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Show Especially When Kept Up Twenty Hours; - Red Drops Dead. MISSOULA. Mont., July !. Aifvlces received here today from the Flathead Indian reserva- tlon. where the five tribes of the Flathead nation are holding a monster pow-wow, tell of the audden death of Kaootlc Dorsoe. one of the well-known braves of the Klatheada, after twenty hours of continuous! dancing. Spurred on by the-applause of the Indian maidens and a number of visiting white girls, Dorsoe danced and danced to the beating of the tom-tom. The white people told the Indian In-dian to desist dancing when they .pbaerved him staggering, but. waving them aside.' Dnrsoe would start again in a frantic manner as the Indian girls yelled their admiration of his process, and the squaws would savagely beat the tom-tom until tha weary Indian reeled about the weird instrument. He waa told that he had won the prize for the beat dancer a number ct ponies but still he danced. Finally, at the end of the twenty hours, Dorsoe collapsed and fell dead. Dorsoe waa one of the prominent members of the tribe and was reputed quite wealthy. |