Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-01-29
wAz-YE.wAuB.

This Is the name Of the new Pluto
prophet of whom we made mention n
few days since as inducing all the In
dams Of that tribe to emigrate so pre-
cipltously from this vicinity on tho 9th
of the present month, by his prediction
that u fearful storm Of rain was at
hand which was to last five days and
five nights. The big storm clouds
were to turn themselves loose like the
seven vials Of wrath, pouring their
contents down In huge drops, leaks
and streams upon the unfortunate
earth, creating overwhelming floods,
and washing down hillsldes, big rocks
and all that sort of thing, to the total
wlping out Of all ~hesltating Piute un-
believers. Captain johnson, the we'll
known Piute chlef,-who, by the way,
was brother to Captain Charley re-
Gently deceased, and speaks English
very we'll, having been brought up by
Dick Sides, and n resident Of Washoe
Valley among the whites for a long
time-says Waz-Ye-Wau Is a mere
boy, born and reared nea Walker
Lake, and was not developed as a pro-
phet till last fall, since which time, rs
johnson Informs us, he has been
looked upon with the greatest rover
ence by all Of his tribe, he bearing the
same spiritual, religious or supernat-
u,ral relation to his people as Joe Smith
or Brigham Young among the Nor
ions. Judging from the fact that his
prophecy ofthe big storm calamity, In
this locality turned out q perfect fail
ure, It not having come to pass yet, we
are Of the opinion that although a
prophet, he Is not a perfect success at
it as yet. Captain johnson has also
been interviewing the Carson Register
aud that paper In its yesterday morn
ings issue thus gives what tho Captain
told about Waz-Ye-W aub:
He does not speak English, but is an
eloouent speaker In his own language;
has Il soft, sweet voice, and sometimes
spends whole nights in singing. He
makes money by the pocketfull, no
body knows how-by magic, l reckon.
didn't see his money, but both his
pockets hung heavy and low, and he
| ratified the coin. Ho said the secret Of
making money had been contided to
him by the gods, and that the time
had not yet come for dividing with
"the boys" and that If he should do
so now tho gods would be d~ispleased
| and the whole thing would DO spoiled.
| He denounces whisky In the strongest
terms, admonishes the Indians moi to
touch it, and says that after the flood
there will DO no whisky In the new
| born world. He Is n deyout boy, hates
war, dislikes warriors or fighting In
dams, and does not want them to come
to see him. (But he adds, In view OF
possible contingencies, that when lie
:. talks war;" then the warriors can
come and hear him. He says the
world Is too old and too bad, and hence
must pass away, and that in the new,
to which all believers will be restored,
the whites and Indians will have, as
before Noah's flood, but n father,
one mother and n God. Waz-ye-
waub prophesies that the world Will
again be destroyed by flood that there
will be a deluge and that snow and
land slides viii eliminate the asperi-
ties Of the earth's surface and render II
a fit abode for the blest after the resur-
rection. All Piutes, however distant,
must obey his orders implicitly and on
the instant Of their reception, whether
they are commanded to cat, sleep,
wash, dance, steal or Kill.
johnson says there are nearly 5000
Indians at Walker Lake, and that they
are still gathering In from the west
and south, drawn thither by the Won
dsrful stories told Of the prophet. He
says there Is no danger to the whites,
that Waz.ye-waubb whole policy Is
peace. and that under his orders the
Indians Mt the lake are now selling
their ponies to raise money to pay the
damages for killing cattle In Churchill.
He saws the reason the Indians fired OIL
Sheriff Sherman was that they I'm
diansl believed the whites had already
killed Breckenridge and his compan-
ions, and would kill them II they sur
rendered. This statement was brought
in night before last by two Indian
boys, tho Josephus brothers, from
Walker river. johnson says that while
the Piute mind Is now In q state OF
feyerish excitement on religious ~
matters, the tribe has never been more
peaceably disposed since tho whites
came among them.