Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1916, Page 17

THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, MARCH 1016. | south of Columbus untll the wagons| points, and such was the secrecy thrown | pital corps have had only two cases to |homes of the absentees were occupled ! reached. Then a pack master of the muls | el 1s 41,500, gocording to Willlam Hayes RST STORY OF came up. When these had crossed the| about thelr movements that even the of- | handie, one of them a soldier accidentally [promptly by Mexioan families and held | trains noting his exhaustion picked him | Fisher, parimentary secretary of 1he boundary into Mexico, Major Tompkins, | ficers of lesser rank a1d not know of |shot at Carriso, and who later died, and | by them until Villa's Iast trip through | Up and let him ride a pack into camp |local goverpient board, in a speech to | & brother of the noted lisutenant colonel, | thelr comnsg. Lieutenant T. 8. Bowen, the aviator of- | The bandit leader still raging. ordored ————— the House o Commons committee on “Tommy" Tompkina of the Seventh cav Mere or e Dask. ficer injured Monday when his biplane | them to get out. He told them he had H 0 R f the ‘war pensions bill today. There are | EXIGAN INYASION alry, spread his advance guard out. In| ;o (™ CF (ol lr o he organiza- ::’:l“::umdh; |:n-'hd‘r1":-n“;‘x; '.lrl—tj:-';-‘d"“m | killed & number of Mexicans at Corrili ouse eruses t.O '::“:;."v 40,000 widows of sailors, Mr. Fisher the rom:1 of 8 wide fan. the riders of| yione moved more or leas in the dark and plunged tc r [ton becausa they were working for Op(‘n PO]&I‘ Dlsput(" 1 o ociated Press Man Describes in'w: f\“(":h."m‘““l:“ oy """3“ ':"r‘“::"':r Thelr orders directed them to proceed to Moved to the River. [Americans and he warned them that if | ) ) ot —ut po en So He exicans was X they persisted in living on properly ne. i . cortain points where other orders would | From the irrigation plant, the troops \L 0 f P S H Detail Crossing of Border and | of speculation. There were officers who | pe poit | They procesled thus by stages, | After a night of refroshing sleep. despite | longing to Americans they would meet | WASHINGTON, March 2—The house | \ March Through Desert. would not have been surprised to mee the |, 'y oty Chare the next would take [the almost freozing temperature, were |the same fate. Only three of the houses | education committee today voted unanim- | Ga,n Get qu Crop In l"l‘l:’;' ""“m-dl nited States forces opposed | .\ .\ and the appearance of General [moved Saturday to the Casas Grandes [were occur by Mexicans when the |ously to take no action on pending bills - at the boundary tver, which skirts the Mormon colony of | Amerfcan troops arrived to bon the North pole controves - VES REAT SPEED Porshing first at Hatohla and then at [river, an troops arrive reopon th rth pole controversy. | & h Mo AT @ | But there were no Mexicans at the | oo e nlainly surprised the soldiers | Dublan Wherever the American troops g6 camp | Dr. Froderick A. Cook recently nsked the | SALEM, Ore, March 2.—Governor border gate, and none were seen on the & 80 0 General Pershing and Colonel, George A. 'dogs follow. Four made the long march | committee to Investigate his claima. James Withycombe granted a ninety-da L. PASO, Tex., March 24.—The | maron b ¢ | and some of their officers. | Se 0 \ | ¥ t abs t y s 0. B , ’ s narch to Palomas. Only two bodles of | "0 *0l0 0 TN CCO | 1n Mexico |P0dd, commanding the Second CAvAlrY |with the flying columna from the border P ol v eave of absence today to C. O. Bogar iwing dispatch from an Asso- Prees correspondent at the | t in Mexico is the first complete of the crossing of the border | armed men were encountered by either of the columns on the march here. At Ascension Ramon H. Gomez had 100 Car ranza soldiers and told Colonel Slocum he did not know whether to fight or let brigade, established headquarters on the right bank of the river and held them there for a day. The commanding gen- eral allowed the tired troops of the fly- ing column a full day of rest, but at ¥ to sorving a term In the pen for assault wi intent to kill, in that he might plant his spring crop and save, it sible, his desert homestead in Malh | was eaten. It consisted of army bacon, |part of the five days' rations issued ‘to the men, hard tack, which tastes some- what like the matso of Jewish religious |to this point without