Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-03
A WHITE FEMALE OUTCAST.
THORNs RANCH, FROM CHOICE,
AND NOT NECESSITY.

| PEAL appeared Drlef Item 70 the eject that
white woman is living with band of Washo,
Indians near Thorn's ranch, about two mile,
distant from this city. Some believed it tt
be an April fool joke, but that is not the case.
as representative of this paper has seen and
conversed with her. Our reporter visited the
camp yesterday afternoon, and accosting an
intelligent Indian, asked to be shown where
the white woman was to be found, which re-
quest met with very ready compliance on
the part of the Indian. When our reporter
got within a hundred feet of the woman 3
wigwam she rushed out of it and fed. Upon
being assured that no harm was intended, and
that her visitor merely desired to converse
with her, she timidly returned, and stated
that she always avoided white men and women
since she adopted her new mode of life, fear
ing arrest and compulsion to forsake her
present companions, who, she said, we're en-
tirely suited to her taste. This woman is ap
parently SO years of age, has very pleasing
but dissipated face. She was clad in tight
fitting, faded morning wrapper, through
which the outlines of perfectly modelled fig
ure were discernible. During the interview
with our reporter she acted in arrange, silly
manner, but this may be ascribed to embar
rassment resulting from her singular choice
of position. Upon being asked as to what Pc
culiar abnormal fascination induced her to
abandon the society and customs Of her own
kind, she replied that the unkindness and de-
ceit which she encountered among the white
people prompted her to mingle with o race,
which, if they did not possess the civilization
and refinement of her own, at least were
more aincsre and afectienate in, their nature.
She was very shy about relating anything re-
speeding her former course Of life and rels-
tises, but this much was at length wormed
out of her, BY considerable diplomatic manep-
vering. Her home is in San Francisco
When about % years of age: she was led
astray BY the promise of marriage, but the
promise was never fulfilled. She went from
bad to worse, until one. day she, met a~man
sho, in spite of her fallen condition, proposed |
marriage to her. A wedding succeeded the |
The honeymoon, however, was
,ery brief, indeed. 81 She. had not been wed
led but . month when her husband bsgaa a I
ystem of the most inhuman abases and cru +
lilies towards her. For tive years. she stood
his, bat at length, when tho poors ,wretdh I
ould endure it no longer, she sued for . d. I
orce, which was granted. After this she BE- !
an career of greater abandon than ever
Wherever she went she met with nothing but
rebufs and kicks She drifted
0 Prescott, Arizona, In company with low
nd vulgar crowd, and there entered q dance
ouse as the star attraction About o year
go she came to Nevada, oseillating between
,ureka, Virginia and this city, a. denizen
the lowest bagnios For the past three
lonths she has been resident of Carson,
nd about three weeks ago, after having had
'me serious difficulty with her "loyer,' she
ecided upon taking the step which she has.
t first the Indians hesitated at taking her q
ito their fold, but her persistence in the mat
r was productive of success. She concluded a
= saying that nothing in the world would d
ow induce her to resume her former life,
owever bright the prospects might be painted
r her. Her name could not be learned. -
uring the interview large number of bucks b
ID squaws were present, evidently very Gu {
ous to know what it all pertended. The a
oman says that if she is not let in peace c
here she now lives, she will leave for an 8,
her branch of the Washoe tribe, whsoe g.
mps are farther distant from the habitations a
the white man than this one. This is GER "
nly one of the strangest cases of human de- tt
ayity on record a
He KNEW HIS MEN.-Capt. W. J. Cowen ol
very keen and sagacious theat "
al doorkeeper. In the midst of the rush III
Tuesday, two fellows presented themselves Iii
the Opera House door with the purpose of Oh
tering, but exhibiting no tickets, Capt. u
wan stopped them. They stated that they nj
been in before, and when coming out 10
led to get check The Captain, however, Ut
lcluded that they were dead beats, who al
/ not been in the house before that evening, Iii
l his conclusions were correct, for they 81
hdrew without much ado, which they
uld not have done had they been entitled 80
admission. That's right, Captain, always M
per that class. "
2ErURNED-Dr J. w. Waters returned ia
m San Francisco yesterday morning, and Ia
orts that his daughters Mrs R. E. Kelly J.