Show GOLDEN PHANTOMS fascinating 0 61 tales of L L betse wi alost lost mines eva cr io U THE BOILING HELL miles south of val bentine Fe ntIne lesse in the cleats cut ate dil burro mountains to it a mine bilth li Is not lost nor hidden bidden but over ever which a phantom stands guard and ami forbids anyone to app approach it Is I 1 not a video golden phantom this forill ding specter but a silvery white one 0 ne looking for all the world like rising riming it Is mid that the indefatigable spanish explorers explorer wandering about through the southwest this silver mine in 1510 1519 21 years before coronado made till his historic journey into now new mexico and arl iona espejo whose whole name also alo stands high la in the list lint of the lie con que quer rort ors heard of the mine anil and start ed in an expedition toward it but after six months of wandering in the desert the spaniards Span larda turned back only two men of the party whore names were wera and candelario Cande larlo persisted they left their comrades comrade on the return troll trail and kept on and they found the mine min Cande Cand larlo elarto sold bold his interest to HaIdI nado after a while and went back to mexico where life was wa more pleasant dut but maldinado was a a man of iron with a heart of stone lie he forced the indians to work long hours bringing out silver ore anil and was wa cruel to them thiera av a v cruel as a a 8 man can be which Is very cruel in deed the shaft had been sunk tome soine ria feet when the tiling happened which gave the mine its it name one 1110 went ment the indians were laboring in the fairly dry atmosphere of the mi nethe next and a pick drove through the wall releasing a flood of scalding water from hot springs which rose roae to the surface nearby the minors miners were ere scalded to death dealt after this the indians refused to work in the mine but MaUl nado compelled many of them to go awn nevertheless and to stand in the steam log lag water as all they worked no flesh could stand such treatment at last after some time spent in this horrible slavery the tribe planned an uprising heard of the plot and with his bis own hands hand he headed beheaded beh be coded several of the ringleaders ring leaders then a maiden name I 1 Val Va entla lentile whether hether Alex mexican ican or in dlan a Is 1 not related whom the miners loved dear dearly I 1 y came and wept over the bodies of the slain sad and the sight of her grief enraged the tie bru bra till tat still further mth an oath he be rustled rushed over to her and stabbed her through the heart until then the rebellious indians had stood quietly to la the grasp of their captors but this murder war more than they could bear jerk ing away from the guards they sur ur rounded and carried him to the seething pit where ro no many people had lost loat their lives here they were ere going to ta cast him into the boiling waters below but before they could do so no a shrill cream in a girlish voice caused them to halt it was the of Nal nl entla the murdered girl who called to them she stepped forward a texan io rah call ontas and the he prisoner for her own as tribal catora per knitted how flow it happened tupp ened that tier her love for so brutal a man could ha base grown in spite of his cruelty to the indians and why his murd r of lier sister had not turned chrit luke line to hate only she sh knew slip she had taken tile the only means possible sible to olve give him it nai aas a law that a prisoner might be clun ieti by some borne woman oman of the tribe and must become tier her property in ie de ference to ebli law tile tho in liana ilan s art frt slid and allowed him to depart with nith his fair rescuer the I 1 oiling lolling hill 1101 fani a ahan I 1 ined when lie fie left it the mexican sly that bones of hla his victims still llo ile about and that hint the place Is it a ren delvous for their ghosts 10 one cures cares to go antar it ani its steam ing dilser stands elands guard in solitude |