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A Disr.iniH from Mono County, Call foruiu. give* an account of the murder of a notU(T mill four Kalian-. by u limulof Piute Indian*.. The M-mo Lalu* region is a desolate, sterile Motion, much mem tiling tbo country around flu* Dead Sen. The water* of the lake urc thoroughly impregnated with U»rax, wilt and magnesia, ducI the only animal | life found in it is a sort of n worm, id* ml one-fourth of nti inch in length, nwinb*; lbiginappmnuitt*aalurini|. On tic* wca: cm hhorn of Mono Jjilto lived a settlernamed ].lt;»nis Sntiunun, a SeUvouian by birth. Ho hud revidod there hr over twenty y«ita, raising wttlo on the stunted pusturwgo around the lake, lending a lonely life, Oc asiomll v lie would lull a Pinto and cast tin* IhmIjt into the alkaline waters of the hike, where it would soon petrify. Thin fact w.iuj well known to the white* residing In that wwtiOD, and the gentleman who gives this information nays Unit lie lifts Mm four of those bodies calmly lvpoa*1 iugat the bottom of the lake, Sum tint n '* avowed intention was to «-*e the bodies I as warn us they became Hofflidimtly hardened, for hitching p«*t i autl door-steps. It happened that *t body of j Pin ten strayed near the cabin ofSuminaii, and in the dear waters of the lake near by they saw the Indies of their mur-1 dared broUncn lying in the wal* nr unde.r-eing the proc*** of petrithation. Tliev mime frensfcxl for revenge, and going toHnmmaiiV cabin took him out (ho, was alono) and shot him through the heart. They then went fcoveml miles to a place where four Italians wenr, and killed three of them, one escaping to Bodle and alarming the Cftiwuis, tolling them at the wuno time not to go out then* for a few days, as the Indians hud sworn to kill any white man that caim| oat. The county officials haw started to capture the Indians.
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Randolph Herald and News
Randolph, Vermont, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1889
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