Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-10
BEWARE OF TIA JUANA, GOOD
 ADVICE
VISITORS TO EXPOSITION AT SAN DIEGO REGRET BEING LURED ACROSS THE LINE

SAN DIEGO, March 8.-Hundreds of Americans, innocent sightseers mostly, who have gone to the garish little Mexican town of Tia Juana, just across the international line from San Diego the past few weeks, call it, with reason, "the hell-hole of the con tinent"
 They have gone back to the Cali fornia city wiser and sadder indi- viduals
 Some bear the blackjack's brand up on their heads. Many have known the sickening blackness of knockout drops. They have been robbed of whatever gold and valuables they carried, either at the point of gun in some foul rendezvous of crooks or by the manipulations of surething gam blers, aided by women harpies.
 Anything goes in Tia Juana, the wicked! It is the city of loot.
 Professional gamblers, thugs, conf dence men and bunco steerers from all parts of the United States have made it their stamping ground for the purpose of feecing San Diego fair visitors during 1915.
 Almost without exception these out laws are American renegades, not Mexicans. They openly Haunt their crimes in the face of United States officers, standing impotently at the invisible border, powerless to help the victims as they are powerless to punish the outlaws.
 Held Up in the Bull Ring.
 Roulette, faro, poker, slot machines, the shell game, fake bull fights, and the wiles of painted women-these are some of the means the allied un- derworld forces of Tia Juana employ in feecing unsuspecting American men and women who come here, across the line, ito see Mexico"
 Recently Los Angeles physician reported that he had been stripped of all his money and valuables by the bull ring" use, engineered by quartet of crooks. Two men, posing | as fellow tourists, lured him to the old arena where two confederates held up the three at the point of re- volvcrs. The highwaymen then split the loot four ways.
 Tia Juana's American renegades maintain shrewd cappers at some of the San Diego hotels, who contrive to | meet the Tive ones" in quest of a little spice" and steer them down here to the tender mercies of the hawks. Other bunko steerers work on the rubber neck" wagons plying from San Diego, posing as tourists be- | fore the intended victims.
 Some of the smoothest of these cappcrs are women-of the type cal culated to strike up acquaintanceship with men who want to go back home and brag about having had romance with a charming senorita.
 Lured by Dusky Eyed "Senoritas." The "senoritas," with carmine lips md eyes dusked to taste, are not Mexicans or girls of Castillo. They are widely known, many of them, to he police of Chicago, New York, New Orleans, or San Francisco. And the romance" they strike up with the innocents abroad would hardly bear telling about back home, even if the victims were so inclined after having been robbed and perhaps beaten up in some vile hole whence they were lurcd by pretty bait in petticoats. Some of these women work among their own sex among the tourists, coaxing them into the gambling joints of the Mexican Monte Carlo with a tip" that there is easy money to be. made at roulette-"and how exciting to tell your friends of your adventure in Mexico"
 It is this banker of men and women away from their accustomed environ ment for spicy adventure, as well as the appeal to the gambling lust, that the harpies of Tia Juana have con verted to their own sure thing profit
 And it is just this greed for easy money "by luck" on the part of pros pectivc victims which makes Tia Juana continue to flourish as "the wickedest place on the continent" as it is the gullibility of seekers after clandestinc romance which accounts for the "senorita's" part in the Aeec- ing.
 -G THROWS THE ROPE
 AND CATCHES BRIDE