The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-05
VILLA IS
HONORED
AT JAUREz
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ines or did the family darning on sun
day afternoons. d choice lot Of mata
dors, picadores and banderllos nigh
be otherwise engaged as bartenders
BARRIERS or cobblers.
lts the feminine fans In Juarez VIII,
furnish the velvet, otherwise know
as the profits, at the weekly bull rights
IN no city in Mexico, according 10 4
prominent bull fight promoter do NO
men form quite 50 large Anber 81
me Sunday afternoon crowds thai
watch the bsoody sport as in this Dor
der town, And 1t is only a fifteen-min
ute ride by street ear to Iol Paso. Tex
as. where the above mentioned ladies'
aid societies and darning circles hold
forth on sunday afternoons.
third Of the crowd thar saw five
bulls tormented to death, q horse torn
70 pieces and a matador gored by a
maddened bull on a recent Sunday IN
the Juarez BUN ring, was made up Of
women. They came very early and
stayed very late. because according
70 The posters-it was an being done
in honor Of the great Cen. Francisco
yilla
The Juarez amphitheatre like most
others Is divided into two sections,
~sombra" and "sol," or shade and
sun On the sombra side, where the
price Of seat was two pesos, sat- me
elite Of Juarez, tourists from EI Paso
hotels and military officers from the
cuartel There were so many Of the
military on the somhra side that yoa
got the impression they were dead
heads. On the sunny side were group
ed the poems, the W. ea Of the lower
classes, and about as many youngsters
as We're occupying the bieachers al
ball game over in FL Paso.
Ranged along the first tiers Of seats.
that swung In a seIni-circle closest 10
the scene Of gore. were the senoritas
OF Jnarez, pretty. dark-eyed, slender
figures. whose steps earlier In the day
had been deyoutly directed to the little
white mission behind the central plaza.
But having said their morning prayers.
they were applauding with little gloyed
hands the torture Of the horses and
the spilling of blood in the arena
Babies We're there, too at least a
score Of them, sleeping in the arms OF
tired,looking mothers. When the fight
grew tame and the groggy bun drag
ged himself wearily about the ring. the
mothers rocked the infants or famed
away the flies, But If the fight Jagged
TOO much, the mothers with The pretty
senoritas joined in the cry otre
toro." tBrng another bull)
The second bull had honored the
great Gen viha BY succumbing to the
matador after forty minutes Of vicious
jabhing, when d young American girl,
enroute 10 her home in New York
from a winter in California. furnished
the crowd with unexpected amuse
ment.
She was sitting in the second tier OF
seats. quite close to the ring. The
third bun dashing into the arena and
smartng with pain from the first
thrust Of steel. made straight for the
low fence enclosing The ring and leap
I'd II. bis hoofs striking against the
concrete base of the first row OF seats.
The little AM .ican tourist sprang to.
her feet in terror Gathering her skirts
she leaped up first one tier and then
another In her excitement she drop
ped into the Zap Of a Mexican trooper
from The garrison His NIauser rifle
Went rattling down the concrete struc.
tcre and she sprang toward an exit in
terror fia! la Don Pedro
shouted his comrades. and the rest or
their yells Were drowned in volleys o.
laughter The senofitas turned an
dibH@Vh bui apiltrN nat utilAiAt aihlic
on the whole proceeding. They had
not moved when the old toro made his
leap
Evening came on-part OF the men
departed as American baseball fans do
IN the seventh inning OF a listless base
ball game but the women held their
seats They tapped their heels against
the concrete when the band responded
70 The cry for mtsica, and joined in
the yiyas when a. claser handerillo sue
ceeded in thrusting a pair Of gaily col
ored banderilas into the butts neck
A cool breeze blew over the hills south
OF Iuarez It signaled gorgeous dis
play from the senorita contingent. who
began swathing shoulders in mantillas
that outdid the RAINBOW for colors,
llighel up the sides or the amphithe-
ire the mothers were covering tie ba-
bies with black mantillas or dark blue
robesos
When the lespangled matador had
made his final sword thrust and tiny