apparent Thelr appetites, zealously cat mess cooks, were unaffeoted A fifth trouble. A to by There was dog, a littie orown spaniel that WAR CAUSES OVER FORTY THOUSAND BRITISH WIDOWS order started 1th 00 Aspatched o LONDON arch 2 ‘he \umber of | ounty for proceedinge the punitive expedition sent 10 |ih, American column peaceadly pass on. | (204t and :ox;nm"klanel GoENes. OEINRrs | elook Bunday morning the motual purs |wefi¢C WL the Foops, disbatched from | LONDON S s e e | ettt > and nen fared aifhe. . « chuica, A o lasted un dows of Britlsh soldiers who have | N Ueed Boa W ge the Columbus massacre. | After an exchange of official visita dur- | "G [0 TRl E L L e command suit of Villa and his diminished band of [the pass of Pusrto San Vronte was |thus far been roported to the army coun Ask the man who has used Bee Want ing which he observed at the American brigands was begun Ads—100 to 1 you will hear a boost x., March 22.—(By Wagon Train | Columbus, N. M., March 28.)— | ching here by a forced march t demonstrated the endurance of | American soldier and obviously azed the Mexicans, several thou- nd United States troops, cavalry, nfantry and artillery were scattered | day between this point and the | northern boundary of the district of Guerroco, intent on the task of cap- turing or killing of Francisco Villa in the shortest possible time and ex- ! terminating the bandit band wm:l which he ralded Columbus, N. M..’w and slaughtered nine civilians on | March 9. Troop movements and dis- positions, however, it was said, were shrouded in the strictest secrecy, by | order of the War department. | Flag Crosses the Border. The entry into Mexico occurred at 12:07 p. m. March 15. At that moment the American flag with the standard of the | Thirteenth cavalry, 200 men, which beat | off Villa's ralders, despite the -urpn-«i | | movement of the Mexican brigands, were carried over the boundary by the guard. Colonel Herbert J. Slocum, commanding the Thirteenth, was the first commanding | officer to cross; he was followed by | Major James A. Ryan, acting chief-of- | staff to General John J. Pershing, who | cpmmands the punitive expedition. { (fln- was column number one, consist- | ing of intantry, artillery and cavalry and | burdened with heavy wagon trains. It ed rather slowly, and camped the t night at Palomas, a filthy village of adobe huts and ‘‘go-downs" seven miles balow the boundary, south of Co- bus. umn umber two entered | ',::",, ,,f,:lcmb,:m ranch, fifty-one | 1and end Cattle company, and three | light. Tiles south of Hechita, N. M. General | other Americans before the raid. The line of march took the tralls Pershing, who had accompanied the first | American soldiers found the body of |through the mountains from here on, column part of the way to Palomas, re- turned to Columbus the same afternoon, raced to Culberson's in an automobile, and, taking command of the second or “Flying column,” drove it more than 110 miles over the desert of Chihuahua in twenty-two hours actual marching time. Spies Dot the Route. Official records show that sples dotted the route of the first column, but the | men of the second column had forged | thelr way fifty miles into the country before a single native was seen; and to the patent surprise of the Mexicans | reached here Friday night, exactly forty- | {ered here Saturday, | American commander to assure him that |sured that they would not be fired upon. | Jack rabbits. |and his wife. The only other living things which nightly | agreed to the entry of the troops unop- posed. Them Yellow Jackets. | The other body of troops were ancount- | March 18. Major Wlizaldo Reyes, who sald he was pro- ceeding to Casas Grandes, from Madera after scouting for Villa, was startled to #ee American troops in this vicinity. His men referred to them as “yellow jackets." He stopped one of the guides of the col- umn and asked to be taken to the his forces, were not consisting of thirty-six men, ‘Villistas."” and in turn he as- riders at intervals of twenty yards, swept the country between the border and Palomas and stirred nothing but Major James A. Ryan of the Thirteenth cavalry, acting ghief of staff to Gen- | eral Pershing, found at Palomas just two | human beings, a crippled Mexican, de- scribed by the American guides s the most cunning horse thief along the border were a few stray doy fought the coyotes for the remains of cattle slaughtered by the Carranza