The Cordova daily times., 1920-11-04
CUPID CLAIMS
 ANOTHER OF
 OUR TEACHERS


 at Long Beach, Cay, to Alexander Watts of that city. The Times joins her many other friends in Cordova in extending the heartiest congratu- lations and best wishes.
 The following letter from Mary Baen tells off about it:
 customed to my new life and feath- ering my pretty nest here in "Sun- ny California" that I have deplor- ably neglected letting my friends know what has become of me since I passed out of the Copper Gate" and exchanged pine for palm. You will see by the enclosed clipping that I left the territory of Alaska for the holy state of matrimony. I am Mary Baen Wright no longer, but Mrs. Alexander Watts, if you please!
 The story of my meeting with the man who is now my husband, and the events leading up to our mar riage, is so strange that my journal istic instinct quite gets the better of reticence. If you use in the Times the clipping, you may add to it anything you please from this letter, for the story is even more remarkable than the press reporter has given it. Here's the rest of it.:
 In September, 1914, MT. Watts found himself opposite a young wo- man on a train bound westward out of Denver. Several tttempts to start a conversation with her failed At last a train boy, distributing packets Of post cards down the aisle | remarked to MT. Watts, Maybe l your wife would like some'- glancing at the girl The two looked at each other and burst into hearty laugh. The ice was broken. Later, MT. Watts remarked to young man with whom he was travelling Some day I'm going to marry that girl" It took him almost six years to the day to realize his ambition.
 When the train reached Sacra- mento Miss Wright went north to take charge of an Oregon high school while the man and his friend, who were really secret service Of ficers, searched the underground dives of Chinatown, San Francisco, for Charles Fugua, who had mur- dered in cold blood wealthy citi- zen of St. Louis. From San Fran cisco to Los Angeles, from Los Angeles to Rick Springs, Wyoming from Rock Springs back to San Francisco they trailed him. and at last captured him in hotel on Tele- graph Hill
 For ten years Mr Watts was in the United States secret service Never once did he fail to bring back the criminal for whom he had been sent. For several years he was deputy sheriff at Rock Springs, Wyo., near that notorious rendez- vous of deperadoes known as "The Hole in the Wall" He tracked down in the desolate mountain fastness known as~"Brown's Park in north ern Utah, a man who had deliberate- ly murdered Valentine Hay Utah ranchman. A year or so later, in 1902, this murderer escaped from the Oregon penitentiary, shooting down three guards as he did so, and was at large for weeks in Oregon about $6,000 out for his capture, dead or alive. Surrounded at last, and hopelessly crippled, in the deserts of Eastern Washington, he blew out his own brains rather than be taken. About a dozen men had died at his hands. His name is still remem- | bered with terror-Harry Tracey, "the Tiger of the Plains"
 Among other noted captures made by MT. Watts were a gang of coun- l terfeiters at Coalmont Colorado, and two moonshiners near Princess, Ken lucky. On both these raids he was badly wounded. While he was at Rock Springs, girl whom he had rescued from thug several years before overheard a plot to assas- sin him by shooting him down as he appeared at the door of his rooming house. She stole Horse and role all night-.a distance of fifty miles ---to warn him, with the result that four of the six would-be assassins were captured and convicted.