Show DO SPIRITS MIGRATED ron fou THE taic STANDARD BY m LEWIS H EDDY marj mary jane gilsen is 13 cot not the th name of tha the woman whom this chronicle describes and whose strange life is known to e a number of people in utah nor is this name dame in to any way similar to the real name nam e of the woman it wa was under promise of not re revealing her true name nor the exact loca tion a f her residence in ia the mountains of utah that the writer baa has been permuted permitted to use the facts connecting her strange life with this and another world I 1 do not pretend to endorse nor the ideas nor all tha the facts here presented resented though somo some of the facts 1 know personally per tonally to be true aa as here presented I 1 have mere werey y the di disposition t ion to write to a bit of utah anidow and colorado history which some of the residents have not heard an and d a part of which having been printed in the newspapers news may nave ave been forgotten I 1 have made no study of the science ism or what not which forms for me interesting fe lea a ture turbot of abe e incident and whether the theory is good or badi bad I have no care as I 1 am not competent to jud judge gerof of the quality or value of ibe the presentation I 1 eaid taid la in the start that I 1 had cot Doe given the truename of this woman nor do I 1 give the name of the rather mysterious boy whose ab sence ence from this story would necea itale leaving the atory untold lie may not present such a mys terii us front to the utah people who knew him better than thin I 1 do but be he has been a soured of wonderment to me and I 1 am still unable to account lor for hn his existence though I 1 met him almost daily I 1 do not know that this prelude will serve any useful purpose to the readers of this tale but it puts the writer in in a it proper light as I 1 being simply the chronicler ot what has been presented to him through his own intelligence and the statements ot others the ion long handle of a miners miner ll shovel el pointed down hill from the t snow covered mountain side in a utah coming wining camp one december morning it indicated no distinct trill trail tur for tha snow was yet un broken but the shovel handle baudle pointed down hill and toward the open end of the one street of the camp it not only pointed down hill bill but it moved in in that dirc direction tion its movement was rapid faster and faster it became leaving no track on the frozen crust ot of the enow over which it paced the long lor handled shovel bad a rider a youthful binl rider whose daring ij is seldom quailed qu ailed by lads twice hii his age A naif balf round block ot of stove wood served ai as a eaddee and bridle he be bad had none A rope and a gunnysack gunn gunny sack comprised hu his traps ibis daring young rider guided his big steed holding to the long loog handle bundle very much asao as another other buy boy might hold bold on to the mane of a pony he ile came like the wind lie ile fairly blew down to the street landing leading against the side of the acore aitor el he did not the building with that lorce force which might be ile eap exp expected e acted from the ve I 1 of hi I 1 coming when wilh with 10 a h lew feet of the building 9 he tumbled off with as much aate as a circus performer per lormer rolls off bis his horse into the sawdust but be he clung citing to hla lis steed bleed and nod stopped checkup chuck up against the side of the house the store was of that character generally seen in in mining camps in the early ei aly days and aud contained such article articles of necessity and luxury as met the wants ot of the miners and their families la miliea the boy who made the wonderful nde ride down the hill entered the store and in a quiet nerv nervous otlis and hesitating manner told his wants hows flows the wid deiT asked the gray bearded red nosed man who bated wal ed upun upon him shed puny d dd d eick sick replied the boy at a be picked up the parcels par and aud tumbled them iti into the then gathering up the bag he started tor for the door stopped turned rubout and ad dressed the old man behind the counter say uncle dick I 1 wants to get trusted for a chunk of rhedin tei tet backer ive been taken care of tha the en I 1 aint made a ceni cent for fora a week eek the old man handed the boy a piece i of io bacco saying ill 1111 make you a present ol 01 that piece 1 I 1 won wont I 1 t have it replied the boy im no al d beggar im doin with yer on ou the square quare lil id pay ye lor fur that ter backer soo soona 11 a I 1 geta gets around to make two bill I 1 all right my boy have it your way 4 inen resting his elbows on the grimy counter he aske asks how flow be ye goin to spend the mention of tha word at the rout rough clad miners about the stove who eat sat between iha the necessary department and the luxury department of the store aach each A ach ono one of the doz enmen at one time or another attempted to draw the boy out in conversation oa on the subject of christmas but without avail and they were eager to hear what bia his answer would be damn chrissman Chriss mad acland and the boy picked up the bag big and wal walked ked w with ith lia big customary nervous gait to the door A As he swung open the heavy door he be concluded 1 I dont no bothin about christmas Chris smas 