Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-08-08
GIRL RISKS her LIFE
TO LEARN the SECRET
OF A MYSTERY FARM
Last Of Palm Family VIII
Spend Honeymoon In Plague
Infested Place.

Noun Vernon. M.-Special: A slip
Of a girl. the only survivor Of the Palm
family that was all but wiped u by
the death dealing mystery OF Death
farm. near here. has started q new
chapter in the history OF the Inflated
place where 10 persons have met death
swift and terrible in the last 50 years..
In the unfinished joy Of her honey
moon n the sudden killing OF John
and Joe Alderman on two succeeding
days this week. %torturing her girlish
mind with memories OF how her father.
mother. sister and brother met death
by this same unnamed plague while
she was too young to understand its
Significance. Anna Palm, or Mrs. Anna
Tyberendt as she now IL, startled this
terror-stricken community with the
nouncemnt hat she would risk her life.
would give 1.-The thing that has wiped
out two generations a chance to COM
plete it's unfinished work of killing the
last of her fathers lineage by taking
up her abode ON Death farm in an ef-
fort to solve its grewsome mystery.
Her husband. much against his will.
but also eager to aid, will live there
with her.
Whole Family Wiped Out.
Today she walked in h half-culti-
started since the W Alderman broth
ers died and their sisters hed the place
In panic. Every tree, every landmark.
every building that she knew in her
early childhood recalled the days when
she, not knowing what 1t meant. saw
her father waste away n die. One
by one. h recalled and spoke OF in q
hushed voice the occurrences incident
to their deaths; how her mother was
taken Ill with cramps. followed with
fever and paralysis. and then died In
violent paroxyms of agony; then her
big brother n then her baby sister.
Upon her arrival h again wen to
the place II watched he fog, h
same red-hued vapor. with Its redolent
odor of birthstone. She watched IL
ground; then gather in a great cloud
that enveloped the dew-covered field
and disappear in the higher air.
Sight Brings Terror.
She gathered her wraps closer about
her and shivered. although the evening
was warm. as h described in detail
how, even after he had moved away
the place. she had come here several
times a year to watch the fog-for this
Is conceded to DO the biggest factor in
the plaques working.
She is familiar with every word of
the tss.a history ;ra Of Death s,a farm, rno, and .h It.
for more than 20 years humans and
animals upon the farm have been
struck down to their death inexplie-
ably and in an unparalleled fashion.
but h has no fear.
An Indians Revenge.
Rack in the dim and early history
Of this quiet little community, runs q
grewsome tradition OF plaques begin
ming about so years ago. when. the old
est Inhabitants tell, the flrst white
family moved upon the farm and b.
gan to cultivate the soil. The names
Of those folk have been lost in tho
passing years. although memory seems
to recall a shoemaker in this c0nnec-
ton. A young woman, this shoe
makers daughter. - closely woven In
the tale Of tragedies.
She was wooed by q young Indian.
clinging to land on the banks Of the
Kaskaskia river. True to the elements
Of the drama that make up the tale.
the suit OF the young brave was halted
by the shoemaker.
Sowsd 8esds Of Poison.
And an Indian. you know" the
story finishes. never forgets."
makers farm by night. the tradition
suggests. and scattered over the land
the seeds of q poisonous plant. The
cattle ate this and became afflicted
with the same mysterious malady that
today. so years later, still Is potent for
milk derived from these poison-fed
beasts. the shoemaker and his family
went to their deaths, one by one. ana
the Indian lover vas avenged.
Immediately following the second
brothers death, the two Alderman
sisters. who have been living on the
farm. Ned from their home in terror.
vowing never again to set foot upon
the fatal place.
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