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Show A REAL GHOST WAS SEER HGU According to talk among the employees em-ployees there is now and has been for two weeks a ghost in the camp. A real, strange, mysterious ghost that has caused many who have seen and heard of it to wonder at , its queer capers.' Heretofore this community has not been bothered much with ghosts and "haunts," and , there are doubtless many people here who have never seen one, and it seems strange that a common ghost would pick' out a mining camp as a field for operation. opera-tion. And there are no negroes here with wild,' fanciful imaginations to take fright at the appearance of the supernatural. aa4 seek other placs..f abode, but In uplte of all this a ghost' has paid the camp a call. The alleged ghost made hlg debut some two weeks ago on the. Utah Cop-per Cop-per hill and his first appearance in public created quite a little excite-ment excite-ment among those to whom he favored with a call. According to those who have seen it or heard what the other fellows said who did see It, the ghost is a handsome, well dressed man with a rather long nose and ' somewhat chiseled features. He was first observed ob-served one night coming from O level down to N. He had no lantern and! he did not seek out the trails, but came straight over the precipice and! reaching the level approached a shanty wherea,few souls were assem-i bled. The men did not know it was' a ghost and Btarted towards it, thinking think-ing it was a man, as it looked. , At the Bight of the men the ghost began a flanking movement, ran across the level and Jumped over a high : and dangerous precipice to the M level Those who saw it were' horrified. They decided it was a crazy man or some desperate criminal and they knew he was killed. So they picked their way around by a trail to the lower low-er level to find the mangled remains! of the unfortunate, but they found nothing. They were puzzled at the appearance and the disappearance of this strange visitor, but had this been the only call it might have passed unnoticed. un-noticed. It wasn't. Mr. Ghost came again and seemed to take special delight de-light in letting the men chase him awhile and then he would Jump over a steep cliff and disappear. These capers he kept up night after night,1 but would never enter Into conversation conversa-tion with the men, and would disap- pear wnen it seemed that tie was about to be cornered. And when he disappeared there would be no trace of him left behind. . Hut at last one night he descended to the :N level and the men there decided de-cided to capture him alive. When the men started for him the ghost fled as usual, but this time he did not choose to Jump from one level to the other and ran along the level with the men In hot ' pursuit. The men gained on him and Jimt as he was approaching ap-proaching a sharp curve on the level were almost ready to lay hands on him, but when the ghost rounded that curve he vanished Into thin air. It is said that there was no nossible way for him to escape or hide there, but when the men reached the corner they could not see hide nor hair of him. There is a diversity of opinion about this apparition, but In view of the fact that the ghost Is still at large we can see no necessity for elucidating elucidat-ing upon mere opinion. |