The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1916 Page: 2 of 12
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Keep up
Your General
Health
Watch your health this
Spring and be on guard
against an attack of Spring
Fever, Biliousness or a gen-
eral run-down condition.
HOSTETTER'S
Stomach Bitters
is a splendid medicine for the
Spring months. Try it.
Theodore Roosevelt was the young-
est man ever elected to the presidency
of the United States.
OFFICER'S WIFE
TELLS OF BATTLE
Night and Wholly Un-
expected.
bauslr 1, and of coarse we all were. I
cannot imagine, even now. how my
mother and 1 got across that open
space without being hit
"My husband will be one of the first
to cross the border with the troops on
the regular expedition when the order
comes I suppose he is already in Mex-
ico. Isn't that the worn from Washing
Onslaught Came In the Dead of ton-
"But. of course I could stay no lon-
ger *-ith the baby. My tome 'a in
. Norfolk. Va and 1 am going there
j On the Rock .sland train en route
to Chicago the Williams baby had be-
come a general favorite with the pas-
sengers He never tired of giving bis
version of the raid.
Hi Uniform Like Father's.
At the station, while the party w^s
waiting for a taxicaL. he proved a
picturesque figure In his brown khaki
I uniform, an exact eplica of his fa
I ther s. and his huge Meiican straw
sombrero
He walked up and down the waiting
room waring a little American flag,
and announcing to all comers that his
father was "a big sojer" and was go
ing to "kill those Me cans "
Baby, where :s daddy?' asked Mrs
WOMEN RUN BULLET GANTLET
Wounded Nurse Says She Was Too
Excited to Notice injury—Brief
Reign of Terror a Horrible
Experience.
Chicago.—The first refugees from
Villa's brief reign of terror Id Colum-
bus. N. M„ reached Chicago yester-
day.
There were four in the party—the
wife and mother-in-law of Ca pi.
George Williams of the Thirteenth
UniteJ States cavalry, tbe captain s
four-year-old son. Wortbingtou Wil-
liams, and the latter s nurse.
Captain Williams was with the de
tachment under Major Tompkins
which pursued the Villa raiders across
the border and is still on duty at Co-
lumbus He is reported to have been
wounded in the hand
Women Shaken by Raid.
The women appeared pale and
shaken by their experience, but Worth
Ington. blue eyed, api le cheeked, and
tousled as to yellow hair ttrutted up
and down the waiting room of the La
They were not fi-ing. Then from an
overhanging porch across the street
came several shots, and one or two of
th' Villisti s fell. The rest, twenty
or twenty-five in number, wheeled and
came back. Several of them spurred
over toward the house and kicked at
the door, while the rest shot from
their horses, which stood stock still.
Killing Them Uike Flies.
"'An old Mexican woman called
Kellce. came upstairs carrying .Mrs.
Taylor's two small children Sbe
wanted to take them up on the roof,
but I had heard someone say, "They're
killing them on the roofs like flies."
and so I took the children and stuffed
them between the spring and mattress
o' a small bed in their mother's room.
If cross, feverish, constipated,
give "California Syrup
of Figs."
A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
j lake the time from play to empty their
j bowels, which become clogged up with
I told them to be quiet. A few mm- I As practically all Villas men are; waste. "ver gets sluggish; stomach
utes later when a second party rode mounted, to catch him mounted troops ! sour
down the street, we all ran up to the will have to be used This means cav i Look at 'he tongue, mother! If coat-
roof. leaving the Taylor . hildren On airy and field artillery if he gets into ! ed' or >'ollr child is listless, cross, fev
the roofs of other houses we could e .
the families lying at full length. Ws
could also see a great number of fires,
and the roll of the rifies was almost
without a break
" In the morning I saw many of
the dead Mexicans In the streets while
Mr. 'taylor nastak'r.g me to the train.
I had intended to stay for at least two
weeks longer, but . lost no time In
leaving after the raid. .Vben I left
the only talk was of pursuit, tnd cow-
the Sierra Madres mountain artillery I prit;h- breath bad. restless doesn t eat
only can be used In this type of ar- ! heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
tillery the guns are dismounted from
the carriages and all the parts and am
munition carried on pack mules.
One Aero Squadron.
