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Men at the Front Have Tobacco, Bakers' Bread, Fresh
ly Baked, and About All the Substantiate They Care
For; Cost of Truck Operations Much Less Than
Wagons; Order Brought Out of First Chaos.
By GEO. H. CLEMENTS.
FIKLD HEADQUARTERS. Tunltlve
Expedition, United States Army,
Xamiqulpa, Chlh., Ilex.. April 13.
Ky Airplane to Columbus, X. M.. April
IS. The feeding of an army, even as
small an army as Is the American army
in Mexico, Is an mormons tack and one
rhtch calls Into requisition every exec
utive faculty of the men at the head
of the commlsni dcpai tment.
Tt has been sun! that an army "trav
eis upon iK sto'n. ih' uhifh translated
into the vi nacul.ii means that when
m stomach in ""i mil it ceases to be
dangerous fact.-i m Hu carrying out
ni any poll' wliiHi it leader may
iiave in mind or to uln&h they may )
h.ive been assigned
It has also been r.iid that the Amer
ican army is more inclined to "travel
upon its stomach thnn is any other
stomach
rmv In the world
vernacular, means that the American
ynldicr demands and is given more food
for ins dail ration than i- given the
Ehk VXjr 'PTyEffi
' ' There is steeel music hire that softer
fell,
I Than petals from hloan roses on the I
imos"
Of all musical instruments
the piano, perhaps, comes
closest to sheer magic in
music And of all pianos
certainlv the
fighting- man of any other of the fight
ing nations of this fight inclined-world.
thy the Ilanf
For various and sundry reasons not
plain to the correspondents in camp,
there must be no mention mado of the
number ot soldiers in this or any other
of the several camps south of the In
ternational line, though i'. la very
probable that the exact number is
known to every Mexican from the Itlo
Grande to the Guatemala line. For
that reason we are not permitted to
Indulge in the pleasant pastime of em
balming in print the exploits, heroic
in a sense, of the men who are filling
the stomachs of the men and animals
who are engaged in the most gigantic
man hunt ever indulged In by a great
nation since history began to be writ
ten by Herodotus, which was some
time ago if any one asks for dates.
The determination to make Villa Day
In the same i for the temerity he displayed when he
attacked the little town or uoiumous
was arrived at so hurriedly that the
quarteriiiantei's department was not as
well prepared to meet the emergency
with which it was faced as. probably,
it should have been and as, just as
probably, it will be in future. It had
plenty of food In signi out u uiun t
have it where It could get at It as
promptly ns It should, and it was woe
fully lacking in the matter of facili
ties for getting the food to where It
could be transferred to the stomachs
of the soldiers and horses of the fight
ing force pouring over the border and
i ushing with all speed to comb the sup
posed hiding places of the murderous
v ilia and his band of outthroats in the
canjons of the lofty Sierra Madres,
Slow Pokey Wngon.
There were old fashioned wagons,
: .li awn by four mules oach, in plenty.
' but they were but a poor depemtence
for the work at hand. The army,
i.u n .. 1 ., n. Infant, nr nftll
I icrv. traveled too fast for mere mules
to keep up. Motor trucks were on the
way and until they arrived, the long
trains of wagons, numbering 100 or
more at times, were kept moving night
ind dav from the base at Columbus to
the front at a feverish pace. The wag
ons were compelled, not only to carry
food and forage for the fighting men
and their mounts in the field but for
the mules which pulled them. They also
had to carry food for the drivers of
the mules and for the guard which
protected them from attack by roving
bands or marauders which might be
hanging on their flanks looking for
an opportunity to grab the rich prise
which an American army wagon train
would make to the average band of
hungry Vlllistas. There was not, for
several days, an opportunity to pile
up a surplus.
Carranza Officer Arrives
Here on Special Mission
for Government.
Gen. Ramon Iturbe. clothed with the
power of special diplomatic agent tor
the Carransa government, arrived Fri
day in El Taso. where he will .i.
for 15 days and then sail from ?in
Francisco for Japan. After he has
completed his mission. In Japan he
states that he will s$ t , he
wav of India ami th o ..rHa "'.
visit the capitals Vf German' "2
France instructions as to his
,...,. oi.cuLa io receive
the next several days.
