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water from a tiny stream which trickled
down from the rocks at one side of the
cave, disappearing again through fissure
in the floor. Next he piled the crisp slices
Of bacon on a second tin plate and used
the fried-out fat to cook the flapjacks.
what l can't make out" said Geraldine,
without turning to his guest, "is why you'd
do this job for those yellow lvers over in
the town."
Pete moved the tip Of his tongue across
his lips, for his mouth watered in anticipa-
ton
why, you poor nut he answered COM
passionately, II amt working for them Pm
working for the stuff that's up there behind
the saddle
Geraldine turned on him so suddenly that
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by and see you made a joke of. Pete I'm
going to tell you!'
Pete settled back on his stone with his
fingers playing nervousy about the handle
of his gun.
make it short, Geraldine he said with
an ominous softness, 'tell me what the wall
eyed cayuses figure on doin'w
The Ghost studied him as if he found
some difficulty in opening his story in
delicate manner.
'Look here, Pete" he said at last. "There
amt no getting out Of it that some of the
things you've done read considerable diff
ferent from Bible stories"
"Well?" snarled Silver Pete.
"Well," said the Ghost, "those two-card
Johnnies over to town know something of
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what you've done, and they figure to
double-eross you"
He paused, and in the pause Pete's mouth
twitched 70 that his teeth xiinted yellow.
anybody could say that" he remarked.
''What's your proof?"
"Proof!" echoed the Ghost angrily. do
you think I'm telling you this for fun? No,
Pete" he continued with a hint of sadness
in his voice, cts because / don't want to
see those guys do you dirt. You're a real
man and they're only imitation leather. The
only way they're tough is their talk"
Damn them" commented Pete.
"WeN," said Geraldine, settling into the
thread Of his narrative, "they knew that
once you left the town on this job you
wouldn't come back until you had the
Ghost. Then when you started they got to-
gether and figured this way. They said
you was just plain man-killer and that
you hadn't any more right to the reward
than the man in the moon. So they figured
that right after you got back with the Ghost,
dead or alive, they'd have the sheriff pay
you a little visit and stick you in the coop.
They've raked up plenty of charges against
you, Pete"
"What?" asked Pete hoarsely.
The Ghost lowered his voice to an insin-
uating whisper.
Zone thing is this. They say that once
you went prospecting with guy called Red
Horny. Horace was his right name"
Silver Pete shifted his eyes and his lips
fixed in a seulptured grin.
'They say that you went with him and
that you was pals together for months at
time. They say once you were bit by
RATHER and Red Horny stuck by you and
saved you and hunted water for you and
cared for you like baby. They say you
got we'll and went on prospecting together
and finally he struck mine. 1t looked
rich. Then one day you come back to
Truckee and say that Red Horny got caught
in landslide. and was killed and you took
the mine. And they say that two years
later they found skeleton, and through
the skull, right between the eyes, was a
little round hole, powerful like hole made
by AS. They say"
"They lie!' yelled Silver Pete, rising.
And you lie like the rest of them. l tell
you it vast was"
"Huh!' said Geraldine, Struggling away
the thought with apparent scorn. "Of course
they lie. Nobody could look at you and
think you'd plug pal, not for nothing"
Pete dropped back to his stone.
"Go on" he said. "What else do they
say?"
II don't remember ALL" said the Ghost,
pickering his brows with the effort Of recol-
lection, "but. they got it all planned out
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Pete frightened his grip upon the revolver,
but the Ghost merely stared At him.
"Say," he grinned at last, "have you got
. bunch they'll really let you walk off with
all that loot?"
The face Of The gunman darkened.
II sure think they'll let me-" he said with
sinister emphasis. THAT WAS The wa3
they talked"
Geraldine sighed in apparent bewilder-
ment, but turned back to his work without
further comment. In a few moments he
rose with the plates of bacon and flap
jacks piled on his left arm and the can of
coffee on his right hand. He arranged them
on the boulder before Silver Pete, and then
sat on his heels on the other side Of the big
stone. The gun fighter laid his revolver
beside his tin cup AMI attacked the food
with the win of ten. Yet even while he ate
the eye which continually fingered on the
Ghost noted that the latter stared at him
with curious and almost plying interest.
He came to pause at last, with piece
of bacon folded in a flapjack.
"Look here" he said, "just what were you
aiming at while ago?'
Geraldine shrugged his shoulders and let
his eyes wander away as though the subject
embarrassed him.
damn it" said Pete with some show If
anger, don't go staring around like
eYoss-eyed girl. What's biting you:"
ut amt my business" he said. "As long
as I'm done for, l don't care what they do
to you"
: He stopped and drummed his finger tips
against his chin while he scowled At Pete.
IF it wasn't for you I'd be free oird,"
he went on bitterly. do you think I'm 60
ing to weep any of the salt and briny for
you, WHAT"
"Whatd'ya mean?" Pete blurted. "D'ya
mean to say them cutters are going to
double-cross me?'
The Ghost answered nothing, but the
shrug of his shoulders was eloquent. Pete
stared up with his gun in his hand.
by God, Geraldine" he said, "you amt
playin' fair with me! Look what done for
you. Any other man would of plugged you
the minute they seen you, but here ar,
lettin' you walk back safe and sound, treat
ing you as if you was my own brother, al
most
He hesitated trifle over this smile.
Legend told many things of what Silver
Pete had done to his own brother. Never.
theless Geraldine met his stare with an
eye full as serious.
"I'm going to do it," he said in q low
voice, as if talk9ng to himself. "Just be-
cause you came out here and caught me like
a man there amt no reason should stand
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Say, Pete,' he said genially, anything
wrong with cup Of coffee and a sVce Of
bacon before we start back"
"By God, Geraldine" grinned the gun
fighter, you're a cool bird, but your game
is too old"
Nevertheless his very soul yearned toward
The SAVIOR of bacon and coffee.
Camel" repeated the Ghost, who caught
the CLEAN Of Pete's eye. "What game? I
say let's start up the coffee pot and the fry
ing pan. can turn out flapjacks browner
than the one mother used to make, Pete"
Pete drew great breath, for the taste Of
his flour and water diet Of the past few
days was sour in his mouth.
"Geraldine," he said at last, cts 60!
But if you try any funny passes l amt
going to wait for explanations. Slide out
the chow"
He rolled large stone close to the boul-
der which served as dining table to the BAN
dit and sat down to watch the preparations.
The Ghost paid little attention to him, but
hummed az he worked. Soon fire snapped
and cracked. The coffee can straddled one
end Of the fire, the frying pan occupied the
other. While the bacon fried he mixed
seh-rising pancake flour in tin plate, using
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''For Gods sake" groaned Silver Pete
and Geraldine turned. Don't leave me here
to die by inches. done some black things,
Geraldine, but never nothing as black as
this. Take my own gun and pull bead on
me and we'll call everything even.'
The Ghost smiled on him.
''Think it over, Pete" he said, II reckon
You got enough to keep your mind busy. So
long
He led his horse slowly down the passage
his greatest shout rang no louder than the
hum of bee.
Grimly silent was the conclave in Billy
Killers saloon. That evening, while the sun.
set was still red in the west, the Ghost had
stopped the stage scarcely mile from Muir
rayville, shot the sawed-off shotgun out of
the very hands of the only guard who dared
to raise weapon, and had taken a valu-
able packet of the dust" They sent out
posse at once, which rode straight for
Hunters canon, and arrived there just in
time to see the fantom horseman disappear
into the mouth of the ravine. They had
matched speed with that rider before and
they gave up the vain pursuit. That night
they convened in Killers, ostensibly to talk
over new plans for apprehendine the outlaw,
but they soon discovered that nothing now
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TO PAY in FULL
Defunct Bank Is Expected 10 Settle
Practically All Debts.

