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Show STRANGE NEVADA ST0R1E i In Which Appear the Tale of (he Woman Who Spent the ft (Jo. Searching for Hcrsilf, the Horse With the Snakes fl Natural Photograph. When N'. P. Doolcy was in Tloche, Nev. a few da)s ago the people there were still discussing a sensation thnt had occurred about two months before be-fore Mr. Dooley does not ouch for the truth of all the details, but gives the episode as It was told to him. Pur-ther Pur-ther particulars mi) bo ay : dressing Sheriff Johnson nt ''loch'"11 Inclosing a 2-cent stamp and a lock of the Inquirer a hair The author of the sensation wns a 1 nly named Mone. Mrs Stone according accord-ing to the etor) took n shot nt her I husband, mlrsed him and "'? nouneed Insane The Sheriff, when he was Informed of the case took the wo. man Into cuatod) to be tried for ln- When the) reached the count) teat Sheriff Johnson felt some hesitation about placing the unfortunate woman In the count) Jail and dll what he b-lleved b-lleved to be the right thing b) engaging engag-ing two rooms nt the leading hotel He locked his charge In one of the npart-ment npart-ment and took the other for himself Tired out nftcr his ride It did not take him long to pass Into the nrms of Morpheus lut Mrs Stone was not sleep) and along In the still vvnt'hes of the night she decided that n stroll In the fresh all would do her good The door was still locked but the officer offi-cer had nejlected to deprive her of her hairpins and the lock toon Melded to these Instruments 1'iom the hall the woman went Into the Sheriff a loom "he saw that he was sleeping nlcel), so she kept as quiet us she could Hrst she donned the ofllclal s trousirs then his shirt coat boots and tint Later In the night the Sheriff awoke Peeling rather anxious about his prisoner pris-oner he aroe and went on tip-toe to hei door lie listened intcntl), but I edrd no breathing Inside, so he tried the door. It was unlocked He looked In The bed was unoccupied Sheriff Johnson dashed back to his room and grabbed for his trousers Ills hand came back empt) Rubbing his e)es and ilmhlng himself to make sure It was not all a dream tho Sheriff lushed about the room looking for his missing gaimcnts It was some tlmo before he convinced himself that they were rone. He wrapped himself In a sheet and Fought the loom of the landlord land-lord It took some time to convince thnt worth) gentlemnn that his nocturnal noctur-nal M'ltor wns not n ghost, but when the Sheriff thoroughl) Identified hlmtolt b) means of his face he negotiated tho loan of some clothing nnd started out on a search for the missing woman Word was passed nround that Mrs Mono nau wanuereci out nione irum iu hotel and bells were rung guns were fired and several searching parties provided pro-vided themelves with lanterns and examined ex-amined the hlghwa)S nnd bywajs of the town and the surrounding country In quest of the runnwn) The Sheriff wns in general charge of the seaich, an 1 he wns nbly assisted by a man wearing high-heeled boots, u broad-brimmed hat and tarrMng a lantern, who seemed so anxious about the missing woman that be wns supposed sup-posed to be one of her relatives All the barns and outbidding of the town were visited and then the seekers scattered scat-tered through the hills, Inspected the abandoned shafts and tunnels In the vicinity and leered behind ever) sagebrush sage-brush where the unfortunate vvandeier might be hid Daylight came and the lost had not been found. Sherlft Johnson worn nut b) his nnxlet) und the loss or his night s sleep lagged behind while the Indefatigable Indefa-tigable person In the wide-brimmed hat continued the search Homtthlnj about the hat flnall) struck tho olllcl il ns fnmlllnr The clothing nlso urou-eil u remlnlrcent train of thought nml iibout sunrise It dawned on Ihe Sheriff that the rig belonged to him Slipping up on the eager seurcher be middenlc pushed off tho hat und diacovered a blgbunchof hawad BG With this clue to work Johnson formed the theory n,,. J known assistant In the nlihi.' had been Mrs. Stone Later tii.!? r,r was verineel. After Imin, A W In tho Sheriff a clothes th, !v R man loitered about the bulffi"B ,i the alarm wns given, an i,,, aearchlng parties were formed .7 cured n lantern and aided th. .. n all she could In saarchlng forJejB Another strictly truthf , broucht back from Nevada, i M Dooley relates to a horse ihV, Ir snakes The nnlmal came tZ m hav ine been ralwd by a rtl ffi.M lly near Ileber or Kanies WB romewhero over there In hii )outh he was Burrounded br ik.'S B influence und It will not lurpSlBl ,., grlve hl3 early frunda io lSrVfl he has turned out ns he la li1 A few weeks ago his present H a prominent citizen of Ploeht TH rt that something was viTomr i.c i i horse's right eye Slmpl !J were applied, but the optic JSt-and JSt-and worse nnd the sight vvai destro)ed nltogcther One iu owner made another Mamlnu,'. the e)e nnd discovered the iX tho trouble I'irmly Imbedded?'. ball wna n little snake not rmichi than a hair It had burrowMivj the optic until It wan ro timi?, cd that It could not be taken m,'.' out removing the e)e-ball witu it the general health of the irSn'i not been Impaired by the (S tho reptile, he will be kept K and exhibited ns a terrible num. thoo who court tho acqualnui! snakes, lljairds. dragons iji curious nnd terrible creaturn The prcfKtnco of the snalo I. . horse s e e is attributed to a uw supposed to have found lodS the orjan while the equine iul ing In the timbered country .if was raised. ,a Another wonder seen by Mr 6. on his trip was n Hat piece ctcr; quartz nbout ns big as o nunihH,,, on which wan imprinted an tiaV , photograph of the landscape ttuWl formo- resting place s . This curiosity Is now In theteoH"' slon of a surc)or In the emplcrSW Oregon Short Line at Callen et. igB ,u purchased It for :i from tl fSJgB St Ocorge. Utnh. It was twBn on tho bank of the Rio VlrnntM In mch a poatlon that the ," the opposite side of the strtiaiH reflected from tho water andlmi-BjW on the surface of tho stone B" vhat chemical condltloiu nl" sponsible for the retention of tiiM Hire cannot be determined, l' fact that nature has turned piwsrgB pho- and preserved an excelluaTM'! ness of n, beautiful IandrSM cigl be denied B',' hcn first found the cmuii rough on Its faro nnd the Imarair distorted It was placed arm grindstone anl cound doivanat., stead of erasing tho picture thlifr tic treatment brought It out la -p-oportlon nnd more lv1d ahad' purchaser prizes It highly and n not pnrt with It for many tlmtit It co him. |