"I cannot discuss my mission " M
Gen Iturbe. The general wa?' inter
rogated as to whether or not an alli
ance with Japan was contemolated or
the floating of a foreign loan, but he
declined to discuss either matter.
To I.lve Here.
Gen. Iturbe will move with his fam
ily to 715 North Williams street whe?e
he will maintain his household until
he departs for Japan.
Mexican consul Andres Garcia was
asked If he knew the purpose of flan
Iturbe's mission to Japan, and replied
that he knew nothing about the mat.
ter save that the general Is in El Paso
representing the Constitutional government.
and
work
within
ft
jf&xefe
intrudes least upon that
magical effect with its own
mechanical personality. For
it is, in truth, the very per
fection of the Chickerrng's
mechanism to permit its
own complete efFacement.
Mr nre Mile agents for the
lanjuii Chlekrring Piano.
Jenkins
Piano Co.
BIG PIANO HOUSE
Phone [phone] Texas St
oats and corn for the cavalry horses
and the pack mules In the field.
Kxcept that it is in the open, the
commissary today is probably as heav-
i? siwui-a an is any general store In
the country and a man. connected with
the expedition in any capacity ex
cept those in the extreme front need
not go without the essentials of pood
living, it is true there are no luxu
ries hut there Is no dearth of bread
bacon, corned beef, fresh beef, pota
toes, canned vegetables, tobacco, cloth
ing such as a man can use in the field,
and blankets, which are needed at this
altitude even though so close, to the
tropic ot Cancer that it can almost be
seen , with the naked eye and which
were left behind when the order to
cross the line was riven nnrior th h..
"" .' '".JS ? ".!. tropllXardocument:
........,. ., o,un or uvuian who
could not live well under conditions
as they exist. here today would have
a hard time of It under any circumstances.
PERSHING URGED
TO SuPPM
U. S. in Ignorance of What
Happened To American
Forces There.
(Continued from page 1.)
connection an official report from the
commander of the American forces at
tacked at Parral, Slexlco, last Tuesday
by civilians. Is anxiously awaited. Gen
Carranza's information was that his
soldiers had done everything in their
power to stop the firing at the Amer
ican troops. Unofficial versions of the
incident, however, have asserted that
Carranza soldiers were among the at
tackers. Must Stop Border Brigandage.
Secretary Lansing would not say
whether he was prepared to negotiate
with the de facto government with a
view to the possible fixing of a date
for the withdrawal of American troops.
He Indicated that the time element of
anv agreement would be based on what
developed in the pursuit ot the bandits.
Ab the administration's attitude Is un
derstood here, a satisfactory demon
stration by the Carranza military forces
of their ability to stop once and for
all the brigandage In the border states
will see the object of the American
expedition accomplished.
Full Ileport Likely.
Attention has been given to the fa'-t
that the Carranza note rested its re
quest for negotiations, In part, upon
the statement that the American ex
pedition was not .fulfilling its object,
the capture of Villa and dispersal of
his bands, ana couia not fulfill it. Tho
state and war departments are not dis
posed to allow this to go unchal
lenged. To meet. It, however, a care
ful review of what the troops have
done, and are doing, beyond the bor
der will have to be made. Only brief
telegraphic advices, so far have been
received. Full statements and ex
pressions of opinion will be obtained
in all probability from Gen. Funston
at San Antonio and from Gen. Persh
ing, far south of the international line
and commanding the expedition.
several aays may elapse before
All You
reply can be prepared to the Carranza
note and dlplomatlo machinery be seT
in motion for the negotiations sought
Good Ilread n Plenty.
In addition to the baro. bread issued
to men In the field, away from the base,
the quartermaster has had field bake
ries established at Columbus, at Co
llonia Dublan and this camp near
?tamiqulpa. big field bakeries, which
turn out a superior brand of fresh
bread every day in quantities suffi
cient to meet the requirements of the
men in camp and in many cases to send
to the men well up In the front and
who can be reached by wagon, truck
or pack train. This bread is good, so
good that the few sybarites in the cor
respondents' mess when at th. lai
uase preierreu
Victrola
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The exnedition lived a I frequently obtain from the cooks nmnnr-
"hand to rooutn- liie ror me lime ana " -iiurinun women in uoionia uublan
the quartermaster and probably those j or Colonla Juarez who have fallen into
higher In command wero worried. Then the habit of turning an honest penny
the motor trucks, wnoie iieets or - catering to inose otricers and men
them, began to arrive at Columbus. In camp who have money to spend and
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They were loaded In haste and with
equal haste hurried south. The strain
was relieved. Visions or half rations
vanished and the mental horizons of
the officers of the expedition took on
a rosier hue, as the trucks increased
In number. Instead of coming Into
camp in scores, they began to come
by hundreds, and as each deposited its
load, the space devoted to the quarter
master began to be piled high with
boxes of bacon, corned beef, hard bread
and canned vegetables and sacks of
potatoes, beans and other forms of
food for the men actually at the front
or waiting to go.
