Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-04
ee Stories of People and Things in
 " Mexico. A Large Proportion of the Iau|ation Ignorant of or Indifferent to
 i, Laws and Institutions. Some kssons Why Admission Has Been Re. |sed.

senor so-aad-so.s reply The man who made that reply was ahe super intendeht of education This story Wds told to lie by the American who stands highest in the cemmun ty.
 In another toUn-norih of the Me slla yaley-the di8triet attorney is | Mexican, who has assassinated four men and tried to kill four more. He was cnce. at least--I forget whether il is four times-tr ed for murder and promptly acquitted on the ground of "self-defense. HThere are not twelve men ill the county that would dare convict that district attorney said the citizen who told me the facts. That citizen was a young Amer can, a lawyer, much respected by Ameri- cans throughout the territory. Said he: Everybody is afraid of that blood-thristy official He has twice openly threatened to kill me, for have openly denounced him as unfit to hold his office He wrote me a let ter. II which he boldly declared that he would shoot me if l did not cease nly denunciaticns. I tCCk his letter. together with a written preservation of my charges against him. eo the proper authorities at Santa Fe. But even the high ofIic als at the very capital of the territory would not lift 2 hand against our district attorney, vino still saes free and still holds his job"
 Then thefe.s =sccorro. It is a town of t&a0 ieha@atants Of wh ch 1.5ao are Atexicans. That leaves only 30o Ameliears. Last winter that handful of Americans. every other we..k. held dance in bic dobe builaina.. called faceti6uslv opera hc0se.9 MeVfeaa wore not invited Sc eul= =ferfo ei.tlT laree4 cane abruptly t2 an ead-for wa were she, up one of the &ao j9ld ne. His story was fully ysueAed fer by ether Americans of uadoubted in eerity Yes. we were shot up'. said my friend That is all of q sudden, while we were making merry .at eur dance. q pistol shot sn'ote cur ears, and one of the lamps crashed in bits to the ACor. In the first flush of our c0nsterHat on q second shot rang cut orazed the head of young American sirl who sat at the piano, where she had bean playing for us and the bullet crashed into tie piano. Tl;er followed a dozen shots in quick saecessien-eNery lamp was shot out the piano was riddled with bullets. And we were in total darkness. No one was hit however.
 'We Amer cans are used 10 such things in New MeXicO so we quietly filed out of the building into the plaza. Our appearance in the square seemed to be a signal for veritahle fuSillade, al the bullets rking the 'dGbe walls above us. thus leaving us still unhit. Instead of walking on sin a body we scattered in different directions to- ward our various homes. The leaders in that outrage were two of the ap- pointed and sworn guardians of law and order in the town, both Mex cans. They were merely venting their spite and jealousy because ,as they after ward declared. We'll teach Ameri- csfns who want to dance that it is bad for their health to omit inviting us, meaning the Mexican author ties of an American town"
 Now, what I have here related of the towns of Donna Ana, Las Cruces, Socorro, and other places is equally true of scores of other New Mexican towns in twelve out of the twenty-four counties Cf the territory. Those twelve counties are dominated hE Mexicans. speaking mostly Spanish and understanding tile English. An1 it is this territory ttat has fH'' ve"rs been seeking admission to the Union IS 2 state; this territory, where in