Word: cruz
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...Ahuacatlan in preparation for Palm Sunday last week, bearded, unkempt J. E. Bristow of San Angelo, Tex., rode into town on the back of an ass. A three-week bandit chase by Mexican Federal troops had ended. Somewhere in the mountains an able kidnaper and bandit chief named Cruz Delgado was dividing $5,000 in gold among his followers. Back in San Angelo Mrs. Bristow received a three-word telegram from her Oklahoma footballer son, Gordon ("Obie") Bristow: DAD WITH ME. Mrs. Bristow cried, "Thank God! Thank God!" and then collapsed...
...thickly wooded mountains of the west coast State of Nayarit with an interpreter-guide, Mr. Fields, to prospect for gold and inspect a zinc property. A week later Interpreter Fields galloped into the dusty, desolate village of Ahuacatlan with a scribbled message. Prospector Bristow had been captured by Cruz Delgado, was held for $15,000 ransom. The Mexican police instantly clapped Interpreter Fields into jail...
Days passed. From Mexico City came exciting accounts of a battle in which three bandits had been killed by the Federal troops. In the town of Tepic grew a much more definite story that Bandit Cruz Delgado was demanding more money. When Prospector Bristow rode into Ahuacatlan on his donkey last week the true story became known. "Obie" Bristow had bargained with mysterious agents of Bandit Delgado for over a week. A ransom of $5,000 was finally agreed upon and paid. Followed the prisoner's release...
...Holy City in the Santa Cruz Mountains is for men only. Its inhabitants wear long hair, sell barbecued pork and gasoline to travelers, broadcast from their own radio station, post signs reminding the countryside of the likelihood of Death. Their hillside retreat includes a dance hall from which feminine shouting frequently echoes down the mountains...
...number of years back while holding down my first job as a ship's officer, on a voyage from Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...