garri- son and the Villa troops. Makes Boca Grandes. Infantrymen were posted all along the route from the border to Colonia Dub- lan to guard the line of communications, engineers maintained the road for wagon trains and -motor trucks. Colonel S8lo- cum's column made Boca Grandes from Palomas March 16, This was the point from which Villa started on his raid on Columbus. It was near Boca Grandes that Villa captured and murdered Arthur Kinney, a round-up boss for the Palomas one of the victims, battered and muti- lated and in such a condition that it could not be recognized. An officer also picked up in the abandoned villa en-| campment an expense note of C. R. Wat- | son, leader of the party of eighteen em- ployes of the Cusl Mining company, who were slaughtered by Pablo Lopez, a Villa lieutenant at Santa Ysabel. Men and officers of these columns were not permitted to drink water that had not been previously tested. They were forbidden to enter Mexican houses for fear of typhus. The result was that all are| healthy and in good condition. The | barvest among the hungry soldiers. Major Tompking' advance guard, with | |to give.” ‘and skirted ravines and declivities. Pal a brother of Admiral Lord Charles Beres- ford of Great Britain, at nightfall. Ofitos is sixty miles from the border. At 7 o'clock that night camp was being made by the American troops beside irri- gation ditches through which flowed the first running water they had seen in Mexico. Here also were seen the first Mexicans, other than two who were ob- served a few miles north of Ofitos, sil- houetted against the sky on a mountain top. These two were at first belleved to be sples, but scouts reported them to be ranchers living in the valley. Reap Golden Farvest. The Ojitos Mexicans reaped a golden Frijoles, tortillas and Ohill sauces were in great demand and in contrast to the Casas Grandes Mexicans, who doubled and trebled prices on bread and every other edible, their prices were “what you like The senoras of the ranch households cooked ha. the night, their daughters delivered cr served the food and the husbands and fathers gathered the money. At Ofitos, the Inteiligence department of the flying column received the first definite word concerning Villa. The Mexioans there reported that he had passed the ranch Saturday, two days after the Columbus raid with an esocort of only ten men. They also stated that reports had been received at the ranch that Villa had killed five Mexicans at Corralitos, an American ranch to the south, because they were working for the hated ‘‘gringoes.’ Hard on the Feet. Although the march of sixty miles had rendered ome tender foet and made part- ial wrecks of the softer men among the officers and soldiers, the column was again in the saddle shortly after day- and those who forgot to fill canteens suffered, for the day was torrid, the dust thick and the roed hard. Going up and down hill, it crowned precipices broken fragments of porous volcanic rook strewed most of the way. The next water was found at Casa de Janos, a ranch about fiftcen miles south of Ojitos, where a running stream, fringed by groves of cottonwood, some of the few trees along the march, was found. Here General Pershing allowed a five- minute rest. Horses were watered and men plunged their heads into a stream DADQUARTERS UNITED |camp, the assembly of men and guns, he | (o orh WUl n00n. The order then was| Arrangements of cavalry was moved |- TES PUNITIVE EXPEDITION, decided to accept the Unitéd States army | &y mtie S :""’ 110 reach the P | southward with orders to get atter the r Colonis, Dubtsn, Chihuahua, |officers' statement that Carransa had | o\ oq, Tonoh, formerly the prope bandit leader as quickly as possible and | remain on his trail until he is caught or Kkilled. As fast as new troops reached headquarters reinforcements were dis- patched to the southward to carry out the plan of campalgn. Part of these troops left yesterday and last night Oolonel Dodd, although #4 years old and | a leader in the remarkable march of the flying column from tne border aban- | doned the comparative comforts of camp and took the field with these troops yes- terday afternoon. Brings First Tents. Yesterday trains which arrived at the| the same time brought the first tents to be erected in camp. Previously the cot tonwoods fringing the river provided the | only sheiter from the ardent sun. During | the nights, always frigid