Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-25
CHINESE WOMAN
A CATTLE QUEEN
RIDES AsTRlDE AND sUPERiN-
TENDS BRANDING ROUND UP.
THE ADMIRING COWBOYS
Less Strenuous Celestials of San
Francisco Marvel at This New
Woman of Their Race-Has
Been On a Ranch Since Child,
hood.

A cow-puncher has arrived in San
Francisco, and up to the latest &C.
counts not light has been shot out
nor are there any signs of red paint
having been used by the stranger.
The cowpuncher is Miss Lee Kue,
the Chinese cattle queen Of Arizona.
and she has taken Up temporary
quarters in the Chinese district. Miss
Lee Kue is a lteaceable and refined
cowgirl. She left her shooting irons
at home 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, be buried
| in the fiowery kingdom. While Lee
kue Is thousands of years ahead of
her own race, she still clings to some
of it's traditions. Therefore her faith
er's last wish will be religiously car
ried out.
Since she was fifteen, Lee Kue has
had full charge of her fathers ranch,
which brings an annual income OF $40
600, Every detail of its working was
managed by her. With a large staff
of admiring cowboys she superintend-
ed the branding and the rounding up
and she rode with her own herds into
| Phoenix.
Her life contrasted almost grotes.
quely 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 Kues 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, qrarrels with them and bar,
gains with them shrewdly. While
her sisters toddle on their uncertain.
ryramidal feet, Lee Kue leaps into
the saddle of bucking mustang and
rides with the best cattle puncner in
Arizona.
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 dawn and drive
duce into town.
Lee Kue is small and trim. Except
for the frank, fearless look in her
oblique eyes there is nothing in her
appearance 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.
Though Miss Lee Kue is an heir
ess, she is not regarded in China
. town as a matrimonial prize. She is
. so marvellously new" that the elig.
ibles fear her
Marry woman who rides astride
!, like white devil'' upon a prancing
horse and no doubt has a Colt As co
quettishly tucked away in her hip
: pocket? Not for An Kee, Not for
Fat Sung! Not for any of the Bean
Brummels of Chinatown!
On the other hand, Jne catuIe queen
would hardly care for them. If she
brought All Kee or Fat Sung to Phoe.
nix as her husband. his skin might
promptly be perforated by some of
Miss Lee Kues narrow-minded ad-
mirers among the Alkali Ikes and
Tucson Charles.
When Lee Kue returns from China
she will continue to manage the ranch.
If she decides to take in partner he
will not be led to the altar by his pig
tail. Lee Kue does not admire long
hair on men. The unfortunate hus-
band will be "all samee white man."