Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-04-20
EVENING CA ifal4 ANNAPOLIS, MD APRIL 20 1915

ana the brown races during many
hours among the people.
The most interesting spot is the an
cient mission of Our Lady OF Guade-
Ioup. which turns an impassiye. sun
dried exterior to the woes of the ieso-
late city at her feet For three centu-
this building has seen war and blood
shed. and has he'd ont sheltering arms
to the sorrowful flock who gather un-
der the queer roof of mud and waffle
as far as the outside is concerned. but
which within is a splendid specimen OF
the original Yigas or ceiling beams.
carved by primitive Indian workers
three hundred years ago from trees of
all sizes and thirty feet long. There
is not a bit of iron used in the entire
construction of the mission. which is
one of the chain thrown across the
Western Hemisphere by the Spanish
Friars so long ago. The chime of five
bells. which were cast before 1549 still
call the faithful to prayer. even if their
tones are cracked to sad sort of
janggling whine.
Just before the altar which is draped
in black. supposedly for the Lenten
season. but which seemed in accord
with the kueeling groups of MeXicans
also draped in fiimsy black rags of
garments, with faces and heads wrap
ped i'm the black cotton mantilla,
which all wear. lay women prone on
the rough flag stones. SO still she was
| feared she was dead She was too
grief-stricken TO pray or 70 weep. as
much past emotion the figure seemed
seemed as the body of her son who had
been executed in the nearby cemetery
Practically murdered he was after she
had been promised his freedom.
Ostensibly charged with conspiracy
to seize the garrison AT Juarezt the men
who were shot by order of General Ga
briel Gavira it is known. were shot
from personal spite. and because it
was believed that one at least was
about 10 tell the United Saes officials
in El Paso some things involving per-
sons high in the councils of the Car
rama government One OF the men
executed the entire affair being
butchery. six shots being inflicted on
each of the victims before the mercy
shot of the officers in charge of the
affair stilled the torture of the mutil-
lacd bodies, was Nichols Chavvarea
who was said to have been secretary to
Pascuel Orozco. but many testified that
he could neither read nor write. but he
had at one time acted for the Carrauza
government, but had fallen into the
bed graces of the General.
1t Is boldly stated here that these
three men were invited to Juarez from
El PasO by invitation of Andreas G.
Garcia, and that they received from
the Mexican officials positive assur-
ance of immunity from arrest and
prosecution for any acts committed OF
alleged to have been committed by
them in the past. They were under
the belief that they were to be given
further work for the de facto govern
metn The ancient belief that dead
men tell no tales seems the principal
Of Mexican so-called government, as
far as q newcomer can ASCERTAIN.
a few years ago Juarez was one of
the brightest of the Mexican towns, de-
irving a large and rather Illicit rev
enue from gambling joints. a cockpit
bull ring and a jockey-club, whose
would not be tolerated on the Amer
lean side Of the Border. But three
revolutions have battled thruogh the
streets. and ruin marks their progress.
The public library site is a heap of
rubbish, the postoffice and the quarters
of the garrison show the signs of strife
Roofless and gaping walls show al,
that is left Of the building where the
Huertista made their stand before cap
,lred aml shot.