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Show INDIAN DIES AT LOCAL VILLAGE Cedar City's Indian Village lost one of Its most respected members last week when John Merrycats 74, died after a long Illness. Merrycats, as he was known by both his tribesmen tribes-men and other friends, has been bedridden for a number of years. Merrycats was burled in the Cedar Ce-dar City cemetery last Saturday after af-ter his tribesmen and other Indian friends had held traditional Indian In-dian ceremonials in honor of their dead. Indians from all over Utah, from Arizona as far south as Phoenix, Phoe-nix, and from Nevada attended the "Cry" held for Merrycats Friday night. - According to William R. Palmer, 1 authority on Indian history, John was given his name "Merrycats" when he was a young boy. He was always fighting, so h's friends called him Merrycats, which In the Indian language means "American". j John was the son of Joe and Qulnney. His mother," Quinney, was one of the Indian Maidens sto-j len by the Spaniards, when the Spaniards engaged in slave trade along the Old Spanish Trail. Qulnney Quln-ney escaped from the slave train, found an Indian camp In northern1 Utah, where she married a young I brave. Some years later, she return ed to this area, where she married Joe. Qulnney was one of the few Indians, captured as a slave, that escaped, and returned to her tribesmen tribes-men to tell them of her adventures. Merrycats Is survived by his wife, Mammle, a daughter. Carry, and a half brother Bill Blackhawk of Uintah. The magazine will be distributed' Tuesday afternoon In the student' union building. This Is the first such magazine to be published at the college col-lege In recent years. The Baclan. Student newspaper sponsored the publication of a general Interest magazine In 1934 and again In 193 i. |