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Show Ii uu INDIANS WILLING TO DRINK ANYTHING, ' WASHINGTON. March 3i'. Testimony Testi-mony relating to the drlnklnff pro-U pro-U cllvlticB of some of the Osage ln-H ln-H dlans wns plven the house Indian committee Tuesday by Judge G. B. 1 Sturgell. Osage, Ukla. Records showed, I said the Judge, that one-third of tli-- 190 guardians appointed by the au-I au-I thoritles to look after the welfare of members of the tribe were named to handle habitual drunkards. ' "Well. I am 100 per cent wet myself." my-self." sabi Chairman Bnyder, "but l COnTetS that this information Ifl as-toundinfr. as-toundinfr. ' What do they drink?" the Judge! H was asked. "Anything," said the judge. "They drink shoe polish, red ink, hair ton- ic' or any other ooncbctlon that stim-j ulates." Judge Sturgel thought there ought to bo more severe penalties imposed on persons MUpplyinic lootb ;; ' pi ' -ucts to the Indiana. Phere was no evidence, he said, that any of the nation's na-tion's wards had obtained it through guardians |