Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-14
ARMY OFFICERS BELIEVE WAR
FARE IN MEXICO WILL BE
LONG DRAWN OUT.
DICKaAN's CHASE OF CARA
Captures Most Of Band, but Leader Es-
capes-Diplomacy to Cost Uncle
Sam More Money-Indian Wis
itors at Capital.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


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
it seem probable to army men that
there will be a splitting up of the
forces of the pursued bandits and that
the captures or killings must be made
in detail.
1t is 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-
gagement will not be decisive and that
thus an opportunity will be given for
the scattering.
In the year 1891 band of Mexicans
led by a 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 Dickman Did It.
Joseph T. Dickman is now colonel
of the Second cavalry. During the
Cara uprising in 1891 he was first
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 a scout with orders TO trail through
a 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 a
place where the thick chaparral opens
out toward the clear country.
1t is not probable that anybody but
Dickman knows to this day just how he
figured out that he was going to make
a 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 swinging gait. He
gave an order suddenly that made his
men know, though they saw nothing,
that business was at hand. The or
ders were explicit and suddenly the
thing opened. A volley came from
men concealed in the brush at the
troops front. 1t was a 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
been caught at the very place where
they thought they were safest. The
troopers swung round them and in a
minute held the whole outfit captive.
The next day Dickman met and de-
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 tnas
day to this. Is Villa also to escape at
the expense of the capture of his fol-
lowers?
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
$1,500.00 more than the same bills
for 1916.
1t may be that congress on the plea
of economy will refuse to grant the
increase asked, but if it shall so re-
fuse it seems likely that good many
diplomatic and consular officers will
follow the example set by a 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
mile to diplomatic and consular Off
GERS who are at best paid only small
salaries.
The state department has taken cog
nizance 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, five cents a mile,
falls to reimburse the actual expenses
of travelling Of an unmarried consular
officer by from two mills to ten cents
a mile; and where an officer is mar
ried the allowance has failed to reim-