The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-05-26
A WILD GIRL CAPTURED.
Freed by TWO Men, Burro ana
 Dog, in the Grand Canyon.

sina who Iclt ;la caravansary early In the morning to pursue his way through pleasant paths and shady groves aud paid doarly for leaving the well-beaten road, for we, Han2e and l, had pleas ant and unexpected experience that not often happens to tho lot of man. Starting out early from the Grand Canyon Hotel, situated at the city of Hance, on the rugged edge of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, at tho end of the stage road leading from the city of Flagstaff, on the Atlantic x Pa- ciGc railroad, in Arizona, afoot, with lunch prepared by the cheerfdl Mrs Murley, the mistress of the house, we entered the groves of cedars that skirt the wilds of the most interesting, the grandest and the widest scenery that there is on this side of the sun, where everything is in the state of nature, and where the deer and the antelope graze with perfect freedom.
 We wended our way, every now and then stopping and peering over the vast and ever-changing precipices and watch the bats and the owls ply their busy vacations, with an occasional eagle and mountain sheep among the stupendous chasms that are no where else to be found, wholly inaccessible to man, though evidences are plainly to. be seen where extinct races of the Aztec and Toltec held high carnival in times past. But even now hundreds of them might be dwelling amid the dark recesses, the caves and oyerhang- ing rocks, along spring branches abounding in fish, completely hidden from view.
 As evening came on, our faithful burro, with eyes as large as his ears, began to show signs of uneasinesS, aud it was evident that we were treading strange ground, as she paved the earth, and our rifles were at once placed in readiness, when one of those separations fitted past in the twilight that are best told in fable. An human, wild and with streaming hair. fairly 1 flew past us, as swift as a deer, and had we been near the water a mermaid would have been the cry. but, being over 1000 feet perpendicular above the Colorado, we had at once to eX- claim, "a laudmaid," and our ever watchful dog, bounding as swift as the wind, baycd it not far ahead, when the wild girl that has been the talk of the country for years is before us and our rifles dropped, and only for the faith full dog, who held to her torn and rag ged skirts, we might, as others, have been wandering amid the rocks and caves of the inaccessible depths of the | canyon III Naih'
 We secured her safely for the night and the next morning went back to the hotel with our captive, where we now have her, and by the kindness of the landlady we hope to teach her the ways of civilization and our language, when she will be--able to give us her history, name and race, whence she came and where she was going, when more of them will be found thus soly- ing one of the strargest problems that trouble the savants of this the approx imation to the twentieth century.
 The girl has been christcned "Etlie" until her correct name may be ascer- taincd, and when the true history of her strange people may become familiar to us all,
 It Is needless to say that she is the sole attraction of the tourists now be- holding the wonders of this wonder land, and an expedition is now prepar- ing to start for the same locality, and with picks and powder to "raise cain in the part of the canyon supposed to be the resort of the last remnant of | those ancient races; and the cry is, "morc wild girls or bust" and causing much more excitement than the quartz and asbestos lodes that were discovered short time ago.
 In the future you will hear more of Fife t.