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Show Fate of an Indian Doctor, The Hot Creek Indians have a summary sum-mary way of treating their physicians when they fail to cure their patients. Tho relatives of the deceased aro justified in killing him. A case of the kind occurred recently. Miss Madge related how the woman that washed for thein lost her husband, hus-band, ond before he died lie told his wife that he could not rest in peace unless she killed the doctor, an old sqoaw who had practiced among them many years. The ' considerate wife left his bedside just at dawn, and, stealing into the wigwam of the doomed woman, dropped a slip noose round her neck and jerked it quickly tight, so that it was impossible for her victim to utter a sound louder than a horrible hor-rible gurgle. The wife afterward described the whole ghastly circumstance with a fidelity thut proved her keen enjoyment of tho agouy of the wretched squaw. She explained in vivid pantomime just how she continued to tighten tho nooso by a peculiar twitch1 Ing motion, while she dragged the writhing writh-ing creature round and round the room. When she had at last ceased to struggle, the wife returned to her appeased lord, who breathed his last with a tranquiliz-ing tranquiliz-ing sense that he had brought about a noble vindication of his death. Ninetta Eaines in Overland Monthly. |