St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-23

lTdullIOlS ueScenueu ITOU the spanish
race, while superstition still thrills the
mind of the Mexican women. The
streets of these Mexican villages are
shockingly narrow. A 81 burro weight
200, burden capacity $50 pounds) laden
for two bits" accompanied by its mas
lane, and bold, swift-stepping Ameri-
hand and kodak in the other, is EN-
barrassed to come within smelling dis
lance of the twain in order to effect a
passage on his way.
Facing these alleys the houses stand
flush to each other IN rows hundred
and 200 feet long. In square of these
houses facing on four alleys the yards
are one open common, where mu-
tual vice and abuse prevail. Old Los
Vegas is not incorporated. The
new Los Vegas, however, is
of modern caste and construction.
The entire city. comprising the old and
new district, has population of about
$4,000 persons. One thousand of these
are white, 10000 Mexican, and 1000
Pueblo and Navajo Indians. New Los
Vegas is the most important wool mar
ket of New Mexico, and, believe, the
entire Rocky Mountain region. Three
hundred thousand sheep Craze in the
territory, and over one-half of these
feed in and about San MIGUEL, the
county wherein Los Vegas prOspers in
thetraffic of 100000 pounds of wool
annually. The new Los Vegas is a
leader in all matters which pertain to
education and culture. and, with the in
terprOpagatiOn of white and Spanish
blood, the peoples of this region of
mount and mesa will expand to higher
state of person and of morals.
We ssNOsed,' About
Los Vegas about three hours. Our
cicerone. j. Il. Duffin, proved a most
capital entertainer. For his many pains
to please and instruct, and for the gal
tingent shall reckon distant the day
when the memory of this service shall
pale in interest.
At Albuquerque we were also driven
to the old part O. town. This Is quaint
and dirty relict of Mexican life and
manners. Mud! Mud! Mud! Dark
skinned, lynx-eyed women, adorned
with beads and tinsel, eyes aglOw with
spices and dry garlic. What happy
hit it would be to convene an army of
evangelists III this city of the Rio
Grande. where the Vilest forms of vice
and gambling are countenanced by all
and practised by about two-thirdS of
the population. Prostitution was ram
pant in the streets; and yet Albu-
qurque is cleaning its harvest of this
worlds goods and gold. Where the
farms demand irrigation, the cities need
eXpurgatiOn. Let the dose be-saltS.
We supped IN this bustling town of 800
mixed people, and, let me add, we paid
for the Supping.
During the night of the 18th we left
the verdant hills of New Mexico, be-
tween the Navajo and Zuin Indian res
ervations, and pushed into country
where all nature is paralyZed-AriZona!
Vegetation is foreign to this great dry
table-land of sand, dOOneS and mount
aims. 1t is here the MoQui Indian alone
finds it possible to exist, and his way of
subsisting is unique, indeed. For in
stance, when the party arrived at Peach
Springs, the coaches were besieged by a
band of ApacheS and Moquis. each
queary varmit grotesquely attired in
silk underwear, which may have been
dropped by the way by some itinerant
fastener. Red and yellow girdles,
beads, dilapidated derby hats. mouldy
pants, sans buttons and presentability,
Thurman sbandanas, Shellalahs and odd
shoes or sandels are but few mention
ableS of the incongruous man which
makes up the paraphernalia of the gala
day outfit of the Moqui or Apache In
dian. At the first distant foot of the
engine whistle the Indians sound the
alarm through their camp. Then they
smear themselves in regal splendor, ap-
lx,in nd hnYtcA ynoit7f
face. The bucks bring skins and all
sorts of trinkets, some of horn, some Of
pottery, others made of the skins, bones
and teeth of goats, wild cat. lynx. de-
funct horses and cows. The women
bring their papooseS, snugly tucked
away in the Indian SWaddle-crib, which
they carry in their arms, that they may
the more readily display to the Ogling
tourist the dirty, sQualling little imps-
black-eyed, flat-nosed, diabolical of
caste. 10 attract the
Curious and Unwary
traveller, the bands bound upon the
depot platform, whooping an accom-
painment to the most maniacal antics
imaginable.
Two bit! Look, ugh! ugh! Wow,
squick. chuck ee-ee-Sh-e-e," and they
scramble upon the coach step, one arm
extended. clutching watch, chain or
wallet in an effort to induce one to DIS
gorge the sum of 25 cents for peep at
the papoose. Squaws under the age of
fifteen all have papoose, and if, from
the youthful appearance of the pre-
tended mother, one expresses doubt as
to the contents of the dirty bundle
fondled by the bantering mamma, the
suggest ton is promptly met with cruel
pinch at the hand of the mother, which
usually sets the papoose squealin'.
This assurance is invariably effective,
for it brings out the nickels and dimes
for peel at the papoose.
The peep is short and very sour, when
the matron of the Arizona plains tucks
her sucking out of sight; for exposure
only OIL payment OF another fee. These
live music bOXes-done up and wound
up in willow cribs, wrapped in rags
are the most profitable stock in trade for
the Indian.
Papoose growing has become an inor-
dinate industry with these savages.
when the Apache race is being perpetu-
ated by the tourists demand for dis
play of its progeny. III. w. w.