Eureka Daily Sentinel

No Good Indian.

In Winnemucca, on Thursday last, a mulatto, who wanted to get a free ride on the westbound train, resorted to red paint, a blue blanket and a hat decorated with feathers. He took a seat on the front platform of the postal car next to the locomotive. The Piutes pointed him out to the train men and said he was 'no good Indian' and a brakeman put him off the car. His face was painted in regulation red, says the Winnemucca Silver State, and a handkerchief worn under his hat and tied under his chin, as Indians frequently wear such articles, concealed his hair. The Indians said he was 'no Piute man, no Shoshone man, no Bannock man.' Investigation proved him to be an Irish mulatto who came here some time during the winter and who has been choring around the saloons for his grub. He was pretty well disguised, but his peculiar shuffling gait gave him away, as the Indians knew that none of their tribe walked in that way, and they thought it was a good joke to expose the 'nigger' as they called him.