Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-14
TO TAKE LONG TIME
ARMY OFFICERS BELIEVE WAR.
FARE IN MEXICO WILL BE
LONG DRAWN OUT.
DICKMAN'S CHASE OF GARZA
Captures Most of Band, but Leader Es-
capes-Diplomacy to Cost Uncle
Sam More Money-Indian Wis
itors at Capital.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington-From past expert
ences 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 a 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
1t seem probable to army men that
there will be 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
tureds band after band, and the round
up is completed.
How Dickman Did 1t.
Joseph T. Dickman is now colonel
of the Second cavalry. During the
Cara uprising in 1891 he was a 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 scout with orders to trail through
q certain section of the country. He
had been doing a 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 am body but
Dickman knows to this day just how he
figured out that he was going to make
a killing that morning after there haC
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 ant
Gonzales with many followers, hat
been caught at the very place wher,
they thought they were safest. Tn,
troopers swung round them and in
minute held the whole outfit captive
The next day Dickman met and de
feated in sharp fight another band O
the outlaws, capturing several of them
While virtually all the members O
? the bandit gang were captured, Cateri
no E. Cara, the leader, escaped an
, he never has been heard Of from tha
day to this. Is Villa also to escape a
, the expense of the capture of his fc
lowers?
High Cost of Foreign Service.
Diplomacy is to cost Uncle San
more money than ever before. TIL
war is at fault. The diplomatic an,
! consular appropriation bills for 1911
as reported in the house, carry abou
, s1,500.00 more than the same bill
! for 1916.
y It may be that congress on the pie
Z Of economy will refuse to grant tn
> increase asked, but if it shall so re
fuse it seems likely that a good man
' diplomatic and consular officers wi
! follow the example set by a few c
their brethren and resign from tn
a service. Senators and represents
t1ves take 20 cents a mile for thei
7 travel from their homes to Washin,
r ton and back again, but they have a
\ lowed in times past only five cent
i mile to diplomatic and consular of
GERS who are at best paid only sma
!, salaries.
t The state department has taken CO,
n nizance of the condition of affairs a
they relate to the diplomatic and col
? Sular service. The price of living ha
gone up all over the world and j
q many cases the cost of transportatio
= likewise has risen. A memoranda
& prepared at the department for CO.
Y gress reads like this:
O "A careful computation based upc
r. the number of actual transfers an
promotions of officers shows that tt
r existing allowance, five cents a mil
fails to reimburse the actual expenst
= Of travelling of an unmarried consul:
o officer by from two mills to ten cen
II q mile; and where an officer is ma
y ried the allowance has failed to rei1
N0A 20 IAC e1SLOoeA pCAoO NY 4IOm
e mills to $1.02 a mile, accordi1
st to the number of members of Il
,r officers family and the quantity
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What Are We Coming To?
e In the sixties the customary pr
:" posal was: viii you be mine?" We
r family signs are showing that N,