The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-19
DEATH FARM
SCORES ITS
10TH VICTIM
Continued from Page One)

those who have studied the strange
conditions of the life" on Death
Farm" 1t is their belief that with
in the borders of the farm there
aoeS actually grow poisonous
weed This weed, although not
classified in any work on botany, IS
supposed to be the most viruleut of
all poison plants,
Poison Plant Blamed.
1T is the gas given off from the
leaves of this growth the amateur
scientists OF this community have
declared, that cause the terrible
death dealing vapor that rises from
the surface of the land every morn
ing and at night
But this theory does not satisfy
the few survivors of Death Farm"
They declare that they have con-
concluded minute searches over the
land and never have discovered any
plant the nature of which they do
not know.
SO weird and uncanny is the
thread of death upon the farm ours
ed with its name that more super
stitious souls have fashioned from
the texture of the tales of past gen
erations an actual and everlasting
visitation OF divine wrath. The ele-
ment of superstition is carried still
further and these Jealous persons
will liNen the sulphurous fumes of
the morning and evening fogs to
the ,oreath of hell. But those who
suddenly have awakened to the
CHASTITY fact that they were stricken
with the fatal malady-what wild
theory have they advanced and how
have they accounted for their dead
ly affliction
Joe and John Alderman the lat
est residents of the farm become
victims of the plague, died as have
others, drawn from earlier genera
tions.
~John accepted MS fate philo
sophically." told the sister who had
braved the warning of neighbors
and had kept his home on the
farm. 'He did not try to reason out
the cause, 1t is part of the code
on Death Farm to accept the visi-
tation that one challenges by taking
up living there.
Sisters Flee in Terror.
This sister, with another. younger
shared the home Alderman had
built on the farm. Yesterday they
fled shiverlng from its borders and
vowed that never again would they
return. SO Death Farm" once
more stands vacant and without a
tenant 1t has stood this way often
in the fifty years that bound its
tragic history. Then people gradu-
ally have forgotten and tenant ,or
purchaser has been found to whose
eyes the fireen fields and crystal
waters of its seemingly pure stream
just as innocent as do
these scenes IN other parts But
the dread thing never fails to
strike. and always one member at
least of the resident family has died
that strange, tortuous death that is
characteristic of the malady. AL
ways, too the body after death has
born on its surface CHASTITY blotches
of color
John and Joe Alderman took pos
session of the farm recently after it
had stood idle for seven years.
The present owner Is the sole sur
vivor of the family of the preced |
ng resident, Godfrey Palm. Palm,
lis wife. daughter and son, alb |
we're stricken down by the invisible !
land of the pestilence. The pres |
ent owner ssnd the one suiviving5t
of the family were alnostl
'oreibly taken away from the farm
ind removed by relatives to dis
ant city The boy is said to have
pleaded with them to be allowed to
'emain.
Fear for Sisters Future.
Fear has been expressed that
lckerman's two sisters may yet be-
'ome a prey of the disease that
,illed their brothers. But there is
10 precedent ifpon1 which to proph-
sy this, for, so far as is known
he hand that reaches from the
and never strikes save those who
ctually are resident upon II, and
0 with the flight Of the two Ack-
rman sisters, the place now lies
My as a menace. The red hued,
iclSly smelling fog that rises from
he land every morning and night
annot now wrap itself and its
lystery about a tenant and draw
i'm to his death.
Ackerman's death has aroused
his district to a frantic effort to
earn the nature OF the death
lalady that has stricken all of the
of the farm. Godfrey
'alm his wife and two children
led just previous to the advent of
.ckerman there. Before them there
ere four others who died III the
anne fashion on the farm of
cath as it has recently been
allied.
iystery in Symptoms.
And the symptoms of the NMg-
ance? They are the most remark
BILE. it is said, that physicians ever
ave noted. Men and animals alike
eem to be stricken upon the death
ealing land of the farm. There
Gems to be no beginning to the
cquiring of the disease The vic
ms beginning quit slowly to discover
rat their bodies are gradually |
ssting away. They grow thin and
le cause cannot be determined.
Then sudden paralysis seizes on
le victim and death comes quickly.
implicated witr suffering derived
ON many auxiliary disarrange-
ont- And in avorv cao tho ,hodv