Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-07
AN EDITOR ENSNARED.
An Enchanting Gypsy Woman Makes
 Him See Double.

Editor Rogersof the Prescott Courier is doing his town alone since Mrs. R. is absent on the coast, and the follow ing is the first article he produced q ter the Madame had taken her de- parture:
 "Some months ago wOman-a dan cancer and musican-played an engage ment at the Palace saloon in Prescott. Her queer costume, dark skin and foreign appearance gave rise to the report that she was a native of the Philippine Islands. The woman in question disappeared as suddenly as she came and was forgotten. Tester day as the Courier reporter was pass ing along the foot path between Prescott and Whipple, he noticed on the top of the divide a tent, q wagon, two horses and a couple of dogs. | While the reporter heSitated going over to the tent, a woman came out. and then, as usual, the reporters mind was made up, and he went over, intro duced himself and was soon carrying on reportorial conversation with a woman who would pass for a gypsy with no trouble at all. She proved to be the woman who had played an en- gagement at the Palace saloon. From her the reporter gathered that she was originally from Germany, but was of French descent; that she had trayeled all over the world; speaks seven laE- guageS fluently; possesses mesmeric power over man, beast and reptiles, and is in touch with supernatural powers and beings, who at times guide her by verbal instructions. She had | just returned from the caves of the cliff dwellers, near Camp Verde, where she and her husband collected valuable curioS. While in the farthest back one of these caves, something told her to knock hole through the rear wall of the cave. This her husband did, and she crawled through alone into a large chamber, and from there into another one and on and on until she had ex- | plored great caves several acres in extent.
 As she neared dark corner in her exploration, the deadly whirr of rat Jlesnake greeted her ear. She prompt y brought her meSmeric powers to bear on the snake, charmed the reptile | picked it up and brought 1t out, and now has it at her tent alive. The snake is four and one-half feet long, and she says it is seven months old. Having retraced her steps and brought 1 the snake out and secured it, some thing told her to dig down twenty feet at certain spot in one of the large caves she had discovered. She direct ed her husband to dig at that place. At q depth of twenty feet large slabs of stone were encountered: there were three of them. When these slabs were | removed three cemcnted vaults were disclosed These vaults contained three human mummitied skeletons, Two of these skeletons are ; feet long and one g. feet long. She brought with her the head and neck of the larg- est skeleton. The head is very large. the jaw bone will fit on the outside of the jaw of living man with large head; the teeth are massive and over an inch in length: the forehead is low; ears and mouth very large and top of head runs toa peak. One of these giants had two flint arrowheads buried in his skull The teeth of the head brought away contained pieces of dried flesh which physicians pronounce to be that of human being, showing that the giants were cannUalS. Mr. and Mrs Francis brought away a couple Oi ordinary mummieS and large col lection of prehistoric curios, including many utensils and knives made oi bone. They refuse to disclose the locality of the entrance of the big caves, and say they intend to further explore them."