THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 20.
TÏÏEGHOST OF GOWER
Deathbed Confession Reveals Perpe­
trator of Weird Jokes.
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rided by the Pranks of a Ml«-
4M»Tou« Hrsldriit for a
Humber of Year«.
When Thomas P. Ogden died a few |
day» ago the ghosts at Gower, Mo., |
ceased terrifying the refideirts of that '
town. Ogd’en, on his deathbed, con­
fessed that he had been the “ghosts”
about Gower. For several years he
terrified the village, and while playing
one of his jokes he canted a young
man to lose his life by running against
a tree. At another time he caine near
being the cause of a citizen of Gower {
being lynched says a special St. Jo- ;
seph (Mo.) correspondence of the i
Chicago Inter Ocean.
In th« livery stable in Gower were 1
box stalls- for the horses. Posts were |
set in the ground between the stalls I
and planked up on each side. Ogden I
bought a long rubber tube and. con­
cealing himself in the haymow, let the
tube down between the boards on one
side of a stall. Then he groaned into
the tube and the sound of his voice w as
carried down to a point close to the
ground. In a little while the groans •
attracted the attention of the men I
employed about the barn. They tore I
the board» off one side < f the stall, but I
Ogden drew the rubber tube up, and
they found nothing. The beards were
repla«e< and the groans were heard
again.
There lived in the neighborhood a
man who boasted that he was not
airaid of ‘‘ghost or devil.” and he was
employed to locate the cause of the
groans. He said they came from the
bottom of the stall, and went to work
with a pick and* shovel.
While he
worked the voice of the “ghost” en­
couraged him. and when- the pick
struck a rock the “ghost” declared
that he dagger had struck his bones.
Several hundred men stood around
waiting for a solution of the mystery.
When night came a lantern was hung
up in the stall, and the man who was
not af’ .id of ghosts worked-on.
Ogc.cn threw a white blanket d-own
on the man at work in the stall, and
he leaped out of the hole with a fright­
ened yell, running toward- the door
with the blanket clinging to him. The
crowd scattered and one man ran
against a tree and was killed. When
some of the men ventured back to the
place the “ghost” begged them to
continue the work of digging, but none
of them would go into the stall. The
owner of the stable finally closed the
place and built another barn.
On azhill near Gower stands an old
mansion built in the style that plant­
ers affected before the war. It had
been vacant a number of years when
Ogden conceived the idea of giving it
the reputation of being haunted. Be
had lights flitting about the place at
night, and people going near it could
hear »creams and hollow groans. The
doors would slam, and the place was
shunned even in daylight. It was im­
possible to sell the house.and it s-tands
to-day a weather-beaten wreck.
Ogdeni contrived a network of wires
in the cemetery near Gower, to which
he attached balls of cotton soaked in
kerosene. The^e he would light at
night and work the whole by means of
a long string reaching to a thicket, a
considerable distance away, in which
he concealed hinv-elf.
The dancing
light» iu the graveyard attracted the
attention of people the first right,
and before Ogden quit be had an audi­
ence of more than a thousand stand­
ing at a safe distance and watching the
strange sights. Many peonle would
not go into the graveyard in daylight
after that, and some of them removed
t^eir dead from tie dreaded place.
Afterward the ghostmaker of Gower
fixed up white figures in the cemetery,
and they could be seen swayingabcut
to thé accompaniment of hi» groans
and scream«. The cemetery is almost
abandoned now on account of the repu­
tation given it by the “ghosts.”
Ogden has confessed that he haunt­
ed many of the house-« rbout Gower,
and tha t he is alone responsible for the
reput At ion that has attached to the
late years. When he played
“gh^bt” in the livery stable in Gower
he made the ghost declare that he was
the Upirit of a man James Woodward
had killed and buried in the stall, and
the|tx< >d crowd gathered about tie
place c i me near lynching Woodward.
