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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
CARR|zAL SURVIVOR
CONFIRMS STORIES
DECLARES MEXICANS FIRED THE
FIRST SHOT OF THE DISAS-
TROUS ENGAGEMENT
After Escaping From Mexicans at
CarrizaI, Trooper Wandered Food
less With Broken Arm for
Several Days.

Ell Paso, Texas.-Another survivor
of the Carrizal fight was located Sun
day. He is Corporal F. x. Cooke OF
X troop, Tenth cavalry, who was
brought into Juarez from Villa Ahu-
mada and placed in prison.
General Francisco Gonzales, Juarez
commander, wired Geenral Jacinto
Trevino at Chihuahua for instruc-
tions, and it is probable Cooke will be
turned over to the American authori-
ties at once.
Corporal Cooke, in addition to tell
ing a thrilling story of his adven-
lures since the battle with the Mexi-
cans under General Gomez. added his
statement to that of other survivors
that the Mexicans fired the first shots
of the engagement.
He also quoted Captain Boyd as
saving. lust before the commander
gave orders to his men to advance:
The general has given orders that
there is only one way for us to go,
and that is to the north. My orders
are to go to Villa Ahumada, to the
east. and am going there
In previous stories Captain Boyd's
mission has been explained to have
been the recovery of a deserter at
Villa Ahumada.
Captain Boyd also, Cooke said, eau
toned them against firing first, and
against letting any piece go off acci-
dentally, under pain of heavy punish
ment
After escaping from the fight at
Carrizal. Cooke said he wandered
foodless with broken right arm for
four days, lived several more on the
hospitality of Mexican ranchers, and
then pushed out alone for the Ameri-
can base. only to be captured at a
water hole. He was brought INTO
Villa Ahumada and put on train IN
the evening for Juarez.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
TO HELP THE AM
ERICAN INDIAN
Bill Recently introduced Will Make
Red Men Happy.

Washing gton."In a short and sim
pie bill introduced in the house the
other day by Representative Konop
of Wisconsin rest the pathetic un-
spoken hopes of thousands of Indians
in the United States.
In that measure the Indians see
the dawn of a new day, the end of
the grating Indian agent and the
other white parasites who prey upon
the red men, and the beginning of
the era when the Indian can be his
own and regain the proud indepen-
dence that was his before the white
man came.
The Konop bill is designed to carry
into effect the organization of the
first Indian community formed along
the lines proposed by the new Lolo-
mi movement which is sweeping over
the reservations like prairie fires and
catching the imagination of the In
dians as nothing else has done in a
generation.
In brief the Lolomi plan proposes
to take the administration of the
Indian population out of the hands
of the bureau of Indian affairs and
put it into the hands of the Indians
themselves as Incorporated communi-
ties organized along model lines. In
these communities the Indians will
pool their assets, issuing capital stock
to the individuals in return. The
entire community will then be ope-
rated as any other Incorporated bust
ness, the profits being paid to the
Indian members as dividends on
their stock.
Under this system the Indian prop
erty, now amounting to hundreds of
millions of dollars, which is being
held by the government in trust for
the Indians, could be turned over to
it's rightful owners without fear that
the incompetent Indians would lose
their heritage, since one of the ten
cts of the Lolomi plan is that no in
dividual Indians stock in the incor-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

