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Show 'HAUNTED NUM 15 WUi AWAY District Forest Supervisor of Humboldt Range Tells Weird Story. Spec al to The Tribune OGDEN Feb S Did sou ever 1 ear of the haui ted mansion of Sand Bo v era injected Into the midst of a morei r less scientific explanation of the Truck ee Carson irrigation project of Ne vda this question by S B Aithur su perylsor of the Humboldt national forest. a brouyht his listeners up with a jerk dur T WS an Informal conference at the Fo rth dtrlct forest headquarters yesterdiy To mot Of th group gathered the haunted Jmanslc-n was distinctly new , Dating his several ears on the Hum holdt. wiqf headquarters at Elko, Nev Supervisor Arthur has not onl found lime, to kep, in close touch with the cur rem achievements of that state, but ha3 also found It interesting to pry into some ot the closets where the state skeletons are kept. This ia his story of the 'o oafied haunted nanion On the road between Reno and Caron l-itjit and about half way is located what Is kncmit as Boners s mansion This building was conduct ed by "Sajodv Bowers, a miner who 'trUck it rich in the region of Mr gtaia City some fifty or slxtj jeara ago The manatoi s built of stone three stories high, containing about twent rooms s loeated fun at the foot of the Sierra. Nevada and is surrounded by a natural growth of jellow pine The prtnet' rooms each txmtaln a fireplace, the material of which li marble imported from Scotland for this particular purpose. The door knocker was of solid gold, and the door hinges, window catches, etc. of ohdsil er The door knock er is i ow gone, but a fen of the hinges are still intact The build ng is, now ued as a road house nhere tourists 'top en route from Reno to Carson Citv and Lake Tahoe This man on is said to be haunted and t is a erte 1 that those w no have li ed in it sin e the death of Mrs Bow er nav e met with d saster In some wav losin e ther some member of their fa mil or having some other cslan it befall then Mr Bowers d ed everal jears be fore his wi e and left her several hun dred thousand dollars but throu-h her trut In an agent she was defrauded of her money and property and died a pauper In Cal forn a Her body was brought back and buried bj the side cf her hu band on the mountain be s de the man on. There a large fountain In the yard aul also e eral pools full of all kinds o gold flsl These pools are ed from a warm spring flowing from the mountain just to one de of the ro e. Tl e yard is now grown up with iieather which ilr Bowers orouht from Scotland 1I Arthur w o has been engaged In N, detail work at the local headquarters de f parted today for the Humboldt forest headquarters at Elko |