Arizona silver belt., 1891-05-30
EARLY WATERFRONT IN ARIZONA.
Her First Wedding. Reception on n Wood.
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mote; but courtIng and marrying will go on ss long as there is an Adam and Eve upon the earth
 After the establishment of Fort Buchanan on the Sonoita, settlers be- gan to come Into Arizona from the States. Among them was Felix Grundy Aykos, from Tennessee, with his family of race horses, dogs, hominy block, wife and children.
 He had started for California in 10, got waterbound in Arkausaw about seven years and stranded on the Rio Grande; but he finally reached Arizona all right.
 After the Aykes family gotestablished on the Sonoita, l noticed that very handsome young kentucllian We ind with us at Tubae, whom tbe girls called Sugar r. Dayf, asked me every Satur- day evening for the loan of horse to go np to Sonpita to spend Sunday. 1 Finally l said, Sugar, if you are going to marry Anna Aykes, 1 should like to give you an infarc, now an ob- solete custom. Sugar confessed the soft impeachment, and l commissioned him to arrange with his fance and all the girls on the Sonoi;a to come down to Tubae and make day of #, and So We did and May Buy too. The wedding dry was delnyed for the arrival of come newfanglcd woman's wear expected at the post traders store in the course of the year; bnt finally eve, tling was arranged for the frss wedding among civilized people on the 3onoita.
 As Alcaldc of Tubac under the Gov ernment of Now Mexico, I was legally authorized to celebrate the rites of mat rimony, bapti2e children, grant di- vorees, execute criminals, declare war and perform all the functions of the ancient Fl Cadi The records of this primitive period are on iiisin the Re corder's office ol the ancient and hon oraple pueblo of Tucson. Pima county.
 IL required two ambUlanees 10 con yey the wedding guests from Tnhac to the Aykcs mansion on the Sonoita. and when We arrived there we csopad o1 the woodple, and e ncealed the dcmi- john of '.hisky hereunder
 Directly the Tuhac contingent was joined by Captain (aiterwards GeneraD Elwcll from Fort Buchannn, with To of boys in buttons, who campea on the other side of the woodpile, and con ccalei their dcmijohn of whisky in tihe manner.
 There was not any room in the house for the men, and even the back rcrcb had to he used es a dressing room for the bride.
 Old mother Aykes hnd purchased a 'trouaseau" for the bride, consisting oi new fashioned cinch cnlled a corset, which she wes eudeayoring to fnslen by putr'g her foot on Anne's torso and throwing her weight on the string
 Bill Aykes, Anne's brother, was n cowboy and n mule packer, and I sus- peet had taken several pulls at the demijohn under the wcodpile, So, when he saw her performance, he shouted ont; That's right, marm, cinch her tlil she sneczes and then trot her out 10 be married
 When the bride was properly attired the welding march commenced and the guests on the woodpile filed into the horse Sally Rochester stood up with the bride and John Capron with the groom.
 The Alcalde was duly sober, for the tune of day, and tied the matrimonial  knot with diamond hitch.
 The wedding supper was superb; gallinas gusadas, guacolotes estufl, enchillades, friioles, chile con carne, dulces and all the sumptuous dishes of the Castilian menu.
 We reached home somutow or other; by the providence of God.
 Tubac became kind of Gretna Green for runaway couples from So- nora5 as the priest there charged them twenty five dollars, and the Alcude of Tubac tied the knot gratis, and gave them e treat besides.
 I had been marrying people and bap- tizing children at Tubac for year or two and had Il good many god children named Carlos or Carlotta according to gender; and began to feel quite patri- archal, when Bishop Lame sent down Father Mashboef (yicar Apostolic of New Mexico, to look after the spiritual condition of Arizona people.
 It required all the sheets and table- cloths of the establishments to fix up q confessional room and we had to wait till noon for the blessings at breakfast; but worse than all tint my comadres, who used to embrace me with such af- lection, went away with their rebosas over their heads, without ever friend