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Show INDIANS AflE STAHVINL In o. a-il ini'i ihinr !" ' or llnncr Vhlorl M 0 Jun ll"1,n, dlan. llrlng In the nelghl-orho"1' "' the upper water, of the Mrw.rl ntrr are In a mmt deplorable condition A terrible famine prerall In thai " trlct,n I the unfortunate nallrml " 'already been decimated for l'k of food, (ondlllon hare lieen growl" rapidly won In thl retpeel an I th"- miner who hare ju.t returned from that tK.iintrTytht the pitiful " enacted among the ttarrlng Inillan lieggar ilewrlptlon I her are now al mott entirely without f hI of anv klnJ and are literally pe'i-Mmf I" K""1 n urn lie r H i hoelrt I the lluatloii that In tingle kinall In llan tillage no let than thirty perton died from hunger Ju.t prrrloti to the dtparture of Ihe proprctnr for thl port 1 he miner alto lell a thoiklng tlory of tht. killing of nn Indian girl br medicine mnn at the Instance of the thief of the trlle to width Iheunfir tunate maiden I longed According to the tory the maldin wa mule the victim of a age ceremony directed by the me lltlnr man under the order of tlie chief Herbarbnruudrthn for the purpose of propllatlng the Ureal Spirit who ha I nut tho famine by the offering up of n llrlng human aacrlllte |