Plenty to Eat.
Trucks were reloaded with field ra- 1
tioni and sent south to the sub Dases,
which had begun to be established.
Not only were the men of the expedi
tion belnc cared for: their animals
were not forgotten in the distribution
of creature comforts and some of the
trucks were piled high with sacks of
The state department saw no reason
today to retire from Its position that
a formal agreement under which the
cx6ssing of the Mexican border in pur
suit of Villa proceeded had been
reached with Gen. Carranza before the
order to move was given. In Its original
reply to Gen. Carranza's proposal for i
a reciprocal agreement, the department !
stated clearly the terms of that agree- I
ment as it understood them and de
clared them to be operative. A week
or so elapsed, it was pointed out, before
any question was raised. I
Thinks Arredondo Mistaken. J
Secretary I,ansing said today he had '
no recollection of having assured
KHseo Arredondo. Mexican ambassador
designate, on March 23, that the troops
would go no farther south than thev
were until the diplomatic situation was
cleared and thitt he must have been
misunderstood by Sir. Arredondo. He
added that at the time he did not know
how far the troops had gone.
Many of the points raised in the Car
ranza note were viewed as referring
to the protocol negotiations which fol
lowed and not to the original reciprocal
agreement
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may pay the balance on
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'Arranged Either Weekly Or Monthly 'As
May Be Most Convenient.
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AUTOMATIC STOP
OAK OR MAHOGANY
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offer. Only a limited number of these Vidrolas will
be sold on these terms and we advise your taking ad
vantage of this special opportunity at once.
Are You Prepared
To face the battery 0 critical eyes that will
be giving you iie "once over" on Easter
Sunday;? If not select your nen spring suit
al once and ree will have it read) on lime.
Our nen designer, Mr. 0. E. Roos, is an
authority on stylet; let him suggest the best
suited style for your individuality, and you
rvill be correctly appareled.
who seek relief from the sameness of
the prescribed daily ration.
The motor truck service is not only
becoming better in point of numbers
of trucks Included but In the quality
of the trucks themselves. The first
trucks across the international line
were for the most part nondescripts
ano were manned by every type of ad
venturer except those who knew any
thing abouroperating and keeping in
motion a motor truck. The result was
small loads, slow time, and In too
many cases temporarily abandoned ma
chines. This has been remedied. The
adventurers who volunteered for truck
driving service have either become ex
pert truck drivers or have been re
tired to civil life from which they
would never have been taken but for
the emergency.
Hondo Are Poor.
The roads between the border and
the several bases were not Mm hoot m
begin with and the vast tonnage which
has been dragged over them during
the past three weeks has not had" a
tendency to Improve them. They are
continually under surveillance by the
engineers ana are Deing Kept In such
condition as to make possible the haul
ing ot the heaviest possible loads. There
are several trails between Colonla Dub
lan and Columbus. One of them Is
th., :. !"? "i?,""J,",'";j'jira",r or cost when compared with
- v " "vftt muuu me- oais or corn ana nay.
engineer corps make the needed re
pairs, when another shift Is made.
While the maintenance of an ade
quate gasoline supply is an item which
requires ine Dest tnoucnt or the niiar.
termaster's department, it is said that
it is not such a problem as is Involved
in keeping up the commissary by means
of wagons. It is air establishes fact
mat a wagon load ot food will be
consumed by tts driver. Its mules and
its guard In ten davs. That mean, that
the surplus which may be taken from
a wagon requiring five days from point
of supply to point of delivery and four
days In which to return for another
load would be so small as to make the
number of wagons In service many
times the number of trucks needed.
