The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1907-09-14
San ANTONIO ROUGH RIDERS
Including Some Battle Scared Vet
Grams Will Bo at tho Fair.

lie fol lowing communication
in line wit h one that appeared
in The Chief tain last week ex-
plains itself:
San Antonio, N. NJ. Sept. IL
Editor Chieftain:
Tell Boss Pat Savage. the
manager of the big Socoriu
county fair, that everything is
working all right at San Anton-
10, that my company of Rough
Riders will be there on schedule
time, and that he must have the
band ready. | expect To have
fifty mounted men in my compa-
ny, all in Rough Rid,r's uni
form, besides my juv, nile boy
Rough Riders.
| am going to have some bat
tie Scared veterans that have
been under fire in my proc, ssion.
Here is Dick Towser, who went
through the battle of FL Caney,
and was wounded while climbing
up San Juan hill. He will be
there, also Antonio Montoya,
nephew of Chief Victorio, the
famous Apache chiefwhoSe raids
through New Mexico and Ari-
zona in 1881 and 1882 cost these
two territories several hundred
lives and whose tribe Of some
300 braves were captured by
Luis Terrazas of the state of
chihuahua and all killed, will be
with my company. Antonio
was bought from the famous
chief by the late General Estan-
islao Montoya when he was four
years old, and has lost one arm
fighting his own tribe and blood
in the different Indian wars.
My chief surgeon will be Doctor
G.. IL. Bacon, the we'll known
physician and surgeon of San
Antonio and Carthage. The
doctor is an old veteran and has
seen actual service. He claims
to have been through the battle
of Buena Vista where every man
on both sides fell except him.
This battle is not recorded in
history, as the genial doctor is
too modest to tell of it. You
will see the veteran there with
the rank of captain. The red
cross ambulance will be driven
by Major Louis KoSsuth Hanna,
an old friend of my partner Mr..
Hilton and a pioneer citizen of
San Antonio. Mr.. Hanna is
known as Mark Hanna" here
on account of his staunch repub-
lican principles, having always
voted the republican ticket since
general Grants first term. Mr..
Hanna started in life right and
has been on the right track ever
since. He was born in Beaver
county, Pa, the same year that
Louis Kossuth, the famous Hun
garian patriot was visiting the
United States and spoke at Pitts
burg. He was named in honor
of the famous patriot by Rev.
Arthur B. Bradley, the pioneer
Methodist preacher of Beaver
county. Major Hanna ran the
pumping station here that fur
nished ten carloads of water
each day for the old Carthage
mine, also the water that made
the first commercial coke shipped
out of the territory. Mr.. Hanna
likes little boys and is always
ready to help them out and give
them a good time.
There will be several business
floats from here. Prof. p. A.
Marcellino, who has taught the
San Antonio school for the last
four years, will have a float of
boys and girls from his school.
Robert Mcintyre and John Nc
Kinley, superintendent of the
Allaire Emerson mine, have
promised a whole wagon load of
miners in their working clothes.
Besides. they will bring with
them the baseball team from
Carthage. John Mcintyre of the
Allaire-McIntyre company. who
has made a great success of the
chicken business here, will send
up float showing the different
varieties of poultry, which COM
prise all the leading brands pro-
duced in that line, including
geese, ducks, peacockS, and
Guinea hens.
Buster Bill Simpson is getting
alone all right drilling my men.
He tells me now that he does not
dig coal, but is the rope rider at
the Hilton mine. The rope
brings out all the coal dug at
that mine. You can lell Ruth,
that pretty Socorro girl, that my
brother Marvin was two years
old TODAY and that | have. com