Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-04
KENO AIDS WARS DELIGHTS
Juarez Forgets the Rebellion in Music
of the Rafting Balls.
NsURRECTOS BUSY OUTSIDE CITY
Work of Repairing Railroad Delayed
and Guerrilla Tactics Resumed
by the Scattered Bands
of Rebels.

JUAREz, Mexico, March so.-(speoial
Correspondence)- Its a soft, sternly, beau
uful night along the banks Of the Rio
Grande. The mendicants. leather skinned
and frightful, have quit their whimperings
ana crawled into adobe houses. At the bar
racks nearly the whole garrison has been
relieved Of arms and checked and locked In
like 90 many cOnvicts; but not ALL for in
ucnt OF the jail on top of the mission of
guadalupe, near the Plaza Detoros, the bull
fighting areana, and stalking YEARLY about
the streets and railroad yards are long
capped sentries with rifles ever ready, New
rumors have come Of the proximity OF the
insurrectos. Sand bags on roofs in the
night light give Rfotesque shapes to the
buildings. All admit attack is certain. but
when will 1t be-? Perhaps tonight; prob
ably manana tomorrow. But what is care
when sport bewrinkied" may be had at
the two palatial keno halls.
All Playing Keno.
Every car from the American side dis
gorges crowds Of people from all parts of
the earth. Every one scrambles to be first
In the long, mirrored rooms where n re-
volving mahogany box, on two brass stan
dards dropping numbered balls. one bv
one, holds attention rapt II is 1880 o'clock
and the last carload pushes into the hall
to find that every chair at the long tables.
with electric push buttons, conveniently
handy is filled, and that all OF the 400
cards are In play. II IL curious sight
THIS room full OF people. The keno hall
- the one pretentious place In the city.
One side Of the hall is inlaid with oblonp
beveled mirrors; at the far END the wan o.
covered with figures, up to 800 which light
electrically as the numbers OF the cards
In play are read by readers, who plug in
with telephone at each table. Each card
must be registered here to win; on another
figure chart the figures on the baIla
monotonously sung out by the caller, show
up 80 all may see
There is polygot hum In the room. for
mellow Castilian Spanish, the dialects Of
poems and the sure voiced assertions OF
the cosmopolite merge into a sonorous en-
semble.
General Navarro a Devotee.
More than half OF the crowd are women
and girls; a few tourists: flashily dressed
and jeweled women from Eel Paso; but
more beautiful dark skinned senoras and
sSnoritas. This is a great comminRlinR OF
classes. Mexican officers with bright col
ored uniforms and dangling side arms.
wide-sombreroed mining men, poems. Amer
lean laborers and sportive business men
josue together in reaching for cards to
play. Juan ]. Navarro. brigadier general
commanding the northern military zone Of
Chihuahua is keno fiend. Tonight he is
seated beside a roughed beauty from
across the river and pretty senorita who
smiles deferentially upon him. He Is play
Ing four cards and is nervously handling a
bunch of keno buttons. He has been play
A. nd ha9
TerrOrizing Train Crews.
Advices from Torreon, Mex, say that
while train crews were engaged in repair
ing bridges between and Pedricena and
Aqua Vieja, a number of rebels entered
the railroad camp and demanded the Mexi-
can inspector. When he appeared he was
roughly seized and marched into the dark.
He was told he had ignored their orders
to do no more repairing and that he was
being taken out to be shot He was taken
out some distance. stood up in front of
a firing squad. and after being kept in
suspense several minutes WAS released.
Freight traffic In northern Mexico is para
lyzed and has been the last fortnight.
While most of the citizens OF Eel Paso are
frankly friendly toward the revolution.
business men declare that the loss OF trans
portation facilities is ruinous to their bust
ness. Mexicans come from as far as 500
miles south to trade In FL Paso, and there
Is no more Of this. One wholesale mer
chant declares he has orders for $4,000
worth Of goods for points In northern Mex
leo. which should have been shipped weeks
ago.
Back to Guerrilla Tactics.
One OF the members OF the revolutionary
junta asserts that the style Of the insur-
reetos' fighting has been changed and that
though there is little news Of large en-
gagements the rebels are doing effective
fighting every day and rapidly filling the
hospitals in Chihuahua. He saws 40 lon1