The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-05
BUCK" TAYLOR TELLS OF WAR
 ON RIO GRANDE
BushWhackers Lead PeOnS and Loot Every
 where.

Charles Taylor, better known to hundreds of Bridgeporters as Buck" Taylor, formerly with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, later with the United States Army in the Philippines, a g1obe-trotter, of the adventurous type, and lately with the quartermastef's department of the American army in Texas, has returned to his residence on Wheeler avenue after trying exper- fences in a, journey through the heart of the Mexican war zone, from which he was peremptori1y ordered by the Federalists- He arrived in this city last Saturday, having come from Glen fuegos. Mexico, via Cuba and New Yrk city.
 It has been seven years since Buck was seen upon the streets of Bridge port and he notes many changes which do not strike the eye of the home stayer. Since the day that he left here to go from San Francisco to, Manila, China and Japan, he has seen none from the city, though in Manila, he was once in close proximity to one Jack Heaphy, who he heard came from Bridgeport.
 Recently he has been in Mexico, having returned from Manila on the transport Hancock to Galveston. With the horses and mules, which since cir GUS times have been Bucks speciality, he went to Fort Bard, on the frontier From there he worked eas~ brakeman on the Mexican Central Railroad. In Mexico City, four months ago, he was ordered, with all other Americans to leave the seat of rebel disturbance, or be recorded an outlaw.s He reach ed Cienfuegos where he was again ordered to leave the country and was escorted upon shipboard.
 In speaking of the situation today, Buck says that newspaper reports he arg T army manoeuvers. Fighting is gen eral throughout the country, but not as is supposed from a spirit of pat riotism. It is done that loot and pilI-l age may be accomplished under cover of military operation. Daylight bat ties are novelty, and guerilla war fare is most common.
 According to the recently returned traveller, rangers and bushwhackers from all over the rough section of the United States have flocked to the country inspired by the disorganized condition of affairs. Americans of the outlaw type lead the bands of Mexi.. can peons. They are greatly hated | and bringing disrepute upon the bet ter class from the United States work | ing ostensib1y upon ranches in the | daytime, they are accustomed to I travel from place to place in bands 1 of from 25 to 150 by night. They |
  lage, pick out one rich Mexican stock 1 owner. store-keeper or banker and | descend in a raid. Often the opposing i side will make an ostensibIe resist ance and under cover of the excite ment of battle the ranches, or strong boxes, will be ptllaged. In some in stances the opposing armies later fight in reality for a division of the spells
 Newspaper men are given credent- lals which permit of their freed om about the country, though in a law less country even their lives are not spared, and information of their death n the fastnesses of the mountains never leaks out. Consequently the greater sources of news comes from the border-line between Texas and Mexico, where raids made across the Rio Grande are frequently reported IS battles.
 The Americans, established in Mex GO, the English and some of the Ger nan bankers, are those against whom he greatest losses fall.
 Working brakeman on the Mexican Central, which is now ac- ,ording to the traveller, particularly 1sed only for army transportation purposes, Buck had many thrilling ex- 0eriences. He is glad to be back in he United States, though if war is declared he insists that he will join he volunteers from his native city
 He was ordered to leave Mexico be- ,ause he was once in the United States Army, and being but one of many ex- lrnay men who have joined the ranks 'f the rebels. and are now considered utIaws by the Mexican government. le was suspected of being a spy.