The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-10-13


have been living among the Indians
AT his mine, where he first met her,
since that date. Only recently she T.
was elected queen Of the tribe.
This new American queen Is
bright little woman full of yiyacity
and activity and is as self-possessed
and cool as any man who ever took
an assignment, and more so than
many OF them, for few men would
have taken mp the tasks she seemed
to enjoy and covered so well. She
Travelled from the city -; NeA!co 20 .
Guatemala alone. and said sic was NJ
bit frightened. she slept the first
night she met the man who Is now
her husband. in q room where his pre-.
dcccssor had been murdered, and the
last thing she saw when She closed
h,i. eyes Tor slumbcr were the mach
hrta marks whore the bandits rad
beaten down the door but she said
she had the best nights rest of her
life. for 3. is four hundred feet high
cr than the city of Mexico she de-
clarcd. and the air Is SO pure an !
brac.ug that one sleeps like a log
s.r now lives m ta' same room.
Mrs. Horace Greeley Mary Perry Is.
'hc daughter c. VI. Perry of ST.
Peter Mimi. % newspaper man aud
. clitor Her grandfather was also &.
newspaper man She got her early
/ training lu her fathers OFFICE and set
ont from the very first to be a news
paper man. She met Chief Andrew
John of the Seneca tribe Of the Six
Nations Of New York when child.
| and he took fancy to her and later
/ adopted her with the consent of her
/ father For number Of years she
/ lived with the family of the old chief
/ and among the Indians in New York
| This gave her an opportunity to meet
some of the foremost people OF the
country for Chief Andrew John was
member of the court OF Indian claims
In Washington aud one of the close
friends of President Roosevelt, and
many Of his predecessors.
In her childhood days Miss Perry
now Mrs lscnhart met Dcnmn
Thompson, author of "rhc old Home.
. stead" and had been protcgc of the
, agcl actor-playwright from that time
, until her wedding Three years ag,
/, she spen. several months iu hi, home
/ with his family IN the White noun.
. tains of New Hampshire. From there
she went TO the city of Mexico, and
, her romantic life lu that republic be
gan.
70 When she FIRST went to the city ol
\, Mexico, Miss Perry found that thcrC
4 was no disposition to engage the ser
vices of woman ON any of the Amer
r lean papers, but finally she got ol
q, extra lor three days. and after tha
a. she was regularly on the staff of th,
a Record receiving three promotions
, w. H. Lampe, at one time managln,
Il editor Of this paper and who occuple,
/ such position az the lime Miss PER-,
: was there, said that never had tn,
papcr had a better worker than Mis-
Perry Before going ON the Record
however Miss Perry made a trip &,
Guatemala, along the proposed rou.,
of the rm-Nmerican railroad. an,
wrote @ syndicate article for scyera
United States newspapers ON that nc,
country
one of her first assignments on th
Mexico CiV Record was to go TO IN
/acuIpau district in The very corne
and ON the border of the states of Gu
pcM"ru ana Michoacan TO Investigate
the claims OF certain Americans ton
of them is the man who is now he
husbaudl, who had struck bonanz
n the famous old La Corona mine,
once worked by the Spanish King
and famous throug the world a
the place whcrc Colonel ncmmitl. a
Englishman, was murdered by bar
lbs which came near causing wa
between Mexico and Great Britain
ami resulted In the payment by Me,
leo of an indemnity of $G5,OOO. Co
Rcmmtt had built a fine home O
The mountain side. near the entrano
10 the mine, and IL was at this HON
that he was murdered and robbed, an
!, his wife was horribly mu'ilated, bar,
: ly escaping with her life, All III
; household servants were murdered
1. the same time. No other white woma
ID besides Mrs Rommitt had ever visi
10 ed the place which is located l2o hi
Z ometors from railroad
y With an Indian mozo as a guide an