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Show WICKEDEST SPOT IN AMERICA Last Stand for Gamblers, Gunmen and Desperadoes Is Tla Juana, In Mexico. Many visitors to the recent expositions exposi-tions in California who stopped in San Diego also took a look at Tia Juana, Mexico, a little group of one-story one-story shacks, canvas walled and scenery fronted, that lay spraddled out in the broilng hot sun ju3t far enough from the line to escape the legal le-gal restrictions of California and the United States government. Tia Juana probably was and is the wickedest spot on the American continent, a sort of a last stand of the "gunmen, " sure-thing gamblers, "honk-a-tonk" keepers and Just plain desperadoes, who have been run out of all other sections of the West Opium smuggling, gun running, conducting con-ducting saloons with "win proof gambling houses attached, hippodrome bull fshts, in which the tourist was separated from $3 for the privilege of seeing a fat bull bled to death, were son of the manifold activities of the place. The only person supposed to have a legitimate place of business in the town was a Chinaman, who conducted a laundry, and he was restored re-stored to the .esteem of his fellow citizens when it was discovered that the laundry merely was a mask for an opium joint. |