Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1915 — Mexican Shoots Up Spanish Boarding House at Crown Point. [ARTICLE]

Mexican Shoots Up Spanish Boarding House at Crown Point.

The inchnation of Mexicans to fight was proven at Crown Point last Sunday evening when Louie Mendorsa, a Mexican, disappointed because Francisco Aarano, proprietor of a Spanish boarding house would not let him stay there, drew a gun and proceeded to shoot up the place, a la Villa. There is quite a colony of Spaniards residing near the Pan Handle depot in that city, but Mendorsa was the only Mexican. He could not talk either English or Spanish and the Spanish could talk neither English or Mexican and when Mendorsa was arrested in a boxcar his trial had to be postponed until an interpreter could be procured. A Mexican is not very attractive at his best and when supplied with a quart of whiskey, a dirk and a gun, they are like Indians, the only good ones are dead ones.