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Mrs.' Blanche Mitchell visited
Monroe Tuesday.
Asa Ponder spent the 4th at El
Dorado with friends.
Mrs. W. A. Eastly is visiting
with her mother at Wesson this
week.
W. L. Reagan, the meat man,'
was at Crossett on business this
week.
Mrs. C. A. Berry visited this,
week with her parents at New
London.
W. C. Thompson and fami'y vis
ited this week with his parents in
El Dorado.
Quite a number of Huttig people
enjoyed a fish fry at lock and dam
No 6 July 4th.
F. W. Mulkey is at Lewisville
visiting his parents and recuperat- j
ing from his recent sick spell.
Miss Ethel Y. Blood, of Waldo,
is here the guest of Mrs. C. T.
Thompson and other friends.
Miss Louise Brignac, of French
Settlement, La., is here the guest
of her brother, J. A. and wife.
Miss Claudia Powell, of Warren,
is here attending her aunt, Mrs. T.
J. Waits, who is on the sick list.
Miss Ida Harrington, of Lake
Charles, La., was the guest of her
sister. Miss Lula, here this week.
Fred Chambliss and wife, of Sici
ly Island, La., were the guests of
his parents west of town this week
Dr. G. W. Temple, veterinary
surgeon, of El Dorado, was here on
professional business last Monday
night. _
Dr. Foster Jarrell has decided to
remain in Huttig and has entered
into a partnership with Dr. F. O.
Mahony.
John Raybourn and family, of
Smackover. were guests of rela
tives and friends here the first of
the week.
Cut Flowers. Boquets and De
sign Work. Orders filled on short
notice. Mrs. E. W. Culp, Phone
1 1 1, El Dorado, Ark!
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No. Six-Sixty-Six
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Five or six dotes will break any cate, and
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return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not fripc or sicken. 25c
An enjoyable dance was given at
the Union Hotel Wednesday night
in honor of Mrs. J. B. Calvert, who
is visiting with friends here.
Mrs. R. E. Ebbs and children ar
rived in Huttig last week from
Smithton to join their husband and
father who is employed here now.
Math Lawrence was here the
Fourth from Bogalusa. La., visiting
old friends. He was accompan ed
home by Mrs. J. W. Perritt and
daughter, Annie Mae.
Mrs. W. H. Wheeler left Wednes
day morning for Brinkley to visit
with friends and relatives. She
was accompanied as far as Little
Rock by her husband.
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Lucas County. 1
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev
ery case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by tlie use of HALL’S CATARRH CURE.
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Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December.
A. D. 188*. -.
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Miss Ruth Smiyi, of Gamderuj
was the guest of Mrs T. B. Weaver
this week.
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W. A. Hemphill left Friday morn
ing for a visit «'ith home folks at
Carthage, Mo. He will return via
Madison and accompany his family,
who is visiting there, home.
A. E. Frost, president of the
Frost-Johnson Lumber Company.
| and Geo. S. Prestridge, general
manager of the same company,
were here this week on business.
Mrs. F. W. Scott left Thursday
morning for St. Louis, enroute to
Virginia to spend three months
with relatives. She will be joined
in St. Louis Sunday by Mr. Scott,
who will be away for one month.
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The Huttig and Marion,baseball
clubs played two games here on
July 4th which resulted in a victory
for each team. The score in tne
morning game was 5 to 3 in favor
of Marhn and the afternoon 3 to 2
in favor of Huttig.
Mrs. J. B. Calvert and son. J. B..
Jr., are here the guests of her
many friends. They are er,route
from Lexington, Ky.. to Houston,
Tex., to which town they are going
to locate, Mr. Calvert having ac
cepted a position on the road out
of there.
UliqqtT Bites.
To get rid of chigger bites put a
little Hunt's Lightning Oil on and
the itching stops instantly. Good
for all kinds of insect bites and
stings. Fine for headaches and
neuralgia, as well as rheumatism.
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Levie Northsworthy, aged 49
years, and a negro named Jim Ad
kins were drowned in the Ouachita
riyer near New London Thursday
afternoon of last week, while run
ning a.trot line. Their bodies were
recovered Friday and intered at
New London Saturday.
Henry Mayer has returned from
Caruthersville, Mo., and has de
cided to locate there permanently,
having accepted a position on the
big 17 000 acre plantation which
G. D. Johnson, president of the
Union Saw Mill Company, has pur
chased near there. They will
move next week.
Declares Dividend.
