The Anaconda Standard tells the story of the desertion of the little baby boy, who was found in the depot last Saturday night, in graphic manner. The following is the account given in the Standard.
The Milwaukee depot at Harlowton is haunted. If you don't believe it just ask "Pooh," the colored porter of the Murphey eating house at that place. He will tell you-and tell you honestly-how he saw a ghost in the station Saturday night just as it was getting dark.
The ghost moved. It was over in one corner, and he saw the white clothes moving and then he heard the little cry that could only come from a ghost. As soon as he saw the apparition he backed out of the waiting room and made a bee line for the quickest way out of there. He met several of the townspeople and told them what he had seen. They laughed at him, but it was no laughing matter to him. He was positive and he told them to go see for themselves. As for him he didn't have any desire to investigate.
His hearers with that natural curiosity to see what it was that had so started the colored man went up to the station to investigate. Sure enough over in one dark corner of the ladies waiting room of the station was "Pooh's" ghost. It was there all right, wrapped up in white clothes and able to cry out loud. It was a 2-months-old babe and was just as cute as it could be.
Evidently the mother had deserted it in the hope that it would fall into the hands of some good family. The child was warmly wrapped up and had apparently been left there shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
From the Harlowton News