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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29
5000 REBELS
ACCEPT AMNESTY
Gen. Obregon Says Canuto
Reyes and Rebels Lay
Down Arms and Quit.

Three thousand rebels in the field in
the Laguna district Of Coahuila and
in the states Of Durango and Zaca-
tecas have surrendered and accepted
amnesty from the Carranza govern
ment, according to Gen. Alvaro obre-
gon.
Gen. Oregon made this announce
ment at his private car Friday after
noon and said that the surrender had
followed a series Of conferences which
Gen. Jacinto Trevino had held with
representatives from Reyes and the
other chiefs After these negotiations
had progressed to the point where the
leaders of the rebel forces wished to
hold a conference, Gen. Trevino gave
them permission to meet at NaZas. in
the Laguna district, Gen. Obregon de-
clared, and this meeting voted to lay
down their arms and quit the field.
Their desire was made known to Gen.
TrevinO and the action Of the TOrreon
commander was ratified by Gen. Obre-
gon when he passed through there
Wednesday on his way to the border.
Gen. Oregon announced that these
men would not be incorporated into
the army as was done in the case of
the Villistas, but that they would he
granted full amnesty and sent back to
their homes.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29

Mexican rent collections, Lee Newman.
ADV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29

cans and other things to be consumed
by the army in Mexico.
Two machine gun crews, with guns
squad Of marksmen, and several COM
missioned officers climbed aboard
Bronco busters from the plains. Ieatb-
cry skinned, blue-eyed and neIIow
voiced, tackled a new invoice Of horses.
TO get them used to army equipment.
SQUADS marched away to various
points for camp cleaning.
Signal corps motor cyclists shot mast
Oroerlies In auto or on horses rushed
here and there.
Everybody II Busy.
Carpenters began erecting machine
shops.
Blacksmiths shod ponies which had
never worn shoe before.
Gangs dug trenches to put the water
pipes under ground.
Freight trains arrived and disRorEed
amazing stacks OF queer looking boxes
Members Of the band began to prac-
tice.
An alkali-covered mule train drove in
from the SOUTH six days out OF Casas
Twenty Indian chiefs 70 to 100 years
old, roamed about and scrutlnized the
modern war material
Indians Wait on SAMPLE,
A delegation OF them waited on Mai.
Sample
They had just been brought out Of
the White Mountain reservation IN the
Roosevelt dam district Of Arizona. and
they wanted to leave that day for the
front
The venerable chiefs had secuted for
Uncle Sam in the various chases FOR
Geronimo in the district where villa
has fled.
Despite their great age, they were
alert and tfreless.
The night before leaving the reser-
walton they had danced the war dance
all night.
War head dresses that had not been
worn since the Apache uprising were
brought out
Bowie knives eighteen inches long
had been sharpened and strapped to !
their thighs.
They were to scale the heightg Of
Villas moutain Businesses They were J
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29

to read and interpret the signs in the
desert sand where Villistas had passed.
The Indians Strike.
But today they had a complaint.
After various palavering they came to
the point.
NO 60" said the spokesman.
Major Sample approached the matten
from the rear and prefaced his why
with many diplomacies-
NO time on wrist" said the chief
tain.
The Indians had seen the officers
wrist watches and wouldn't play with
out them.
They were fitted out in uniforms.
saddles, campaign hats and the good
old fashioned Colt revolvers.
They brought the Colts back. They
had seen the troopers with automatics,
and wanted some like them.
Sun goggles were obtained by the
same tactics.
AerOpIane From the Front.
AS the chiefs solemnly started off to
heard. Glasses were turned towards
the distant mountains and a tiny but
rapidly growing speck was found 5000
feet above the ground scaling the
mountains.
In a few seconds an aeroplane swept
over camp, and landed in the aviation
section.
Two lieutenants aviators. the same
who were mobbed in Chihuahua City,
had come from Pershing $50 miles away
in four hours.
In four hours they had traversed the
desert, had Travelled as far as the In
dams could go in weeks, as far as the
auto truck trains go in three days.
They brought dispatches, mail and
stories from the newspaper men at the
front.
They brought reports Of Villas ru-
mored, but doubted, death. OF battles,
OF the deaths Of two Americans at the
hands Of Villistas in some outlying VIII
lage.
Stories From the South.
They brought stories and anecdotes
galore, TO the delight of the newspaper
men, the Joy Of the telegraph company
and the terror and despair of the genial
but painstaking censor
Hardly had the sensation Of their ar
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29
MAYOR TELLS Of
PARRAL ATTACK
Father of Gen. Herrera Says
Trouble Due to Unexpect-
ed Entrance of Troops.

