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The Parker Post
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28, 1910, at the postoff'ce at Parker.
Arizona, under the Act of March 3,
1879.
MANIAC AND PATROIT.
The following interview,which ap
peared in Wednesday’s Los Angeles
Examiner, with a business man whose
name is not given for the reason that
he is carrying out a trade contract
with the notorious Villa, graphical
ly portrays the situation in Mexico,
as well as presenting a character
sketch of the now famous maniacial
patriot; General Villa.
“Although I know that Villa has
shot down many men and ordered
others executed, I also know what
made him the demon he is. He is
not a drinking man. The stories con
ing from over the line rliat Villa was
maudlin from drink are untrue for
the reason that Villa is an absolut
teetotler. He does not smoke and
never has. He is not a grafter, a
business man, a politician, or a sed
er after power.
“He is, perhaps a maniac and, at
least, a patriot. His life as a bandit
was the result of an attack on his
favorite sister. I knew Villa when
he owned a little ranch in Sonora.
Later I knew him as a meat dealer in
Juarez. It was while in the latter
capacity a Federal officer carried off
his 16-year-old sister.
“With vengeance as his only ob
ject in life, Villa rode after the Fed
eral officer. He had a few staunch,
friends and three nights after The
capture of his, sister, Villa rode in
to the Federal camp,found the officer
who had invaded his home and shot
him dead. He also killed two other
officers who attempted to block his
path of escape.
“Perhaps that episode crazed him.
I do not know. But before the event
he was an ordinary Mexican citizen.
Then af f er the killing of three Feder
al officers, Villa, who had
been an intense patroit^fled to the
hills with a small fallowing. He was
no longer simple a patroit but he had
an object life. He raided and
stole, bytY" the plunder was divided
amonafhis .band. For himself he kept
only/ a just portion.
‘‘The fairness of his treatment
men to his standard until
/he became a power. His patroitism
/ caused him to hate everything that
' smacked of power. Huerta became
liis personal enemy when he was de
clared the provisional president o
Mexico and Villa joined forces under
Carranza. Some day he will probab
ly kill Carranza, if lie ever gets.
chance.
“Villa in his narrower sphere is
much like Marat, Danton and Robes
pierre. Jealous of liis position,drunk
with power, he lias utterly no regard
for human life. It makes no differ
ence *o him wheather his victim is
an American.an Englishman or a Mex
lean. I was in liis office the day af
ter the killing of Benton and I be
lieve that Villa personally killed Ben
ton. I know that he has killed oth
ers and that my life was contemplat
ed.
“Just as Villa likes to do his own
killing he is his own paymaster. He
keeps no books and when a sum of
money comes into his possession he
lines up his soldiers and hands them
each a sum of money.
“Another phase of this strange
man's character is his attempt at
discipline. He lines bis soldiers up
each morning to witness the execu :
tion of a few deserters. This is sup
posed to create a spirit of fear in the
hearts of his followers and has the
desired effect. He is also making a
strenuous attempt to stop the sale of
liquor to his soldiers and punishes
severely all infractions of the rule.
“I have traveled over 350,000 mi
les of Mexico on horseback during
more than twenty years’ residence
there, making several trips a year.
I want to say that the troubles h
Mexico will never be settled by Mex
icans. There are 5,000,000 people in
Mexico who have no conception c!
government and who never heard of
President, but Diaz. I know of 100,-
000 Indians who still use the bow
and arrow, and as many more who
are in bondage. I have had to buy
Indians for my ranch. They are like
children, and they are sold from the
police courts at. so much a head. An
Indian is fined S3OO for being drunk
and a planter pays half of the fine
and secures the Indian. If the In
d.an is a good worker he is kept in
perpetual debt. If he is worthless
he soon gets his liberty and is run
of* the plantation. I have seen colo
nies of Jamaica negroes whoes anees
tors were taken to the interior of
Mexico three hundred years ago. The
a>e as black as coal and have never
intermarried with the Indians, nor
do they now speak their language.