Whet he realized that he was on his
deathbed Ogden called in a number of
hl» friends and made a confession. He
H^K^sed deep sorrow for hating
catiwd the death of a young man wh
jUKigainst a tree in his fright, and
•nidi he had always refrained from
frfjrt,, ning women and children as
I as possible.
^^^Antnmnhlle Horse <rbont.
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Alfree school to teach horses not
afraid of automobiles has been
ri by the president of the Autn-
V dab at Leri' X M .: ' • Tilt ‘ •
C« nsist of driving the mach ire
[the horse at different rates < '
making him follow it. etc., and
f the horn blow at him. Three
Is usually suffice.—N. Y. Sun.
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pm» That Way Orca» I «»■ally-
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you taken
■Bnniri.er triplet that you’ve been
taftäi
about so long?
H ghmore—No; we have con-
rlurje l not to go thi« year. The fact
i», it co»t »o much money to get ready
*ur it that we had to give it up. But
youMu-t ought to see the eresse» 1
götpor the trip!—Chicago Tribune.
The I «aal Thia*
Btr »ger- How ¿»d this out-of the
(place ever get the reputati
f a health retort?
live Why. my dear »ir. at Iee»t
i prominent men have died here,
kago DMIv Newt.
OPERATING MARIONETTES.
GOLDEN GATE CITY LEADS.
Btaarkable l««rnatly and »kill Dis­
played by Oar Maa La the
Sau Frsselsca Show» the Lar*nat Per­
centage of tube Idea—(tUrauo
Knnks *1*1 r«l.
Uaaiaraa.
“The ingenuity of tome of the han
dlers of marionette»,” said a »bow­
man, “is incredible. I know a man whe
conducts a marionette theater, where­
in an orchestra of eight pieces plays
under marionette leadership, while ir
t • boxes a dozen marionette specta
tors laugh and applaud, and on t4u
stage a marionette c.raina briskly en­
acts itself.
“The conductor of all this stand«, ex­
posed to the waist, at the bac k of the
stage, and apparently he is motionless,
though really each finger of both
hands and the majority of the toes of
both feet are working with unexampled
rapidity. For each marionette is con­
nected by a string with a toe or a
finger of the operator, and this string
sometimes has as many as ten or fif­
teen branches, joined to the manikin’s
face, body, arms, legs, etc., so that it
may dance, smile, wave its arms and do
a number of other lifelike things. One
of these figures, indeed, is connected by
32 strings to the operator.
“It is bewildering to think of the
number of strings there must be alto­
gether.” concluded the showman, ac­
cording to the Philadelphia Record,
“and really it is impossible to conceive
of the dexterity and the thought re­
quired in the artistic manipulation of
a band of marionette».”
INSTINCT OF Á MOTHER.
Illustrated by the Cow When Tfe»re
1» a Stray Calf in the West­
ern Cattle Her«.
It might seem that where half a
dozen herds were mingled together, it
would be impossible to»elect the calves
belonging to a particular owner with
any degree of accuracy, says E. Mayo,
writing on “Beef” in Leslie’s Monthly,
that in the round-up they would be­
come hopelessly mixed. But all this
is obviated by a very simple rule, which
is that the calf belongs to the cow
that claims it, and consequently to the
concern whose brand she bears. Long
experience fias taught the cattlemen
that the calf may mistake its mother
sometime«, but the cow her offspring
never. Of course, in these days of wire
fences when the free riders of the
range are degenerating to the rank of
the eastern "hired man.” and each
“bunch” is kept to its own territory,
there is small occasion for the exer­
cise of this test; but in the old days of
the open range it worked perfectly,
except in the case of mavericks-—
those cattle that had grown to be
yearlings or over without having
passed under the branding iron—and
these the impartial law of the time
distributed in proportion to’the num­
ber of each herd participating in the
round-up.
DICTATING SORE THROAT.
A
Carious Malady W'hlcK Aflli»t«
Many Persona Who Employ Stem-
ographer» in Their Ofllce*.
