Love and labor clash in Fortuna mining tale
Bud Hooker and Phil De Lancey chase the Eagle Tail claim near Fortuna as Yaqui bands, Aragon and Gracia complicate matters at a Mexican hotel. Amid revolts, serenades, and mounting tension, Bud fears Phil’s courtship while preparing to mine and hire help for the claim.
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Bud Hooker
Phil de Lancey
Mexico
United States
Gadsden
Bud
Henry Kruger
Kruger
Aragon
Hooked
de Lancey
Fortuna
Eagle Tail
Cruz Mendez
Mendez
Phil
Gracia
Bule
Chihuahua
Agua Negra
Amigo
Hooker
Moctezuma
Comisario
Maria
Don Juan de Dios Brachamonte
Ehlat
Cipriano Aragon Y Tres Palacios
Gracia Aragon
Gay Gadsden
Don Juan
Comisario of Police
Senor Aragon
Don Cipriano
Broadway
New York
Osess
Maine
For tuna Americans and Gracia Aragon in a strained town scene
A band of American women, including Gracia Aragon, strolls with their mothers as the evening shines. Bud watches Gracia closely, dreaming of shielding her from danger and hoping for a miraculous confrontation with rival insurgents.
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Phil
Don Ciprianio
la Fortuna
Fortuna
Gracia Aragon
Bud
Mystery of the Eagle Tail mine Deepens for Bud and Partners
For sixty days the Eagle Tail mine remains a mystery as men clear a rock slide that covers the ledge. Bud pushes to reach the contact between schist and porphyry where gold may lie, hoping to strike wealth before authorities react.
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Bud
Phil
Sonora
Discovery Gulch
Kruger
Bua
Pardner
Nature as Sculptor Tallangatta Tree Stands Like Jumping Boy
A remarkable natural curiosity near Tallangatta Victoria is the Black Boy tree. Its trunk forms a curious statue as decay advances creating the impression of a boy about to leap, a startling sight due to the tree’s elevated position.
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Tallangatta
Victoria
Budget Speech Urges Strict Economizing
A speech on the budget calls for strict economies, urging officials to trim expenditures and tighten fiscal discipline amid looming financial pressures. The speaker emphasizes prudent spending and prudent management across departments to safeguard resources.
Six Hundred Leave as Freighter Captains Report German Cruisers Seen
The Fabre Line steamer Patria leaves for France with 600 passengers, mostly reservists, including six women, some in French uniforms. Two German men aboard refuse to explain their motives. The Cunarder Ansonia sails to Liverpool. The German cruiser sighting delays the German steamer Germania at the Azores. The British Condor reports a cruiser off St Thomas and is allowed to proceed after identification.
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Union News Service
New York
Fabre Line
Patria
France
Ansonia
Liverpool
Germania
Marseilles
Azores
Condor
South America
St. Thomas
Narrow Escape As Keystone Exchange Ceiling Collapses
In Philadelphia at the Keystone Telephone Co a heavy steel and plaster ceiling in the Main Exchange room collapsed burying operators beneath debris. The ceiling fell on a seven foot high switchboard saving many lives. Sixteen girls required medical attention. three treated on site and the rest sent to hospitals. None suffered serious injuries.
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Philadelphia
Keystone Telephone Co
Second
Sansom
Germany offers to move American refugees under US flag
Washington informs that Germany will respect neutral ships carrying American refugees. Germany even suggests sending Hamburg American Line ships from New York under American flags with American officers to pick up refugees at German ports. Secretary Garrison requested more Hamburg American liners be sent for American refugees.
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Washington
Germany
United States
Gerard
New York
Garrison
Six Die in Gasoline Garage Explosion at McConnelsville
In Zanesville Ohio six are dead two dying and three seriously injured after three gasoline explosions at the Walker automobile garage in McConnelsville. The blasts wrecked the garage and set the Glass grocery and Johnson and Beckett homes ablaze before firefighters controlled the blaze. A 50 gallon tank of gasoline exploded first then two more blasts followed when the engine sparked the chain reaction.
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Zanesville, O
Walker
McConnelsville
Glass Grocery
Johnson and Beckett
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By Don J.lavin
Frank A. Munsey
Fortuna Hotel
Arrieros
Bernardo
Bernardo Bravo
Cincinnati
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