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Updated: May 9, 2025
A trestle burned down on the International Railroad. The south-bound from San Antonio was cut off for the next forty-eight hours. On that train was Tonia Weaver's Easter hat. Espirition, the Mexican, who had been sent forty miles in a buckboard from the Espinosa Ranch to fetch it, returned with a shrugging shoulder and hands empty except for a cigarette.
As its representative he must decline to contribute fifty thousand pesos. But he would assume the responsibility of offering twenty-five. Did Senor Espirition understand Senor Franzoni to mean twenty-five thousand pesos? By no means. Twenty-five pesos. And in silver; not in gold. "Your offer insults my government," cried Senor Espirition, rising with indignation. "Then," said Mr.
Of course, there was nothing menacing about its arrival a business firm does not go to war with a nation but it reminded Senor Espirition and others in those carriages that the Vesuvius Fruit Company was undoubtedly carrying something up its sleeve for them. By the time the van of the procession had reached the government building, Captain Cronin, of the Valhalla, and Mr.
This apparent victory deceived His Excellency; and he began to hunger for more of it. He sent an emissary to request a conference with a representative of the fruit company. The Vesuvius sent Mr. Franzoni, a little, stout, cheerful man, always cool, and whistling airs from Verdi's operas. Senor Espirition, of the office of the Minister of Finance, attempted the sandbagging in behalf of Anchuria.
The meeting took place in the cabin of the Salvador, of the Vesuvius line. Senor Espirition opened negotiations by announcing that the government contemplated the building of a railroad to skirt the alluvial coast lands.
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