Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-13
TIA JUANA IS HOTTEST TOWN
 IN HE MAP
California Detective Who Put in a Few Days There Says That Yuma Would Be Re- frigerator in Comparison

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 After a week or so spent at Tia Juana, the hottest town on the map, Paul Blair, one of the private detee- tives of Los Angeles. who has been searching for Nick Oswald. has re- turned to cool of.
 He brings the first news of the To- cation of the new race track to which the horsemen will it next year; al so a description of what town can be like when old Poker Davis and his spry young men have liberal chance, says the Los Angeles Times. If the present population Of old Tia Juana were turned into Monte Carlo for just about half an hour, the Prince of Monaco would have to hunt a job with a pick and shovel and the
 'man-who broke-the-ba bank" would be glad to get carfare home to Paris. Gamblers, driven from the ends of the earth, have gathered in this queer, sleepy little Mexican town. In ff. general way thery are in two groups. one headed by Poker Davis and the other by fellow named Russell. who was formerly a member of the Davis gang.
 Amusement Concessions"
 If you insinuate that they are gam bling. they look at you with grief . and pain. They say they have"amuse- llent concessions" from the governor of Lower California.
 In a modest corner of Tia luna, is 8 small stand where a sad-eyed, . uhite-haired old man invites the pub lc to toss rings for cigars. How pitt Eul that such an old man should have to eke out living by such precarious means. ; The old fellow is Poker Davis, and } in the middle of his cigar game, it shifts into a well known sucker trap. The other "concessions" are scat. , sered around through the town. Into : one Of the places there frequently srroils a native cowpuncher on one of 3 the Mexican ranches He always , wears big spurs and chaps" and has , riata hanging over his arm Poor, innocent cowboy Will nc ; one warn him that naughty designing men are about who might take his hard-earned money? Alas, mol He loses and loses. A regular he'll roaring cowboy, this fellow. As he loses, he swears black, frightful oaths. AS he loses, he gets excited and offers to bet the bystanders that he won't lose again. The bunco game 1 is so obvious that they can easily see through it. But they are mean enough to bet with him and thus help the gamblers F'skin' him.
 Bystanders "Skun."
 But at this point the luck of the innocent cowboy suddenly changes. It is the heartless and designing by islanders who are "skun."
 The rough, naive cowboy with the riata on his arm is Kid" Russell the former partner and present rival ''concessionaire" of Poker Davis.
 This gang lives in San Diego, and finds its suckers among the tourists there, but has office hours at Tia Juana. A gUo1 many toourists have gone over the Tia Juana river with a bunch of money and have gone home broke.
 It might be supposed that these visitors to California would be wary Iof men inviting them to Tia Juana. But the 'pluggers' for the game rep resent themselves as tourists also and after picking up an acquaintance With prospective suckers" propose the trip into Mexico which no tour ist would think of.
 Occasionally, the gamblers make a wrong touch" Some days ago they go into" a young Mexican who had lplenty of money and a most unsus- pecting nature They secured his cash and distributed it with glee- but the young man turned out to be the private secretary of one of the big officials of Lower California and they had to disgorge in a hurry.
 His Gun Surprises.
 A few days ago gang got tour ist going" and trimmed" him in fine style. When he was nearly broke" it dawned on the >young man what sort of a game he had run into. He pulled a gun, held up the whole out fit and grabbed his own money from the gambling table, Before he could get out of town, however, he was arrested by Mexican gendarme; put in jail and was fined s25 by a cealed weapons.
 It is generally understood that these gamblers have already arranged for the concessions" at the new race track at Tia Juana.
 This will not be located in the town Itself; but on the mesa on the Amer tican side" of the river.
 The track will be on Mexican soil. of course. but few hundred feet from the line.
 The mesa is so small that great Ideal of grading must be done.
 The reason for placing the track on this side of the river is that the stream is full of shifting quicksand and 1t would be necessary to build an enormously long and heavy bridge were the track on the Tia Juana side A committee of horsemen from the Averdia track is now in the City of Mexico trying to get assurances from the Diaz government that the racing, if started at Tia Juana, will be all lowed to run without interference The United Verde Copper company vast the largest gold and silver pro ducer in Arizona in the year 1908, according to the Journal Miner. This information comes from the best au- thority possible, the Hon. T. E. Camp bell. Yavapai county's assessor. This production was made possible by the smelting of the large body of oxidized ores taken from the glory hole" just south of the U. V. and P. railway de bot This ore was thrown directly in- to the concverters as it came from the mine. it being unnecessary to run it through the furnaces. The prodac-