The May Bugle. (May, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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Notice
List your Land for Exchange or Sale with
F. A. DALE
Plenty of Money to Loan on Good Farms.
Special Rates on Live Stock Insurance.
“BARBAROUS MEXICO’
BY JOHNIE B. CAMP.
Chapter 3
The Modern Garage
AUTOES REPAIRED,
PRICES REASONABLE.
Up-To-Now Shaler Steam Vulcanizer
C. E. BORTHICK, Proprietor
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W. H. Temple
DUNLAP, OKLA.
It the place to buy anything you need in
Furniture, Hardware
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and Implements.
We are earnestly trying to conduct our
nesB to command ycrnr respect and merit
patronage by fair dealings and the lowest
sible prices.
1. C. SMITH, Mgr.
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OUR PUBLIC FORUM
R.
On
P. Schwerin
the Seamen’s Bill
Tha, 'iXm^rtcan plowmen am Internsted In sea com
merre. Tt! is expensive and likewise humiliating to have
to salute a foreign flag every time a farmer wants to ship
a bushel af wheat, a bale of cotton or a pound of farm
products a, ross the ocean The American farmer Is en-
titled lo th* protection of his flag in sending his products
across the s.?a, and Congress should give such encourage-
ment to shlfl ping interests as is necessary to meet foreign
competition i'n ocean commerce. A recent bill known as
the Seaman's Bill became a law under the President's
signature and Mr. R. P. Schwerin, vice-president of the
Pacfiflc Mail ('te&mshlp Company, when asked to define
this law and outline its effect upon American steamship
lines, said in pt^rt:
The bill provides that no shij,’ of any nationality 'shall be permitted to
'depart from any po>rt -of the Uniteil States unless she has on board a crew
inot less than seventy-(five per centum o of which, in each department thereof,
is able to understand any order gi* •ren by the officers of such vessel, nor
unless forty per cefntum in the first jt ear, forty-five per centum In the secoud
[year, fifty per centum in the third y\’«r, fifty five per centum in the fourth
(.year after the pussage of this Act, and. thereafter sixty five per centum of her
deck crew,-exclusive of licensed officer* and apprentices, are of a rating not
less than able seaman.’
‘‘The oversea trade cf the world irf competitive, thetefore the original
most cf the ship and the operation of the! ship have to be reckoned with In
.the keen competition of these rival nation* wi,h one another. The Oriental
sailor is obedient and competent and is t\ 'e cheapest sailor in the world,
lit is therefore manifestly clear that if thf» *aw aPPbed to all nationalities
(in the transpacific traffic, all would be on 0 e&me economic basis, but it
.'works a single hardship to all the ships of' i 116 world, except the Japanese
faud American ships, and with the latter it rks two hardships. With the
European, the cost of constructing a ship is no higher than the cost of con-
jstructing a Japanese ehip, but if they had to ptVv'de European crews, while
the Japanese operated with Japanese crews, ttu' condition of competition
•would be euch that they could not overcome t he h* ndlcap and they would
•driven off. But the American ship would hav e to <v>ntend not only with
•tremendous Increase of cost of wage in the sul «titutk'n of the European crew
,for the Chinese crew, but also the greater lr ltial cdt’t of the ship.
'Japanese have now done away with their E hropean officers ^
;crews, all of whom speak a common language, there is &o difficulty f T
■to comply with all the conditions of the bill > and ccWjtl.iue their Japan s
[crews, with Oriental wages.
"The law, therefore, Instead of assisting th jo American ship, adds ®no her
heavy burden, while It places none w hatever v (po» the Jal’®ne8® *“*?• v. ’
'the contrary, turns over to the Japanese th e traffic of rue i a in ,
•which the American ship is forced to fore: p> act conKr 8
iUnited State*.” - - - —
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If You Know Any News Tell the
Bulge
A Skirmish With The Yaquis.
Mexico, as a whole, is almost
entirely undeveloped, in the
southern part of the nation it is
covered with heavy forest. All
kinds of hardwood such as ma-
hjgony, some kinds of oak, wal-
nut, rosewood and many other
valuable timbers. The Mexicans
are iv.airing but little effort to
use this very valunble timber.