Tampico. Jan. 27.-Depositors Of the
Petroleum Banking and Trust Company
which failed last May will probably get
not less than a 9J5 settlement as the
result Of the federal court turning over
the affairs Of the bank to Lie. Guzman
Selasdue, permanent recorder, and Leon
n. Watts, controller. who were elected
by the creditors of the institute last
November.
r. i. Thomas, president and chief
debtor of the bank, had refused to enter
into a liquidation agreement satisfactory
10 the creditors and the court Of the
first instance, Tampico. had declared
the defunct institution in formal bank
luptcy. The bank had sought an am
paro against this finding which, how
ever. was upheld by the state supreme
court.
Since the failure, an American
Chamber OF Commerce. committee has
been working to take the bank out OF
the hands of the court as property
owned BY Thomas, mostly producing oil
wells, was held sufficient to pay all
debts. In taking over the bank, fol-
lowing the court decision, the committee
found $4,000 pesos in cash on hand.
sufficient to pay a 30 per cent initial
payment. It is estimated that within
the year, practically all debts owed by
The bank ran be paid in full.
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'STEvEDORES IN
]. MEXICO FED UP
! ON BOLSHEV|SN
See Success of Free Labor
ers in Tampico and Are
Learning Lesson.
MEN ARE EXPLOITED.
Small Groups of Fanatics
Control and Call Strikes
Without Reason.
MEN ARE EXPLOITED

