The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

when he was old and poorly dressed and in
poverty. He just laughed about the way
ne had sat about and let other men get mi-
mons Of dollars; but he did think that Call
fornia ought to give him more honor for
what he had done for the commerce of the
world.
seekers after gold from the East began to
pour in. 1t seemed as if the whole East was
turned upside down, and its population poured
upon California. When 1850 came there were
thousands and thousands of yong men-once
IN while wCman-focking into California
put We old settlers had become used to see
ing men get rich in the gold mines by that
time and looked upon the acquisition of sud
Den riches as an everyday occurrence NV
husband came home in April, 1850 for a third
time. lie had made over $50 OGO in digging
gold, ana we felt as rich as any Astor or
Vanderbilt ever did. Just at that time nv
husband broke his leg, and that was the be-
ginning of our hard luck again. There was
ohly one doctor within sixty miles, and he
was Door one. We paid him 81 500 to look
after my husband for four weeks and were
glad to have his services at that price NV
husband never went back to the mines for
by the time he was able to endure hardship
the mining field was sWarming with restless
a aegg resslye' wild miners, and he felt that he
hdd no more good chances there to get rich
In June, 1851, Mr.. Harris bought herd of
cattle from Salvador Vallejo and drove them
GOWN 10 Bemc:a, where the military garrison
was located Just think what fools we were
10 go INTO the cattle business when there
were untold millions still in those hills and
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Wen along with my four children in a wagon
Drawn by an OK team. The cattle were hut
cheFed and the beef sold at Benicia but n
was poor investment. We lived at Benicia
well acquainted with Capt. IT, S. Grant who
had come there from the Mexican war He
anu my husband were about of an age
we little imagined that the quiet modest
chunky man would be the great American
general in twelve years more Cant. Grant
was then smoker but cigars were too ex-
I ~ n
contented himself with a briarWood ninn He
was good card player, and l remember that
peuro was ms favorite game. He was very
poor then, and l recall that although he had
10 De very careful of every cent he snent of
MS small salary, he took little interest in
me adurlng stories told day after day by
men Gown from the mines with gold dust
GidII Was great reader He found some
ola DOCKS in my husbands collection and I
link ne Went through all of them He used
10 read, as fast as we could get them the Nc
riodical installments Of Dickens stories which
were then coming out and he would tain
ABOUT aogt the characters in the novels He
@on a. "a abo ny wSsef up to some fort in Ore
son a. ABOUT the time our family went South
to Monterey, which was then one ~ Az he
booming and liveliest towns-outs!de Of The
! INNING reg1ons--in all California.
We lived in Monterey for six wears and
! my husband dealt in cattle and sheep. which
| - b snlppeo ana driven to the mining towns
nave nave seen hundreds of fair steers that
! brought $oUO IN gold each IN those DAYS hut
when you remember what exorbitant prices
! had to be paid for feed and for rancbpo9
D udere Was not such great profit in the bust
ness; besides, everything we ate and wora
was put on a gold mining basis NV nus
Dand PAID common vaquero $500 month in
gol9 Ior three years, and my calico dresses
used TO cost $35 and $40 each in those davs
! we sold hundreds of pounds of butter at 60
| pound, and some at 81 a pound. but If was
700 SLOW way OF making money in those ex-
uaorolhary times, and we did not make one
! quarter as much butter as we might have
! made. nave
/
Up to 1859 had enough personal incidents
/ to FIJI book. l once rode seyentvAve noiIae
/ on horseback in one day and carried . nno
year-old child in front Of me. / was going to
! see sick woman at San Jose. and / tainted
/ when they helped me off the horse
My husbands health began to fail in 1870
ana we started for hot. dry climate sncb
! as there is in New Mexico and Arizona. The
! best days for god mining for moor mon No.
! over by that time, and the mining companies
! that nave put in capital and made millions
! by scientific and business-like mining had
begun work on quartz mines and at the
! PAGERS In 1861 we drifted into Texas where
we were attacked by the Apache indians
Inc men were out hunting wild turkeys and
woman and her children and I and mine
! were there alone. discovered the Indians an
! preaching our camp, which was situated in
brushy place. I loaded the guns we had
! and suggested that all hide themselves The
| two Oldest girls ran and hid and a sixteen
year-old boy went alone to a hiding place
we women and the smaller children secreted
ourselves in small cave In the bank of the
they did not discover US. l had forgotten to
hide the money that we had along, and with
which we intended to buy cattle to bring to
California Afer they had pirlaged the camp
and taken the money $4,000 they started of
| and discovered the two Oldest girls Thew
succeeded in catching my girl. because her
| dress got tangled in the brush She was
twelve years old. The other girl could hear
the blows and her sisters screams as they
struck her down.
I'VE al returned to camp and heard the
girls story, but did not find my girl as she
had recovered sufficiently to wander around in
search of help. We found her the next day
but oh! the anxiety felt during that long
night! Yes, we found her, and my anguish
was horrible when 1 discovered that she had
been scalped and was partially deranged Nv
husband and seventeen men followed the In
dams 200 miles, but never caught up with
them. My husband died In Los Angeles in
February, 1858. My daughter who was scalped
died in Tulare, Cal, when she was Is years
old from the injuries she received six years
before. Those years were the most fearful
Of any l ever knew on the frontier, and /
don't like to think OF them.
There, do you not think ! had a life
filled with remarkable vicissttudes? Often as