The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-28
A CHINESE CATTLE QUEEN.
Little Oriental Who Rides BuclSins
Mustang and Punches Cattle.
From the San Francisco Call.

From the San Francisco Call.
Miss Lee Kue. Chinese cattle queen
of Arizona, is in town. She arrived
unostentatiously, and has taken her
abode in the Chinese quarter. AS yet
she has not shot out the light OF the
district, nor has she attempted to dec
crate it with a carmine streak. after
the custom of cattle queens of scent
fiction. Miss Lee Kue Is a most peace
able and refined cowgirl. She left her
shooting irons near Phoenix. Ariz.
She is here on her way to China as
an escort to the ashes of her father,
who died several years ago and must,
according to custom, he buried in the
Flowery Kingdom. While Lee Kue is
thousands of years ahead of her own
race, she still clings to some of its ira
ditions. Therefore. her fathers last
wish will be religiously carried out.
Since she was fifteen, Lee Kue has
had full charge of her fathers ranch,
which brings an annual income of $10,
900. Every detail Of it's working was
managed by her. With a staff of adj
miring cowboys she superintendent the
branding and rounding up, and rode
with her own herds into Phoenix.
Her life contrasted almost grotesque-
ly 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's
to wander over. Her sisters covered
their faces from the sight of men. Lee
Kue goes forth among the sterner sex
of her own land and of America, jokes
with them, quarrels with them, and
bargains with them shrewdly. While
her sisters toddle on their uncertain,
pyramid feet, Lee Kue leaps into the
saddle of bucking mustang and rides
with the best cattle punchers In Ari-
IONA.
Farming and horticulture are open
books to this Chinese girl of twenty.
Most of the markets In Phoenix are
provided with fruit and vegetables from
her ranch. When the cattle were
not occupying all her attention she
would rise before the dawn and drive
a four-horse wagon loaded with pro-
duce into town.
Lee Kue is small and trim. Except
for the frank, fearless look in her OBJ
liaue eyes, there is nothing in her ap-
pearance 70 distinguish her from the
conventional Chinese girls cooped In
arbOrs Of lilies and occupying their
time in wondering how the street be-
low 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.
Though Miss lie Kue IL an heiress
she is not regarded I'm Chinatown as
matrimonial prize. She is so mar
velously new" that the eligibles fear
her.
Marry a woman who rides astride
like a white devil" upon a prancing
horses. and no doubt has a Colt 4j
coquettishly tucked away in her hip
pocket? Not for An Kee! Not for
Fat Sung Not for any OF the Beau
Brummells Of Chinatown.
on the other hand, the cattle queen
would hardly care for them. II she
brought All Kee or Fat Sung n Pheo-
nix as her husband. his skin might
promptly be perforated by some Of
Miss Lee Kue's narrow-minded admir-
ers among the Aikali Ikes and Tucson
Charles.
When Lee Kue returns from China
she will continue 10 manage the ranch.
II she decides 20 take q partner, he
Will not be led 70 the altar by his
piRtan Lee Kue does not admire long
hair on men. The fortunate husband
viii be "ail samee white man"