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Show OLD INDIAN IS ALL ALONE Ishl, th wild Man Recently Captured, Has Voice Tricks to Snare Animals. Washington, D. C -Officials of the Indian bureau here are wondering what they shall do wtth the lone survivor sur-vivor of the Yana tribe of Indians, popularly known as the Nogls, who was captured near Orovllle, Cal., recently. re-cently. A report was received from Charles L. Davis, one of the ageuts of the bureau. In which he recom-mened recom-mened that the lone Yana be cared for by some member of an allied tribe. This, It was said, probably would be the course adopted. "After a year or two," said Mr. Davis, "be doubtless would be able Ishl, the Wild Man. to lock after ulnisell, become a member mem-ber of the hand and live as they do." This lone Yana. Mr. Davis believes, Is the last of a group or lour or tlve Indians who for years bad lived in the virtually InactcHslble haunts ol canyons along tho Feather liver. Several years ago a party of surveyors the reports adds, evidently drove them from this tccltisioii. and In the attempt at-tempt to find tiiiother hiding place all of them perished, save the old man taken a few days ago. "He Is an expert." ex-pert." Mr. Davis says, "In Imitating the calls of wild animals, knowing be has preserved the wiles of the savage to allure the wild game to him." "The capture of this man Is of th utmost importance to anthropologists,' says Professor Krotber of the Culver slty of California. "He represent dialect that we supposed was extinct lie Is more of an aborigine than an . j the InUiuns we huvc btmn studying for the last ten yiars." ' Jshl Is so densely Ignorant that h does not know wbut money Is, foi money hus been of as much use tc him as it was to HobiiiKon Ciusoe Ishl Is not very strong; his itmsciei are not well developed, and when he grips the testing machine us hard an he enn he makes a low record, lie talks In high keyed musical tones, which tiave something of the plain UveucHS of a child. When he sits bu squats on bis ankles. He dips up tbln soup with three fingers, whlcfi he crooks, and uses only two fin gen for thick soup. |