Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-15

How BOSTON SOPHOMORE BECAME COWBOY
AND WON A BRIDE.
From the San Francisco Alta
The movements az a real cowboy on Kearny
street attracted attention yesterday. He stood
nearly six feet In his boots, and his regular
features and dropping blonde moustache gave
his face an aspect OF beauty fully in keeping
with his handsome proportions. His attire WAS
that of tho vaquero consisting OF buckskin
trousers, wooden shirt fastened az the throat
with a carelessly knotted silk handkerchief "A
coarse chincbilia sack coat and broad l,rimned
felt hat Of the sombrero pattern. An Altd re-
porter leaned his name and his history. His
lame Was Edward ". Willctis and six years
ago he WIS at college, when he received per-
ton merchant, TO enter the theological class
and lit himself tor the ministry. The c,tn-
mand came like a thundefbolt to the happy
goIucky young fellow, who had always be-
heSed himself destined 10 follow his father in
business when the latter should Ice ready Ia
tire. A quarrel with his l,ere was the result
and the young fellow suddenly i,ft for the
west.
AT, heyenne he laid over for n short hunt ON
the plains. The wild lie OF the cowboys caught
his fancy. Salary proved little object. and lao
had little difficulty in attaching himself to IA
ton. Finally he drifted through portions of
Montana, Nebraska. Dakota Idaho, Nevada
and finally into Oregon and California. The
opening OF the summer found him engaged
with three or four comrades I'm driving a small
band OF steers over the santa Cruz mountains.
Cattle in the mountains are not pleasant objects
to deal with. Every uhruly steer that broke
from the band required an hours chasing up
and down steep slopes, over roo Ks and fallen
trees, anc throa. h the sp.teful brush
Toward the end OF the drive the steep bluffs
that line the road on either hand kept the
steers in fairly good order, and only OCCASION
ally did an unusually Juicy bunch CI grass temp
some hungry one 10 bolt up the slope or Into the
that sent wilietts careering among the brakes
and ferns on the slope above. A chase of haf a
mile had seen the trusnt return TO the road.
and " liletts was sklriing the edge OF the bank
some distance In dvance OF the drove I'm search
o: "a sale place 10 descend, when in the middle
OF the narrow road be saw a lovely
on her and promising 10 soon crush
her young life out beneath their ponder
Gus weight Escape for the girl seemed iinpossi-
bic. From the road TO where Wictts horse
stood was wall or rock full twenty feet in
height and below 10 the bed Of the stream wps
sheer descent of double that distance. For
only d second was the hoTsemsn Inactive. Tnen
with the speed born oi hng practice he lifted
his rusty rawhice rata IroIn tie horn OF has
saddle and threw it, put that under your arms,
Miss was illetts hasty INJUNCTION. Ii
obeyed, and not q moment too the girl was
hited above the heads and horns OIL the on
coming cattle.
When they were well by, willetts slowly
Stacked down until his ''calch" dropped softly
TO the earth. Five minutes later, when irv
managed To ind pathway down and reached
she was lying in the dust I'm a faint. hen she
recovered he learned that she, too, WAS from
Boston, and with her father and mother was
avorec spots. The old gentleman, her iatner,
was highly delighted when he learned OF VIII
let's identity AS ne soon did. "His daughter
foolishly placed a high value on my little SER
vice, ex planned Wiilests blushin9 "ald when
saw how she had over estimated IL, meanly
demanded the largest reward could think OF
Tue details were settled yesterday and came
up by the evening train 70 ht myself for her
society She swears shat look like an angel
in NV WOODEN shirt and buc,sskin trousers, bu.
/ will try and get her used ID me ia civilized
garb, for a vaquero's diess Is hardly tine thing
Tor estnetic Boston,"
"Are you going back"
"Ycs in september. We shall tour Yosemite
as man and wife, and then go back home NV
father+n-iaw says that my father has long been
anxious 10 have me come home, and That he
will set me up if the old gentleman doesn't, SO
think had better 60"