Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-10-11
MATCHES SELL FOR
DOLLAR A BOX
N MEXICO
Residents Of Parral Obliged to
Resort TO Primitive Meth
DDS Of Striking Fire, Says B.
e. Leonard.

49, AANNNANAA -
with the common or gurdcn variety
Of match selling at slO0 per box aud
oftimes only four In d box. the pleas
ures 81 tho smoker not 60 say any
thing OF the housewife, are seriously
lnterforred with IN the war town zone
of chihuahua. according 70 -. ~
Leonard OF Parrai
Mr.. Leonard. brother OF Harry
Leonard OF this city. arrived In Al
buquerque from Parral this morning
and tells n thrilling story az the bate
tie a few days ago at Santa io-
saila. whore the fcdcFals gained q
complete victory over the constitu-
tionoiists. According to Mr.. Leonard
the power Of the Rejects who have hai
possession Of Purrni and Santa Ito-
salla for some time. is rapidly wan
ing In the north but conditions are
far from peaceful
There has not been regular train
out OF Parral for months" said Mr..
Leonard this morning I'VE made
the trip from Santa ROsalia on horses
and from that point travelled 10 Chi
huahua City. on train bearing
wounded soldiers ana refugees,
"Our party reached Santa Rosaila
Just after the battle Ia which the
lconstitutionallsts under General Franz
cisco villa were defeated by the fed
erals under General Castro. The
greatest confusion prevailed. \ largo
force Of men appeared on the hills IN
plain view 90 the town. Castro.
thinking they were rebels, poured
few rounds Of shrapncl into their
ranks with deadly results, only 10 dis
cover tho men were fcderals and
members Of his own command.
MANY Of the victims of the mis-
take were killed and two hundred or
more were horribly wounded. The
wounded were taken aboard freight
cars and started toward chihuahua.
We applied 10 General Castro and go.
cured permission % ride with the
wounded In one end Of our car.
Santa Re stock car, were some two
dozen wounded L,any with arms and
legs blown off IN the other end of
the car were number Of women
camp followers. who sat stolidly aloof
making no attempt to care for the
wounded.
ror. the sufferlngs Of the wounded BE-
ing indescrlhablc many Of them dy-
/ ing and the bodies being cast on the
| ~ on It's way
after many vioissitudes, we finnily
reached Chlhuahua where we secured
another refugee train for Juarcz
There has been hut little fighting
around parral for the past few months
but food ~ rapidly growing scarce
and unless there Is some immediate
change. famine threatens the people
Of the mining camp.
'"rhe rebels have established
mint IN Parral and are turning out a
| good quality OF silver money which
I a. said to boz Of greater intrinsic value
than the regular Mexican currency
This generosity Is easily accounted for
| by the fact that the rebels conflscate
the orc from the Alyarado mine, force
| tho Alvarado people 90 smelt 70 for
nothing and use the resultant bullion
10 cast their coins In return for
\ this service. the rebels refrain from
destroying the property 81 the Alyar-
ado company or killing its employees.
| Mr.. Leonard plans 60 remain In Al
buquerque for some time and win not
return 10 Mexico until conditions
change materially for the better
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oud place. then salaznr took q and
Kept IL. The time was 5;2f. The rid
ing was as reckless as anything seen
lately.
Exhibits Photographed.
| Many exhibits were photographed
yesterday and this mornlrg " u
| Walton doing the work. Among these
was tho Torrance county display ANA
the boys and girls exhibits IN the IN
dusirial clubs contests.
The Santa Fo trail magazine ms
Ian attractive booth an tho fair. wherr
for The last three days Editor Fem
ton J. Spauldng has bc-z presiding
and taking many subscriptions for
| New MexicoE own magazine"
| skating sunday morning. 10 10 ~.
/
| A two reel picture, taken nc silver
| city. n. NJ. Crystal thcater today only