Imperial Valley press., 1921-06-03
SAD STORY OF
A SALAD, AGAR
AND A BAST|LE
IL Concerns Il HiGh Mexican
official and His Friend and
Billy Sitter.

! IT'S a sad tale mates, so gather
round, prime your ears and listen.
1t has to do with a High Mexican
official and friend of the High Mex
lean official and a friend of the friend
of the High Mexican official and the
car of the High Mexican official.
1t also has to do with very high
Mexican police official and Calexico
police officer, and the high sheriff of
Imperial county and toe rough, rr-2
interior of the county bastile.
Also it has to do with a good many
other things, including a couple of UNI
sympathetic and unimpressionable po-
lice officers of the city of Ell Centric
But list ard heed.
Yesterday there was a celebra ton
of the opening of the new highway
between Ell Centre and Calexico. The
irrepressible Billy Silver, who among
other things, is the representative of
one of the big newspapers in Los An
geles came to Ell Centre to cover the
story. Noontime came and Billy
dropped into a popular Main street
was a particularly delightful salad
Billy enjoyed the salad and late in the
evening when he got back home in
dear old MeXicali, he told with great
gusto his friend who is the friend of
the High Mexican official about the
salad.
Oo-o, La! La! That salad
Billy's friend, the friend of the
High Mexican official wanted to taste
that salad. He thought minute
Then he made a proposal and Billy
nodded yes.
The scene then shifted to quarters
near the quartet.
Two blithe figures trip lightely to-
ward a great big battleship of motor
car In they STEP. The engine purrs
gently and away it drifts in the silent
night.
Ten minutes later it floats across
the line and 20 minutes afterward it
purrs to stop in front of the popular
Main street cafe. -.
The salad, 1t was dream!
In tn meanwhile. The High Mexican
official steps out of his office to
trundle home in his big car.
Capristo, or whatever the proper
word is to use right there, the car is
gone!
The High Mexican police official is
called in. He reports to the CaleXico
police the theft of the car The Cal
eXico police telephone tn high sheriff.
The high sheriff notifies Deputy
Oliver. Deputy Oliver notifies the Ell
Centre police and the Ell Centre police
trail the car to the salad resort.
When two happy, salad-stuffed be-
ings, Billy and his friend, who is a
friend Of the High Mexican official,
step out to the High Mexican officials
car, the Ell Centre police rudely des-
cend upon them and at the point of
guns make them SlrQiy up their hands.
Protests, explanations are all in vain.
Billy is talking in English and Spanish
with his mouth, hands and feet. The
police are cold and hard and cynical.
Up to the hoosgow goes the bunch and
in a lone, dark, dreary cell is placed
Billy and his friend, who is the friend
of the High Mexican official. They
are charged with some three or four
venal sins against the statutes of both
Mexico and the United States and the
High Mexican official is sent for.
When he came wrathfully to de-
nounce those who had raped him of
his car, there was another scene.
There was a flow of whatever
proper kinds of words flow in these
circumstances and there We're embrac-
es all around-and the police We're de-
nounced in the choicest latinese for
making such a dreadful blunder, and
the High Mexican official and the
friend of the High Mexican official
and the friend of the friend of the
High Mexican official( who is Billy
Silver, returned in the car of the High
Mexican official to that dear old Mex
icali
Abas that salad, or whatever it is
proper to say in this closing sentence
of this sad tale.
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