Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-01

Bend country fonr weeks ago, were
found on the Goth ult., few miles
from Creston, where she disappeared.
The indications are that n wild ami
NAL had carried off and devOured the
| little one.
Such is the brief chronicle of fact
sent out by the Associated Press agent,
but there are other facts that give an
unusual interest to the story. The
disappearance OF this baby girl caused
intense excitement in the Big Bend
country and the people of all that
section OF the State turned out to
search for her.
They were all proceeding upon the
theory that the child had been kid.
mapped and would have continued to
investigate along those lines but for a
subsequent remarkable prediction
made by clairvoyant and printed in
the Sunday Spokesman-Review, in part
as follows:
"Littlt Ruth Inman was devoured
by wild beasts. She was never kid
mapped. Some day traces of the child
will be found and then you and all the
rest will know that spoke the truth"
The speaker was silver-haired.
elderly lady. dressed in black. Her
face was lined with the marks of time
and her eyes. deep, gray and express
sive, held the gaze OF her auditor
steadfast as she mechanically
spoke the foregoing sentences. She is
a woman who claims to possess the
powers OF second sight, and last night
she related to a reporter her version Of
the fate of the little child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Inman, who wandered away from
the Watson farm, near Parrott post.
Office in Lincoln county, four weeks
ago. The woman's name is Mrs. Z. b.
Leyson ana her nome is at Medical
Lake where she conducts a sanitarium.
The woman Of supernatural powers
is no ordinary charletan who adver-
tises readings of the past, present and
future. She is not she seventh daugh-
ter of seventh son, born under the
light of the Pleiades, butshe is wo-
man who for thirty years, according to
her own story, has been gifted with
the rare endowment of clairvoyancy
and has never failed to give evidence
of her wonderful power when appealed
to. She has a peculiar manner of
speech, at times using a querulous
tone and again dropping her voice
into lower register as she leans for
ward and fixes the eyes of her auditor
with her own while she emphasizes
each statement with a gesture.
Wednesday Mrs. Leyson came to
Spokane from Creston, where she
went to assist in the search for the
lost baby, whose sudden and unac-
countable disappearance has rivaled
the famous Charley Ross affair OF
many years ago. With many pauses
and digressions the clairvoyant told
her version OF the story as follows:
"About two weeks ago, a Mrs.
Pierre, who lives near Davenport,
wrote me saying that friend of hers
had lost her pocketbook. located
the lost purse under the steps Of the
postoffice and wrote Mrs. Pierre to
look for it. They found the purse
and wrote me again telling of the dis
appearance of the lost baby. l went
to Davenport and met the ladies,
then I told them of the wanderings of
the little girl and described the Wat
son farm accurately, though l had
never been in the locality before.
"Sheriff Gardner provided me with
ticket to Creston and he drove over
in his buggy. l went at once to the
Watson ranch and found everything
located as l had seen it by clairvoy-
ance. ] told the Sheriff, Mrs. Watson
and Mrs. Inman how the child had
wandered away and described her
route down the road to turn where
she wandered into the tulle swamps.
"That little girl was not kidnapped.
l can follow her to the swamp and
there she was attacked by wild beasts.
She may have fallen into one of the
tulle holes first, but tell you she lost
her life by the attack of a wild ami
NAL. Some day this will be proven"
Here the woman stopped and the
reporter tinlidly ventured the sugges.
tion that the story seemed inconsist-
ent owing to the fact that no traces of
the child had ever been discovered.
No wild animal relishes a meal of baby
clothing and though the swamp had
been thoroughly searched not bit of
cloth or other evidence had been
found by the anxious searchers.
Mrs. Leyson silently regarded her
audience moment, and continued:
"Thats just the trouble, and that's
just why l am unable to satisfy the
Sheriff and the others. l can see that
the child was devoured, though l can