1 Mexico City, Jan. 27.-Bolsheyism in
Mexico has received another blow in
that the stevedores at the various ports
of the country have found out that Co
operative action as free laborers is
much more successful than the syndi-
Gated organizations which have here
/ tofore ruled the port operations of all
Mexican ports other than Tampico. The
1 demands of the Bolsheviki organizations
4 have in practically every case had
boomerang effect on their makers, while
the cooperative organizations IN Tam
pico have succeeded in running things
I smoothly. The syndicalists have real
lied their errors from too aggressive &C.
4 ton and are now seeking to ally them
selves with the Tampico stevedores. To
this end delegates from the other ports
have sent delegates to Tampico TO study
the means and methods employed there.
Small Group in Control.
The street railway strike in this city
was not initiated by the desires of the
majority of the operatives, but by
small group of pro-Bolsheviks who pos
sess none of the sympathies of their
fellow workmen but who were COM
PEELED to enter into the strike for fear
of the drastic methods which might be
employed against them by their fanati-
cally inclined fellows. This condition
has reigned in most of the Mexican
strikes of the last year and the more
sensibly inclined of the workmen are
fast approaching the point of open re-
bellion against domination by a radi-
cal minority. -,
The same condition existed in the
strike of the PachuCa miners, which
was ordered and dominated by group
of radical leaders from Aguascalientes
and absolutely against the wishes oil
the large majority of the local miners
they fearing personal harm if they did
not obey the orders of the selt-appoint-
ed leaders. The sheep-like characters
tics Of the large body of Mexican labor
ers of all classes makes them ready VIC
tins of a few grafters who preach radl-
calism and these few are responsible Tor
the labor unrest dominating certain sec
lions Of the country.
Will Realize Situation.
Those who are best informed in re-
gard 10 the situation believe that the
gradual realization of the laboring
masses that they are being made victims
of the fanatical ideas of a few who
seek riches by exploiting those who are
less intelligent, the successful and
peaceful benefits attained by free Ia
borers without strikes and the sober,
rational influence exercised by the or
ganized Catholic workmen will bring
about the gradual decay of radical ten
cts and the labor troubles OF Mexico
will thereby be solved.
Mexico is having no troubles except
where radicalism flourishes and it
flourishes only where the officials them
selves are converts to its pernicious
teachings
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Industrial and Social News the Republic Told by Spec
COAHUILA MINERAL
PROPERTIES OPENED
UP BY NEW RAILROAD
Extension From Cuatro
Cienegas to Sierra Mo-
jada Opens Feb. l.

Cuatro Cienagss, Coah. Mex, Jan. %.
February 1 will witness the formal
opening of the new railroad from this
place to Sierra Mojada, that day
having been chosen by the general
directorate of the National Railways
for the event. This line connects with
the old international line at Monclova
and will add materially to the industry
of the State of Coahuila. as it opens
up one of the most important mineral
belts of the northern part of Mexi:o.
In the district traversed by this
line west of this city are a considerable
number of important mineral properties
all ready to enter into activity and a
number of others are waiting for the
transportation facilities, which the new
railway will afford, before beginning
development. These properties. mary
of which have been known and develop
ed for many years, have been to n con-
siderable degree useless without trans
portation, as the freight rates under the
old pack methods of transportation
have been too high to admit of their
operation.
Practically the sole resources of the
territory traversed by this new line
are mineral as the entire route follows
a barren desert, but it is believed that
the exploitation of the mineral re-
sources will furnish sufficient freight
to make this branch one of the best
paying of the lines operated by the
government. The route it traverses is
generally known throughout northern
Mexico by its being that followed by
the Orosco general, Jose Inez Salazar.
in his famous expedition of death"
during the days of Madero. 1t was
given this name as in his march over
its $50 miles of waterless waste Sala-
Ear lost practically every man in his
command. either from death or dis
ability. There is also practically no
vegetation along the line, but consid-
cradle grazing lands are said to be
tributary to II.
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LEGION POST ALIVE
New Quarters Taken by Tampico
Branch Of Organization.

