Show f Vl vf tJ 4 yn 1 lI f r ilir v i iTHE t T Ti v i a 1 I TH THE TI-IE CHEYENNE CIRCE i THE THU STRANGE TRANCE LEO EN D OF I HATTON HArTO LAIE LAKE IN WYOMING I I li till 1 llla 1 Heller I In III n a HAl I hI Mm II how II Into the tue Tl cry of r Ui I IDolly Body Dolly Cause Causes Great J Each Incitement nose Iia I. I ia DEAD MAN HAS nAS l J 1 fj 7 g bee boon n r recovered e c covered I V 0 from z for the first time limo timea a I since sinco that mysterious I x r jf J ous body of water G began to swallow v up t th those h 9 so se soV V who I 0 I tempted it The ilie body hotly is is that of Mn Maine llew iv It 11 son par son nephew of Filmore of or the Southern company at Cheyenne Tim The Indians hereabout aro arc intensely excited and at ut first would not believe I It When tho fact was proved to them themI they thy became awestricken and have not noty I y yet t recovered from their thell wonder They I say that the fact of or the tho lake Juice having laving given tip its dead indicates that thero there line has been a n great upheaval upheaval-a a revolts revolts- lion tion or som something Lhing of ot that sort among the powers of that world peopled with demons and fairies and nud Jov cl spirits and which ni-e ni Ie Indians so 60 implicitly believe In a 30 cavern cavera at nt the bottom of the mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- mice lake lives the woman w with th the tho serpents serpent's head whose name is never spoken for all tho newts ne and lizards nn snakes aro tires her spies and who Speaks her name she will slay The Tise recovery of Dawsons Dawson's body has aroused great interest in the to legend and ond bribes without number ha been offered the Indians to tell the tho name of the Ule water devil but they will not for lor nil all tIm the whisky and tobacco that can be offered to tell it Even one of the chiefs who WIIO has become civilized anti and pays taxes lazes on a handsome farm would not reveal the name He says he ho has 1119 no fear leal of the lie woman and has no n no faith I in the legend but declares he lie le has forgotten forgotten for for- gotten the name l fOI Though they may only speak of this title potent devil as ns The Woman there thelo I is no no bar to their telling of or her powers 18 and exploits It seems seelUs that f cit s h is I rat rather her proud of her power and wants smuts her adventures told toM that p may sony j fear her tie tio more I H She has been seen O. O y yes two Indians In Jut- have lived long enough to tell of or it after their eyes cr's h beheld but 1111 there is he not noL an nn Indian now nosy in III nil atE Wyoming i who would dare see seek cecic her I Strange to s say y though h the Lite woman is such suds a malignant power pO the tile Indians Indian do not rejoice at her ller overthrow as nl indicated in by the dead coming cooling back from her domain beneath the tue mIce lake Maybe they fear that this upbeat upbeat-el bodes n a change of all existing thin things s. s because Gods and anti demons do not die die and they are very ery uneasy over o the mattel mat mat- ter tel The ilio medicine men have hardly ceased their incantations since the tho token to ta- ken of th the nether cataclysm has ap ap- ap ea r 1 In Iii the middle of or the lie the depth has bM never tc I been f sounded Oun cd anti and a a. great j o. o t l I jY i I L t I j v I wrt wr I t I II I II I I a A DEAD MAN spring bubbles up there and aol though numerous attempts haye have been made tim lead lend has lias ms never reached bottom The Indians say the bubbling in the middle of the tle lake lalee is the womans woman's breathings How she bIle came there nobody nobody nobody no no- body knows s but the Indians say that the while white men came to Wyoming Wyom Wyom- ing lag the captives taken by other tribes were thrown lute luto the lake to her ller It appears that she is looking hooking fot her lover Slut Sho takes all aU the tIle men who come her way and when bhe bho finds that lie he is not nut among them thorn she sho makes them all her slaves If this title is true site she insist t now rule rulo over an of retainers retain retain- ers for unnumbered men men Indians and whites have whites have gone to alter her Ier Porty years ago ugo the old men of the tribes say over overa overn a n hundred emigrants with their horses and ox teams were cre driven out on the tho thoIce ice by the tiso Indians and kept there until the ice thawed wed and let them through The Clue serpent woman got them all II Hunters are arc her fa favorite to prey for forthe the Ule tradition says ys the lover hover was a it hun bun los lei iTh bhe tempts to the middle of ot the tho lake lako by a n magnificent red swan which keeps fluttering just beyond gunshot and so lures them within her power A strange thing about this lila great red swan is that it is S a most desirable bird and the tIm one that will become the tha of all sorts of power So many heroes of the have ha hunted bunted the red swan but the bird never been taken or Of the two Indians who have seen the tIe serpent woman and have bave lived to tell