Bisbee daily review., 1910-01-18
4 NEGLECTED CRAVE.

~ NEoIGS Eb 9nNSG.
 In an address made the other day
 before the confederation of Women's iclubs. Miss Sharlot Hall, territorial
 historian. sought to impress upon the
 minds of her hearers the necessity of
 caring for anything that is. or will lat CT. be of historical value. The advice
 Is pertinent 10 the issue and should
 be acted on to the letter. The trou- | ble now is that the avenues of histor iical information are almost daily be-
 coming more cireGmscribed and lim- lited. Of course there must and will
 be an endless amount of chaff gath cred to one grain of wheat, but later investigation will blow much of it Iaway and Teave only that which is
 of historical importance. Little local
 happenings or eeentricities go their
 way and are soon forgotten. The
 nsn who has done a thing worth
 ghile. or who can make a record dig
 2y, Is deaf to brazen sounds and cheap Tiff we would know of them it must be
 bouquets. but such men make history from the lips of others The most Idaring act speaks well of the man
 whose name is not known. however lmuch he may deserve kind memory laod a tear" Miss Hall further sug- and their deeds live after them, but gested that the women of America Hook up the graves of those who "died Ito be accounted noble" actors in the drama when every man did his best according to the heart God had given him. This should have been done
 Hong ago while their resting places
 were yet fresh in the minds of the living. But in the aftermath of the early day this is an after thought, and a later generation is called on to . make good before these historic spots are 'bathed in the waters of Lethe and forgot"
 In the willows of the Gila river 9 near where Sentinel station now 7 stands. on the Southern Pacific rail - lroad. some sixty odd years ago a par }. Ity of Americans going through from e !Texas to California found the re-
 mains of a white woman. Her body z was dried and shrunk to mummy-like e proportions, but that it was the re r. mains of a fair-haired Saxon woman s. was evidenced by her wealth of gold D. en hair. But who she was or whence Ie she came was hidden in the mystery ,r of her dried and shriveled form S. Many of the men had served in th' IT Texas war for independence and late of in the war with Mexico. and beinl f. disbanded on the Rio Grande hat r. turned in the direction of California ty The Indians at that time were botl if inumeregs and warlike and these mel nt had fought their way with ever in d. creasing losses. They were men wit IT. whom human life was held cheapl Id and human suffering in contempt, bu en they are said to have wept over tn he sight of naked woman of their ow re race dead and unknown a thousan la miles from her kin. Reyerentiail nd they wrapped her in a blanket, gay or her buariaI and marked the spo to With this band of hardy men was to man by the name of Adams He ha of fought with the Texans when but -al boy and had followed the life of st. soldier while there was soldiers wor ln- to do. He later settled in San Lu ed Obispo, California, and became quit le- man of affairs. In 1s47 he was wit he a company of Texans in Tucson le- was then a walled town, protected i'm an adobe fort The company succee iiy ed in getting into the town whic ult they held for two days, but as th'
 iwere without cannon and few in nuI