Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

candy. The border post On one side
II bore the red. white and blue, and on
the other the red. white and green.
Our bl0od quickened! Shade Of Michael
OShaugnassy. We were I'm Mexico!
Gold! Adventure! Mexico!
An invisible line through a stretch Of
barren sand snd underbrush end desc
late mountains. and we weTe On foreign
soil.
About half mile south of the border
we encountered an unexpected obstacle
"A fiye-strand wire fence. very new
very high, very tightly strung. and
stretching in straight line through
the brush es far as the eye could reach,
evd entity TO prevent cattle-rustling
across the border. ] climbed tree To
see II / could ai3c3Tar brcaG---a gate
| or scme cpening But mile after mile
1t stretched away through the desert.
| from the mountains in the west to a
vast hump Of glittering sand dunes In
the east.
| Waste time en- q vild-2c3se chase for
q gate? There might not be one for so
miles. Ict hoJ to get past this obstacle
with burro? Ey ourselves re could
| have climbed oyer and gone vnistiing
on. cut Prince had never been drilled
| in Swedish cclestnenics. We had no
thici-calinered to be saved In t.yo With
knife We Gnally hit upon the scheme
Of prving the staples loose from about
| six posts. Then, by standing on the
topmost strand. our weight brought all
! the wires in to the ground, and Prince
hoped over.
| EOR q month. Ralph and / criSs.
crossed the stark, bone-white desert
of the Gulf of California coast, from
| harsh red crag to harsh red crag. Our
burro scraped his load against the tall
column-like Saguaro c2ctuses and the
sharp-thorned STALKS CT the palCvcrde
all the way from Macaray to Palomas
For days en- end we had tracked among
the dead, bleached stones Of lost rivers
Night after night we had toiled up long
| toward strange SUBMITS, where Jordan
palms po,led their shaggy arms against
the Opaque SKY.
| We had gone from PalomaS to Glen
guilla one night when the Milky Way
was like q gilt banner across the
heavens, and the coyotes walled in the
sand dunes. A thunderstorm had
driven US from Caborca to Fitiquito
with the sword of its terrible lightning
and the thunder. rolling from crag to
cfiff, had Knocked our drenched plight
The fire of an unesrthly sunset had
shovered on us from or the waters
of the Gulf opposite the Island OF
3harks, and the night had come with
soft iarping Of vavelets against the
monotonous, sandy shore. South OF
Alamo Muerto a score CT rattlerS had
l2aDed writhing from their nests tC
strike us, and in q broken mud hove
Of Antimonio had lain like dead
man With sunstroxe and fever.
We had picked and shoveled for Solc
by a red tinaja beyond Las Minas
Pintas, and by day the mourning doves
had called from greasevood and oco-
tillo. and by night the owls had hootec
from their nests In the saguaros. We
had stumbled a second time into tint
huddle Of storca-vashed huts in e
Piomo, blind from the heat and dyine
Of thirst But we had found no gold
and we hcd but eighty-odd dollars anc
Prince.
AS We neared Hsrmosillo every one
warned Us against the dangerous Yaquis
They are on the varpath. They spare
no one. They torture their prisoners
| feet, burn their captives at the stake
beat them to death with clubs"
| We laughed at these tales and kept
on our way. On this side of q hill a
few miles from Hermosillo we met eight
Mexicans In car, ell armed with rifles
They h9cane very excited uuon sccine
us end stopped to find out whether we
had run any danger or had any expe.
rienccs with the YaQuis. II seemed that
the Yaquis Just the night before had
attacked the very outskirts of Herino.