The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-30

The WASHOE GHoST.-Our special
reporter visited the house of the
kaiser>, in Washoe Valley, night be-
fore last, in company with several
other gentlemen from this city, bent
upon investigating the matter OF
the wonderful performances of the
AmericO-African ghost. Forty per-
sons from Wa>hoe City and vicinity
were TO have visited the same locality
last evening. The ghost is an I'M
mitigated humbug, gotten up for the
purpose of aScertaining how many
deputies the Fool killer will require
in this section when he comes around
again. The wonderful performances
related of this ~infantile female ghost
are all on paper-and lin the eye" of
the chroniclers. Its most astonishing
feats are not half so wonderful as the
common table-tippings practiced al
most daily in private families. 1t will
not rap or tip a table in the light. 1t
Will not even rap on a table removed
from the bedside at The men who are
running the .machine.'' and will not
rap on the table at the bedside unless
the men are lying or sitting on the
bed. 1t will not rap or write on the
side OF the table opposite the men
on the bed. All the stories about this
ghost" turning houses over up hill,
tossing a 200 pound stone up against
the ceiling and letting it. fail upon "A
,.nnnr1ny, ,triti,p slate \. Irh,r.t S.y,f,h-
ing it. and about its tangible hands
and arms, are pure fiction. drawn
from raw imagination. The questions
put to this imaginary Intelligence
must be prepared or dictated by its
confederateS. who also interpret its
answers. Its writing is coarse,
and jagged, and its orthog-
raphy is eNecrable-a name scarcely
ever being spelled twice alike. While
il is wary of problems, it will attempt
explanations which render it ridicu-
lous. The story is that it is the spirit
of a girl born in America and lost in a
sbipwreck off the African coast one
hundred Years ago. Our reporter
asked it, him OF her, if she ever lived
in Nevada, and received a prompt
answer in the ALTERNATIVES. He then
asked if she lived here previous to
going TO Africa more than a century
ago. and received an affirmative an
swer. He then said: .Well, you
must have been an Indian. then 1t,
him, her-or one of the kaisers-re-
piled sharply in the negative. Our
reporter asked it. him or her if il
knew where he was from, when it,
him, her-or one of the Kaisers-
raped on the table affirmativeiy.
He hen asked it to state where he
from. when it, him. her-or one
OF the kaisers-rapped several times
on the table, which one of the kaisers
interpreted To mean that it, him.
her-or h~imself-didn't know. Such
is humbug.
PoIsoNED.-A little son of DR.. Lee
this city was poisoned yesterday by
a preparation for poisoning
bed bugs. The child was playing in a
room where the bottle containing the
potion stood, and while his
was occupied with her house,
hold duties elsewhere he managed to
get hold of the bottle and took a drink
Of its contents. As soon as Mrs. Lee
the fact, she sen for Drs. Luce
and Munckton Or. Lee being absent
It Empire City on professional bust
ness, and those physicians rendered
prompt and efficient services by which
he child's life was saved. We learn
DR.. Lee, father of the little suf-
that the child is out OF danger.