Word: francisco
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Last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 14), one Francisco Fimores, Mexican rancher of Douglas, Ariz., led into Mexico a small force of men. He sought Apache Indians who, in 1926, had killed his wife, kidnapped his son. Last week, U. S. soldiers and cattle men gathered along the Mexican frontier, prepared an expedition to rescue Mr. Fimores, from whom no word has been received. A member of his band, however, had been found alone and delirious. It was feared that the avenging band had been surprised and slaughtered...
...Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) was founded August 4, 1496 by Bartholomew, brother of Christopher Columbus, and is therefore, necessarily, the first permanent European settlement in the New World (incidentally it is and always has been a Capital-official residence of Spain's first Viceroy in the Americas). Francisco Pizarro was a young soldier of fortune among the early Spanish conquistadores, a contemporary of and under Columbus, who went out from Santo Domingo on his history making conquest of the Incas. WM. E. PULLIAM...
...autumn night two years ago, a band of Apaches came down from the mountains, rode across the border to Douglas, Ariz., attacked the ranch of Francisco Fimores, scalped his wife and took his son with them when they rode away. Last week, believing that the Apaches were raising his son as a member of their tribe, Francisco Fimores led forty riders across the border, up the mountain trails to find the Apaches, fight them, and rescue...
...California, following his graduation from Leland Stanford University in 1903, that Renaud got his early newspaper training. For nine years he worked on San Francisco dailies, becoming dramatic critic for the Bulletin and the Chronicle. In 1912 he went to New York with a letter of introduction from Will Irwin and got a job on the oldtime Globe...
...Francisco, eleven Eastern stars played eleven Western stars in the fourth annual football game for the benefit of the Shriners' Crippled Childrens' Hospital. On the Eastern team was famed Howard Harpster, Carnegie Tech quarterback; on the Western team was Biff Hoffman, famed Stanford fullback. The Eastern team...