Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1912 — FIGHT AMONG SAND DUNES [ARTICLE]

FIGHT AMONG SAND DUNES

take Michigan Fishermen Amazed at Sight of an Invader Conquering Mexico for a Motion Picture. Cary. Ind., May Cortez and his army landed at Miller beach, east of Gary, late yesterday, and today there was a battle between the Spanish soldiers and the Aztec warriors, Montezuma’s scouts. Cortez is fighting his way through “Mexico,” and by Sunday he will reach the City of Mexico and take the Emporer Montezuma captive. The "Masquere of Montezuma” is being portrayed by actors and Chicago Art institute students among the Miller sand dunes for a motion picture house. The sand stretches afford a good background and by sticking a palm tree here and there the Mexican plains are imitated. The fishermen along the Lake Michigan coast rubbed their eyes at the Spectacle they saw today. On horseback was Cortez, his steed led by a dusky Aztec maiden. After hitn came the standard of Spain and a Franciscan friar, swinging incense before a banner of the Virgin. Then followed the soldiers in the armor and helmets, all carrying quaint blunderbusses, and in the middle of the procession was the artillery. Scenery is scattered all over the sand dunes and in front; of the dune “mountains” may be seen shrines, Aztec adobes, temples and other buildings, the erection of which caused Gary lumber yards to be worked overtime.