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Show SQUAW KEEPS LONG VIGIL Indian Brave'a Helpmeet Watched Three Day and Two Nlghta Without Food or Water. To remain for three day and two nljchta on the desert keeping weird rlgll beside her dead a the. pathetic lot of I'lalla Hon If ace, whose bravo was accidentally killed by the discharge dis-charge of a shotgun. Tho accident occurred far out on the desert. Miners, Min-ers, attracted by tho souaw'a walling, found her sending beside, the lody, hor two small children nsleep near by. A long rldo was made to the near-I near-I est telephone point and Coroner C. I D. Van Wle notified. The Ion;, rouh I ride over tho mountains and desert occupied three days and nights. At some stages It required three hours to cover a mile, so steep were the grades or so deep the desert sands. Long before he arrived in sight of the corpse the squaw's walling as she chanted the dirges of the Piute wero beard. In the gray of the morning tho coroner reached the body. The eight of the woman rtandlng at the foot of her deid brave, her black hair flying in the breeze, presented a dolorous plc'ure, heightened by the chant of the dirge. The squaw had broken all the brave's crockery against a tree, had flattened out hi spoons and fork and other utensils on tho rocks nnd had staked the two horses near the body, prepared to slay them over Ms gTave. During the long vigil the woman had taken nourishment of no kind and would only eat after tho body bad been covered In the ground |