Arizona republican., 1902-04-04
DOGS GHOST HAUNTS WELL.
Indian Chief Scared Away From His
 Valuable Property.

Indian Chief Scared Away From Ills
 Valuable Property.
 The ghost of white dog is costing rich old Indian chieftain just eighty barrels of good lubricating oil per day. And eighty barrels of good oil arc worth lots of money these days. The oil is going to waste-fowing down the bed of Beaver creek, Osage Indian na- tion. Not even the poor white settlers are allowed to skim it off the waters and save a portion. The owner of the oil well which has been inhabited by real ghost has employed guards to stand watch and shoot the first person who attempts to save any of the oil
 Altogether this is the most remark able ghost story that has ever come to light. Furthermore, it is true in every detail. There may be no ghost, but the Indians say there is, and, what is more, they are proving their convictions every time an hour goes by and allows four gallons of oil to run away.
 Gray Horse is one of the richest h. dians of the rich Osage tribe. He is a half blood and remarkab bly, shrewd and miserly. He has accumulated hie wealth by playing on the ignorance of
  worth at least $500O0O. Recently Gray Horse began to have oil wells dug on his place near the trading post of Gray Horse, Okla. He struck two gushers and one smaller hole. The oil is being shipped by way of Bartlesville, I. T.. to points in the east. These three wells netted him an income of almost $10Q0 per day. That was until the ghost ap- peared last week. Today they are dry. Only the well where the ghost of the sacred white dog is said to live is run- ming with oil, and it cannot be used or saved.
 It seems that Gray Horse had issued instructions for his workmen to dig an- other oil we'll in a certain valley near the banks of the Little Beaver. He had gone away on a trip when they began work. Upon his return the well had been sunk seventy feet and a steady flow of oil was pouring out. It | was of even a finer quality than his other wells. which furnished more, but none so good. The old redskin was re- joiced at his good luck and gave feast of dog meat for his friends. Then he 1 took number of medicine chiefs of the | tribe out to see the we'll and the mo- ment they set eyes upon it they ex- claimed:
 You have dug into the graves of our sacred brothers. The crow will pluck out your heart for that"
 Gray Horse pretended to be fright ened, but in reality he did not care whether he had sunk a we'll through T graveyard or not. It was oil that pleased him. But when the medicine men threa tened to have the curse of the dead chieftains upon him unless he closed up the hole, he frowned, but finally agreed. In their presence the we'll was plugged, but imagine the sur prise of all the hundred or more guests when a white dog came and pulled il out.
 'It is the ghost of old White Dog. the prophet" the terrified medicine men cried. He will haunt you all your days" And they fled the. place.
 Gray Horse called upon the Indian agent, MT. Mitchner, and told him of the ghostly dog that was bothering hts oil wells. He begged that officers of tie pGle-face courts be sent to capture the animal. That was early this week Two deputies. Willis Alderman and Allen D. Smith, proceeded to the farlI. of Gray Horse, distance of some fit miles from the Osage capital Paw huska. They saw the dog come and pull the co1k out of the well every time that the old Indian or his men would put it in. The officers shot al the dog, stood at the mouth of the we, and tried to catch him with theil hands, but they only took hold of the empty air.
 , After a day of fruitless shooting 1af pIo i., and told the old man to go ahead ant use the oil despite the warnings of tho old medicine men. Gray Horse wa: only too anxious for such advice, fol he is miserly old man, who hates tt see anything belonging to him wasted
 So he devised a plan of allowing tn, oil to flow away in daytime, but a night he managed to convert the flow
 he went out and found that all he hat
 blood. He tried to catch no more, bu went to his tepee and poured out hi wrath in an appeal to the evil spirit t
 get revenge upon his neighbors, tn medicine men, whom he blamed for al
 his troubles.
 Last Tuesday morning he went to hi wells, only to find that the three well which had not been haunted by tn, presence of q white dog had stopped flowing, and that the ghostly we'll wa: still spouting out its four or five bar rels an hour. This has been takin. , place since that time, and all effort: upon the part of the Indian oil ma g l nate to square himself with the ghos have proved oi no avail. The chic medicine man of the Osages, Ku-na
 tah, says that the wells will always re main dried up because Gray Horse dis
 turbed the resting place of the deaf medicine men and then tried to sla! their spirits, which appeared only 1T
 the role of q friendly warning.-Wich. ita, Kan, correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean.