Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-25

"oNe bought all Il has 20 cat" u con-
! tnues We houlh: cl the bacon,
flour, GAIT. sugar. coffee, gasoline,
grease, ana OIL and three carloads Ut
hay and could not find anything eise
to buy"
To supplement the supply trims, the
Cnwanza government agreed to permit
~" use cf the Mexican National rail-
way from Juarez 3ou.1. FOR commercial
PURPOSES no shipments were permit
tea to Be made direct 10 the army, but
citizen in 1il Paso may shlp 20
merchant in Chihrahua or elsewhere
army supplies to be sold No American
soldiers we're permitted 10 accompany
these conslgnmcnts as a guard Not
more than dozen cars Of supplies ever
reached the army in this way.
Whatever elise may be said of Villa,
ne was foXY diu!onat in handling
those people. re will never be charged
with having taken anything from ulein
without paying for H." says ono Letter..
wv nile villa seized What he wanted.
he always pac for it in his own cur
rency, and | guess lie had as much right
TO issue j, as the other fellow most OF
the time. The people mere are crazy
for oGT money. bought a handful Of
Cairanza money here to-day for SOU
venirs at two cents \ neso -
MARKET FOR USED CANS.
These are the prices received b,, Ap,ar-
ican soldiers in Mexico for en,ntv tin
cans, according to a letter inst recived
from an officer somewhere in Mexico."
The soldiers did not realize what a,
gold mine" tin cans were until thew
began to miss their "garbare nile and
later found the SHINING. cans boinr useo
for cooking utensils or as water recent
acies I'm nearby camps and huts
Thereafter they made business of
trading tins cans for food supplies The
prices received we're.
Five-rallpu gaSolcne cans-sI or ma
chicken and four eggs
Empty tomato cans-ore cry
'The officers mess to-day had cir
dozen eggs on hand. which they too,, in
for gasolene cans" saws the ietter
They also had chicken. The bovs ara
doing almost as well. although raso,,,e
cans are not quite so numerous Nhen
We get hold of a gasolene can now ya
have to sleep ON it or lose n cbtcken.
When We have n tneol nj, cappod tor,,
toes the cans will buv enough ag,-s -
feed rho winnie s,uodro,,, o.
,,oo1 ,.t, , -,
ba,o soo,, 49, -
y ri,rioroi.,, 10
mi. g. ..l,. -
to-. .,, '''iP'e VI me reia-
'''''N" "e'"eeh the american
"'" '''' -h'NIchh natives with
"'"' ~ mus come IN contact Reports
~ 'toh snow that in the
"'"H 'i'S "'S'iIcts me reception given the
n.
M'''''' II'hu'E' IN the towns however.
''' performances OF the MeXicans has
has not occurred as freoment,v as rr..
eNIe''eo lew Salutary lessons put
" ei'" u 'rat pas'lrne'
"'o'"r-cNcIe courier who had to
name use oil highway through a
S''"'Ii town was ilred at three times in
'"e gay On ms last trip troop OF
,"'"'E ioilo"ed MN INTO town. and
ueHahded the 'shlper. The whole town
ue'''e' '"a' any shots mad been fired.
''"Ni"s aScer'a'ned VINO the prominent
,''e" W 'he town WERE the commando
,"S oi''cer TOOK three of them as
hostages uh'il the guilty party was pro-
uu,eu, ne command mad not got out
,ho. ne vas auri , anu
sa,,a ,racartto,s h,s . nn u.s.. ...,.s
uira-o,,,,ars .rt t,-u. ~
c,u,,b. o,,,,i A., , .-.,-
str,rc b,. tbo si,r,I so,,,ic. ,,.a- .-,,ss
with So effectuaIlv thar M mora tronh1.
of that kind was encountered
Observing members of the army mako
no end of comment on the soualid con-
ditions in which the average Mexican
is now living. the absence of food II,
substantial quantities and tho peneraI
" filthy surroundings of most of the
towns.
''i1'N->OH 'fO-> OiiiLDhrN'
In the hIexican children. the soldiers
have learned to place some reliance.
one scout, who listened for half an hour
to two Mexicans who We're pretending
to direct him to army Headquarters.
was attracted by the FREQUENT laughter
of the crowd of children who surround-
ed him When the men had gone hs
showed them his machine, got them in
terested and then asked them what thew
were laughing at when he was talking
dren replied that they had told "such
big lies" they could not holp il. and
gave the scout such sinlnle directions
that n. caught nm with his command
without further trouble.
Reviews of Carranza troons baye
taken place Frequently WHENEVER an
American troop or high commanding Of