The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-08-11
! WESTERN ROMANCE.
STORY OF BEAUTIFUL INEz-
AND HER ADORERS.
A Duel to the Death Between the Conn
batants - From Being Warm
Friends Two Men BECOME
ImpIacable Enemies.

Years and years ago, back in that
distant period known to history as
early days a duel was fought in
Stockton which resulted in the death
OF both OF the com batants. says the
San Francisco Examiner. The cause
OF The duel was love affair the men
being rivals for the affections of a.
Spanish girl who lived here, and who,
had reputation for beauty that
stretched as far at least as Lodi on
the north and French Camp on the.
south
The fame of her lovliness spreads
even to Union Island. and the naughty
pioneers We're not averse to feasting
their eyes on the senorita's charms.
There was not a man in Stockton in
those days-date uncertain o.was
unwilling to admit that her black eyes
were more lustrohs, her dropping
lashes longer, her instep more neatly
arched and her form more undulatiDg
and graceful than that of any girl he
had seen in those parts or even hoped
to see. There was softness in her
glance and a luxury in her movement
that were worth going blocks to get
an opportunity to behold
The spell that her loneliness cast
on the men who were here then was,
no whit less than that which the music
or the Pied Piper of Hamelin exerted
on the children. She did not, like
the piper: lure all those who followed.
her to their deaths. though she prob
ably could have done so had she been
SO minded. She did. however cause
the death of at least two and the
pioneer who told the story late
ly, pointed to the sabers which
were taken out of the ground by the,
workmen on Market street. In order
to prevent the temporary stoppage of
business on the channel whenever the
boat came in the wnarfnger had to.
finally beg 1nez to remain away and.
as she was a good hearted girl, who
was willing to oblige anybody with
anything but her heart she readily
consented
Three men who had seen military
service in some foreign country (the
pioneers memory had become SO cob
Webbed that he could not recollecs.
Just where they came irony arrived
here when Inez was in the zenith of
her glory. Two of them were Young
men, and the third was in the prime
OF life. Two of them became smitten
with the girl, and, being of hot i'm
pulsive temperament each sought to,
win her for himself. and take her
away. Curious!y enough the man of
the three who retained his composure
even when Inez flashed on mis- ewes
was one of the younger ex-soldiers-
They were soldiers of fortune such
as are not as often. seen NOWADAYS as
Of yore The two rivals quarreled
over the girl and then their dispute
turned to a question of honor the lie
having been passed and CHALLENGE
| for a bloody encounter given and i'm
mediately accepted.
They fought on a spot which is now
on Market street between Cedar and
| Ell Dorado streets as was shown when.
the sabers were dug up by workmen
who were excavating there for the.
main sewers. Near the two sabers,
was a brighter sword. Two skulls.
and human bones had been dug up bv
| the workmen before reaching the
swords.
! These were the evidences of the pi-
oneer's romance. The duel he SAID
was attended by the third member of
the military party and by few friends.
whom they had made here The an
tagonists from being warm friends had.
grown to hate each other intensely.
Such is the effect of a woman's inAn--
ence on men sometimes
The conflict consequently was not a.
| formal affair merely to technically
wipe out a grievance of one of the an
tagonists. The bloodletting was done.
in earnest and so furious and evenly
matched were the rivals that when,
one of them dropped and expired the
other one was done for too. and there
they both died within few minu1es
of each other
There were no facilities for cofined:
burials IN those days such as there are
now, and in this case a funeral of that
sort was not deemed necessary. A
grave was dug by their friends one
deep and wide enough for them both.
and they were laid with the sabres
which they had used in letting out
each others life. Their friend and
! companion was so much affected bv
their death that he threw his own
sword into the opening. The mound
was heaped up. but. time leveled it..
and there was no mark to tell where
the rivals for Inezs smilcs lay.