Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
A Social Cyclone.


evening an episode occurred that has
kept the town agog ever since, and
the sequel of which is not unlikely to
prove yet more tragic and lamentable.
About eleven o'clock, while a large
audience was fastening homeward
from the Tabor opera house, a hand
some and fashionably dressed women
Of commanding figure, accompanied
by slighter woman of equal style
and beauty, was seen at the corner
Of the opera house, Sixteenth and
Curtis, rushing from a group of per-
sons up to lady and gentleman who
had just stepped upon the sidewalk
out of the electric glare of the grand
entrance. The by-standers were
mortified to see that in her jeweled
right hand she held a sill
yer mounted Deringer revolver,
which she presented OF the head of
the man and attempted to fire. AS
Providence wi1led it the pistol did not
explode and the woman was not a
murderess. The by-standers rushed
in and attempted in vain to wrest the
weapon from her grasp, but succeeded
in separating the Infatuated woman
and her intended victim. The woman
was none other than
MRS. KATE SHAFFENBURG,
the protrietress of a clearinghouse
on a fashionable street, and the man.
Mr.. SchOJtz, a member of the firm of
Scholtz & Hanus, prominent drug
gist and well-knOwn citizen of Den
YER
The crowd having separated, Scholtz
and his lady friend, accompanied by
the lady's brother and his lady
friend, walked on to the drug store of
SchOltz & Hanus, and were standing
therein when Mrs. Shaffenburg rushed
in and opened upon him with TRADE
of violent language, demanding that
he go home with her, and again flour
ishing the pistol The brother of Mr..
Scholtz' lady friend relieved Scholtz
of his charge and left the store with
the two ladies. Later Scholtz ac-
companied Mrs. Shaffenburg to her
home. What occurred between them
is not known, but a vigorous effort to
suppress the facts was made with such
success that only one of four papers of
the city has published an account of
the affair.
Mrs. Shaffenburg has a romantic
history. She is a beautiful and ac-
cOmplished woman, and is noted no
less for her personal beauty and ac-
complishments than for her eventful
life, her peculiar origin, and her many
good qualities combined with her &c
centricities, that perhaps were bred
in the bone" and must ''come out in
the flesh" She is a half breed Indian
the daughter of the famous Arm
strong, who long years ago became a
chief of the Wyandottes, who then
were the rulers of eastern Kansas and
owned vast territory along the Mis-
souri,, and from whom the city of Wy
andotte has taken its name. She was
one of a large family, the girls of
whom were celebrated for their wild,
gypsy-like beauty, inherited from
their mother
an Indian maiden in whose face and
form were realized all the beauties
that poet and painter have given to
Pocohontas. Armstrong having re
ceived wealth from the government.
educated his children thoroughly.
Kate became the wife of one Shaffen-
burg, who came to Colorado years
ago, made money in mining specula-
ions, and was appointed United States
Marshal Of Colorado Ten years ago
5hatfenburg was to Denver what
Tabor is to-day.
He lived in mansion elegant and
superb for those days; his family APP
oeared upon the avenues in a gorgeous
carriage, drawn by blooded horses.
with gold-plated harness.
The Shatfenburgs were the talk of |
he west, the envied society of the
rontier metropolis. Their glory was