TampicO, Mexico, January 27.-After
a lapse of sixteen months, Tampico Post
No. l, American Legion, again has a
home. When the general business slump
hit the oil region in 1921, the post was
forced to give up the top floor and roof
occupied in the Aragon building, the
largest office structure in the city. In
addition, it found itself in debt to the
extent of $500. During last year this
debt was paid off and the legion is in
good enough financial condition to take
rooms.
In 1922. it was the largest post of
the American Legion in a foreign coun-
try and from the manner in which re-
newals and new members are coming in,
it should, by June 30, pass the last
year membership mark Of 305. The
first social affair in the new quar-
tiers will be a progressive bridge party
and dance to be given by the American
Legion Auxiliary Of Tampico Post on
January %
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BASEBALL IN MEXICO
Monterey to Have Three City Baseball
Leagues.

Monterey, Mexico, Jan. 27.-Local
baseball promoters and managers OF
teams will soon have O meeting to con-
slider organization plans for this years
series of championship games.
Indications are that the management
of the Cuauhtemoc Park is striving to-
wards the organization Of a strong and
attractive series of contests.
1t is believed that there will be three
leagues this year; one for first class
semi-professional players. the other for
amateurs and the third for the scrubs
who are just beginning to get into their
heads the baseball bug which is sting.
ing every young Mexican these days.
There is a possibility Of having at
least six good teams for the semi-prO-
fessional competition and about %
mines composed of amateur players.
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mex PETE WILL !.
| DEVELOP TRACT
IN TAMAUL|PAa|
First Company to Operate
in Mexico Starts Big
Project.
HAS MILLION ACRES
FL Colo Purchase Will Bd
Tried Out on Ex-
tensiye Scale.
HAS MILLION ACRES

Ebano, S. l.. p, Jan. 27.-Deyelop
ment Of holdings of 100000 acres II
the State of Tamaulipas is being start
ed by the Mexican Petroleum Corpts-s
ton. Three locations have been madI
in hacienda Culebra. and permits an
piled for. Roads are being construct
ed and material gathered.
This is the first drilling on this com
Meeting holding. known as the I'll CoJ1
purchase, which extends from IN
Panuco heavy crude district, north foI
rs miles and from Ebano on the wesl
TO the Gulf of Mexico. The propert1
is held in the name of the Huastecj
Petroleum company but operatlonl
under that name are confined TO thi
light oil fields, south of the Panucl
river.
Production Now $500.
The Mexican Petroleum company
the first company to enter. the oil inI
dustry. has confined its development
to the Ebano district in which
brought in the first well, PEI No.
April. 1904. Present production aver
ages $500 barrels daily, sufficient
meet existing contracts, with TN
greater part of the production goini
to the National Railways.
Culebra is 80 kilometers northeas
across the Tamesi river from Eband
which will be the headquarters for thiI
drilling and is 60 kilometers southwes
from Gonzalez, on the Monterrey diviI|
ion of the National Lines, the nearess
railroad.
Many Others Fail.
Spasmodic validating has been cal
ried on in the FL Colo district sine
1904 but without success though scy
eral small showings of oil we're OF
tanned. In 1907 and 1908 the Amer.
can Fuel & Petroleum company mad4
seven tests, all failures around lie
Esteros. 40 kilometers north of Tan
pico while in 1914. the Dutch She,
made six unsuccessful attempts to fin !
production. In 1921, the Gulp ui
Corporation drilled a well at ChicoX
completing for salt water.
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Yoakum Improving Streets.

