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A REAL GHOST STORY.Rosebud County Man Tells About the Ghost of a Cowboy Killed bv Indians.“We have a real haunted house in our county and nobody has been found with nerves strong enough to inhabit it since it acquired the reputation of being the abiding place of a ghost, although several have made the attempt.”The speaker was a gentleman who has long resided in Rosebud county, and who spoke in all seriousness, and he was talking to the Hillings Gazette.“No, I *m not joking: neither have I becom locoed by the many ghost stories of a jiolitical nature that have been sent out from our countv. Thir-teen years have almost passed since it lirst became noised about that the house of which I am speaking was disturbed by visits from an inhabitantof shade land.“In May, 18*10, Hob Ferguson, a cowboy, who was living alone 011 a ranch 011 the Little Rosebud, a tributary of the main Rosebud creek, disappeared. He owned some land andseemed to be fairly prosperous. Search for him was made after he had disappeared a few weeks, but no trace of him could be found. Finally the round-up started and the cowboys concluded to look for Ferguson as well as for cattle. One day some of them discovered a dead body buried in the red shale of the hills nearby where Ferguson had lived. The body was identified as that of the missing man and subsequently it was fairly well established that he had been killed by the Cheyenne Indians, who at that time were still inclined to be ugly and would take in every straggling white man they could find when they believed that detection would not follow.“Ferguson let! a sister, who disposed of the ranch to a married man. It was not long afn r the new owner had taken possession when nightly the occupants of the house were awakened by some one rapping 011 the door. Beattie, the man who bought the ranch, was away from home considerably, leaving his wife alone. She was anything but a(Continued on Fourth Page.)
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Rosebud County News
Forsyth, Montana, US
Thu, Jan 22, 1903
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