La Junta tribune., 1913-08-30

clerk told us Halt
twenty Mericans lined up. 1t took
about five minutes TO issue each
one and there was a soldier In the
lin. ahead OF me and the 'comisnrio
had quite chat with him In regard
To what VAS going on down South
The fact that II any OF us missed the
train We would have To wait forty
cigh, hours until II went to Nogalea
and returned. made not a particle OF
difference to him. The train was
twenty minutes late and all OF US
got our passports except about eight
or nine Mexican women vho got left
Mexican time Is half hour behind
our time. and Mexico Is about three
hundred years behind the times In
a good many respects.
! noticed one thing that since
found is very fashionable In Mexico.
and that u the habit OF carrying a
forty.fiye Colts revolver. The Conf.
sarios two clerks each wore one.
the comisario vas also supplied and
the mex, morning when took the
train for Hermisillo pronounced Her.
mo.sec,a ahj on which train was Gov.
eruor Maytorena aud his staff. I mo-
ticcd that seventeen out of twenty.
Ia. ~.
OF these valuable household utensils
There are first and second class
ears on the 5. z. de Mexico, and !
suppose on N" other railroads In
Mexico The second class fare Is
Jus; half the first class fsre and
the first class fare Il four cents a
kilOm"trc OF Ga cents a mile or Is
cents IN real money That l. the
first class fare and the second class
fare is half that In the .clasc ss-
Euuda the seats are not cushioned
and have uo backs. bur the people
who ride that way are not iuconyon-
l,ucod by a little thing like that
They take their KETTLES and pots and
pans and tent aud few house
hold goods aud plenty ~ beans and
torfuas and 1tnr. household hrers.
sities. also 60 hd. sru rrr All
pf their RELATIVE ana th" O.. 'rh5UJa
come down 90 bid them goodbye
aud th"y have = r"-par fiesta pc.
fore toe irE D., tar depot II
appears thar There rot enough
cars "a bold All the p-uplo who waut
20 go. but when the conductor hol-
lcrs 'Nam"nos which they say In
place Of our An aboard. about two
thirds of them ovaporaio Most ot
tho people who travel go second
class. there are about four or five
times as many ~ travel ilrSt class
There were two second class cars on
ali the trains Vas on and one first
class car. and n. first clnSs car
was Tess than half full and the 9th
or two ears we're nearly full
A, each little town along Ia. line
where the train stops ,h.r. are ped.
lcrs at tn. depot with yariou. kinds
of cakes and fruit, and som. kind OF
Mexican ch"es. thar never mad
the couras. TO tackle. The whole WI
lase com.e down TO IN. d.po, Ia
So. the train go through. and every
place noticed quite u few China
men. There mus, b. good many
Chinsmcn In tn" state A. said
b.for" th.r. l. oniy on. train run
ming between Naco and Noxai.s One
and the next day I, returns. A.
you can easily So. by using this syr
tens I, obyiat.. all danger OF COLI
sions. think I viii .usgc., thi,
TO the Santa rc official. when
get back home There II also onl)
one train running between Noxaics
and Hcrmosillo. running ON th'
same system. both II th-s~ arr
mixed trains and they M no, run OF
Sunday.
Along towards evening about tet
kiIomctcrs out Of Noexi~s w~ csms
To u heavy grade that the engineer
could not make With the whole train
so they cut the train In two and too,
half Of Il up and then came back u
thr~seuarters II ~ Aosf sne u
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