Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-10-27
IN OUR
VALLEY
ss ISTENED IN" on street corn,

- IsTENED IN on a street corner
conversation Sunday night be-
tween Jesse Perez, well known immi-
2ration officer at Rio Grandc City. and
I. T. II. Parker Of the United States De
partment Of Justice.
What's the news up the border,
Parker asked, what about that little
revolution furry We heard about?"
.stInIng to it" Perez replied. "Ev-
tfy'hlng is quiet"
There followed few passages of
gossip. when Perez volunteered:
They found the body Of III Paja-
rito tthe Little Bird.
Now, this sounded interesting: may
be things were not as quiet as Per
considered them. after ALL Had heard
about "El Pajarito." lie was the no
torious smuggler Of the Rio Grande
City -Zapata district whose body was
found on banco in the Rio Grande
Few days ago "El Pajarito." "a man
Of about 33 years. had been operating
IN that section for ten years, always
successfully evading the Officers
Then followed some more gossip
about federal court matters, subpo, macs
that have been issued. etc.
Then this from Perez:
They found the body OF "a sixteen
year old girl in the river about l.
miles from where I'll Pajarit,'s' body
was found.
"She had five bullet holes " her
breast"
Just that brief, some more court
matters discussion, official stuff. etc.
hui a.
back at home, for he soon returned 10
the finding Of tho body of the girl
There was a wire around h,r - IN.
and the other end Of the wire held
tight 70 "A large rock
50 evidently they had tried N sink
the body-unsuccessf fully.
"Thc body was not what YOU call
t?-dccomposcd" he went on. Maybe
she had heen dead only little while.
We heard that a girl had been
stolen somewhere up there but We
didn't know who she was didn't know
her name"
Somebody else came up, W hc con
versatior edged off onto something
clsc-b we were still interested in
knowing how quiet things were up in
the Rio Grande City Zarata district.
Later the string Of the earlier con
versation was picked up
You know. while hack some ban
didos crossed the river and robbed u
store al Salineno." Perez resumed
They went back t. tho Mexican side
~ Paiarito' took the trail. Two a.
three of them were arrested on tho
Mexican side not all of them
Maybe they take revenge On 'Paia-
rito.' 'Paiarto' dead don't know.
Then We hcsitantly injected some
questions into the conversation.
But everything is quiet up there.
isn't it" Mr.. Perez?
"Oh. yes. nothing going on.
It's all in the point of view. isn't
IL? Its not what one is accustomed
70 hear that's ~ interest it's the un
accustomed. Thts things were all
very. very ordinary ~ Mr. Perez.
If We had been ~ with Jesse Perez.
fearless hordcr officer. wc might have
thought differently about the happen.
ings on his part II the border.
The shipping of green and otherwise
immature grapefruit l~ certainty men
acing our future markets
a letter reached the Valley THE other
day from San Antonio firm. They
did not handle Valley grapefruit last
year. This year they decided % take
u on.
They secured shipment. They corn
planned. ~ the story comes M us. nat
hcy had " dump great tcal cf i
because h was nv mature.
Were off Valley rrar fruit until
they think they can send us what our
customers want.
That's what reaches US. It's signi-
ficaut.
Don't lets spoil our opportunity
Don't lets send out undesirable fruit
IN that way We can help to assure the
future sale ~ our wonderful product