The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-16
MADE A BIG OFFER
CATTLE KING OFFERS FIFTY THOUS-
AND FOR 4 GIRLS HAND.
But the Wichita Maiden Refused the
TEN rtino Offer-He Leaves Hand
some Check in Her Hands to Pay
Her Way to His Lordly Estate Should
She Relent.

local matrimonial market during the
week. This may sound strange, but
it is a fact. nevertheless.
Last Saturday one of the wealthiest
cattle barons of Idaho was en- route
north from Texas when he met an old
friend, a citizen of this city, at the de-
pot. Glad, indeed, they were to meet,
for they had not seen each other Tor
years. The cattle king was invited to
stop over for a visit with the family OF
the citizen in question. His business
at Kansas City the next day was ur-
gent. but he promised to return in
day or to and visit d few days at the
home of his old friend.
Tuesday morning the gentleman in
question got off at the Union depot and
proceeded at once to the home of his
friend, and the whole day was put in
seeing the town, while the evenings
were passed away around the freside,
the cattle king entertaining the lam
lily very highly with the wonderful sto-
rieS in the experience of the north
western plainSman. The friend S vile
was delighted with the plainsman. His
manner was so simple, original and IN
nocent, and besides that he had gem
erouS heart, and altogether was fine
type of frontier manhood. She was
proud of him and like everything else
a woman is proud of she made ar
rangements for her neighbors TO see
him. A dinner was arranged Tor
Thursday and the family intimates
Were invited to the feast. Among the
guests was a Well-lInoWn young lady
living in the north part of the city.
She is %, but yet the blush OF youth
is still on her cheek, her form IS wen
rounded and graceful and altogether
Sh
bold plainsman's eye twinkled when it
first rested upon her, his big heart
heat faster, something like blush
mounted his cheek when she turned her
large, round and bright eyes upon him.
They were introduced. He was enbar-
raised and tried in vain to say some
thing pretty. Everybody who has ever
experienced the tender passion knows
how he felt. At dinner those eyes OF
his which looked the thousand dangers
incident to frontier life in the face
without Wincing, fell beneath the
glance of hers. In a word the gentle
man from Idaho was madly in love
with the fair daughter of the Peerless
Princess.
The hour Of departure came and
when the fair one bid him goodbye his
hand trembled in hers and remained
attached to it like steel to the magnet
May l call upon you tomorrow he
asked Win d trembling NO4CS. SOi-
tainly sir" said she in reply.
What dreams his love-sick heart
INDUCED in that night no one but him
self can tell. At any rate he was OUT
of bed early in the morning, lie VS.
tied the barber and received his SER
vices with all the frills and perfumery
of the trade and at reasonable honf
he was ringing the bell at her hail door
with a trembling hand. The fair lady
answered and when the door flew open
he thought he never saw a loVler VS.
ion, He was entertained only Few
minutes by her when in deliriurl OF
love he fell at her feet and asked her
with all the fervor of Mark Antony at
the feet of Cleopatra to be his WIFE
Her. time came to be embarrassed
and with those delicate really Is and
Oh My'S, peculiar to the sex she really
said nothing. She wanted time and
arrangements were made to call later
in the day
TO him the intermission OF an hour
was as an age. Every minute added to
the intensity of his love and on the
very second of the expiration of the
time allowed him hewaS at the hail
door again. She invited him in and
treated him very courteously, but she
/ told him that she could not accept his
offer. Without looking for soft place
he fell on his knees again and his ap-
than ever. In the simple eloquent IAN
guage of a plainsman he told her now
wealthy he was in lands, cattle and
the shining coined metal of the republic
and said that all would be shared
with her In addition he pledged TO
her his faith and the houor or man
and a love that the moment she would
consent ii be his he would give her
in her own right a bank account OF
$50 600. His pleas were IN vain
for she gently told him that she could
{ not be his He went away with a sad
heart and she did not expect to see him
anv more Darkness had fallen over
the city. engines went footing by like
ships passing in the night and she
looked after many of them expecting to
see her frontier lover waving a banda
ma from the car window The pale
moon lifted the curtain OF night ana
shed her mellow light on the surround
ings The fair lady who had waved a
fortune aside, and a husband too, was
standing on the porch taking a last
view of nature before retiring to her
room. Her long hair was flowing
down her back and the moon shown
fullupon her. \ man rushed up 20 her
before she had time to scream, and az
ter thrusting a letter into her hand
vanished like Caesars ghost in the
tent of BrutuS. She entered her room
with q palpitating heart. opened the
letter and found in it a check for 5000
drawn by her impromptu lover on his
ample bank account. The letter stated
the depth of his love for her and said
that the 5000 was to pay her way ont
to see him and his broad acres fat cat
tie, etc, should she ever consider his
proposition favOrably.
The gentleman left on the train that
night for his home. He is said to be
a good looking man. of medium age and
vast fortune and the reaso nthe lady
did not accept him is hard to eN-
plain as some of the many other &c
centricitieS of the sex.