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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
Nancy Harris, Pioneer.
An Aged Womans Stories of the Gold Fever in
California.

found plenty of game on the San Joaquin
plains, which we killed for meat
MY husbands cousin and a man named
Jones had strayed from the company while
IN the mountains, and We supposed they were
dead but my husband when hunting dis
covered their tracks and reported that they
were surely alive. AT one place l was so
weak | could not stand, and I lay on the
ground while Mr.. Harris went out and killed
deer We were then near the Sepulvida
amen, which was close to what is now Mar
tlnez. Mr.. Jones. one Of the supposed dead
men, and -one Of Sepulvida's Indians rode
into our camp and brought with them some
farina for me. We arrived at Sepuvidas on
Oct. IA, 1S43.
I'VE met Gen. Suffer at Alvarado's hacen-
"a, and IN December we went up with Suffer
r n leaky rowboat to his fort; We were
hfteen days making the trip The boat was
manned by Indians, and Suffer instructed
them to swim to the shore with me and the
child If the boat should capsze. That is only
a sample OF the chances took with our
lives every day in those pioneer times. When
we wanted to eat, we landed. angled for fish
or hunted for game, cooked and ate it. and
then moved on. We arrived at the stockade
that suffer called fort just the winner
rains set IN, about the middle of December.
Gen. Suffer was very hOspitable and we
PAID him few dollars a WEEKS I think
Ior remaining there until February or March,
l don I quite remember the exact month now.
Inc old building was a great barn-like affair
and the household equipment the very plain
est and most primitive. 1t is now the prop
erty of the state of California, and is a sort
OF Plymouth Rock of this state. My husband
uSed 10 go cut with the MeXicans who were
IN the employ of Gen. Suffer and vainly look
Tor something which he could develop into an
industry or business, but he was too young
or ne did not have the ability TO see the
future good things | can tell You. we snent
some terribly homesick days at Suffers place
Many night | have wept myself to sleep. In
later years when we saw the millions of dol
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
FROM HIS SADDLE
The GauchO Catches the TinamOu
With Rod and Line

Il have often seen tnamous in plenty
hung up for sale with ducks and chickens in
the Buenos Ayres and MonteVideo markets. -
satd Capt. c. A. Buckley, whose business
takes him yearly to South America, says &c
New York Sun They are queer looking
BIRDS with short bills, long, straight necks,
plump round bodies and short wings In
color they are not unlike a prairie chicken,
and l took them at first to be South Ameri-
can variety Of that bird, but found out that
they were OF quite another genus.
On visiting the ranch OF Don. Ernestino
Moldavo in the interior, $50 miles from
Montevideo, / learned more about this queer
fowl Riding one day on the pampas with
the major domo Of the estate my attention
was drown to two gaucho boys whose ac-
lions | could not understand Each Of these
poys was riding on an old plug Of a pony
long past service the sheep or cattle
ranges, but just right for the purpose for
which he now was using him. The rider held
In his hand rod, like a short fishing rod
but less tapertng and timber, cut from a river
reed. From the tip Of the rod dangIed a four
root line with slfpnoose at the end. With
their rods and lines the boys were fishing
for tnamous. AS the horse plodding along
through the grass came near a tinamou
the bird would lift its head to look Being
accustomed to the presence of horses graz
ing the plain, it would not offer to run or
ny, but sat still with neck outstretched
waiting for the horse to 90 by. Gently, with
the light pressure Of the bride rein on the
side Of the neck, the boy would direct rna
horses step In direction to pass the bird
the horse the tinamou seemed not to notics
the rider or his motions. When opposite
the bird the boy, leaning from the saddle
Just far enough to place him at the right
distance, would extend the rod and dTUp
the moose owe: the tinamou's head little
sideways jerk with the wrist to tighten the
moose, and then the young gaucho lifted ana
swung the bird to the saddle precisely as
boys swing pickerel into a boat In the North
American lakes. But here was no trouble
Of polling boat about or rebaiting a hook.
Deity the birds neck was wrung, it was
tied to one of the dozen short thongs at
tached TO the saddle, the moose spread AGAIN
and, the horse not having once checked his
pace. the rider would be looking for the
next tinamou. OF four tinamous that | saw
the boys approach to moose only one took
alarm, running swiftly away through the
grass without trying to use its wings
SO far as being allied to any OF the
grouse family, the tinamou In reality Is an
ostrich, the smallest variety known. Its
flesh u white and firm, and. though rather
dry and davorlegs II makes an agreeable
variation from the eternal beef and mutton
the principal meats served at the table, in
0i~ do Ia pl>AA-"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

