Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-14
ARMY OFFICERS BELIEVE WAR.
FARE IN MEXICO WILL BE
LONG DRAWN OUT.
DIckMAN's CHASE OF eARzA
Captures Most of Band, but Leader e.
eapes-Dipiomacy to Cost Uncle
Sam More Money-lndIan vls-
ltons at Capital.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

snces trailing and fighting bandits,
army officers here and on the border
realize that the present warfare is
likely to be long drawn out. They un-
questionably would prefer pitched
battle and to have the thing over with
once and for all, but the history Of the
past along the border in Mexico makes
Il seem probable to army men that
there will be Q splitting up OF the
forces of the pursued bandits and that
the captures or killings must be made
In detail.
1t IL also possible. Of course. that
there may be one fight before the sep
aration of the renegade force into
small units. 1t may be that the en-
Ragement will not be decisive and that
thus an opportunity will be given for
the scattering.
In the year 1891 band Of Mexicans
led by q man named Cara who had
many of the characteristics Of villa.
split into flying fragments" and gave
the United States forces all that they
wanted to do in order to effect cap
lures. There is on record one specific
case which is typical Of many cases
and which may prove to be the coun-
terpart of individual man hunts which
perhaps must be undertaken before
Villas scattered followers are CAP
tured, band after band. and the round
up Is completed.
How Dtekman Did Il.
Joseph T. Dickman IL now colonel
Of the Second cavalry. During the
Cara uprising in 1891 he was q hrst
lieutenant of the Third cavalry. sta
toned ON the border. The followers
of the Mexican chieftain had split up
into bands and alternately were hiding
and raiding. Lieutenant Dickman was
ON q scout with orders to trail through
Q certain section Of the country. He
had been doing lot of thinking on the
possibilities in the case. and when he
had gone some distance from the head
quarters camp he quit his actual scout
Ing and went by the left flank to
place where the thick chaparral opens
out toward the clear country.
II is not probable that anybody but
Dckman knows to this day Just how he
figured out that he was going to make
n killing that morning after there had
been months and months Of practically
unsuccessful hunting for the scattered
members of the guerrilla band.
Dickman led his small detachment
straight away at a swinging gait. He
gave an order suddenly that made his
men know. though they saw nothing.
that business was at hand. The or
aders were explicit and suddenly the
thing opened. A volley came from
men concealed In the brush at the
troops front. It was . wasted volley.
but It got quick. sharp and destructive
answer from Dickman's men.
Leader Never Was Caught.
Two bandit chiefs. Benavedes and
Gonzales with many followers, had
bssn caught at the very place where
thsy thought they were safest. The
troopers swung round them and in .
minute held the whole outfit captive.
The next day Dickman met and de-
feated In . sharp light another band Of
the outlaws. capturing several Of them.
While virtually all the members of
the bandit gang were captured. Cateri-
NO e. Cara, the leader. escaped and
he never has been heard Of from that
day to this. II Villa also to escape at
the expense Of the capture Of his fol.
lowers7
High Cost Of Foreign Service.
Diplomacy is to cost Uncle Sam
more money than ever before. The
war is at fault. The diplomatic and
consular appropriation bills for 1917.
as reported in the house, carry about
e1.500.00 more than the same bills
for 1916.
Il may be that congress on the plea
Of economy will refuse to grant the
increase asked, but II It shall SO re-
fuse It seems likely that a good many
diplomatic and consular officers will
follow the example set by q few of
their brethren and resign from the
service. Senators and representa-
tives take 20 cents a mile for their
travel from their homes to Washing
ton and back again, but they have al
lowed in times past only five cents
q mile to diplomatic and consular ON.
GERS who are at best paid only small
salaries.
The state department has taken cog
nixance of the condition of affairs as
they relate to the diplomatic and con.
sular service. The price of living has
gone up all over the world and In
many cases the cost of transportation
likewise has risen. A memorandum
prepared at the department for con.
gress reads like this:
"A careful computation based upon
the number Of actual transfers and
promotions of officers shows that the
existing allowance, Eve cents a mile.
falls to reimburse the actual expenses
of travelling of an unmarried consular