porated community can be sold or
otherwise alienated from him.
The Indians are hailing this plan
as the ideal form of self government.
A communistic experiment of this
sort might fail among whites, they
say, but its success among Indians
is assured because the Indian by CEN
turies of inheritance is communist.
The early Indian governments before
the whites came to America we're all
communistic. All work was done for
the tribe, and the tribe sheltered and
provided for its members. Therefore,
the Indian argument runs, to restore
communism to the Indians, under
proper safeguards, is only to give him
the form of government which is his
by nature.
The Konop bill proposes to incor-
porate as a Lolomi industrial COM
munity the Night Hawk band of
Cherokees, about $500 of them who
live on compact reservation in Ok
lahoma This will be the starting
experiment If it works half as well
as the Indians believe it will, then
all the tribes and bands will be ap-
plying for Lolomi charters.
The founder and leader of the Lo-
lomi movement is Mrs. o. ]. Kellogg,
young woman who is nearly full
blood and whose Indian name is Wyn-
nogene She is a woman of keen in
tellectuality and fine education, be-
ing a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin. AS a mere girl she de-
voted her life to the betterment of
her own race. Her beauty and per-
sonality are such that when she was
in Europe recently studying co-ope-
rative communities she was formally
presented at the British court. Wash
ington has already fallen under the
charm of her personality. She is the
wife of o. j. Kellogg, an exPrince-
ton football player and the nephew
of Frank Kellogg, the Minneapolis
trust buster.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
NEGRO TROOPERS
REACH THE BORDER
MExICANS RELEASE MEN CAP
TURED AT cARRlZAL AND
PLACED IN PRISON.
Soldiers Declare Mexlcans Were the
Aggressors and Blame Them for
Ensuing Slaughter, Wounded
Soldiers Being Murdered.

Ell Paso, Texas-The twenty-three
negro troopers of the Tenth cavalry,
who at Carrizal, Villa Ahumada, Chi
huahua City and Juarez have been
central figures in the most striking
and potential chapters of the Mexican
situation, are once more safely out OF
Mexico.
Survivors of bloody battle with a
vastly superior force; victims twice
of mobs that stoned them; more than
once gripped with the fear of execu-
ton for their part in the Boyd expedi-
tion; and. lastly, objects of interces-
sion by the president of the United
States, they were brought to the bor-
der from Chihuahua City on special
train on June 29, and turned over to
General George Bell, Jr., commander
of the Ell Paso base.
The men were in shreds and patch
es, some being almost nude and wear
ing blankets, their clothing having
been torn from them.
1t was thought probable at military
headquarters the twenty-three troop
ers will be kept at the Fort Bliss hos
pital until all danger of infection from
disease will have been removed and
then transferred to their various com
mands.
With the soldiers came Lem H.
Spillman, the Mormon scout, who
guided Captain Charles T. Boyd and
his little command over the trail that
led to the Carrizal encounter
Two stories, widely diverging,
were brought back from their captiv-
ity by the prisoners. One. told by
Spillsbury, upholds statements he
was credited with making at Chihua-
hua City, charging Captain Boyd with
"bullheadedness' in advancing in the
face of a certain Mexican attack. The
other, narrated by fighting men of the
Tenth, declares the Mexicans to have
been the aggressors. and blames them
for the ensuing slaughter.
The latter account is embellished
with charges that have not hitherto
been brought to light
Private William D. Gibson declared
that hs was certain that after ths
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

Disregarding the interests of farm
ers, the democrats put eggs on the
free list, with the result that mil
lions of dozens of Chinese eggs were
shipped to this country at prices the
American farmer could not meet. The
Oregon legislature tried to protect
the Oregon farmer by enacting a
law requiring that bakeries, restau-
rants, ETC., using imported eggs shall
post notice declaring that fact. A
test case in the courts has resulted
in a decision declaring the law un-
constitutional, and Chinese eggs are
again freely sold in the West. Ac-
cording to the American vice-consul
at Nanking, China, eggs from that
country are consigned to America at
4.6 per dozen. While this competi-
ton does not affect the egg producer
in the East, it illustrates the applica-
ton of the principle of protective
tariff, which kept these eggs of cheap
price and poor quality out of our
markets.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

Americans had quit the field OF the
Carrizal battle, the Mexicans went
over it and killed several Americans
who were wounded but still alive.
Numerous others of the troopers
claimed they had been robbed OF
money and valuables following their
capture.
Revised reports at the department
headquarters on Thursday indicate
that fifteen men and officers of c and
K troops are missing. OF this num-
Der General Trevino reported twelve
killed. The records show that forty
seven men and one officer have re-
turned to the American lines. The to-
tai list when the expedition was start
ed was eighty-seven, including Mex
lean and Mormon serving as guides
The return to the border OF twenty.
four prisoners leaves as missing ff-
teen.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
AMERICANS DRIVEN
OUT OF MEXICO
THIRTY MEN AND WOMEN DE-
PORTED FROM GUANAJUATO
BY CARRANZA.
Driven From City Amid the Jeers Of
Mob and Forced to Find Their
Way to Border In Vehicles
of All Descriptions.

