The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-12-30

,rovico this cruel, plunuellne
~ u So1f indian and part brute "hom
dl'' .l" - Of war has brought to the
IHe and whom the fortune OF war
SUI l''e wan raise to the presidency.
Hi I,,oo,,s ago. flushed with his VlctorS
Wv the federals at Juarez' he prom
o - eat his Christmas dinner III
! 49, canital. That threat ne canno'
IDe Laod. Int it is entirely propa-
nan 49, ba will ultimately enter the
VIC 81 Mexico and demand the re-
~ r.hicb every Mexican conquerol
9sr,ards and receives-the presl-
1onor Of the republic. That thousn'
0' 1l,a, every decent-minded man III
men men. sbudder. for Villa is purely
NeA'r r,orolv = bandit, compared with
o- l,.,,, 4nerta. blood-stained as ne lS'
o.tb the murder of Madero' Is al
most a saint.
u his warfare Villa disregarus
~. canon of humanity. Loot anu
r,,,rdar are the objects of his actlV-
49, The hatchery of conquered led
.no1 +rooDs. the contiscation OF prl-
80, ,nonortv the expulsion of Span
iords and others who had incurred
+is hostility give an accurate meas
. of villa Staggering, uncouth'
Tlitarate with vicious face and cold
hoadv ewes. Villa typifies the Dandlt
bo is When the Madero revolution
~oirs+ Diaz started Villa was hunt
I'D man in tn Businesses OF the Chl-
buobra mountains. His was the most
bo+od name in that part Of Mexico
uo started on his bandit career nine
Years before the fall of Diaz and dur
mo all these years he was an outlaw
with a price upon his head.
# is said that ne turned bandit al
tor killing a man who had insulted
or wronged his sister, but those who
know Villa best do not believe the
story and say he is not the kind OF
man who kills for matters OF simple
honor When he fights it is for re-
ward.
Before he became an outlaw Villa
owned a small ranch in Chihuahua
about 200 miles south of Ell Paso,
i Texas. As ranchman he was a fall
urp and so in course of time he be-
came a bandit. Such he continued to
be until the advent of Francisco L.
j Madero, Jr. At that time Villa was
an outlaw, and the rurales OF Dlaz
had been chasing him without sue
cess for nearly ten years. 1t was
said that there was not water hole,
nor trail, nor a cave big enough to
hide in throughout the fastenesses
of the Chihuahua mountains that
Villa and his men did not know
about. 1t was an impossible task to
capture him, as Diaz's men soon
found out. But old Porfirio appreci-
ated the menace of a live Villa, and
so the rurales kept on chasing the
outlaw.
When the ill-clad veterans of Ma
dero switched the war against Diaz
i into Chihuahua Villa came out of his
retreat and sought an interview with
the rebel leader. Madero was i'm
pressed with the man, and, though
approaching to the full the bandits
vicious nature, he decided that Villa
was a good man to have around, if
j for nothing else than his hatred of
Z Diaz. So Madero took Villa into the
insurrecto army and commissioned
him 2 colonel.
Once in the Madero fold Villa be-
came one of the fiercest of all the
Madero subordinates. His is a jeal-
3 Gus nature, and he wanted all the
s glory for himself. That was why he
i soon became the bitter enemy of Pas
cal Orozco, another Madero lieuten-
ant and of Garibaldi, the young Ital-
q ian, whose ability as an artilleryman
did so much in the accomplishment
8of the Madero triumph.
In these days Villa was unneard of
Won the American side of the Rio
Grande. He vas just an ordinary
Mexican outlaw, with an unusual
number of murders and robberies to
MS credit, and that was all. Under
q Madero his fame, if such it may be
#called, spread across the border. In
3 the spring of 1911, when it was seen
mat the days of Diaz were numbered
and that the triumph of Madero was
certain, Americans began to hear
ABOUT the bandit chief who was fight
ing with Madero. In the battle that
ENDED with the fall of Juarez and the
j night into Texas of the federal COM
mander, General Navarro, Villa
fought with the ferocity of the ban
dlt tiger he is. He was in the thick
est Of the battle from the start to
the finish, and he was the maddest
4 man in all Mexico when after the