concluded you were bluffing, and want
ed to force me out of the game in that
way. L made up my mind l wouldn' t
be forced that way
That pot cleared the colonel about
$4,000, and if you ever saw champagne
run in streams in your life you can
imagine how things looked in that
room an hour after the colonel laid
down his pair of sixes.''
THAT was one kind of nerve,'' said
the old settler, biting off the end of a
fresh cigar, but it wasn't the kind
that / saw shown once away back In
the winter Of 1866. In those days there
was a fellow who lived down in At
lantic county, John Staples. He was all
the time trying to get into a poker
game, and he never had much trouble
finding somebody to accommodate him,
because me always played in hard luck
and. as the boys said. gave up his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

In England, and he remembers well the re-
Joicing over the final disappearance of the
French cOnqueror Not long afterward he
suffered reverses in his English home-deatbs
10 MS family and losses in his bus!ness-and
accompanied by Two brothers. he came ~ III
country and settled in New York. He does
not remember how long he lived there. bIf
from his account of affairs it must have been
about ten years. Then the desire to wander
seized him, and he drtfted about from one
CITY TO another, visiting all parts of the
United States Sometimes he passed five or
return again and again, after wears Of an
sence. to the same city. His recollections NJ
THIS period OF wandering. which seems to
are much impaired but It q n0ssihIa ~
Dlecing together fragments Of his Converse
ton to get an idea Of It's extent and dura-
tlon IL must have lasted fifty years. and
Keen excitement and wherever men gathered
from azar, there went John Bradbury. ana
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

cause what man was going to fool away his
time with ham and pork and calico when
he could pick up gold nuggets all day long
up at the diggings?
You can have no idea how plentiful gold
was in that region all of a sudden and its
very plentifulness made 1t such delirious
a marvellous epoch we were living in. To
show how easy we got. wealth, | tell you that
one day Mexican, a stranger to me, came
riding horse to my house in Napa. He
asked me to store some god in my garden
for him, because he his way home
from the diggings, and found ne had too big
a load to carry. He had to go on horseback
eco miles further down the Sacramento river
l agreed and he divided a load of about
thirty pounds of gold nuggets and dust that
he had in bags the pommel of his saddle
He and l buried about fifteen pounds of gold
at certain marked spot in my back door
yard. Then he rode off and 1 saw or heard
nothing of him for weeks. He came back and
gave me about pound of the gold for my
keeping of his treasure and his secret Gold
| believe, was worth about $240 pound at
that time. That man had gathered his thirty
pounds in about five weeks, and l imagine
he was like most Mexicans, pretty lazy and
had not worked extra hard at washing out
gold. Why, my husband once panned out
eleven ounces of gold in one day, and when
you know that the stuff was worth SIS an
ounce, you can what possibilities there
were for industrious men them But we were
all fools, and there's no use regretting what
we missed
did we know Marshall, the finder of the
first gold? Yes. | recalled when he became
known the first gold miner in California
that we knew him when we were at Suffers
He a dozen years older than either my
husband or myself, and came around the Horn
to California few weeks before we did. 1
remember we knew him as Jersey, and he
called us 'Yanks.' Marshall came from a
little town in Warren county in New Jersey
He was herder or vaquero for Gen. Suffers
cattle when we first knew him. l saw him in
1851, when the gold fever was raging, and he
was worth probably 900 or $1,000 by his
god operations. He might have been one Of
the greatest mllionaires the world ever knew
but he had no ability for accommodating wealth
He was a middle-aged man when he found the
gold nuggets in Suffers mill race at Coloma
in 184S, and his habits and tastes were
formed. He had no idea above the simple
duties of life. and caring for herd Of cattle
a band of horses. | saw him again in 1873
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
HE is I2O YEARS OLD.
He May Be 100, But He Does Not Re-
member Exactly.

