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Show YOUNG GIRL BRAVES WILDS OF MEXICO. VI8IT8 INTERIOR IN SEARCH OF NEW8PAPER MATERIAL. WON BY A MINING MAN Meet Him Whllo on Dangerous Assignment As-signment and Wedding Occurs After Brief Courtship Makes Friends with Natives. Moxlco City, Mexico. Mr. nnd Mrs. Hurry J. Klscnhnrt, who woro married u fow days ago at 101 I'uso aftor u most romantic meeting mid courtship, nro spending their honeymoon In this city, preparatory to going to tho remote re-mote mining camp of Zactilpan. whoro they will reside. The hrldo Is a newspaper writer and is well known In tho United States and Moxlco. She bus traveled from Moxlco City to Guatemala ulono and saya sho was not u hit frightened. Sho slept tho first night that sho met .the man who Is now hor linsliand In n room whero his predecessor had been murdered, end tho Inst thing sho jsiiw when sho closed hor eyes for slumber were tho machete marks .whore tho bandits hnd broken down 'tli o door, but sho says sho had tho jbest night's rest of hor llfo, "for It Is '100 feet higher than Moxlco City," sho declared "and tho air Is so pure and bracing." Mis3 Horace Oroeloy Perry, now Mrs. Hlsonhart, Is tho daughter of T. M. Perry, of St. Pctor, Minn., a news-.paper news-.paper man nnd editor. Her grandfather grand-father was also a newspaper man. Sho met Chief Andrew John, of tho Sonccu tribe of tho Six Nations of New York, when a child, and ho took such u fancy to hor that ho later adopted hor, with the consent of her father. For sovoral years alio lived with tho family of the old chief and among tho Indians of Now York. Prior to coming to Moxlco Miss Porry had dono nowspaper work In vnrlous parts of tho United Stntoa, and ran four papers of her own at different dif-ferent times. Sho says that sho was the editor of Governor Stounonborg's paper In Idaho ut tho time of tho mining min-ing troubles In that state, and helped him to fight tho nnarchlsts In tho contest con-test that ultimately resulted In bis nssasslnntlon. When sho fl-st enmo to Mexico City Miss Porry found that thero was no disposition to engago tho services of a woman on any of the Amorlcan 'papors. Hut finally she got an "oxtra" for thrco days and then becamo a regular reg-ular member of tho staff of ono of tho English dally nowspapors hore. Miss Perry mado a trip to Guatemala along tho proposed routo of the Pan-Amor-lenn railroad and wrote an nrtlclo on that now country. Ono of hor assignments was to go to tho Znculpan district, In the Btato of Mcxtif, In tho very corner and on tho border of tho states of Ouorroro and Mlchoncan, to Investigate tho claims of certain Americans who had struck a bonanza In tho famous old La Coronn mines, onco worked by tho Spanish kings nnd famous throughout the world as tho placo whero Colonel With an Indian Guide She Penetrated the Country. Ilemmltt, an Englishman, wns murdered mur-dered by bandits, who camo noar causing caus-ing a war between Moxlco and Groat Ilritaln. No other American womnn had over visited the placo, which Is 120 kilometers kilo-meters from tho railroad. With an Indian, Mozo, as a guide and protcc-tc protcc-tc , the pcnolrnted tho country to explore ex-plore this famous mine, and there mot Harry L. Elsonhnrt, president and genorul manager of tho La Corona company. That was a llttlo over threo montliB ngo. To-day thoy aro mnrrlod mid sho will go back to the mine to live. Miss Porry Inspected sovoral mines in tho district beforo roturnlng to Mexico City, and instead of bolng harmed by tho natives was rocelved with great courtesy. They brought hor flowers, decorated her saddlo and riding boots, and when bIio visited their church thoy mndo wny for her and gavo her a special place among them. |