The trucks will negotiate In two days
a distance which a wagon could not
cover In less than five days or possibly
six. That means the saving of the
rations of the driver and guard for
three or four days and the feed of four
mules for the same length of time.
Against this, of course, is the weight
ai;u cost 01. toe gasoline Durned by the
truck but that has been figured to a
nicety and shows a saving not only on
weight hut in dollars and cents in the
103 South El Paso
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Mexicans, Angry After Col
lision With American
Troops, Wreck Property.
Continued from pace 1.)
ira uqnfini
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groen In its employ.
not an armed.
but the men are
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'lrst Storr Of Ilentril.tlnn.
First news of destruction to the prop
erty came Fridav nicrlit In .-i mrusi
! from Parral to the local offices, which
isaid:
"In retaliation of recent troubles
armed men yesterday (Thursday) at
noon assaulted the mill, breaking in
doors and windows of residences, of
fices, warehouses and mill: robbing and
destroying practically everything. Thev
repeated the assault at midnight, again
robbing and destroying, and will prob
ahly repeat the Incident Military au
thorities know everything connected
with the same."
The American Smelt I no- and Tteflninir
confljany officials stated Saturday that i
mey iiuve receive! no worti whatever
from their mining properties at Santa
Barbara, H miles west of Parral.
The Alvarado Mining company is lo
cated very close to Parral and the plant
consists of some 2 buildings.
Knvlrn '".VKIiout Advices. '
Gen. Gabriel Oavlra of the Juarez
garrison stated Saturday morning that
he had no information as to disturb
ances at Parral other than what had
been learned from the papers. "I had
a report on Friday," he added, "that
there hsrtl been robbery of the Presena
ranch. In the light of the news dis
patches I should say that the Presena
mines were meant."
Gen. Gavira also stated that he had
received from Gen. Obregon, at Quere
taro, a copy of the last message of the
secretary of foreign affairs to Trash
ington, and that the contents would
be printed in Juarez and given out to
the people.
Thinks Villa Denil.
Asked as to Villa or his whereabouts.
Gen. Gavira replied that he thought
he must be dead, as there were no
longer any reports about 'him being
anywhere, or participating in anv of
the raids or engagements.
llfflclency Adjuater Iteportn.
Our Efficiency Adjuster report a
most successful week. He adjusted the
office equipment of five firms this
week He Is at your service next week
If your office equipment is not up to
100 per cent Kfficlencv.
J Commercial Afflcr Supply Co.
A. TV. McLeun, Mgr . 3d!i Tex St. Adv
Report From Douglas Says
Orders Received There to
Prepare to Move.
A teport was received here Satutday
at noon from Douglas that orders 'had
ueen received there for tnc troons nnw
encamped there to prepare to move to
Columbus upon the receipt of orders.
The troops reported to have re
ceived this order from Fort Sam Hous
ton Include a battalion of the 18th in
fantry, all of the 22d infantrv, three
troops of the First caralrv and a bat
tery of the Sixth field artillery.
Gen. Thomas F. Davis is reported to
have been ordered to command thla
force, which, the report says. Is to
move to Columbus as soon as equip
ment can be obtainrd from the railroad
if it should be eeded. '
RESOLUTION FAVORS BAN
ON MUNITIONS TO MEXICO
Washington, D. c., April IB. Itepre
wntatlve Itodenberg. Itepubllcan. of
""no's, today, introduced a resolution
prohibiting shipment of arms and mu
nitions of war fnto Mexico. It was
not discussed and Mr. Itodenberg later
issued a statement criticising the Wil
son administration and saying that
Gen. Carranza has jtiven abundant evi
dence "of his treacherous character.'
WYOHIXf; VTOCKMUX OlMMISK
takim; Tituors phom mb.vico
Thermopolis. Mvm, April IS. rteso
lutions opposing the withdrawal of
American troops from Mexico were
adopted by the Wyoming Stockmen's
association convention late Friday. The
resolutions also pledged support to the
market committee of the American Na
tional Livestock Association in urging
an inquiry into the packing industry
and favored a tariff on imports of
livestock products.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to thank our friends wh
so kindly assisted us during our re
cent sorrow In the death of our hus
band and relative. Fred Cereghino and
for the beautitul floral offerings.
Mrs. Fred Cereghlno and Family.
Adv.
