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ence I have ever known. If we had not found water just when we did believe should have gone crazy. MT. Harris cousin and a man named Jones had strayed from the company while in the mountains and we supposed they were dead, but my husband discovered their tracks and reported that they were surely alive. At one place l was so weak I could not stand, and l lay on the ground while MT. Harris went out and killed a deer. We were then near the Sepulveda ranch, which was close to what is now Martinez. MT. Jones, one of the supposed dead men, and one of Sepulveda's Indians rode into our camp and brought with them some farina for me. We arrived at Sepul- veda's on the 14th day of October.
 We met General Sutter at Ava rados hacienda, and in December we went up with Sutter in a leaky rowboat to his fort. We were fifteen days mak- ing the trip. The boat was manned by Indians, and Sutter instructed them to swim to the shore with me and the child if the boat should capsize. That Is only sample of the chances we took with our lives every day in those pio- neer 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 the old man, Sutter, called fort Just as the winter rains SeL Ill., dDOuL the middle of December.
 General Sutter was very hOspitable, and we paid him few dollars week. s I think-for remaining there until February or March. I don't quite re- member the exact month now. The old building was a great barnlike affair, and the household equipment the very plainest and most primitive. My hus- band used to go out with the MeXicans who were in the employ of General Sut- ter and vainly look for something which he could develop into an industry or business, but he was too young, or he did not have the ability to see the fu- ture good things. I can tell you we spent some terrible homesick days at Suffers place. Many a night I have wept myself to sleep. Tn later years. when we saw the millions of dollars made fin the gold diggings north and east of Sacramento. l recalled the fact while my poor husband was tramping over Central California, almost beside himself because he had brought his wife to a strange land, far away from civilization, he many a time passed by and even went among gold deposits that would have made him a combined Vanderbilt and Gould had he but known.
 "Along in May, 1944, General Sutter heard from some friendly Indians that the white settlers in Oregon and North ern California Cup near where the Mo doc Indian war later took place) were making money by buying furs from the
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traders among the Spanish and the h.
 dians, were about to start from Fort LeavenWorth for California. When the party was made up for the journey in April, 1S41, there were twenty-tWo men and two women in the party.
 A fortnight before her death Mrs. Harris told the story of her remarkable
 vicissitudes in the West particularly California-in the following way:
 ''We were from April Il until Sep
 tember 28 in going from Fort Leaven- worth to what is now ColfaX, Cal. We hired a man at Fort LeavenWorth, who had been across the plains once, for our
 guide. I believe he was to get $500 for
 his work, and he expected to become a sailor when he reached the coast.
 Our first mishap was on the Platte River, where a young man named DaW-
 son was captured by the Indians and stripped of his clothing. They let him go then and then followed him, so that without knowing it he acted as their guide to our camp. The redskins sur rounded our camp and remained all night but when daylight showed them our strength they went away. We had | picket guard about our camp nearly every night we were on the plains, and we saw literally millions of buffaloes. Many time the gallOping of immense herds of the beasts across the prafries sounded like distant thunder.
 We left our wagons this side of Salt Lake and finished our journey on horse back and drove our cattle. At one place the Indians surrounded us, armed with their bows and arrows, but my hus band and four other men leveled their guns at the chief and made him order his Indians out of arrow range. Be- fore we had been two months on the plains we had become so used to hard ships, had seen four of our party wei come death from sickness, and had had such frights al threatened death by the savages, that we lost good part of the natural alarm one has when enYironed
 by danger.
 the headwaters of the San Joaquin River On the 1st of September we camped on the summit. It was my
 twenty-first birthday. That day one of the priests in our party drank at a
