South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-01
IN from the south. six days out Of
Casas Grandes.

Twenty Indian chiefs. 20 10 100
years old, roamed about and scru-
tinized the modern war material.
A delegation OF them waited upon
Mai. Sample.
They had just been brought out
Of the White mountain reservation
in the Roosevelt dam district Of
4 rizona, and they were scheduled
to leave that day for the front.
The venerable chiefs had secuted
fer Uncle Sam in the various chases
for Geronimo in the district where
Villa fed.
Despite their great age they were
alert and tireless.
The night before leaving the res
ervation they had danced the war
dance all night
War head dresses that had not
been worn since the Apache uprising
were brought out
Bowie knives is inches long had
been sharpened and strapped TO
their thighs.
They were TO scale the heights OF
Villas mountain fastness. They were
30 read and interpret the signs in
the desert sand where Villistas had
passed
But today they had a complaint.
After various palavering they
came 10 the point.
NO go" sad the spokesman.
Mai Sample approached the mat
ter from the rear and orefaced his
whip" with many diplOmacies.
NO time on wrist, said the chief
tain.
The Indians had seen the officers
wrist watches and wouldn't play
without them.
They were fitted out in uniforms,
saddles. campaign hats and the good
old fashioned Colt revolvers.
They brought the Colts back. They
had seen the troopers with auto
atics, and wanted some like them.
Sun goggles were obtained by the
same tactics.
AS the chiefs solemnly started off
&c the mysterious south a splutter-
ing was heard. Glasses were turned
towards the distant mountains and
q tiny but rapidly growing speck
was found 5000 feet above the
ground scaling the mountains.
In a few seconds an aerOplane
swept over camp, and landed in the
aviation section.
Two lieutenant aviators. the same
who were mobbed in Chihuahua
City, had come from Pershing, $50
miles away, in four hours.
In the four hours they had ira
versed the desert, had travelled as
far as the Indians could go in weeks,
as far as the auto truck trains go
in three days.
They brought dispatches. mail and
stories from the newspaper men at
the front
They brought reports of Villa s
rumOred but doubted death, Of bat
ties, of the deaths Of two Ameri-
cans at the hands Of Villistas in
some outlying village.
They brought stories and anec-
dotes galore. 10 the delight Of the
newspaper men, the joy OF the tele-
bAoPn NOlilpdnN anu the Terror ana
despair of the genial but painstaking
censor
Hardly had the sensation of their
arrival worn away when "A dust cloud
on the desert warned the vigilant
signal corps of the approach of new
business.
Another mule train pulled in, four
mules To a canvas covered high
wheeled wagon, galloping troopers
ahead and behind
The train bore the first of the
Villistas captured-six men wound
ed and abandoned by villa.
As the auto truck men and mule
| drivers came in, dust covered. eyes
blOodshot and with inquenchable
thirsts they delivered gems of wis
| dom and observation.
That country is all upside down"
said one. You have to dig for
wood and climb for water" The
water being in the hills and the
roots Of the sage brush being about
the only available wood.
There's not a man in Colum bus
would vote for Wilson and watchful
waiting" said the village sage as
the mail was being sorted.
Nor in Texas" spoke up an El
PasO man standing by.