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...stars are an endangered species," complains Wini Brewer, a Morongo Valley, Calif., artist who purchased five acres of desert property for its starry vista in 1996 but is now mired in squabbles with the owners of what she considers grossly over-lit homes and businesses. "Ruining the sky," she says, "is no different from ruining the view of Yosemite...
...these fleeting weeks, birders head for one or more of the nation's famous migrant hot spots such as High Island, Texas, Big Morongo Wildlife Reserve in California, Point Pelee in Ontario and the Ramble in Manhattan's Central Park. Some will bird in a local park or simply settle into a backyard chair. Says Jerry Sullivan, a Chicago nature writer: "The nice thing is that you don't have to go some special place. You can do it just about anywhere...
...commuters, all driving toward the desert with the setting sun in their rear-view mirrors. But by the San Gorgonio Pass, most of the working stiffs are home, and the chartered buses and four-door sedans start bunching up. By the time they reach the 32,000-acre Morongo Indian reservation, the hundreds of small-time gamblers form a ragtag convoy. Their destination is Indian Village Bingo, a new gambling hall with 1,400 seats that has teemed with players every night since it opened in April...
...conventional drowsy drone of the Indian-run bingo game is not so different from that played in church basements and lodge halls all over California and the U.S. But it is certainly more lucrative: Indian reservations like the Morongos' are not subject to most civil regulatory laws-including the California provision that limits bingo jackpots to a measly $250. Thus Indian Village Bingo offers an average total nightly payoff of $20,000 and a jackpot that last week reached $48,000. Thirty-five of the Morongo Indians have been provided jobs; near by, the Barona tribe's bingo...
Once the newspapers published their first dispatches about Willie and Lolita, rumors spread of a full-scale Indian uprising. It was said that Willie was out to assassinate the President. Someone dubbed him "the mad dog of the Morongos"-and he was hunted like one. Willie covered almost 500 miles on foot, through the Morongo Valley, past Surprise Springs and Deadman's Dry Lake, until he was finally cornered on Ruby Mountain. Earlier, he had shot the girl to keep her from getting caught. On the mountain, he challenged a sure-shooting lawman with an empty rifle, a gesture...
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