The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11


advanced Is miles to place where
they had removed rails and BY burn
ing had twisted them. We laid new
ones on new ties and proceeded. Wheni
we reached Rodriguez. IS miles fro0f
Laredo. 1t was seven O'Clock. There
we found an engine which had beenl
derailed and overturned the day bei
fore. 1t had righted itself, and I'd
hooked onto our train and took It back
north, our engine and tank car con-
tinuing south.
climbed on the narrow platform hi
the rear Of the tank car and we WENT
on.
We reached Lampasos at nine.
was Immediately surrounded by arm
ed rebels in a bewildering variety oil
raiment and escorted before Gen. Juanl
M. Garcia, governor-elect Of Neuvo,
Leon and commandment Of the army Of
the North.
MY letter from B0rquez produced the,
proper effect and was told might
go south on the military train at
dawn.
There were no hotels nor restau-'
rants, and was famished. The town
five miles from the station. I saw,
a lighted doorway several hundred.
yards away. went over. found some
women. and asked for food and she'll
: ter.
"lt's Ameriean-and Young"
The women held lantern up to myl
. face and, exclaiming In Spanish, "It'sl
: an American, and young" they said
they would do their best.
: BY the light Of smoky lantern theyl
prepared and gave me the starboard1
y thigh of young goat boiled In grease,
! onions, and chill hotter than the hingesl
. of the inferno. l gobbled II down with,
= the appetite of a starved coyote and.
ate several fiat cakes Of corn pOnel
: and drank glass of goats milk.
- Meanwhile wrinkled withered old
? relic Of nine matrimonial engagements
and willing to go further-kad pref
pared the war correspondents couch.
: This consisted Of one blanket spread
.. on a narrow sidewalk outside the
uOuoCs IOOhcu IL ONCT anu SCIdtCIlCNE
~ my head, in which the ''young visitors''i
already had found breeding place.
His Bed Chamber Furnished.
l asked for pillow and they gavel
~ me a small sack of corn In q pillOw-
~ slip.
=. asked for sheet and they gave
~ me tablecloth. l gave up-took on
nc the Bill Hart puttees and shoes and
~ lay down.
40 Just as l was about to doze on
zig ,os stort,od NV wild fusiIIaae -
: the station. The women screamed and
III moaned. rolled into nearby gut
~ ter. 1t turned out to be only rebels
ne at their third bottle of mezcal. dozed
eo Off, only to be reawakened by "cabal-
ite Tito de gas'-a little horse Of gasoline
ite las the Mexicans call railroad We
7e' locipede.
On Gel consul Americano!" screamed
IN several rebels
lui l dressed and rushed over to meet
Randolph Robertson, the liveliest wire
VIC In the American consular service In
. Mexico. He has taken dozens Of Amer
,-r leans and British out since the last
trouble began. He has smoothed oveI
dozen causes Of war" in the last
&M two years. His station at Neuvt
ID Laredo has more friends than any II
M Mexico.
~ He was bringing in two Americans
VA They ate fried goat and went on north
and returned to bed and to sleep a
81 twelve, with the stars close down owe
"a my bed.
Breakfast Is Served.
One of the native women Weakened
# me at five with a cupful Of COFFEE
placed on the sidewalk by my pillow
turned to get cigarette and turne,
back to find the family parrot perche
4 on the rim of the cup drinking my col
q fee and swearing at me fiuently i
& Lampasos Spanish.
At noon the military train with Ger
eral Garcia started for Monterey. 81
kindly consented to let me ride.
crawled in the caboose and went |
M villaldama. where the first passengt
#M from the North in ten days overt0O
IA us and we switched, arriving here ,
q five with Robertson, who Is on h
d fifth trip guarding American interes
III and who Is taking this message Mort
"a On both sides Of the road for hui
III bred miles to here are evidences
@ ten years revolutions destruction
ID Houses have been burned fields are
weeds, there are no cattle, no land
SX# cultivated, people are apathetic. dun
dazed, and hopeless.
the But all have hope In this new crow
az saying. IF they cannot straighten
Unl- out, who Is left?' The answer Is, q
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