A WOMAN’S WALK.

Evening Star, Issue 3611, 18 September 1874, Page 3

A WOMAN’S WALK.

(From the Truckee. R publican, June 4.) A woman passed through Truckee at five o clock yesterday morning who has walked the entire distance from Kansas City. She has followed the taihoad track closely, and has been some fifty days in making the trip. Nearly every conductor and brakeman on the railroad between Omaha and Truckee has observed her as they passed on their respective trains. She was very reticent in conversation, but claimed to have a recreant husband somewhere in California, whom she was seeking. Numerous offers were made her of a ride on the freight trains, all of which she peremptorily refused. She declines trusting herself to the dangers and uncertainties of railway travel, and walked every step of the way. Her dress consisted of a pair of loose Turkish trousers, made of canvas, similiar .in texture to that used by miners for hose in hydraulic mining. A woollen sack protected her neck and chest, and a small striped shawl was wrapped round her shoulders. In height and size she was rather below the medium. Her features were rather coarse, and, as may be expected, severely bronzed by exposure to the sun and weather. The distance from Winnemucca to Wadsworth—l36 miles—she made in four days, at the rate of thirty-four miles a day. She made no halt in passing through Truckee. A great many persons here were aware of her coming, but thought she would not make her grand entry until about the middle of the forenoon yesterday, but the walk of this remarkable pedestrain was “ mysterious and past finding out,” and she strode on a-head of time, arriving here at such an early hour that scarcely half-a-dozen were able to take observations of the event. It had been the intention to give this wonderful woman a sort of triumphant reception in Truckee (and surely the occasiou warranted it), but she stole the march on us and passed along rapidly, silently, and determinedly, as if bent on an important mission, the fulfilment of which admitted of no delay, circumlocution, speech-making, nor public receptions. The case is, we may venture to say, one of the most singular on record. What will be the fate of that truant husband of hers when she gets her hands fairly locked in his hair it is not difficult to conjecture. Better would it have been for him if he had never been born. There will not be rocks nor mountains enough in California to cover him from her enraged sight.