We have one aero squadron which,
if it can get over the country, probably
will be of great use in helping to locate
any considerable forces Villa may
keep together. We have no reserve of
men or horses to bring our regiments
boys and soldiers were saying that ' to war strength or to make good cas
they would go into Mexico with orders
or without.' "
HARASSING WITH SCATTERED BANDS
LIKELY TO BE VILLA'S TACTICS
or any other children's ailment give a
teaspoonful of "California Syrup of
Figs." then don't worry, because it is
perfectly harmless, and in a few hours
all this constipation poison, sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
a well, playful child again. A thor-
ough "iuside cleansing'' is ofttimes all
that is necessary. It should be thu
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of
"California Syrup of Figs," which has
full directions for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
Washington. D C.—The administra-
tion has snnounced that It has no in
tention of entering Mexico in force.
nd therefore will merely send a suffl
cient body of mobile troops to locate
have been beaten, as be was. but cap-
tured or killed, and his whole force
dispersed.
Tco Scattered for Protection.
An attempt to give some protection
Williams halting his sentry duty for anrl disperse or capture the band or to all parts of tho border has led
a moment
"Ob. be s in camp.** said Worthing
ton promptly.
Wha 's be doing*"
"Fightin the Meyans."
"Who is your daddy?"
"Why don t you kno* ? He's a bt
sojer an* i ap n '*
Spend Day in Seclusion.
•Vben their taxi cab arrived the party
*er.t to the Virginia hotel, where Mrs.
Wiliiams and her mother spent the dry
in the seclusion of their rooms Worth-
ington. however. - nt out with tits
bands which attacked Columbus. j a dispersion of the troopB to such u„
This. then, is the problem before the j extent that there are rnanv compara
war department. To bring this about, lively weak points, such as'Columbus
two forces must be provided, one to go All Villa or anv other leader has to
after Villa and the other to guard the do Is to determine bv mean« o' spies
! border, so that he or other Mexican where they are. and then suddenly
ualties Therefore, even if we start
with them at peace strength, we will
have to let the regiments used run j
down in strength or else till them up j
with green men and green horses. The
greater the number of these the less ,
the efficiency, with the consequence I
that as time goes on we will probably j
need a good many more men than i
would have been the case had we at
the present time sufficient trained r ;
| servists to fill our regiments to war
i strength and to make good casualties, j
Will Resort to Cuerrilla Warfare.
From Villa's expressed intention to ]
! involve the I nited States as much as j
possible in order to force intervention J Bladder trouble for about twelve months.
I the probabilities are that lie will not My condition was such that 1 was unab;*
I make
I but
Close B. Palmer has been leader of
a church choir at Maple Grove, Tenn
for the past 58 years.
Loss of Sleep From Kidney
Trouble-Became Very Thin
I had been suffering with Kidney ani
i loaders may not raid it as was done at
Columbus, says Capt. Henry J. Reilly
in tbe Chicago Tribune.
If Villa keeps his forces concentrat-
ed and offers battle, tbe problem will
be much more simple than if he scat
tors his forces in small bands all over
the country If he keeps them concen
attack them.
The only thing that saved the troops
at ( olumbus from being beaten by the
overwhelming numbers which Villa
brought against them Is the great su
periorltv of our regulars to any troops
Much the Mexicans can bring against
them For tbe pursuit of Villa most
■ pronaDiimes are mat lie will not conamon Mas sum inai i was uiiao;j
ke any attempt to tight a campaign j J° r®sl at n'8^t, and was reduced in fles.'i
• ♦. uj « • I *° almo8t a skeleton. When my kulnevs
will scatter his forces, in order would act they caused ine great p.iin an<l
nurse for a walk and kept up a ruu- trated we will have to send a force suf- of our cavalry undoubtedly will have
Salle street station, evidently having ning fire of comment on the street Sciently large to defeat him in battle to be taken. This means that ti e Dro
the time of his life. ears, the big buildings, and the other, and to guard its own line of cummuni tection of the border will have to hi
The bandaged band of tbe nurs- things he bad not been accustomed to j cation primarily in the hands of the inf.mtr\?
who are hindered by their comparativo
told a story tbe boy did not know-
how the wound which shattered the
woman's wrist had saved the child
from almost certain death by a Mex-
ican bullet.
encounter in Columbus
Neither Mrs. Williams nor tier
mother were inclined to discuss their |
experience in detail. After their brief
it'erview with a reporter they denied ;
Provisions Important Factor.
