Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-03-31
STRANGE HAPPENINGS AROUND
STAR LAKE

ing ABOUT tHe region OF star Lake
for some weeks, and probably it
never would have reached the Pro-
moter in its entirety only that S.
;. King wrote it to his friend J. w.
Patterson, who has been flirting
with North Dakota blizzards Of
Westhope the past winter, and
copy fell into our hands. Here is
he story:
Dear Sir A man mere told me
a wild and wierd tale that is Of in
teresl to all the numerous inhab-
itants Of the Star Lake valley.
thinking il would interest you.
write il TO you in my informant's
language: The inhabitants of the
Star Lake country have been great
~ agitated over The appearance Of
a huge ghostly visitor that has ap-
peared in the darkness of several
nights 10 terrify children and alarm
adults. This monster goblin first
appeared to a party of belated
youngsters who declared it was an
immense white tent with two GEN.
ter parts and projecting ridge
pole, hurting itself over the limit
less sea of sage brush, leaving a
clean-cut roadway wherever it
moved; another party saw what ap-
peared to be a great ship in full
sail, its fore and mizzen masts
clearly visible, while the after one
was broken off and dangled in the
rear, presenting the same phenom-
enon of the clear pathway; another
party saw what they believed to be
lhe snow clad Saw Tooth mountain
range with its two great peaks
heavenward and a great
white glazier earthward. The same
mystery of the cleared pathway. By
his time excitement had risen 50
high that all the liOn-hearted mem
Ders of the Bachelors Cooperative
Union lay in wait for this spirit
hip and captured j. w. Patterson's
I'D white mule known to fame as
White Wings. His ears were the
lual center plates, the fore and
nizzen masts. the heaven piercing
,eaks, as the case might be- his
all was the projecting ridge pole,
he dangling mast, or the mighty
;lazier. such being the startling
orms our fears may create for us.
When Pat was working his ghost
y muleship last summer he OBJ
erved a strangely peculiar habit,
amely, that the sage animal was
oud of sage brush, preferring it
boVe all other forage plants. This
e moreover noted: that every bush
Ouched by his quivering lips was
ut off as smoothly as with the
eyihe of Father Time. An idea
truck Pat He reasoned thus: If
hose sharp edged teeth could be
hanged into sharp pointed ones
nd made to pierce instead of cut,
ny my fortune would be made.
rawing upon the profession for all
lslruments known to horse dem
'slry he was soon at work and
al the mouth of White Wings
Oking like a revised miniature edi-
on of the many peaks of a noun
in range. He laid hold of juicy,
llble bush The teeth pierced. He
apped his starbOard ear. batted
5 larboard eye. smiled pleasantly
I'd lifted out that sage brush tree.
nee then Pat has done all his
caring thus. 1t very reasonably
counts for the sageless path left
the ghostly mule.
Pat returned to Westhope. North
lkoia. last fall, leaving White
ings with full confidence in his
ility to do well on his peculiar
rag He knew that the PEG! Ie
luld b. identified by the cl,a:ing
Is mule T aehine would b, and -
Ell should he tail to surN " tlir
nlle hrcrzcs OF an Idaho wnl
~ TIA said:
he milk-haired mules swx
must cease.
That long has served ny
ceased the life of
trees
he fed upon.
# evermore is fei
f. ,vermore is FED
d that floweri
breath
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