El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
PHOENIX GIRL.

Made Great Heiress By Her Owl
Pluck and Luck.
The following story of the posi- bill
ties of Phoenix originally told by {
Denver paper and retold by sever q
eastern papers made the chief of the
secret service department of the Re
publican a great deal OF extra work
yesterday:
Miss Abbie Eastman of Phoenix
Ariz., fought with genuine American
pluck against strsiteHed circum stances
| but she is now financially independent.
| A few days ago at @ local hotel, where
she was q guest, she told the story OF
how ten days ago one of her copper
claims netted her $40, 900.
"Miss Eastman is only twenty-eight
years old. She has always worked for
a living. But nature has given her
much energy and strong will, and
when, three years ago, her uncle left
her five copper claims in Arizona not
far from Phoenix, she visited her
claims to learn the value of her inheri-
lance.
"She consulted lawyer. He told
me, said she yesterday, that the
claims looked promising, but that in
order to hold them a certain sum of
H.
Then considered where that money
was to come from. as 1 had none of my
own. So, after failing to find any
other solution, 1 resolved to get en-
ployment in hotel. When 1 told tn e
lawyer what intended doing and how
l meant to set aside every cent that
could be spared from my wages in Or
der to develop the claims, he said he
admired my determination, bat wond-
NH CHI lib -
it has finally come out all, right, and I
guess now 1 shall be able to live with
out working SO hard
''After the conference With her law
yer, Miss Eastman lost no time in get.
ting q position and spent her savings
to hold her claims. The money came
little at the time, but the work pro-
crosses slowly.
Miss Eastman has a pleasant face,
black eyes snd prepossessing manners.
Among the hotels at which she was en-
ployed was the Hotel Green, Pasadena,
Cal, this summer at the Hotel Colo
RADIO, Greenwood Springs. The guests
never suspected that the girl working
at the hotel had fortune in
sight.
''Just before the sale of the claim
for S45 900, when more correspondence
than usual was necessary, it leaked out
at Glenwood Springs that Miss East
man was soon to come into considerable
money. Simultaneously, it is said, a
sutton appeared, but the enterprising
young man got no encouragement.
FINALLY the deal was closed, and
with large credit there were those who
to see the young woman's
head turned. But they were badly
mistaken. Her dresses were exceed
lngly modest.
~
her way to Phoenix, Ariz., where the
rest of the copper claims are located. |
Those of which she has not yet dispos- |
ed aae four in number. Her plans for |
,he winter are not yet announced, ex |
,ept on one point, she will not have to |
work as she did last winter
The chief set out to verify this anec
tote, but was unable to find starting |
point. The name of Miss Abbie East
Phoenix city directory nor the great
'egister of the voters of Maricopa
county. She is not member of the
Am algamated Association of Prevari
'ators with headquarters at the court
house, nor does she belong to the Fed
ration of Chamber Maids and Water
iirls. There is no record
n which Miss Abbie East
nan figured, nor is there new
Upper mine in this city worth that
much money. There is known to be
My one copper mine in this vicinity.
That is in the mountains south of
own, and it hasn't been discovered
ct. It hasn't even been located and
he locator is not Miss Abbie Eastman.
Did mining mer who have had great
cal of experience in keeping up as
essm ent work on mines, to say Moth
ng of doing development work, say
hat hotel cham Der maid could not,
ven with her pripcely salary, pay for
be development of five copper claims.
This whole story is believed to have
from the British war office.
Phoenix Republican.