Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-03-27

offered her no indignity, and refused to
answer any question as to what they In
tended to do with her. The march was
resumed after the necessary rest, and
the lady was conveyed long distance
to hacienda, where she was afforded
comfortable quarters, but was retained
a prisoner. This treatment was re-
peated for four days and nights in sue
cession, her captors evidently knowing
what points to make in Orderto procure
fresh horses for the succeeding hours of
travel On the Sunday morning follow
: ing her abduction they arrived at large
town, the name of which Miss jackson
did not know, and here she was COM
mitted to the county jail and held a
close prisoner for a week. In the mean
time She was provided with clothing,
and every attention was paid TO her,
but her freedom was denied She be-
terry surrounded the movements of her
captors, for they were evidently men
of high'authority and apparently meant
her no bodily harm, but their purpose
n spiriting her away from home she
could not divine. The horseback jour
ney continued from day to day, until
they finally reached mountainous dis
trict, and then for the first time Miss
Jackson noticed that the men escorting
her were becoming nervous about some
thing, holding whispered conversations,
stopping to closely inspect the roads
and the country, and by their manner
giving'token Of grave concern. She
concluded, as night drew on some two
weeks after she was taken from her
home, that they were lost; but she had
hardly framed the thought before up
rode a body of Mexican soldiers
with general officer or Colonel at their
head, and by these she was taken in
charge and conveyed toward the coast,
while her kidnapers rode off in an OPP
posite direction. Not word was said
TO give her any information as to what
was to follow. The chief officer proved
to be Colonel Jean Baptiste San Miguel,
Military Commander in the Eastern
District of Chihuahua. He engaged in
conversation. with the young girl, and
paid desperate court on the spot, an.
nouncing TO her in conclusion, that he
was determined 10 make her his wife
I She, of course, declined the honor, and
with spirit demanded to be released
from captivity and returned to her home
/ The Colonel smiled as he remarked that
she was over four hundred miles from
her residence, and then Miss jackson
realized that she was in the power OF
men of whose character and intention.
she knew nothing. She thereupon de.
| termined never TO consent to this OBJ.
| jectionable union, and to take the first
opportunity of escaping.
The close scrutiny to which she had
been subjected was somewhat slack
ened, and one dark night, finding the
/ espionage not so close as usual, she
{ managed to evade the guard at the
camp, and made her way to the squalid
hut of Indians. whose language she
could talk, and who consented to be-
friend her. She learned from them
that she was then within a hundred
miles Of the Gulf of Mexico, and the
Indians took her to the shore in secrecy,
and there she found protection for sew.
eral weeks. In the meantime the fish.
ermen from the locality came in with
boats, and in one of these she set out to
sea to intercept a steamer on the way
to New Orleans or Galveston, but to
no purpose. After more than a month
of suffering and torture on one of these
trips out in the frail craft on the gulf, a
sail ship was signaled, and Miss Jackson
was kindly taken aboard and cared for.
1t proved to be the brig Lydia, from
Boston, then bound for Havana. StormA
arose, the ship was damaged and
delayed, and had to run into a
small port to make repairs. eventually
reaching Havana on the 23d OF August.
Miss Jackson applied to the American
Consul for assistance, and he insisted