Word: oaxaca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago when Manuel Morales, his sister Rita and three friends decided to spend their vacation in Oaxaca hunting for buried treasure near the ruined temples of Teposcolula, friends considered them practical, prosaic. So did Oaxaca state authorities who issued a treasure hunting license with the usual provision that 50% of the findings, if any, should be given to the state...
...Morales vacation treasure hunt did not lack for excitement. While the party pitched their tents, ate frijoles, Indians gathered on the mountain tops. Oaxaca Indians, though officially Roman Catholics, still honor their old gods. Angry at the desecration of their temple, jealous of the undiscovered treasure, they crept down on the treasure hunters at midnight. With a burst of rifle fire, the Indians attacked. Manuel Morales was instantly killed. Fighting like a wildcat by the body of her brother, Rita Morales fell mortally wounded. The three other members of the party fought their way back to civilization, through with treasure...
Major Max Fleischmann, yeast-man: "Three ladies, four gentlemen and myself, worth $200,000,000 in the aggregate, set out from Los Angeles last week in the steamer Oaxaca,* for the use of which I am paying $50,000 monthly, to seek swordfish and other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...
...money loaned anywhere without interest, by a system, satisfactory to both the lender and the borrower class? News came last week that the Mexican sociologist Professor Javier Uranga has discovered such a system in operation among the seclusive Yalalteca Indians in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico...
...manager, William Ferris, spent a month in Mexico City, negotiating with the Government, and left abruptly. On Mr. Hearst's visit to Mexico, he appealed to the American authorities to prevent new taxes on his 1,000,000-acre ranch, extending through the three states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas. Taxation was levied on the Vera Cruz portion alone...