Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1909 — INDIAN GIRL CAMPS IN PARK [ARTICLE]

INDIAN GIRL CAMPS IN PARK

Sleeps Under Stars at Night and Dodges Visitors by Day. San Francisco, Aug. 27. —Bertha Rocha, a full-blooded Indian girl, sixteen years of age, who has been a domestic in the home of a Mexican •> woman for several years, left the house two days ago to camp among the trees in Golden Gate park, living on birds snared at the lake’s rim. sleeping under the stars at night and dodging strolling visitors by day. Her retreat was discovered when the light of her tiny camp fire attracted the notice of a vigilant patrolman, whom she told she was tired of civilization.