At a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the First National
Bank Thursday afternoon, an eight
per cent semi-annual dividend was
declared out of the net profits for
the past six month'1, and six per
cent was passed to surplus and
undivided profits. This is a fine
showing and speaks well for the
management. A statement of the
condition of the institution on June
30th will be found elsewhere in
this issue.
Old papers at the News office.
RAILROAD TliVIt TABLE
St. Louis. Iron Mount/.in & Southern
UTTI.E ROCK A MONROE RY.
South North
5:25 a. m Huttig 3:26 p. m
?:4?a.m Monroe 1:06 p.m.
LOCAL.
Leaves Arrives
12:35 p. m. Huttig 1 1:45 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FAHMENVILLE A SOUTHERN KY.
North South
4:42 a. m. Huttig 3:34 p. m
3:16 a.m. Farmerville 6:20p. m
LOCAL.
10:15a.m. Huttig 2:26 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
.ville.
tAi rives Tuesday. Thursday and Satur
day fro*1! Farmer ville and goes to Mon
oo.
The Land of Broken Promises
* -v—r, ^■==1_-sa;..rT=== = By DANE COOLIDGE
A Stirring Story of the
Mexican Revolution
Author of
“THF. FIGHTING FOOL," "HIDDF.N WATERS,"
"THE TKXICAN," F.tc.
Illustrations by DON J. LAVIN
■^nvrifiht. 1914 bv F^aok A . Munscv '
A story of border Mexico, vivid,
Intense, such as has never befor*
been written, is this one of Ameri
can adventurers into the land of
manana. Texan, mining engineer,
Spanish senor and senorita, peon,
Indian, crowd its chapters with .
clear-cut word pictures of busi
ness. adventure and love, against
a somber background of wretched
armies marching and counter
marching across a land racked by
revolution and without a savior.
This was 7he town, but the most iin
portant building—set back in the
shade of mighty cottonwoods and
pleasantly aloof from the road—was
the residence of Senor Aragon. It was
tnis, i.n fact, which held the undivided
attention of De Lancey as they rode
quietly through the village, for he
had become accustomed from a long
experience in the tropics to look for
something elusive, graceful and femi
nine in houses set back in a garden.
Nothing stirred, however, and having
good reason to avoid Don Ctpriano,
they jogged steadily on their way.
“Some house!’’ observed Phil, with
a last hopeful look over his shoulder.
“Uh,” assented Bui, as they came
to a fork in the road. “Say,” he con
tinued, "let’s turn off on this trail.
Lot of burro tracks going out—expect
It’s our friend, Mr. Mendez.”
’’All right,” said De Lancey ab
sently; “wonder where old Aragon
keeps that bee-utiful daughter of his— .
the one Don Joo-an was telling about.
Have to stop on the way back and
sample the old man’s mescal.”
“Nothing doing!” countered Hooker
instantly. “Now you heard what I
told you—there’s two things you leave
alone for sixty days—booze and wom
en. After we cinch our title you can
i get as gay as you please.”
"Oo-ee!” piped Phil, "hear the boy
talk!" But he said no more of wine
and women, for he knew how they do
C( mplieate life.
They rode to the east now, follow
ing the long, flat footprints of the bur
ros, and by all the landmarks Bud
saw that they were heading straight
for the old Eagle Tail mine. At Old
Fortuna the river turns west and at
the same time four canyons came in
from the east and south. Of these
they had taken the first to (he north
and it was leading them past nil the
old workings that Kruger had spoken
about. In fact, they were almost at
the mine when Hooker swung down
suddenly from his horse and motioned
Phil to follow.
“There's some burros coming,” he
said, glancing back significantly; and
when the pack-train came by, each
animal piled high with broken wood,
the two Americans were busily tap
ping away at a section of country
rock. A man and a boy followed be
hind the animals, gazing with wonder
at the strangers, and as Phil bade
them a pleasant “Buenos dias!” they
came to a halt and stared at their
industry in silence. In the interval
Phil was pleased to note that the old
man had only one eye.
“Que busoa?" the one-eyed one
finally Inquired; “what are you look
ing for?”
And when Phil oracularly answered,
“Gold!” the old man made a motion
to the boy to go on and sat down on
a neighboring rock.
“Do you want to buy a prospect?”
he asked, and Bud glanced up at him
grimly.
“We find our own prospects,” an
swered Phil.
“But I know of a very rich pros
pect,” protested Mendez; “very rich!”
He shrilled his voice to express how
rich it was.
“Yes?” observed Phil; “then why
don’t you dig the gold out? But, as
for us, we find our own mines. That
is our business.”
