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Show AGED WARRIOR VISITS mil SCENE OF HIS VICTORIES Jtf Bv Leased Wiro to The Tribune. V' 1 'CITY OF MEXICO, March .10. Gen- era! Simon P. Buckner of Iveufueky is 3 $. i'M in Mexico City going over the battle- mfi'Ji field of tho Mexican war, in which ho I4:MT fought when a young man. lie is ae- ?ft.'?3j 'H rompnuied lv lus son. Lieutenant; b. B. Buckiier oE the Ninth infantry, U. S. A., 'l.stii', now stationed at Fort Sam Houston. 4 Vsh General Buckner has found many things & J1U to interest him here. Ho visited Chapul- 'lU' tepee, tho summer home of President ifi Diaz, where tho govovnmonl. military , 1 academy is located, and went over tho jii'H ground that w:is covered by tho Amcr- ' ican troops in their assault upon tho ie . ', Mexican boy defenders of that, historic ifv J castle raoro than sixty years ago. ' '4 & The presence of General Buckner in i- jM this city caused tho fact to bo recallod . .t.r that ho was tho first American to Heale h Iho summit of Mount Popocatpctl vol- ' cano, .situated about, fifty miles from :"' this city. It was April IS. 1S48, while rj H tho Araorican troops wore in possession' -- 1 of the capital that Buckner, then a t lieutenant, organized an expedition oC I , jH twenty-seven officers to mako the as- :A j .r, cent of tho mountain. in: ,,H Tho feeling between the Americans & ' -JH and Mexicans was one of hatred and sur.- V jH piciou. It was necessary, uevorthelcss, l ' that, the daring party should depend V 1 upon Mexican guides in order to reach ''Ji' '1 the summit. oC tho old mountain. j |