The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-10-25
A Romance Of Arizona.
A TALE OF PRINCIPLES AND A PoNEY vs..
BEAUTY AND GOLD UNT0LD-HoW
MOUNTAIN JOE BOUGHT THE~-BEAsT
AND WON THE BEAUTY.

A correspondent writing from Tuc>
son, Arizona, to the Pittsburg Tele-
graph, tells the following interesting
story of frontier life:
"There comes Mountain joe on
his pony" said my friend, Col. Fle-
ance Fltz Roy, to day, as we were
seated in the shade of a spreading
mulberry, in the Grand Plaza. Tho
person referred to was handsome
looking young man of perhaps thirty
five, something above the medium
height, of graceful carriage and agile
appearance. lie was armed with a
half carbine, half navy revolver, that
hung in belt by bis left side, and was
clad in a buckskin suit.
"Mountain Joe, as you call him,
colonel, seems to be rather fine
specimen of the frontiersman, but
don't sec anything remarkable about
his poney to which you particularly
refer"
''Thereby hangs a tale, which l
will unfold if you feel like listening
to it,"
eco on, tell it by all means"
"Mouutain Joe, as lie is called, was
born somewhere jim the Eastern
States, and infatuated with the Indian
stories he had read, ran away from
his parents and came to tho South
west. But he has had some hard
knocks since, and the hardest were
received in earning that pony or
rather S. d liars worth Of it. You
see, few years ago old Senor Ro-
muldo, whose ranch lies ont along the
Pinto road, owned that pony and one
Of the lovelicst daughters in all these
par's. He WAS immons]y wealthy
and owned several valuable mines,
and there was-no telling how much
gold and silver bullion he had stored
away.
"Now, all the young fellows around
here wore crazy after the girl 1nez,
bat Joe set his heart on the pony,
and wanted to buy it. He is fol-
low who always has his own way, and
it is blessed good thing that his
head is al" ays right, otherwise some
body would get into trouble. But
when Joe tried to buy the pony ev-
eryb" "dy thought he was balkod for
once.
"The Senor asked $65 for it, and
Joe dug around to raise the money.
He raised it all except IS, and WANT
cd Romuldo to trust him for the rest
of it till he would come back from q
hunting expedition. This the old
Spanish curmudgeon refused to do,
and Joe vaiply appealed to his friends
to loan him the other V. Failing, he
got mad and swore that he would
not live in such community. One
day he left and was not heard from
for nearly year.
Gin the meantime q band of Kick
apoo Indians swooped down upon
Romuldo's rancho, during his ab-
sence in town, ran of his stock and
carried the pretty lnez away into
their mountain Businesses. Several
parties went out III search of the
captive, only to be ambushed and
whipped. Then it was that Senol
Romuldo began to bowaiI the absence
of Mountain Joe,' for every body haC
faith that he could have rescued tho
lovely Inez from the dreadful fate il
store for her.
"Finally, just as the unhappy
Spaniard was giving up in despair
Joe suddenly put in appearance. q
you will recover my child said Ro-
muldo, Il will give you half nilIior
dollars. You may have half my
property, and whatever else you
may ask 4 am not particular abou
the reward said Joe, but I'll try
aud rescue the girl
"And then he set about making