Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-02
HUALAPAI MAIDEN BALKs WHEN
 WEDDED.
(From Wednesday,s Dailv.l

buck old enough to be he the father of the younger girl, with several eoun- ty officials and other bystanders made a decidedly picturesque ensemble in the corridor of the county building yes terday. The story growing out of this unusual gathering is of fully as much interest as the tale of Captain John Smith and his rescue by Poeohontas, as told in the school history of early days when youthful minds made heroine of the dusky beauty who allowed the famous English adventurer to keep his scalp (and her too) when he was about to be sent on a trip into the hereafter.
 The local story is not thrilling one, but is notwithstanding worth the tell ing. It seems that the Apache buck had secured the girl from her parents as his wife, paying a bounty of SEQ and a Navajo blanket. The girl is a natural beauty, straight as an arrow, with a face fit to be produced on can vas as a perfect type of the young wO- manhood of the Indian tribes of America. A female cousin of the young bride, probably 25 years of age, and who is herself far from being hOmely, accompanied the girl, and a dirty looking buck, partially drunk and overcome with sorrow, were the chief actors in a border drama in one act as was given late in the afternoon.
 With an apparent lack of marital good management the buck had brought his bride and her cousin to town, and when he told them it was time to start to the tepee the bashfuf better half positively declined to go home with her newly founI eonsort- Argument, he explained, brought no good result, and he at last had the bride and her cousin brought under arrest.
 Because of his knowledge of the dia- lect and his long experience among the Apaches, J. H. Robinson was called to serve as interpreter, and then the story of their early marital trouble was told by the wronged husband. While his tale of woe was being fervidly rehears- ed by the buck, who interspersed it rr-ifh nd crla af youthful bride, she put in her time giggling and chewing gum.
 All she would say was that he did not suit her fancy, and she didn t want to go home with him, and when she stopped grinning and laughing her fe- male cousin kept up the role, but without the chewing gum.
 John Tinker of the Phoenix Gazette happened in about this time, and grasp ing the situation at a glance, offered his services to straighten out the ma trimonial tangle. He was turned down by the copper eolored sylph, however, who seemed to place much dependence in Clerk Robinson and his way of ex- plaining matters. After considerable talk, and just as the bride was pulling wad of gum from her mouth to full arms length, the stony hearted officials of the county building order ed the child bride to trot off with her loving husband, intimating that in event of failure to obey this order, it would be their unpleasant and painful duty to place her behind prison bars to think it over.
 Hubby then grabbed a small sack carried by wifey, supposed to contain the bridal trousseau, grunted some thing intelligible to the two women but meaningless to the intruding out siders, and the three started for the plaza. The handsome bride was still chewing her gum, and was still in possession of the same giggling laugh, as they made their way to the open air When last seen the buck was herding his wife and companion to- ward the hills.
 If the opinion of John Tinker and J. H. Robinson can be taken as criterion, this strip of girl is the hand somest thing in the way of feminine h. dian beauty seen in Arizona since Hee- tor was a pup. Both claim they are up in this line, and both agree she is a from head to toe. Tinker said:
 ''There are hundreds of them at the school in Phoenix, but none can touch her as to beauty. She can give the whole bunch cards and spades, and win, hands down."
 Clerk John Robinson sighed as the rio broke away, and remarked:
 ''She skins anything I ever saw be-