 spring of clear, cold water. It was strong alkali water, however. and he
 came near dying in the next few days,
 and it ruined his stomach so that he
 lived only a year. We had a difficult time to find way down the mountains
 At one time I was left alone for nearly
 half a day, and as l was afraid of h.
 dians sat all the while with my six
 week-old baby in my lap on the back of my horse, which was me race ami
 mai.
 "One old man gave out and we had
 to threaten to shoot him before he
 would attempt to descend the noun tain.
 At one place four pack animals fell over a bluff, and they went so far that
 we never attempted to recover the naclxs. We were then out of provisions, having killed and eaten all our cattle. I walked barefooted until my feet were b1istered. and lived on roasted acorns Cor two days My husband came very near dying with cramps, and it was suggested to leave him, but I said I woIild never do that, and we ate a horse and remained over till next day, when he was able to travel. Then we ran short of water twice, and the tnlrsI
 ra endured once for two days and nights was the most horrible experi-
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to look after my husband for four weeks, and were glad to have his serV- ices at that price. My husband never went back to the mines, for by the tune he was able to endure hardship the mining field was Swarming with rest less, aggressive, wild miners, ana ne felt that he had no more chances there to get rich.
 "In June, 1851, MT. Harris bought @ herd of cattle from Salvador Vallejo and drove them down to Ben1c1a, where the military garrison was located. went along with my four children ln wagon drawn by an OK team. The cat tie were butchered and the beef sold at Benicia, but it was poor invest ment. We lived at Benicia for over year. While there we became well ac- quainted with Captain U. $. Grant, who had come there from the Mexican war. He and my husband were about of ah age. We little imagined that the quiet, modest, chunky man would be the great American general in twelve years more. Captain Grant was then a smoker, but cigars were too expensive in those crazy gold days, and he con- tented himself with a briarwood pipe He was a good card player, and l re- member that pedro was his favorite game He was very poor then, and recall that although he had to be care ful of every cent he spent of his small salary, he took little interest in the alluring stories that men down from the mines with gold dust used to sit about the saloons at Benicia and tell day after day.
 I've lived in Monterey for six years and my husband dealt in cattle and sheep, which were shipped and driven to the mining towns. I have seen hun dreds of fair steers that brought $500 in gold each in those days. but when you remember what eXorbitant prices had to be paid for feed and for ranch men there was not such great profit in the business, besides everything we ate and wore was put on gold mining basis. My husband paid a common vaquero $200 month in gold for three years, and my calico dresses used to cost S35 and $40 each in those days. We sold hundreds of pounds of butter at $2 a pound, and some at $4 a pound, but that was too slow a way of making money in those extraordinary times, and we did not make quarter as much butter as we might have done.
 up to 1859 had enough personal in cidents to fill a book. I once rode sev- enty-five miles on horseback in one day and carried a one-year old child in front of me. I was going to see a sick woman in San Jose, and tainted when they helped me off the horse.
 MT. Harris health began to fail in 1859, so we started for the dry, hot cli- mate of Arizona and New Mexico. The palmy days of gold mining for poor folks were over by that time. The mining companies with their combined capital, science and machinery were beginning their era then. In 1860 we were in camp in Arizona, near where Benson has since grown up. We heard stories of massacres by the Apaches and Pimas once in a while, but we had no idea they were as bold as they were. One October day, when the men in the camp were out foraging for fuel, and we four women and seven children were left in camp. a boy came running eX- citedly into the tent and told us that a gang of Apaches was sneaking around among the chaparral in the foothills
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political Titans of Colorado, the issue was rather national than municipal, or of the State. and the complex con ditions of its conduct rendered it inn possible to foresee the outcome or to predict the effect of woman's vote among the willful confusion of tickets offered for the peoples ballots.
