THE AVALANCH
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Unhyphenated Mexicans
Down in El Rito, which is a
small agricultural town in New
Mexico, the Mexicans held a
public jubilee celebrating a na
tive holiday on July 25. In the
parade there were a large num
ber of Mexicans mounted on tine
horses and carrying an immense
American flag. Instead of the
regulation band they had an or
chestra made up of violins and
guitars and they played “Mar
ching Thru Georgia,” and in all
the program for the day intense
patriotism for the United States
was displayed.
The mud hole extending from
McCarthy to the Nizina river,
sometimes known as the Sour
dough hill trail, is in its custom
ary condition. Those interested
in mining in the Nizina country
are still paying eight cents per
pound for the freighting of sup
plies to those camps and the
democratic administration has
vetoed the bill passed by con
gress appropriating $i>( 0,000 for
roads and trails in Alaska.
This is an independent news
paper. We are not here to knock
anyone but this is where we
have a “holler coming.”
The people of this section have
for the last live years looked for
a betterment of conditions in re
gard to the roads of the terri
tory and when we heard of the
passage of the Army Appropri
ation Bill, carrying the item a
bove mentioned, we gave ‘three
rousing cheers, but when Mr.
Wilson vetoed the bill we felt like
a man who had swollowed a
pound of copper nuggets. It
seems pretty tough to those
who have spent their energy and
what they have accumulated in
the territory in the attempt to
develop the natural resources of
the country, to have the cup
dashed from their lips at the
time they were about to realize
their hopes.
It is claimed that the gossip
habit is really an infectious dis
ease and a vaccine for running
at-the-mouth-habit will eventu*
ally be discovered.
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Eve didn’t worry a great deal
about wash day.
Kick and kick till you feel re
lieved but don’t knock.
Better chew tobacco than al
ways chewing the rag.
Progs, like other croakers,
haven’t much else to do.
Oh! The i igh cost of living.
Let’s get a siwash blanket and
run wild.
Pour hundred thousand rail
ro id men, in all states, are a
bout to strike for an eight hour
day and a raise in wages. Eigh
teen of the lea li ig roads now al
low the eight hour day and are
still very prosperous.
John Baltuff, the Nizina ferry
man, has found the skulls of sev
en men on the burs of the rivtr
this summer. These are a few
of those who have lost their lives
in attempting to ford the river
in the last live years. A bridge
across the Nizina would have
saved these mens lives.
It is officially reported that
there are 40,000 war graves in
one cemetery at Limianovo, Ga
licia. Altogether more than 7,
000 cemeteries have been laid
out and inclosed in Galicia. In
these cemeteries tens of thous
ands of Austrians and Germans
lie resting side by side with their
fallen Russian enemies.
It pays to keep on kicking ev
en after you are down. Take a
lesson from one of the two frogs
who fell in a can of milk. One
said, ‘Good night; I’m a goner!’
and sank. The other splashed
around and splashed around all
night, and the next morning the
milkman found him riding a
pound of butter on top of the
milk.
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