Dictating sore throat is an affection
of the vocal cords that business men
get from the odd. strained, high voices
that they use in dictating to their
stenographers. “I don’t know why it
is.” a physician said the other day.
“but nearly every man when he dic­
tates puts his natural, easy voice aside
and uses a high-pitched, feverish note
that plays the very deuce with the vocal
cords as it grates ovefMhem. A man
of big interests will dictate over 100 let­
ters a day at times. His throat is so
sore when he is done that he has to
take some oleaginous and soothing
medicine.
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“The disease is distinctly a modern
one,” said th*» physician, according to
the Philadelphia Record, “a sign of
these complex modem times, and it
has been called, for want of a better
name, dictating sore throat. The only
cure for it is to teach men to dictate
in their natural voices (a thing that
seems to be impossible) or to compel
them to cease dictating altogether.”
LEFT IN DEPOSIT BOXES.
Boue It ran*» Mevelatloao Ara Made
Whe« Tbe-y Are Opened by
▼ aoH OMeJale.
It often happens that deposit boxes
rented in bank vaults are opened on
account of arrears in payment on the
part of the renters, who cannot be
found. Then strange are the revela­
tions of a box’s content».
A young woman had a box in a down­
tow n bank and failed to pay its aec-
< nd year’s rent.
As she had disap­
peared from her former residence the
brx was opened recently. All it con­
tained was a pair of baby shoes.
Another box rented by a man dis­
closed. on being opened for the usual
reas* n, a diamond brooch worth at
least 1400. The bank ha» held the
brooch for three month», in the belief
that the man or bis heir» will one day
claim it.
Often these boxes contain intere»t-
inr letter»—letter« from ar aped moth­
er to her»on.»at s the Philadelphia Rec­
ord. from a young man to bi« «weet-
Leart. from a grateful pensioner to bis
benefactor.
Cornell*»
Well Curb.
A curious Egyptian well curb has
been given to Cornell university by Am­
bassador White, »ays the New York
Tribune. The curb is hewn from a
•olid rock in an elaborate manner. The
diameter ia two and a half feet, the
height about the same, while the side*
are six inches thick The inner surface
of the curbing is worn smooth by con
»tint usage The atone ia of a reddish
hue. and is said to be a »peries of gran­
ite. The relic weighs about a ton and a
half, and four men had difficulty in re­
moving it from the freight van to the
university library.
The number of people who volun­
tarily shuffled off this mortal coil in
American and other cities during last
year has been investigated by some
delver in statistics and the following
figures indicate the results: San Fran­
cisco leads with the largest ratio, 39.1
per 100,000 of population. Next come»
another Pacific coast city, Los Angeles,
with a ratio of 29.8. The reader has
naturally been looking for Chicago,
and that city does, in fact, come next
with a ratio of 24.0. followed by the
neighboring city of Milwaukee, whose
ratio is 22.2. New Orleans was the
scene of the self-destruction of 21.b
persons per 100.000 of population, and
Cincinnati followed close with 21.2.
New Haven is next with 20.9. and then
comes the borough of Manhattan with
20.0, though greater New York ns a
whole is well dow n the list with a ratio
of only 13.6. This is less than Roches­
ter. Indianapolis, Philadelphia. Pitts­
burg, Baltimore.
Boston. Detroit.
Omaha and Louisville, besides all of
those specifically enumerated above.
As to the foreign cities, Paris leads the
list with a ratio of 42. followed by
Berlin 36, Vienna 28 and London 23.
There were more suicides in Saxony
than in any other country. 31.1 per 100.-
000. In Denmark the ratio was 25.8. in
Austria 21.2. in France 15.7. in the Ger­
man empire 14.3. and Sweden. Norway.
Belgium. Great Britain. Italy, the
United States and Spain followed in
the order given.
The table referring to .American
cities is somewhat difficult to explain.
