Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-25 | Page 9 | Nav Ajos Plug up Artesian Wells; Pray for Rain

NAVAJOS AJOS PLUG UP ARTESIAN WELLS PRAY FOR RAM RAIN Albuquerque N. N NM M 1 July 24 2 hollow Follow Follow Following hollowing in ing months of oC t routh on U Navajo n Indian reservation west of here herc the tribesmen called a wow pow-wow recent recently i at nt which their chiefs medi men and 1 tribal directors decided that radical 1 I measures should be bo resorted to In order orders I to bring rain to their parched fields I After ACter beseeching the Groat Spirit I with dances and other rItual they I plugged plug with rocks two artesian wells I which had been du dug h by 13 the United States Irrigation service explaining that white the white mans man's method of or mak making In lug ing water come from he Jie ground round was no good and the they would make it come from the thc sky as the Great Spirit in intended intended in- in tended When the ceremonies were v v concluded the a awaited the thunderclap I that were tl to herald the conning coming rain There was no thunder and no rain and I the Indians went away j Gen Gent H H. F F. Robinson of ot the I irrigation service has gone to the l' l ros- ros s- s to 1 Investigate ate lh the t situation and nd repair Uie zhe wells I