"Seguro!” nodded Mendez, glancing
at their outfit approvingly. “But I r.tn
a poor man—very poor—I cannot de
nounce the mine. So I wait for some
rich Americano to come and buy it. I
have a friend—a very rich man—in
Gadsden, but he will not come; so I
will sell it to you.”
■‘Hid you get that, Bud?” Jested Phil
in English. "The old man here thinks
we*re rich Americans and he wants
to sell ue a mine.”
Bud laughed silently at this, and
Mr. Mendez, his hopes somewhat blast
ed by their levity, began to boast of
his find, giving the history of the
Euyjle Tail with much circumstantial
ity and explaining that it was a lost
padre mine.
"Sure,” observed Phil, going back to
his horse and picking up the bridle,
"that's what they all say. They're
all lost padre mines, and you can see
them from the door of the church.
Come on, Bud, let’s go!”
"And so you could this!” cried Men
deZ^ running along after them as they
rode slowly up. the canyon, "from the
old church that was washed away by
the flood! This ie the very mine
wliere the padres dug out all their
_dd! Are you ^pin; try) tlua way?
Come, tficn, and I wilT show you—(he
very place, except that the Americano
ruined it with a blast!"
He tagged along after them, whee
dling and protesting while they ban
tered him about his ns re, .until they
finally came to the place--the ruins
of the Eagle Tail.
It lay spraddled out along the hill
side, a series of gopher-holes, dumps
and abandoned workings, looking
more like a badly managed stone
Quarry than a relic of padre days.
'v ^
Sat Toying With His Pistol.
Kruger's magazine of plant powder,
exploded in one big blast, had de
stroyed all traces of his mine, besides
starting an avalanche of loose shale
that had poured down and filled the
pocket.
Added to this, Aragon and his men
had rooted around in the debris in
search of the vein, and the story oi
their inefficient work was told by
great,piles of loose rock stacked up
beside eaved-in trenches and a series
of timid tunnels driven into the neigh
boring ridges.
Under the circumstances it would
certainly call for a mining engineer
to locate the lost lead, and ,De I,ancey
looked it over thoughtfully as he be
gan to figure on the work to be done.
Undoubtedly there was a mine there—
and the remains of an old Spanish
smelter down the creek showed that
the ground had once been very rich—
but If Kruger had not told him In
advance he would have passed up the
job in a minute'.
"Well," he said, turning coldly upon
the fawning Mendez, who was all
curves in hie desire to please, “where
is your prospeeto?”
“Aqui. senor!” replied the Mexican,
pointing to the disrupted rock slide.
"Mere it was that the Americano
Crooka had his mine—rich with gold
much gold!”
He shrilled his voice emphatically,
and I)e Lancey shrilled his in reply.
"Here?” he exclaimed, gazing
blankly at the hillside, and then he
broke into a laugh. "All right, my
friend," he said, giving Hud a face
tious wink; "how much do you want
for this prospect?”
hour hundred dollar*, answered
Mendez in a tone at once hopeful and
apologetic. “It is very rich. Senor
Crooka shipped some ore (hat was full
of gold, i packed it out for him on
my burros; but, I am sorry, 1 have
no piece of it!*’
“Yes," responded He Lancey, “I am
sorry, too. So, of course, we cannot
buy the prospecto since you have no
ore to show; but I am glad for this,
Senor Mendez," he continued with a
kindly -.mile; “it shows that you are
an honest man, or you would have
stolen a piece of ore from the sa< ks.
So show us now’ where the gold was
found, the nearest that you can re
member, and perhaps, if we think we
can find it, we will pay you to de
nounce the claim for us."
At this the one good eye of Cruz
Mendez lighted up with a great hope
and, skipping lightly over the rock
piles with his sandaled feet, he ran
to a certain spot, locating it by look
ing across the canyon and up and
down the creek.
“Here, senorcs," he pronounced, “is
where the mouth of the old tunnel
came out. Standing inside it I could
eee that tree over there, arid looking
down the river I could jus* see tlie
smelter around the point. So, then,
the gold must be in there." lie point
ed toward the hill.
"Surely,” said He Lancey; “but
where?”
The old Mexican shrugged his shoul
ders deprecatiugiy.
“I do not know, senor," he answered;
“but if you wish to dig 1 will denounce
the claim for you.”
“For how much?" inquired De Lan
cey guardedly.
“For one hundred dollars," aTi
Ewered Mendez, and to his delight tha
American seemed to be considering it.