EUREKA, Cal, April 4. A man on his
deathbed in ranch house not far from this
city, is probably the oldest person in the
United States. He is so old that he has lost
accurate count Of the years he has put be-
hind him, but they are not fewer than 120,
and may be 100. He is John Bradbury a
native of Buckinghamshire. England. He
lives with the family of Charles Nelson, who
owns ranch about twenty miles from Eu-
reka-
He Is an old man who was a baby when the
world rang with the news that Napoleon had
been sent to st. Helena, but John Bradbury
ried and had grown children. He was still
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
BLOWN To ATOMS.
Fatal Dynamite Explosion in the
Calumet Mine

CALUMET, Mich, April 3-Two min
ers, Eric Nemi and John Talernsarie.
met a horrible death in the Calumet
mine last night. They were preparing
to blast 3,000 feet beneath the surface,
in a shaft, when all the dynamite they
carried exploded, blowing them to at
oms. Only small pieces Of the remains
have so far been found.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
3ere he stayed as long as things interested

there he stayed long as things interested
him.
Bradbury came to California in the early
gold days, drifted about the state from one
camp to another, went back to various parts
OF the East, and returned to the Pacific coast
two or three times, and finally turned un
some twenty years ago in this county of Hum
boldt Even then he had had so many birth
days that they no longer interested him. and
ne had ceased counting them. He has been
in this county most of the time since
About ten years ago the desire to see his
brothers again seized him and all alone
with the burden of his hundred and more
years, he went back to find them or their
descendants But the brothers had been dead
so long that, although the old man searched
diligently, he could find no trace of them
or their families. Then he came back to
humboldt county and resigned himself to dy-
ing without knowledge Of kith or kin. He
of Mr.. Nelson. Before this last Illness the
old man had been vigorous as most men
who are fifty years his junior. He must have
had frame OF unusual strength and a con-
st1tution OF amazing robustness, for he seems
never to have taken the least thought for
his physical welfare, and 10 have gone through
All manner of hardships during his wandering
life.
He has always taken his pipe and his grog
with regularity. He had most cheerful and
jovial disposition and is still a stranger to
most or the creeping whims and brooding
fanc1es OF old age. In most things his mind
is fairly Gear and his memory is better than
one would expect to find it in a man who
is so far past the century mark. The things
he has forgotten seem rather to have slipped
from his memory because he did not care
to keep them there than by reason of weak
enfng intelligence. Despite his load of wears
he does not want to die. Although he knows
trying as hard to yanquish death and snatch
few more years OF life as IL he were q
hundred years younger.
~ II
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
NOVEL DRESS FOR COMMENCEMENT
Two Ohio Students to Wear Flannel
Shirts and OveraIIs.

AKRON, O., April 3.-Thad Rice of
CCstalid, O., and Arthur Johnson, of
Wadworth o., students Of Buchtel col
lege, have entered into a written agree
ment that they will wear overalls and
flannel shirts when they graduate in
June. Both were born in the country,
and a pride in this led to the agree
ment Efforts of relatives to dissuade
them have been fruitless. Both stand
high in college and social circles.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
PECULIAR STONE FOUND IN IOWA
Mysterious Carved Slab Taken From
n Coal SHnft.

WEBSTER CITY, To-, April "a
very peculiar piece of rock was taken
out at the Lehigh coal mine today.
The slab was found just under the
sandstone, which was 100 feet below
the surface. 1t is about two feet long
by one foot wide and four inches THICK,
The surface is artistically carved in
diamond shaped squares, with the face
Of an old man in each square OF the
faces, all but two are looking to the
right The features of each are iden-
teal, bearing aopecuhar mark in the
shape of dent in the forehead.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

SIT here in my chair get to thinking about
strange scenes / have witnessed and the ex-
traordinary phases of life have participated
IN. | wonder If really I am one and the
same person who has experienced all this and
seen great state grow in one lifetime as
has California. Yes, / have been visited by
many literary men and historians. few
years ago no less person than Charles Dud-
ley warner come out from Pomona one day
while he spending the season in South
ern California, and he talked with me about
LIE as l saw it in California in the early
fifties"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
Notice to .Depositors.

