Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-03-31

snine town of Calexico consists main
~ Of board shanties, they are very apt
to be riddled with bullets II there IL |
much of battle. When I entered !
the town 1 went directly to the US. |
post and asked where the dead line
wGa and was informed there was
none 90 far az they knew. So I stroll.
cd over to q couple OF tierce looking |
Trans on the Mexican side who had |
each an old time Sprlngtield rifle in |
their hands and q big Colt in their |
belts and who appeared to be guards |
or sentinels. They we're sitting in the |
shade of a shant3 on which I under.
stand the custom house was burned |
when they took the town from the
Federals. tried to have little talk
with these men who looked more like
our weary Willies up north than sold.
iers but they seemed to have authority
and were very short in their answers,
but assured me I could take IN tho
town if I minded my own business.
l told them was only reporter for
the Little Falls Herald and would
promise that the readers would not tell
any war secrets If only requested not
to. The town OF Mexicaii is built on
the banks Of what is now called New
River, which was formed by the break
in the Colorado river years ago, and
emptied into The Great Salton basin
and which is now the Salton Sea, over
~ miles long. The river is now com.
paratively dry but is wider than tho
Mississippi and deeper, but the water
that did flow through it is now con-
tined again to the Colorado and IS
used to irri9ate the great Imperial
Valley over 40x80 square miles, but
from its banks. looking west across
the deserts of Mexico, to the noun.
tains it's a dreary desolate looking
land and did not look to me like q
country worth fighting for. There
Is scarcely ever any rain fall and farm
ing is only possible by irrigation,
and this can only be done by a CON-
bination of capital. The poor Yaqua
Indians and Mexicans that inhablt the
country can hardly live at all there.
I knew I could not talk long without
it would turn to land. Now I started
out to give some facts as I learned
shem about this instruction, that the
papers are all full of, but as I know,
10 mostly wind, and Taft has gone to
all the expense of sending down all
the soldiers. on top of the great ex-
pense of an extra session of congress to
try and force reciprocity with Canada
on us It is all political scheme and
will insure bis retirement at the next
election. The night after I returned
from Mexicall I read an account of q
battle in In that city in q Los Angeles
paper the very day was there, and
I went all over the town. talked with
oil who could get word with and
the only trouble had at all was
when l asked the way to the Bull
pen. Then a big black fellow went
into quite talk about people coming
over there, sticking their noses into
their business and that if one of them
crossed to the American side they
would get shot. But I know better for
I % I'D not even get glass of beer on
the California eide of the line and the
shot got in Mexicali for 10 cents was
so small got homesick at once and
thought how easy the Diaz government
could end the instruction IT thev
would ship down few cars OF
Klewel's best and offer them freedom
and good big schooner. Mind you it
was go in the shade when I was there
last week and the average summer is
from 40 to 100. and q merchant told
me his wife always stepped her tea
and fried her eggs in the sun. There
were not many soldiers in Mexical,
the day was there but they told me
their main army bad gone to q pass
in the mountains some twenty miles
west that thew had fortified to head
of the Federals AND toe papers saw
that on the other side of tie same
mountains the Federals, are guarding
the same pass to head Oft the In.
surrectos, so there you are Its cool
in the mountains and tho Federals Get
their supplies from the coast, tina IA.
surrectos from the eastern socialists.
business man IN Msxicali told MAJ
Hope W. j. G. won't see this. IF he
does will sag for bis benefit that Madero.
the 1nsurrectos general; SOLD over $40.
OOO, 600 of property in Mexico last
week and he can yet eat three meals
per day it his armies are defeated. ann
just how ito going to benefitthe Ameri.
cans who ara taking part with the In.
surrectos, even If they win out, Is not
clear to many. I met an old gray
bearded American who SAID he was an |
1ns"rrecto and had lived IN Mexico so
long he was willing to fight for their
liberty. II Mexlcai is anything of a
sample OF their town l must say it
does not impress stranger very favor.
able as most of the town is of adobe or
mud buildings. with fiat roofs and
every other building seems to be a
saloon with painted White Woman
sitting in front smoking cigarettes, and
each saloon had the usual gambling l.
devices. They claim the duty on q /
sack OF -four is more than the cost in
the U. s. and that the poor Mexican
had to steal to get enough to eat. I
ao Fa+ner , ew so u co,, Teo cy your
you had no son they would take your !,
laughter for the debt. These thinae
seem harsh. The Mexican may be |,
badly used in Mexico ana all that.
but in spite of the fact that they are "a
we'll used here as any white man, they
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