| Show THE INDIAN MOVEMENT A SHORT time ago a number of articles appeared in the journals of the country setting getting forth claims made by numbers of indians that they had WOT seen the savior anu anti received his personal teachings 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 with porcupine and others who have stated they had seen the christ the doctor is 18 an old resident of manti he was interviewed ter a few days ago by a representative of the register of ephraim and we here append appena the result as appears in the columns of that paper the reporter asked well doctor bal bai keyou read the papers and seen the account of the indian porcupine no I 1 have not but I 1 have seen pore Fore apine himself I 1 have been clear up into idaho in order to see him and ear what he be baa to say how did you learn of his being there if you have not seen the accounts in papers 11 well my uncle who was one of the party of indians who went to see the savior wrote to me to come up into idaho and see him before he went back home and also to see porcupine ard and I 1 went well doctor I 1 have come to 0 ask you a few questions about this matter and if you will give me a statement of what you know about it you will oblige me 11 all right said the doctor and he proceeded A year ago last june an indian of the sioux nation named oscar had a dream that christ had come on the earth and he was to get the indians and go out into nevada and see him at a certain time and place he was quite startled at his dream hut but did not make any effort to go on his mission two nights after ue had bad the same dream and this im pressed itself I 1 on his mind so much that hat he tz adm it to others of his tribe triba and a id tried to get them to go but they would would not listen to him again the laird time he had the dream two days later and this time he succeeded in making the indians believe him and members of his hia tribe started on their pilgrimage scores of In indians diang crows and from many other tribes joined them and they journeyed as best they could to their destination suffering Bering Il many privations and hardships while in route I 1 I 1 porcupine and my uncle the latter from the indian territory and the f former 0 from idaho were among the u umber number porcupine had been a very bad indian prior to this thi having shaving served a term in the guard house at the post for stealing at the appointed time and place tho place being walker lake nevada indians were assembled from various nation tribe speaking their own dialect and not being able to understand their neighbors As night approached pro ached they saw a personage cam coming from the east and the indians were sags satisfied fied from his appearance that he was indeed the christ and they ahey saw him surrounded with a bright light As he approached the halo of light about his bis head shone shone brilliantly and made him appear to the untutored eyes of the savages preeminently eminently grand during his stay at this time he said not a word and after remaining with them a short time he left them na no one know knew how or when the next day he a again gain appeared and spoke to them all day long and in such a language that each one of the different tribes of indians understood his meaning perfectly ile he instructed the indians and gave them a set of commandments and appointed porcu pine as one of hia hi disciples to go forth and preach his sayings to all people and instructed him not to add to or lake from what he had heard it was this that my uncle wrote and then I 1 went up north to see about it I 1 I 1 well doctor you met porcupine now what do you think of him and of those statements asked the re porter I 1 I 1 I 1 well I 1 think all they re true I 1 believe porcupine to be an inspired man of god and here the doctor grow grew earnest why porcupine was only an ignorant indian a very ignorant man and bad in his ignorance and now when he talks be uses language guage that is good and becomes very eloquent he will stand as if meditating for several minutes ali and d then raising his eyes and extending his fils arms towards heaven he will declare with great fervor the things he be has seen and heard and knows and declaring to the people that they must repent why among those indians who are very bad people he has caused them to throw away their weapons and cease from their evil practices it is not the indians alone but also many white people believe him with what indians was he when you yon met him doctor he was with abut five hundred crow indians away up in the northeastern part of idaho he does a great deal of healing by faith and the laying on of hands as also does his followers he says it is one of the gifts and blessings that jesus bestowed upon him 2 doctor king seemed very earnest about all he be said and gave the impression of a man who was thoroughly convinced that what ho he said was true |