11 the drinks are ate on ye slid said the m men en at the stove in a chorus yeve lost the bet uncle dick bet set out the bottle of red stuff and the party swallowed their drinks in the same c chorus horus of action that their voices had just assumed then they resumed their seats with the same unity uniti of movement they were all thinking the same thing and the barkeeper ice er had joined them in their aba thoughts lite although he maintained d h his Is r regular position behind the long counter which served one end to deal out groceries and the other over which tho the red bottle passed a hundred times a day the boy tied his bag of groceries on the shovel twisted the long rope around tho the handle f it at the end with a slip knot and then lying i g the end to the wide leather J ln belt which served the treble pur par pose of keeping bis his coat closed in front and of strengthening his rail trail body and adding warmth to that portion of the body which most in the cul cold d mountain W weather eather he lie climbed the hill in a zig I 1 z zig ag following as near as habit could direct the be regular trail which was now hidden by the enow the miners at the store fell into a discussion of the boy mystery as he was dubbed and of the wid tier ider it looks to me said one as if there must be some conlie connection action be tween them two curious ones and not like mother and son san ei her yeve repeated them same opinions ions party nigh as man many y times ai as yeve liken taken a drink of liquor over this yer bar interrupted interrupt td uncle dick and if yer ter got no eigher a ser lution ov the problem the use express expression in yer opinion there was no reply the first speaker eat sat wi thAis elbows on his big knees and holding his big chin in his hands in deep thought A companion took up the conversation 1 I cant understand that boys aversion aver aion to christmas I 1 he said all the other little fellows in the camp go wild when christmas day comes and mystery simply refuses to accept it as an extraordinary day at all and rf re i decla acts any ones offer to nake him a present it was eight yeara years ag ago thia this week that ho be stra strayed ed into 0 ogden 9 den from where nob nobody 1 I y knew mary alary jane gilson found him im on the estreet and took hini to her cabin edina eu arts to learn hb his parentage or birth place proved fruitless he ile was ap patently parent ly about two yeara of age and he has remained with mrs gilien ever since although g she be bai hai never pretended that he ii is her eon and the boy flatly refuses to call derany her any other name than mary alary jane june I 1 bouli give a good deal myself to solve the mysterious affair the other men had listened closely to this man who appeared to 10 know more of the woman and the boy than did any others in the group the camp was new and this queer pair had been there only two years mrs gilsen had made a living by sewing se iving and the buy bad done chores about the camp to earn a little to help her along and keep himself in clothes and chewing tobacco he ile had bad used tobacco almost almot from hii his infancy and he be could not be persuaded to give it up he ile was unlike ordinary boys he lie wa more man than boy and at the supposed age of ten yeara be he was wider wiser in moat most things than young men of twenty this singular boys actions were no lets lees puzzling to mrs mra aisea than than to the rest of the people of the mining camp from the day ehe ebe found him a waif in the streets of ogden she bad loved him as much as she could had he been her own child her iler neighbors be lieveld that it was became because she was childless and a widow that her heart seemed to drw around the boy and cling to him but MM mra gilsen knew that this was not the case bhe knew what khe the could not explain that there wa was some hidden cause for her love fur for the boy it W waa as not like the love which mothers usually possessor possess posses for their offspring off pring the mysterious mysterious boy was her companion ho lie somehow I 1 took the place of her dead husband in her days and nights of sickness he was her 0 only n IT attendant ho ile was rough uncouth but bat never cross nor ill tempered with her kind and gentle in alt all bis his acts he was still mysterious and mrs hire Gil girgens gens illness W was not serious a blight slight attack of mountain fever from front which she the speedily recovered under the care of her boy nurse on the da day y before christmas the dozen doz in men who were at the store I 1 on t the he day the boy hero her 0 of this 8 story I 1 is is introduced were again 1 gathered Z around tha the big wood fire discussing the holiday the began uncle dick dok opening the conversation atter after the group had bad refreshed themselves and gat sat down again they th e y looked up at the old man suddenly sudden udde ii lj as I 1 if f startled from a day dream the repeated the old man has been a go goodba dun to ye men in this yer camp she stud nd that ere boy have cared for TOU you fellers in sickness sho has his ben a bitter to ye she hag has had es much trouble on her mind since B ace ehe she has been here ai as any doz dozen n of such fellers as ye hev bad had in ia yer whole life lifetime time it is griper for forma me to suggest