The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-30
BUTTE News.
BLIND AND FR|ENDLEss
A O1d Lady Alone and Without
Money Arrives in Butte.
WANTS TO GET TO OGDEN
She Has q Sister Living There. but Has
No Means of Getting to Her-County
Auditor Davies Has Her Case
Under Amusement.

Mrs. Lizzie Kaufman. Sc years old.
bind. alone. friendless and without
money. arrived in Butte yesterday on
the Northern Pacific from Seattle. and
the sheriff's office was notified of her
helpless condition. and she was taken
from the depot to the court house,
where she appealed to Auditor Davies
for transportation 10 ogden. The aud
itor got several remarkable stories from
her. and the old lady demonstrated thai
she had a bright and shrewd mind. not
w~ithsianding her many years. At first
she said she left Dayton. Ohio. two
weeks & for Ogden to see her sister.
and that by mistake the railroads had
carried her TO Vancouver. II. C.. and
from there to Seattle. and then to Butte.
by which time her money was exhaust
ed. She wanted To get to Ogden. and
Mr.. Davies offered to send her to the
poor house. but she threatened to COM
init suicide IL he did hat. She got
cranky and refused to answer any more
questions. so she was left alone for
several hours. after which she was
ready To give another recount of her
self. and said she was willing to swear
10 the truth Of IL as a Christian wom-
In. She said she had been living with
n sister at Dayton. but that the sister
died about eight weeks ago. The old
lady at that time still had the sight
Of one eye, but two weeks later she
suffered a paralytic stroke and became
totally blind. After she recovered her
strength she started out for Seattle 20
make her home with Mrs. Henry Krbel
a young m whom she had raised
from childhood. but on arriving i'm
Seattle found that the Kobels had
moved to some place in Idaho. but no
body knew where. Then she got sick
and spent several weeks in a hospital.
and when she got out she spent her last
$50 for a ticket TO Butte. She could
not explain why she came to Butte
instead of going To Idaho. but said she
had a brother-in-law living at Boulder
whose name she did not know. She
said she wanted TO go 10 her sister.
Mrs. Mary Hoover. who lives at the
second station beyond Ogden, and she
asked The auditor to put her on the
train. for she knew the conductor
wouldn't put a o blind woman Off.
Some day you'll be Sc years Old she
said to the auditor, "and then you'll
how il is"
She said she had been a widow for 30
years. ''come the 18th Of next month";"
and had two children. both of whom are
dead.
Auditor Davies had a suspicion that
the old lady had been beating her way,
and that she had money to pay for her
Transportation. but she Vehemently de-
clared that she was a good Christian
woman. and could show her church pa
pers If she had her valise. She finally
admitted that she was drawing interest
from an IS 1000 insurance on the life of
her son. but said they were keeping
the principal from her, n that she had
spent all the interest due her. She
said her son. before his death, N head
bookkeeper in a big bank in Ohio, a
grand master Odd Fellow. and stood
high i'm the Masonic and X. of p. lodges.
The old lady was taken back to South
Butte and left at a boarding house.
where she will remain until the auditor
can decide what to do with her.