Ell Paso.-Thirty Americans, six OF
them women, deported by the Car
rama authorities from Guanajuato,
Mexico, have reached the border Sun
day night after narrowing expert
ence.
They were In a filthy Mexican pris-
on twenty-four hours without food and
with but little water. They were driv-
en- from Guana5uato City amid the
jeers of Mexican mobs, incensed by Of
fetal agitators.
The railroad from Guanajuato to 81
lao is out of order as result of the
ravages of six years of revolution and
the fleeing refugees were forced to
find their way out in vehicles OF all
descriptions.
The refugees, four of whom are in
Ell Paso, the others being at Eagle
Pass and San Antonio, managed to get
an abandoned street car which fitted
the narrow guage railroad to Sialo
But there were nine refugees who
were not able to reach the car before
1t left and the reached Silao by horse
and handcar and bullock carts. The
trip took them three days.
One of the refugees said:
'It was June a. right after the Car
rial massacre, that our troubles be-
gan. The officials raided our homes,
searched them in unceremonious fash
lon, and then lugged us off to the
Quartet.
''They told us that If we wanted
anything to eat we could get it wher-
ever we might find it. FINALLY we
bribed guard who managed to get
food to us. We we're imprisoned TWEEN
ty-four hours, then ordered to get
out"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

COME FIRST
Meat and Dairy Products
on Free List

During the ten months of the fiscal
year 1913, under the republican pro-
tective tariff there was imported into
this country meat and dairy products
to the value of $12,000,O00. The
bulk of this was foreign cheeses.
Seven of the ten months ended April,
1914, we're under the Democratic
tariff for less than revenue law, with
most of these products on the free
list, and for this ten months period
foreign competitors sent meat and
dairy products into the American
market to the value of $28,000, 1000,
the bulk of them being meats. Nine
of the ten months ended April, 1915,
were under European war conditions.
Notwithstanding this, our imports
of these products reached the aston
ishing figure of $38,0O0,O0O, an in
crease of PIT per cent over the 1913
period. Argentine meats and Ca
madam milk and cream accounted
for the larger part of these imports.
About this time the demands of the
belligerents for Argentine meats be-
came heavier, and her trade in these
products veered toward Europe, as
did much of that from Canada. For
the ten months ended April, 1916,
our imports of Argentine meats were
lust SO per cent of what they were
during the 1914 period, and our to-
tai imports of meat and dairy pro-
ducts we're $21,OOO,000. The prin-
ciple after-war problem which Ar
gentina will have to meet is how to
get rid of her vast surplus of farm
products, the production of which
during the past two years has been
SO wonderfully increased. With a
democratic free trade law on the
statute books, the United States is
the logical market for these products
and that spells disaster to the Amerl-
can farmer. With a republican tar
iff law on the statute books Ameri-
can farm products will be protected.
Moreover, every cent of duty that Ar
gentina pays to enter these products
in our market will go into the Fed
eral treasury as revenue, and that
means a lessening Of the burden of
internal taxation on the American
farmer. How do you think he will
vote?
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
HE KEPT US
OUT OF WAR
President Wilson Has Great
Methods

