La Junta tribune., 1913-04-26

I frame part OF the hotel. but y tight.
ing starts In the night you will have
TO get up as the walls will not stop
bullets
suppose tina, he thought that
there were 30 many people In Doug
be missed, and II was willing to
take cnance he did not care.
He went on. THE building was hit
three times this morning and all OF
the bullets nit the dobe part, One
hit the front OF the house and two
came through the roof and ceiling.
on. dropped on the dresser in Capt
Uheeler's tthe county sheriff room
vbile his wife was In the room"
went TO bed and listened to the
cannon which kept going all night
long. with an occasional discharge OF
rIfI.s and once in great while q
machine gun. don't believe the
state troops fired a shot the whole
uIght. stayed awak. for four
hours waiting for the fighting to
begin so ,ha, could grab my clothes
and fly for my life. but at last
drnpped asleep and knew no more
,,r,I 81, o'clock. The cook had just
opeued up the ham and egg life saw
ing station and was the first man
s,r breakfast. Now | am not brag-
riug about what an early riser ! am,
bur as this was about the earliest
ever got up in my life. ! want TO
yet all the credit that Is coming TO
me for IL. told my wife about u
when I returned home and ] could
zee tina, she was doing her best TO
baIieye IL. but think that she
doubts it.
There wasn't very much to do
wednesday morning except get up
an IN. freight cars west OF town
and look out towards the rebel camp
ON the west through field glasses
and listen to the firing OF the sharp
sboo,ers and the occasional clatter
OF A machine gun. Shooting ma
chine gun sounds like pulling sAcs
along a picket fence Those used ny
,bc two Mexican armies are Colts
They have pistol grip instead oil
a rifle grip like the L. ;, Army
Guns and they stand up three feet
from the ground on tripod instead
of down low. They have a bicycle
sas, for the gunner The cartridges
co,ne in belts OF two hundred and
nfty. which cost 25 pesos. When
the trigger IS pulled and let go 'he
y,, shoots once. ejCcts the shell ana
automatically puts another one IN
IA, chamber. II the finger is held on
IA. trigger the gun will shoot as
long as there Is a cartridge left In
tho bel, on account OF the gun
standing 80 high from the ground. 1t
is protected by shield OF steer
,l,te abou, two feet wide and three
Zoo, long with a hole in 1t 10 stick
the muzzie of the gun through Inc
shield Is only quarter OF an men
thick and a bullet would penetrate
II II hit square, bu, the shield ~
placed In a slanting position ana
IN. bullets that hi, II glance OF WIN
out penetrating 1t.
Aftcr we had been on the feish'
.f..NHa
cars awhile the soldiers came aiohe
and ordered everybody down. pu'
t,s mighty hard 20 keep directory
man from having his own way. ana
and a couple OF friends got back NJ
ter awhile but got between the cars
standing on IN. couplers As moth
inr much seemed TO be coming OH
wen, over To the army camp "he''
the Yaqu! descr,ers from olsda nave
,..n moved from the old dobe opera
bous. which Is now being usei 'of
a hospital by the L. 5. Army sur
x.ons for the wounded OF oou
.,ses 20, several kodak pictures
OF the Yaauis They have been sho'
10 much tina, they seemed resign
ed 10 their fate. and they don't eN-
.n turn their backs any more nut lei
tn. kodak nonds do their darndest
I STAYED over there until haH pas
rley.n and came near missing the
mos, exciting par, OF the siege by
the time go, back to town an occa-
sionai bnllc, would kick up III" dns'
and | could see tha, ther. was s"in"
thing doing. NO ! went TO my favor
ite boz car and stood between the
carr where the soldiers could not
see me. heard something xo 'pnttt
and Il didn't take mo very long to
dtscovcr that Il was bullet thar
had hi, the side OF the steel gon'
dola car. In III. next three minutes