The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-31

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crime. The tables were to be in Mex
| leo, where no law existed to restrain
games of chance. Yet looking to the
possibility of such law being enacted
there, it was planned to have the walls
/ of thick stone, without openings of any
! kind around that part of the Casino
where the roulette wheels were to be
situated, then, if arrests were made,
| the Mexican officers would be COM
PEELED to cross the line with their
| prisoners, and so soon as they did that,
| they must let them go.
The scheme came to grief because un-
| der the treaty strip one hundred feet
| wide between the two countries was
reserved for a road, and neither re-
| public would allow a stone-wall to be
| built across this international highway.
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Mexican Lower California shared to
some extent in the boom of its neigh
Dor. 1t would have shared TO a greater
extent if there had been greater securi-
ty for property.
Under the rule of Diaz. Mexico made
giant strides, but until recently it was
on the peninsula of Lower California
and in Sonora, a barbarism masquerad-
ing as a government, and it's officials
fHdOG no attempt 10 COl1CGdt LIlGIE COI-
ruption. A governor of a Mexican Pa
cif1c commonwealth was empowered to
grant right of way and other conces-
sions to an American railway company.
The attorney of the company visited
his excellency and read to him the
text of the desired concession. The |
governor listened carefully and then
remarked in a naive manner lit should |
be spelled with a K), And if 1 sign |
this, how much do I get for myself ?" |
The railroad attorney replied, Il am |
authorized to pay your excellency TWEEN |
ty thousand dollars, and to assure you |
that you will be perfectly protected. |
Protected, howe" queried the gov
ernor. THE money will be charged in |
the accounts of the company as paid to
our firm for legal services said the
lawyer, ''and nobody will ever know Of
the transaction but you and
'.Madre de Dios,'' said the Governor,
"but you Americans are altogether too |
nice. Make it twenty-five thousand,
and you may publish the transaction
in the newspapers"
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An attachment suit for considerable ,
sum was instituted by an American
company in a border Mexican court.
The plaintiff was, under the Mexican
law, entitled to writ of attachment on
fling the necessary bond, and though
the writ could only be signed by the
judge, the act was substantially clerical.
Where said his honor as he poised
his pen over the ink-stand, do I come
in on thfs?" The American lawyer re-
piled, Il do not understand your honor" !
oh" remarked the judge, 1T is not {
difficult to understand me. My salary {
is small and it is three-quarters in ar
rears. / do not get such a chance as
this very often. L will sign this writ {
for d thousand dollars cash" The '
lawyer looked horror stricken, and his +
honor FASTENED to add, But L will de- {
eide the case in favor of your company t
all the way through for the same Y
money" {
Was the writ issued? beg your par V
don, but am not on the witness stand. g
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In San Diego the apex of the boom
was reached somewhat sooner than in
other localities and the smash came 5
very suddenly. There is a bald, rocky,
steep, sugar-loaf mountain, some miles Z
below San Diego. a goat might climb |
with an effort; but an intelligent
lothing grows upon it except niger
lead cactus, and they would thrive up a
IN the mortar seams in a stone-wall. q:
This mountain now faces the artificial n
AXE known as SWeetwater Dam, but at r.
he time of which 1 write there was no II
lam there, except such ejaculatory cuss :,
vord OF that ilk as might have been left -
~ a stakeholder of the San Diego =
land and Town Company upon the
ead of the recalcitrant proprietor of
djacent valley land, who refused to al 81
DIV his barren acres to be converted es
nto lake, except at a prohibitory m
rice, and thus entailed upon the COM in
any the delay and cost of a condemna- &C
ion suit, with the prospect of SYM q
athletic jury making the constituencies he
operation pay a big price for the
ONE" upon which nobody lived, and
obody could live except a bachelor
raSshOpper, and he would find it nee IT
ssary to be frugal in his diet to the A.
erge of parsimony. N
A company of spectators bought this n
fountain for trifing sum. They laid W
out into town lots-on paper, for no
lrveyor could have reached it's sum- Al
it in straight line without the aid Of w
pair of wings or a balloon. They A
appel it and were about to advertise So
Commanding views, fronting Sweet A
alter Lake, on a line of railroad now Al
ing constructed. Lots at $50 each, Fc
le-fifth cash, balance in two, four, TT
x and eight months. Price uniform Al
rst come, first serve" About nine Al
clock on Saturday morning the real &C
tate agent with a blueprint map
fore him was standing at his desk &C
riting an advertisement of the new M.
Idition for publication in the evening Ur
.per, when half a dozen loungers Tt
oked over his shoulder. Ba
Here" said one of them, 81 want Go
me of those lots land so do l." said Ar
other land I and L" repeated two Fo
hers "All right gentlemen replied Tn
a urbane agent of suburban property w
am really not ready, but will try