The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-13
DRIVERS WELL EQUIPPED NOW
Kenosha Police Officer and Fireman
Send Back First Letters Telling of
Their services Driving over Mexi-
can Deserts-To Stick 1t Out.

"Big Bill" Biennemann of the POI
lice department, who gave up his place
on the "paddy" wagon to go down
into Mexico and help Uncle Sam catch
Villa, has been heard from and the
most interesting thing to be found
about the police office and the Central
Fire Station today were two letters
One was from the police officer and the
other from Henry Noering of the fire
department who went along with the
second company Of drivers. The Ke-
nosha boys are not finding service in
Mexico any harder than they found
the work of the police and fire depart
ments in Kenosha and both of them
declare that they are having "the
time of their lives"
In his letter Biennemann said:
"The climate down here is fine and
the weather great with the exception
of few cold nights I have been on
the other side of Cassas Grandes,
which is a hundred and thirty-six
miles over the Mexican border We
have been travelling over mountains
and through deep sand and ford the
rivers and believe me the scenery is
worth seeing. The sun set in Mexico
is great sight as it makes the noun
tints and colors. Some times the road
tints and colors. Some time the road
for the trucks leads along the edge of
right or the left would drop us down
many feet below. There is a touch of
real danger in it all, but with a cool
head it is easy to keep the roads. We
see few dead greasers along the road
and great many dead mules and
horses. [ saw the pile of bones where
the bodies of sixty dead Mexicans who
had part on the raid on Columbus,
were burned.
"The Mexicans as a rule are very
poor marksmen and most of them shoot
from the hip in a standing position.
They can not understand why a
"Gringo" IAN American) shoots
from the shoulder, and laying on the
ground. Villa, from what we learn of
him from the people we have met, is
an uneducated but a very crafty man
and he knows every inch of the
country that he is now travelling
through. Some Of the natives think
of him as the ancients did of their
"God of War" They think that he
is super-human and that it is impossi-
BILE for any one to kill him.
FtA1l of us have full army equip
ment and our ordinance consists of
Colts automatic with twenty-one
rounds of ammunition and an army
rife with ninety pounds You will see
that we are well equipped and while
the boys are all more or less ignorant
Of the use Of this sort of arms I do
not think that any Of them would
hesitate a second to shoot. The
soldiers that we have met claim that
any two companies of the United
States army could whip Villas COM
bined forces in the open.
While in camp we feed pretty good
DuG Wu116 Oh JIG VI bu6 lung JFlDS We
have a little bacon, hard tack
and coffee.
"There are about seventeen thous-
and soldiers on the field down here
and you would be amazed to see the
way they handle their routine of duty.
Every one knows the work cut out for
him and every one is eager to get
irto action. Pay day is a great gamb-
ling day among the soldiers. Although
there is some swindling most of the
games are on the square and the lucky
man may win a pocket full Of five
dollar gold pieces"
Other letters received by members
of the police and fire department indi-
cate that Biennemann and Noering are
well pleased and that they are deter
mined to stay right there in Mexico IN.
til Villa is rounded up and captured.