The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-11-09
MYSTERY OF THE COLORADO.
A Legend Of Indian Love and Romance
Woven-Eiow Jumping Antelope"
Won Ripping RivuIet."

W. 'fFf''S
One of the greatest freaks of ma
: ture and one of her most stipend
Gus manifestations is to be seen OF
the Colorado river in Southern
Texas.
This large stream, which is over
I 1000 miles in length and very deer
at most all points, has been dam
med in its course to the gulf by al
accumulation of logs and driftwood
that extends up and down the
stream for many miles through
Brazoria county. So compact has
this mass become that it impedes
the flow of water to such an ex-
tent that the river has several times
changed its channel.
Negotiations and even large trees
now grow upon this gigantic OBJ
struction, while underneath flow
the ochre colored waters of the Col
orado. In fact, a person might
drive a team of horses AMI loaded
wagon across this dam and never
realize that he was not all of the
time on terra firma.
According to the oldest settlers
living on the bank of the Colorado
in Brazoria county, the famous dams
had its origin in a peculiar way.
Leaping Wolf, an Apache brave,
loved Ripping Rivulet, the bronze
daughter of Standing Bear, chief
of the Comanches. These two tribes
were not on harmonious terms at
the time, because the Comanche
chief had previously failed to de-
liver a consignment of scalps to the
chief of the Apaches III return tor
a few bear skins.
Jumping Antelope, an 9TH r
Apache-more OF less brave-had
upon several occasions basked in
the sunshine of Ripping Rivulet's
smiles. made 100000 eyes at her
and was all in-moccasins, wampum
and feathers.
The situation having becomeI
waist deep, something had to be
done. Madamoiselle Ripple, as the
early French would have called her, !
had either to make a choice be-
tween these two most ardent lovers
or there would be killing" and |
perhaps her blissful dreams of ma
trimonial bliss would be broken
and shattered, like the vase that
the First dashed to the
floor when telling Prince Mitten-
itch how he would shatte1 the Aus
TRAN empire unless the emperor
agreed to his terms for a treaty of
peace
One day both braves put in an
at about the same time
in the wigwam manufactured from
buffalo skins Miss Rivulet's father
and tanned. Three always makes
large crowd when Cupid is hover
ing near, 50, Selling the dilemma
by both horns, Miss Ripple said;
think l love you both Some
times me think l love one a wee
bit better than the other, then
again me think love you both bet
ter than one.
You see the great river near our
camp l go with you to the bank;
you two take my canoe and paddle
across to the other side. Then both
leave the boat, swim back to me
aud the first to arrive will be the
husband of Ripping Rivulet. -
Now, Leaping Wolf had never
learned to swim, and was handicap
ped at the proposition, but yet he
was dead game. He could skin an
-elope and raise the hair of white
but when he got into a
puddle of real water two or three
feet deep his thoughts would in
revert to mamma" and
The old oaken bucket.
The compact being made and two
belts put up as security,
he race was on. The two warriors
the canoe of the queen
across the swollen Colorado, tied it
% a tree on the farther side, and