If he scatters his troops tn small j lack of mobility and the large stretches
bands all the principal points through of country they will have tr< protect
out the country In which he can oper Nature of Land
ate will have to be occupied in order The state of Chihuahua is immeili
that be may get no provisions from ately to the south of that part of the
ew intimate any of tbe towns or principal ranches border slong which Villa has recentlv
nor water from any of the water holes operated To its west is the «iate nf
News of their arrival quickly spread and be unable to use any of the passes S«mora. The two are separated bv ih
among the guests and attaches of tbe across the Sierra Madres. while at the Sierra Madr* Chihuahua i« \ "t
hotel, however, and when they entered j same time bodies of troops sufficiently three times the size of the sta^ ° "
the dining room for dinner they were j large chase and destroy his various New } ork About four-filths of ft "s
^ j rolling Plain at a height of from rour
The gi-ardlng of the border has been thousand to eight thousand feet abov.
a difficult matter since 1911. when the sea level. In general it slopes down
Nurse Very Modest. troops were first sent on this duty hill from the south to the Ameriran
. - op. The nurse was modesty taciturn The frontier is 1,200 miles long Ap-! border This p'ain is MtB„i _
orthlngtov «tl.I asle-p rod started about her i art in the e* ape from the proximately six hundred of this is an brush and ti of all kinds The ve
W illiams home in Columbus, and even imaginary line. Along the Rio Grande, j etation Is distinguished by
reiused to give her name to rejiorters. which runs along the eastern half of , bearing capacity^
1 hardly felt the b ''lct wuen .t hit the border, there are many fords. In j There is not a great deal of
me," she said. "I was so excited, and, other words, in general the border can and such as there
of course. I was thinking only of get j be crossed easily almost anywhere.
ting to tne camp But It seems like
"We were II-ing in a house not far j themselves to calle's as far as pos
from the army camp." said Mrs Wll- sible receiving
llams. who Is on her way to her home i Chicago friends
In Norfolk. Va.. which sbe binks will
be a safer spot than the border The
baby was asleep in his little crib
when the raiders came.
The nurse was res" r.g on t cot tn
the same room, end. fortunately, was
wakeful. Jhe wat the first to hear
the shooting. She quickly warned
the rest of us and then picked
freelv if discreetly, stared at. An
early morntng train took them on their 1
wa; to Virginia.
throagh the rtreets icr the camp
Wounded, but Reaches Camp.
She tar1 covered about hal: the
distance when a bullet from one of
the raiders struck her right hand,
breaking se.eral bones She's a brave
flrl. though. „-.d w'th the blood f!o
Its thorn
<"-od s mercy that It hit me Instea I of
ing from be.- wound sbe stag£ere<! the bahy ' m Pre y K'ad of that, I
alone and reached t* e ramp In safety.
If that bullet had been an incb or
c e ther way—well I have enough
horrible thln-.s to th.nk of out the
babv you know. |n her arms
My mother and ' -an to the camp
end reached It soon after the nurse
By that time the hullttt were flying
e-errwhere. for the soldiers were r°
pelling th attack Then, before I
.•airly reallied what wa happening
mv hnsband had gathered his company
and was away with yiajor Tompkins
over the border after the fleeing VII
llstas
"I ne-'
ether «ti
the dead
tell you.
It'll be a btory to tell when Worth-
ington grows up. won t It?"
Girl Describes Cnslacght.
All along It are ranches. Here and
there along it are a number of towns
Need Cavalry on Border.
We have never had enough troops to
afford complete protection to all these
towns and ranches. The consequence
j has been that in most vicinities the
want tn pasj
experience
' night and «
cted
through an
II came at
>s so wholly
How entire families took to the 1 number of troops Is not s ;®cient to
roofs for safety whtn the Villistas | preTent such an attack as was made
made their descent on Col jmbus was i at Columbus. Such attacks have been
thM V
told to passengers on the Rock Islan
train by Frances iligdon a young
woman who went through the raid,
and was repeated by Horace M Ber-
ber and William D. Beckley of Mil
waukee They reached Chicago yes-
te- ay morning M:sb Higdon stopped
at her home in St. Louts.
Miss Higdon said she wa> i.opping
at a boarding house called the Hotel
Sacionale." decla.'ed Serber. 'I was
sleeping In the roiir next to Mrs.
water
is is generally found
in water holes, called tanques. Whil?
these, as a rule, are of considerable
size, they are generally quite a dis
tance apart.