Jose de la Luz Herrera, mavor OF
Parrsl, who arrived in Juare5 Friday
morning IN the special train bring
ing Gen. Alvaro Obregon TO the border.
for q conference with Gen. scott and
Gen. Funston. says that the trouble At
Parral was due to mob violence and
that the garrison had nothing to do
! with the engagement which resulted
in the killing Of two American troon-
ers and the wounding OF several 9th
ers.
81 did not know that the American
soldiers had entered ParraI." MAYOR
Herrera said. until word came to
me at the Commandments MiIitare.
where I was then discussing the ap-
proach Of the American soldiers with
tho garrison officers. The courier
brought word that 8 party Of Ameri-
can soldiers. The courier brought
! word that a party of American SOL
diers had ridden past the guard and
that the guard, not knowing what to
do, and fearing to challenge the pas
sage, had permitted them to pass.
Il next learned from a second mes
senger that the American troopE had
gathered in the Constitutional plaza.
and that they had dismounted from
their horses and were buying food
from the stores and stands. Inme-
diately I went in the company Of Gen.
Luzano TO the plaza and cautioned
Mai. Tompkins as to the danger Of the
presence of the American troops in the
town.
Says Mob Attacked Americans.
HE replied that he had sent cour-
Ter in advance and as the courier had
not returned, the inference was that
everything was all right or that some
thing had happened to him. WbiIe
we were talking, people began to
gather from all sides. They showed
signs OF violence and 7 begged the Of
flcer and troops to leave Parral. This
they prepared to do. and as they with
drew, the mob began throwing stones
at the American soldiers and soma of
the mob discharged firearms
In this trouble several of our own
OFFICERS were injured in an effort to
control the situation, and the consti-
tuuonal troops actually took a position
between the mob and the soldiers. ana
a number OF them were killed and in
Jured because OF it. The populace
called out to the Mexican soldiers that
they were gators.
entrance Too SUDDEN
THE whole affair would not have
occurred had we received information
that the American troops intended buv-
ing supplies in Parral Their en-
trance into the city was so sudden and
unexpected that it was regarded as an
act Of hostility"
Father OF Gen. Luis Herrera.
Mr.. Herrera is the father OF Gen.
Luis Herrera, who is now in Parral |
IN command Of the garrison at that ]
point; and the father of Melchor Her /
rera, who was imprisoned in Ell Paso |
at the time Gen. Herrera was reported 1
TO have detected from the Constitu- I
uonalist cause. MelchOr Herrera IL 4
now living in Juarez, and his father
IS his guest while at the border.
Mayor Herrera was made A Marty IN !
zen. Obregon's visit in order that he
might explain, II necessary, to Cen. /
Scout ana Cen Funston, just how the
trouble at Parra1 originated.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29
A DAY IN COLUMBUS, BASE FOR
AMERICAN ARMY DOWN IN MEXICO
The Trip From Ell Paso tn Arrival at the Hotel the
Picture Shows the Daily Life the Arrival of the
Airplane, of the Transport Wagons, the Depar-
ture of the Indians With Wrist Watches
By MERTON E. BURKE.

TOLUMBUs, New Mexico, April g.
I Columbus sleeps with its boots on
~ md "a rrfes lln nlrne On The hair
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-29

rival worn away when a dust cloud on
the desert warned the vigilant signal
corps Of the approach of new business
Another mule train pulled in, four
mules to a canvas covered high wheeled
wagon, gallOping troopers ahead and
behind.
The train bore the first OF the Willis
tas captured-six men, wounded, and
abandoned by Villa.
AS the auto truck lien and mule driv-
ers came in, dust-covered, eyes blood
shot and with unquenchable thirsts,
they delivered gems Of wisdom and OBJ
servatiOn-
THAT country is all upside down"
said one. You have to dig for wood
and climb for water" The water is in
the hills and the roots Of the sage brush
being about the only available wood.
There's not a man in Columbus would
vote for Wilson and watchful waiting"
said the village sage as the mail was
being sorted.
Nor in Texas" spoke up an Ell Paso
man standing by.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09

