The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-29

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Lola, The Red Rose of the Forest"
 as her people. the Apaches. call her, is
 about to be married to Houston A. Ward,
 one of the wealthiest and most accomp-
 lished young men of Texas. The fact
 that makes this announcement of inter
 est to others than the young people
 themselves Is that Lola. is the daughter of Geronimo. who. when he led the
 Apaches in the latter sos achieved blood
 fer notoriety than any Indian who has taken to the warpath in the last half
 century.
 Another interesting point is that the
 engagement of the young people. came
 about in manner So romantic that it
 sounds as if It must have originated in
 tne exuoerant fancy or a writer of half
 dime literature; but both Lola and Nr. Ward solemnly aver that their romance as hereinafter set forth Is true as gos- pei And surely they are in a position to know.
 Houston A. Ward is the son of old Shanghi Ward, a famous mustang king, of the Rio Grande country. The old man died few years ago. leaving his only
 son splendid fortune in lands. mus was divided between Texas and Illinois
 He usually spent the summers on his fa- ther's ranch, and the winters in the North, where he attended school He possesses fine education and he is rath-
 CT proud of certain trophies won on the play-grounds, and a diploma from thu University of Illinois, at Campaign, III. Last summer the grass was scarce in the Rio Grande Valley. and Houston Ward shipped some 70 or 800 head of cattle to. the Indian Territory, Finding abundant pasture lands, the young man remained for some time in the vicinity of Fort CHI, where he made the acquain- tsnce of the pretty Indian girl who will Istreggenuye sought the company of the dts&kN. belles of the border often dancing and Eidipss with her. but he now says that he did not know that he loved ger i until one evening he found her fingers
 in his hair. and. upon opening his eyes in flame and smoke. he felt the eartf trembling beneath his feet while his ears were filled with a noise as of a cyclone Ward had been riding about over the prairie. looking at his cattle. and, be l coming tired 9e dfsmounted and lay down on the grass in the shade of a tree. leaving his pony to graze at will. He soon fell asleep. and his pony. wan- dered of to mfnsIe with a herd of cattle | ard hcrsrs rot far away.
 The grass was very tall and most of 1t was dead and dry. Either some care less cowboy dropped a match or spark from hunters gun set the prairie on fire. A strong breeze was blowing from the north. and. as usual in such cases | 1t looked as if the flames increased the | commUtion in the air until a windstorm was driving the rapidly spreading flrr l before it.
 The great herd of Texas cattle stam- | peded the instant they scented danger 1 and started south. believing with terror l Tho horses caught the contagtOn and mingled with the flying cattle. snorting with terror. There were about five hun l dred cattle in. the herd. and seventy-five or eighty head Of horses.
 This moving mass of frightened ami mals started straight toward the tree under which the sleeping Texan was ly- l ing.
 Lola mounted on a magnificent horse, was riding across the prairie when tne l fire broke out and she saw the ani fnals 1 stampedes She saw the maddened herd, l driven by the flames rushing furiously l onward toward the place where young 1 Ward was lying. and knowing that his horse had strayed away and that noth- | ing could turn the living wave of terror aside, she struck her horse with her