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Against blue Sierra Blanca Peak, the guests pitched their tents, then set about the business of the party: baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. When night fell the dancing began to the monotonous beat of tom-toms. All night the Apaches danced. Disdaining sleep, they returned to their baseball, rodeo, powwowing, eating. Night came again; again the Apaches danced it through...
...Mexico and the U. S. Southwest the name of Otero is a potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental...
...Hospital commands the highest respect of the medical profession. Also he has made considerable good money by testifying as an alienist in legal cases. He testified to the "mental irresponsibility" that saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband, to the "mental incompetence'' of Jackson Barnett. rich Creek, whose oil royalties the Government tried to protect from Gypsey Oil Co., from his wife and from the Baptist Home Mission.* Dr. Jelliffe told how Banker Harriman had been examined. The banker...
Died. Larry Fay, 44, Manhattan racketeer; of two bullets in his chest, one in his back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...
Engaged-Prince Leopold of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Frendenberg; and Countess Blanca de Treuberg, great-grand-daughter of Dom Pedro, first emperor of Brazil...