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Show INDIAN DIES AND RETURNS TO LIFE. RED MAN TELLS OF 3EEINQ HEAVEN AND HELL. HE NOW HAS A MISSION Cherokee Fullbloodt In Awe of Tribes man They Came Near Burying Knows Position of Races In Nest World. Muskogee I T Claiming In lime arisen from the dead and his story credited hy a large number of the full blooded Indian population near his ' place of residence not far from Table I quah. Tooley Catron, a Cherokee In dlan of II or 26 )ears Is Just now the center of more attention than Is usual ly accorded one who has never been He Was Transported to the Unseen World. known beyond tho narrow confines of his neighborhood Not many days sgo young Catron was returning from Tahlcquah, a distance dis-tance of about ten miles from bis home Traveling on foot, ho camo to tho Illinois river, and ho proceeded to wade across and had Just reached tho opposlto shoro when, without an Instant's In-stant's premonition of Illness, ho sud denly fell unconscious on tho gravel bar. Thero he remained for soino time, when ho was found by a passerby, passer-by, who, supposing him to be dead. eSOOOOGOOOOWOOOOCOOOOOOOCOO carried him to his hut In the forest near Darren Fork creek There Catron was laid upon his bed and efforts were made to restore hlrn to consciousness but to no avail, and he wss given up fur dead All the next day he lay stark and cold and it was decided to bury him on the following day Consequently, preparations fur performing the lost offices were begun, but after all, the Interment was not to be for before the sun had arisen on the day set for the funeral obsequies Catron began tc how signs of returning antiunion, and b the time tho sunbeams were dissipating the mists In the llarren Pork valley the supposedly dead man was verv much alive and ready to partake par-take of food and drink and In a fow da)s ns strong as usutl, was to bo si en nlHiut his usual haunts Hut while he was woll physically as over the processes of Catron's mind woreillv.rt.il into other channels. herons he had previous to till, unconscious un-conscious state entered Into the com-monphuc com-monphuc cunvi rsallons of his companions com-panions with readiness he now assumed as-sumed a mora dignified carriage All of this wns In Itself surprising to his neighbors, nlread) mystified by his return from what was supioed by them to bo death but their surprise wns oven grinter when Catron In formed them that he had really boon dead, htri seen both heaven nnd hell anil the position to be occupied In tho unseen world hy the red, whlto and black races Ills future on earth he Indicated, would bo different from what It had bion In tho past In conversation with an old acquaintance, Catron Informed In-formed him that he (Catron) was llko tho I-ord In that he too, had been dead and had arisen Claiming at first to bo n man nf business Catron purchased pur-chased n sult-caso and, going to Welling, Well-ing, boarded n train, salng that ho Intended going to Washington for tho purpose, of consulting thu president on public questions of Importance However, How-ever, ho did not mako an extended Journey, but was back homo In n fow da) a, making preparations for preaching, preach-ing, and addressed a large crowd of tullbloods In the mountain regions, far down tho Illinois rlvor Catron Is a slender, dark man of or-dinar) or-dinar) appearance, and nno of tho last that would bo supposed to Imvo a "mission" to perform, but his having so strangely fallen Into what was apparently ap-parently tho stsW) of death and having hav-ing roturnod will, no doubt, cauio him to bo regarded with a peculiar veneration venera-tion and awo by largo bands of his peoplo. |