The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-11-28

revolutionary leader, was clussed. before the great war, as one of the worlds formost artillcriSts. lie had at. tarucJ considerable fame as an w,till- rrs commander in the Mexican army undt. the long regime of President Diaz and east his fortune with Fran. cisco |. Madcro in the revolution by which Madcro seized the Mexican pre- sid,ucy. Subsequently, General Angel os .ulistcd his skill in support of the cause Of Francisco Villa against the . Carrauza government and was cred ted with planning many Of the hHttlCs Villa won.
 Both friends and enemies or Ger .ral Angeles have declared that he was an uuselrish patriot and that h's hope was to bring about peace in G'X ico.
 Hc was succeSstvely student, In- ,truytor and director Of the Mexican Military College, Chapultepcc, a"d an author of several textbooks not ..ii oi which dealt with military matters
 Graduating from Chapultepot N' 1899 hc was assigned to the engineers out later to the artillery corps wit ,.anE of captain. In this later hrar,H he served aS 8 membcc or severe tcccnical commissions, was senv ;3 Europe to inspect artillery tor th' Mexican government and while her was graduated from the French att lery schoolss at Fountainbleau an' Mailiy. He wrote textbook embod' ing some of his observations in F." 1pc and France decorated him with q Cross of The Legion or Honor.
 Angeles was barred from return ing tC Mexico when MaderO'S revolu- ton occurred but when Madero becmm7 provisional president Angeles was re- called and placed in command at Cha nultepec. In 1912 he was made a field ,ommandor, already having been com n,is;ioncd as a general, and commard. od troops in campaign against the bandit ZaData. In this service h" IS said to haze won the good will Of t!H MexicauS by his humanitarian policies.
 When Madcro sacrificed his 'if' as a penalty for his revolution, Ancgelrs was first imprisoned and them hanish cd. He returned to lend his supporc 10 Villas various campaigns and it is de- clared that when Villa followed his ad- vice the bandit leader was victorious. After Villas famous raid upon Corm- bus. New Mexico. Angeles came 70 th 2 United States and remained here for about two years,
 Ho returned to Mexico in Novcnb. cr 1oiS expressing the hope that he might unite the scattered revolution ary factions into compact unit and pacify that country before it wlS called to account" He accompanied Villa in the attack on Jm'az, June ij, 1910 when American troops crossed the Rio Graude and dispersed the re- volntionists. After this incident he ap- Draled to the United States Military authorities in the name of the "fc.- lowship which exists among milltarv men to define the attitude of the Unit ed States toward Mexican revolution ists but the United States authorities declined to communicate with him on the ground that he did not represent the Mexican government. As evidence that General Angeles was prompted by desire to promote peace in MeS 70 1t has been said that Villas payroll which was among his papers taken m the attack on Juraz showed that vhilh Villas brother, Hipolito, was credited with drawing $2O,OO0 Angeles name was on the list at S20,
 Angeles was born in the town cf Zacualtipan, in the state of Hidalgo, June l2. 1869. He was the son of re- tired colonel who had served in the War of Intervention and against McN~ milan when the effect vas made 70 maka that prince Emperor of Mexico. His wife and three sons lived in ~. Paso Texas during the time he was in the field with Villa.