Show A PECULIAR CHARACTER wic WE learned the other day that quisa is dead it may be asked who was he was an indian who was several years ago sentenced to imprisonment tor for life for murder committed near ganab kanab kane county he was pardoned a few months ago principally because he was so bo ill III that it appeared that he had but a short time to liv live e anyway and being an indian he did not net sense the enormity of his crime which was said te tc have been committed out of revenge according to the usage of his race because a relative of his had years before been killed by white men but what about it may be asked that he should receive con mention nothing except that he was a somewhat remarkable character he was a pah was highly esteemed by his tribe THIS was evinced at the vine time of his condic tion when his dusky friends offered in his stead an aged aed indian who was not expected to live long anyway and was of no special use to his bis people they also offered to throw several ponies in to boot in the hope of saving saveur from prison it decd need not be said that the trade was not consummated kalsh baish entered the penitentiary ia his native garb having long heir eind and being adorned adorned with moccasin and blanket in the winter of 1885 he became a pupil of tile the school inaugurated Inaugurate dat at that mat time in the prison under ahe auspices of the warden and a committee commit teft teA and taught by T M johnson he made rapid progress reas and soon was able t tc read a little and to write a fair hand band his hi s progress in penmanship belag being almost phenomenal this untutored savage was a philosopher in a crude way and was a P prodigy as an hi his powers of observation and comparison being most remarkable Elewa he was sask ask d 1 what his opinion was in relation to the rigin of man heat he at once once advanced la in broken the darwin theory of evolution this was of course thi result of his own cogitations a he had never heard and certainly never read of such auch a line of speculation illustrating lu his views he said that he be thought man came up gradually from the lower forms to the highest arid and held that that was the reason why every man resembled some one of the lower animals botn both in appearance and characteristic traits while lie he was thus explaining his ideas a pi prisoner isoder who had been nick named 0 ie younger was sitting near by turning to him as an example of ois is theory he said you see um cole coif younger debbe he one 0 owl wl 1 the comparison was most striking there was the hooked nose the large round dreamy eyes round face and listless owlish appearance and make up throughout this led to his being requested to make other comparisons and when he be responded as he gen rally raily did didt bere there was no mistaking their exactness they were so plain as to be apparent at a glance A 4 person of education and iose close observation who was in the prison was much interested in this streak of in the ther mind of the indian he himself had bad been in the habit of making mental comparisons pari sons of the same nature regarding men whom he met occasionally he would fix on a resemblance of some to a animal I 1 ind would have friend ask for a comparison of the same individual and it would almost inva be the same this person erson however found that the inglan indian could go tar far beyond his bis reach and could compare in numbers of instances where he could not first detect the likeness so to speak peak in this way turned the prison not inaptly into a sort of menagerie the person referred to as being a close observer of men and acknowledged to be quick to perceive resemblances bl ances I 1 was waa at a loss to find anything id the animal kingdom that bore any special likeness to a new arrival at the prison was asked to give his opinion on the subject quick as a flash came the response oase all same duck the comparison was ludicrously correct there was the narrow head rounded on top the round blinking ryes eyes the nose elongated downwards flat and of semicircular shape at the point and having the appearance of being ready to dart dan into a gutter after a passing fragment the likeness even extended to tile the lower extremities the knees having in an inward tendency and the feet an outward inclination giving the carriage the veritable duck like but bui nobody but could have perceived the comparison and classified this specimen of the genus homo among the poultry in certain respects this indian was phenomenally bright but owing to his being reared in barbaric customs the scintillations of native genius were like gleams of the diamond struggling through a pile of had tie he been trained in the halis bans in of the writer of this have made a shining mark in some special direction while io id prison lie he yearned after his wife and children and the confinement finally told upon his hip ono fine physique until tits his wat wab wrecked when he emerged aiom tile penitentiary a few months ago he be wa but the shadow of his bis former self kind friends looked af ter him secured for him the means ruf ans by which he was enabled to reach his people in the kanab country an aej J we lear learned neet lately through one ol 01 the settlers in that region that he liec lived d but a short time to enjoy his hia liberty if 11 it could be called in nit broken up condition we bave written this the poor indian because w we e lucked looked upon him as a sort of human ati and had an idea that this al allusion luzion to him as such would not be sting to our readers |