Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-07
MEXICAN NATIVES
LOYAL TO PANCH0
They're Some Liars, Take 1t
From Dunn, and They Have
Nothing of Love For
the Gringoes.
eY QUINN.

IeneTdl IerSnlnS s headquarters III
the Field. (by aeroplane to Columbus.
N. ND, Special.-Two weeks ago you
could have counted on your fingers the
Americans who had penetrated into
this heart Of the Nillista country. None
OF the writer's and adventurers who
followed the bandit when his star was
high. a need to enter 1t. 1t was that
land Of last resort which he and they
must yet have always visioned In the
back of their minds for the inevitable
time when his fortunes should turn.
A country of aborigines living in q
squalor which none in Alaska or ST.
IBERIA a match, where neither Eng
lish nor our coinage is understood. and
strangest of all, religion has not
mar faces, farm implements Of these
cold uplands where he trees are not
yet in leaf, suggest most strongly
those Of a land like Tibet.
Fighting in Primitive Lands.
And then. in the mi that the orr
entail hordes Of the dark ages must
have swept primitive Europe. our army
Is flung into this fastness. A%eroplanes,
motor trucks, automobiles comes de-
Wasting the primeval. Not eve in the
early days in Alaska have l seer such
a spirit prevailing against much the
same odds. All the problems of pio-
neering have risen in equality to the
military ones. Into camp comes a lieu
tenant who for days with a few mules,
and a handful Of men. has been seeking
some cavalry detachment to give them
20 pounds OF Mexican silver. The cav
airy has been without rations for a
week; the money Is to help them live
off a country where even coffee is un-
known and the officers mules have
played out. All the maps are wrong.
An aviator, forced to land somewhere"
in the darkness, faces invisible beings.
muttering, circling about him all
night. l have been in this camp for
three days. while not an ounce of food
has arrived. Here are based some ESQ
M n, twice that number Of animals.
How We are fed is a miracle, but the
same spirit Of cheer and confidence
prevails as did upon the northern trails
Of 1895.
/ believe that something integral in
the spirit OF new" lands like this per-
vades us. And that same spirit bind
Ing Its original children to their soil
n to mountains explains much Of
that fierce. inflexible opposition to us
as invaders.
Nations Are R~sticsnt.
Nowhere in the Philippines. agree
officers who have campaigned there
odds. There 1t was recognized in the
bottom Of the rebels hearts that we
were the inevitable: information could
be secured: men might be bribed. But
mere all OF this is impossible. Clews
fall, 'informers vanish just as their
double dealing Is brought home to US.
We gape. and wait. and are silent.
now that the Coyote chase is on once
more after the brilliant, but indecisive,
encounter at Guerrero, and the ban
OF censorship has closed down again.
An officer. returned from the search
that has begun, tells you that he
thought he had Villa, in q certain dobe
house last night. the people so hedged
ana threatened him from entering 1t.
Inside, he found an old man in the des-
quaxmattng stage Of smallpox, scurf
Tying about the Q like mosquitoes.
His right knee shattered, ne believe
vSn cannot s. Tar away but ~ dosnot
tool ourselves into dmagining that he
I'D made . bee line Tor medical as
11eance. Though the Job II now a.
nSch one Tor . HaWkshAw - general
g cannot s. followed along the pro-
091onal llno0 Of civilization.
&Xll the tina ~ may b right up
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