A WYOMING ROMANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 2641, Issue 2641, 15 June 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

A WYOMING ROMANCE.

Tiir widow M'Cool, only IS years old, Ins been station agent at Dry Cheyenne (Wyoming territory), on the stage route between there and Buffalo. She is a brunette and pretty, and commanded the admiration of all the cattlemen for miles around. After refusing a dozen offers, she accepted Martin Huntoon, a wealthy ranchman, and they were to be married in May. Last week a blonde-haired young Englishman, named James Kidd, who is travelling for an Omaha provision house, stopped at Dry Cheyenne for breakfast. He fell in love with the widow on sight, and his good looks , , gentle ways, and English accent produced an impression. He went to Buffalo, transacted his business in a hurry, returned to Dry Cheyenne last Saturday, and that night took the widow to a dance 20 miles away at Sheriff William's ranch. Huntoon was insanely jealous, and his cowboys were ordered to pick a quarrel with the tenderfoot and shoot him if possible. The programme was curried out, but Kidd pulled out two big six-shooters and backed up against a closed door leading to a bedroom. When the shooting began the lights were extinguished. Ed. Dook, Huntoon's foreman, dropped dead from one of Kidd's bullets, and three or four others wore wounded. Kidd was shot in the arm, and the gang were closing in on him when the door behind him suddenly opened, he was dragged into the bedroom, and the door as quickly bolted again. The pretty widow, instead of fainting, had got into the bedroom from the rear, and Kidd owed his life to her coolness. His escape in the darkness was not discovered. Kidd secured a saddle horse, and, placing the widow in front of him, and gallopped off. The couple were terribly exhausted when they reached Chicago on Sunday night. After refrsohuicnts they hired a team and driver and pushed over the line to Chad.-on, Nob., where they were married. Sheriff Williams, Huntoon, and a dozen cowboys sot to Chicago ten hours behind thorn, having first gone to Dry Cheyenne. They wore terribiy enraged when they found the elopers wore so far in the lead, but started for Ghadron. They had notreturned, according to the Chicago News an-1 it is believed that the elopers reached a railway station and are now in safety.