The Arizona sentinel., 1884-09-06

| breakfast next morning they
 ovehanged stories about their ex-
 periences towards the witching
 hour of midnight. One sid that
 he was sound asleep in he'd when
 he found himself grabbed by the feet. By the dim light he
 thought he beheld a giant-tugg- ing at the bedclothes and heard
 a sepulchral voice saying: "You
 are my husband; you come with
 me-" Another said that in his
 room there were three fellows
 sleeping, when all of sudden
 they were awakened by being
 pushed and hauled about. They
 sat up simultaneously and asked.
 "What in thunder is the mat
 tef?" and a voice replied.
 Which of you mans is my hus-
 band?" All in turn condemned
 the spec.Or roundly for its intru-
 sion, and it glided away with a
 kind of grunt; but a few seconds
 afterwards they heard series of
 yells, and the clerk of the hotel
 came tearing down the corridor
 with wild looking woman at his
 heels. He wasin his nigh clothes.
 She caught him by the hair and
 he yelled again. She pulled him
 under the kerosene light. He
 begged wildly for mercy. Gaz-
 ing steadily Unto his face for a few moments she pushed him away from her with gesture of disgust and said. "Y0u amt no the man I want" By this time the whole has had been aroused and a crowd Of half dressed peo- pie came out of the rooms into the halls to see what the matter was. The tall woman with phe- strides swept past them all until she came opposite a stout-built, middle-siZed man with shaggy black whiskers and a pair of Canton cotton drawers, who was standing in one of the doorways. Clutching him fFatic. ally aroHnd the neck, and then down to the ground until she caught him by the knees, she called out: "Oh Thomas! 1 got youl 1 knowed I'd get you Tho mas! Oh, Thomas, don't never leave your poor wife and baby no mcre-your poor baby, Thomas your poor little bahy, Thomasw
 In the meanwhile the man ad- dressed as MT. Thomas recovered from his first astOnishment gave d whistle, and then said in tone of the most inefabIe disgust, ''Wal. rll be dOggoned! Shoot me if 'taint the squaww Next day Mr. Thomas and his wife aud child took tickets back to Pawnee City. It appears that after leaving the Union depot Mrs. Thomas wandered south ward a long distance, asking peo- pie here and there whether they could tell her where MT. Thomas was. She happened to meet an elderly man to whom she told, in pathetic broken English, the story of her desertion; and he though impressed with the ap- parent hOpelessneSs of her search resolved to accompany her to i some of the hotels in the neigh lDrho0d. as he knew the locality | 0 be great resort for railroad 1 Hen. He examined hotel book l lfter hotel-boOk for the name Of Thomas, and at last he found one which did coptain that signature. After asking the clerk some question about Mir. Thomas and communicating the results to Mrs. ThOmaS she never said a word nor moved a muscle, but went up tO the desk dnd engaged ! room for the night. Shaking hands with her friend, she and Ter child went 10 the room she lad paid for and remained there io quietly thai the clerk had for gotten al! about her until he was 'oused at midaight and chased town the corridor by woman who he took to ba d veritable The half-breed lady rom the west had taken the lsual method of cornering her t.cba r 1 hx.. o ro,, O;, ,,n ax,opx, ,,a p 1