WAGGON WHEEL AND ITS WOMEN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1525, 14 December 1886, Page 4

WAGGON WHEEL AND ITS WOMEN.

Idaho territory lies very far west indeed, and there is an alarming scarcity there of women. This hai been curiously illustrated of late, according to the "Dublin Mail,” in the town of Waggon Wheel, Recently two young ladies travelled to that remote region to attend to their dying brother. The poor fellow did not require their leryicsi, and immediately after his death the siitere prepared to return home. Before, however, they could get away nearly the whole population of the —headed by the Mayer and other Li 6 _ . lii.iali— were making matrimonial overtures to them. Feelings ran very high during five or six anxious days, and the Mayor’s chances, despite his mature years, ruled the betting at six to one. At the end of the week both young ladies had capitulated, and were duly engaged. The Mayor was, however, out out by a handsome young miner. The wedding day was fixed, and the mother of the young ladles was summoned upon the scene. She duly arrived, and was hotly indignant with her daughters for the scant respect which they had manifested towards their brother’s memory by such indecent haste to wed. The girls replied that they had literally been besieged, and had yie’ded to the overwhelming force of circumstances. As uiual, explanations increased the offence, and the mother vowed that neither of them should be married out there at all—that in fact the engagements were "off,” and that they must be off too. The cup of felicity was thus rudely dashed from the lips of the two accepted men, and they made haste to tell their sorrows to the town. An indignantmeeting was held, and the Mayor appointed a committee to wait upon the irate matron in order to ask her to reconsider her resolution. The Mayor, with rare magnanimity, considering the cruel blow his own hopes had just received, placed himself at the head of the deputation, and in the name of patriotism humbly implored the good lady to grant the petition which be ardently urged. She, however, stood firmly on her parental rights, and declared she would not leave the town without her daughters. Then the genius of the Mayor shone forth like the sun. He blandly proposed a compromise. Why heed she leave at all ? He drew her attention, of course, in more delicate terms, to the faot that she was fair, fat, and 60 odd, and that similar language might be taken as descriptive of himself. There and then he offered her his heart, and the young ladies a kind father and protector. This settled the matter, and three marriages have just come off with great flourish of trumpets at Waggon Wheel.