The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-11-28


vcape that would have dengnted DBf6-
Indeed It = another Brittany both in
topography and ethnology, for that
weird, strange land of Wisconsin'a
lead region, with its cairns and pinna-
cles and citadels OF rock, its gloomy.
torturous, cavernous wales, is Inhabited
by Celtic folk, Welsh and their kin
dred Of Cornwall and sprinkling Of
Galwegian Irish. tx. ......
The first person to see the ghost see
1t a generation after the murder was
committed one DR.. Cutler Of
Dodgeville, county seat OF Iowa coun-
~, next town beyond Ridgeway. One
night as the doctor was driving home
ward after visit to a patient in the
country he was suddenly affrighted at
seeing a dark figure seated on the pole
between the horses. The relns slipped
from his nerveess hands, and the
horses dashed away at full speed, the
specter riding the pole nothing discom-
NODDED by the shaking he was getting.
Up hill, down another, and, 10, the
specter vanished
dence. He was known to love the flow
ing bowl, and his friends said he had
taken a drop too much. 1t was a
dream, specter Of delirium tremens,
of mania potu. But the doctor de-
clared he was sober. He recalled the
fact that year previous, when he
really was little full. while passing
the selfsame haunted spot he had be-
come aware Of a dark and silent stran-
ger sitting beside him In the carriage.
For mile the stranger rode without
saying word, and all at once he was
gone. At the time the doctor had asked
no question Of his drunken wits and
had considered 1t strange experience
and nothing more. He was now con-
! vinced that the man beside him and
the thing on the end Of the pole were
one and the same and that being not
Of this world, whereat the people
laughed-in the daytime.
| But not long afterward the reputa-
ton of the doctor received sudden
and terrible vindication, as We was
himself afterward to vindicntes It al
most as terribly. John Lewis. father
Of Evan Lewis, champion wrestler of
the United States, known to sports ev-
erywhere, was prosperous farmer
living in the vicinity OF Ridgeway, a
man of sober life.
He was returning home one fni
evening after spending the day assist
Ing friend In butcherlno. The nigh
was not datk, and when be draW neal
the haunted spot he ,deterInined 70 ~
across lots to reach hi hoGns. he M
approaching the stone wall at the road
side to climb 1t when his attention wal
arrested by the sight Of figure tina
seemed to have gathered itself togeth
err out of the just now tenantless ali
and stood confronting him In a menac
ing attitude. He knew of no enemy
and lpghwaymen were unknown IL
that retired quarter OF the state. HI
decided that some one must be trying
to brighten him, and so he hailed thu
figure, and, no response being given
he advanced upon Ii.
Some unaccountable awe and the IN
canny hugeness of the thing mad
Lewis decide to avoid conflict. and
drawing his butchers knife from hi
a pocket, he decided to pass by, whel
! the figure, raising It's arm with a for
! bidding gesture, stepped athwart hi
+, path. Obeylng hasty impulse tina
|. was more CHASTITY and soul chillin
fear than 1t was anger, Lewis let driv
q his keen knife.
Next morning n neighbor found Lew
/ is lying inside the wall in a semicor
q scious condition. or what happens
' after he had struck with his knife h
1 had but vague impressions He sal
+ he had been hurled in the air as II 1
q the vortex OF cyclone, pounded
; crushed into insensibilIty He died