The Arizona sentinel., 1884-09-06
ON A COLD TRAIL.

A fall woman leading a chile 'by the hand atighted from a
 Western train three days ago a
 the Union depot on Canal street
 Her complexion was brown, hel
 cheeks were high and projecting
 and her hair was jet black. She
 was plainly dressed, and probably
 the most expensive article of at.
 fire she vanished straw hat sur.
 rounded bya purple feather. As
 she looked around the station
 wonderingiy, and her little boy
 at he side clung half frightened
 to her dress, it was easy to sec
 she WAS stranger to Chicago | Approaching che of the mer
 around the depot, she asked sev
 eral questions, shook her head
 gravely once or twice. and then
 with downward head, as if she
 were Tn tears, led her boy slowly
 up the stairway to Canal street,
 where she stood for g few min.
 utes gaviag alternately to all points fthe compass.
 "That seems to be a kind of hard case." said the depot-hand whom she had been questioning. "She has come with her boy all the way from Pawnee City, Neb. and if it hadn't been for the kind ness of the other passengers on the cars she would have been dropped somewhere on the road long before she reached Chicago, because she started without mon> ey or ticket, and, I dare Say. for that matter the pair hadn't a morsel of grub, between them. Yeu see, this is how it is. She is a half-breed Indian, and married a white man--a labOrer on the railroad. When the mans job was Finished beedeserted her and her child and left her penniless. She learned from some of the other laborers that he had gone off to Chicago, and without kuowi z anything about Chicago except that it was pretty big village somewhere inrthe east she silently went home, dressed herself and her boy, and boarded the first train to this city.
 "ihe conductor was teliieg me ali about her. When he asked ter for her ticket she looked scared and said she hadn't any bu fl he w'uidn't take her along tO Chicago she and tiIe boy would just step out and walk-Walk, mind you, to Chicago from Ne hFaaka. Welt, this kind of stagg- nred the conductor, who began to question her. She sad she was going to find her husband, whose nat1e was Thomas. and that she didn't expect there would be any d dlfficuIty in finding him, as he would probably be working among the other laborers on the new track at Chicago. You see she thought Chicago was some where the railroad Was going 'o be laid for the first time. Well, the conductor, a kind hear ted fellow, didn't like to turn her off the cars and he went among the other passengers and told them how the squaw, as he called her, was going to take walk to the village of Chicago to find her husband. vino had skipped out and left her atone with bay. The word Was passed around and in half an hour Mrs Thomas had not only her fare raid, but il few dollars nVertO get her food on the trip and stili'ieave her some money to get along with in Chi cago for a day or so anyhew. For [ Two days she satin the car speak ng to nobody and staring blank Tn front of her, and it wasn't until the third tEat sine veBturpd to ak the conductor if she wasn't going out of her way and mightn' have i passed MT. Thomas on the road. There goes the 'squsw' and 'pa apoose' now, along side tue fence up there," concluded the depot man land expect they'll l have time of it before they i chance upon MT. Thomas in the streets of Chicago"
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