Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-11-01

Tho ever present possibility and the
aroWing probability oi nn armed ln-
tnslon OF Mexico 81 American troops
lends peculiar Interest 10 the old story
OF colonel puniphon aud hia little
force on Miseouriana who nnrched
five thousand miles. Including hike
through che lcnFlh Of New MeNicu
went Into the Land ~ Mnnana ana
after defeating 3 vastly superior force
/ tnok thr city 90 chihuahua rescued
heaiencd band Of fellow -cuuntfymen
land marched tfiumphantly back home
nrain The arrival 0f the Doniphnn
expedition iu New Mexico Is what
Colonel TwltChci terms "iseadinH
Fact 81 New Mexican History. The
story OF the expedition from start 70
lfinmh IS told briefly IN tho KANSAS
lefty Star as follows;
There are not very many people
lAllVe in the United states today VINO
lknow from actual experience ~.
lhardships that wonla follow shoui ,l
ofo country find it necessary 90 mafcn
TROOPS into McxlcO. hut "a few ola
men IN Missouri could tell youi men
who are spending their sunset days
laround Independence. Liberty aho
lilichmond.-th veterans ~ Don't
phnns expedition For when oar
country last fought Mexico, almost
sixty years ago. there was no state ~
the Union that distinguished itself
lmoro than did Missouri.
I with n lsttlc army Of i,65e men
lcoi Alexander ". Dnninhan ana Col.
stephen w. Kcarney set out from
lI.eavcnworth. June 20. istS, ana
marched across the plains. following
1.-The santa Fc Trail until they reached
lNew Mexico. There Kcarncy, who
had been made n general, parted WIN
lhga fellow commander and marched
his soldiers 90 California, while our
own Colonel Doniphan. with less IMAM
zone thousand men. proceeded To cap
ltnre in paso and then march several
hundred miles into Mexico, defeat a
Mexican army five times as big az me-
ovn force and cffcctuaily quiet most
lof Northern Mexico. A good zeal oi
| "A man. this Donlphan, as YOU nave
begun 90 suspect
Many Eager Ia Go.
As q matter of fact " was DOM
nhnn himself who was largely re-
leponeihie for there being any eNpedl'
ltion. Ho was living in Liberty at ms
time the trouble with Mexico began
: land he busted himself recruiting mei
) for the proposed expedition. whici
. etertea out under command Of kear
. new lie found plenty o. mon cage
, ltn foin. Il was d frontier country =
rotntrv of Young men, and the chanc'
lcf adventure caught the fancy OF MIS-
eourians one woman, nNinE %
\ Kansas City today had nine groa
- luncles in one company OF Doniph"h
4 regiment
Fort I.cavcnworth was chosen q
The rendezvous ~ the eXpediuoN
There the men received theT 'qulp
ment and measure of drih an.
treinfna. They did not need SO muel
n ne raw soldiers would today. Tor q
g lsgag there was hardly n resideut %
I western Missouri who ala not KNOW
how 10 shoot, and shoot wen an
30 int in June, the expedition -
4, out across tho pisina. They were y
? high spirit. 81 was an great adNeh
ture. John n. hughes, q memh.r "
ponlphnn's regiment wrote hoo
l. many years aCo telling his own si"i
= of the expedition. and p IS the hor
A. source AZ information Tint we nay
ltodav. To TOLLS how the young ga
veutnrers found delight iu chasin
tho buffalo. which they encounter
IN great hordes az they got out lui
% the plains Of Kansas.
"Nothing hut a charge upon pa
a Nexlcanr." DC says "could have am
5 mated tho men more or produce
more thrilling sensations
| NaNINNNNN hAANA w f7t'NNN
August as the American army cr
- tered santa Tc. s. ~ The command
p ers had expected resistance. but seve
lfboueand NeXlcans fled without civ
10 ing tho Mlssouriana "a chance 90 figh
&C. There Donlphau's men halted o VIM
al land Ecarncv's ointment marched q
20 California. poniphan was ~ wf
until detachment under Sierlh
price reached Santa l'e. which kc'
him lr the town until septem Der
rhrn no proceeded toward Fhihu
~ hun. with less than one ihousan
ln Imon. "Doniphnn's eNpcdihon "'3i
iu hcren "a santa ne Up Co that TN
b. h had been Konrnev's cypodhion
pr Tho first rrht for tho pouipn1
IA men came Christmas dav, 1885. TT
"a lNIIssourlnua were cnoampcd az lff
yIto. ON the Iio dcl Noric. ana DO
lphan was rmvnr game "i cif'
called three trick loo with several