Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-03-30
ALLHANDS FINED
THE GRlNGO D 3
WHAT the MEXICAN OFFICIALS DID
TO AN AMERICAN
V)UR hard luck story, pardner,"

some pitiful, to be sure. admit, on the
face of things, that it is plumb unlucky
to be mixed up in a powder mill explo-
sion on Sunday and then get fired for
disturbing the Sabbath, but that all
happened right here in our own United
States, and it isn't marker to what
has went on across the border.
For instance, take that time was
fined three times for laughing once at
the Mexican funeral the time the sky
rocket hit the don and Ted Taylor got
licked by Sandy McHugh. That was
DOW erful hard luck for certain
For Taylor?" inquired a casual by
stander>
The reformed westerner turned
scornful eye upon the interrupter, who
faded slowly into the background.
Hard, luck for me, not for Taylor.
He deserved his. and l didn't. Itall hap
pened this way:
Being younger and some fonder OF
trouble than now, bucks the tiger at Ell
Paso and fattens Larry Browns bank
roll by three hundred odd, gathered
hilariously by punchin' steers and
brandin' calves; So bein' broke, l takes
a job at mimi down in Chihuahua, at
Montezuma, where there's an eatin'
house and some few other tritlin' things
not worth mentionin'.
1T so happens that goes to Bacerac,
which is across the Sonora line, where
the natives is even meaner than in Chi
huahua. Along comes Mexican funeral
so says in Mexican-"
Spanish, you mean, don't you?' said
the bystander.
Those as has travelled as far west as
Jersey City calls it Spanish said the
westerner. 1.-THE Spaniard has kind OF
dago language, but it's genuine, such as
it's. and the Mexican has the Spaniard's
language patched and made over, with
as much of the hard spots cut of as will
leave enough lingo to get along on.
Where the Spaniard uses three words
the greaser uses two and cuts the tail
off one of these.
so, speakin' Mexican some, let on
was sure anxious to know the name and
Qualities of the deceased. The greaser
that I asked was the don of the village,
50 he swelled up some, swept his SOM
brero round and started out with a
biographical account of the deceased,
which the same would have done for a
county history, twas so favorable to the
departed.
"NoW it sure was my luck to get in the
way if trouble came along, and trouble
was headed straight my way this time.
The greaser that kept the tienda had laid
in a stock of fireworks for Cinco de
Mayo. but the natives didn't loosen up
none, and while he figured later on
sellin' of the stock to the gringoes for
Fourth O. July, every mothers son OF
'em went to Ell Paso for spree, and the
stock stayed on his hands, and sorter
soured his disposition, SEEM as he had
about 30 'dobies locked up in it, which
went near to break him.
"The greaser loves fiesta or any
other excuse to knock of work, and 1t
don't matter none to him whether 1t is
q bullfight or a funeral, just so long
"a he can drop the Delsarte movements
he calls work and get slug or two OF
teduila under his poncho. A stranger
in Mexico is some uncertain first
whether he's winnessin' weddin' or a
funeral. both bein' conducted on much
the same lines of rejoicin.
Some friend of the deceased who had
more money than was good for him
bought a 'dobie's worth of skyrockets
and started settin' of 'em of, just as
mark of respect to the departed. a
Mexican can't shoot nothin' smaller than
blunderbuss and hit what he aims at
81 skyrockets bein' in the shootin' line
it lust naturally happens that they be-
gin to fly permisc 'ous like, the padre
6odgin' one and twitchin from Latin to
Mexican some sudden in his remarks.
LAS the padre was 'goin' some, the
next rocket comes our way and hits the
don. who was in the middle Of Chapter
I. Of the biography, plumb in the pit OF
his stomach. which the same sure
doubled him up Bein' a free and in
depcndent American of Texas growth
and syle l cut loose and laughed toI