tellof tellof of ot it the first rt saw v her when she did not know it lIe He was waiting hidden behind be be- hind hinti a rock on the lake shore for game when thea out of the tise mice Jake came the Ito woman She swam about on the surface of the lake in the sunshine Her lIer form ferns the Indian r said was incomparably bly more beautiful ul than that of tho the most beautiful daughter of the chiefs but brt her head bead was that of an enormous serpent When her ller back was towards Jim lim he lie could not see tho the snakes snake's head for rot her long hair hicl it It ft and she looked simply like the most glorious o of I women l The Cite hunter lay flat gat on the rock and watched her He De dared neither to move the demon had bad nor cry out When Then finished her sun bath she dived and did not appear again Had this Indian kept quiet about th the th marvelous thing be he ha baa ha teen seen there thero would have havo been io trouble for or she shedid did diU not know but it was tIm w wonderful wonder ful not to be ba told He Ile kept the groat secret for a year but at last be he whispered it to a woman A lizard heard beard the whisper and end in the morning the man was found dead I About O t bs b's s 's throat o a rUnt giant rattlesnake i oot Io oo t e a 1 f t had twisted t itself and Its il fangs angs were wera fast in his Isis face That was Vas his punishment punish meat ment for spying on the serpent wo rOo vo- vo man mast With the other man who bo saw her herand anti and told toM of it It was vas different Ho lie was Ayoung chief vho rho hosted bosted before all the tho tribe that he was afraid of nothing and they y set before him the tIle task p of conquering the serpent woman lIe Ho was a brave man but he he took tool all reasonable precautions lIe He knew that hut against those thoe of the tho oilier world his IsIs war clubs anti and bows bow Ull ua cj E were useless The be learning azA ata magic of th the tho rn medicine alone might bo be of use to bins bim in sulla a contest They taught him all aU they knew anti and he lie be now confident of or victory boasted again that he lit would brIng back the serpent woman A As a any y of the tho Indians will tell you yo 1 j ji i y i. i J Il J I o K TIm THE INDIAN SAW hElL mm the woman is not hard to find fint It if f you want to see seo her ber All AU you list havo to do is isto isto to togo go to the middle of or the lake at night when there is no moon and it iL is raining at and l snowing Then Jhen there is no chanco of anyone else seeing what happens and no ordinary man ever comes back to tell So the young chief act set out our but hut ho he had bad boasted too much and a n snake crept into his boat ns as he lie was leaving hearing the shore lIe He came back after Ida his enc encounter en en- c counter with wiLh the she devil but when near the shore on his return he lie took oil Isis his magic shirt shirt- provided by the medicine medi cine clue men for he lie han had fought hard and was tired and feverish That Clint left him vulnerable and the snake hidden in thi tb boat struck him The medicine lne me kept him alive during the night but en ot the next day he lie died and no one ever evera a n again ain nin tried to see the tIle lake hake demon That was generations be before foro the emigrants emi grants went through h the ice Before he Jle died the stricken chief chier told what had biti happened In lu the tho middle of ol the mice lake he saw her and she called to him hun hunto to come to her ler She kept her head bend turned from him and all nU ho he could see seo was her ller lon long hair an nod and 1 beautiful nt am aims ins ms She he tempted him but he knew her and would not come i When she found lound that her ller blandishments blandish ments monte did not avail she turned her serpents serpent's ser set pent's face toward him and told him him- she ibe would drag him down She tried to upset his is boat but could not because of the magic of ot the tIme men Then Ihen she aIle called the wild fowl and they flew at nt him and beat him with their thair Vin s cut him lim with their beaks benks and talons but though they bruised and hurt him they could not drive him him overboard nor kill him They tried to tear him off the boat but could not I At last he lie saw the dead men rising through the water to help her bel and ana his heart failed him and he lie moved back baek to the shore pursued by the tho demon emon and her Ir unboLt unboLt- nr yli c ld jIlin while Tie lie vore tile medicine i men's mens shirt When he died the tIo tribe threw his bod hotly body into inlo the lake to placate the lime demon who Wilt they knew v must be very fierce after her Iller defeat No o one olle else ever dared her to fight but hut site she has claimed all who drowned in hi Hie the lake lalee for her ller victims ever since That liitt is why the Indians were so ISO sure sur that 1 Da 1 body Lady would never be bo recovered recovered re reo re- re covered and why the time return to the time shore hole of his body has so utterly dumbfounded dumbfounded dumb dumb- founded th them m. m |