YOakum, Tex, Jan. 27.-The layif
of gravel on the streets of this ci'
continues on the one-third plan. Wit
the work already assigned, the 49,
commissioner F. A. Strunk, who is ri
ing his personal attention to the graz
ing and crawling, will have sever;
more weeks of such work. The one-thir
plan Of payment is meeting with al
proval from the citizenship and hard
is the work on one street completed b
fore another is reported ready for Il
starting of the work.
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vember Is, obliging themselves not to
ask for their deposits before three
months and then they shall receive only
% per cent Then, after six months
they will have received 90 per cent and
the rest they will get when the bank is
able TO pay them.
1t is believed that under these con-
ditions the French Bank Of Mexico
will be able to recover and resume Uper-
atoms.
This news has caused a great deal OF
pleasure in all financial circles of this
city, as it is well known that the
French Bank Of Mexico was considered
as one of the strongest banking con-
Germs in the Republic of Mexico and
its existence is desired by everyone who
is in business and has the necessity OF
some kind of banking transactions.
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they were guests of Senior Vasconcelos
at banquet in the public education
building. Later the party was received
by President Obregon at the National
Palace. The excursion lasted five days.
1t is considered by local Mexicans as
altogether fitting that the new schools
should be erected at Dolores Hidalgo as
it was at this place that Mexican in
dependence was first proclaimed by
Father Hidalgo, who fills much the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-28
TO CELEBRATE OPENING
Cadets Of Aviation School to Use New
Flying Field.

Guadalajara, Mex, Jan. 2I.-Prepa-
rations are now being made for the
ceremonies which will take place here
during the first days of February on
the occasion of the opening of the new
aviation field, which is now being FIN
ished here under the direction of mill
tary engineers of Mexico.
This new field will be continuously
used by the cadets of the National Avi-
alton School of Mexico and also as an
aerial station for military planes that
operate along the coast of Mexico.
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cans living in all parts Of the United
States. The individual subscriptions
were from five to fifteen cents and con-
sequently, the number of contributors
was exceedingly large.
Impressive ceremonies marked the
dedication of the new school buildings.
The La Prensa editor. whose untiring
efforts made the erection of the build
/ ings possible. was one of the principal
speakers. The ceremonies were opened
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Broom Factory Is Busy.

YoaIum, Tex, Jan. 27.-The South
Texas Broom Factory of this city is
making daily shipments of brooms to
the retail trade in many parts of the
South. Fl. Korff, general manager oil
the concern, reports the business has
increased during the. past few months,
Broom corn is being bought at S40O
per ton, and an effort is being made
to interest the local farmers in the
planting of broom corn, which can be
readily disposed of at the local mar
kets.
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BLOW TO COLLEGE PLAN
Italians Won't Let Subscribed Funds
Leave Country.
GuadaIajara, Mexico. Jan. 27.-Tl

Guadalajara, Mexico. Jan. 27.-Thc
project of DR.. j. L. Miller to erect a
cooperative university on the banks OF
Lake Chapala, to be erected by capital
subscribed from foreign nations, has re-
ceived n severe blow by Italy refusing
TO permit large sum subscribed by
Italians to leave the country. Over a
millions dollars had been subscribed by
Italian capitalists and noblemen. 1t is
understood that an effort will be made
to place more stock in the United States
in order to offset this deficiency.
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Start Wildcat Campaign.

Tuxpam, V. c., Jan. 27.---ln prepar-
alton of extensive wildcat operations IN
holdings south of the Tuxpam river,
the Penn Mex Fuel company (South
PENN have received $500 tons Of
drilling material and other oil field
equipment at their terminal at the
Tuxpam bar. Because Of salt water,
production in the Alamo pool, from
where the company has been obtaining
all its production, has dropped 70 1000
barrels daily and no exports have been
made since October 1922.
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TO EXTEND PHONE LINE
Long Felt Want Will BE Filled By
Company.

Monterey, Mex, Jan. 27.-Due to the
activity recently displayed by the tcle-
phone company of this city, it is be-
lieved that its system will be soon ,ex-
tended to Nuevo Laredo. Tamulipas,
right across the American border from
Laredo, Texas.
The new telephone line will render
some desirable service to business men
both in Texas and the points between
Monterey and Laredo, on the National
Railway line. for a large amount Of
business is continuously being trans
acted between Monterey and Laredo.