“The salvation of Mexico is sum
med up in one word, and that is ‘em
ployment.’ Allow foreign capital
go to work and let the American Gov
ernment assure that capital protec- !
tion. and in a day the armies now
in the field will disappear. The
ranches have been raided and the
men must go soldiering or starve. 1
know that one + ousand babies and
five hundred women are dying in
Mexico every day from exposure and
starvation.
“American women and children are
subjected to terrible and unbelieve
able cruelties in Mexico. White men
who seek to protect their families or
interests ‘disappear.’ 'Pile better ele
ment of residents of Mexico de
sire peace —I know because 1 have
just returned from Mexico. 1 have
traveled where other white men were
afraid to follow. I wanted Congress
to know real conditions in Mexico,
and headed an expedition, but they
all turned back. I wanted to show
them what Mexico is suffering and
what foreigners are suffering,but
they were not willing to continue
the investigation.
“The authorities in Washington
have much data, pictures of actual
scenes and tin 1 testimony of Ameri
cans who have lived in Mexico. If
we had any excuse to make war with
Spain then we have a million times
more excuse to intervene in Mexico.
“A quick blow from the residents
of tlu> border states would break up
tin* men now in the field and estab
lish order. I have heard that men in
Congress have said that it would
require 500,000 men to conquer Mex
ico and police it. I think 10,000 men
from Texas. Arizona and the other
border states can conquer Mexico and
police it. But as T said before/ in
vasion would not be needed it' our
own country would protect foreign
capital and allow the so-called sold
iers to return to work. It' we do noty'
then later the United States may be
called on to pay all of the indemni
ties suffered at the hands or the Mex
cans.’’
CONVICTS AND CONVICTS.
Oklahoma, renowned for rarely do
ing any thing in the way that other
folks do it, is at present putting on a
brand new show. The two leading \
candidates for the gubernatorial nom
ination at the hands of the dominant
political party of the state are for
mer convicts, botli admit it, and the
chief point at issue between them
seems to be as to which one deserves,
the most credit for not continuing in
definitely a career of crime that wa:
begun under highly promising circuin-i
stances.
The story of A1 Jennings is farnil- I
iar to all readers of contemporary fic
tion. Not that the recital itself coin !
es within the classification of fiction,!
but it will be recalled that it was ac
tually penned by a man who has at- ,
tained fame as a novelist and ap
peared in a magazine with an inter
national reputation for the character
of the fiction that it publishes.
Jennings undoubtedly was at om !
time a very bad man. In the lang-!
uage of the aged darkey, “he ’fessed i
to it hisself” in the gripping story :
of his life written for him by WiJ
Irwin. It also appears that he ha.l
forsaken the paths of crime and is
deserving of much credit for ‘beat
ing back' on the trail to right living
and good citizenship. With equal
candor he also “fesses” to that.
Americans admire courage, and tn
appealwith which jennings holds pub
lic lies not alone in the physical cour
age that he showed in his wild train
robbing days, but also in the moral
courage with which he has confessed
to a black past and tlie emphatic de
fiance with which he informs liis tra
ducers that if they had their deserts
many of them would themselves be
on the inside looking out.
In order to combat growing popu
larity of Jennings, the opposing fac
tion of the democratic party in Okla
homa has brought out against him.
George Crump, who blandly and
proudly points to liis career as a real
estate grafter and liis conviction of
high crimes and misdemeanors. When
it comes to a horrible past, he as
serfs, A1 Jennings lias positively no
thing on him, and it is with confi
dence, therefore, that he appeals for
the suffrage of his fellow citizens of
the proud commonwealth of Okla
homa.
The issue presented to the voters
seems to be clear cut and well de- i
fined,viz.,which would make the best
governor,a former convicted train-rob
ber or a former convicted real estate
grafter. The republicans have not
vet been heard from; but it' they ex
pect to make any sort of showing in
the election it is up to them to bring
forward the man who set fire to an !
orphan asylum and robbed a blind
man of his pennies. With such a can
didate they may yet redeem the state
from democratic misrule. —Prescott i
Jourtial-Miner.
