Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-11-12
ARIZONA CATTLE BARON
 IELLS0F DRIVING CATTLE

1HIS uIu HOI 6ulL NIT. RacharQ, WHO felt that he had some claim on the protection of his own government. His title to his Mexican land was signed by President Diaz and passed through the hands of only one family before coming to him. He couldn't move the land across the line nor could he bring his cattle over without paying $10 a head duty. In the meantime every stray band of Mexican soldiers passing his ranch was helping itself to his stock. He asserts they took 2,0O0 steers on the hoof without leaving even the hides, and offered him no pay whatso- ever.
 Not noly did the Mexican soldiers raid his ranch on every occasion, but they entered his general merchandise store at Moctezuma and helped them selves. MT. Packard asserts they took SS,OO0 worth of goods without making payment of any kind and not leaving so much as scrap of paper by way of receipt or as guarantee of their | dishonorable intentions.
 MT. Packard was for a great many years a prominent figure in the poli- tics of Arizona and says he thought his personal record as an active Dem- ocrat and good citizen entitled him to some consideration from the de- partment of state. It was not forth coming, and short time ago he was chagrined to receive a notice from General Hill, who has his forces at Naco, advising him to not remove any of his cattle because the soldiery now needed all of them.
 Putting Them Across When MT. Packard received Gen. eral Hills notice he told his foreman to round up as many cattle as possible in pasture about five miles square and he would then tell him what to do. On the third day the cattle were nicely punched and MT. Packard was ready for action. He took thirty-five men from Douglas, among them being seY- eral famous Arizona rangers. He then drove them in big automobile truck to his ranch taking saddles and bri- dies with him. Horses in plenty were a 6x ThoF io1k !, boys that the next day they were go- ing to do days work and be we'll paid for it, and he wanted them to ride as they never had in their lives. Ride they did, and the next morning at 11:3O o'clock, MT. Packard's men crossed the line into the United States with 5000 cattle and not a Mexican soldier in sight
 MT. Packard had picked a good place and the Mexicans never anticipated anything of the kind and were huddled on the firing line at Naco missing each other and wasting ammunition or. the air.
 Two regiments of American cavalry were on the line, but they were need ed at Naco and Douglas. Moreover, they probably would not have worried lot about the luck of an American getting away with little of his own property
 Wires Billy Bryan
 AS soon as he was safely across, MT. Packard made for a telegraph station and congratulated himself by wiring MT. Bryan. He informed the Secretary of States that he had headed his own expedition successfully and that it was no thanks to the state department that he had saved his own property. MT. Bryan has not replied and in view or his personal letter some time ago, telling MT. Packard he could give him no help and saying that he advised all Americans to quit Mexico, reply is hardly expected.
 MT. Packard declares he will never COAASOAAS tie. It was the biggest smuggling op- eration ever perpetrated and it was done in open daylight with 36 men participating.
 MT. Packard believes that Mexico can only go on from bad to worse and that it's one hope of salvation is for Uncle Sam to go in and tell it to be good. He says that General Villa is a stubborn fighter and that all he wants is to be the military command er of Mexico, regardless of who is president.
 MT. Packard thinks Arizona made a pig mistake by going dry, but the coup ,f the prohibitionists was affected through peculiar combination of cir ;umstances. A great many Demo, rats were disgusted with Governor Hunt and either refrained from voting tt all or went with the Republicans. 1alph Cameron, the Republican candi-