in this altitude | of 6000 feet, the shivering men supple-| mented meager equipment of blankets with hay piled beneath and on top of | them. High winds have prevailed almost continuously. There are wild duck and | cotton tall rabbits to furnish shooting. | The coyotes, attracted In throngs by the proximity of the camp with its assem-| blage of those animals, make the nights noisy with their cries and provide Inter-| est for the outposts hidden in the tail volunteer wheat and bunch grass cover- ing the valley in the vicinity of the river. One of General Pershing’s first acts on arriving at the camp was to make inquiry | concerning the Mormon families of the | colonfes Dublan and Juarez who refuse® to abanden their homes and property | when the United States government is- | sued its last warning to get out of Mexico, following the massacre of the Watson party of mining men at Santa| Ysabel, last January. It had been re- ported that Ville in his retreat southward had raided the colonies, robbed the homes | of the colonists and killed a number. | Bishop A. B. Call, in charge of Colonia | Dublan, confirmed reports of extensive | looting but sald no lives had been lost. | Service in Mormon Church, In the old, battered, shot-marked Mor- mon church of the colony A praise service | was held last Sunday. The bishop said since Villa's retreat from Somora after! his defeat at Agua Prieta last November the Mormon residents in the vicinity nfl Casas Grandes had been subjected to all sorts of impositions. For twenty-five days subsequent to December 26 2,600 men had been quartered on them, The colony of Dublan contains substan- | tial brick houses for more than 100 fam- {lies. Large roomy dwellings, they are in marked contrast to the Mexican town of Neuva Casas Grande Most of the our windows healthy boy's wear. Opening Spring “Special” Buy One of These Stunning SPRING SUITS Saturday, atonly....... They're here, Men, just as advertised. Their real value will be better understood whem we tell you that they would bring $18.00. Hun- dreds to select from in blue and fancy patterns—smartly tailored in the newest Spring models. 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And a bavalry trot, to [ When the last warning of the United anyone unaccustomed to the jarring and | States government to get out was given ( er tinted green by | 4 1 cries of lakes formed by the Mimbres | the first time the first units of the f1y- |the copper impregnated rocks A Literature glving complete information free on request. QR ier. & stream which like & number of| ink column, the artillery, the negro| Officers experienced difficulty in pre 15th and Harney Ticket Office s 1317 Farnam Strest, Omaba others in the southwest, dlsappears in|cavalry and other organizations. Some |venting the men and their mounts from | EUGENE DUVAL, General Agent ourse through Mexico of them had previou<ly marched frem |drinking the poisonous water. Discipline Doug. 1662 and Lieutenant Charles r. ueorge, formed supplanted by army mules, which made the entire distance under heavy packs with the loss of only taree of their num- ber. Battery B, of the Sixth,Field artillery, commanded by Captain idgar H. Yule A unit of the fiying column. While the | cavalry traversed trails through the “mal | Pals” or bad country of the Slerra Madre | the task of hunting down Villa and his | Fanks on h:"_ tendency to speed up to the Blue or White STORE mountains, 6,000 ‘to 8,00 (feet| high, the |bandit band. The intelligence depart- |utmost lim . Bib Overalls, THAT battery, encumbered by heavy ambu-|ment of the American punitive expedi- “0ld Man's Expectation.” eclta s Regular 75¢ lances and the field wireless equipment, |tion, headed by Major Ryan, received | *“The old man must expeet to get Villa Values, SAVES traveled the valley roads, longer bY |much information from Carranza sources. |tonight,” said one tired recruit. y— elghteen miles. Nevertheless, it reachcs p only one hour and a nalt behind ‘cavalry, without the loss of a mule or Norse and not a sore back #mong any of the animals. Officers declared this would long stand as a record of speed and endurance. Given First Place, The Thirteenth cavalry, because of its accomplishment in driving Villa's greatly uperior numbers out of Columbus after a brief engagement, was given first place | in the first column. Muster of the ..la command found here after he passed through golng eouthward