Arizona republican., 1900-11-18
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l observe with regr,t that certain Mrs. Scott A. McKeown eff Patagonia. Ariz., is ollce again in Los Angeles. Mrs McKeOwn and her husSand sOma months ago stimulated tha San Fran cisco newspapers to wild burst in the direotinn Of yellOwness. Whole pagcts We're flied with pictures of this deligtW- ful Tafr and their doings. Nothing in connIcticn with them was tsO trivial Tor silly reproduction. McKeGwns $ fame rested upon the circumstance that he had squandered $400,000 in two years, though l have since been told that sO large sum IS far beyond even Me Keown's dreams. Tine only thing to be ga,aered from the mass of mt printed about him is the conviction that he ought to have been put intD ln idiot asylum at his bilLh anl kept there to the day of his death. Mt th,- least foolish of the things he did while he was blowing himself in was 10 become fascinated by a young woman by the name of Dorothy StuIebaker, whom the yellow newspapers connected with the grealj family of wagon makers of the same name. Tins relationship was tfterward a3mi; ted to be imaginary. or at leant. s1 d:staEt ttut it c.nld cut no figure in the California r5mance.
 
 Miss situdebaker was ri-i. an admir- able person If she said all the inane things the yellow F porters wrote CT if she l3oksd like pictures of her printed by the yellow papers. Her Cbserva- tions on things in general Were eX- tremely silly and hyr statements Of facts Were extremely impr- bable. if ncu actually untrue. Her head ap- peared to have been turned by Me ke3wn's money. Having lad little aX- peri, nee with money. her ilea of his wealth was therefore greatly exag- gerated and it is not surprising that it was exhausted much sooner than lrha had expected d ia to be. Then came q temporary separation. The doings of this idiOtic pair were not worth the space wasted in the above description and this britf reference is made to them only to establish my ground of lament for the misuse of California newspaper ink, paper and lime. Fortunately ITO brain power was wasted.
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 I next read an announcement that the McKtowns had made up: that the. male was gcing to Patagonia to su- p5rfntend operations at a mlrA he owned there, all that was left of the wreck of his estate" and that the female would shortly join him. I never saw these folks, but my soul was filled with joy. By Patagonia" l under stood their destination to be tha southe hernnn-9;t division of South Amer iHa I Efl tt.ctoo or Mu-ilona anl CT heaven for the future home of the Mex gowns, but I was not wholly dissatisfied with Pat agonia. I subsequently, learned with grief that the Patagonia meant was mining camp in, this territory
 
 In due time they infested Patagonia. and a San Francieco newspaper printed more pictures of them and more silly sayings by the female To the male was attributed the statement in the same article that Patagonia was to be made the county seat of Santa Cruz oouny. l do not believe anybody else had ev,r thought of thaid until then and believe that the kate county seat contest in Sants Cruz grew out of that foolish story.
 
 It may be urgel that I have watched the career of the McK5owns rather closely for one who belfttles their TO- mantle career. I admit that I have done so and I cannot plead a scientific interest in Gheir human Weaknesses. But We all know that when we walk along a road where a loalthsome thing lies, We turn our heads away resolved not to look at it, yet we do look and suffer nausea afterward. read the yellow newspapers for their loath- somenesS.
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