El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-28
.ROJAS SlYs He IS
NOT So BAD A MAN
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and bashful children peep from behind
drawn blinds in the interior of the
houses at the passing show.
Duarte a Real Patriot.
Down a side street through a low
door and into a patio the sides CT
which are hung with hooking bird
cages and in the center Of which there
is flower garden, is where Maj.
Quartz. ROjas's chief of staff lives.
He is one Of the interesting characters
in the rebel camp Tall and fair, with
raven wing hair and a fine ~cAiselsd-
forehead, he a TS.aI patriot, who is
lighting for a cause whether the
other leaders are in the field for love
Of country or love of loot. over a
Mexican meal Of black coffee, fiat
fl0ur. water biscuits and jerked beef
ne told of the capture Of BlancO, and
his subsequent Imprisonment, of the
efforts of old Chispas, a camp fol-
lower, TO kill him. how the rebels
went for three days with nothing but
black berries from the underbrush for
food. Maj. Quartz keeps a record Of
each days movements of the rebels
which he carries at his side in a
leather pouch. balanced on the oppO-
site side by a federal cartridge case
which he took from a federal pris-
oner before he was shot
There are many thumb naii sketches
in the rebel camp at Guadalupe for
every second man IS a character and
each second man the central figure
in some stirring incident during the
revolution.
ROjas Youthful and Gentle.
Antonio ROjas is as youthful as a
high school graduate He has boy
ISL face and a mop of black hair that
makes him look many years younger
than he really is His devotion to his
little son JinO. who is his only near
relative, ID almost pathetic. He kept
him with him at Guadalupe all the
time he was there sending him to e.
PasO and having him come back al
most every day. Rojas says that he
IS not as bad as he is painted and
that he has proved this to the world
by saving Blanco's life, after he was
captured.
Arthur Bentoncourt is revolution
ist because he cannot help it. Fight
ing is a germ in his system and 20
years of the game has not killed his
love for the smell of powder and
the pop of rifles.
Ola Juan and Some Others.
Old Juan, the Oldest rebel, is said to
with Macmillan. He is stopped
with age and sits in the sun all the
, time and smokes rolled cigarets.
Chispas, another grizzIed character,
tried to kill Blaneo when he was
taken prisoner by Rojas, and would
have succeeded if Mai. Duarte had not
stopped him.
Cuco Cruz was an FL Paso black
SHlIh DeIOEe ne became warrior.
Now he is with Rojas, wearing a pair
of chaps, a Moose lodge pin and a
front tooth out
Old Maxine Castillo, Madero's aide
during the first revolution and the man
who was always by the presidents side
IN all Of the pictures taken at that
time, is in command of one OF the pa
trolls between Guadalupe and Juarez,
because he is dependable quantity.
He is bit grayer and his beard a
little longer, but he is the same old
Don Maxine who guarded the door
to the little white house" by the
brick plant in May, 1911.
SaIaznr An American Halter.
Salazar is as big as a Broadway traf-
fic cop and with his gray coat sweater
he looks even bigger. He has no love
for Americans, and shows it iustinc-
lively although he is most polite and
considerable to all who call on him.
Rafael Navarro, Salazars secretary,
is a fat little person with a weeks
growth of beard and denim OveraIls.
He talks good English, and is a well
educated, intelligent young man, de-
spite his rough camp clothes.
o Rogue Gomez is getting gray around
the temples as he is perhaps the old
est OF the rebel leaders, except Max
imo Castillo. But age has taken none
Of the fight out OF him, his companions
say.