elght days ago showed that he made the raid on Colum- bus with 583 men. Raving in anger after his deal deserters reported that their, chieftain killed five of his officers and men as cowards. There were 200 in his command when he retreated through Colonia Dublan. The Thirteenth ac-| counted for the rest. Major Frank Tompkins, who took fifty- nine men of his squadron and drove the Landits fifteen miles into Mexico after| hey had crossed the border, commanded the advance guard. The rest of the cav- alry under Major Elmer Lindsley fol- lowed. Then came the mountain and| fleld guns, next the “dough boys” of the| infantry regiments and last the wagon | trains, field hoepital and sanitary equip- ment and the fleld wireless. The orders were for every man to “travel light'" Officers and men were permitted to carry much more than the clothing and equipment work upon thelr persons. The trains, nevertheless, were long and heavy. Rations for Five Days. Vast quantities of ammunition for all General Pershing’s cavalry and escort |, o Rad SIS winte stetad ) utmost of energy and efficiency in locomotives. .ypos of arms including the machine!crouseq the boundary at 317 oelock |Lon g tar s Mot Hieh - i o The last concerts to be kuns of the cavalry and Infantry, &c-{muureqey morning, March 16 It was a | t. Rations The | counted for most of the wel were carried for only five days ratious were bacon, hard tack and coffee. | 3 3 X 3,000 volts direct— the highest voltage direct the men their first view of the country, | Every canteen had been emptied, many tinental Divide, extending from Harlowton,Mont, current adapt i The colunfn streiched out a lemsth ot | "6 TeR thelr (Tt ¥lew of e countey. | Every canteen had been emptied, many | jst, will be rendered to Avery, Idaho, a_distance_of 440 miles (115 pted for railway work i the world. :Ivn’v‘;m;nll.e?nsrt:n“;rf. the br:un:l:lrl;mlr:::' and bunch grass dotting a level valley |nostrils were merely blackened orifices :ml“ from Thres Forks to Deer Lodge, Mon- Rexenerat{va Brakin, only & vast clond ot st whinsed t| fl00red With full red material from an [in every face, but there was no com- |l Saturday Afternoon ng, Sow In oparation.) g & great height by a high wind, could be 8 Srasc Buight & 5. Wk guid b braking, by which the train on down grades, in- en, ours er, wi e ic locor ! (oot DOERA MERing SaND thie s were Re. Askiae Wor. ‘God, 1 wish I had a drink, my mouth The electric locomotives are the most powerful ~Stead of consuming electricity, actually produces At 7:3 the e Car- " and at 8:15 built. They are 112 feet long and weigh tons. It and by which at the same time, the speed of thickly powdered from head to foot by| At the flylng column made Car-[i{s full of mud," was the nearest to a Thy . . the train is k der perfect control providing grayish white coatings of pulverized lava, | 120: The negro cavalrymen and sol- |complaint that was heard. ey require no coal or water; run at an even ept under pe The sense of smell detected Palomas| long before its collection of brown, lurlvl, burned huts of mud and cobblestones| came into view. The odors were those of | stock yards and tannery combined. Closer there was added that of unwashed humenity and solled raiment, ragged remnants of which lay strewn about, with the remains of slaughtered cattle that had furnished food for Villa and his men during thelr brief stop at Pa- lomas, and rations for the Carranza L Bs, who were thére both before and! er the bandit's brief sofourn in the| village. | had ;slde of Colonia . Dublan and four miles from Nueva Casas Grandes, where the Carranza authorities maintain small gar- risom. Ready to Co-operate. Army officers sald they found Car- ranza officers, both civil and military, ready to accord hearty co-operation in American colonists near the old town of Casas Grandes, southwest of the army camp, declared the feeling among the Jolting, is anything but easy. General Pershing, tall, slender, ascetic and grown much grayer since the fire at the Presidio at San Francisco, which bereaved him of wife and four daugh- ters, already had become known to the men as “the old man’” and throughout the march comments ran through the “No,” roplied an equally saddle-weary comrade, ‘he is on the way to Mexico City and we will get thers tomorrow.” Mexicans there was tense, but there has been no evidence of it. The American troops brought in the first sllver money some