The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-11-02
Boise Statesman's Correspond
ent Says Boys Are Fear
full of Attacks.
MUST NOT RETALIATE
Ordered Not to Fire, If Fired
at From Across Mexi-
can Line.
JOHN nj. BRADLEY,

Corporal of Company IL, Second
Idaho infantry, is now the States
mans correspondent on the border. All
Of the special dispatches from
Nogales and Patagonia are from Cor
pOral Bradley, who i'm civil life was
secretary of the Commercial club at
Bull. He was the first man i'm the
state Of Idaho to enlist last June when
| the mobilization call came. He report
+ ed for service at 11:20 at night, the
mobilization call having reached Boise
/ at in the evening, and later had been
\ wired to Buhl.--BOise Statesman.
| Lying in the military base hospital
here at Nogales for several weeks lay
a son of Idaho, slowly recovering from
the effects of nasty gunshot wound
inflicted on him by a Mexican soldier,
Inflicted while the wounded man was
going about his own business, prepar-
ing to take a train for home to visit
his wife and family.
The attempted assassination of Cap
tain III. w. Wilson was one of the most
wwardly of the numerous and always
mwardly affairs such as are fire.
guently pulled off by the Mexican sol
ders.
Within % feet of the spot where
y Captain Wilson lay writhing on the
aOOr in his pain, a soldier of the
United States army walked a beat
no, not walked, for the soldier, q
& young man at that, threw a shell into
the magazine of his rifle and training
it at ready, he coolly faced the Mexi-
can throng only scant 200 feet
away, soldiers and all, and waited for
another move.
Boys Await Orders.
Additional soldiers of the republic
came running quickly from the guard
house two blocks away and threw q
double line of guards along the street
which marks the Mexican boundary
line. Up on the hills about Nogales
were thousands of other soldiers, reg
alars and guardsmen-all branches O.
ne service, an army ready and on it
Toes waiting to go. The Mexican sol
Oler walked away after handing hi
gun to another soldier who told hin
% beat it, quickly before he got int
trouble
| have a photograph taken of tina
street five minutes before the shot wa
ared and a prominent Carranza offic
IA Is standing alongside the soldad
VINO hired the shot that struck dow
'aptain Wilson.
Dare Not Fire.
What happened? Nothing. DisciI
ihe among the soldiers of Uncle Sar
az high state of perfection and til
sord to the guards is. Don't fire,
aou are fired at FROM ACROSS th
and so our soldier walks his pos
the border by day and by nigh
moving that any moment may brin
nm or his comrade the crack @
" assassin's rifle and the whine G
" bullet as it seeks its mark Know
aat under the orders now existing fo
Dfuer guards he will run the risk G
llg court martialed If he forget
aalself so much as to fire back in Sc
rIense or in retaliation.
me case of Captain Wilson is bJ
e Oh the hundreds that have o,
Iieu III some form or other durin
% last years. There is no da
uses In these piping times of pea(
- on the border but some Amer
a an man or woman is subjected to tf
asas OF a Mexican who is convince
"a' the gringo will not fight.
Time Near for Action.
uelleve that the time is now a
,os . upon US when the great mil
machine we have been so patien
wnstructing down here on the bo
io,,.ust must be set into action and Il
"aru movement begun.
nav oelieve that when that forwal
WIN ,Tnse,nent iso nee begun that the
ha. & De no backward movement al
AMI once started 1t will lead us {
IN and through Mexico, the me
@,ss me north and of the east and we
lRa.s.lng the banner which stands +,
ther peace and prosperity, unit
iDte nave spread the gospel of pea
all the land thereof.
frnn ur soldier boys here have con
sea., every walk of life in their 7
trma tos.se states. They have left home
Aera s and business. There is no d,
tha,,, DuI what is a distinct loss
sra they are no quitters. TIL,
W ~ resolved that ~ 4r,atre se +l,o a.,