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...Australia came a story of two large creatures. One was an old mining prospector called ''Big Jim," 6 ft. 8 in., 250 Ib. "Fossicking" for opals on the Stuart Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near...
Last week Prospector Ed Bateman sold the first well and 1,400 acres of land to Humble Oil and Gulf...
Ohio. With Wet Robert Johns Bulkley plowing and grinning the way, Dry George White, Princeton 1895, one-time Klondike prospector, three-time (1911-15, 1917-19) Congressman, recouped as Democratic Governor-elect some of the prestige he lost exactly ten years ago when he tried to make James M. Cox into a President...
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...