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PUA ae eM atinaly irae Zone H & y ‘ To illustrave the profligacy of the nadority oi wh ce Tadiage owed at the end of the Mocul year 192] $692,000 io various am i vide 26 20 uncommon thing from 1920 te 1025 for tac grocery bLllis of nume _. O82gu Indians to run irc $500 to $1,000 each per month, ° ” Ar Ce . * Stomp dances are still indulged in several tines a year by the a “tribe, at which time members of other Indian tribes are invited to ettend — < 2s gnests, a and gilis ure exchanged bytween th. Visit ous tribes and i ndi viduals ‘Theso stomp dances Rne the ceeagion for all night snd all day foasts, during “whieh the sacnbcrs vf tha Osage tribe, 2s well as visitins tribes, clad is i Ta tareeane contuass, dunee in a cireulsr formnetion to the rhythric bent of x the tome-tom, Undsr the wotemuiating influence of the dance, which butins iny 6 more or less orderly ivshion, the danecors soon wis more enthusiastic und : “paw the ground like « bis who” wild steers", after vhich they will r tire gat for further feasting, during part. of which prBiuped: cnal Tadian dancyres will " amuse the acsénbic<d sudierce, This dance is puri tipated 4 in net only py | - tne’ young and enthusiastic members of the trivc, bit alison by the older nen *, and women of the iriocs, who pernaps, are reacuberlng the Teas ts oF carlier. _ years and are-tryine to bring buck their happy Teco] llecti: on by parti cipating:.: oy in these native dances. * harringe by full-blood Qsa73 Indians, waose nuber constitute. betwecn one-fourth and one-third of the total uuuber on the tribe rollsy are still solemnized according to tribal cusienc, Gsag? County and the rurrounding territery contain very wild wakes . Stretches of country, thickly wooded with timber unsuited fer comic rele ‘ 1 purposes, but affording cxcellent coneeslnent in addition to ites alunst ,rhaccessible conyrns which served as hide-outs for cutorious Grisinela, Pat the time of th: murders fro 102] ty 1943, this countroy was a haven oy for all types of desperate erininals wne flocked there frem all parts of oT. the ceounury Que to the netur. os ihe country iteclf affor ig such : ete, excellent hiding wlaces lor wanted criminals, Tris criminsl clement * to a large extent was attracted by the enorttous wenlth of the Osage caer . - Pandits and robbers ubounded, The netorious Al Spencer ceng.- . of bank robbers used this country for their nide-cut. This varticuler . -fobber was at one tine a,orccched by W. K. Hale, whe attempted unsuccess- | fully to hire hie to murder Indians, Diek Groge, a nanber of the al |. -Spencer pang, and his father, John Gregg, btastifies ugndnst Hale at his ‘murder trial tr the eff oct tht Hale tricd unauerngery whe ee er i Curley" Johnson, caother notoricus hauk bandit, was also ast is country, #ei was of om: bie approacned by « sophiv of Willie. : Hal at Kalets insticetion, for 4he puryose of hiring dohnson to surden,” certain Indians, Johnsen res later Killed under iysteriour circumstances, ‘e and the rumor was coon th.t he lad been Killed at the instigetion of me. Hale, who feared that he right talk. aa im | . ra veg ork “cet wee onan Pm < ee PIS SORT RR ET ML EE Ea RE A So LR Bar REL LEE SE