Arizona republican., 1908-11-09


 113 East Van Buren street?
 | Twice in two years have these manifestations of departed spirits ! made their presence known at this | number by visitations to earth again revealing themselves as one of the mysteries of the great unknown.
 The visitation prior to the present one was a man who persisted in talk l ing his stand throughout the day and night inside the back screen door and | gazing long and wistfully without with eyes open and ears alert to catch the sounds of footsteps coming to break | the long and silent fast of waiting. | Many came to see it, as it stood there watching in a listless attitude, but | the face was unknown to all who | came to look at the phenomenon, and would turn away with a sad look, wondering at the object of the ap- partition. Maybe some one of the vis- ] itOrs would discover in the palid and deathly features of the face a favor or resemblance to someone they had seen at some time or somewhere, but the thinking only buried the memory into deeper obscurity until it would be given up as a fallacy or illusion of the memory, and the discovery of the identity of the spirit of the departed one would be left for the next inter preter of spiritual character.
 People who visited the apparition on the occasion of it's other visit recall the memory of the face and features in vivid recollection as being very f,.n aN hA ,sI heavy and penetrating black eyes be- heath. But about the features were the pallidness of death. The com plexion of clay. and all day and all night the strange visitation kept it's vigil with eyes and gaze steadfastly on watch for someone who never came.
 But the present visit has donned new phase and manifests its arrival by walking the floor of the front room at night with never-tiring feet and restless anxiety. appearing, when it does, as if from the thin air of the room in which it is surrounded, and with that same silent tread starts its walk, but with a wakeful anl listless attitude as was it's wont when at the
 
 But there is yet another mystery about the building which pertains only to the house itself, which the oldest Mexican resident of Phoenix or the valley fails to reveal or throw any light upon. This mystery refels to the age and origin of the house, and is soluble to the extent of the begin ming and building of Phoenix. but prior to that time nothing definite can be traced to its building or the many tragic scenes and deeds seen and ex- ecuted within it's ancient walls
 The house is a double adobe with modern shed rooms and dirt floors. and the one with the shadowy specta- cle is no "113," and is occupied by a man living alone who is quiet and unobtrusive as to exercise or going away from home, seldom going out and then only on emergency calls to town or the postoffice of minor i'm portance to himself.
 The other part of the building, or the east half, is No. 115, and is occu- pied by good Mexican family. con sisting of the man, his wife and little Lucia, three years of age. These peo- pie are as quiet in department as their close neighbOr only a wall of one adobe thickness forming the partition | between them, and there being no door | or passageway of any kind from one | to another At some date subsequent | to the building of the house the rooms | had been plastered, and, at d later | date apparently. papered. But the | papering and clustering is old now, as l at the date of the work is so ancient | and unknown that no one can tell | anything about it. and when a gray l haired Mexican father or mother is | questioned on the origin and work of l the house they only stare in amaze | ment and with a shake of the head | hurry away on their aged limbs.
 Mir. and Mrs. Valenquela, the good | family of Mexican people that live in the adjoining room to No 113, have but one child. Lucia, but little more than three years of age. and there is nothing to indicate the apparition comes from that direction or the cause | of it making its appearance at all. | Neither the father or the mother of | this family have ever received a call | from the strange visitor. or the report | of it in the leastwise disconserted the household. And little Lucia, the em-