Whv the city of the golden gate, and
California, wi'h its glorious climate,
its sunshine, its fruit and its flowers,
should show the greatest number of
suicides seems a mystery, unless the
presence of a laree Chinese nonulation
explains it. The hi«rh suicide rate
of Chicago is. perhaps, accounted for
by the rush and struggle of that great
city and the large foreign element it
contains—a foreign element, more­
over. which comes mainly from those
countries where suicide is most fre­
quent. The same is perhaps true of
Milwaukee and of Cincinnati. The high
rate nt New Orleans may possibly be
attributed to its relation to France
and the ideas and traditions brought
here from Paris, the suicide capital of
the world. But New York city easts
a cloud over some <.f these explana­
tions. Here are the larire foreign pop­
ulation«. the stress and strain of liv­
ing and working, the poverty, the ex­
citement.
Yet
Philadelphia.
the
sleeping city of the humorous para-
prnphers, has a higher ratio of sui­
cides than greater New York. And
how is it to be explained that New
Haven leads all the other New Eng­
land cities ill the number cf suicides?
St. Paul and Minneapolis l‘e side by­
side. but in XinnennoTis the ratio is
11.4 and in St. Paul it is but 6.5. Tt
seems that the conclusions must he
that there is no method in suicide mad­
ness and that the e<T->rt to reduce it to
rule is doomed to failure.
CARP OUSTING WILD DUCK.
I'tsele«» Themael vt «». They Have De­
al royr-d (he Wild Htee Field»
in Ontario, Canada.
The singular complaint comes from
various parts of northern Ontario that
fish are responsible for the disappear­
ance of certain kinds of game. Tn lo­
calities which were formerly noted for
the excellent duck shooting which they
offered the birds are now not to be had
at all.
The ducks, gee«« and other aquatic
birds were formerly in the habit of
frequenting the large fields of wild rice
in the lakes and stream.« of parts of
Ontario, but ne w t he* e fields hat e been,
in many instances, destroyed by the
German carp, which 1 as found its way
into these waters. The vegetarian diet
of this detestable fish not only ruins
the flavor of its ow n flesh, hut exhaust»
the food supply of some of the most
desirable forms of feathered game,
says the New York Sun.
The
Ontario inspector of fish­
eries,
who ha«
been in north­
ern
Ontario
for the
last
few
weeks, reports that the German
carp has not only bec<»me danger­
ous to other fish, as haF been frequent­
ly claimed, but that in Cook’.- bay. Lake
Simcoe, where there were formerly-
hundreds of acreF of wild rice, not a
sn^ar of that plant is tn lie «een to-day.
The same is true of the Holland river,
where there were at one time^ 1.5C0
acres of rice. The carp have eaten it
root, branch and seed.
The almost incredible part of it is
that the fish have entirely destroyed
the fields in one year.
The aquatic
bird* which visit the Iner.lifv. finding
that all their usual feeding ground»
have disappeared, cut sh< rt their vi«it
and move away in search of others.
The local sportsmen er mplain, too,
that the carp haie attacked the bed«
of wild celerv. and that they. too. are
ilmoit completely destroyed.
It remains to be seen what the ef­
fect of this wh<!e ale e’estructinn • f
aquatic vegetali- ¡« will he inw n the
game fishes of the locality. The fish­
ery over«eer of the district declare»
that it is a qnrsfkn whether the
»pawn of the mtrnkallonge ran he pro­
tected and developed without the rire
beds He d es not accuse the carp of
eating tie egg« of the other fish, but
•fates that they keep the water con­
tinually disturbed, and that to their
pre«ence in these waters must be at­
tributed the decrease in the number
of mnskallor ge frequenting them for
»pawning purpose«.
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Wnaater N»sbr««M,
Weigth three pounds four ounce«,
circumference forty-five inc he», is the
description
of another
monster
mushroom which has been gathered
at Braconash, Norwich, England.
1902
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