The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-22
DEATH FARM
BRIDE IS To
SOLVE RIDDLE
GIRL, RECENTLY MARRIED,
WILL RISK LIFE TO UN-
RAVEL MYSTERY


one young woman, bride of a few
months, is making her final plans for
taking mp upon Death Farm life
that she discontinued six years ago,
when the fearful agony, found only
there struck down four members OF
her family, two other young women
are fleeing in terror from the place.
These girls. sisters, of the two
Alderman brothers, who died last
week. are driven from the farm,
which is bound up in fifty years
history of mystery and death, by the
suddenly acquired belief that the
ever-striSing death has been set into
the scheme of things by Providence.
Standing at the edge of the deadly
place this evening, staring over its
fields of green and quiet probably
for the last time. the two Ackerman
sisters, Kate and Christine, whisper
ed out the legend upon which they
base their belief.
"The Breath of He'll"
I'VE are leaving for st. Louis, "
Kate said. I'VE shall try to use
the life of the city to make us for
get the death plague here. God has
breathed the very breath of hell on
to this farm
And then, with Christine's hand
gripped tightly in her own, Kat-
recounted the one legend of Death
Farms beginning that conforms to
her belief.
There lived on the farm more
than fifty years ago man who once
had been devout,' she began. "One
year drought came over the land
and the crops uron his farm weEb
burned and ruined by the heat. The
man, his wife and children were
facing starvation. Frenzied by the
realization. the farmer rushed out
into his withered field of wheat and,
with his hands clenched toward
heaven. he cursed the Creator of the
sun and rain.
and since that day this farm has
been accursed," the girl finished
with shudder Il have heard the
story and hardly believed it true
until-until the blow struck within
our own family. That's why Chris
tine and ] are going to St Louis, :"
and the sisters turned their backs
upon the quiet little home of year
and hurried down the dusty road to
the depot.
Death Farm, except at evening and
when the sun Is just rising above
the rows of trees that fringe the
farm, shows no sign of the terrible
pestilence or plague it is known to
embrace.
A Peaceful Appearing Farm.
In one corner of the land stands
the farm house. its yard flower
grown and its doorway almost COW
ere- with climbing vines. FROM
one side of the quiet home can be
heard the murmur of lne little
branch of the Kaskaskia river, that
bounds one side of the farm. on
. the other one sees the peaceful
acres of half cultivate land. Only
at sunrise and sunset, when the fog,
duly streaked with red. rises above
the ground and finally disappears is
there any sign of the mysterious
agency that always has struck to
death at least one member of any
family that has dared to lnhabit the
place.
To only one person in the entire
district has Death Farm seemed to
have lost its power to terrorize. She
is Mrs. Anna Tyberendt, sole sur
viving member of the Godfrey Palm
family, that occupied the farm six
years ago. Mrs. Tyberendt, a bride
OF only few months, has persuad-
ed her husband to aid her in an eff
fort to solve the mystery of the
place