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Show I MEXICANS WITH GUNS In front of a second-hand store in Ogden wire tour Mexicans, and they had their ees on an exhibition of revolvers, and they indulged in-dulged in mmh conversation; f all the things on display in the windows of this city, nothing aroused more interest in those foreigners for-eigners than Ihe guns I Today the dispatches from Pocatello Idaho, tell of n duel fought in the streets of that town When the last shot was fired, two .Mexicans .Mexi-cans nere dead, the unerring marksmanship having produced a don hie tragedy It is easy to trace tins Mexican trait with its fatal ending. Fot a decade the whole population of northern Mexico has been devoted to the life of the bandit Every man or boy old enough to carry a 700 and ride a horse has been defending his life in a desperate gann of hide and seek, and the one hip tlnnp that ha.s entered into everyday every-day affairs has hern the gun warding off death When those Mexicans, somewhat tiring of being hunted, make their way north and settle down as part of a section gang in north ern Utah er southern Idaho they still are prompted to depend on the gun as their pntrit.r and occasionally lhe express their dislike dis-like for each other by firing a shot or two Years will pass before the Mexicans, who hav-- been on an nvmed search for enemies in northern Mexico, will pet away from the habit of using a gun to express a distrust or enforce a command. |