Do you think this new bei'ef of the Indians will It-ad to an outbreak and bloodshed?" "I do not think so, but when mi ignorant race becomes religious lauatlcs, it Is hard to tell jut what they will do. It is noteworthy, however, that this so-called Meralah tells tlie Indians that when he comes to reign over them, firearms u HI no longer be used or necessary. H tells them also that with his coming com-ing the dead Indlaus will all tie raised to life, the buffalo return, and he will draw a line U hind on which he will gather all the Indians, In-dians, and then he will roll the earth lock u-on the whites. This has naturally excited the Indians and large numbers have accepted the new belief. Among thoe w ho have done so none Is more ardent than a SITTINH 1111.1 who is intiu-cly Indian iu nil his Ideas." "Da you think that the iier-ou who is Impersonating Messiah U a white man or an Indian?' "Those who have seen him say, that lieismulllcd up and disguised so they do not set his face, but I believe be-lieve he is a full-blooded w hlte. The argument the Indians u in discussing dis-cussing tlie matter L, ThuwhiM have had their Messiah aud thu-Indlans thu-Indlans now have theirs. The situation situa-tion is not alarming In auy way aud I do not know whether any action w ill be taken by the government govern-ment regard lug the matter, until after I have made my report' v |