The Coolidge examiner., 1930-09-26
D|ANONDSAND
CIGARETTES
ARIZONA DREAMS
(Ted Healy)


ces from which to select few sto-
ries, when in dropped our old friend
Don Jose Cuerva, brother of the
widow of Martinez, Mexican friends
of long standing in both Southern
Arizona and the West coast of Mex
leo. Jose and the widow are per-
soma non grata in this county at
present and we were somewhat sur
prised to see the old boy himself.
Jose speaks but little English,
and our knowledge of Spanish being
on the same plane, we used a cross
between the two lingos and hit it
off understandingly.
well, amigo mi, por mucho ITEM
20 no see you. How they coming%
"AhI Senior Tedoro, no tiene
NADIA. No hay trabaja, no hay plata,
mo hay tobacco, no hay papel, no
hay
Never mind the balance old cabe-
20, just tell us about that Belgian
diamond smuggler again. The hom-
bre you helped turn in at the Ameri-
can customs"
"All righto, you see / getta una
comida, una bigga da feed, yes and
you no tello mi right nombre, what
you Gala, my name"
For a number of years our Mex
lean friend received numerous Ia
vors from an American whose visits
on the border and into Old Mexico
had to do with special work for his
government. On cases that did not
involve his own people Jose had fire.
cquenaly been found trustworthy and
was suitably recompensed.
Confidential advices had been re-
cefred from an European port that
a diamond seller, agent for large
firm in Belgium. was en- route to
Mexico via Vera Cruz. The dealer
In these precious stones was mar
ried man, who when he had mar
ried had shattered a romance with
a beautiful young lady, a poor stu
dent of singing who lived in Paris.
IL a way this girl became noted as
a singer a few years after her Bel
gian friend had settled down. To
sneciaI service operatives of this
and the latin American govern
ments it was known that the beau
tiful singer secretly met her former
lover
The meetings, OF course, was no
business of theirs. But when the
singer booked passage TOR MEXICO
ON a concert tour, it had a place In
official comment, which in time
found it's way out to the western
international border.
Mexico. before the Madero revo-
,ntion and Worlds War imported a
large quantity of diamonds. Prob
ably the finest precious stones store
in the Americas was La Esmaraida,
located in the City of Mexico. Dia-
mond sellers from Europe serving
the Mexican trade. generally trav-
eled over Mexico first, and after I'm
1shfng with the trade in that coun-
try entered the United States at
some western port, declaring what
stock they happened to have lett
at the customs offices and paying
duty on what they intended to sell
in this country. They never carried
the Jewels. but consigned the stock
by Wells Fargo Co. from city to
city in the republic, and to the port
of entry on the border.
One night Jose was deeply inter
ested in faro game, betting as was
usual with him, vast amounts OF
imaginary money; when, looking up
he observed his American friend
and caught the high sign agreed
upor whenever there was business
for him at the Americans room on
the edge of the town. This friend
was a mining promoter, had an in
terest in a number of small prop
critics on both sides of the line, was
known as a former locomotive en-
gineer, worked enough to keep peo-
pie from commenting on the tact
that he always seemed supplied
with funds. He was very fond OF,
or appeared to be, of tamales and
enchiladas. Jose was known as the
man who would occasionally be
sent to get these Mexican dishes,
and his frequent visits to the well
furnished shack passed without ex-
citing but casual curiosity.
The result Of this visit with the
tamales resulted in a task which
was surprising to Jose, but one
which was to his liking. Within a
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