The Daily Telegram from Eau Claire, Wisconsin • Page 25

Death of Horse Still a Mystery By ROBERT E. COX ALAMOSA, Colo. full year after the strange deatr of Snippy, a handsome Appaloo sa gelding, the argument stil goes on as to whether he done jn by murderers from outer space or died of more natural causes. Trained investigators have announced that the three-year- old horse was the victim of an infection. But Snippy's owner, Mrs.

Eerie Lewis, rmains convinced he was slain by forces "not of this world." A lot of other people continue to wonder what really did happen, and at least one now has Snippy's skeletal fiopes it can be proved that the horse was, as Mrs. Lewis believes, "zapped by a flying saucer. Snippy's story started Sept. 7, 1967, when he didn't show up for his customary drink of water at Inn Marry King ranch about 20 miles northeast of there. Two days later, King found the horse's carcass a quarter-mile from his the questions began.

Head, Neck Skinned The animal's head and neck, King said, were completely skinned, down to the withers. The exposed ibones were bleached and still to the spine. At the withers, the flesh appeared to have been neatly sliced. King returned to the site with Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis, and Mrs. Lewis said she found what appeared to be "exhaust riarks" and a flattened bush. She said a strange sweet odor 'like incense" pervaded the irea, that her hands burned after she picked up a piece of he horse's mane, and that her boots were later found to be radioactive. Her investigations convinced icr that death had come to Snippy from out of this world. As the people in this big, moun'tain- rimmed a.nd thinly populated southern Colorado valley suddenly remembered having seen strange things in the sky.

Reports of "sightings" came from many residents, including Agnes King, the 87-year-old mother of Harry King and Mrs. Lewis. Mrs. whose eyes are bad, nevertheless is sure she saw something pass over the ranch house the day before the horse disappeared. Pathologists Study A pathologist conducted an autopsy on the horse.

The brain cavity, the spinal cord and the abdominal cavity, the pathologist reported, were found to be empty. More mystery, some said. More sightings were reported. Some were bright, white'lights. 3thers flashed red, green and blue.

Forestry official Duane Mar- at the request of Mrs. Lewis, went to the area with a eiger counter. He reported high readings. A month later, investigators from the Air Force-financed jroject to study unidentified flying objects arrived at the scene from the University of Colorado in Bcu'der. A week tale spread, some I later.

Dr. Robert J. Low. 5 Dally Talegrdm Eau Claire, Wisconsin Wednesday, Oct. 2, 196 project coordinator, said h.

office was no longer puzzlec His researchers, he said, ha found nothing that couldn't explained. Dr. Robert Adams of th Colorado State University veter inary college said his examina tion of the carcass showed tha the horse had an infection in th flank, and it was sever enough to kill him. He ipecluated that someone maj lave found the horse suffering and cut his throat to end his misery. Lightning Suggested Then Adams said, predator would have cleaned away the damaged skin quickly, and the and spinal fluid would lave liquified and evaporated in he dry climate.

Alamosa county sheriff Ben 'hillips said the cause was ightning. "I don't believe in lying saucers," he said. Then, another veterinarian, Dr. Wallace I. Leary, 42, of Uamosa, asked Mrs.

Lewis for nippy's bones. "I thought we as well keep him around ere," Leary said, "because e's given us more publicity lan we could ever pay for. I ecided to mount the skeleton." Mrs. Lewis agreed, and Leary egan boiling the carcass to get lean bones. In this process eary said he found two bullet oles in Snippy's left and right ank, and guessed an infection ould haVe resulted from those ounds.

Mrs. Lewis Unsatisfied Leary's theory, "and I'm aying it's just a theory, is that couple of kids hit him with a ouple of .22 slugs. Then, the orse is scared and he takes off a high lope and runs through barbed wire fence. "I've seen it before, that wire an clean an animal like a knife 'icing cheese." None of the earthly theories ill sway Mrs. Lewis, her usiband and several other lamosans.