 As to the conditions of the participa- tion of women in Colorado campaigns it is to be recorded that they are sub ject during its course to no rude asso- ciations In the stress of the partisan struggle that necessarily precedes an election, women of public spirit and good position are chosen to direct the political meetings Of women. and 1t is the rule that from the precinct parlor meetings that are preliminary to pri- maries to the parlor headquarters kept open exclusively for women citizens, their meetings closely resemble their accustomed club assemblies.
 There are, besides. women's purely political clubs of every party, whose seasons of activity coincide with cam paign seasons. During these times
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 A-. ris. died at the home of her daughter near Duarte last Friday She had been a partial invalid for al most. a decade, and in the last two wears of her life she was helpless with - paralysis, But her mind remained wonderfully clear to the very last days of her long life
 Mrs. Harris was the widow of Daniel
 Harris. She believed she was the third white woman who came across inc plains in an OK team to California. She knew James Marshall, the finder of :. gold in California, before he sftw Tdlona. and her husband and she .l[na3v General Ulysses $. Grant when he was at Benicia-a modest and un- :nrorofsing captain in the United States army She was a genial person even in her old age and days of weakness. * She loved to dwell in the past and tO : recount her extraordinary adventures in. California long before the Americans came She became a cigarette smoker from her association with the Mexlcans fin her early life, and in her last days . gift of a few packages of mild cigar :: ettes or q bag of smoking tobacco :. 1,-o,,1d elicit a tale of adventure or Thrilling chapter of State history that Vas always worth attentive hearing.
 Mrs. Harris was born in Gloucester. Mass. in 1920 and her relatives were :.yvhalers and fisherfolk. In 1884. when girl of IA her father gave up nShlng' and hearing of the possibilities or for7 tune on the frontier or Mlssourl anu :. illinois in those days, started TOT the west Chicago was the objective point. They went there by the Erie Canal Io Buffalo. and were three weeks gong on 2 hoat from Buffalo to Chicago via the lakes. Chicago was at that tlnle q place of 5000 or 5000 people. In IS5o' when Mrs. Harris father became con vinced that Chicago was on the decline and would retrograde into wild west ern village, the family moved to St. Tol1is which was then "a faSt-grOWing city of some 12,000 people. There Mrs. Harris was married in 1840. She was 20 years old at the time, and her young husband had had letters from an uncle. who was sailor, saying that there was a fortune to be made on the Pacific Coast in dealin~ with the Indians for furs.. The young people talked over project of going to California almost daily during the first year of their mar rted life. That was six or seven years before Marshall found the gold in Sut- ter's millrace, and no one but few restless traders and daring mission aries among the Indians ever went across the plains from the East to the Pacific Coast.
 Several more letters came from the sailor uncle, and young Harris and his wife decided that they would risk their lives in travelling across the prairies and mountains to the Pacific Ocean. They heard of two young Catholic priests who were getting ready to start across the plains for Sutters Fort as teachers among the Indians, and few weeks later they found also that com .pany of young men, fired with a spirit of adventure and a desire to become
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DENVER in which
  schools members Leglsa proceedings Women have Colorado This April ot municipal elections held all the State Two Federation good office This federation became an active po by platform recognized nationality Its ayowed object % investigate the eond higher public social order; city affairs from State and national politics. to endeavor to se election and trustworthy forp office
 This in which had taken Colorado and eminently successful
 municipal affairs, the of national policy and the cleo influence with the friends of silver codng Mrs Thomas Patterson Cor Mrs Katherine Patter public President the Colorado Equal Suffrage Association
 what she has influence Colorado politics.
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Special to The Sunday Call.

