Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 16, 1914, Page 2

THK EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA. , JUNE 16, 1914 S i =2 Sut By DANE LRCEBIOREI0RE Threw Them About Like Dogs That Hang Onto a Bear. In the dusk his eyes and teeth gleamed white, his black hair seemed to bristle with fury, and the glint of his long knife made a light as he vaulted over the last rock and went plunging on their track. For, at the first glance at this huge, pursuing fig- ure, the two Mexicans had turned and bolted like rabbits, and now, as the Yaqui whirled in after them, Bud could hear them squealing and scrambling as he hunted them down among the rocks. It was grim work, too, even for his stomach, but Hooker let the Indian fol- low his nature. When Amigo came back from his hunting there was no meed to ask questions. His eyes shone #0 terribly that Hooker said nothing, but set about cleaning up camp. After he had washed the ashes from . his eyes, and when the fury had van- ished from Amigo's face, they went as by common consent and gazed at the body of the chief of the desperadoes. Even in death his face seemed strange- ly famillar; but as Hooker stood gag- ing at him the Yaqul picked up his sun. . "Look!” he sald, and pointed to a bullet-eplash where, as the Mexican held the gun across his breast, Bud's pistol shot had flattened harmlessly against the lock. It was that which had saved the Mexican chief from in- stant death, and the jar of the shot bad doubtless broken the rifle and saved Bud, in turn, from the second shot. All this was in the Yaqul's eye as he carefully tested the action; but, when be threw down the lever, a cartridge yose up from the magaxzine and glided smoothly into the breech. With a rifle full of cartridges the ignorant Mexican had been snapping on an empty cham- ber, not knowing enough to jack up a shell! For a moment Amigo stared at the gun and the man, and his mouth drew down with contempt. “Ha! Pendejo!” he grunted, and kicked the corpse with his foot, But if the Mexican had been a fool, he had paid the price, for the second time he snapped his gun Amico had shot him through and through. CHAPTER XX, In a country where witnesses to a | crime are imprisoned along with the principals and kept more or less in- definitely in jail, a man thinks twice before he reports to the police. With four dead Mexicans to the Yaqui's account, and Del Rey in charge of the district, Hooker followed his second thought—~-he said nothing, and took his chances on being arrest- ed for murder. Until far into the night Amigo busied himself along the hill- slde, and when the sun rose not a sign remained to tell the story of the fight. Men, horses, saddles and guns—all had disappeared. And, after packing a little food in a sack, Amigo disap- peared aleo, with a grim smile in prom- {se of return The sun rose round and hot, the same as usual; the south wind came up and blew into a bellying mass of clouds, which lashed back with the ac- customed rain; and when all the earth was washed clean and fresh the last trace of the struggle was gone. Only by the burns on his hands was Hooker aware of the fight and of the treachery which had reared its head against him like a snake which has been warmed and fed. Nowhere but in Mexico, where the low pelado classes have made such deeds a subtlety, could the man be found to dissimulate like that false assassin-in-chief To pause suddenly in a protracted speech, swing over and pick up a gun, and halt his victim f the shooti of th g by the preparatory click ndeed called for a brand of cunning rarely found in the United States. here was one thing about the affair that haunted Hooker—why was it that a man so cunning &s that haq failed to load his gun? Twice, and vaguely A Stirring Story Of The Mexican Revelution @ e TR et Tat utu bt h s u kR n b et e G n i b e G m R w R i S u S R n L e s e e, N ] FOBVFOCOPATOEL PPN HRSII USSP ‘ The Land of Broken Promises l COOLIDGE=——= OO OTO with everything in his favor, he had raised his rifle to fire; and both times it had enapped in his hands. Certainly he must have been inept at arms—or accustomed to single-shot guns. The reputed magic of the swift-fir- ing rifles evidently had been his undo- ing, but where had he got his new gun? And who was he, anyway? With those two baffling questions Bud wres- tled as he sat beside his door, and at evening his answer came. The sun was swinging low and he was collecting wood down the gulch for a fire when, with a sudden thud of hoofs, a horseman rounded the point and came abruptly to a halt. It was Aragon, and he was spying on the camp. For a full minute he scanned the house, tent and mine with a look so gnaky and sinister that Bud could read his heart like a book. Here was the man