Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-07
KITTY HARRISON
NOBLEMAN NOW
ONCE COW BOY
Known to Many ArizonianS
and Worked for Some Time
in the Sulphur Springs and
San Simon Valleys. !.

The following which was recently
sent out from New York City will be
of interest TO a number of Arizonans
who were acquainted with Kitty"
Harrison, who worked as a cowboy In
various parts of the territory. He was
for some time employed in the Sui
phur Spring and San Simon valleys in
this county:
The room of Mr. Harrison" In Mills
Hotel, Thirty street and
Seventh avenue, is vacant and a well
knit. clear-eyed Englishman of 38 is
on the sea bound for London to meet
his lawyers and to claim his title of
Sir Genille Cave Browne Cave. his old
Norman castle in Leicester, his 5000
acres, and his right 10 appoint vicar
for his domain and his tenants.
The Norman castle has accommoda-
tions for sixty guests and a stable that
quarters forty horses. and the estate
has an income of $4,000 year.
''Air Harrison" made the jump from
Bald Knob, Colorado, to New York,
and spent the last ten days here.
Sir Genille has become famous in
the west and to some extent in Eng
land as the Cowboy Baronet" He
was the second son of Sir Mylles Cave
Browne-Cave the eleventh Baronet of
his line, who died in February OF last
year There was ahead of him in line
for the title and the estate a brother,
Georry Lisle but he died in 1880. The
death of the father left the baronetcy
and the estate to GeniIle. who has for
the past fifteen years been busting
broncnoes. roping steers, and herding
cattle in the west.
my dear boy" said Sir Genille to
an acquaintance, when, just before
sailing. he was asked why he took a
seven by four apartment in the Mills
Hotel. you see, I'm a cowboy for just
few more days. 1 have been max
ing my living by breaking wild horses
and roping cattle. The money l have
has been earned in your own western
way: and. besides, the soft life of your
big hotels does not appeal to me.
have been sleeping under the heavens
on the ground. up with the break OF
day and astride my horse. Blue Dog
I'm the champion steer roper of the
west, with only one man ahead Of me
the champion of the world. and Blue
Dog did more 10 make the record
than / did"
The fCowboy Baronet" sighed.
but Blue Dog is in good hands, and
can't tell when the call of. the west
| will exert itself on me again.
Sir GenilIe wore a faded red necktie
The band of it kept crawling up or
his neck, and he kept shCEing it down
with muttered eXclamations of hate
| for the thing.
Sir Genille doesn't know just wheT
he will get back to this country, but
he has no idea of being out of it any
4 too long a time He has become en-
amored of the west. He is known
among the cowpunchers as Kitty be
| cause he dressed as a woman one
night when a cowboy in Arizona wa:
| trying to eIope with the only woman
within fifty miles, and impersonatec
! her during an elopement which re
| suited in a laugh on the would-be
! elopers.
| The Cowboy Baronets' estate i!
| six miles out from the village of Ash
by de la Zouche, in Leicester. 1t i:
an old Norman settlement, and hi!
castle goes back to the early days o.
! the history of English nobility. Hi!
family sprang from Jordan de Cave
who inherited the lordships of Norti
| and South Cave, IN York county. a
the death of WyaEmus de Cave. This
| Wyarmus de Cave got his lands from
| William the ConquerOr in 1OSe.