The next quarterly interest term of
the Savings Bank of st. Paul COM
mences April 1, 1897. Money in sums of
So and upwards, deposited on or be-
fore April 10th, will draw three months
interest July 1. 1897. One dollar depos-
its received
EDWARD J. MEIER, Cashier.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

Don't be without 1t. 1t will cure con-
sumption by building up the system.
Blackburn Maryland Rye. California
Wine House.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

A tendency to consumption will be
arrested by a bottle Of Blackburn
Maryland Rye. So per gallon. Cali,
fornia Wine House.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

A NEW IDEA.-E. W. shirk's purchase and
consolidation Of the Quinby G. Abbott UNDER
taking business with his Seven Corners livery
will be combination appreciated by the pub
lie will make lower prices than have ever
been known in st. Paul, with the best of
service. Undertaking rooms, 322 Wabasha.
Tel. sos. Livery. Cor. Tel. S39.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05
DIED..

MULLALLY-In st. Paul, at family residence,
S99 Clark street, Sunday, April 4, at a. M,
John Mutually, aged thirty seven years Flu
neral from above residence Tuesday, April
=, at $780, Services at the Cathedral at
o'clock
JOHNSON-In St. Paul, Friday April g. at
p. M, Mrs. Margaret Johnson, aged forty
nine years Funeral from residence Of
Thomas Nealy, Lake Como Monday. April
5, at $50 a. m. Services at St Vincent's
church at o'clock. Interment at Mem
dota-
BOTT-In St. Paul, Mimi, Sunday, April l.
at the residence of his father 6S5 East
Fourth street, Peter H. Bot, aged thirty
eight years. Notice of funeral hereafter
Prescott and Milwaukee, Wis, papers please
copy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

No house should be without It In the
spring Blackburn Maryland Rye. so
per gallon. Absolutely pure Cali
fornia Wine House
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08
THE CITY.
e

Miss Lily Monty returned to Minneap.
oils to resume her school.
Weather report: Generally fair to-
night and Friday. Cooler extreme east
portion tonight.
Rev. j. L. NJ. Eckard arrived from
Volga on the train from the north and is
the guest of the Rev. DR.. Wolff.
Editor Dowdell of Artesisn and Mrs.
Dowdell, his brothers. wife, spent the
night in Madison on their way to Chi.
cago.
Supt. Daugherty to-day made the ap-
%portionment Of state school funds for
the quarter ending March /, 1897,
amounting to s2,726.16, or at the rate OF
sl.OS per capita to the school children OF
the county.
1.-The county commissioners have been
considering the applications and bonds
Of applicants for liquor licenses to day
ard approved those Of Duggan and
Giossi. Others may also be approved
before adjournlng this evening.
sin the matter of constables, the coun
ty commissioners allowed T.J. O'Shaugh
Messy to withdraw his resignation o.
January IA, last, and they have also ap
pointed Chas. Molwith of Wentworth, tt
serve as constable in that part OF th'
county.
Pipestone, Mimi, Daily Star: Tn
Boys and Girls Presbyterian Club o
Madison, s. D., issued a very oreditabl'
number Of The DAILY LEADER on Sat
urday, which was very literally patron
lied by the wideawake merchants o
that place.
The afternoon luncheon which was :
have been served at the residence Q
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08
Notice of Annual City Election.

Be 1t resolved by the city council of the city of
Madison, that notice is hereby given that the an
nual city election will be held in the city of Mad
ison on Tuesday, the 10th day of April, 1897, for
the election of the following officers, to wit:
One alderman from the First ward.
One alderman from the Second ward.
One alderman from the Third ward.
One alderman from the Fourth ward.
The polling places shall be as follows:
In the First ward, in the court house.
In the Second ward, in the city hall.
In the Third ward, in the Leland house.
In the Fourth ward, in the Office of J. b. Koch
ler's livery barn.
Also. the question will be submitted to the
voters of said city, Whether intoxicating liquori
shall be sold at retail in said city.
At said election, the polls shall be kept open
from 9 O'Clock in the forenoon until 4 O'Clock in
the afternoon. and no longer.
Adopted April l, 1897:
JOHN LARKIN, Mayor.
Countersigned
WIN. RAE, City Auditor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08
Dairymen to Meet.