Fornifr chief of the secret sen-Ice
ilkio was once a newspaper reporter.
A dollar saved by buying iroods pro
duced elsewhere is a dollar thrown at
your neighbor's birds.
Sharply Urges Pershing to
Report; Officers Say Mex-
icans Not Cooperating.
San Antoniq, Tex., April 13. Uneasi
ness was manifest at Gen. Funston's
headquarters tooay over Gen. Persh
ing's unbroken silence concerning the
fieht at. Parral. It became known to
day that Gen. Funston directed to
Gen. Pershing last night a communica
tion sharply urging him to expedite
a report.
Gen. Funston received from the war
department today a rather long com
munication, but he refused to dicuss
its character. There was reason to be
lieve the substance of his late re
ports to Washington dealt largely
with the nositlons and activities of
Carranza troops in northern Mexico
and the failure of them and other
Carranza authorities to cooperate more
effectually with the Americans
Say Mexicans Jiit Cooperating.
Army officers here and in Mexico
have resented the repeated statements
that cooperation was being given,
when, as they indignantly assert, con
tinued refusal to use the railroads and
to permit the transmission ot code
messages on overland wires has been
made. The number of Carranza troops
in northern and central Mexico is far
greater than that of the United States
fnr in Mexico, but army Officers here I
pointed out that Villa has no apparent
difficulty in passing through their
lines when pressed forward by the
Americans.
It Is believed that Gen. Funston also
called attention of the war department
to his inability to protect more adequately-
the detached forces at tho
front "without materially weakening
the border patrol, or using the railroads
for troop movements.
Cnliell SlipervNcs Scouting.
Gen. Pershing's chief of staff. I.ieut.
Col. De B. f". Cabell, is now at Casas
Grandes. where he went to supervise
the scouting work ordered by Gen.
Funston to ascertain the movements
of Carranza troops In the region
through which the line of communica
tions pass. Reports today indicated
that Gen. Arnulfo Gomez's troops still
are In the Bavispe valley, where they
were being provisioned for field work.
Version of Pnrrnt Flight.
According to a version of the Parral
incident sent from Chihuahua City to
Gen. Funston 40 unarmed American
troopers entered Parral, presumnblv to
buy supplies, and were fired on. Two
were killed and the remainder retreated
outside the city, pursued by an attack
ing force. The Mexicans were met bv
a machine gun fire from the cavalrv
and to were killed. The report was
not confirmed. It stated the attack
ing forces comprised Carranza soldieis
and civilians.
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NEGRO SOLDIERS ORDERED TO
EL PASO FROM DEL RIO
Companies B and C, 21th infantry
(negro) will arrive here today from
Del Rio. for station at Fort Bliss. It
was stated earlier in the week that
thev were to be sent Into Mexico at
Columbus, but the decision was later
reached to bring the men to El Pao.
The people of Del Itio asked for the re
moval followinK some trouble last Sun
dav between three of the negro soldiers
Hiid a peace officer ui which the officer
killed one of the negroes.
HU DEH. SffS !
IN Fil EEVP I
Wanted to Know What He
Should Do: Was Told
He'd Done Enough.
J. It. Oates from Chihuahua, who
arrived recently -with his family as
refugees from Mexico, states that the
man from Egypt an Arabian to quote
him exactly told him that Villa was
dead.
"Villa's ordinarily smooth face was
seamed with pain," the man from
Kgypt said to Mr. Oates, according to
Mr. Oates. "and before the bandit
breathed his last he remarked 'What
shall I do? What shall I doT"
Villa's attendant replied: "I wouldn't
do anything if I were you. Pancho
you've already done enough."
Villa is then said to have sighed and
then died.
The man from Egypt also informed
Mr. Oaten that Villa had died at Satevo.
Mr. Oates, contrary to the report of
the officers commanding the airplanes
that visited Chihuahua, stated that the
air men had been received dlscour-1
teously when they visited Chihuahua, i
He also brought word to the border j
that the inhabitants of Chihuahua are I
all Villa sympathisers.
"If the American troops are with
drawn," said Mr. Oates. "I shall not re-
turn, to Mexico with my family." ,
Mr. Oates terminated his interview I
by saying that Villa might be caught j
if alive If the American troops used
the National railway line ana ot in
south of his retreat in the Parral !
country. j
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