of the Mexicans | seen in years, and willingly paid double the prices that prevail within the boundary for food and the rough, dirty and strong native tobacco. There was, in fact, so little metal money among elther the Mexicans and the sma]l band of American Mormons who have braved the dangers of reported Villa raids, that many were unable to provide change for a silver dollar. The one Chinese store- ! keeper found in Nueva Casas Grandes was asked what he would give for an American $ bill. He opened his cash drawer and with an expressive motion of the arms and hands indicated that he was willing to exchange for it the bale of Carranza and Villa paper money it contained. | Lose Twelve Mules. | Marching slowly on account of the trains the head of the first column did | not enter the base camp here until Mon day at noon after & march of 157 miles | from Columbus. The machine gun troops | of the Thirteenth cavalry, the wagon trains and other units lost altogether twelve mules. The second or flying column, which, un- der General Pershing's personal com- mand, made the dash from Culbertson's ranch, lost three mules. The transport animals of the latter, however, were more lightly burdened brilllant moonlight night The sun rising over the mountains gave eminence thrown up by volcanic explo- sions in pre-historic ages. diers of the artillery, hospital units and field radio ontfits that had préeceded the escort were cncamped on tho sides of & granite butte fronting the canyon in |him the honor of bagging the bandit, no The recruit, young and apparently lit- tle acquainted with geography and the vast distances In Mexico, took the state- ment at fair value and sald “‘honest?” Every soldler had something te say about Villa and overyone pronounced the | name, not ‘‘Vee-va,” but as it is spelled | in English. Many expressed the hope | that the bandit leader would soon have the misfortune to get in front of his rifie or army automatic pistol. Not one had a doubt but that the ob- ject of the expedition would be promptly accomplished. “If dat Villa gits any where near me, good night,” was the ambiguous remark of a negro cavalryman, one who fought at San Juan in Cuba and wears service badges of several campaigns, Villa Won't Get Him, “Good night for you or for him?' ecut in & white soldier. “Goodnight for him," was the indignant answér. “No man named Villa will ever put my lights out.” A sergeant expressed similar sentl- ments, and added that if chance gave one of lesser ranrk than a ocolonel could | speak to him, “and even the colonel would have to say ‘sir'.” The object of the gruelling march of Friday was to reach Colonla Dublan by night and it was done. The mountain route reduced the distance to fifty miles, while the artillery and hospital wagons | in the valley were doing sixty-eight. By | & o'clock Friday night cemp was made | all but twenty-five famililes left. The Farewell w0f == Prince Lea Lani Saturday beside an irrigation plant. The last ten miles was almost a tor- | horses into the eyes and mouths of the | men. Water at a doliar a swallow could not be bought anywhere along the line. plaint. Mouth Full of M Twenty miles northwest of here, where the tablelands grow narrow, outguards were thrown out on the flgnks, and two troops of cavalry went in pursuit of some which Geronimo, the famous Apache war- rlor, made his final stand and surrend. ered to American tPoops more than thirty years ago. These facts recalled to many officers, some of the older of whom par- ticipated in the Apache campaign that | the present expedition in Mexico had set no precedent, and that bandit hunting in @ forelgn country, of independent sov ereignity was not a new thing for the United States army The American troops camped near a olumng then halted at the border gate| Fort Huachuca, Ariz Here on the hillside was observed for d other distant| horsemen reported to General Pershing as having been seen lurking In & canyon. | The horsemen turned out to be riderless | range horses. The hardest part of the march was through the pass just west of here known | s Puerto San Vecente, this defile is so | narrow tuat the columns had to move for | several miles in single file, the horses | now climbing rocky steepes, and now | slipping with stiffened forelegs down into | ravines, at the bottom of which ran tiny | streams of alkall prevalled, however. 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