who had sent the assassins, and he had come to view their work! Very slowly Bud's hand crept toward his six-shooter but, slight as was the motion, Aragon caught it and sat frozen in his place. Then, with an inarticulate cry, he fell flat on his horse’s neck and went spurring out of sight. The answer to Bud's questions was very easy now. The Mexican who had led the attempt on his life was one of Aragon's bad men, one of the four gunmen whom Hooker had looked over so carefully when they came to drive him from the mine, and Aragon had fitted him out with new arms to make the result more sure. But with that question answered there came up another and another until, in a sud- den clarity of vision, Bud saw through the hellish plot and beheld himself the master. As man to man, Aragon would not dare to face him now, for he knew that he merited death. By his sly { approach, by the look in his eyes and the dismay of his frenzied retreat, he had acknowledged more surely than by words his guilty knowledge of the raid. Coming to a camp where he expected to find all dead and still, he had found himself face to face with the very man he had sought to kill. How, then, had the American escaped destruction, and what had ! occurred to his men? Perhaps, in his ignorance, Aragon was raging at his hirelings because % they had shirked their task; perhaps, not knowing that they were dead, he was waiting in a fever of impatience . for them to accomplish the deed. How- | ever it was, Bud saw that he held the | high card, and he was not slow to act. In the morning he saddled Copper Bottom, who had been confined to the corral for weeks, and went galloping into town. There he lingered about the hotel until he saw his man and started boldly toward him. Surprise, alarm and pitiful fear chased them- selves across Aragon's faco as he stood, but Bud walked proudly by. “Good morning, senor!” was all Bud said, but the look in his eyes was eloquent of a grim hereafter. And instead of hurrylng back to guard his precious mine Hooker loi- tered carelessly about town. His mine was safe now—and he was safe. Aragon dared not raise a hand. 8o he eat himself down on the broad veranda and listened with boyish interest to Don Juan's account of the war. “What, have you not heard of the battle?” cried portly Don Juan, delight- ed to have a fresh listener. “Agua Negra has been taken and retaken, and the railroad will soon be repaired. My gracious! have you been out in the hills that long? Why, it was two weeks ago that the rebels captured the town by a coup, and eight days later the federals took it back. “Ah, there has been a real war, Mr. Bud! You who have laughed at the courage of the Mexicans, what do you | think of Bernardo Bravo and his men? They captured the last up train from Fortuna; loaded all the men into the ore cars and empty coaches; and, while the federals were still in their barracks, the train ran clear into the station and took the town by storm, “And eight days later, at sundown, the federals took it back. Ah, there was awful slaughter averted, senor! But for the fact that the fuse went out two hundred Yaqui Indians who led the charge would have been blown into eternity. “Yes, s0 great was the charge of dynamite that the rebels had laid in their mine that not a house in Agua Negra would have been left standing If the fuse had done its work. Two tons of dynamite! Think of that, my friend! “But these rebels were as ignorant | of its power as they were of laying a train. The Yaquis walked into the town at sundown and found it de-| serted—every man, woman and child | had fled to Gadsden and the rebels had | fled to the west ‘ way it/ “But listen, here was the happened—actually, and not as com- | mon report has it, for the country is | roar and the real facts were 1 ] 1. When Bernardo | gra the people acclaimed his a her«»' “He sent word to the junta at Elr Paso and set up a new form of gov- ernment. All was enthusiasm, and‘ several Americans joined his ranks to operate the machine guns and can- | The Artillery Drove Them Back. non. As for the federals, they occu- pied the country to the east and at- tempted a few sallies, but as they had nothing but their rifles, the artil- lery drove them back. “Then, as the battle ceased, the rebels began to celebrate their vic- tory. They broke into the closed can- tinas, disobeying their officers and be- ginning the loot of the town, and while half of their number were drunk the federals, being informed of their condition, suddenly advanced upon them, with the Yaquis far in the lead. “They did not shoot, those Yaquis; but, dragging their guns behind them, they crept up through the bushes and dug pits quite close to the lines. Then, when the rebels discovered them and manned their guns, the Yaquis