Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-04

It is the most unexpected and sur
prising romance Of the year-the mar
rage Of John Wesley Davis to a Pue-
bio Indian girl.
Now and then white man OF the
under levels along the border takes
to wife an Indian woman and little
heed is given; but for this fastidious
New Yorker to step SO far from his
social sphere!
John Wesley Davis, heir to the large
fortune Of the late Joseph Davis, heir
of three smaller but good-sized for
tunes from doting aunts: John Wes-
ley Davis, handsome, ambitious and
intellectual, reared amid the luxury
and refinement of an old aristocratic
landed estate, a welcome guest In the
homes Of New York's Four Hundred,
q close friend Of the younger Wander
bits, the Rhinelanders, Sloans and
Phelpses, educated in famous old New
England Andover and at naughty Cor
nell. to choose a wife from q South
western tribe! John Wesley Davis, .
fayorite at swell social functions at
courtly Richfeld Springs and ct fash
ionable Saratoga, and having at mis-
command the heart and hand OF q
dozen daughters Of Americas finest
families. to 60 out to pitiful little
pueblo in New Mexico for q wife.
John Wesley Davis was born In
1875, WAils he has always lived IN
luxury md amid conventional sur
roundings from his earliest youth, ne
has had 4 fondness for rugged and un-
usual pursuits. Once he tramped over
the Alps and found delight for weeks
among the poorest Tyrolean peasants
until he shocked his mothers and sis
ters, and they begged him away. He
could scarcely be persuaded from be
coming professional hunter and trap
per in the Canadian wilds while he
was at Andover.
At Cornell university he became IN
terested in geology and archaeology
The life of exploring. away from the
haunts of his fashionable relatives and
friends, that these scientif fields oi
Investigation promised led him on
He gave up geology later and became
an enthusiast In archaeology. His rel
ativcs encouraged his zeal. In yea
or two more he became fair author
ity on aboriginal archaeology in west
ern New York. Two years ago he ant
a company of wealthy scientists spen
months in private explorations anon,
the prehistoric remains in Yucatan.
Las August young Davis declined t
Join his mother and sisters for anothe
season at Saratoga. He hadsheari Q
the richness Of the prehistoric remain
in New Mexico as field for archaec
logical exploration, and he had plar
ned to 20 and see for himself. H
spent few weeks in looking ove- tn
territory. He settled upon the SAND
buried, crumbling remains of temples
stone houses ami conical structure
eighty-four miles northwest OF Aibr
querque as the best archaeo'ogics
field in New Mexico. and the most II
vitipg for an amateur.
Laguna, one of the dozen India
puzzles In the territory, .s 'hif.y nile
distant from the ruins upon whic
Mr.. Davis fixed for his study and II
vestigation. It ia several hundre
years old. II was there when Corr
nado and his Spanish army marche
to the conquest OF the zuni Cibola !
1912. It numbers some 400 Indian II
habitants, and among all the tribes
noted for It's prosperous farmer res
dents and It's exclusiveness. It Is
community Of crazy old squat, on
story, stone and adobe houses set upo
a rocky ledge countless ages ago.
Among the families In Laguna p'
eblo Is that Of Antonio Oginez. Th
name (like nearly all Pueblo India
names) is Spanish, but the Ogine
folks. Just the same. are fnll-bloode
Indians. They live in the same ston
and mud house that their ancestor
did more than century ago. Antonl
has twenty-acre field half mile frol
the pueblo, which he inherited frol
his father There he and his boy
grow every year little crops Of whei