Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-29
ONLY A PAINTED PONY.
Buf It Ca1sed . Row That Rated as An
 Indian OuthreAk.

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 An amusing incident occurred st
 one of the military posts in the far
 west, the chief actors in which were
 e Chinaman, several cowboys, Indi-
 ans and a soldier or two. The post
 was quite close to the quarters of the
 Indian agent, who ranked as major.
 and the officers of the regiment and
 the officials of the agency were friendly, interchanges of hospitality
 frequent not only among the mas
 terS but among the men The regi- mant possessed a heathen Chinese cook. who was given to visiting a brother Celestial who superintended tho culinary arrangements of the agent, and one night the dwellers at the agency were nightly surprised to see Wun Lung como Cantering over from the post to pay his regu- lar weekly visit to Geo Wo.
 The sight of Chinaman on pony back was so raro as to attract much attention, and the fact that the po- ny in question was little milk and white cayuse caused tho devil 10 en- ter into an IriShman who put in bis time serving the agent and playing practical jokes. Soon the cayuse was safely housed, and within a very few moments after the gentlemen from the Flowery Kingdom were seeking the golden sunlight of the pipe dream. That was Pats time, and, taking a pot of black paint, he proceeded to invest the pony with a series of stripes which would have made the half bred zebra n South Africa turn green with envy. In the morning the Chinaman set out for the stable, but when he reached it and viewed the striped cayuSe his expression indicated that he rather questioned the quality of the brand of pipe goods prOdered him the night before.
 In the meantime Pat. taking ad- vantage of a superstition existing among the Indians, had told them that the striped pony mad come to them st last. and was, in fact, in the stable st that very moment. The cfsef, a dozen bucks and twice as may squaws, at once set out for the agency stable and appeared on 7he scens just ss the Chinaman was shading st the stable door and won- .!ering whether he was asleep or awake
 With much majesty the chief en- tered the stable and united the pony und eSsayed to lead him away 10 the sacrifice. With n yell that dis counted anything ever credited in opera, song, story or reality, and i quickly brought his countryman tO 1 bis aid, the heathen Chinese sailed l into the equally heathen Indian l chief, and in a trice the two were | doubled up together, the liberated | pony making the best of his way l komeward with his head between L - ACC4cs sU SIlla klC N-41 NA@~--A N4 lI T ropes that were cast at his retreat Ing form.
 The two wearers of pigtails were getting the worst of 1t very decided ly. when Pat appeared on the scene and by 8 good deal of persuasion, coupled with the exercise of some bodily strength, succeeded in sepa- ratinS the oumbatants
 Next morning the papers had snare heads over press dispatches descriptive of Q great Indian out break, and the secretary of the inte- Kior wired that forenoon for full de- lnils. A total denial was, of course, sntered, and when Pat had put in swo days in the guardhouse as q penalty for bis hilarity the whole Incident was forgotten Neverthe- less something like hundredweight uf the national archives at Washing lcn contained the official correspond nce relating to Pats painted pony. -HorsemAn.