shot down the gunners. “Growing bolder, they crept farther to the front—the rebels became disor- ganized, their men became mutinous— and at last, when they saw they would surely be taken, the leaders buried two tons of dynamite In the trenches by the bullring and set a time-fuse, to explode when the Yaquis arrived, “The word spread through the town like wildfire—all the people, all the soldiers fled every which way to es- cape—and then, when the worst was expected to happen, the dynamite falled to explode and the Yaquis rushed the trenches at sundown.” “Did those Yaquis know about the dynamite?” inuired Bud. “Know ?" repeated Don Juan, waving the thought away; “not a word! Their commanders kept it from them, even after they discovered the mine. And now the Indlans are making boasts; they are drunk with the thought of their valor and claim that the rebels fled from them alone. “The roadmaster came into town this morning on a velocipede and sald that the Yaquis are insufferable, think- ing that it was their renown as fight- ers and not the news of the dynamite that drove ali the soldiers from town. “However, Agua Negra {8 once more in the hands of the government; the track is clear and most of the bridges repaired; eo why quarrel with the Yaquis? While they are, of course, nothing but Indians, they serve their purpase in battle.” “Well, I guess yes!” responded Bud | warmly. “Serve their purpose, eh? Where were these Mexican soldiers and them Spanish officers when the Yaquis were taking the town? And that was just like a dog-goned Mexi- can—setting that time-fuse and then not having it go off. More'n likely the poor yap that fired it was so scairt he couldn’'t hold a match—probably never lit it, jest dropped the match and run. They're a bum bunch, it you want to know what I think. I'd rather have a Yaqui than a hundred of 'em!” “A hundred of whom?” inquired a cool voice behind him, and looking up Hooker saw the beautiful Gracia gaz. fng out at him through the screen door. *“A hundred Mexicans!” he repeated, and Gracla murmured “Oh!” and was gone, “Miss Aragon is very loyal to her country,” observed Don Juan, but Hooker only grunted. Somehow, since those four Mexicans had come to his camp, he had soured on everything south of the line; and even the charming Gracia could not make him take back his words. If she had intended the remark as a chal- lenge—a subile invitation to follow her and defend his faith—she failed for once of her purpose, for if there was any parti r Bud hated mcre t! her false-hearted fath Hooker seriously oi riakin in Mexico that another it was than of winning her good-will, and he lingered about the hut love to the daughte ror to Aragon, The company being good, and a | rain being expected soon, Bud stayved over another day In the morning, when he came down for breakfast, he feund that Aragorn i re I ned when Don Juan “Well, w ling malicic Here it's the mid- dle of the rain) n and the war | going on all summer 1 nary a rebel n sight. Where's tt fight you was telling about—the battle of For- tuna? You've made a regular fortune in fact, thought more | 3 her a half-orphan ! 1, not to make | momiie . Srokakr g and retinue, | de back to his out of these refugees, Brachamonte, but I fail to see the enemy.” “Ah, you may laugh,” shrugged the hotel-keeper, “but wait! The time will come. The rebels are lost now—some day, when you least expect it, t wlil’ come upon us and then, believe me, my guests will be glad they are here. What is a few weeks' bill com- |} | told aquantiti the ,, pered o Mok Bl i oetniFi oo :}:;nt;esisi.ldaglllrélsr.‘ :rhcrc a cool breeze is always to be fot b, deep and shady giens W at that rich Senor Luna, who was here for a time in the spring. Against my | advice he hurried home and DOW he | is paying the price. Ten thousand pesos it cost to save his wife and family, and for himself and son his triends advanced ten thousand more. 1 make no evil prophecies, but it would be better for our friend if he 1 stayed on at my poor hotel.” “Whose friend?” inquired Bud | blufily, but Don Juan struck him upon | (Continued on Page 6.) —_— NOTIGE OF PUBLIC MEETING OF CITIZENS Tie citizens of Lakeland are here-| by notified that there will be a ““hf? lic meeting of all the citizens uH} Lakeland who are interested, or who | will come, at the Herron lhv;uvr.i on Friday evening, June 19th, :n‘l 7:30 o’clock. The purpose of rlw“ meeting is to invite views and Al\~'-;l proposed | cussion relative to the bond issue for providing an adequate | light and water plant and for other | improvements for the city of I.ukn-i land. All persons who have any ideas to advance or who wish to be heard in | the premises are invited to be pres- ent. 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