Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-01

use of the Mexican railroads for
transporting supplies to General Per-
shing's columns. Apparently, the So
luton of this problem is still far
from found.
Train Day Late; Not in Yet.
A good deal of curiosity has been
aroused over the failure of any train
to arrive over the Northwestern rail-
road for week. No train has left the
Mexican town in the same time. A
train from Casas Grandes due here
yesterday morning has not yet put in
ap appearance. The Mexican officials
here offer no reason for its non-arriv-
al but insist there has been no mishap.
While General Bell refuses to dis
cuss the situation, it is said here that
the question of transporting supplies
by rail will be held in allegiance for
a few days in the hope that the pres
ent efforts of Colonel Dodd's troopers
to capture Villa will be successful.
Columbus Has Money Famine.
Columbus, n. NJ, April 1.-Colum-
bus is experiencing a famine in gold
and silver money as a result of de-
mands made upon the town by the
troops in the field with the expedition
airy forces. Years of experience with
shifting currency system brought
on by civil warfare in which each
leader issues his own money has caus-
ed Mexicans to distrust any paper
money.
You couldn't buy an egg with a
twenty dollar bill, although you prob
ably could buy it for twenty-five cent
piece" a trooper said, who returned
from the front today.
Every truck train returning to the
military base here from the front
brings large paper bills, which SOL
diers with the forces have requested
be changed into half dollars, quarters
and dimes.
It was Cinnamon, hundreds of whom
| farm little truck gardens in the Casas
| Grandes district, who gave the Amer
lean expeditionary troops their SINGER
est welcome in Mexico, arrivals from
the front assert today. The China
men, it was pointed out, realized much
more quickly than the Mexican poems
that the Americans wanted their prod
ucts and were willing to pay for them
Villa FOrSakes Mustache.
Francisco Villa has shaved his mus
tache to prevent ready recognition
should he be captured by American
troopers, according to Robert Wright
civilian chauffeur, who arrived a,
the military base here today from
| Casas Grandes. Wright said he had
obtained his information from a Mex
lean who had been among those forced
to join Villas band at Ell Vale, but
who later escaped.
THE Mexican said that Villa, who
was obsessed with a maniacal desire
to kill 'gringoes,' apparently is begin
ming to realize that he is being pushed
slowly to the WALL" Wright said.
American army officers here who
have had dealings with the bandit
point out that Villas mustache was
his priced adornment and that Villa
the most photographed Mexican fac
tional leader, always insisted upon i
being properly curled before posing
| for the camera.
Mounted Troops Make Records.
With American Outposts In Mexico
to Columbus, n. NJ, by Aeroplane
April Cavalry marches surpassint
all known previous performances o
mounted troops in Mexico have beer
made in the pursuit of Villa by SOM
of the flying columns sent out to Gu
off the avenues of escape of Francisco
villa. The diary of cavalry officer
obtained today, gives romanti
sketch OF one such march. Names ant
dates cannot be published. The frs
entry shows the abandon with whicl
| the Americans threw themselves int
the chase. 1t says:
Officers Diary.
I'VE arrived with practically moth
ing to eat and no grain for tn
horses" How food was obtained il
compaHfive plenty for men "a
ha11 litary secret. HON