Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-05

Theodore +. Emery has just returned
from the Mexican border and is pass.
ing few weeks at his old home il
Randolph. with his father and mother
i Mr. and Mrs Geo Z. Emery He comes
north on matters of business and upor
completing them will return to Texas
| where he has business interests.
AIR. Emery is young man of pleas
| ing address and talks most interest
ingly upon the Mexican situation. He
is a graduate of@Bowdoin college, class
! of 10, and . member of the Psi Epsilon
| fraternity. Shortly after graduation he
went to Texas and located at Pharr, a
! town located six miles from the Next
can border and about GO miles from
Brownsville, which latter place has
been the scene of such turmoil re-
Gently. rst
Thu picture above represents Mr..
Emery and his partner. p. S. Wood of
!'B2r Harbor, a former >classmate at
/ Bowdoin college at Mr.. EMery's home.
The attractive bungalow has but re-
Gently been completed, the shed APP
pearing at the extreme right of the pic
ture having been their home previous
~. Mr.. Emery il the man standing
at the left. as one faces the picture
and Mr. Wood the other man. The
small treas in the foreground are lem
on trees. planted year aso and upon
the second from the right a lemon is
to be seen
Two years spent in this locality has
given both men an opportunity to ac
quire enough of the language to make
NJ
occasion.
Mr.. ErneTy's business is irrigation
farming and contracting The entire
country of this section has been re-
claimed from land that would grow
nothing but sage bush, 10 a very fertile
condition, done by irrigating from the
waters OF the lower Rio Grande. Six
crops Of alfalfa in the last year Mr..
Emery has cut from his land. while
three hocd crops. rotated. is the annual
yield from the rest.
The present situation is beyond the
belief of those outside. The popuIa-
ton Of this section is about two-thirds
MeSc2ns and one-third whites. The
Mexicans; says Mr.. Emet'y are as va
riable IS The wind. and their sympa-
thies are with the dominant power Of
the noment--it is inamateral to then,
whether it be Villa Carranza or Ia
nata.
Mexican raiders will ride across the
aordeT into Teas and raid the towns
and raHch'". diving many of the
Mc::ic-Es h-ci: acro3s the border,
where the: III turn become raiders on
th,,;l' friends GnI benefactors. At
invaluable G.' tack always drive the
i'ai6c:s back, thoIei1 it is sometimes a
long chase ard q hot fight Mr. En-
cry has ridden OF with the rangers
on several OCCASIONS. Il is a common
occurrence, sGys Emery. to run across
the body OF dead Mexican, partially
f.ideI6fror sight. under a sage bush.
No questions are asked, it is sufficient
TO know that the dead man was a
Mexican. and being dead, no longer
dangerous.
The residents of the section situated
in the triangle between Brownsville,
E&rliage- ard H;caIgo are fast los
ing their patience and have little use
for the ''watcffui waiting" policy of
the government. Mr.. Emery believes
it to be but a short time before the
Texan Rangers will take matters into
their own hands and commit acts that
will compel the national government
TO take some active steps toward the
enforcement CT law and order along
the border and thus safeguard the in
terests OF the residents of that section.
in fact he says that ii rs common talk
in that section that some such step
VIII SOOE he taken.
The next night after Carranza was
practically recognized by our govern
ment a train was held up by raiders
and robbed. The train, on which Mr.
Emery left for the north, was run
through this section entirely without
lights ard heavily guarded by armed
Texan Rangers. The troops that the
government have sent appear to be
valueless. as they are unused to bush
which is almost entirely wag-
ed in that country, and are evidently
under orders that are IF too
pacific a nature to satisfy the Texans
Mr.. Emery estimates. that there are
about 1000 United States infantry now
located there. Delegation after dele
cation has been sent to Austin, the
capital of Texas. claiming protection.
Even to Washington messages have
been sent and the report is current
that Sec: Lansing telegraphed back to
use solieitous words. This report is
regarded by some as a joke, with the |
as a butt.
Mr.. Emery says that the cost of fiv-
ing IS low. food, clothing and fuel be-
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