The Huttig news., 1914-09-26

IL iidu NIdHBtu III HIS UdHuS. ARTidIIIY he must have been inept at arms--or accustomed to single shot guns.
 The reputed magic of the swift-fr- ing rifles evidently had been his undo ing. but where had he got his new gun? And who was he, anyway? With those two baffiing questions Bud wres- tied 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 fire when, with sudden thud of hoofs, horseman rounded the point and came abruptly to 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 snaky and sinister that Bud could read his heart like book. Here was the man wAo had sent the assassins, and he had come to view their work,
 Very slowly Buds 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 horses neck and went spurring out of sight.
 The answer to Buds 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 hellsh plot and beheld himself the master.
 As man to man, Aragon would not | dare to face him now, for he knew l 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 camp where he expected to find all dead and still. he had found himself face to face
 
 kill How, then, had the American escaped destruction, and what had occurred to his men?
 Perhaps, in his ignorance. Aragor 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 i. was, Bud saw that he held the high card, ard he was not slow to act
 In the morning he sadalled Copper Bottom who had been confined to the corral for weeks, and went galloping into town There he fingered about the hotel until he saw his man and started boldly toward him. Surprise, alarm and pitiful fear chased them selves across Aragon's face as he stood, but Bud walked proudly by
 Good morning, senori" was all Bud said, but the look in his eyes was eloquent of grim hereafter
 And instead of hurrying back to guard his precious mine Hooker loi- tered carelessly about town. His mine was safe Tow-and he was safe Aragon dared not raise a hand So he sat himself down on the broad veranda and listened with boyish interest to Don Juans 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 he town by cSup, and eight days later the federals took it back
 "Ah. there has been a real war, MT. Bud! You who have laughed at the courage of the Mexicans, what do you think of Bernardo Bravo and his men? 1 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 An, 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. so great was the charge of dynamite that the rebels had laid in their mine that not house in Agua i Negra would have been left standing if the fuse had done it's work. Two tons of dynamite! Think of that, my friend.
 But these rebels were as ignorant of it's power as they were of laying a train. The Yaquis walked into the town at sundown and found 1t de- serted-every man, woman and child had fled to Gadsden and the rebels had fled to the west.
 But listen. here was the way 1t happened and not as com mon report has 1t, for the country is !. all in an uproar and the real facts were never known. When Bernardo,