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Show LEHI HOY IN .MEXICAN WATERS. A letter from Eddie Jones dated at Tymas, Mexico, states that tho sailors sleep with their clothes, on ready to disembark at any moment nnd go ashore to fight tho Mexicans. Ho is on tho battleship West Virginia, but Intimates that It will be a happy day when he can return homo. Ho says that ho would give anything for somo good water and Is tired of tho hot cactus-covered torrid zone. Ono of his mates becamo tired of life in tho navy nnd Jumped into tho wator and swam ashore. Tho federals caught tho young man and put him In prison. As ho was making an effort to desert tho captain refuses to rnako any effort to get tho truant out of Jail. Whllo young Jones Is ready to fight If it becomes necessary, ho assures his parents that ho thinks auch a course Is most unlikely. |