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Show JOAQUIN MILLER AND HIS SQUAW. The Deseret Newi and the Salt Lake Tribune are ijuarrelinc orer 'oa-quln 'oa-quln Miller, the News defending the poet's character anl the Tribune ol ferlng evidence in proof of the moun-i moun-i talneer's moral delinquent lei "Western Wilds," a book primed In 1 R72. presents a short sketch of, the poet of the Sierras as seen by the author in 187" Miller, in thoe early days, was viewed as an eccentric, absolutely lacking in refinement He, put away his white wife and was liv-j M Ing a wild life with a Digger Indian I 1 squaw Any one who has seen a squaw of that tribe of nomads will agree with the critics of Miller that I the man was lost to all sense of self respect and was exceedingly coarse in I I 1 mental and moral makeup |