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Show INDIANS ARE STARVING. In One Xuiall Village Thirty Persons IJle of Hunger. Victoria. K. C, ,lune The In dians living in the neighborhood of the upper waters of the Stewart river are in a mo.it deplorable condition A terrible famine prevails in that district, dis-trict, and the unfortunate native have already been decimated fur luck of food. Conditions have been growing rapidly worst in this n-spe't. and three miners who have just returned from that country say that the pitiful scenes enacted among the starving Indians beggar description. Tliev are now almost al-most entirely without food of any kind and are literally perishing in great numbers. So hopeless is the situation that in a ingle, small Indian village no less than thirty persons died from hunger just previous to the departure of the prospectors for this port. The miners also tell a shocking story of the killing of an Indian girl by a medicine man at the instance of the chief of the tribe to which the unfortunate unfor-tunate maiden belonged. According to the story the maiden was made the victim of a savage ceremony directed by the medicine man. under the orders of the chief. Her barbarous death was for the purpose of propitating the (ireat Spirit who had sent the famine, by the offering up of a living human sacrifice. |