Show SHIPMENT OF flOUR ST STARTED ART En MEXICAN MEXICANS RAID f S s Salt SaU Lake Visitor Slept on the Firing i j Line W WATCHED THE BATTLE ii Bleakely k ly Spent Young Fort ForN For For- S 'S N t tune ne Mexican in iii Nine Days Three carloads of ot flour consigned to toVilla toVilla Villa vmS agents and on which the revolutionists revolutionists revolutionists were were unable to pay the duty caused caused the Columbus massacre ac according according according ac- ac cording to P P. P A. A Bleakely who was an eyewitness of ot the the attack on the American American American Ameri Ameri- can town Bleakely who is is s Western service representative of the King Motor Motor Motor Mo Mo- tor company arrived in Salt Lake yesterday yes yes- Bleakely was told by Mexican prisoners prisoner's prisoners prisoners pris pris- oner's that there was no intention on the part of ot Villa vmS to stir sUr up a row with America m rica by a direct attack on the town He Is of tho the opinion that the theVilla theVilla Villa troops troop merely came came across the border to get what they believed to to b be really theirs and being opposed they commenced commenced a general attack He explains that these cars of flour were standing on the American side of ot the line in Southern Pacific cars and the Mexicans wanted to push them across the line Troops Called Off If It the negro troopers of ot the Tenth i cavalry had not been recalled If it they I had been allowed to continue their i chase bandits Villa would have I been killed or captured and all the present trouble and expense saved is the belief beliet of Bleakely He graphically tells this story of the battle I was In my room at the hotel right righton righton on on the line and had slept late that thai morning All at once I heard the banging bang bang- ing of rifle shots and the whirr of the steel jackets as they ricocheted after striking something 1 I hurriedly dressed and went into the dining room from which a door 1 led ed to the street 1 I I. to started to go ou out the door but was stopped by i a trooper Where ya a goin gem he demanded Out on tho the street I said Want to get killed Not just yet I said S Well Vell go and get behind a a. lot o of II brick walls the bullets are ou out here said the soldier Views Street Battle Bleakely says he went to the second floor noor and out on the veranda where he watched the street fighting from behind a stone coping Even there ther there was danger he says for the excited excited excited ex ex- ex- ex cited Mexicans were firing at will an and often Into the air He lie says it was at least ten minutes minute and after the tho Villa men had got ha haway half halfway halfway way Into the town before the United States soldiers knew what was going on Then he says the negro troops troop fairly went wild They left their their- officers and everyone f else and started after those Mexicans Mexican Everyone who looked as if he had a aI I gun was shot The cavalrymen shot a aI I total of In the town alone and the then they hiked across the border after atter them It was only late after dark that tha night that they returned under returned under orders order I believe if they had not been recalled they would have got Villa Some Spender On business business' connected with the Sonora Sonora Sonora So So- nora and Chihuahua agencies for th the King car Bleakely spent some Borne time I in both states He tells teUs of some interestIng interesting interesting interest interest- Ing incidents In connection with Mexican can money moneo Incidentally he spent some som 1600 In nine days Mexican money and turned in the amount on his expense ex- ex pense account to the toe King company Bleakely says a friend asked him i if he had any Mexican money now money now worth there only a few cents on th the dollar doUar He told him he hadn't and hi his friend advised him not to flash an any American money that money that he might b be murdered for a 5 gold piece How much will need need you 1 hi his friend asked Oh Oil about 50 Bleakely replied Well you'd better get a quarter quarte changed he was told Later he found however that he ha had to pa pay about 7 for a meal and about abou 1 15 for a nights night's lodging so he was no not any ahead at that Bleakely is here conferring with wit fur Bill Carter local manager of ot th the King factory branch He will leave leav Monday for a further Inspection of ot th the territory |