And when Americans or other
foreigners buy it from the gov-
ernment they make a terrible
howl about the grin goes robbing
them of their resourses, piffle,
they could have it themselves
for the taking but they are too
infernal ignorant and indolent to
make use of it even as the
Yaquis of the north are too laxy
teo wash out the millions of dol-
lars worth of raw gold to be had
just as easy as easy as falling
off a log and not half so danger-
ous. In fact all Mexico is very
rich in natur 1 resourses,such as
oil, hardwoods, softwoods: gold,
silver, copper and abundant
grazing lands and fertile lands
that is ideal for most all kinds
of crops. Do the Mexicans take
advantage of their riches? No
sir-ee, they wait til some one
with energy and brains to come
down there, then they take what
want. Easy? Sure. Why not?
Our government stands for it.
The northern part of that
country is full of mineral in pay-
ing quantities arid were the Am-
ericans allowed to go in there
and work those mineo and estab-
lish farms and ranches and what
would naturally follow, those
crazy Mexicans would be much
better off, but they can't seem
to see it that way. They seem
to be of the opinion that if Am-
ericans, or Gringoes, as they call
us, enter their country that we
will rob them and take away all
their rights as well as their prop-
erty. And if the average Mexi-
can is worth over 10 cents per
capita, I am badly fooled.
I am sure, that should we es-
tablish a staple form of goven-
ment down there and let the Unite-
States flag wave over it, the
common Mexican would be aided
greatly. Now they are but peons
which means slaves. While I
am on this topic AI will explain
just what is a peon and how
they are made.
Suppose I am a Mexican labor-
er and I have bought a horse or
a bill of groceries or anything
else from someone and I did not
not pay all down on it, and I still
owe the fellow, say $25.00,it has
come due and I have no money
with which to pay the debt,
am arrested, and taken before
the court, which imposes a fine
of just double the amount of the
debt and imprisonment of one
year. Then I am let out lo the
highest bidder, the person whom
I ovv having preference over all
others.
As a rule the bids run about
10 and 15 cents per day includ-
ing board. I have to work out
the twenty-five dollars that I
owe the man, the court costs,
the fine and the year imprison-
ment. Now figure out how long
it would take me to work out $75
plus about an hundred as court
costs then ad on the year and
see how long it will be before I
am free again. While I am
working to pay off the debts I
have to buy my own clothing
and pay my own doctor bills.
And as a rule the peons are
whipped by their masters until
they have to have to have a doc-
tor1 every little while. Can you
see any hope of me ever being
free again? I am a peon now
and will be as long as there is
life in my body. Do you blame
the Mexicans for revolting
against such a government?
They have been ruled in this
manner since and even before
Maximilian,the French conquer-
or, and the Catholic priests over
threw the Spanish government
in Mexico. Under Old Diaz’s
regime, they were ruled thus,
and they elected Francisco Ma-
ero their leader and over-threw
the Diaz government and estab-
lished a real republican form of
srovernment. But this did not
suit certain moneid interests,
and Madero who was one of the
finest men that ever lived on
Mexican soil, was killed, murder-
ed, and in his place was put the
greatest rascal, the yellowest
dog. that in my opinion ever ate
chili, Huerta. And the Mexi-
cans are still fighting, some for
liberty, some because they
would as soon do that of any
thing else and others because
the must, while still others do
not know why they are fighting.
It is anarchy. They now have
government. They are no
respeotors of peoples rights, and
this condition, in my opinion,
will exist indefinately, possibly
for ten or fifteen years unless
the government of the United
States puts a fitop to it. And
why not do this now? Better so
than to wait and let them keep
up their raids and killing ol
Americans, We could establish
the proper government down
there and there is millions of
acres of fine tillable, fertile land
that could be distributed among
the thousands of homeless farm-
ers in the United States as well
as give homes to all Mexicans
that would take it. And give
work to thousands of the jobless
in the mines, mills and the
many other industries that
would immediately be establish-
ed in that country.
What first started the to think-
ing of war with Mexico was the
infernal idiot that thought he
had traded me his daughter.
Such laws as will allow the sel-
ling of your own children, Isn’t
just the kind that I like best.
I have known many casses of
selling children,especially grown
girls to foreigners, and the trad-
ing of wives is common. Q, its
a great place to live, I Don’t
think.
But I have gotten quite off my
story, haven’t 1?
Well we weighed our dust and
found that we had about enough
to net us about $2200.00 each.
We thought that was doing pret-
ty good for a months work, and
as we Were out of grub we pack-
ed our burrows and hit the trail
for Yum. But we were destined
for a sad ending of our pleasant
so-journ into the Yaqui country.