that ye make her a chriss s mag mas present of enough maney money to carry her through the winter he stopped ii pi i i see what ettice eff jet h hi n w words would have the men never raised their bicais but they had lis listened liste aed an rih pad the lit list with 25 and ducle dick lai laii I 1 the money on the bar the dozen men arose and a az d izan a hinds went in into toa a doz in pockets not a word palsied but each man added to the pile until there WAS the sum of 83 i 0 laid on the bit bir for the winders widders christmas present tae old man set out the red b bittle atle the drinks were difed of and the group as silently their seats and the their I 1 meditations whose goin ter present that hat t yer money to the wid Jer asked the old man as he put pit t I 1 the I 1 e red lo 10 bottle 1 tle in it ita p place a there was no answer r something wai was on the mindi minds of these good hearted miners mines there was but little work doing in in the camp in this rough weather they fere were industrious and ti having iva 11 fellows and were comfortably fixed fixed and were enjoying the winters rest but today to day they were uneasy in in i mind that mysterious boy boyjian had continued to puzzle them wheres the boy been for the past week asked one and every man started nobody Nob odya a seen him since the da day y he came here and run his h u face for a bit of tobacco the wi ider was in here one day eaid said uncle dick but it come to mind to ask her about the boy 11 I 1 ibis his making a present to the tile wi lider was a delicate matter and these men strong in most things were weak in this the they y could not give the woman any good reason a f for 0 r the their ir generosity genero ity ahe would object to receiving anything like a in fley rew remuneration far for her good deeds A happy ids idea entered the minds of th U 3 dozen men almost at one moment lets give it to the boy boyl shouted three or lour four at the same time and the balance of the party were instantly on their feet with the same thought mattered unuttered but ready to be spiken again there was a doan glasses set out and the bottle passed and the agreement bound they then set about preparing a formal note which should ac accompany campany the gift when it was completed it read thus I 1 christmas 1834 zia miry june jane gilsen toe tae interest which the tija men iu in this c camp mp have bail had in tha the by mystery Mya tery prompts a us t to 0 present to y you 0 u for him tha the e enclose ilc lose I 1 sum of the fact that ou have been a guard laa to him and the further fac that ia in your stay in this camp you bava hava been bien kind to the sick I 1 we ass ask you to take anis gift anil and expend it fir him and it if you will atio also use BOOS ot it for yourself you it will wiil please us as very mach yourself and the boy a very pleasant Chr we are your blends TUB tife M mus it was arranged that the men would go to mr mrs gilsela Gila Gil ens seua cabin in a body and present the purse that the event should occur early christman christmas morning slowly these miners climbs the bill hill the frea fresh enow snow which fell the night before made the trail which had been broken a day or two before almost impassable impassible not avrora a word was spoken they were not at any time much given to talk and nod this christmas morning although they were doing a good deed they were particularly eilent alra mrs gilsen bad had been watching the advancing men and when she knew or felt sati flad that they were coming to her cabin she came out and went down the trail a few faw rods to a big tree where she nailed a large card this act wai was not seen by tho the men they moved along up the hill As the fora most man in the company reached the tree and read the card be he sto id there with blanched face faced unable to speak the party at stepped and another stepped up aud and read thai card I my imy godl he exclaimed the boy is down with smallpox there was a it consultation held and it was agreed that the buckskin bag containing the money and note should ba be attached ni t ached to a long 10 ng pole pule and thrown against the door of the cabin this was done and the group of men re returned to their retreat behind uncle dicks dicka stove the old man was eager to hear bear what the had to say and when the truth was told him great big tears stood on ho his cheeks and the red bottlo found its place op the bar with tha the proper number of glasses heres hopin the boy will boon soon get well the old man said as the party lifted their gl glaisek aises the beautiful camp or town own which is thi county seat of him hins dais county colorado is is dignified with the title of city and it well de do erves it for ita its beauty of location and the enterprise of its people lvios in in a valley or what might be bi more pro properly perrl ter termed ned a basin it looks up to the high mountains for prot protection edtion frona from wind and now snow in the winter and aird invites a generous breeze in the summer thus making the climate varied enough to ba bd pleasant at all seasons of the year there is H but little and the people are among the happiest in in the world ling that for a few years the look of even the prospect of railroad facilities for 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