Capital Yscht Club: 2 Posasa1e Bo~t Cub Va
Oo~st Surves: q. washington Csnos Club Va. E~mL
en- Power Boat Cnb; - B-o&d~ster o~n,s Czns
Va Bsstern Power Boat Club: NsryA 1 wsshinstou
Canoe Club va Cosst Survey; 3 Posonazc Boxt Club
". Cspst,1 Yacht Club; g. Poto<n.c Bo<t Club -
Eastern Pc~er Boat Club: q WsshinstSu csnos
club w. Caratal rscht Cub; n. Bro~d~sier Canoe
Club " Cosst SURVEY; .. oauitai Ysc4f Club n.
Coast suryeg Is. Brosdwater Canoe Club Wssh-
instou Canoe Club; =. Wasninstou Canoe Cub
Potomac Boat Cub; z. Capita Yscht Club
bro~dSxaeT Csnoe Club: - Cosx surveT Last
ern Power Boat Club; z, Co2st Survey Ws-h-
ins1on CaBos Cub; =. potousc Boat Club ".
Brosdv.ter Cane Cub: 3 E.stern po~1 Boat
Club wl Capitsl NNcht Club; Ar-il 3 B~ste-r
PO~er Boat Club ~ BrosdvsteT O.noe Club: s.
Cos-t Survey ". Potomac Boat Club: u. C&rstxl
Yacht Cub Va Potomac Boat Club; z Wsshinrtnr
Csnoe Club " Bro~d~stsT CsDoc Cub: u. Cp~s,
surv1 E<sten Power Bost Dub; Y. WAsoins
tou CsDo- Club ~ Potomac Boat Club. 2. Coss
sur,r w. CApstl Yacht Club; - Eastern Po~-
Boat Cub uL Csptsl Ysoht Cub: d. Sru.d-st~r
Canoe Club ". Potomac Boat Cub: . uxshinstcu
Canoe Club w. EASs-n Power Boat Club.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09

good reason, of course. that there is nc
such thing as an intercollegiate baseball
association. 1t was a case Of Hamlet
with Hamlet left out.
Just how the summer ball question 10
to be solved, IL at all, is getting to be a
serious question, Here were three asso-
Citations trying to devise some means to
make their undergraduates be honest
about playing baseball during the sum-
mer. Yet at the end of four conferences
the subject was left precisely where II
was before. Apparently the rules are
passed to please faculties. and then not
enforced to please the students. n is hard
to find any excuse for this continued fail
ure to tackle the GUNNER ball problem.
II the rules are to be retained they should
be enforced strictly. even II some stu
dents have to be expelled. II they are
not to be enforced they should be repealed
and rules substituted which can be en-
forced.
The advisory capacity of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association and Its
consequent weakness was well illustrated
when Frank Castleman. the former Col
gate star track man and now chairman
Of the track committee of the N. C. A. A.,
reported that he could not get his COM
mttee to agree upon the new Olympic
and intercollegiate rule that all tracks
must be measured twelve inches from the
pole instead Of eighteen inches. which was
the former American rule.
This means that there are a lot OF
worthless records being made all over the
country. and some young athlete who
thinks he has made a new intercollegiate
or world record is likely to find when II
comes UP before the A. A. U. for ap-
proval that it is rejected because not
made on a properly measured track. This
could be easily overcome even without
remaking the track. All that is necessary
is to remeasure the track and move ur
the finishing post.
Similarly, the football rules committed
wants to pass a rule ordering all teams
to number their players. But not being
able to enforce its rules teams may num-
Der players or not, Just as they see fit
Most teams are willing to accede to 81
reasonable a request. but Harvard alb
solutely declines to do It Yale has neveI
done IL, but reports are that the Ellis
football authorities have been converted
to the reform.
! Copyright 1915, By Edward R. BushneilD
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09
Nautical Bowlers Are
Ready to Open Season

