The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-07
IF THE EDITOR HAD
 BEEN A REPORTER
AND IF HE HAD BEEN SENT ON CARPENTERS TRAIL
Here's What He Might Have Written If He Had Actually Taken tic Trip. and If He Had Actually Found Things as Were Stated-Facts to Start With Then Largely Fiction.

The TofrinEtOn Register recently published the main facts of a thrilling story of American dash, daring and lack of conscience mixed up with Mexican gold, Indians and a stolen ranch The details, which came la ter, read Mke O. Henry's Arabian Nighfs. but Hhe main facts must be Gold kN.
 z Jameo 4 Carpenter ;wa0 First S. 1ectznnn of TogzanUton from 1898 to 49oR Then he stopped being drst na2Autman md went down to Mexico, M1boE0 he gQt intego0ted in the Santa Eata gold nina H1s interest was of khs very e.tclsng kind and soon eev- eral pcogniuent Torrington citizens. who investigated were pleased, and Invested sums Of varying sizes The E3og1Dter prints theoe citizens names Out the writer has been in (and then :ouk) on several rea1 estate deals and Tt least one gold mane so he knows how It feeaS and will refrain from baau1ng on the names as given The 7anino went meErily for a while and 2o<s Of slowing reports came out Of Gt, but no money. So the Torrlngton iensn. who were pretty willy to think of 1t, decaded to sell their mine and let Doxne one ease settle with the promo Ger. They ssut down an exDert, who reported t va really . good mine and 6hey fuun0 purchaser, and then they stopped MT. Carpenter had got wind pf W1aax they were doing and swore Out an injunction against them. pre- tent4n4 . lonW bill for expen0es. When khev SGw the bill they decided the mine was more, valuable fhan Ehe sum they had agreed to- sell 1t for and ,fhey choked or their Respective cue- fQner. They have the mine yet, but kr. Carpenter has disappeared. There 6ere no charges against him, but he kovn1utiono of Mexico.
 ILAst yer . report appeared In 60wDpnper pubNShed in Del Rio Tex. ko the eEbect that a band of hunters who had been over to Sonora, Mex. f"over.'' here. means matter of 6O0 Uni3eg) had found most beautiful F1noh with a rancheria of imposing nruportions and a rancR1ero who said
 Was Aa Amerfc4n and who gave kf1 name as James AveriNa Carpen- taf Whether the Warrington mans name was Averilla or not is not stat "a. bot they are probably not the ss pame. The hunters said che man had gathered about him a lot of mal- eontents who had swooped down on this ranch and driven the Ddaz-Sym- pathixing owner out of it
 That's a darned good story" said
  he saw the main facts as above g1v- kn. and imagining himself a cub sent nut to cover 1t he immediately took len in hand. and dashed off (eddtors ktways dash off) the following. The rub kissed everybody godbye and pix frain 1t. And he was blaine glad" he went, so he said. He found one pf the hunters in Del Rio, Tex, and koxether with him looked over a map uk1fil they found the Sahuaripa. Noun fkins and Moctezuma and Cumpas and the broad and fertile valley which lies in the region. That's the place. '' bald tho hunter, and the reporter hik- I'd again.
 He found the ranch with little diff nculty and entered it. No one was 1t home % he wiped his eyes and look out his notebook. Such glory! He thought he had been trapSlated Into a dream and he wished he had rtudied history so that he could think bf good similies for what he saw to write it for a magazine (which, would bay him). His notebook read some lining like this: "Curtafns-turk red books like a storm sunset had spilled Dn it-carpets of doe-skin with pat kerns of fine undyed silk. loosely wo- keu across them-chandeliers of thin bserced gold work-chairs of antlers knd broad horns-seats of rfb-bones- MRAutnH CdIVing. etc. LOtS more OI k he wrote in the chOppy long-hand khort-hand of the reporter.
 After the cub had finished his ex- hrnination of the superficial character bstics of the room, he began a closer Investigation which revealed a button he thought it was for lights and he 6ante<i to see a. light shining through hose golden balls, so he pressed it. Eshe wall parted at the button and slid hlently aside, revealing a cavity which contained a plain upholstered lather seat Without thinking he kat down in it-and the wall closed "a him. A faint light came through
 the button and he put his eye to me place and found he could see the " whole room, that is three sides A it. So he sat down again and took 0 doxe until he heard the thud of korse's hoofs and knew the rancher had returned. Then he. got up and E1tcfed at the crack.
 Tho Gnncher cane in, Q heafk1ly