Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-20


out the squat adobe fonda's, hop
scotching about the dance halls of the
'ranchito," tossing confetti down each
others necks. playfully bombarding the
wide. wide world with our forty -fours,
machine guns. cannon and other noisy
instruments of destruction.
DREAD OF YAoUlS.
Except for the dread of the Yaquis
"all present had most enjoyable
| time"-are still having it. And even
at that | am not sure the delightful
play of our imaginations. picturing
the shocking things that might hap
pen to us if the Yaquis should come.
did not add somewhat to the general
pleasures of the event. 1t was sort of
! like a dash of-oh, well bit of mint
/ you know-or something like that.
Anyway for two reasons: First,
| that | might write and tell you about
| it Second, in order to find "soused"
newspaper man from San Francisco
who, against the protest of the guards,
managed to get across the line and
risk his own fool life and the peace of
/ the American Mexican conferees who
are trying to keep any more grave
! International consequences" from de-
/ veloping-for those two reasons |
have seen a Mexican Fourth of July
/ by moon light
So. YOU see, there are two perfectly
valid excuses for doing IT,
HAD A RUNNING START.
Yesterday being Porfirios birthday
and Porfirio being comfortably and
apparently permanently dead the loei-
cal and rational thing naturally was to
have celebration. Especially since
we were going to have Fourth of
July today to remind ourselves of our
| emancipation from the rule of Spain.
Anyway, if we could start in with
something like Porfirio's birthday it
would sort of give us a running start
at the main event-would be a kind of
hop step-and- jump for the big" thing,
the way lads at school play lcap-frog.
All day yesterda" we We're getting
ready-some folks might have thought
we were celebrating, the bunting, the
flags the music, the much, much
Whirling of carrabacques and automo-
! hles about the corners, the crowds on
the streets. the soldados and every
thing no doubt looked a good deal like
celebration but that all vas merely
preliminary. The zeal celebration, the
genuine, cut 'er-loose make EN- buck
event didn't begin until we got
through making speeches last night
until we were warmed up somewhat by
~ oratory and decided to shoot holes
in the atmosphere with our cannons
and forty tours. etc.
COULD NOT CROSS BORDER.
We had our speaking" out in front
of the custom house. between the Gus
] tor, he ,,1o tlnn-
is big triangular open space and
where those of us who couldn't crowd
into the open space could fill up tho
/ Plaza. 1t was a most desirable loca-
tion for the program. especially since
it was just far enough from the Amer
lean line that the Gringo soldados
lined up along it could ndistinctly see
us and family hear the strains from
our wonderful band but couldn't tell
what we were doing. We were de-
lightedA beyond measure by their evil
dent disappointment and consterna-
tion because they had to stay on the
other side Of that magic streak of at
mosphore running up and down AHan-
ida International
Why do they not come across?"
"Sacrc, Mentol We would drive
! tli'l udNh. We NUulu push lUe
+ Americana pigs again back as we
j pushed them back in the long ago! AS
we pushed them back at Carrizal-
Bah. Mamma. 1t is to laugh to think
of the Americana soldados coming!
They stand and tremble when Mexico
whispers - they flee - they vamose
pronto when MeXicana soldados snap
their fingers, when our grand hombrcs
!, 1, IL,
Bravo! Bravo Viva Mexico!
+ Viva"
Rng! Biff. Boom, Boom, Boom!
Zip.
We will fire our forty-fours we will
shoot off our cannons-it is almost
midnight and the band is playing and
the beautiful senoritas are laughing
ana looking at MS and doing things to
us with their wonderful, wonderful
reyes.
READY FOR MAIN EVENT.
"SE 81 1t is almost time to start
/ to celebrating the great fiesta-thc
fiesta Ia Independence, tho Hidalgo.
the Fourth of July Mcxieana. Tho
+ birthday Ia Porfirio is about overt
+ * about dead like Porfirio has ioyously
been for these several years. We have
/ hop stepped and jumped up to the
grande brinca. the big leap We win
now celebrated"
& An our forty tours are fired It is
not blank cartridges we use in them
8 II is not fire crackers we make noise
with. We fire our ready for business
forty fours loaded with bullets, real.
live, ping.-bullcts. We point our
guns in the air and shoot them-We