Williams news., 1914-09-10

seem to be worried.
 "I1l try anything he ob- served with . sprightly air. and Bud 1 grtnned sardonically at the well-vorn 1 phrase.
 Well" said Kruger. gazing inquir- 1 ingly from one to the other. "is it . go? Will you shake hands on itf~
 Whats the propodtion?'' broke in De Lancey eagerly.
 The deal is between me and Hooker" corrected Kruger. "1u give him three hundred month, or an equal share in the mine, expenses to ] be shared between us."
 | Make 1t equal shares" said Hook | half of mine to Phil"
 All right, my boy!" cried the old man, suddenly clapping him on the shoulder, 'Iu go you-and you'll never regret it," he added significantly. Then, throwing oil the air of guarded secrecy which had characterized his actions SO far, he sat down and began to talk
 Boys" he said. "I'm feeling lucky l So0oy VI ACFCi A1tO ClOoO0 tA4o deal I'm letting you in on one of the biggest things that's ever been found in Sonora. Just to show you how good | it is. here's my shelter receipts for eight hundred pounds of picked ore one thousand and twenty-two dollars! That's the first and last ore that's ever been shipped from the old Eagle Tail. dug it out myself, and sacked it and shipped it; and then some of them crooked Mexican officials tried to beat me out of my title and blowed up the whole works with dynamite!
 Yes, sir, clean as whistle! I had my powder stored away in the drift, and the minute I found out I was euchred laid fuse to it and brought the whole mountain down. That was ten years ago, and old Aragon and the agente mineral have had the land located ever since.
 1s q bet they've spent five thousand pesos trying to find that lead, but be- ing nothing but a bunch of ignorant Mexicans, of course they never found nothing. Then Francisco Madero comes in and fires the agente mineral off his job and old Aragon lets the land revert for taxes. I've got a Mexican that keeps me posted. and ever since he sent me word that the title had lapsed I've been crazy to relocate that claim.
 Well. now, that don't look so bad. does T" he asked, beaming paternally at Bud. There ain't a man in town that wouldn't have jumped at the chance, if I was where I could talk about it, but that's just what couldn't do. I had to find some stranger that wouldn't sense what mine was talk ing about and then git him to go in on it blind.
 Nov here's the way I'm fixed, boys" he exclaimed, brushing his un- kempt beard and smiling craftily. When I dynamited the Eagle Tail it was mine by rights, but Cipriano Ara gon-he's the big Mexican down at old agent, had buncoed me out of the title.
 50. according to law, I blowed up
 their mine, and if ever showed up
 down there reckon they'd throw me
 into jail. And if at any time they find
 out that you're working for me, why,
 we're ditched-that's all! They'll put you out of business. So, after we've ] made our agreement and I've told you ) what to do, don't want to hear a
 word out of you-I don't want you to come near me, nor even write me a l letter-just go ahead the best you can until you win out or go broke. Tt ain't a hard proposition" he continued, eff you keep your mouth shut. but if they tumble, it'll be fight to a finish. I'm not saying this fol you, Hooker, because 1 know you're safe; I'm saying it for your pardnel here. You talk too much, MT. De Ian
 cey," he chided, eying him with sud , den severity. I'm afraid of vel" "All right. broke in Hooker good naturedly, q reckon we understand Now go ahead and tell us where this !. mine Is and who there is down there t to look out for"
 -The man to look out for," an swered Kruger with venom, "is Cipri ano Aragon. He's the man that bilket
 me out of the mine once. and he'll dt 1t again if he can. When I went dowI - there-it was ten years and more agt } Il wasn't on to those Spanish ways O a his, and he was so dog-goned polite [ und friendly thought I could trus ), him anywhere.
 He owns big ranch and mesca sttll, runs cattle, works a few placers sends out pack-trains, and has ever! k Mexican and Indian in the country il | dohf fc him fhrou oh hfa aforo oo if h, Q happens to want any rough work don,
 there's always somebody to do it. "Well. just to chow you how he di, . me, I got to nostng round those ol'
 Spanish workings east of Fortuna an, '- finally run across the ledge that rn @ telling you about. not far from a, ? abandoned shaft But the Mexican n mining laws are different from ours