The Florence tribune., 1899-05-13
THE SILVER QUEEN.
A True Arizona Love Story.
BY JOSEPH MuLHArroN.

new woman.
 She had not been born again, It IS true, but she had put on bloomers ana left Jacksonville, Florida, to go out ln the world to prospect for a husband or, rather, an affinity, that would sat isfy the inner cravings of a soul that was hangry for love. True lovel Splr- ituei lovel Affinity lovel Soul lovel
 Sally Jane Simkins had been disAp- pointed in love. She had set the stand ard of her deal gery high for thiseserI day common place world and had found an end to all perfection in maa-lhat is, Physical Man. And uow she found herself at forty, not fat, fair and forty, out lanA, lean, and ugly.
 Her cheeks were not like the rose bud; but in color, consistency and com fort were like unto a cold buekwheat cake. She stood six feet four in her stockings or without her stockings, and there was wild, weird, cadaverous look about her as of one who had just arisen from the tomb.
 Once she was handsome, but sorrow and disappointment in love, many, many times, had left it's traces. She had her fortune told by wandering astrologer few days previous to her starting on her journey.
 In casting the horoscope of her nativ- ity he told her that her ascendant planet was Jupiter, and that in Apollo's golden chariot she was destined to ride; that there was an affinity awaiting her in land far, far to the west, where the opalescent light of beautiful corona, generated from an Arizona sunset, shed it's refulgent rays over deserts of fas- cinating cactus. Thither Sally Jane Simkins determined to wander. She would trust in the higher powers to guide and direct her to her affinity, just as a homing pigeon is guided, surely and safely by magnetic attrac- tion to it's home; even though it be hundreds of miles distant--even as is the spiritual pars Of man guided to is home in the heavens thongh t be mil liens of miles distant.
 On On! Sally Jane Simklns jour- Beyea; gnided, directed by an inte1h- gent, invisible force that urged her on ward
 Her arrival at the Silver King mine in Pinal County, Arizona, created profound sensation.
 It had been very eventful day there. Blear-eyed Bob had killed three men the night previous, and the new rave yard over in the cactus grove had that day received it's sixty-ffth tenant. Sally Jane Simkins was the first woman who had ever visited the camp, and many of the men had not seen one for years. There was general scurrying to and fro for the only backing brush which had been left there by disso- lute English lord Mir. c. r. Schilling was the first man upon whom her eyes were riveted. as he stood talking to Mir. Peter Brady and Blear-eyed Bob.
 The acknowledgements in the heart of Sally Jane Simkins gave notice that her affinity was near.
 It was all that Mir. Schilling could do to resist the circean influence she cast around him, and as soon as he could gather his bewildered and scattered senses he fled from the scene in terror.
 MT. Schilling was greatly iu contrast to Sally Jane Simkins, being fat, fair and thirty, aud standing five feet four in his stockings; weighing about 25O pounds, generally whole-souled fel- low, as broad as he was long. He fled to Mineral Creek, and is woman bateg to this day, never recovered from the pervous shock given him that eVentful day of bis life by Sally Jaue SimlSius. The Gypsy carriage in which she had journeyed from Jacksonville, Florida and which she had made to order, was q model Of neasness and comfort, fitted up with nearly every convenience the modern railroad car can boast of. Sally Jane Simkins had spared no expense 1T fitting it up. as she had amassed a con siderable fortune in Jacksonville 1T keeping a fashionable boarding house for northern tourists, where she care fully studied boarding house characters and the gross animal side of men and women as she catered to their base necessities.
 The second night after her arrival a the Silver King a crowd of young mel who had grown unduly hilarious from a session spent in the Hilarity saloon pushed the beautiful carriage over tn hill, together with Sally Jane Simkin and all its precious contents. Oae Iouc scream from it's inmate brought almos the entire camp to the rescue, for ove
 half the men were lying awake think ing of her. "Cupid's darts had pierce
 their hearts," and
 HER POWERS oIRcEAN HAD. CAUSE THEM TO RAyE.v