The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-07-23
How a slave Loved Frank Pyle and
she Was Married.

girl pounding rice In huge wooden
mortar, and while one slave was gone
for the water asked her " she had TO .
work hard and she said she did AS
I had nothing else to do I told her she .
had better run away TO Boo Boo and /
marry me and she wouldn't have to
work any more. cs American women
didn't have to work
'I got my drink and went along and
never thought OF the lie had told her
for two weeks, when one night on Of
the scouts came running in all out OF
breath Gnd iold me that one Of Mar
zlzans slave girls had run away to
marry me, that she was hid in town
now and that II her owner found her
he would surely kin her He has the
reputation OF being the cruelist Of all
slave holders and / Ger, was in
hx. But / went aud found her and
she told me she was ready TO go to
the priest ana get married. Now, just
Imagine me standing there with pret
|ty girl asking me 10 marry her.
He Was Fooling Her.
"I told her that was Just foolng
and did not mean IT, She cried and
said her master would surely kin her.
II took her 20 the house Of a friend
and told her that would see her
master in the morning and tell him
that if he whipped her | would turn
the whole outfit Of scouts loose on him
and putting a pistol TO the head Of my
friend, told him If he allowed her to
, be stolen he would suffer for it. We
! were called out that night and didn't
get back for three days. While ! was
taking the saddle Off my horse, my
: friend came up and told me he could
not keep the girl that sne was ther
in the country and that her master
was turning things upside down trying
TO find her.
"Well / was worried but while eat
/ Ing one OF the boys sat down beside me
and said Phyle saw the pretties
girl / over saw IN my life while yol
we're gone. II ! could get girl lik'
that I would like to marry her ant
take her back to the United States
After questioning him J found he haI
been to the house ana caught sight O
this same Identical girl as she ra
. into another room for fear OF bein
!. seen
Worked in a Substitute.
"The case was laid before him an
told him il he meant what he sal
- that very night was the time 70 settI
a the matter. He jumped at the chanc
'r SO I took the scouts and went ont
IS the country and found lho grl in @
ie old shack with an old lame woman ar
brought her back told her wou
not marry her myself but another e
~ low would This didn't suit bier d
ti tn she saw the other fellow ald
IN be is really a fine looking follow wi
ic lota ~ money She sool agreed that
at was am right
we awakened the priest and os
ed him TO help ms out he said th
nv according to the rules Che bonds ehou
ss be read IN church three Sundays
re fore be could marry them under {
la- circumstances ne would marry th'
un then and there. would Ike 90 ina
he Ia picture of that ceremony. Mys
,ss aud the groom wre the only white p
Of pie present and every man but
on priest had a pistol on. The ceremo
Of was great 10 be sure. he priest col
IN not talk English and the groom cor
not talk Spanish so The priest MARI
the bride and J. married the groC
ON Don't know what the priest said TO
ing pride as he used Latin, but ! gave
on. groom a regular old fashioned Nc
ide odist ceremony 80 far as could
"a member. You would have laughed
ody hear me come over with all my eal
len. ly goods / thee endow' IA fact {
lion was about all ] remembered TO
par right.
"This fellow Is all right though
he went and bought his wife's mot
El the next day and they an live tog
cen. or az happy as clans He can't SD
rob Spanish but she Is learning Eng
,ped and he has made arrangements for
I'M 10 90 to school and take music less
,ent He bought her $50 worth OF
Il IN clothes and now she Is the swe