Arizona republican., 1902-06-12
CAPTURE OF A HORSE THIEF
Return of Officers After a Long
 Chase.

Sheriff Stout sad Deputy Sheriff Slankard return..? yesterday with Grant Watson, the horse thief Whon they have been chasing for nearly two weeks. On the night of May Il. Wat is-n, hi's brother. or a man said to bel his brother and William Scott. stoie three horses and two saddles from the ranch of Colonel Chris:y. On the same night they tool; two horses which had been httched near the court house plaza. Both tkcsa horses were taken out of town and then turned loose though the thieves kept the saddle Of one of them. Leaving the valley, they went along the Verde. and were first heard of at WinsloW. The next word Of them came from Gallup W. II. and something ni,Te than week age the sheriff and deputy started after them.
 When the officers reached Gallup they found that both the Watson fad beer! gone four days. Grant Watson mad gone across the reservation in the Gi- 1ection of Durango. Col. His brother had been lost sight of and Scott had not been at Gallup at all The officers filIoyxad Grant Watson and found d post trader to whom he had sold c-.e of the Christy horses and q saddle for $53. They went on to Du- rango and arrived there only about if teen minutes after Watson, nctwith- standing his lon6 start out of Gallup. Ee was arrested. He had the other horse and saddle. He waived extradi- ton proceedings and the sheriff and deputy started bacI, with the prisoner. They were three days and nights
 
 They left the horses there and came on with Watson and the saddles. l. was lsarned that Scott had left the par ty at Joseph City and had gone to col orado by the way Of F>eam's canyon. The trip across the Navajo reserVa- tion is q very difficult one on account of the prevalence and the depth of the sand which is constantly shifting so that 9 track in rot discernable hail an hour after it is made.
 The name of the Watsons, by the way. is not Watson and they are not brothers hut casual acquaintances. The prisoner has not said what his name is. only it is net Watson. The name of the man who was supposed to ba his brother is Richard Doss. who fol, some time lived at Bisbea The man
 who is known as William Scott is sup posed > to na ]. C. Flynn. Deputy Sheriff Slankard discovered oil on this trip. It had, however, been discovered before but it will be long time before | the discovery will influence the peu0- ieum market. The oil is thirty-four miIos from Gallup, in the Navajo reser- vaticn. IL wells out of the ground in a hundred places. There is cil every where and no where else in the United States except in a region CT spoIting geysars, are oil signs so plain and un- IniStailabie. The oil comes out in pure state and those who have visited
 that locality believe that there is nc. far from the surface an ineNhaustibls supply. But 1t is within the sacred limits of the reservation and inaccess- ible to white men. Tn the same local- 1 ity. surrounded for miles by barren sands, are scores of springs of brack- | ish water. The openings of all the
 water and oil springs are considera biy above the level of the desert That is ! because when the sand is blown upon
 the cil CT the water it becomes sodden ! and cannot be blown away The water
 CT the cfI keeps rising to the top of the accommodating sand.