Show BOUND TO A STAKE S SA A hUe lan Maltreated by by bya a nan of OSa 8 A number of officers have left leC Guthrie Guthric to arrest arest several several- Osage e Indians for mistreating a n white man The Indians put bt ut oil off his hair an and strIpped stripped him of his cl clothing They are arc known The victim of the Indians Indians' maltreatment is I j Oliver White who was a graveling ovelan overland I wih a horse and wt wagon on A 4 band of Osa es who vho had been par participating lu in the ghost dance he held d me upon him bins at night dragged ed him from Irons his wag wagon n bound him hand mind nd foot and ane tied ted him to an upright post Some Sume of the thc were for torturing him wih knives the chief finally prevailed prevailed- upon theta them to go to no extreme measures The Indians built a fire fre near the stake and executed d a dance around It n Every on once e In awhile one of them would approach White grasp a lock loci of his hair haI and cut it from his head heal with a it I bowie knife White did not suIe suffer I much physically but his mental torture was terrible The Indians J I I after ater th y had cut off oI all al his hair stripped him of all al his clothes and threw them into the fire fre Then those members of the the band who had po possessed themselves of locks of his hair dropped them then one by one upon the lire tre all aU the time keeping up their dancing and dreadful shout |