Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — MADE A RICH STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

MADE A RICH STRIKE.

Judge Thurman’s Daughter Finds 4 Bonanza in the Colorado Desert. Mary Thurman, daughter of Allen G, Thurman and once the belle of Washington, has made the richest strike eve* known in the Colorado desert mining camps of Picacho, near Yuma. She was prospecting in the hills and found a vein that promises to make her a bonanza queen. Miss Thurman, while in Wash-

ington, married Lieut. Cowles, now Uni. ted States naval attache in London. Cowles and she soon disagreed, and h< permitted her to get a divorce. Then she went West to San Diego and lived at Tia Juana, on the Mexican line. There she met and married Thomas Gifford, a dash, ing adventurer, who proved to have e wife and two children. Then she wenl home to see her mother before the oic lady died, but Judge Thunnan refused t< permit her to enter his door, and sh returned. She got a divorce from Gifford, and then surprised her friends by marrying “Bug” Holliday, the basebail player. She is known 'in all the mining camps of Southern California. John G. Cullman, who founded in 1873 the flourishing German town, Cullman, Ala., 01a the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, is dead.