Special to The Sunday Call.
 v r OMEN have been voting in
 H Colorado since 1895, and have IVY yet made no permanent in> " W pression upon the politics of A the State.
 It is claimed that no ap- preciable effect of this enfranchisement could be expected in a time so short, since intricate political methods of long established organizations even when found very objectionable are not to be overcome by the efforts of tyros in a single generation. In municipal affairs, it Is true. woman's vote has as- sisted in a triumph over tyrannical ma- chine rule in more than one election, and it is acknowledged that through the leaven of a reorganization influence has begun it's work, which, like all elemental processes that are to build up the new upon the decay of the old, is the task of more than a day.
 In the contest just closed between the
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OMONA, Cal, Nov. 10. - The most remarkable pioneer heroine in Southern California-if not of all Caifornia-Mrs. Nancy Hlr-
 ris. died at the home of her
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO
 IS TT A SUCCESS?

Colorado Suffrage
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s OF A CALIFORNIA WOMAN PIONEER

ded colh M ns ogs asbo or % @ o ndertb hadh of dhantC
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
DEATH OF MRS. HARRIET THROnP.
She Wns the Widow of the Late DIR.
IL. II. IhrOOD,


The death of Mrs Harriet Throop,
although not unexpected since she has
been in serious condition for some
time, still came as a great shock to her
many friends yesterday at noon. AL
though having reached what is Consid-
cred extreme age, her intelligent mind
and lovely spirit had lost nothing of
their charm through the years. Mrs.
ThrOop was born in Ellington, Conn,
January 81, 1917. she was married in
Schuylkill Haven in 1912 to DR.. B. H.
Throop, who later became one of the
pioneers of Scranton, and one of the
wealthicst citizens.
"A strange and rapid fatality has
seemed to pursue the family, as now
from household containing father,
mother and five children but one, Mrs.
Mary Phelps, and a young grandson.
benjamin, son of the late Dr. George
ThrOop, remains.
Mrs. Throop was beloved by a vast
circle of friends who appreciated her
grace and gcntlencss. Her Christian
life was one of great activity in spirit
ual and practical experience. She has
been for many years the honOred pres
id9nt Of the WOman's Guild in St
Lakes church, where her assistance
and counsel will be greatly missed.
1t, Luke's parish has recently been
sorcly afflicted in the death of many
prominent parishioners and general re-
grot is felt over this latest blow.
The little family remaining-the in
valid daughter and small grandson
are left lonely indeed on the earth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
LARGE DAMAGES ARE ASKED.
Teeple Trespass suit Was Heard Be-
fore ATbitrators.

There was hearing yesterday after
noon in the arbitration room of the
court house in the trespass suit of Mrs.
Winifred Teeple, Of Mayfield, against
the New York, Ontario and Western
Railway company. The case is sub.
mitted to arbitratOrs and they are At
torneys NJ. w. Lowry, George ID. Tay-
lor and w. II. Roe. Attorney c. p.
O'Malley, of Willard, Warren & Knapp,
appeared for the plaintiff, and AttOr-
ney j. +. Burr for the defendant
The action is for $4,000 damages for
the death of Andrew II. Teeple, hus-
band of the plaintiff. She is including
her five minor sons as plaintiffs. Mr..
Teeple was a brakeman in the employ
of the defendant company. and on Dec.
S, 1897 he. was killed on the branch
running from the main line to tha
Raymond colliery in Wintoa.
1t is alleged that the accident was
due to the unsafe, insecure and i'm
proper brakes and cars of the COM
pany The evidence brought out yes
terday was for the purpose of showing
that a brake gave way when he was
twisting it, and thus was pre- cipitated
under the cars and killed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21

Cards of thanks, resolutions OF condo
lence, obituary poetry and the like Will
be inserted in The Tribune only when
paid for in advance, at the rate of "
cents per line.
Pay your gas bills today and save the
discount
Mayor Bailey is i'll at his home on Null
berry street.
The directors of the Delaware and Iud-
son railroad were in the city yesterday
afternoon on atOur Of inspection. 1t was
merely a routine visit.
Rev. Or. Williamson Smith, president
of Trinity college, Hartford, Conn, will
preach at both services in ST. Luke
Episcopal church tomorrow
The Young Mems Christian assoca ton
and Wyolning seminary base bali teams
will play at Athletic park this after
noon, An admission fee of Is cents will
be charged.
The bond of Thomas j. Murray, treas
urer of Division 22 Ancient Order of Hi
bernians was filed yesterday in Prothon-
otary's CoDelands office. John Kane is
surety in the sum of $500.
Charles w. Weed and Miss Mazle Null
ligan, of the SiblCy, were married ycster-
day morning at St Lulkes rectOry by
Rev. Rogers Israel. The groom is 81 ana
the bride Il years old
The first social event of the season
at Laurel Hin park will he the IMnic
OF Columbus council, Young Mems in
stitutc, of the South Side, this after
noon and evening.
A country" dance will be given by the
Outing club, of West Scranton. at the bo-
rough hall at ThroOp next Monday even
ing. Mrs. Agnes Malott will provide the
music. Last car returns at l o'clock.
The advanced pupils of the Waverly,
La Plume, West Abingdon, North Alb
ington, Scott and Benton districts will
be examined today at the Waverly high
school. All who pass will receive COM
mon school diplomas.
Marriage licenses were granted ycstar-
day to andre BucrynsN and Apolonla
Cicklnska, of Mayfeld; Charles w. Weed
and Maize Mulligan, of the Sbley; An
dro Perko and Mary Anderko, OF Old
Forge.
At the three-day meeting of the State
Teachers association at Bellefonte be-
ginning July 8, Superintendent of Schools
George Howell will address the assocla-
tion on "The True Function of the High
School in the Public School System"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
HERE WE ARE AGAIN.
with Our Low Rates for Summer
Travel via Nickel Plate Road.

