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Show oo ROOSEVELT WITH H0P1S (Special to The Standard ) Los Angeles, Aug. 25 Without guurds and only employing one local guide at a time to show him the short cuts through the canyon-plerccd, canyon-plerccd, mountain-walled deserts and over the Indian reservations of Arizona Ari-zona where 5000 Navajos and several thousand Apaches. Hopls and Plutes dwell, Theodore Roosevelt, accompan led by his sons Archie and Quenttn, and his cousin, Nick Roosevelt, has been visiting villages and studying the redskin and bis wild haunts. J. P Kerley of Tuba. Ariz., an In dlan trader. Is off the reservation for the first time In stx years, aud Is visiting in this city He had the pleasure of entertaining the former president and naturalist at supper a few das ago when the four Roo6e-velts Roo6e-velts spent two days at Tuba, having driven in their buckboards from Oral-bl Oral-bl on the Hopl reservation, seventv-flve seventv-flve miles with a Mexican as a guide. Hold Friendly Powwow. "Tbe Navajos and Piutes liked Col. lUUoCCH a c dwl ao vnv; oon uiui. j it seemed to me They just got dov o off their good horses and shook hands I serious-like. Tbe colonel sratlsd Then they all smiled. He said a few words I reckon he only knows a little lit-tle Navajo talk and then made his Interpreter get busy. There was the friendliest sort of a powwow. "It surprised us white men there to find out that he knevs so much about Indians, the differences be tv.een the various tribes and their ways of looking at life He spemed to understand every Indian as If he had known him a long time and the Indians realized this. Leader Have Moat Sheep, Wives. This Is a great town, there s a lot to see for a man who has been living among the Indians so long, but I'll be glad to got back to Tuba. There are 6000 Navajos, they say, on the reservation Many of them own big flocks of sheep and goats and lots I of cattle and horses They're alwavsj roaming about with their herds and have no fixed home They have no chiefs and their leaders are the men who have the biggest herdB, the most wives and the largest following "The price of wool Is low now on account of the tariff and they're not selling much, bat they are making more blankets than usual Their coun try is rugged and ha lots of deer, bear, wolves and mountain lions, and of course they are good hunters. Class Selves Among White. "They are a friendly lot of Indians and enjoy Jokes of the simplest kind. They consider themselves superior to the whites and all other Indians They hold the Mexican next to a Navajo; Na-vajo; then In their estimation come6 a Piute, next a white-skinned man and then a Hopl They are not hard to cet along with, but once in a while a Navajo will get a bill of goods at a store and later deny all knowledge of It. Usually they pay their bills i without rjuestloD.' |