We were congratulating our-
selves on the great luck we had
ha^ in our mining and with the
Yaquis. But we were a little
premature. About four o’clk ol
the evening that we began our
trip to Yuma, we were attacked
by a band of about seventy-five
Yaquis.
We had just topped a high,
rocky mountain when they rush-
ed at us. from behind a large
cliff, to our left. We started to
show fight, but noting Jtheir
numbers we fled. But they be-
gan firing at us and we soon saw
that it was uselss so we surren-
dered, but not before'several of
our number had been shot. No
one but Roaring Bill was hurt to
amount to much. He received a
ball in his hip that was the cause
of his death, When we hadjseen
the futility of further resistance
we haulted and the ;Yaqui3 ad-
vanced on us and took us cap-
tives.
They first seized Comback
Jones, whom they recognized as
one who had once before been
chased out of their country, and
built a fire and heated a long
sharp rock, they burned a big
cross on his forehead and told
him that that would show to all
Yaquis that he was legitimate
prey to all Yaquis, and that they
would be doing their country a
service by killtng the boarer of
the cross.
Then they searched everyone
of us, taking our canteens of
water, gold and everything, and
bidding us get out at once, drove
our burros away, leading us
there, more than an hundred
miles from the border and many
milee from the border, and not a
bite to eat, with a dying man on
our hands. We faced one of
the terriblest deaths that man
can suffer, that of dying of
thirst. It was serious. You
may not understand whv we
considered it so serious, with
water within at least seventy
five miles of us but in a desert
country, when it is as hot as
hades and not a shade to be had
and no time to enjoy the com-
fort of one had there been many
it was no joke.
We made a kind of a stretcher
or hammock out of soto stalks
and put Roaring Bill on it and
carried him, two of us taking
each end, and taking turn about
we traveled about five miles and
stopped to rest for the night.
Bill’s fever began to raise and
we felt sure that we would nev-
er get him to Yuma. Next
No Better Lumber
Ever Grew Than that We
have in Store FOR YOU!
Dry and Sound and Neatly
Dressed—the kind thats rat-
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Buy it!
Roberts Brothers.
Lumber Co.
morning about daybreak we re-
sumed our journey. By night
night none of us could hardly
speak above a whisper, our lips
were parched and our tongues
and throats were swelling and
some even turning black. Oh,
such misery. Such suffering.
Never have people suffered more
in the same length of time than
did our little band of gold hunt-
ers.
Bill died that night and we
considered him the most fortun-
ate of all. Indeed, one of ear
number, a fellow known to us
as Jack, tried to kill himself
but we kept him from it. When
we went to bury Bill we scratch-
ed a shallow hole, with sharp
rocks, deep enough to cover him
and laid him to rest. At day-
break we were again pushing
forward, and about 9 o’clock we
came to a hidden spring or un-
der ground river. There was a
hole about twenty feet deep and
about ten feet in diameter at the
top and four feet about half way
down, while at the bottom it
was thirty or fourty feet across.
The sides of the hole were al-
most perpendicular but we paid
that no mind. We made a dash
for it and slid down to the warer
which was mostly alkili but it
was wet and cool and we askec
no better.
There were some that woulc
have killed themselves had we
not beat them away from the
water, and they fought like
beasts to get to it. But we al-
lowed them to take a few swal-
lows at a time and stayed in the
river all day and wallowed
around in the water, at night we
came out by letting one man
stand on anothers shoulder and
support the one that was getting
out. When we had all gotten
out but two we made a kind of a
rope from Soto stalks and let it
down to them. Two days later
we arrived at a ranch house,
nearly famished for food, but
we had found plenty of water,
such as it was, after the first
two or three days.
(To Be Continued.)
’hone 21.
May, Okla.
C. B. C0ZART {
GRAIN COj
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May, Okla.
Phone 69 and 17
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Paid for Grain
Seed.
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Lawyer
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Woodward
Oklahoma City
The Central
hotel
M. Collins, Proprietor
Reasonable Rates
Good Accommodation
Everything Homelike
A GOOD PLACE TO STOP.
Woodward. Oklahoma.
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MAY. OKLA.
T. S. STAFFORD
Dental Surgeon.
Permanent Office, .. May, Okla
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LAWYER
Office at Ideal Hotel
May, Oklahoma.
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D. R. PARKER
Attorney-at-Law
BUFFALO, OKLAHOMA
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