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,laIm nns norkod nfl.r Clans. Crook and Nrlles


and 1880. 1t yielded the family some $4,000 or
$4,000 before the vein plnched out When
Geronimo had been captured and the ApacheS
had been driven to their reservation at
San Carlos. Mrs. Halpln and her young
men sons settled down to take life easier.
With the money from their mines they built
pretty home on tho site OF the cabin where
they had had so exciting life. The sons
secured mountain water rights. which they
sold to the alfalfa farmers in tho valley, who
settled there by the scores whom the Apaches
were finally auelled. Five or six years ago the
boys married and moved to Prescott. where
the mother soon followed to live In her younger
son 3 family. until her death last April.
Woman has been typihed as tender vine
clnging to a stalwart oak, which is supposed
to be emblematic Of man. but out here in Ari-
zona there are many instances OF the reverse
In Pinal and Cochise counties are several ex-
amples Of tender vines Of femininty supporting
giant masculine oaks One Of these examples
is furnished bya young married woman who
came from little city In Pennsylvania a year
or two ago with her husband TO better their
fortunes in the new West. The couple settled
on one OF Uncle Sans quarter sections. and
began farming for wheat and alfalfa. The hus-
band found that plouRhing and general agri-
cultural labor were too hard for him. while
specializing In cattle and sheep on
small scale was more to his liking. So now
adays he travels over the Territory about
half tho time. while his wife runs the farm
Last year she did all the plouRhing unaidsd.
This spring. whom a little child came into the
family. she was for time puzzled at tho out
look for her annual JOB Of ploughing. The In
ventive Instinct OF her sex came to her relief.
and the neiGhbors ono day saw that she mad
made a wooden box on the front OF the plough
handles and there the baby was lying while
his energetic little mother was gripping the
plough handles and making burrows like a vet
eran farmer
Four years ago. when Abram Wheeler and
his bride, Just out Of the high school In Roch-
ester. n. Y. came to make their name and
fortune at Tucson. Mrs. Wheeler had no more
knowledge OF how to make harness than any
other girl In the East who has never been in
harness shop three times in her life. Harness.
making was Abram Wheeler's trade. and he
opened shop in Tucson. The country was
new and strange to Mrs. Wheeler. and there
was not person within 1000 miles Of Tucson,
except her husband. whom she had ever seen
or heard OF before. Therefore she spent q
good part OF her time sitting with him while he
worked. Little by little she came to help
him. and in a year or two she was great
help. Mr.. Wheeler became interested In copper
mines, and while he was away at the mines his
several patents for names and collars for use
on teams OF six and more horses drawing
heavy ore wagons. and last win ter she sold one
patent for 81 200 She has become a journey.
man harnessmaker. and nowadays while her
husband is opening copper prospect. more
than 100 miles from home. Mrs. Wheeler
makes harness. buys the shop material and
looks after her two infant children. who are
kept in cage-like affair OF the mothers in
vention. in one corner OF the harness shop.
There is no keeping such folks on the lower
rungs OF the ladder OF success out hero
Mrs. Emma Garner. who owns one-half Of
the Garner estfall cattle ranch in Navajo
county, on the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad. has seen more tragedy than one man
in twenty thousand. She is over 55 years old.
and has been a participant in enough excite
Inent to flll columns of newspaper. She was
born in Cleveland, o.. and went to Colorado
with her parents when girl of Is years. 1t
was at the time OF the Pixies Peak gold ex-
element, when desperate characters focksd
to the new diggings from every part OF the
border. One night in camp. near where the
town of La Junta. Col. has since grown up.
when the snow was falling and the weather
was bitterly cold. men came hurrying into
the camp with the news that the Kiowas
were coming to massacre the whole camp.
Mrs Garner and her parents hitched the mules
on the wagon and drove madly away. while the
whole camp scattered In the snowstorm. Az
they fled they heard pistol shots and the ex-
ultant yells OF the kiowas. The wind blew a
hurricane, and the family almost died OF cold
and their intense fright at the attack by In
dams and the murder OF their friends and COM
panionR. The next day the family reached
Trinidad. and there the news OF the Indian at
tack was given. and fifty Mexicans went back
q. ,hn ,nI . i,,yo . hat
Arriving at the little camp Of Denver Mrs.
Garnor was the witness of several tragic
deaths. One evening q great powerful man.
pale and excited. came running into the family
tent and without a word began scramblinG
under the daughters bunk as II TO conceal him
self He was breathless and far too wild with
fear to speak, while he pulled and struggled in
his frantic efforts to hide himself in the narrow
space beneath the pine bunk At that moment
o party of men came riding up TO the tent on
foamng. painting horses. None OF these men
spoke. Two Of them throw themselves from
their steeds snatched their pist OILS from their
belts. and dashed past the frightened parents
and girl into the tent. Amid curses dozen
shots. fired in quick succession, rang out.
and then the two horsemcn came out of
the tent. putting their weapons back into their
belts and wiping away the PRECIPITATION from
their faces. 1t led that the man who had
sought to hide himself under the bunk was
desperate character He had murdered and
robbed for years on the plains. and at last he
was found unarmed and was pursued to the
tent. where he had vainly hoped to escape In
concealment. When the family went into the
tent there lay the body Of the bandit. with ten
or twelve bullet holes in his back and head.
The pursucrs helped haul the body out upon
the ground, but the father OF the family had to
bury it.
Mrs Garner was married when she was but
II. aud removed to Sante Fe, \. NJ. There she
saw street duel ono day while she was taking
her baby out for ride. Two drunken Meki-
cans stabbed each other until both fell dying
in the roadway. within two hundred feet OF the
young mother and her child. On another oc-
casion the clothes line in her dooryard was cut
away and used for lynching bandit from
cottonwood tree in front OF her house. Four
years after her marriage her husband went on
mining expedition among the friendly Nava-
JOS and never came back. Searches were made