March 25th, 1937. —————_ THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Page Nine PIII IARI AS | Keystone News - Chips Happenings of the Past Week in Nearby Counties a BLACK JACK THE NARRATIVE OF A BURIED TREASURE From Legends Collected in Central Pennsylvania By HENRY W. SHOEMAKER a aaas a al A RR any CHHLAAUVLLL LLL AMAA VIA WA VA Lad Shoots Self After Reprimand, Joseph Hoenstine, aged 12, of Queen | Blair county, shot himself with a re. volver at the family home, apparently | because he had been chastised {or the disappearance of several putomobile redskin, tire chains. He is the son of Mr, and at he saw.| M: Frank Hoenstine. Using a 32- Rifle ¢ Black Hunt an Ai Wild [he { naked, unshaven made a the lad sent a bullet Juniats | | \ into his body just above the heart passed entirely through bodv. He was rushed to the hos al un- | at Roaring Spring by Dr, Charles O Johnston where his condition remains critical. Aecording to reports the lad father had inquired about the disap- several automg re denied he the fathe thev could be found in a Nearby While the father went in the chains the lad | The discovery of a box Ol OK mont y, mo bly # Pe ish, | river was in the Sus- of Arm wide at that point, trong’s Creek, but at it was opposite the mouth leangth the reaman heard | canoe the stranger, he who pieces, which had been Dull d on an island quehanna nea I lig the a m ition he outcry. Heading his the cause of Black Ja R's con t} wilds © rity addled 1 him with Pennsylvania. This remargat haracter called various bélonied to 1 ly “The Black Hunter of the as Jack's Mountain ne he Jacob Schwartz, Ol ’ ” vig of a Spanish flor a1 a German Ki hi se ke : int > CHYICE. BR or u time 4¢ 1 RL ti daughter, I tined | t Id lif p ; bordere: r Selin toward motion | calibry that the revolve r Dag s0 give him ighaled to the his rit Pi mis le in barbecuing fire shin- Theourh | pearance of hain The lad and informed helf-—a weapon that days bef and S body, 1 @ former g former pa a a fa ae " on BRING TOUR Pennsylvania and LyOl y oF a £ os, « " 3 : y ’ 2 Gh a SE 2 AL EE Ay < EN rT y A § PR a Philadelphia, died Sunday at his hom BB Er i nd pa OWN CONTAINER in Overbrook. He was 83. St gov Fo SEs & i 4 eX i : 1907 to 1011, wa : By of Philadelphia, He first ent i member of Phil il, to which hs retirl; remus th ror irom Celebrate Silver Wedding * SOCKE ek. The county noved to Mil cks is a farmer. 1 and wo daughters, ¥ Rul, she Woman Breaks Windows of Tenant. Police of Lock ven found no av under wih J Miss SAvVe ner- admitted broke i bh - rom the first ih. 5 oh . Pio = 1da . Whe wilh A Dasel wat he number of windows or a house on Bald Eagle street jrindle told police she was the > of the house and that the pres- . Pes WDAlily ere In TIeary ot, ing RR SH A CA RL TR pas nts and refused to vacate H - TY CD ¥ F th Vid sue pe L id : . AR : * consulted awyer and y 7 be 8) ¥ a BA 3 i to $60 to Y DIE EDC add k »” 3 i. Be a o 2 BB Bo es 3 d Ae Eads “rd from | hatreds, | her, Captain 1 Hvis ihawnee maiden, wh n- one of es Mm owner it id cost £50 that che 'E Sl FORALL am [US ALL © mova] from the premises. Pur- re. she added would ¢on- A rN . \<D ) break windows u Flemington Man Critically Hurt. Wilson Spotts, 28, of Flemington, tim of an alleged hit and run mo- st late Saturday is in a crit- al condition at Haven Hos- of his re- compound fracture of his left leg, a frontal frac- the skull and contusions and the body. The accident wmppened while Spotts was walking along Route 220 at a point known fas the Flemington cut-off, in front of the Howard W. Burnell home. The car was traveling Flemington, a cording to James and Conrad Setter John Esenwine, who were walk- ing behind Spotts. Alter the accident they sald, the car turned around and sped back toward Lock Haven. : pProsps i Wild Hunters tad Wild Hunte: nigh the Lock p hope re ll | o ii ; . $1 | aif f NAL Ld} Vv 8x i suffered a Penneyivania, taki up his ring which bears his name He was about sixty '¢ YOArS | pruises of life of hardships had told on his Hercu- } as snow-white, much of the light Ther He had not be friendly with ev met, but the redmen could not made in 1763 that he himself sis { their people. He had parted bad friends wanted him to return east for for the treasure, but the Indian was a marked man he was afraid to return. But he was than in Ohlo, as the year of Black Jack's death " eased the murder of all of Logan's family renegnde white man named Daniel Greathouse illing to the Susquehanna country increasing feebleness, ping spring passed year hunting treasure was sty =A ey Q \ & zi . ital with only L@ A Jack eR elined to - toot of 1001 OF | ture of now beard v cold grey eyes Was a stoop to like shoulder: ATE, Was anxious te f [aT tilled an toward had ad and Logan, he Search another