I e walked back and. fenij. across the
slide. picking up roeke and looking at
them, dropping dowit into the futile
trenches of Aragon, and frowning
with studious thought. His pardncr,
however, sat listlessly on a boulder
nnd tented the action of his SiX
shooter.
“Listen, my friend.” said De Lanoey,
coming back and poising his finger im
pressively. “If ! should find the ledge
tlte one hundred dc-llare would bo noth
ing to me, sab- ? And if I should spend
till tny money for nothing it would
he but one hundred dollars more. Hut
listen! 1 have known some false Mex
icans who, when an American paid
them to denounce a mine, took ad
vantage of his kindness and refused to
give it over. Or, if it turned out to
lie rich, they pulled a long face and
claimed that they ought to be paid
more. Now if—”
"Ah, no, setter!" clamored Mendez,
holding up his hand In protest; “I am
a poor man. but I am honest. Only
give me the hundred dollars—’’
"Not a dollar do you get!i" cried De
Lanccy sternly; "not a dollar—until
you turn over the concession to the
mine. And if you play us false"—he
paused impressively—"cuidado, hom
bre—look out!”
Once more Cruz Mendez protested
bis honesty and his fidelity to any
trust, but De Lancey silenced him im
patiently.
‘Enough, hombre!" he said. “Words
are nothing to us. Do you see my
iriend over there?" Ho pointed to
Hud. who, huge and dominating
against the skv line, sat toying with
his pistol. “Buen’! He is a cowboy,
sabe? A Texan! You know the Te
janos, eli? They do not like Mexi
cans. But my friend there, he likes
Mexicans—when they are honest. It
not—no! Hey, Bud,” he called in
English, "what would you do to this
fellow if lie beat us out of the mine?"
Bud turned upon them with a slow,
good-natured smile.
“Oh, nothing much,” he answered,
putting up his gun; and the deep
rumble of Ids voice struck four into
the old man's heart.
Phil laughed and looked grimly at
Mendez while he delivered his ulti
ma turn.
“Very well, my friend,” he said. “We
will stay and look at this mine. If
we think it is good we will take you
to the mining agent and get a permit
‘.o dig. For sixty days we will dig, am*
if we find nothing we will pay yc:
fifty dollars, anyway. If we find th
'edge we will give you a hundred del
tars. All right?"
"Si, senor, si, senor!” cried Mendez
one hundred dollars!”
“When you give us the papers!"
warned Phil. "But remember be
careful! The Americans do not like
men who talk. And come to the hotel
it Fortuna tomorrow- then we will let
you know.”
"And you will buy the mine?”
begged Mendez, backing off with his
hat in his hand.
“Perhaps," answered Pe I wincey.
‘We will tell you tomorrow.”
“Buen’!" bowed Mendez; “and many
thanks!”
“It is nothing,” replied Pe Lnnoey
politely, and then with a crooked
smile lie gazed after the old man as
he went hurrying off down the canyon.
“Weil,” he observed, “I guess we’ve
got Mr. Mendez started just about
right—what? Now if we can keep
liiin without the price of a drink until
we get our papers we stand a chance
to win."
“That's right,” said Bud; “but 1
wish he had two good eyes. I knowed
a one-eyed Mex up in Arizona and he
was sure a thieving son Of a goat.”
CHAPTER VII.
Thorp nro doubtless many philan
thropists in the Hack Hay regions of
Hoston who would consider the whip
hawing of Cruz Mendez a very repre
hensible act. And one hundred dol
lars Mex was certainly a very small
reward for the service that he was to
perform.
Rut Hud and Phil were not traveling
Cor any particular uplift society, and
one hundred pesos was a lot of money
to Cruz Mendez. More than that, if
they had offered him a thousand dol
lars for the same lervice he would
have got avaricious and demanded ten
thousand.
He came to the hotel very early the
next morning and lingered around an
hour or so, waiting for the American
gentleman to arise and tell him his
fate. A hundred dollars w'ould buy
everything that he could think of, in
cluding a quantity of mescal. Hi«
throat dripd at the thought of it.
Then the gentlemen appeared and
asked him many questions- whether
he was married according to law,
whether Ills wife would sign the pa
pers with him, and if he believed in
a hereafter for those who played false
with Americans. Having answered all
(hose in the affirmative, hp was takpn
to the agente mineral, and, after sign
ing his name his one feat in penman
ship—to several imposing documente,
he was given the precious permit.
Then there was another trip to the
grounds with a surveyor, to m.'ke re
port that the claim was actually va
cant. and Mendez went hack to his
normal duties as a packer.
