The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-03-25
INTERESTING LETTER BY McMANUS
JUST BEFORE MEXICANS KILLED HIM
10 Respect Shown to American Flag Only Contempt
Displayed for Emblem of Liberty by Mexicans
Says j. B. McManus

fiaspole, but wobbIed backward into
the street.
Loot Left In Doorway.
by this time l saw l was in for a
.isht' SO started in plugging at the
paiahce OF the bunch, which did not
number over mine or ten at most. They
all ran like a pack of yelping dogs. and
Kept plugging away as they ran
across the prairie.
BY this time some of my men got IN
courage to come upon the roof. The
bandits fled, leaving a strange amount
or loot in the doorway from other
homes-clothing, blankets, hats. and
loot of-an descriptions.
Il had taken a furnished house in the
city for Ruth and the children a short
time before. 1 intended to keep them
there for the present. Ruth comes out
In the machine every little while but
goes back at night.
AT present the Carranza party Is in
power, but believe that they will skip
out at the first intdmation of danger
and then Zapatistas or some other
party will start in looting again.
About week ago, when Zapatistas
departed. the Carranza troops began to
arrive Immediately. A party of 900
troops rode up in front of the dairy
and began shooting. 1 skinned up on
the roof to see the battle, but there
was not an enemy within sight. They
just seemed to gallop up and down the
roadway shooting in the air; also at
the buildings or anything moving in the
distance
American Flag Not Respected.
1 thank fortune that our stables are
all enclosed with a high stone wall so
that none of my stock were hit but
the bullets hit most everywhere.
After they rode away 1 rode out
over the prairie to see the dead and
wounded, but the only ones hurt were
few masons building a wall nearby
and a few humble Indians driving bur
ros loaded with alfalfa.
THE next day there was a big ac-
count in the Mexican papers, with pic
lures of the officers in the charge, and
saying that Zapatistas had been driv-
en- off after strong resistance with
great loss l venture to say that there
was not a Zapatista within ten kilo-
meters of the place.
IT am afraid that the present outfit
win not last long in power. They will
simply remain here in Mexico City I'M
til they accumulate a few millions In
the treasury, then they will depart, leav-
Ing the city with no military protec-
tdon. This will permit the Zapatistas
to start sacking the town, and exper-
ience has shown that they respect no
foreign flag. l have large American
flag on a staff over the doorway, and
II is no more respected than dish rag,
Fl am ashamed to acknowledge.
Killing of Claims is Useless.
II have gained more respect since
the little affair of the 18th than from
any protection the Brazilian legation
can secure. All the dairies have been
robbed and horses and mules taken, but
my place has been left severly alone.
don't think there was any considera-
ton for the flag.
1.-The favorite dodge the Carranza
troops have now is to call at the ranch
or stable and ask to buy grain, feed,
etc. After they load up their wagons
they drive away.
at is too bad that a man like Teddy
did not take the chair instead of the
present schoolmaster that thinks he is
holding down the job. Americans here
no longer file claims for the losses
they have suffered, as the government
has changed hands so often that 1t is a
useless formality."