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Show 1 1 JOHNSON RETURNS TO MEXICO HIS DID HOME I W. E. Johntton, who has held a position posi-tion with one of the local mines during dur-ing the past five months, left last Friday Fri-day for Denver and from there will go direct into the heart of Mexico, where i he has accepted a position with one of the large mining companies. Johnson came here from Mexico, . where he had been located ever since the revolution broke out In 1910, and in the course of time he became tired jof the quiet uneventful life of Bingham I I and he became homesick for the thrill- j jing scenes in old Mexico. Mr. John-: son was quite popular in IBingham and ' had made a host of friends here who regretted to see him leave. In add!-, tlon to the fact that he is a good miner J he is a man of poetical proclivities : and contributed some of his verse to The Press-iHulletin under the name of j "i.M ucker." 1 le was also the most ; cheerful liar that ever blew into the I camp and he had a way of telling one after another and making his' hearers , believe the same. lie came out of Mexico last year for : the purpose of enlisting In the army, ; having been a non-commissioned off I-, I-, cer in the Spanish-American war, and the took the ofricers' training course at Presidio. Hint owing to hi.ge he was unable to secure a bettf r position than that of major and that did not carry a salary sufficient to provide for his family. |