He kept us out of war-while hun
dreds of our men. women and chill
dren were drowned when travelling
as was their undoubted right upon
unarmed ships.
He kept us out of war-while mill
lions of dollars worth of our proper
ty, shipped in neutral bottoms, was
sunk by the unwarned and unlawful
attack of submarines.
He kept us out of Gar-while car
go after cargo of our goods, consign-
ed to neutral ports and lawfully upon
the highway of the seas, was seized
and taken to belligerent harbors,
there to be condemned or confscated
to the use of the seizing power leay-
the toilsome process of litigation to
procure payment for their property
He kept us out of war-while our
mails, including even diplomatic
communications were delayed, open
ed and censored by unskillful clerks
who acted without the sanction of
international law.
He kept us out of war-while in
nocent nationals of the United States,
lawfully sojourning in Mexico, were
despoiled of their possessions, were
wounded in their bodies and in their
souls, or even gave up their lives.
He kept us out of war-while pious
men and women from these United
States who had gone to Mexico on an
errand of the highest import were
deprived of their homes, of their
virtue and of their lives.
He kept us, out of war=while un-
told millions of American property
on Mexican soil was plundered, illeg-
ally levied upon and destroyed.
He kept us out of war-while arm
ed bands of desperadoes, equipped
with guns and cartridges shipped to
them by his consent, violated our
soil, insulted our sovereignty and our
flag, burned our buildings and muir
dered our people in their own homes.
He kept us out of war-while a
thin blue line of heroes penetrated
the Mexican deserts in search of a
former pet of his-now under the
ban-and found themselves sur
rounded and shot down by soldiers
wearing the uniform of government
which he had recognized and which
could never have existed and which
could not exist now except by his
favor.
He kept us out of war-until, con-
fronted by impending defeat for re-
election, he realized that some show
of force and of forcefulness was nee
| essary, and then he permitted his
own congress to hamstring the legis-
lation designed for the national de-
fense and summoned the militia to
do the work which experts have long
been telling him and the country
could best be done by an enlarged
and better equipped regular army
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
BRITISH AND FRENCH
BEGIN OFFENSIVE
ALLIES TEAR THROUGH THE
GERMAN LINES IN FRANCE
AFTER TERRIFIC GUNFIRE.
Anqlo-French Army Cuts Cash Twen-
ty-five Miles Wide In German
Front in Drive Which Had
Been Planned for Months.

London.-The British have launched
their long expected offensive. On
July 1. the British and French forces
began a fArious attack against the
German forces along a front of TWEEN
ty-fve miles extending from below
the Somme to Gommecourt, north OF
the Ancre.
In the first thirty-six hours Of their
furious drive the French and British
have captured more than $500 Ger
man prisoners, cleared fifty square
miles of French territory of the in
vaders and have carried eleven vii
lagos and a complicated series of en-
trenchments and redoubts that the
Germans have been more than TWEEN
ty months constructing.
The long expected offensive, the
"big push" for which the British have
been preparing for months, and which
is a part of a general closing in on
Germany on all fronts, got under way
at 1880 Saturday morning. The troops
English, Scotch, Irish and French
-surged from their trenches after
bombardment of an hour and a half,
which was the climax of the steady
pounding of the previous four days.
Hundreds of batteries poured tons
of iron and explosives into the oppos-
ing trenches, wrecking them and bury
ing the occupants.
The attacking front of the British
was approximately twenty miles, ex
tending from Gommecourt to a point
north of the Somme. The French
etormed forward over about five miles
on both sides of the Somme. 1t is
Just north of the Somme that the
British and French fronts join, the
French extending on to Verdun and
the Swiss frontier, and the British
stretching down to the sea.
The British-French offensive In
France, with its preceding five-day
bombardment, is described by the
military experts in that theater of op-
erations as the "last word in scientific
warfare"
Here are some of the things the
British and French did as a prelimin-
airy to their drive through the Ger
man front near Somme
DullI O.OUU Hlll6S Ol IdiIOduS 10 III
cilitate moving munitions and troops
and handling the wounded
Put a metal surface on all the turn
pixies.
Rebuilt or strengthened every
bridge and railroad
Concentrated 100000 fighting men.
backed by 100000 auxiliary workmen,
bridge and railroad builders
Filled the whole region with hid
den guns of the largest caliber, many
of them fifteen-inch mortars, and
manned these guns with French artil-
lery experts.
Installed all over the region a new
phone system, with concrete poles,
augmented by network of telegraph
wires and stations and field hospitals.
Buried ammunition everywhere, to-
gether with medicines and food sup
plies, so that, no matter where the
troops moved in an emergency. they
would have shells and food without
the trouble and delay of ordinary
modes of transportation
Arranged the big guns in such
way as to provide corcentric fire
from many guns on small areas of the
German trenches.
In the preliminary ive-day lombard
ment the French army fired 100000
shells over a ninety mile front.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

