Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-12-01
STRANGE SEA TALES.
ONE SEES QUEER THINGS ON
THE BRINY DEEP.
Calculated to Make a Nervous Man see
Ghosts-A Haunted Bark in pemarara
a Ghost From salvador - In the
Chain Locker.

We were eating dinner one night on
the old cargo ship, says New York
Sun writer, and talking of the happen
ings at sea and on shore that are
called sup ernatural, when the captain
said:
"One sees some things at sea not
supernatural which are lit TO make a
nervous man see ghosts. There was
that case in one OF Green's liners to
the colonies. where man was sent
down to clean out the chain locker.
| The locker had seemed foul all the
passage home, and so they hOisted out
the chain and sent this fellow down
with his brush and soap and bucket,
with lamp, to clean II out. I'll wager
he saw ghosts for year after that,
for when he'd got down on his knees
to begin scrubbing he found himself
bending over the skull OF dead man
lit was most likely man that had
slowed away ont in the colony, and
had been caught under the cable when
they were running II down quickly,
and so had the life crushed out Of him.
However. did know OF a case that
seemed supernatural right enough. II
was in the Demarara trade and | was
acquainted with the first officer Of the
bark where II all happened.
In the first place, while she WAS
out there loaded and ready to sail, the
captain had trouble with one d the
seamen. who out with his knife and
stabbed him to death then and there.
The mate aiterward took her home,
but on the way . passenger took to
ailing in some mysterious fashion, and
up and died very suddenly.
..Of course, she was haunted ship
when she arrived home, and SO her
owners had her name changed, and
she was ratitted and painted up entire
~ different from shat she had been.
Then she sailed away with new cap
tain, but on the way out hs took 10
drink. ana by the time she reached
Demerara he was of his head and
killed himself with a revolver.
Now She was haunted, sure enough,
If you could believe the mate. Mind
you. after she was reitted the mate
said never word to the now captain
about what had happened in her be.
fore, and eyen,when the now captain
came ont from home TO take charge oil
her, believing that the last captain wa.
naturally drunkard instead Of one whc
had taken to It after hc had come on
this ship. the first officer never said d
word because he did not believe II
ghosts or even in future state.
However. the first night the new
captain was on board the trouble be
: gan. The captain at about O'Clock
went to his room and retired. Al
hour later he was calling the mate auf
telling him that he had gone to sleep
and then had been awakened by ,
light in the room. On opening hi
? eyes he saw a short, thick-set mar
with side whiskers, In tho armchair
at the desk, leaning over. with ht
elbows on the desk, holding his hgat
between his hands and saying: "Oh
my poor head Oh, my poos h5adr'
That was enough for the mate
He left the vessel that night with Al
hands. This new captain knew moth
ing Of the style or manner 81 the on
who had killed himself. and vet th
picture-gho5t or what you may cal
I it-in the chair was the image Ia a.
/, pearance and dress Of the suicide. am
had complained in precisely the sam
words and voice Of the dead man.
This brought out the story Of a.
exile from Salvador. whom the nara
tor met in Guatemala Having 70
into trouble with tho authorities
Senior Don Sebastian MOiarieta save
his life by fleeing to Amapala, Hon
! duras, as many another exile has done
and there taking steamer north {,
San Jose. Guatemala. A friend Of hi
. who was involved in like manner wa
20 have reached Amapala by a differ
!. ent route in time for the same steam
/ er, and to prevent any possible delays
, Moiarieta engaged staterOoms and (,
cured passes from the Amapala author
tiles for his friend and himself as 500
, az he arrived. But the steamer cam
without his friend, and Majorieta wa
r Obliged to sail alone.
5 eat the usual hour, on the first niyt
out, the story went on, rMojarieta r,
: tired and went to sleep, but had n
n sooner dOzed of than he awoke. hea
ing his friends voice. rs ne says. in Il
a next stateroom, which he had sn,
= posed to be empty Leaving his bert
c he went out into the passageway an
opened the door TO the adjoining roou
r and there, he says, he saw lying in Il
!, berth the body OF his friend full
/ dressed, but with three bullet holes
4 the breast Of his coat and one in Il
right cheek.
l Eat that Moiarieta tainted, and VI
e found on the deck by the steward M
put to bed again. Thereafter Il was
I most miserable passage, for the vess
Il touched at both the Salvador nor,
and was about a week reaching :,
r Jose. Moiarleta was sure his friel
Q had been shot, and expected a force
is come off from each OF the Sa1yat
l. ports TO demand him. Moreover.
Q was haunted continually by the pietn
II Of his dead friend.