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Show A Will Indian. Home Utile diversion was adorded the party who went north from this city to meet the President, during Ihelr slay nn Friday In l'ocalello, by thu witticisms of Major Jim, ft sub-chief sub-chief of the llannotks, who for some lime ut has beeu from his home at Ft lemhl on a villi among hla friends, llieHho.liotir. Addrcailug himself lo Jul jo Anderson, ho said he had a a,crliuwuuld like hint 10 read, aud proceeded tu belett from a number of papers which a wallet carried In Ida Eretat taicket (onlalued,a certificate of his good chAraiter a au Indian aud hla eminent service lo tho, nation aa ft scout, signed by an army nAUer. llu handed It lo Judge Anderson, but Jest as he did ao askni If he waa a Democrat, Demo-crat, Un Ulng told that ho waa, ho withdrew tho documeut aaylng "I don't want yon lo read it then; I want to give It toa ITeibllian,"and amldit the laughter of tho bystanders handed It to Colonel Godfrey to read. Homo one present asked to which party he belonged Whether lie was a He-publican He-publican or Democrat, to which he replied re-plied reflectivity that hu waa In the middle; he liked to have a Itepubllcaii on one side and a Democrat 011 the other and shnke hands and be friendly with both. Ho .evidently understood, howecer,froiu renisrke which ho made, that Hie Ilepubllcans were In power at preaent abd the party most ueicasAry to conciliate, llelug asked If he wea a Hhoshoue, he replied, "No; my father a llannoik, my mother aHlie All snmii white man, half Auierlc iU, half Dutch." When asked If he tiaO a wife, he replied, with a roguish wink at Judge Anderson, "Vie, heap wive. Iiijuu have two, three, lour wins; nil right. White man ono wife." He evidently alluded to the prosecutions before the courts lu this region of "Mormon" "Mor-mon" lulygkmlsts and to the exemptions exemp-tions which Iho Indians enJojiHlfroin Interference aalo their domeallo rtla-Hon. |