Wildwood, N. IA pension fund
Of at least 100000 for the protection
and support of superannuaated rabbis
and other religious workers. was ad-
vocated by the commission on pen
eions In a report filed at the first bust
ness session here of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis at which
more than one hundred members were
present.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

''The demands of the armies of
Europe have furnished an opportun-
ity for American packers and Gamers
to market large quantities of their
goods said DR.. e. e. Pratt in an ar
ticle read before the Boston Conyen-
ton of Wholesalers But DR.. Pratt
refuses to recognize canned goods as
munitions of war
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

Neosho (Mo) Miner and Mechanic
st. Louis has feeling that it
didn't get what it paid for says the
Boston Herald oh, well, for that
matter, neither has the country. The
feeling is universal when the demo-
Gratis are in power
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
Americans Warned to Leave.

San Antonio.-A last warning to
Americans in Mexico to get out OF
that country has been issued by the
department of state. Emphasis Is
laid on the fact that 1t will be the
last warning and that neglect OF it
may be attended by fatal conse-
uuences.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
Hilton plsbarred.

Salt Lake City.-Orrin N. Hilton,
Denver lawyer, who appeared here as
counsel for Joe Hillstrop, the murder
er executed last fall, has been dis
barred from the practice of his pro-
fession in Utah, because Of unprofes-
sional conduct
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
Huohes Enioys Vacation.

Bridgehampton, N. Y.-Charles e.
Hughes, the Republican presidential
nominee, here on his first real vaca-
ton In ten years, on Saturday golfed
a little, motored little and devoted
the remainder of the day just to walk
ing about
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

Brownsville, Texas.-The business
section of Pharr, headquarters for
the the Third brigade OF the New
York national guard, was almost
wiped out by fire, starting early Sun
day morning. The loss was about
$4,000.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
Officers Must Avoid Clashes

San Antonio-All officers command
ing the troops along the LOO miles
of border have been cautioned to
avoid clashes with the Mexican troops
that cafehte m. but staff officers fear
that face them, but staff officers fear
that may serve as the basis for fur
ther international complications.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
Business Conditions Good.

Washington. General business con-
ditions continue good and the outlook
for next month, is excellent, according
to reports OF the federal reserve board
made public In the boards monthly
statement.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07

Washington. The Hay bill appro-
priating $4,000 900 for dependent fam
lilies OF national guardsmen called or
drafted in the present emergency was
passed by the house Saturday.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-07-07
Three More Americans Killed.

Douglas, Ariz.-Three more Amer
cans aFe xeSorted to have been killed
IN Sonora IS result of Mexican
treachery. They are Thomas Snyder.
William Robinson and John Watson.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-20
A CHILD DOESN'T
laugh AND PLAY
IF CONSTIPATED
If PeeviSh.. FeveriSh and Sick,
Give "CaIifornia Syrup
of Figs" Hi.

Mother! Your child isn't naturally
cross and peevish. See if tongue is
coated; this is a sure sign its little
stomach, liver and bowels need a
cleansing at once. =: :.~. -. 4
When listless, pale, feverish, full Of
cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't
eat, sleep or act naturally, has stom-
ach-ache, diarrhoea. remember, a gen.
tie liver and bowel cleansing should
always, be the first treatment given "
Nothing equals California Syrup OF
Figs" for children's ills; give tea
spoonful, and in a few hours all. the
foul waste, sour bile and fermenting
food which is clogged in the bowels
passes out of the system, and you have
we'll and playful child again. All
children love this harmless, delicious
fruit laxative" and it never fails to
effect good inside" cleansing. Di-
rections for babies, children of all
ages and grown-ups are plainly on
the bottle. -.
Keep it handy in your home. A lit
tie given today saves a sick child to-
morrow. but get the genuine. Ask
your druggist for 50-cent bottle Of
California Syrup of Figs" then look
and see that it is made by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company. ADV.