Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-19
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How a Young Arizona Settler Lost
His Farm and Won il BACK wilma
Wife.
Correspondence New York Sun.
A year ago last spring young man
| named Belden came to this county, took
up 100 acres Of land and built himself a
shack. Two weeks later q girl named
Helen Chapman took up the claim adioin-
ing his on the west, and also built a cabin.
The neighbors became slightly ac-
| quainted, but both we're too busy to do
much visiting. Belden was an easy going
| fellow, none too fond of work, and Helen
was an active, aggressive, blocking
and ambitious young woman. She did
two days work to his one, and had a
better farm at the end of go days than he
would have had at the end of year if he
had kept on in the way that he wasgoing.
After Belden had been on his place
about three months he became weary of
the inonotonous life, and, going to town TO
have some fun, found so much enjoy
ment that he came pretty near forgetting
TO go home. When he had been gone
longer than the time permitted by the
land law, Helen, who had been Watching
her opportunity, jumped his claim, and
in less than 10 hours had shack of her
own standing on the farm. Belden re-
turned at last and, finding that u woman
had jumped his claim, he said nothing.
If it had been q man il would have been
his duty to go out and fight him to the
death, but as il was woman, and q
rather comedy one at that, he thought
he would say nothing and trust to
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own shack, he was not more than 300 feet
from her new habitation. She held her
| ground we'll, treating him as an inter-
Topper, and never acting as though she had
any idea that he belonged there.
Belden's wrath began to rise finally,
and when he reflected on the comments
that would be made if he permitted
| girl to jump his claim he grew furious.
Knowing that the temper of most settlers
would brook no interference with girl
farmer, he went to town for consultation.
| First he talked with some of his friends
who drank his whisky. They shook their
heads and said il was Il mighty bad job.
Then he consulted lawyer who gave him
| some hope.
In the course of day or two he got
| two of his friends and the lawyer to go
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| thsy could do toward patching up set
tlement. Once ON the ground it WIS
agreed that the lawyer should go and see
the girl. He was absent nh hour and
half, and when he returned he said il was
no use. The girl was posted, and he
didn't see what could he done about it,
q" If it was n man." he said "we could
go over there and throw him by the heels
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harm a woman"
The four talked the matter over, and it
was finally agreed that the lawyer should
call again in the morning, and represent
to her that Belden's friends were coming
to his assistance, and that if she wanted
to avoid serious trouble she had better
abandon her shack and leave his claim
alone. The lawyer started out on this
Grand the next day, but he was bnck
again in Is minutes with lump on his
head the size of horse chestnut, where
he said She had hit him with I'M axe
handle.
After talking the matter over, every
body being mad, it was decided that they
would give her good scare us soon as it
became dark. At about 8 o'clock all
hands went over to the girls new shack
and surrounded it. At given signal
| they yelled aud fired their revolvers in
the air. The reports had hardly died
away when a shotgun was discharged
from one window of the shack, and a
moment later another shot was fired from
the other side of the house. The men
| waited in silence for a few minutes when
two more barrels were fired. This CON
WINGED them that the girl was not to be
frightened, and they crawled away as
steathily as they could. All that night
the girls shotgun thundered at Intervals.
until her adversaries, who were vainly
| trying to sleep, wished that it wonld ex-
plode, and blow her and her shack to
kingdom come.
In the morning Belden's lawyer and
two friends started for town, leaving the
| jumped farmer alone in his misery. After
their departure Belden did some work on
the place, taking care not to run across
the girl, and though they saw each other
| frequently they both avoided meeting.
Things went along in this way until
| fall, Helen worked on her own farm
good part of the time, and Belden passed
many days in hunting. He had made up
his mind that he could tire the girl out,
and he believed that after she found that
he was not TO be got rid of, she would
voluntarily abandon the claim. In this
he was mistaken. One day, while on
hunting expedition, he discharged his
gun accidentally, md received several
| Shot in his arm and side He got home
without difficulty and examining the
wounds, made up his mind that he would
go to town in the morning to have them
attended to. The next day he was in no
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keep his bed. Growing rapidly
worse, and fearing that his in
juries would result seriously if
not attended to, he watched for his
next door neighbor, and when he saw her
he signalled for her to come to him. The
girl came up and heard his story, mud
volunteered TO, 90 70 town for doctor.
When the physician arrived and dressed
Belden's wounds Helen told them that
she would look occasionally and attend to
the sick mans wants, and she kept her
promise religiously. For nearly month
she visited the Belden shack regularly,
cooked and served Belden's meals, dressed
his wounds and helped him MS tenderly as
a relative could. When he got so that he
could sit up and help himself, her visits
became shorter and at longer intervals,
and at length they ceased altogether.
This spring it became necessary for
somebody to put in the crops if anything
was to be done. Belden had had no set
Element with the girl, and she appeared
to be making preparations to work his
farm MS we'll as her own. He didn't want
to give up beaten, and he could not
quarrel with woman, especially one to
whom he was under so many obligations.
Finding that things were becoming intol-
cradle as they We're, he called on her one
evening in May,and they had a long talk,
the result of which has Just been dis
covered. After that consultation they
We're frequently together. They worked
both farms this year and made big crops,
and last week they were married.
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