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Show THE OLD TAQUI WOMAN DEAD. A. Feature of the Midwinter Fair Passes - Away In Indian Fashion. A visitor to the Midwinter fair in San Francisco says that the little old Taqui woman at the Arizona Indian village, who was said to be 110 years old, is dead. Yet they say there "it was the new country coun-try that killed her, and the clothing.'! It is not good for a Taqui to wear shoes, and the women are sick when they feel the tight dress across their shoulders. She died just at sunset which, the Indians In-dians say, is a good sign. Before she died they washed her face and put on her shroud and carried her out of her wigwam and laid her on the bare ground, put stones under her head and uncovered her neck and arms, because be-cause they saia it was good she should feel the fresh, air for the last time on her skin. When she had died, they put a cloth over her face, raTseirfesrarnis high over her chest and clasped her h alias i gether and placed aafhing candleat her head and one at her feet and began to wail for her. All night the village women wailed around the body, and the next day it was buried in Calvary cemetery, ceme-tery, i |