Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-07-14

4E9m hatfon Lake, wyoming, Tor
the frat time since that mysterious
body Of water began to swallow up
those Who tempted 1t, says : Chey-
enne paper. The body i that Of
Matthew D. Dawson, nephew Of
Fillmore, OF the Southern Pacific
Company. The Indians hereabont
are intensely excited, and 81 first
would not believe II. When the
fact was proved TO them they be-
came awestrieken and have not Jet
recovered from their wonder. They
say that the fact Of the lake having
given up it's dead indicates that
there has been q great uphearal--a
revolution or something Of that
sort among the powers Of that world
peopled with sprites and demons
and fairies and governed By spirits
aud devils in which the Indians SO
implicitly believe.
In . cavern 1t the bottom Of the
mysterious laks lives the woman
with the serpent's head, whose name
il never spoken, for all the nevis
aud lizards and snakes are her spies
and who speaks her name she viii
slay.
The recovery Of Dawson's body
has aroused great interest in the
legend and brides without number
have been offered the Indians TO tell
the name Of the water devil. but
they win net for all the whiskey
and tobacco that can be offered.
Even one Of the chiefs who has be-
come civilized and pays taxes on .
handsome farm would not reveal the
name. He says he has no fear Of
the woman and has no faith in the
legend, but declares he has forgot
ten the name.
Though they may only speak Of
this potent devil as ssThe Woman"
there 10 no bar to their telling Of
her powers and exploits. 1t seems
that she 10 rather prondof her pow
or and wants her adventures told
that people may fear her the more.
She has been seen. Oh, yes. two
Indians have lived long enough to
tell of II after their eyes beheld her,
but there 10 not m Indian in all
Wyoming who would dare to seek
her. Strange to say, though the
woman 10 sucha malignant power,
the Indians do not rejoice at her
overthrow, rs indicated by the dead
Dawson coming back from her do
minion beneath the lake.
Maybe they fear that this up
heaval BODIES change Of Ill exist
ing things, because gods and de-
mons do not die, and they are very
uneasy over the matter. The med
icine men have hardly ceased their
incantations since the token Of the
neither cataclysm has appeared.
Dawson was drowned last Octo-
Der. He and Fred 4. Scrymser
were ont hunting on the lake, which
is sullen, wind-swept body Of wa
ter in q deep canon. Exactly how
they died is not known, = but the
capsized boat drifted ashore with
Scrymser's body entangled in the
rigging.
pRUITLEss SEARCH.
Nothing was seen OF Dawson
until his body was found by a couple
OF duck hunters who saw the bare
skull less than one hundred yards
from the shore point to which Scrym-
ser's body drifted with the sailboat.
The water was shallow aud they
waded ont to investigate. The re-
mains we're identified by the watch
and clothing. Scrymser and Daw-
son were respectively president and
cashier OF the Laramie National
Bank, and socially, politically and
commercially the most prominent
men Of the town.
Scrymser, who was in Wall street
before he came West, was lessee OF
the rolling mills, employing 600
men. Dawson's life was insured
for s127, 900. Most OF this was
paid. but near s15. 900 was expended
in searching for the body. A diver
was brought here from San Fran
cisco. He locked on the bottom Of
the lake four hours . day for three
weeks It $50 . day. All the men,
bers Of the families Of Dawson and
his wife are spiritualists, and medi-
ums we're brought from distant cities
to locate the remains. This was
after the lake vas frozen over. and
for > znonth they dragged through
the holes in the Ice.