| Show trial at standing rock of the he squaw who Cla claims illIS to be the virgin mary Nary SHE IRE toes COES TO TOE TUE GUIRD bit firm to her iler claim that shi she ii is in be mollier letter of tits indian christ loir low sill said to to on earth 1 st paul pioneer bone down in that log loi building you will find the major said an of the standing rock indian reservation in answer to my inquiry for the indian agent maj mal james mclaughlin blin following the direction indicated I 1 reached retched the building used as headquarters by the indian police and en entering fering the low door found a room perhaps i twenty feet square filled with sioux r upon whose faces the traditional 1 expression of stoicism gave placa place to a look 0 of f intense in te use interest as they crowded toward the police guarded adoor door leading into the ad adjoining y court oom toom t where indians are tried 0 by a jury of indians supervised by athe the 8 agent ent the indian poli police ce ples pressed back the crowd and opening the door to the court room I 1 I 1 was shown to a seat beside maj 1 mclaughlin who was presiding 11 aver over the courts courto investigation of several cases that had bad been bringht 11 ll to 0 the attention of the indian agent I 1 tp relative to the much talked of corn ing of the and kindred disi it tZ irbing elements in the fairly deac I 1 ful ration drawing existence of the sioux I 1 4 tha the case cue in in progress was that of 1 an indian choso whoso 0 name I 1 do not I 1 remember and could not pronounce if I 1 did who w was As charged with hav it I ing carried a rumor back to the I 1 tj tepees on grand river from a recent isit that he had made to the astgen acy I 1 to the effect that the soldiers at fora F rt yates were all coming cuni mg down ato to attend a gloat dance and that W the soldiers were friendly toward the followers odthe of the new faith the indian with the forgotten and ant un I 1 pronounceable name was wall his own attorney and proceeded to explain a t matters nat to the agent assuring him in in a somewhat lengthy speech delivered in low earnest tones accompanied compa nied by gestures that were the p poetry bet ry of motion that he was innocent of any desire to create trouble or to add to the excitement now prevailing among hid bid people the peroration of his address to the court was a dissertation upon I 1 his virtues and friendship for the agent to prove which he drew from I 1 bis his pocket a formidable looking document which be he submitted to fi t the court as a testimonial of his big f good character that bad been vol unwarily unta rily offered to him by a man at the fort in view of f his trial the document u upon being opened proved to be agn the work of one of those practical jokers for whom a penal colony should bo be established OB on the shady eide of alaska it was drawn in the form of an ail affi affa 1 davit in which the anonymous writer certified that the bearer was too lazy to work too proud to steal but that he was always ready to eat this was read by the inter amter and sufficiently explained to the indian so that ho he knew chat it was the same old story glie the same that had marked hh hii rela relations tons with the whites from the begina beginning in when be he found that he be ba had d been imposed upon that he be had been be the butt of a senseless joke that 1 deade him appear ridiculous to the agent igent and the indiana indians hla his face took F on an fill expression that bodea bodes no k I 1 good to the solution of the indian i question and he listened to the agents kindly caution against al clewing hefts ew ing himself to become the vic victim titi i of another practical joker and 1 against carrying rumors from the el diers to the after which be b was ordered to be confined in the guard house until morning and then sent to bh home homp IN THE VIRGIN MARY gc 1 1 d an indian officer court I 1 ad out from the murmuring croad crowd io ta the t he large room came win i scarlet carlet woman the wife of ilk aga 1 and a member of ca mind d of sioux although it is said 1 ae is not a native but came from i 1 eiband of indiana indians across neross the mani teba line fearlessness was the 1 anding element of her altitude attitude as ahe she stood gracefully before the rail I 1 I 1 we bebi behind nd which sat the afan agent ent I 1 and his interpreter and boke ay iy differently bently at john jobu grass and the two pro other indians who com composed the court ilbo who are you and what is your same ame were the first questions faed her I 1 drawing herself up to her full mature of nearly six feet she to told d br loor name then bending slightly slight I 1 Y 11 br ward with her band pointed upward rl she said in a it low tone with wense earnestness 1 tj am the mother of christ who mow upon this earth making prep antione for rebuilding it tho th 1 fosth is to belong solely to bis his chos t people cople and this continent is 5 to I 1 11 be extended much farther west taken taking dinha inha in a p part of abo 0 g great sunset zeo water T alie eastern r P part at at the continent will ba be abandoned but in the western part great herds of buffolo will wander as its in the day days of long ion 9 ago and simultaneously with the disappearance diss P pe aranco of the whites from the earth will come the resurrection of all the indiana indians who now sleep alee and for evermore they will IV wander an d c r over the earth with no one to ques t tion ion their rights to kill kilt the buffalo no one to raj ray do da this or I 1 will put you in the 11 with a i gesture to attract the particular attention of if major mclaughlin sho she drew 1 an it imaginary line upon the floor and stepped over it saying in those days there will be no reservation no messenger from the great father to say to the indians come hack back here bere stay slav on your reservation stepping back ovir the imaginary ary line on tha the floor with a shamefaced e expression x to illustrate her peoples a dislike dislike for the regulations that forbid them from wandering around the earth in accordance with their nomadic disposition she continued to expatiate upon th the e rosy roy tinted dawning of the indians indian a mil millennium morning questions calculated to locate the whereabouts of the Mess messiah iab whose mother she claims to be were warily answered and she refused to tell anything about bout the orgies of the ghost danca dance the i fact s ct that slie she had been proc proclaimed aimed by tho the members of the order to be the virgin alary pending an interview with the womans comans husband and consideration by the court as to the beat best means to be adopted in her case a she he was sent to the guardhouse to which she walked with tho the air stir of a martyr a martyr with a good in memory emor and without the theoretical cdx christian r stian spirit of forgiveness |
