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Show , inn nitii.i Hi-Titllm, WrltcN iui'1 Itcml. It ul Dui-nii'I IvIH.w III dun A Frank Briam is a full-blood Indian, noL related to the Salt Lake Tusca roras, however, from the settlement set-tlement of Washakie, thirty -five miles north of Brigham. lie was in town, this week. He can talk brokenly, so we engaged him in conversation. When asked, "bow old are you," Frank said,"no count," but be thought he was about forty. Although he has had tho ad-vantages ad-vantages of only a few mouths' sehooling, he can spell, letter by letter, and pronounce words quite well. He says his grandfather told him how the poor white man was when he first came to this part of the country; but now "injun" poor and white man have "pline" j clothes. We had run short of "copy" during the time Frank was making his ''pleasant call," so we gave him an easy chair, a tablet and a faber and told him to waltz in and display his repurtorical powers, lie set industriously to work and after the lapse of about fifteen minutes be suddenly threw up bis writing materials and a bruptly jumped out the door and was gono. Cpon inspecting the tab, we found written, in a elear,plain Spencerian hand, "this this" (both scratched over) ''this .Indian this Indin Frank Briam." |