The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-08
CHINESE GIRL
CATTLE QUEEN
LEE KUE IS 20 ONLY, BUT SEE
e., RUNS A RANCH.
The Cattle Queen Of Arizona, Whose
q Annual Income Is About $4,000
She Is Small and Trim, with Frank,
Fearless Look in Her Eyes-Ct Chinese
= Conventions Have Been Thrown
Aside. %'r

A eowpuncheE has arrived In town,
says the San Francisco correspondent
of the New York World, and up to last
accounts not light has been shot out
nor are, there any, signs Of red paint
ha vi been used by the he stranger;
the Chinese cattle queen Of Arizona,
and she has taken up temporary quar-
ters in the Chinese district. Miss Leo
Kue is peaceful and refined cowgirl.
She left her shooting irons at home
near Phoenix, Ariz:a
an escort to the ashes Of her father,
according to custom, be buried in the
fowery kingdom. While Lee Kue is
thousands of years ahead of her own
race, she still clings to some of it's ira
wish will be religiously carried out.
Since she was Is, Lee Kue has had
full charge Of her fathers ranch.
which brings an annual income Of
$4,000. Every detail Of it's working
was managed by her: With large
staff Of admiring cowboys she superin-
tended, the branding and the rounding
up and she rode with her own herds
into Phoenix.
Her life contrasted almost grotesque-
, ~ with that Of her sisters here and in
China. While they seldom saw even
the little corners of the world in which
they lived, all Arizona was Lee Kue IS
to wander over.
Her sisters covered their faces from
the sight of men. Lee 1zue goes forth
among the sterner sex of her own land
and Of America, jokes with them, quar-
rels with them and bargains with them
shrewdly. ST.
While her sisters toddle ON their I'M
certain, pyramidial feet, Lee Kue leaps
into the saddle of a bucking mustang
and rides with the best cattle puncher
in Arizona. ~ a
Farming 2; and d., horticulture are re open
of the markets in Phoenix are provided
with fruit and vegetables from her
ranch. When the cattle were not occu-
plying all her attention she would ariss
before dawn and drive four-horsa
wagon loaded with produce. into town.
Lee K9e Is small and trim. Except
oblique eyes, there is nothing in her APP
pearance to distinguish her from the
conventional Chinese girls cooped in
arbors Of lilies and occupying their,
time in wondering how the street below
them looks.
But the desert tan of Arizona is on
Lee Kue's cheeks, and now years Of
indoor life would never make them
pale. She belongs to the strenuous life.
Tho Miss Lee Kue is an heiress, she
is not regarded in Chinatown as mat
rimonial prize. She is 50 marvelously
"new" that the eGgibles fear her.
Marry woman who rides astride
like "white devil'' upon a prancing
horse, and no doubt has 45-caliber
coquettishly tucked away In her hip
poeket9 Not for All Keel Not for
Fat Sungl Not for any Of the Beau
Brummels of Chinatown
would hardly care Tor them. II she
brought All Kee or Fat Sung to Phoe-
nix as her husband, his skin might
promptly be perforated by some Of Miss
! Lee Kue's narrow-minded admirers
among the Alkali likes and Tucson
partner he will not be led to the altar
by his pigtail. Lee Kue does not adj
mire long hair on men. The fortunate
husband will be call samee white
man.