The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-21
Points Out the Spot
Where Bullets Flew
From / rsutsday SHY I

From sNhursudy'9}O Daily -
C. A. Westermayer, an employee in
the lithographing department OF the
; Free Press Printing company, lived
in Mexico City for some time where
the recent fighting has been going
on and has a friend there now, A.
/ r. Lohse, who's represents the Ameri-
! can Book and Printing company. He
is much worried about the safety of
his friend. He described to The Free
Press today the scene of the recent
engagements as well as the City of
I Mexico and some of the habits and
customs of the people.
] The fight took place in the 70
kolo, or public square," said Mr..
Westermayer, land on two of its
sides are the national palace and the
cathedral. This cathedral is Of his
storic fame and reputed to be five
hundred years old. The ZokOlo GOV.
ers about four square blocks. On its
other two sides are department
stores and bazaars. A few blocks
away to the northwest are the bar
racks, a few days ago occupied by
ithe federal troops but since that
time they have been occupied alter
nately by both rebels and federals.
The Y. M. c. A. Building.
! The Y NJ. c.. A. building, only a
block or so away from the Zokolo,
is where nearly all the Americans
stay. 1t has been confscated by
the rebels and machine guns now
look from its peaceful windows. The
stores have by now probably been
riddled with the shrapnel and can
mister which has been flying over the
city. have no doubt that the
shot has damaged to no little extent
even the residence part of the city.
J 81 think that the cause of the re-
bellion is the fact that President
MADEIRA, when he was elected, made
a great number of promises to tho
natives, which he failed to keep.
Among other things he promised to
give the poems each a piece of land
large enough for them to live upon,
and this he has forgotten about en-.
itirely. CO.. -
Shame of a Country.
I at seems a shame that as good a
country as Mexico. and one which
has as many natural resources, would
not wake up to the fact that 1t does
possess these things and be peace
able. Everything grows in Mexico
On account of the difference in alti.
tude, they may grow tropical fruits.
vegetables of all kinds, maize, as
well as coffee, die woods, tobacco
and cocoa. The Indians come into
the city every morning from the
mountains with the vegetables that
are usually raised in the temper
ate zone. and from down in the low
lands they bring in oranges, and
other tropical fruits. g.,
Mexico is a great deal like Rus.
STA. IL has the extremely rich and
the extremely poor classes the lat.
ter always downtrodden, and kept in
ignorance by. the former. The poems
are paid barely enough to live on
and not enough for them to send their
children to school for very many
years of their lives. They subsist
principally on beans. tortillas and
pulque. If you could take these
things away from them you would
have no rebellion for there would
be no poems. The tortillas are
+. Kind OF cake made from ground
maize and onions
j The Native Liquor.
"The pulque is the native liquor
which rivals even our ''rOt.gnt" in
producing general "cussedness." 1t
is made from the fermented sap of
the masui mixed with alcohol When
a bunch of rebellious natives get fill
ed up with this stuff they get the
idea that they can lick the earth. The
liquor is rather oily and is of a
milky, grayish color.
There are some factories in Mex.
leo. In the City of Mexico is the
lei Buen Tono cigaret factory, the
largest in the western hemisphere
. 1t covers two square blocks In the
southern part OF the country are fac
tories for the preparation of coffee
! and cocoa. Many cigars are also
made Almost all of the buildings
| that amount to much are built with
American and English capital.
Many Large Buildings.
| There are a great many large
buildings, too. The Portes hotel is
| an American institution as we'll as
the new National theatre. When this
theatre is completed it will be one
of the finest in the world. 1t is be-
ing built out of Italian marble, onyx
and bronze. Mexico is famous for its
onyx and also mica The theatre will
cost about S10,000.00O. Other large
buildings are going up, but the gov
eminent will not allow anything to
be over six stories high on account
OF the frequent earthquakes. Most
of the Mexican commerce is carried
ON with Italy and France. A great
many of the Mexican cigarets go to
these countries" 49,
/ Worry Over st. Paul Woman.
! ST. Paul, February 13.--In Mexico
City, where battle is being fought
between the federal troops and tho
insirrectos, is Mrs. Blair Flandreau, a
St Paul woman. Under military or
ders no one is permitted to leave
4, the city for distant parts of the re-
public, although machine guns and
| light artillery are sweeping the
streets with their fire.
! Some weeks ago Mrs. Frandrau left
| the coffee ranch owned by her hus-
band, reached in a four-day journey
by mules from Jalapa. The revolu-
tionists were SO active that she was
forced TO seek security in the Next
can capital. Her husband every two
weeks made trips to the CITY,