El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-05

him beloved by his troops
I Born in Missouri in 1860 Pershln
got his intermediate educanoh IN IN
quite tame atmosphere OF norma
school at Kirksville. He jumped int
1.-THE warlike surroundings OF ives
Point and completed the course Il
1856, becoming 2 second lieutenant II
tine Sixth cavalry, and almost inLne'
jdiately plunging into the campaign
laEainst the ApacheS- -Four years iater
lin 1890. he served against the sioux
He was in command of the Sioux IN
dian scouts for awhile. then came th'
experience at the University OF Ne'
lb-asixa. where he was such success
Is an instructor that he was SEM I,
q each tactics at the west rom
! lcademy. There he remained untl
The outbreak of the war with spain
i lie was remem bered at the acaueIls
,or the strict seriousness with Wnlci
ae taught -,
bureau of insular affairs. after the
war. he was sent to the Phlhppine'
nd assigned the difficult task OF SIT
ing on the blOodthirsty Moros, WHOM
he Spaniards had always handled
most gingerly-
subdues Savage MO-Os-
These matchmaking Mohammecar
savaRes respected nothing but force
Ihey rather welcomed the American
5 a new kind Of enemy on whom q
nv their cruel barangs. When the
.nited States army officers tried te
ell them Uncle sam was their sihc t.t
friend they laughed and spat insults
They thought the Americans were
afraid of them
So there was nothing to do DuI
break down the Moro strongholds
subdue their chiefs, destroy their VIZ
lagos, hunt them day and night lhtll
they should suffer so fearfully they
-
mis- must be done to free the peace
ful tribes round about from the MoFos
Oiratical raids and to institute a re-
girne OF peace and progress
Pershing first took on FAMOUS
body of naked fighters who had Tor .
titled the crater OF an extinct NO4-
cano called Bud Dajo, on the lslaho
Of JoIo. They had held this point for
some time and defied attack Per-
shinE announced he was going TO take
the volcano IL It meant ten years
with a thousand men. half Of them
his own trusted troopers ana the
others picked native scouts, the cam
naign began. The attackers had 10
march through miles and miles OF
dense Jungle, opposed at almost every
yard by their fierce foemen. But + eIS
shing fought his way TO the 1oot o.
Pershing's fighters cut tran
around the mountain, and, forutylng
themselves from attack from aooN 9
BEGAN the siege. The soldiers formed
a complete Gordon and calmly insti-
tured a camDaign Of watching Tor the
first sign of the Moros leaving the
crater and waiting a chance TO get
them when they tried TO cut through
In their retreat the Moros had been
so hotly pursued that they had peen
unable to stock Up for long siege
The Iron ring" began to be unbear-
able Small attachments threw them
selves on the Americans They tought
despers tely. Instances are tod OF
warriors. pierced with a bayoneL seiz-
ing the weapon and drawing II turther
into their bodies so they could get
close enough TO swing the heavy
curved barang.
Surrender. on Christmas Day.
But none OF them got through.
Finally. on Christmas day, 1911, the
several hundred Moros still in the
crater did something a Moro seldom
does-they marched down the noun
tainside and surrendered 4 rev
reached the jungle and were pursued
the campaign went on IS months
longer, until Pershing stamped out the
last yestige of characterization NOT
only that. but Pershing succeeded IN
winning the Moros' esteem-prooa oly
because he was = good. hard tighter.
They made him n datto ana a sultan a
One OF the chiefs presented his rs
year old son to Pershing. making the
latter, according 10 Moro CUSTOM the
lads legal father.
After his signal success in the ISL
ands Pershing returned to Nasnins
ton, and president Roosevelt specially
commended him in an annual message
Capt Pershing, as he then was, met
the sprightly daughter OF United
States senator Warren. of Wyoming,
VINO began by poking fun at the
somewhat stiff and serious young sol
der, and ended by falling in love WITH
him. They were married two years
later.
Tragedy in PezshinE's Life.
The awful tragedy Of Pershing 5
life came in 1915, when his wife and
three little girls were burned to death
in a lire at the Preside in san Fran
cisco. \ 0y, Warren. alone survived
To 80 back 10 Roosevelt and his
Of the Moro campaign.
The president nominated Pershing 10
be a brigad!er general. the youngest
0f that rank ever known in the Unitec
States army except in war time. he
Jumped the dashing fighter over the
heads OF $50 other officers. The SEN /
notion, because senator Warren. Per-
ihing's fatherinlaw, was chairman OF
he military affairs committee, but
'inally confirmed it
When the fatal fire took place in
he Preside, Pershing was in FL Paso
LONG Mexican border duty. He went
o san Francisco for a few days, then
.hoked down his sorrow and returned
o his duty, little grimmer, but as
indy at heart as ever.
villa raided ColuI>bus n. NJ. killing
everal Americans. and a punitive eA-
edition was decided on. Pershing Leu
he force that penetrated the deserts
nd mountains for many hundreds OF
niles and held a slice OF the turou-
emit southern republic through many
weeks, and then he brought his hard
ned veterans back to American SOIL
Has Finest Troops in World.
It is these carefully trained men
rom the border. according to COM
ION understanding, who will be led
lrst against the Germans in France.
ershing devoted an immense amount
attention to drilling and instruct