"They're here," ewis says of outer space isitors, "There's no question bout that." viishap Helps Business HOLMES CHAPEL, England garages of this Cheshire village were flooded ith phone calls from an stimated 70 drivers needing pairs for punctured tires after passing truck dropped a arton of steel pins on the main ighway. Indians Note Old Festival in New Mexico By JACK K. GRAEME ACOMAN N.M. (UPI)-Eacl year the Acoma Indians return to their ancestral home atop barren sandstone mesa celebrate the annual feast of St pueblo's patron saint. The mesa called Sky City jut; straight up 376 feet from the valley home since before the birth of Christ.

A one time almost ived in their multi-storiec adobe apartments atop the mesa, but now only a few live here permanently. The rest in nearby towns, where heir children can go to school and they can make a living. Now Peaceful Farmer Now peaceful farmers, the comas were warriors feared the Spanish, who first saw hem an August of 1540, while passing through what is now Mexico in their efforts to nd the Seven Cities of Cibola. In 1598 the Acomas decided ot to battle the tide of Spanish olonists, and they rendered the ct of Homage and Obedience New Mexico's colonizer, Don uan de Onate and the King of pain. But in December of that year He Indians killed Juan de zldivar and 12 of his 19 oldiers after they demanded xcessive supplies for a journey the Pacific.

The Spanish etaliated with a three-day siege nd finally battled their way to le top of the mesa. Some 60000 Indains were killed or eaped to their deaths, the ntire pueblo was razed and 80 arriors and 500 women and lildren were taken captive. They were ordered into ervitude or given to the church nd men over 25 had one foot ut off. It was many years efore the Acomas rebuilt what as left of their pueblo, and all time they nursed their atred of the Spanish. In 1629, 3 years after they were almost estroyed a Franciscan brother the mesa.

Suspi- ous, the Indians prepared to hrow rocks at him ccording to child eaned too far over the edge nd fell unharmed right in fron: UNIQUE FORMATION of Royal Air Force planes gives a flying display in celebration of the RAF's 50th anniversary. Formation was a highlight of the Farnborough Air Show in England. was welcomed by the Indians. Jnder his guidance, they rebuill their pueblo and then built a massive church that still stands this day one of the oldest missions in the country. Work it was begun in 1629 and it as not finished until 1640.

Today, the mesa that held off nvaders is a major tourist fraction and the pueblo is pen to tourists almost any me of the year. the priest. The priest, Juan Ramirez, New Manager Married by Thorp THORP, Wis. James P. iammitt has been named a su- srvisor-in training for Thorp inance Corporation and Thoms M.

iMcH'Ugjh has been named succeed him as manager of he firm's branch at 413 S. Bar- Street in Eau Claire. Hammitt has headed the Eau laire office since September 964. Prior to that he was manger of the Thoro branch in Wis. He received is training in Thorp offices in ice Lake, Whitehall, Beaver 'am and Ladysmith.

MoHugh will move to Eau laire from Janesville, where has managed the Thorp of- ce since December 1964, and prior to that he was head of the Comoany's branch in Freclenc. During 1964 he was assistant manager in Eau Claire. Japan Model for India, Leader Says NEW DELHI (AP)- Japan is the finest example for India to learn from, two Indian leaders said here recently. Reason: Japan's revolutionary technological advancement while preserving its ancient heritage. Jaya Prakash Narayan, a respected non-party leader, was giving newsmen his impressions after a visit to nine countries, including Japan.

"I found Japan is the coivi- try that can teach us the most," he said. He was amazed at the way "the Japanese have retained their cultural identity while assimilating the best in others." Praise also came from state minister in foreign ministry, B.R. Bhagat. He was speaking at a farewell dinner to the retiring Japanese n- voy, Yujiro Iseki. Bhagat called it a "miracle" that the Japanese should have advanced so fast without losing their cultural heritage.

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