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A collection of yearbooks from Weber Normal College which comprise the years 1919 to 1923. Included in the yearbook are photographs of students, class officers, faculty, the Board of Trustees, athletics, and departments within the college. It also contains sections about the clubs and organizations within the Academy, literary pages, student poetry, and advertisements from local businesses. |
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Show Don Carlos ANNA JOHNSON IT WAS a typical Mexican summer's day. A few cumulus clouds hung lazily in the shimmering distance and a buzzard appeared a stationary speck in the sky above. A lizard lay sunning himself on the roadside and a coyote skulked into the bushes beyond. All around lay signs of arson and desolation. The blackened walls and solitude were grim testimonies of the hand of the bandit. The solitude was suddenly broken as two horsemen rode down the mesquite-bordered road and up to the ruins of the Edmonds' ranch in northern Chihuahua. Charles Edmonds, the owner, was one of the party of Americans forced to flee from Mexico two months be- fore, and was now returning with his son, Ray, in the hopes of collecting some of the cattle scattered by the Mexican bandits. Two days' riding collected a herd as large as the two men could handle, and with light hearts, they commenced the drive toward the border. Rising in his stirrups in order to view the moving herd, Charles Edmonds, or Don Carlos, as he was termed by his Mexican acquaintances, remarked, "Well, Ray, my boy, what think you of the herd? Sufficient to cover those sixteen years of yours with jeans and jackets?" "Sufficient to place mother and the babies into comfortable quarters for the winter," he answered, "and to "Quien Vive"! rang out upon the air and the ponies were brought to a sudden halt as the mesquite bushes seemed turned to men and the two were surrounded by a band of rebels, whose faces gleamed above fifty shining rifles. "Dismount," ordered the leader of the band; "Dismount, muy pronto," and Don Carlos recognized his bitter enemy, Pedro Gonzales. Sometime after the settlement of the Americans in Mexico, trouble had risen between them and the Mexicans over the boundary line of the American purchase. Don Carlos, who practiced law, had been instrumental in settling the affair satisfactorily to all concerned, except Pedro Gonzales, who immediately became his enemy and swore revenge. Simultaneously, with his order, Gonzales recognized his man. 'Don Carlos!" he hissed between his teeth. "Don Carlos, the Virgin has at last granted me my revenge! This day shall my dagger still the gringo's heart!" So saying, he bound his victim's hands and left |