Only $ll.05, Buffalo to Warsaw, Ind,
and return, tickets on sale May 16 to
2l. account General Assembly Presby-
terian church, tickets good to return
until June 3.
only $1l.S5, Buffalo to Warsaw, Ind,
and return, May Is to Sept. 10.
Only Sl3.S5, Buffalo to Naperville,
HIS, and return, tickets sold May 23,
"a, q and 2S, good returning until June
80, on account of annual meeting of
German Baptists.
Only IS 90 Buffalo to Toledo, Ohio,
and return, on account of Young Peo-
pies Biennial convention, tickets sold
June 10 and lG, good returning until
June 20.
only $500, Buffalo to Dallas, Tex,
and return, tickets sold June II and l2,
good returning until June 2S on ac-
count of Mystic Shrine.
Only H4,5O, Buffalo to Louisville. Ky,
and return, tickets sold June 10 and 20,
good returning until June &c.
For all information, call on your
nearest ticket agent, or address f. J..
Moore, general agent, Nickel Plate
Road, Buffalo, n. Y. Low rates to
other points will be quoted from time
to time. Elegant service. Superb din
ing cars, Nestibuled buffet sleeping
cars.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
FLOATED IN THE RIVER.
Supposed to BE Remains of n Hun
garian Who Fell Out of Boat.

This morning some boys, while play
ing along the river this side of Hun
locks Creek, discovered the body of a
dead man along the shore. The body
was hauled ashore and was found to
be somewhat decomposed.
Deputy Coroner Biehl was notified
and he ordered Ferguson and Frederick
to remove the body to their undertake
ing rooms, which was done this fore
noon. DR.. Biehl will hold an inquest
but has not yet selected jury.
The body is believed to be that Of
the Hungarian who fell overheard from
a boat while crossing the river at Port
Griffith in company with two other for
eigners, the fore part of last week. At
the time the papers commented about
the occurrence it was said that his
companions made "ery little effort to
save him from [ 'wning Wilkes
Barre Times.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-21
CANDIDATES FOR STATE DELEGATES
Democratic State Convention win
BE Held at Altoona June29.

The local Democratic statesmen who
want TO go to the state convention
which meets in Altoona, June 20, are
already bestirring themselves and lay
ing their plans to capture the plums.
There are four legislative districts in
this county and altogether they are
entitled to twelve delegates. The First
district is entitled to three Second dis
trict to three, Third district to two
and Fourth district to four. The rules
provide that the delegates must be
elected at a convention called for the
purpose not more than nine or less
than two weeks before the assembling
of the state convention.
1t is probable that the conventions
of the First and Second district will
be held during the first week of June
Among the persons mentioned in con-
nectiOn with the Office of state dele
gate in the districts are:
First Gistrict--P. ]. Nealis, T. j. Jen-
ninss, +. +. Gordon.
Second dstrict-Juhn ]. Fahey, Il. p
Duffy, h. J. Beamish, d. j. Ruddy
Third distriCt-John u. Brown, w. w
Baylor, John j. Coyne, Paul Aten, New
ton; Michael Hannick, Taylor.
Fourth distriCt-Miles McAndrew, Arch
bald; j. w. O'Brien, Olyphant; Joserh
Bremen, Carboudale.