Pennsylvania Altoona Man Takes Own Life. Leonard Ferrone, aged 68, was found dead at his home in Altoona, by a daughter, Mrs, Anna Kempton, Mon- day afternoon, death being attributed to a self-inflicted wound of the head. The discovery wag made by Mrs i y ‘ ‘ a . Kempton when she returned from a g ¢ travel. i EA. reacher. who spent a night at his home shopping trip and found her father stated that Te felt To Temorse Tor Kill: | be faomet shot Beton pi on {LBA DISTRIBUTOR CAPS , ¢ LEIS DISTRIBUTOR ROTORS, <ff¢ DISTRIBUTOR POINTS .. "I'¢ foul go to alone, Black Jack wintered to be strong enough to make the But with the blooming of the came no increased strenth, and the trip from consummation as To a H¢ on another sie was a choice of y thi! i er 1 win on and and bull ihandon treasure. He he had not nacket tt ¢ fiat re mo over men could eat n lifet k wbhorrent to him nushed off ¢ mad ne it rel bie to beach amped, There eo 18 ever the | | | ! | ever " river murdered (1 ‘ ma ws ak mpart thom i having Fevenye Mr. Perrone is said to have been in ' ins o hf 5 ‘RE RE v TO | ket the ges out of the out t p 1 n " i oy gr e| Il health for some time, not having if he thrried | Vi out of ily Lo make way for the| pon able to take nourishment of any | tiements, just os the wolves and panthers had to be kin 10 to paralysis of the throat He considered himself an agent of civiliza- 4 dus . he would face his Maker With that plea. But he | dended having Killed fs many As three hundred Indians, in Cano ooner of canght WINDOWS QUICK the cheat. AND CLEAR that stone, and placed the There was nothing le The canoe would carry hi He broke off the top of the ches took several hand “inate winin of xelerminated Lion Mackeyville Man Hurt Cutting Wood. of gold pit ’ " " " ¥ on dry ground in the the money he ind re-embarked Me saw Thdians in the distance, Tt Alter considerable effort he managed to fedash shore: It took all kill 16 do 850, as the river was high and trong. It wis a cold night, though in the month of May, but he ok off his cloak and fashioned It into a sack to carry his mohey. 6 wag now very Hungry, not having eaten Yor forty-eight hours, his scalped head stung ung smarted Ne a Nery cauldron, his teeth chattered, Nis very ribs shook with cold, Yet he meant to save the money at any cost There was an Indian path along the west bank of the river, and that he followed In the direction of Duncannon, All night long he walked, and all the next day. He was so. trazed with hunger that he resolved to surrender him- golf at the first Indian eamp he met, to exchange his Ne and his bag of gold for ¢ square meal, Toward nightfall he saw aD Indian in a canoe in midriver, Stenping out on a rock near the shore, he called to him lustily, The lid, and buried the che the island. He had put bottom of the canos started to leak again wang a perilious position center of had taken in the But the canoe the current { hunter's words Jibing with he had been drinking when he made that boast Wie cletgyman’s views of pre- destination, the palr parted in a friendly manner, A few days after that the dead body of the Wild Hunter was found by his spring, a bullet through his heart, As he had nol been scalped, few ascribed the crime to the Indians. Tn the dead man's clitched hand was foundl & much soiled and frayed paper, which fell to dust as the neighbors tried to pry it loose from the marble- lke fingers. The bofly of the Wild Hunter of the Jun- fata wad laid to rest on the summit of the mountain which bears hls name and which he loved so well, It fg reliably Stated that the next year when James Logan secretly re- visited the Juniata Vasey for the last time, he managed | to locate the grave of his old-time foe and latter-day friend, and stood by the mound of rocks for a full hour in silent contemplation. For many years the spirit of the Wild Hunter failed fo find rest. Just ng there are sleepless nights for the living body, there ls sleeplessness for the soul, Every (Continued on page eleven) lim, ® id The old! Paul Schaffer, of Mackeyville, was | seriously injured recently when a piece | of steel became imbedded in his leg | {as he was cutting wood, Part of the! steel wedge, with which he was split- ting large wooden blocks, broke off and entered his leg near the knee, At the time he continued work and thought nothing of it, until the next morning when the pain became Intense and he | | wag taken to the Lock Haven Hospital, | Escapes Tojury in Explosion of Stove. | McClelland Wier, of Lock Haven, es- | | eaped serious Injury the other morning | | when the coal eook stove at his ! | blew up throwing hot conls over | kitchen. Just what caused the | glon had not been determined unless | from the the arm »
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