MINNEAPOLIS, April s. The Produce
Exchange has issued a letter Of invita-
ton to the creamery and cheese manu-
f~acturers of the Northwest, inviting
them to meet with that organization
in convention in this city Tuesday,
April 20. The purpose of the meeting
is to enlarge the scope of the exchange
and to include in it the manufacturers
Of dairy products throughout the Ell.
tire Northwest. e.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08

Mrs. D. A. McGillivray last week, and
postponed, will be served o-morrow af-
ternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Everybody
is cordially invited to step in and partake.
Only 10 cents; Friday afternoon.
EThe German Evangelical church
whose membership Is largely in the
country north of here, will hold their
quarterly meeting next Saturday and
Sunday in the Advent church Of this
city. Rev. Fisher will be assisted by the
presiding elder Of this district.
Ensign Roe OF Minneapolis will speak
at the Salvation Army Barracks Friday
and Saturday evenings and Sunday at
100 to 2:30 p. m. Saturday afternoon,
from 3 to 4 O'Clock. he will organize a
Junior corps, the Ensign being field
secretary Of this department Of the work.
Register Of Deeds Thurow is moving
to-day into the Belknap house northeast
| of the First ward school house, and at
| the same time Photographer Glendeu-
ing, who is moving out OF the Belknap
house is moving into the Willard house
just vacated by Mr.. Thurow.
Miss Matte Regnold of Zumbrota,
Mimi, who came here last winter to Wis
it her uncle, Agrim Nelson of this place,
and cousins at Howard, was taken sud,
denly ill in church at Howard last Sun
day evening, and q telegram this morn
ing announces her death. Her ailment
was catarrh OF the stomach.
Quite a delegation OF Iowa men put
up at the Madison house last night
w. II. Purdy Of Belmont, G. A. Zemble
OF Nora Springs, F. D. Mitchell of Prim
CHAR, F. f. DeCelle Of McGregor, ant
others. Nearly all were looking for in
vestments in South Dakota. They state
that dozens more will be here shortly K
invest in South Dakota reality. Mr.
Purdy, himself a successful real estat4
agent, left for home this morning bu'
says he will be back soon to stay will
us. Mr.. Mitchell has come to stay, with
US and is looking for q house into which
be may move his family before building
for himself, and 50 on the good repor
goes. South Dakota will this year hav'
one Of the largest immigrations in it
history:
At a meeting Of the officers Of Grac'
church last evening. Rev. w. j. Glove
land announced that he had been grant
sd leave of absence by the Bishop an
board of MISSIONS, and about the first o
June would depart for the east to b
absent several months. Rev. Clevelan'
will be accompanied by his family 0
they will join him soon after his arriya
, in the east. The exact point wher
. :hey will spend the summer has not bee
definitely determined, but Rev. Clevelan
will first proceed to his former HON.
Orange. N. j., where relatives resid,
Rev. Cleveland also stated that Will
nothing definite in the matter had bee
decided upon, there vas q possib,lit
: that he would not return to remain PEI
msnently in Madison, as it was his d.
sire to reside nearer his relatives. TIL,
o will not be pleasing news to the other
OF Madison where Rev. Cleveland has r.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08
Notice or h Annual school Election.

Be it resolved by the city council Of the city of
Madison, That notice is hereby given, that the
annual school election will be held in the city of
Madison, on Tuesday, the , nth day of April, 1897,
for the election of the following officers, to wit:
One member of the board of education from the
First ward.
One member of the board of education from the
Second ward.
One member of the board of education from the
Third ward.
One membe of the board of education from the
Fourth ward.
The polling places shall be as follows:
In the First ward, in the court house.
In the Second ward, in the city hall.
In the Third ward, in the Leland house.
In the Fourth ward, in the Office of J. b. Koch
ler's livery barn.
Also the questions will be submitted to the
voters of said city
Shall a, 800 20 In bonds be issued to fund the
S4,5OOyOO in bonds due July l, 1895.
Shall $5,OOO.W in bonds be issued to erect a
school building In the city of Madison, .. D..
Adopted April !, 1897.
JOHN LARkIN, Mayor.
Countersigned:
WIN. RAE, City Auditor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08
Rucklin Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe-
YER Sores. letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re-
quired. 1t is guaranteed t. give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For sale by G. H
Wood.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-08

Thirty years is a long time to fight so
painful q trouble as piles, but Jacob
Mitchell, of Unionville, Pa, struggled
that long before he tried DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve, which quickly and
permanately cured him. 1t is equally
effective on eczema and all skin affect
lone.
FRANK SMITH.