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Show Kami of i!ian;s Attend Clturvli lit S)iimk ,1ml u Si-n ofFucus AnenTlimii Into Nflunci?. The Brigham Tabernacle was jammed Monday evening. The novelty of hearing several great old Xavajo chiefs speak,, was the mag net that drew fully 1.400 people info the building. The grim old fellows, decked out in their finery and wrapped up in their guadiest blankets, sat on the stand in stately state-ly silence. Their deportment and self possession were admirable. Elder Brown of Salt Lake, who is accompanying the braves on their visit to the semi-civilized Indian In-dian village of Washakee, in northern Boxelder, told of his thrilling thrill-ing early missionary experiences among the Navajo Indians in Mexico. This tribe was fierce and warlike; they have killed several sev-eral Mormon missionaries. The speaker said the Navajo tribe, within with-in the recollection of one of the aged chiefs, numbered U)0;000 souls; I hey have dwindled down to only G,000, They live in cavelike cave-like gorges 3.000 feet below the level of the surrounding country. At this depth they find good water and cool air. These places are almost as difiicult of ingress and egress as the famous Happy Valley in R.asselas. Many of the Navnjos are wealthy, owning flocks of sheep numbering tens of thousands, hundredsof horses, cattle and goats. They are noted for their line blankets, blan-kets, some of which sell for $200 a pair. Si the gonplusion of Elder Brown's remarks he said he would endeavor to persuade some of the old chief to speak to the peo- pie. They were loo timid, however, and no doubt a little awed by the vast number of curious up-turned faces which greeted them, hut they showed not the slightest signs of discomposure. Elder Brown, starting start-ing with Moneeo, the gray-haired chief of the Nayajos, risked each in turn to speak to the assembly. But each gave the characteristic huMan reply: '"We no understand what you say; you no understand what we say; then why we speak?" The audience was struck with their wisdoip, simply fold, and regretfully excused thein. At the close of the mpeing, t)ie rotpanlic group took a convenient, position j and shook hands with hundredsof the people as they passed out of the building. The Navajos are gren handshakers and this was done at their request. The Mormons Mor-mons have a number of converts among this tribe, but none of this band are of the Mormon faith. |