Clothes Cleaned and Pressed.
Also washing. Leave packages at!
Randle’s store.
THE PARKER POST, SATURDAY, SATURDAY, MARCH 21.
v spent several days in Phoenix early
this week. Dr. Tupper came direct from northern Sonora, where he was the
guest lor a week of General V nustiano Carranza, leader of the Constitutional''
ist forces. It is his belief that both Carranza aud General Villa, the captor
of Juarez, are absolutely sincere. Moreover, he says that Villa is loyal to
Carranza and has no intention of starting a revolution of his own.
Unseen and unsuspected influences are at work to bring about peace in
Mexico, Dr. Tupper says. If those influences fail, he will favor intervention
by the United States.
« . * .
That the state of Arizona will receive a revenue of $400,000 a year from
its grazing lands if the Kent bill, now pending in congress, becomes a law,
is a statement made by Charles P. Mullen and Dwight B. Heard, president
and vice-president of the Arizona Cattle Growers’ association, who have just
returned from Washington. They went there to urge federal control of
grazing lands and state that the Kent bill meets their approval. Their opin
ion is that it will pass.
There are 40,000,000 acres of grazing laud in Arizona, and under the
Kent bill it will be leased for $560,000 a year. The net proceeds, after the
cost of administration has been paid, will be about $400,000, all of which
will go into the school and road funds of the state.
Fred T. Colter of Apache county, re
cently appointed to succeed Hugh S.
''****”* '/ Campbell on the state fair commis-
sion, has always been an enthusiastic
booster for Arizona’s big show. He
intends to do everything in his power
f to make the 19J 4 fair the greatest in
§£•/ 1 Jar? - .• history from every point of view. Mr.
? M iv Colter has much influence among the
|||; : W /.. * sheepmen, cattlemen and horsemen.
% and will see that there are big ex
\ S ’ Mbits of all classes of stock.
jfcioi * “I’m a new member of the commis
[fitep - sion, and I know that it is up to me
iHHat . to show what 1 can do,” Mr. Colter
,<*H-' • said. “I don’t believe that the 1914
|||P?3 . fair will suffer by comparison with
•• :/ - G IOB6 we have had in former years.”
IflllNt' -'/l*. r '3 Two adjoining eighty-acre tracts.
||«Pp- s .' : -'-'-. ,<] just west of the city of Mesa, have
PPpliii:, % |j been chosen as the most suitable site
1111111 ' . : JKMr tor the new state experimental farm.
-I;/ The price asked for the land is $3.3,-
111111 M 000. Last spring the legislature made
' maiii * • an appropriation of $30,000 for a new
yllpr experimental farm. The citizens of
PPpPPlik ' Mesa have been asked to add $5,000
jet 4 to the fund in order that the two
eighties can be purchased and a start
made toward the improvement of the
Section 37 of the state insurance
code is to be tested in the superior
FRED T. COLTER court of Maricopa county. This sec
tion provides that whenever insurance
is written with companies not authorized to do business in Arizona, 15 per
cent of the premiums shall be paid to the state. Two suits have already
been filed by Assistant Attorney General Leslie M. Hardy, the Copper Queen
Mining company and Ray Consolidated Copper company being the defend
ants. About ten other corporations deny the constitutionality of the . sec
tion in question and suits will be filed against, them all.
The Yavapai bond case, which will determine the power of supervisors
in calling bond elections, has reached the supreme court on appeal. All
counties where road bond issues are contemplated are particularly Interested
in the outcome.
Federal Judge William H. Sawtelle has decided that offices for the filing
of dosuments and keeping of records will be maintained only at Phoenix and
of documents and keeping of records will be maintained only at Phoenix and
Globe, though court sessions will be held also at Tucson and Prescott.
