Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-09-20
received it's gloomy name

known man near by. Other dead n1e.i have also been found there since, for in a gloomy little valley near lhe head of the cafios,the bones. Of tweuly-stycn- Apache braves lie bleaching in the long grass. Al oiebrc with his band of scouts sur plised he party there, several years ago and succeeded in reforming the the whole lot, that is. making good idians out of had ones.
 There are other localities in this enchanted or enchanting range, which Lave their romances; among them the Haunted Spring, which is a. the foot of he main range, and some four miles south of Deadman Cafion.
 It is no weeping maiden with dis heveied trcsses that haunts this spring it is the ght st of q mulei This seems too awful, but 10 add to the horror of it, the mu'e carries d bell. This all true, as your cores pondent has been theic ard heard the bell,and he did moi carry it him- self either. The story as related to me by an old inhabiiant of the Ver- de coeatry is as follows;
 In 1864 two prospectors who had come across the range from Touto Basin. then an nnexplored country, were searching along the foothills for water, and heard tl,e tinkling of bell, which gradually app cached Nearer and nearer It cnme, until suddenly over tho rounding of a hill they beheld q gaunt hungry looking white mule, with bell It ached 10 it's neck, which rung out ifs mourn fnl tones at every stride If the srcc- ire like beast. They halted, bet not so tie mule, until it had approached within fifty yards, when opening its jaws, it let out a long and doleful solo, which for the sadness and aL- jcct melancholy oft nearly brought tears to the eyes of these. harden ed sinners. Slowly and solemnly he beast then turned away and seemed to hcckon them with its ears. They respected its grief and followed, taking the precaution to keep at a safe distance from its heels. It led thcm, looking around around at intervals to encourage them, as it were, far up the gulch into q dark cavernous little cahoa. where bust a silvery spring. There it halted, and with ifs no ose pointing towards so5re dark object on the ground it gave them repetition Of it's mournfui solo. When they had taken their fingers from their cars they commenced looking about them to see what would come next. Eui what was that dark object over which the mule was standing? Al first glance through ihe semi obs curity which enthronged the place 1t seemed like h Iqe boulder rest ing on the ground; but on looking again they saw that the boulder wis not resting cn inc ground but on ihf breast of young man eresst d in the garb of prospector. His breast was crushed in by q heavy mass ard his glassy eyes seemed starting from their sockets. From the condition of the corpse death had evidently occurred several days before, aRd as he was lying on his blankets he must have been asleep when the huge boulder fell from the teep sides of the ca6on and crushed the life out of him. They folded his blankets around him and carried him out on inc steep rccky hillside, the mule reverently following as chief mourn CT. There they buried him, the mule. the while, chanting aD origi- nal funeral dirge over the grave. Then these men tiled to catch this mule, believing that so faithful an animal ought to be rewarded, and also that it would come very handy 10 ack their blankets. But the mule thought virtue was it's own re- ward, and fled up the cafion. They followed it and presently came to stand still, for the walls of the cafion rose perpendicularly three hundred feet in front and on either side, ard he mule lad disappeared. The only sound audible was the faint tinkling of the Leli, which seemed 10 con.e from nowhere in particular. but to pervade the whole air in lhe vicinity. To this day the faint tink- ling sound may slill be heard around the lonely spring, especially in the East quarter Of the moon. There aye some unreasonable persons who pro- fess to believe that this sound is merely the dropping of the spring water in some underground grotto, but all 1 have to say is let them go and sleep there alone some night as I did, under the shade of that huge Siiostiy sycamore, and if they don't get up before midnight and move their bed mllc from there l will he willing to accept their theory.
 But by the way-I inquired of thls old timer who il was who had told him the story and he said, Free man related It to him.
 
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