The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-20

Flora and her party started on toward
Strawberry lake, on the very tiptop of
the mountains. Not far from the lake
some of the women and children begged
to be allowed to get out of the wagons
and walk, the narrow trail looked so
frightful. and they feared the mules
might make a misstep and over they
would all go. AS they walked along
strange noise startled them.
"A runaway team!" shouted their
leader. The teams of the freighters
they had left were running away, driv-
erless. There were twenty crazed horses
galloping upon Flora Sewers party and
dragging six huge wagons behind them.
There was no escape on that awful
trail, nothing apparently before them
but being dashed to the bottom of a
frightful abyss, nearly a mile below.
Just as death seemed certain for all,
Flora Sewer had an inspiration She
snatched a revolver, stood in the mid
die of the trail and shot dead the lead
ers of the first team as they came thun-
dering down upon her. They dropped
in their tracks, while behind and upon
them the other wild creatures piled,
pellmell, wagons and all. A moment
and then all went together over the aw-
full precipice, no more than ten feet
away from the miners party The
girl in her teens had done what no man
had presence of mind enough to do and
all their lives We're saved.
Another:
Not long ago. about o'clock one
morning, Mrs. Peter Schmitt of Brook
| Ign felt the bed shaking beneath her
as though somebody was moving there.
/ She did not wake her husband. He
might be nervous. So she watched
and in the dim light saw d man creep
/ ing away from beneath the bed to the
/ next room. She watched him pile to-
/ gether a lot of valuable plumber near
/ the door. Then she followed him softly.
and before he knew what struck him
she planted a tremendous Low under
his jaw where prize fighters knock each
other out, and he dropped ike a stone.
! Then Mrs. Schnitt called for help. but
7 Mrs. Schmitt's husband was already at
/ the front window yelling Justify for the
police. while his wife was doing up the
/ burglar. The police dashed in quickly
and captured the thief, who had a knife
seven inches long in his possession,
which Mrs. Schmitt had not given him
a chance to use.
Again:
Miss Daisy Wilkinson, a girl teacher,
twenty years old. of Logan, w. Va.
was on her way TO school one morning
recently when negro attacked her
brutally. threatening to kill her No
poor, helpless lump of jelly is Miss Will
/ kinson. She carries a revolver for her
protection on the lonely country road
to her school Before one could count
three she had drawn that gun and shot
the human wild beast dead. A lynching
party was not necessary there. The
young lady was not arrested.
/ Another:
Miss Minnie ]. Kaufman, very
strong. athletic girl and an expert cy-
| cler. was wheeling merriIy along a drive
in Central park. New York. when sud
denly she heard screams and shouts and
voices bidding her get out of the way
quick. She looked around and saw a
runaway horse almost upon her a ter
ribly frightened girl upon his back.
Miss Kaufman did not move to get out
of the way. Instead she made a grab
for the horses bride and caught it as
he few past her. She was quickly
dragged off her bicycle but hung on
like steel to that bride till she stopped
the horse. after he had run about a