Wiley E. Jones of Phoenix and Sam L. Pattee of Tucson have been
named by United States Attorney T. A. Flynn as his assistants. Mr. Pattee
has just finished his work of codifying the Arizona laws.
Since the California supreme court upheld the automobile registration
law of that state, it has been announced that there will be no fight against
the Arizona statute, which is almost identical. A number of Arizona auto
mobile owners paid their regisration fees under protest.
Judge Fred Sutter of Bisbee has been announced as a democratic candi
date for governor. Lin B. Orme, a member of the Maricopa county board of
supervisors, is seeking the democratic nomination for auditor. Chief Jus
tice Alfred Franklin admits that he is thinking of becoming a candidate foi
Mark Smith’s seat in the senate.
The war department has appointed Colonel George Leroy Brown, in
structor in military science at the University of Arizona, to have charge oi
the camp of instruction for officers of the National Guard of Arizona, to be
held near Tucsou, April 6 to 11. A regular army officer will be detailed as
instructor.
Broom corn is being planted on the state prison farm at Florence, ami
will be turned into brooms by the prisoners. A small plant has already
been installed.
A Chicago publishing house has filed in the federal court at Phoenix a
suit for SIO,OOO against Miss Sharlot M. Hall, last territorial historian. It
is alleged that Miss Hall tailed to carry out a contract to write a history of
Arizona and denied any connection with the firm in question.
The Border States Tennis association will hold a tournament on the
Phoenix Country club grounds May 7 to 10, inclusive. It will be the first
tournament in Arizona under the rules of the National Lawn Tennis asso
ciation. Hundreds of visitors from Arizona, California, New Mexico and
Texas are expected.
PROHIBITION IS GAINING.
From all appearances 1914 will be a
history-making epoch for the temper
ance cause. In several states pro
hibitionists are active and expect to
elect entire tickets. The Texas “dry”
taction oF the democratic party has
named Colonel Thomas H. Ball as its
standard bearer. It so happens that
the pros are in a majority in Texas, j
consequently it looks as though Col.
Ball would be winner in the state pri
maries which are held in July. Ar
kansas has tightened up on the liq
uor business until that state is as
dry as Sahara in nearly every section.
California is going to make a show
ing that will astonish the country.
The world is fast finding out. that
saloons are a curse to mankind,
and graduallly but surely the liquor
men are being driven out of business.
Even the man who drinks for sociabil
ity sake admits that drink does him
injury. The advocates of “personal
liberty” cannot point to a single ele
vating feature to tin? saloon business.
Why, then, should anything which is
debasing be longer tolerated? Put
the money spent for drink into
homes, and there will be no starving
women or children and many homes
will be established where there are
now none.—National Weekly.
ANOTHER CATERPILLAR.
Manley G. Hughes, who has formed
a partnership with O. L. Grimsley in
the caterpillar freight line,has arriv
ed from Oakland, bringing with him i
a new 75 horse power caterpillar to
be used in hauling freight to and
from the Santa Fe. The new machine
made its first trip this week, bring
ing in a car load of freight and did
the worjc perfectly satisfactory. It is
a Holt machine of the latest patern.
—Blythe Herald.
Making a greenback elastic is uo
aaay job
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04192
Department of the Interior, U. S.
I Land Office at Los Angeles* Calif.
Fobr. 4, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that Josiah
Martin, of Rannells, California, who,
on April 13, 1908, made Homestead
I Entry, No. 04192, for NW%, Section
i 30, Township 7 S., Range 22 E., S.
B. Meridian, lias filed notice of in
tention to make five-year Proof, to
establish claim to the land above de
scribed, before Register and Receiv
er, 11. S. Land Office, at Los Ange
les, California, on the 24th day of
March, 1914, at 9:30 o’clock A. M.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Andrew .1. Ashurst, W. D. Hickey,
P. 11. Bodkin all of Neighbours, Cali
fornia. Mary E. Herves, of Los An
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