Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1886-05-05

Trials anA TrfA0loesons 81 Q Desueifai
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| Trials anA Tfibalassons 81 Q Deautiful
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Nearly every one who has heard piano
thumped in Arizona knows CT ariey vii.
loughly. He paved the piano all over this
territory, from Prescott to Tombstone, and
thss BE- slipped his cable, slipped down to
L. Trinidad ami became an "honsst
niner." Not finding piano up among
the rugged c;i6s of he Sierra Nadre, vii
Ioushby organised bras bssd-for be IL
bound to make noise in the world His
musical tastes sad general vivacity brought
him into contact wita the first families.
For season the dsrk-eyed senoritas fought
shy Of his blaadishmsuts, for somehow or
other the impression got out down there
thstWillouehby had young wife il Tomb
stone or elsewhere in Afizsns. Howeves,
be bscame deeply infatuated With bssuti-
full yorns woman belonging to family Of
sistsn almost numerous enough - match
the state, and hs press. bis suit with eli
che arior Of bis nature. Some Of the boys
about tswn induced young Mexican rival
= inform the ycurg lsdy's father that Will
ieughb, was married. The old gcnt.emsE
forbid any further attention a the ealIan;
toward bic daughter. This nearly broke
willouzhbys heart; but be asked end was
granted the privilege Of ieiu,ing the Sian.
Ter. accordingly he wrote to the recorder
Of CocLjse cnuriy. Arizona. snd obtained .
certificate 10 the "a C The, M such license
had ever been i'sued ia. rer hsd snch mar
riage ever taken place ia that county.
Meantime, Wili3uehbY a.csrisusd that bis
hated M.xicsn rival had conveyed the story
Of his marriage 20 he old msu, and meet.
ing the rival, wiIloughby gave him $50
lsrruping-aec riding to the polio. court
docket. AZ lerglb TIE recorders certif-
cate arrived. AID u iiloughby was up in the
seventh heaven of bsppinr-s-.snd the
Wind s.ew through bis whlskersr' But
then the giri's grandfather had just passed |
away, and sccsiriDg TO the custom Of the |
country no one bat members Of the family
was allowed 70 enter the house tor certain
number Of days wilieoghby could not
brook delay. and % procuring . three
legged stool, he took . position in the
evening under the girl's window to have . |
conversation with her through the wicket.
His position wss % Q marrow sidewalk.
constituting the brisk Of . deep arroyo,
and the night IVES cold. The same mis-
chiesious Gsisgess Who had been the bane
Of his love sffair, employed two young
Nexicans, enc II whom approached the |
happy lover ffon one direction and placed |
beneath the stool rsd>hot portable stove,
while the ether approached from an oppo-
site dirt c,son and threw . pair of heavy
blankets (wilisughbsS own over his
shoulders. In ~ instant the blankets
went is's the muddy stream, with the char.
coal stese and contents in hot parsuit, while
the stool went fying through the cir II the
nearest one Of bic tofmestors. This exhl.
bitioD Of temper 10 front Of house Of /
sesis aroused the ire Of the old
gentlemap, and again the heart broken
Wiilouehby retired With the ipjuI csion
never 10 again show his face on the prem
ICES. In time, however. he satisfied the old
gentleman With hin explanation. and then
10 triumph exhibited the c.rtifc ite from
The Coehise county recorder. The old gen.
tleoan va satis6ed with the certificate of |
character. and oess more everything 80
lovely. Bat 10 len than twenty. -four hours
thereafter the mischievious 0risgoss, who
still pursued him, got after the girls father
and explained to him that there were
dozen counties in Arizona and more than
one thousand in the United States, and
while man night get married in any of
those counties the fset would never be
known in any other couDty-sad that, in
fact, Willoughby got married in Pima
county. At last acCosnts willoughby vas
awaitisg rst7rns from the recorder of Pima
county, and Wa wtnkine steadily for $500,
which the old geutlemaa fixed upon - The
sun which his prospective son in law must
deposit With him - . guarantee of good
character before bs-the father-vould
consent TO the marriage.