The duckpin game In the city of Wash
ington received a boost on last Friday
night when at meeting held@at the
Jolly Fat Mems Club new league. TO
be known as the Nautical Duckpin
League, was formed.
For some time past teams composed
OF members of the various water sport
organizations in the city have been play
ing Independent games, but there was nc
organized movement to bring the game
forward as winter recreation for those
who spend their summer months on or
about the waters adjacent to Washing
ton, until representatives from the vari.
Gus boat and canoe clubs and the Coast
Survey met and formed the new league.
The organizers OF the new association
are men who are not only going into the
plan for what pleasure they themselves
can set out of 1t, but the idea and aim
of these men are to bring together into
closer mutual understanding all men,
bers of the numerous boat, canoe and
yacht clubs about the city with a hope
Of having the clubs work with each other
during the summer months in promoting
better interest In the various water
sports that are carried on in the old
Potomac River.
At the meeting Friday night six clubs
were admitted to membership and the
league officers were elected.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09

Sully B. Maiz, of the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey, has been the prime mover
in working up interest In the league. and
the men present at the meeting expressed
their gratitude to him for his splendid
work.
When candidates for the various Offices
OF the league were being named Maize
refused to allow his name TO be pre-
sented, stating that he appreciated the
honor, but preferred not to hold office,
However, those present insisted that he
at least accept the position OF official
scorer, which he did.
z. w. Shepard, representing the Capt.
tai Yacht Club was unanimously elected
president of the league.
President Shepard stated that he was
going to do his best to make the organi-
zation a real live one. and that he would
exert his efforts to carry to successful
conclusion the main aim of the league.
1t is planned that at the end OF the
bowling season a banquet, or get-to-
gether party, will be given. at which
all members of the league will be ex-
pected to attend.
The other officers who were elected
Friday were J. w. Burch, Washington
Canoe Club, financial secretary, and r.
c. Cruit, Of the Capital Yacht Club,
treasurer.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09
English VS.. American Stroke
Will Furnish Arguments for
The Rowing Authorities

Jim, Rice, of Columbia, takes very
little stock in the asserted superiority
Of thole pins over the American swivel.
He contends that the thole pins do not
enable a crew to get away from its mark
any more quickly, and in proof points
to the easy victory of his crew over
Yale this fall and the fact that his crew
beat Yale at the start. He also insists
that the Pennsylvania eights using thole
pins the last two years have invariably
been jumped at the start. No matter
what happans the argument is likely to
continue indefinitely. 1t depends almost
entirely on the coach.
Is Cornell After Jim Rice.
Although Cornell men are saying moth
ing official on the subject the belief
exists that the Ithacaps want Jim Rice,
of Columbia, to be their rowing coach
in the very near future. This is not
because of any dissatisfaction with
Charles H. Courtney, who will be an idol
with Cornell men as long as he lives. But
Courtney Is now in his 67th year and
has not been himself since his injury
at Poughkeepsie last summer. In any
event Courtney would not be able to
coach actively much longer and Rice is
thought to be the only available man
in sight able to uphold the prestige of
Cornell on the water.
Conditions have not been to Rice s
liking at Columbia. This has been due
principally to such handicaps as lack of
interest on the part OF the students. 1t
is a notorious fact that Rice has had
to develop his crews from a handful of
inexperienced men. while his rivals have
had squads OF big men. furthermore
Columbia has frequently found it diff
cult to finance rowing. though the
situation has been relieved somewhat by
the restoration Of football as an inter-
collegiate game.
II Cornell should take Rice when his
contract expires there would probably be
howl from Columbia men. But a
professional coach. unless he is a gradu-
ate, considers himself precisely as a
member of the faculty does, and goes
where he can get the most money. The
late Mike Murphy left Yale because
Pennsylvania offered him more money
Then he went back to Yale and finally
returned to Pennsylvania Likewise q
bigger salary enabled Princeton to take
Keene Fitzpatrick from Michigan. So II
Cornell wants Rice badly enough there
is no reason why he should not change.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09


