Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-09

from 'Bonnic,''he said, "in which she
tells me TO quit"
is IL possible2 How did you re.
celve the communications"
Through a man named Sampson, Mt
Denver. He received a message through
a medium from Bonnie with a request
to send it TO me-"
The people who recall the surprising
s~uddenness Of the cessations of aggres-
siveness OF Mr.. Story against DR.. John
son may now, for the first time. learn
the reason.
This incident terminated one phase Of
the ~spiritualistic experiences of Mr..
Storeys life. For a time he sought for
no more communications from Bonnie"
de then married for the third time, and
almost Immediately thereafter spiritual
ism attacked him in a modified form. 1t
was the same malady in general, but was
somewhat different in its symptoms.
dis earlier devotion was caused by an
overpowerlng desire 10 resume communi-
cation with the wife whom he so fondly
loved. The latter form of spiritual com
munlcation was founded mainly on his
health. The one might be termed emo.
tlonal and the other sanitary spiritualism.
He had visited Hot Springs, where medn-
cal authority had asserted that be was
suffering from an impairment of the
brain functions, and in 1878, while in
Switzerland, he was stricken with paraly-
sis.
1t was then that he resorted TO spirit
uallsm, not To rapG, rewriting, or
guitar drumming, bat To a sort of am,
lily spirit that was alw on hand and
accessible. 1t was, as claimed, the spirit
of an Indian girl that now ohesscd and
then possessed him. 1t was known as
Little Squaw."
From the period that Little Squaw'
came 80 him, il, or she, clung to HIM til
his consciousness was obscured by imbe-
cility. She followed him everywhere,
night and day, giving him suggestions as
TO The origin of his ill-health, the proper
remedies, where To travel, how to dispose
Of his property, who were his friends and
who were his enemies. Strangely enough.
the infantile spirit had some malignant
qualities. She 50 influenced him that she
alienated nearly all his friends, and lefs
him 10 die by inches IN sad isolation.
For two or three years prior to his in
ability to leave his home during the
couple Of hours he would spend in the Of
flee his conversation was wholly devoted
TO Little Squaw" and what she had said
TO him and done for him. He would re-
late all this TO one person, and if he re
manned in the office long enough Storey
would repeat the narrative without any
variations. Little Squaw," he would
say, has told me that | am being poi
soned by sewer gas and that the house Is
full Of it.
Little Sluaw' has ordered me TO be
rubbed with salt and whisky, and m
really feeling very much better.
Little Squaw' tells me that | shall live
as long as Commodore Vanderbilt did.
He lived TO be over 80 years of age.
Little Squaw' ordered me to 20 to
such and such a watering place and !
grew better at once"
Such are a few Of the thousands 81
things he said of the Indian spirit. VINO
always managed to fiatter his vanity by
speaking Of him az the White Chief"
1t was an omnipicsent spirit; il whispered
in his ear at the table. in the carriage
ride, on the couch. Ii never left him for
a moment, never ceased to suggest, 10
ask, to demand till his ears were dulled
nv death