If Villa keeps his force concentrated
he may retreat practically due south
which means a long stern chase, with
a steadily increasing line of communl
cations and more and more danger of
the mass of the Mexican people be-
coming convinced that we are making
a real Invasion Instead of merely help-
ing the federal authorities to dispose
of a dangerous rebel
able It Is a duty which thoold be On the other hand, he may cross the
principally performed by cavalry be j Sierra Madres ai d raid some part of
cause of the distances to be covered ] the Ariiona border, or be may return
and because the enemy forces almost I to the east and strike some part of
foreseen for a long time, but the war
department could not put more troops
along the frontier than it had avail-
" keep on the Mexican sld'j I reached us she narrated. The at-
b- -der. but we didn't think It tack seemed to havr centered several
' for a human being to com 1 blocks away Everyone "ame ruu-
'■h an act as that attack on In- nl i Into the hallway. I went to a
'rent womon and children
Ran Bullet Gantlet.
'Tie poor nurse wis almost
window, when I beard the sound of
| hard riding along our street, and saw
ex- ' & band uf Villistas riding through.
Invariably consist of mounted troops.
It may be remarked that in spite of 1
this obvious lack of troops now evi-
dent for almost five years the bill re-
cently reported by Mr. Hay s commit-
adds no cavalry to the army and only
ten regiments of Infantry. Had there
been sufficient cavalry Immediately 1
available at Columbus the probabill 1
lies are that had Villa attacked at all.
the Texas border. If be goes due
south the railroad of course will be
acailab '■ lor a line of communications
If he *<* toward the Sierra Madres.
- ,'he railway rnr.ning to Minaca will
a ^ould not be | 1 aylor when the reports of the guns tee of the hou3e of representatives , be ava.'ai, < |f he goes In any other
direction. *aarof> trains and pack trains
will tare u. t*t used. Whatever the
!:ne of run.::, r. altona thc-y will have
to be jf iar-led to prevent Villa or any
...... , considerable part of his force from
which would have been doubtful under slipping around tbe troops after
such circumstances, he not only would ! and attacking them.
him
to give as much trouble as possible
keep the border in an uproar, and
draw our forces as far as possible into
Mexico While the administration nas
dehnitely stated its desire to do noth-
ing more than to eliminate Villa, the
problem, due to the extent of country
over which he can operate and our
eomparative lack of troops, whkh pre-
vents our speedily ending the cam
paign. is one which can easily involve
us in difficulties which can only be
settled by a general war with Mexico.
GOLD AND AMMUNITION
BURIED BY VILLA'S MEN
Villa has 3 000 men with blm now,
according to the most authoritative re-
orts Ten thousand men. it is be
lieved, will join him on tbe da> the
American invasion is launched Men
old in the wisdom of the border say
Villa will have ftoin "JU.OOU to HO.OnO
fu within a week after the Uati'd
gringo" sets foot In Mexico
lales ccme out of Mexico of gold,
silver, and ammunition that Villa has
buried that put to shame the stories
I of Captain Kidd ami the lost pirate
treasure of Cocos island.
"I should place the gold and silver
;n bullion and ::ioney lhat Villa has
buried in northern Mexico at 16.000.- I
000.' said oue of the bandit s former
lieutenants "The spots where this
treasure is buried are known to no
one on earth except Pancbo Villa The
men who buried it for him were shot
Villa himself told me of one cache
of treasure he made in the mountains
near Guerrero, w hich is popularly suje
posed to have been bis birthplace It
required a pack train of six burros to
carry the sacks of money and gold and
silver bars to the spot where Villa
had decided to inter them
"Six men dug the trench After
their ieium to camp. Villa had them
arrested on a i barge ot treason Thev
met their death in front of a line of
Mausers and look the secret ot the
buried wealth into the other world
*lth them
'Villa told me this because I nap I
I ened to know one of the men and j
asked about bim 'He was a good sol !
uk r Villa answered but I had tn kill i
dim |
Villa also has burled millions or ;
pounds of ammunition and has scaled j
the secret of the caches in tragedy |
believe he has enough b.iried amiiiu- j
iitlico al bis disposal to tarry on a
loan campaign." , W
I did not have much appetne. "Through
j the advice of my father 1 was induced to
try Dr. Kilmer'* Swamp Root. Alter
| using Swamp Root I wv.si lestored to
health and have gmned sixty pounds, f
| am now in good health and able to work.
\ I feel as well as I ever did, and 1 cheer-
fully recommend Sw-ainp-Root to others
j who have kidney and bladder tiouLlc!.
Very truly yours,
i T. L. WALTON,
122 W Garrett .et. Paris, l'exa*.
Personally appeared before me this
1 25th day of February, 1915, T. L. Walti.n.
i who subscribed to the above statement
{ and made oath that the same is true and
I correct.
J. ?.I, LONG, Notary Public,
Lamar Co., Tejus.
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