The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-01-03
HUMAN INTEREST STORIES
FROM MEXICAN REPUBLIC
How an American Citizen May Secure the Necessary
Relief to Flee From the War Stricken Zone
Tales OF Americans in Southern Country

men; others of them are hangers on in
the various sporting establishments
in Mexico cities. The "stayers" of this
latter type took instant and insistent
advantage of the offer of Uncle Sam to
give them money and tickets to &c
home. They were the first to rush to
the consular offices. Then most of
them sold their free tickets and spent
Uncle Sans money in the cantinas
and gambling houses of Mexico. Some
of them had the nerve to go back to
certain consuls second time, explain
ing that they had been taken ill and
been forced to dispose of their tickets
and money. It's safe to say that no
American has been able to graft" a
second ticket home.
Man of Closed Past.
Up in Chihuahua, in the very heart
of the rebel district, where federals'
rule one day and the rebels the next
and where every change means
corpse-strewn street, there lives an
American who hasn't moved and won't
move. His consort is a Mexican girl
and they have three children that are
famous throughout the mining distric.
for their beauty.
Il can't 60 back" he explained to the
last little knot of Americans to leave.
But we'll stand all the expenses Of
moving the family" they offered.
Thank you very much" he said. I'm
afraid I'll have to stay here and see
it out"
He is Harvard man, the refugee
say; more than that, and the
fact that he's fine, strong man, with
some mistake in his past, they know
nothing. In Mexico in these days, you
don't ask about a mans past. Why |
nan is slayer" is his own business
Queer Story of a Doctor.
Another American who won't flee |
from Mexico, no matter what happens,
Is a little doctor, who had made him
self very rich up along the northern
border. The story the refugee Amer
cans tell about him is thirty years old,
and he's a gray-haired old man who'd
like to go back to the United
States and spend his days in peace, if
lie could.
The story is that he lived in a GER
ain large American city and that one
lay, while he was travelling in trans
continental train along the boundary
the United States and Mexico,
he train was wrecked, and then took
ire. The little doctor was missing.
lis wife put in a claim for his life in
urance, $4,000. The unidentified
orpses and the wife got the money.
| few weeks later she went to a GER
ain Mexican town, near the border,
My a short distance from the scene
I the wreck and met her husband,
hole and sound. They started their
fe anew, and built up small fortune,
ut it is one they cannot enjoy in the
nited States.
Lottery Ticket Brings Fortune.
The rebels had cleaned him out over
light and left him only money enough
get to Mexico City. He had been
sed to having plenty of money and
le of his practices was to buy ticket
each monthly government lottery
ne of these tickets was in a pocket
his only suit when he entered Mrs.
orter's hotel in Mexico City. Let
e put up here, will your" he asked
at good dame "I'll get some refugee
oney from the American consul to
" YOU All I've got is lottery
,ket." Let's see the ticket, said Mrs.
,rter, who knows a good deal about
e lotteries. He fished out the crum-
ed bit of tissue paper. "You can
ay in this hotel $4,000 WORTH" said
IS. Porter calmly. He didn't know
W to draw the money SO Mrs. Por-
went with him to the headquarters
the national lottery and saw a clerk
nd ten packets of $1,000 each Mex
n money! to the penniless man.
e for Chicago" he declared. He's
his way there now. He said his
me was Albert Dwingingham and
It Chicago was his home.