II the Yale rowing authorities succeed in
their plan to transfer their crew practice
from the Harbor to the Housatonic River
at Derby. Conn, they will have a row.
ing course second to none in the country.
For the last twenty years Yale men
have been trying to find substitute for
the Harbor where the crews are con-
stantly being swamped by the gales that
blow there. The establishment of an
express trolley service to Derby, a dis
tanee of ten miles from the university,
makes IL possible for the oarsmen to
reach the new course in half an hour. In
time consumed the new course is no
farther than the old one.
on the Housatonic Yale will have the
choice of two courses. one is two-mile
stretch of water as straight and smooth
as the Schuylkil River course, where the
Pennsylvania crews train. Just below v
is a five-mile stretch marred only by a
few, turns, but at that 1t is better than
the 'Putney course on the Thames where
Oxford and Cambridge row. In order to
utilize 1t Yale will have to build some
kind of boathouse at Derby, but If the
experiment to be tried this spring Is a
success a permanent boat house will be
built there.
Guy Nickalls is responsible for the
change. After Nickalls saw the condi-
tions under which Yale had to develop
her eights he remarked that it was a
wonder to him Yale had ever won any
races. Last year. in the face of these
conditions Yale won the intercollegiate
rowing championship. Just now Yale
has the biggest and best squad OF candi-
dates that any university coach ever had
to pick from. with enthusiasm running
so high and a coach like Nickalls, who
has demonstrated his ability under un
favorable conditions, Yale men look fol
a long succession Of victories.
Doubt stiII EnveIops the Amateur
Those trusting individuals who though
the amateur question would be settled
once and for all time by the many con
ferences and conventions of college mel
and amateur associations held in New
York last week were mistaken. Man!
clinics were held over this poor subject
but nothing definite was done. The mos
important conference was that called b!
the I. C. A. A. A. A, and in which fif
teen other organizations participated
About all it accomplished was the re
affirmation of the present definition o
the amateur with the suggestion that i
be made possible for a professional coacl
to regain bis amateur status.
But the alleged injustice done to
professional coach who wanted to com
| pete as an amateur In another spor
was almost nothing compared to tn
ma gnitude Of the summer baseball evil
and on this subject no agreement what
ever could be reached. Curiously enougl
there were no representatives present o
the summer ball players. but for the yer,
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09
By EDWARD r.. BUSHNELL.

That perennial dispute concerning the
relative superiority of the English and
American strokes and rigging bobs up
AGAIN to furnish the rowing authorities
something to argue about. Three big
Eastern universities will this year DEM
onstrate the supposed superiority Of the
English stroke and Enslish-rigged boat.
while as many more will stake their sue
cess on long-approved American meth
DDS. Yale, Pennsylvania and Harvard
still cling to English methods, while Cor
nell, Columbia and Syracuse pin their
faith TO the American
Joseph Wright, the famous coach OF the
Argonaut Rowing Club OF Toronto, who
took I'D his duties this week as coach OF
tn. Pennsylvania crews, announces in
letter to the writer that he will stick to
tn, English-rigged boat as arranged by
his predecessor, Vivian Nickalls, but that
he will use a stroke which is a compro-
mise between the English and American.
Yale. Of course, has used the English
stroke and shell ever since Kirby and
Gold. two Oxford men, introduced them
in 1918, and Guy Nickslls, the former
Leander coach, knows no other methods.
Hsryard's conversion has been more or
less gradual, but was completed two
years ago.
In reply to the writer's puery as to the
style Of stroke he would teach at Penn
sylyanIa, Joe Wright replied as follows:
You ask the style Of stroke I am go
ing to teach at Observation-Disclosures or
American. don't know what you
would call our method in Canada, but
call it the natural stroke, where. a crew
gets the most speed out OF the boat with
the least exertion. note quite as much
swing as the English, but a bit more
than the American. We use the long
slfde-28
'As to thole pins. we had one eight
rigged with them two years ago. Our
senior eight rowed the boat both years
and liked them very much. Our fours
were rigged with swivels, and it was
hard to get the men in the fours after
rowing in the eights. With the tholes
whether they are better than the swivels
or not, is a matter Of opinion. I like the
tholes very much. and II it were left t.
the men who row them they would al
say tholes. The Pennsylvania boats arr
rigged with tholes and 1 will not chang,
them"
The Washington herald., 1916-01-09
Camden Team Wins.

In the intercity tournament between
the Camden team. from the Pennsyivs-
mia R r Y. NJ. c. A. and the local
r. r. Y. NJ. c. A was held last night at
the local gym. In the pocket blizzard
match the Camden team won the three
games while IN the bowling contest they
proved more than a match for the locals.
In the basketball game the locals came
into their own. winning by . 20 IL