The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-23

Galena-he was an old lead miner-that
he left nothing. However, we auctioned
off his claim and sent back TO his wilder
tha $500 IL fetched"
60 the old man was from Galena. Hi
nois?" SAID Sonora. 81 also lived in
Galena at one time. and knew one-eyed
man there whose name was Fisher. The
man killed here was probably the same.
L can now see why there seemed to be
something familiar about the apparitioD,
though was mere lad when | lived ia
Galena. ! used to go to Fishers house to
play with his boy Jim, who was about my
own age"
Yes. pard. true enough" said Omega.
THAR was son Jim. He come out mere
in the hope that his father had left money
with some one, or that he could find gold
buried about the cabin. for the old man
told in his letters home of the big finds he
was maxim. But Jim found nothln'. He
stopped on the creek month or so, then
wandered OF north to some camp in
Plumas where the old man used to mine.
So y on used to live in Galena and knowed
the old man? Now we begin 10 see the
sense OF his ghost appeaTin' 10 you"
Yes, that was nat'ral instink," said
Tehama, land if Sonora hadn't flung that
air trout in the ghosts face, and kinder
fumixed it, it would have up an told him
whar its pile of gold was buried"
That was what IL was after, sure" said
Omega, ''for jim was one of the kind that
would have blowed it all in at faro, and
the folks at home wonldineyer got cent"
You two fellers are trying mighty hard
TO SCI up your ghost on soiid ground"
said the man from Red Dog, but | don't
go cent on him. Poohi the idea of a
ghost in brosd daylight! Who ever heard
of SIGH thing before p"
One man said he had heard of ghost
putting in an appearance on a very dark,
cloudy day in the midst of thunder
storm. Then there was started a war of
words as TO whether il was not against
the laws Of ''spookdom'' for ghost TO an
pear in daylight. Tehama, who found
himself worsted in his attempt 10 show
that because OF the absence OF graveyaids
there could be no spooks in the wilds of
the mountains, at last said: swell, of
course, 1t woulG be nat'ral enough for the
ghost OF an old prospector that wur killed
by bar or got lost and persisted in the
snow to hant the place whar the body was
planted or scattered, cause it halnt cot
no regular home. Ghosts seem to hey a
sorter natral instink for doin' that; OF
maybe it's one OF the rules they've got.
Wbar tue man passed In his chips is whar
his ghost holds forth if it's got anything
pressin' on its mind. 1t naturally wants
TO be on the spot to clear up somethin'.
No, boys, / Amt agin the ghost of an old
miner shown up in the wilds, but Pm
blowed If / wants 10 see any of the
reg'larly buriad of the valley gravayards
comm up inter the mountains"
Now pards," said Omega, whats agin
a decent miner ghost, like that of old Jake
Fisber-a man l knowed for years--show-
in up in the daylight? Sonora, here, has
told you it dressed natural an didn't try
to look nasty. Ii they strolls about in the
quiet places In and about the high trails
ia daylight it amt often there's any one
to see 'em. Besides, If they've got some
thing on their minds they want to make
known they've got Ter show up in daylight,