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Show INDIANS OOOD WITNDSSC8. JiMlie Milraa Sara Ihar Ara (lanarally Mora Truthful lima vttiltr.. "Indlatns make good witnesses and they slick closer to facts than while people." This statcmctit wns niado tho other evening by Judge O P. 8I1I-rus 8I1I-rus of the United States district court of northern low 11 Speaking of his Interesting In-teresting experlenro In coming In can-tact can-tact with the Indians In court he say tho red man or woman Is generally accurate ac-curate He saye '"Ask a whits msn It lie waa drunk on n certain occasion nnd he will try to wiggle out ot It. but the Indian will coma out with a 'Yet' If ho wat On one occasion a lawyer ntked a squaw If sho understood tho ' Q nature of her obligation In giving tea- I I tlmony She answered Hint she lied i taken a 'strong word' to tell the truth nnd sho would do so Rhn was asked to define tho difference between the ' truth anil n lie, whereupon she said: 'The truth la tho truth, nnd a lie Is n He, they nro different mid you can't make them nllke'" Judgo Shlraa says the Indian makes 1 ea two! m lur.irra In aw h WU eupacllyh may alt after relinquishing tribal relations rela-tions nnd compiling wllh government eovcrnlty laws. Ilo tavs loo, that ho hns como In contact with some good Indian lawyers. "I think," aald h, "Ihere's n mltlaken Mia about the red mnn having been mistreated by tho government The fads show that they are tho richest peoplo per capita In tho wholo country Tbo trouble Is that they have a poor Idea of tho value of . money, and spend It recklessly. In- I dlans will walk clear n cross one stato I Into nnother to draw their annuities, and In twenty-four hours after getting the money they will have gambled I ' every cent of It away before they leave, tho vicinity and then walk back home to do the samo thing on the next pay day. It Is astonishing to tco the meth- , ods adopted by an Intelligent red man , to get away with bis money. Among r oilier things hu has a weakness for a certain kind of amusement known na ' ' the 'Merry do Round ' Recently one I of these concerns got permission to set up one of their machines on a reservation reserva-tion within ray circuit Tht bucks would gather about the contrivance and to tho time of a steam-tuned organ or-gan would ride the whole blessed day. They spent all tho money they had and pawned different articles to get mors for the samo amusement During tbo Inst fow years the women look a great craze for wearing theso blue bathing j sulta trimmed In white braid. The ! trndera aro said to havo disposed ot a largo quantity of thlt toggery," Chi cago Record, |