In return for this service as a dum
my locator, and to keep him tinder
their < ye, the Arne leans engaged B1
Tnerto, thp one-ey. d. to pa: h out a
few tools an 1 supplies for them; and
ihen, to keep him buoy, they employed
him further to build a stone house.
All these activities were, of ectirsp,
not lost on Don Cipibtno Aragon y
Ties Palacios, since, b> a crafty ar
rangement of fences, he had made it
impossible for anyone to reach the
lower country without passing through
the crooked street cf Old Fortuna.
During the first rih! the second trip
of the strange Americans lie kept
within his dignity, Imping perhaps
that they would s*o-p at his store,
where they could be engaged in con
versation; but upon their return from
h third trip, after Cruz Mendez hud
gone through with the.ir supplies, he
cast his proud Spanish reserve to the
winds and waylaid them on the street.
"Buenas tardes, senores,” he salut
ed. as they rode past his store, and
then, seeing that they did not bre.ik
their gait, he held up his hand for
them to stop.
•‘Exci se me, gentlemen,” he said,
speaking genially but with an affected
Spanish lisp, "1 have seen you ride
past se.veral times—are you working
for the big company up at New For
tune ?”
‘‘No, sen or," answered De I aneey
courteously, "we are working f..r our
selves.”
“Good!" responded Aragon with fa
therly approval; “it i« better so. And
are you looking at nines?”
"Yes," said I)e Dane ey non commit
tally; "we are iooking at nines."
"That i3 good, too,” observed Ara
: gon; "and I wish you well, but since
| you are strangersto this country ami
perhaps do not know the people as
well as seme. 1 desire to warn you
against that one-eyed man, Cruz Men
dez, with whom L have seen you rid
ing. Vie is a worthless fellow—a very
pela'o Mexican, one who lias nothin gr
and yet he is always seeking to im
pose trpon strangers by selling them
| old mines which have no valtie.
"1 have no desire to speak ill of my
neighbors, but since he has moved
into the brush house up the river I
have lost several fine little pfgw; and
Ills eye. as J know, was torn from his
head as he was chasing another man's
cow. I have not suffered him on niy
ranch for years, for Iip is such a thief,
and yet he has the effrontery to repre
sent himself to strangers as a poor but
hornet man. I hope that lie has not
imposed upon you in any way?”
“No; not at all, thank yon," respond
ed l»e Haucey, as find raised his
i bridle reins to go. “We hired him
io pack out our tools ami supplies and
j he has done it very reasonably. Hut
many thanks, sir, for your warning.
Adios!"
He touched his-hnt and waved his
hand In parting, and Hud griuned as
he settled down to a trot.
“You can t i. .jj ... itng 'era, c.-tl
you, Phil?” he said. "No matter what
you think about ’em, you got to he
polite, haven't you? Well, that's thfv
way you get drawn in—nexi time you
go by now the old man will pump you
dry—you see. No, sir, the only way
to get along with these Mexicans '»
not to .have a tiling to do with ’em.
‘No savvy’—that's niv motto!"
"Well, 'mm has gracias' Is mine," ah
served He I .alter y. "It doesn't cost
anything, and it buys a whole lot."
“Sure,” agreed Bud; "but we ain’t
buying nothing front him -he's the
one particular hombre we want. t«
steer clear of, and keep him guessing
as long as we can. That's my view
of it, pardner.”
"Oil, that's all right,” laughed Da
Lancey, ‘'he won't got anything out
I of me—that Is, nothing but a bunch
: of hot air. Say, he's a shrewd looking
old guinea, isn’t he? I>id you notice
that game eye? lie kept it kind of
drooped, almost shut, until he came
to the point—and then lie opened it
up real berce. Reminds me of a big
: fighting owl waking up in the day
time. But you just watch me handle
him, and if 1 don't fool the old boy
at every turn 1(11 be because 1 run
out of bull.”
"Well, you can hand him the hnll
if you want to," grumbled Mud, "but
the first time you give anything away
I'm going to pick such a. row with
the old cuss that, we'll have to make a
new trail to get by. So leave 'im
alone, if you ever expect to see that
girl!”
A close association with Phil T>e
Lancey had left Bud not unaware of
his special weaknesses, and Phil was
undoubtedly romantic. Given a barred
and silent house, shut off from the
street by whitened walls and a ve
randa screened with flowers, and tho
questing eyes of Mr. I»e Laneey would
turned to those barred window* as cer
tainly as the needle seeks the pole.
""continued in next issue.
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