The Tucson citizen., 1902-03-04
4 Handy Maiden With.
Guns to Visit lis
A F6MALE TERROR
shot Up the Town OF Santa
Rosa, n. N. for Interfering
with Her Recreation and
Then Fled.

| SILVER CITY. n. M, March A..
Cora, the cowgirl as she is knowA
to the West Texas and New McxIco
whites, end Goa Chiqnlta or s,enorita
Chiquita, as she Is called by the MexI-
cans, has disappeared from santa
Rosa and vicinity, and Ia said to be
now in Arizona. or on her way there.
She filtered from Santa Rosa between
two days to avoid arrest for shooting
up the town" during a sporting mood.
Not very long. will her whereabouts
be a mystery, for wherever Senorfta
Chiquita tarryeth she lis soon In ac-
tive and abiding evidence.
La Chiquita Is quarter blood Che
roaee Indian and was a cowgirl on
the Cherokee Indian cattle ranges from
the time she was able to sit on a cow
pony until seven years ago, when she
transferred ner range riding to the
Texas Pan handle. and thence drifted.
accompanied by Poker Paul a we..
known frontier card sharp 10 the con-
strnction camps OF the Rock lsland-El
Paso Railroad
Cora and her poker-playing protec-
tor opened a saloon and gambling
house al the famous Rag Town on the
Rock Island. and remained there until
Poker Pauls trnant fancy wandered to
a pretty and pliable Mexican girl, up
on which La Chiquita promptly shot
Paul and scratched the other woman
until she looked like she had been
in energetic and close communion with
a ilrst-clsss barbed wire fence.
Cnrn hnn srnuntad nnr harao nna
rode 10 Santa Rosa. where she speed
lily picked up another admirer in the
person of Que Dick Hamilton, by
whom she was accompanied in her
flight from the town.
Cora Chiquita Is now about % years
of age, la petite in form, ana yet we'll
developed. robust and agile s.e
dresses in nattiest frontier male at
..re. wears a beplumed ard bespangled
sombrero. carries brace of revoivers
at her trim waist and a Winchester
carbne in her shapely and supple
hand. is a quick and dead shot, is a
fearless and finished rider. Is unrival-
ed In the use of the lariat, and is. as
the mood takes her. a good -natured,
hand helping woman. or a fierce and
daring desperate before whose ready
gun the most reckless cowboy or
habituai bad man" is glad. indeed,
10 harriedly hide out
II was while swayed by one of her
desperate outbreaks that La
Shiquita Senorita earned her present
sXle from Santa Rosa She mad been
drinking heavily. riding her horse in
% saloons. ''settin EN- up to all
hands, etc. until she became so dis
orderly that she was arrested and
lined. With her wild heart afiame with
mingled whiskey and wrath, Chiquita
once more mounted her horse rode
madly to her tent on the outskirts OF
the town. seized her revolvers and
before the startled Santa Rosa could
fairly catch its breath. was back on
he main street, riding like a whiri-
wind and shooting with either hand
1t everything in or out OF sight.
The town promptly hunted a hole
and pulled the hole In after 1t. and
or two hours of daylight yet remain
ng Cora Chiquita shot and rode as she
liked. When the morning dawned the
air shootist was missing
While Cora -~hiQuita herself fS no
mystery. there has long been sufficient
'peculation as to where she procureB
he money with which she Is always
more than liberally supplied--A h1-
Incial amount far beyond that Of any
ource apparently at her command.
This money conundrum. together with
he fact that the girl herself is from
he Indian nation. at one time brceding
'lace and refuge of bandits OF mn
iasses. has led to suspicion that Corn
thinutfa NAV he tho 1hrAmd MdYNSf1xGx#5s
nd investigating agent of bandit
organization proposing bank and trAtn
obbery this spring in the Southwest
Cora did not leave her address when
he left santa Rosa, but a friend ok
Dick Hamilton, who accompanied her.
ays that Arizona was her distln0t1or.