El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-22

ING the column for any reason what
soever. However, Cody and I decided
to take a chance and after gathering
a bie bunch of eanteens we ducked into
a small ravine, for we usually found
water i'm these miniature valleys We
had gone possibly half a mile up the
ravine when Cody told me that we
were pursued. We dropped behind two
large boulders and discovered Indians
trailing US After another mile or SO
the canyon turned almost at a right
angle and we stopped TO XIII as many
of the large band now. pursuing us as
we could Our only hope iay ahead
and we determined to outdistance our
enemies.
about a mile ahead we saw the well
come water. We reached X but toasdd
to our already insurmOuntable diff
cuIties we counted over SEQ Indians
as they rounded the last turn in the
canyon. a IN lie back, and the CANYON
had ended. There was no escape"
Col Taylor disappeared once again
into the house and I commenced to
feel thirsty When he came out. he
twirled his mustache. looked orr info
the distance for a tantalizingiv lona.
time and finally said: well, You see.
we didn't get away at all; they killed
To the c ty Hall.
Ny imagination fitted to the CITY
hall and it did me good to see old
Glory flying in the breezes above the
home Of our city government
On my way to interview MAYOR Tom
Lea, ] went into the council chamber,
By mistake, and here as outside the
building. our flag had been given a
place Of honor by the mayor
Tom was on the job, as usual, and
as 1 came in be seemed greatly amused
about something. He told mo that he
the death Of Villa was confirmed. but
that he had not died from gangrene.
Here at last was something tangible.
How did he dieT" I asked
Laughed himself to death thinking
OF president Wilson," shouted Tom.
and feared he was going to share
the same fate.
As I left, he was gazing fondly at
small silk American flag over his desk
and expressing his opinion of Villaism.
1t sounded something like this: X
- # !! 2?2 600 III - 600
&&& 20 tt??2. anyone who knows
the mayor intimately can fill in the
above Appropriately
The Army supply Man.
Floating along Campben street. I blew
into the depot quartermaster's and
found Mai. VIM. Elliott trying to supply
practically the entire army with an
office force suitable for a brigade or
two.
He was some busy man, too. and
enjoyed a shower. while crouchfng bv
his chair. from the perspiration as it
dripped from his brow. When I could
break into the seemingly endless process
sion of those desiring to see the army
agent 1 had no sooner muir
INJURED villa" than Mai Elliott had
seized a pad and pencil and had begun:
Yes, I know the Velie is a good truck,
but how soon can you deliver Sc Of
them at Columbus and at what figure?
Are you prepared to give me two or
four drive machines? What kind of
carburetor do you supply? Are the en-
gines OF the internal or external COM
5usticn type? Are the trucks self
starting, or do you have to push them
llong2 Can you run the trucks side
ways as well as forward and back
vard2 Is the ignition direct. or indi-
-ect2 Can'-but I was well up the street
BY this time, fully intent upon spelling
NY question to the next man l inter-
-lewed-
KeIIy's Ring Missing.
When I reached a point opposite the
)ostOffice, on North oregon street. on I
ny way to the Sheldon bar TO interview
Burt Orndorff I heard some one Justify
my name. It was Henry Kelly.
,X-mayor. The famous Kelly ring no
onger adorned the finger OF our former
mayor and I there ana then made a
mental note to ask Dick Dudley If It
vas true that the ring had in fact been
Jrokeni
IDLY the best little inviewer in town /
md that what he did not know about !
lila, or any other Mexican who could |
Re registered. or voted. was not worth !
moving. At least not worth the atten- !
ion OF anyone politically inclined.
Replying to my statement Of what 1 /
vas trying to find out. he informed me,
gain most confidentially, that villa /
vas not dead and that he had already |
,een registered twice in the second /
ward and would duly vote there each /
ime In Julyl Just why Henry insisted /
pon calling VIII Burgess on the tele- |
,hone before he impaired this infor- !
nation TO me ] cannot comprehend
Jackson Declines to Talk.
T failed TO find Burt at his usual /
lace in the bar and then I suddenly |
lethOught me that Dan Jackson would !
,e very sore II an interview with him |
id not come as close to the one with /
Ienry Kelly as it was possible to have I
Arrived at the saith district court I |
earned that Dan had already Issued |
n Injunction against the registering or /
citing Of one Pancho Villa in the Sec |
nd ward, so it seemed that after ali /
nv only authentic information about |
lila had already gone glimmering. Dan I
would not talk-I guess was not an.
fence enough-and every time as