Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-17
GHOSTLY V|S|TAT|ONS ARE
Disturbing zACA1ECAS

Bisbee has a ghost that is not
satisfied to behave as do sae ordi-
nary, wellbred kind. Huge bonlders
sent crashing down the hilsides by
mysterious hands. woman in white
who apears nightly upon the hill top.
long-drawn-out walls as of lost sosl
and stones thrown through windows
of houses. coupled with many other
weird, uncanny noises and sights, afe
making life a..ferror for the settle
ment known az .'zacatecss''. compos-
ed of Mexican residents OF the upper
end of Brewery Gulch.
Every night for a week, at least
three OF the officers have been called
up there to investigate. So far they
have been unable to solve the mys-
terry. which proceeds to thicken as
each night passes. The rock-throw-
ing and boulder rolling continues. The
Mexicans say a woman in white"
makes a nightly appearance at any
time between 10 o'clock and midn'~'
on the crest of the hill, ;arries
few moments, weeps and walls, then
vanishes into the air followed almost
Immediately by a shower of stones
from a mysterious source somewhere
above the settlement.
These wild orgies on the part o.
the natives Of spook-I-and started last
March. Constable Farley McRae. IN
making trip to the district. for'
the body of a two-weeks old babe
lying on the hillside a little above
the collection OF adobe huts. The
body was wrapped in a sheet, a7s
was evidently of American parent2@e.
Although the officers made diliF
search at the time, no trace OF TIE
parents could be found.
The night following the discovery
of the babes body the mysterious
boulder-rolling began, and like unto
the weird tale of Henrick Hudson
spirit with those of his followers. play
ing at nine-pins in the foothills OF
the Catskills, the dwellings of the
poems were selected as the targets
In this little game of nine-pins being
played by the unseen hand.
The boulders were. some OF them
of huge size; large enough TO crush
in the doors and sides of two or thr
of the houses which they struck, and
although both the Mexicans and =
officers secured the hillsides there
abouts time and time again. no trace
of human handiwork could be found.
Rushing to the spot whence it seem
ed as though the rocks or boulders
had emanated only the inky blackness
of night greeted the searchers, while,
from some other portion of the hill
side a volley of rocks would be pour
ed upon the houses below, and the
mystery-solvers, completely baffled,
could only stand and listen to the
falling stones, unable from darkness
to get a line upon this past chan-
cellor of spookdom because it shifted
its position so frequentl'
About a week after the finding Of
the babes body the reyels of the
spirit or spirits suddenly ceased. For
about two weeks after that, however,
the Mexicans say that after nightfall
an American woman would suddenly
appear and sit down on the spot where
the body was found, would weep for
an hour. then suddenly steal away.
Although the direction she would take
over the hills, and out into the coun-
try, was followed on several occa-
sions. the sum and substance was
that the quest always came to naught
Then the visitations of the woman
were broken, and during the summer
months comparative peace reigned in
"Zacatecas'', save for the sudden death
of a woman there a few weeks age
and the destruction of one of the huts
by dynamite two weeks ago, caused
BY a drunken woodcutter "shootin'
up the place and accidentally hit
ting a few sticks of dynamite with A
stray bullet. the hut being razed IL
the ground.
Monday night the terror returned
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