The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-28
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Z.iI'.AT.i'S ARMY.
Composed Mostly of Outlaws and
f'u@itivcs from Justice.


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n zapata first recruited his fol-
lowers, they told me. says Edwin EN-
tfSon IN The New York Independen,
ne mad drawn to himself every outlaw
ana fugitive from justice Who nm ,n
mat Time had been hiding i'm the More
los NILS or i'm the vast underground
NaN's ol Nacahulnllpa, near Cuerna-
q
Later, when Zapata and his men
TOOK CuernaNaca. Zapata opened the
!ali and penltcntiary, and, putting a
good flf1e and a handful Of CARTRIDGES
INTO each convic1's hands. he babe
them help themselves to horses where
eve they could find them. AS there
are several horse ranches and rich
~haciendas with celebrated racing studs
in the immediate vicinity of C1,erna9
Naca. it did not take long before an
those new recruits were mounted ON
the best of horses, as was here tn he
seen.
After the great review Of Zapata's
bandit forces, Senior Madero commit
ted the colossal hlunder. as it turned
out to be. of paving off all of Zapato's
men Tor their alleged services in the
Madero revolution. without putting an
armed guard over them to see that
they actually turned in their rifles and
cartridges before returning to their
homes.
The result of this was that Emiliano
Lapata simply drew the sum of SO. 900
pesos set aside for himself and his
followers, without bothering to turf in
more than Il few stacks of arms. after
which he %nnounce that he and his
men would not give up any more arms
unless they received twice the amount
of the originally stipulated sum.
After this the misunderstanding be-
tween the newly constituted govern
ment authorities and the Zapata
brothers grew apace. Zapata was
summoned to the capital. He came
b~odyguard. In his brief stay at one
of the principal hotels in Mexico City
he enc things up by shooting out
all the of the cantina because
they would not serve him with drinks
after 3 O'Clock in the morning.
On the following day he and his
companions Communicated some half
Cuernavaca, about seventy-five miles
away. After this Zapata and his men
In Morelos became quite. unmanage-
able SO far as h newly constituted
authorities were concerned. Francis
co de la Barra, Mexico's president ad
interim, tried to temporize with the
Iapata brothers for a while. after
"hiNii oCIiOA NldueTO, Ill Ills capacity
as leader of the revolution, pending
his election as constitutional president,
made a special trip to Morelos to
smooth down the enraged Zapatists.
But the smoothing down" did not
last. for within a week Zapata's fol-
lowers were shooting up" the COL
umns Of regular soldiers who had been
seen to garrison the most important
towns of Morelos. in response to the
frantic appeals of the bandit harried
inhabitants Of that state.
From this time forth the campaign
between Zapata's bandit hordes and
various expeditions Of government
forces has been in full swing.
Zapata and his men, after being
driven out Of Cuernavaca. swung
southeast to Yautepec and Cuautla, in
Morolos, and after that southwark to
Joputla. both of which towns were
once more put to the sack.
About this time it was thought that
the bandits could be brought to terms
by moving against them. with the
' former rebel forces of Generals Fig
ueroa and Asunsolo. now converted in.