Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-18
SCOTT TELLS OF
ENDING TROUBLE
General Says Villa Requested
Eight Hours to Finish Bat
tie on the Border.

! Chicago, III. Jan. 1s.-A baIdhead-
ed man with a jolly, red face. and
humorous eyes tw1nkIing behind large
gold trimmed spectacles, sat alone at a
table yesterday in the basement cafe
of the Hotel Brevoort
At an opposite table a reporter for
The Tribune stopped in the middle of
a noon breakfast when he recognized
the broad shoulders and ample gfrth
of the elderly man with the jolly red
face.
Hello, general, Welcome back from
the border the reporter said as he
stepped up to the table.
Brigadier General Hugh L. Scott.
chief of stan of the United States
army. looked up. his hands poised
above a finger bowl The water was
dripping from the three fingers that
remain on each of the generals battle
/ SCARED hands.
How on earth did your paper know
. I was here" was the first question OF
the veteran commander. whose repu-
tation among correspondents is great
/ er as an interviewer than a man inter
viewed. i just got in from FL Paso an
hour ago. ! thought l had kind of
submerged myself here in this base
ment. I'm leaving at o'clock for
Washington and home.
Everything is peaceful now along
the United States-MeXican border.
There is nothing that can come up there
that can't be settled between General
Villa and myself say that because
that was what he told me when We
+ concluded our successful conference in
I Juarez last week"
With this statement General Scott
attempted TO dismiss the subject Of
the parley he engineered with the
Mexican commander and by which he
brought an end to hostilities along the
border and near Naco Ariz in par
tfcular
Not a shot was fred. not q threat eX-
pressed. or an overt act resorted to by
the United States in bringing about an
agreement between the Mexican bellig-
erents who were endangering the lives
and property Of United States citizens
at Naco. Although General Scott pre-,
pared the agreement which was finally
signed by the generals Of the contend
ing Mexican factions. no promises
were made by the United States to
either faction. and neither one was
recognized officially.
This is the latest bloOdIess victory
won by General Scott. It is not his
first. In 1878. when he was a second .
lieutenant in the famous Seventh cav I
alry-Custers old commando con /
Quoted his first peace conference by
means of the sign language with the /
Cheyenne Indian chiefs in the Black /
Hills Of the Dakotas. After the con
ference the Indians washed the war /
paint from their faces. A serious out
break had been prevented.
Scott Gained the Indians in Ari-
iona in 1908, and in 1911 he persuaded f
the Hopi Indians to turn from the
warbath In 1913 he held pOw-wOws
with the unruly Navajo chieftains in
New Mexico. Through conducting 4
these conferences by means OF the
sign language, General Scott won the
M me RmonG the Indians as Mole
Tequop'-'.He talks with his hands"
In the Philippines, where he was
sent to bring peace to the disturbed
province OF Sulu, Scott succeeded
Jamulai Hiram IT,, the sultan Of Sulu,
and became governor of the province.
BY the Moros he was called Father OF
all the Moros," and when he was re
turned to America as superintendent
Of the military academy at West
Point the natives made him the OBJ
fect of the prayer. ''to prolong the life
Of our father and make him great and ,
keep him happy and contented for
ever and for ever.
The general Presumed his discourse |
IN Mexican affairs. II
The agreement. which was signed
ne said, "by General Maytorena, in |
command of the Villista troops, and /
General Elias Gales, who has sue
,eeded General Hill in command of :
he Carranza troops. is just as the ad- |
ninistration desired.
at was a hard thing to ask May |
orena TO give up the throttle hold he |
lad on Gales. after he had spent so
much time and lost so many men in |
packing his enemy up against the /
,order. The negotia tions looked bad
or a while. when I received word
rom General Villa that he had dis
,atched his General Juan Cabral with
900 men to bring the trouble 10 an
nd by capturing Hill and the town of
,aco. Sonora II
He said he just wanted eight hours
D do il in. / said not even eight min
ties. OF course. the idea of allowing
battle 10 rage for eight hours with
.merican citizens and homes in range
as out of the question. as villa later
My negotiations we're entirely =