Diamond Dick, Jr.'s Written Receipt; or, The Mystery of Casa Grande

# The Mystery of Casa Grande

This issue features "The Mystery of Casa Grande," by W. B. Lawson, a serialized adventure tale set in Arizona and the borderlands. The narrative centers on criminals plotting to frame a woman named Comet Kate for an Indian fund robbery near Tucson, involving a government reward of five thousand dollars. Their scheme is interrupted when Handsome Harry, a Californian hero, discovers their plot, captures one of the conspirators, and rescues a Kanaka servant from the criminals Williams and Birdsall on horseback across the desert.

The story continues with Diamond Dick, Jr., intervening to save a Mexican boy named Pedro Monte from his own father, Jose Monte (called "Mexican Monte"), near a cemetery vault at Casa Grande. The narrative involves violent confrontations, disguises, knife fights, and gunplay across the Arizona landscape and involves multiple criminal enterprises and mysterious activities at the cemetery.