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Show 0 THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1916. N, O am STIRRING INCIDENTS OF HUNT FO R BANDIT VILLA f Boys in Khaki Are Surprised by Sight of Girl Riding Side by Side With the Outlaw Chief's Band and FightingWith Them; Youthful 'Soldadera Disappeared From Home Week After Columbus Raid and Later Was Seen in Flight After the Battle of Ojos Azuies 1 V?5 l,y 1; and Saved From American Bullet Only by the Pat She Gave to Her Hair, Which " Ap- pealed to American Chivalry; Automobiles Used to Carry Surprise Expedition to Home of Bandit Cardenas, Where He Was Caught Unawares and Sent to Death While Fighting, With One Arm Broken; Stoicism of Mexican Women Impresses Soldiers! 1 -,- v - i 'rY- tY v 'fr0" 'CVm ; "4 Y v. " ? tT-- l ? -v v - Y ' V jV L. : -- I f - - 1 "EM ELI) HEADQUARTERS, May Hi. bv motor truck to Columbus. X. M. The Sokladera of Namiquipa . the girl soldier from the town of Namkjuipa whose presence with the Villistas has been rumored since the Columbus raid, has been definitely identified as a member of the bandit organization in the Ojos A.ulcs fight on May 5. This faet was learned today from men who made the eavalry charge ami the long chase of the Mexicans in that fight. The voting oldadera was not in the Columbus raid, hut about a week afterward when Villa routed the Car-ran za garrison at Namujuipa, 200 miles rtouth of the border, she disappeared from her home. At the Ojos Azuies fight, one of the first Krsorts to run from the Mexican stronghold was a 'lithe, slightly built individual, in trousers, with a white veil over the sombrero, who leaped nnm a bareback horse and rode safely into the hills. After the slaughter at the ranch, when the cavalry men were beating up the hills in small parties, three Mexicans were seen in flight, one of them being the person in the white veil. Soldiers Withhold Fire. The soldiers thought this makeup betrayed the woman, but suspected that it micrht be a disguise adopted by an officer to facilitate his escape. As they hesitated to fire, the veil kept coming loose, and the fugitive rewound it each time. Instead, however, of stuffing the ends tightly about the neck, in soldier fashion, te veiled person earefuly patted the fabric into place about the forehead and temples. Observing this, one of the American pursuers stopped his fellows with this shout. Goodnight, 4 it's her Don't shoot!" I The young woman made her escape. Her presence with the bandits afterwards was verified. put to a new AUTOMOBILES inwere the Villa cam- X paign on May 14, when the bandit leader, Colonel Julio Cardenas was killed with two of his lieutenants. Three touring cars from Gen. J. J. Pershing's camp started about midday for Rancho San Miguel de Kubio, a short run across the mountains, the residence of the Cardenas family, and the scene of some of the pot shooting occasionally at American troops. The Cardenas family, all women and children, had remained unmolested notwithstanding positive information to the American staff that the bandits frequently used his ranch fur a ren-de'zvo- us. this Sunday's automobile raid, it had been ciwtomary to employ eavalry on night rides after bandits on ranches. The cavalry would surround the ranch just before dawn on these searches. The automobile, with an order to buy corn as the ostensible purpose, made a fast run over mountain foothills to the ranch. Lieut. George S. Pat tun, Jr., of San Francisco, a member of General Pershing's staff, commanded the machines. Within a mile of the ranch the ear topped a hill from which for the first time they were visible to the occupants of the ranch and from which the automobiles made a dash toward their objective, which would have been impossible for cavalry. Running nearly sixty miles, an hour they were within less than 200 yards of the buildings before their presence was discovered. A Mexican working in the yard gave the warning, but it was too late. By the time Cardenas and his two men could get on their horses and dash for the ranch gate, the Americans had surrounded the place. Cardenas was the first man to i emerge from shelter. He and Lieutenant Pat ton engaged in a pistol duel in which a shot from Pat ton' weapon broke the bandit's arm and Until " Y- - tr1, J ;vi- pSi ' - 'Yl-- Wf . . y '?r- - - 4f5 ' ' ''Xh-r- , 1 s , t. ,Y- - s t XN - " -- y"W- - A 4 r y M m Y k V Y ..V" , X X . St Top, Mexican army traveling in Mexico with American soldiers looking on; bottom, American and Carranzista troops . at San Antonio, Mexico. drove him back into the ranch house, later to be finished by the American General Pershing and staff in Mexico, Capt, W. B. Burtt, assistant chief of staff of the Twentieth infantry, being soldiers when he tried to escape. the last man at the right; bottom, field hospital corps at Casas Grandes. of Mexican women THE stoicism shown during the fight at San Miguel de Kubio, when three :.,'J.s.v Mexicans were killed as they at- 4 tempted to shoot up a detachment of ten American cavalrymen, who, at the time were dismounted and riding in automobiles. After the trio had been killed, the ranch house from which they had tried to escape was searched. .Three of the i"Nm were found locked, and no one at the ranch professed to know anything about who was inside, how to unlock the doors or why A pistol shot they were locked. lock broke the of the first door. Inside were found women and children. More women, young and old, were found in the other two rooms. Not one of them made an outcry, nor showed outward indication of hysteria. One party comprised the women folk of Julio Cardenas, who had been the last to die in the ranch house fight. From the window his women saw him, down, with his arm broken and other bullet wounds, refuse to surrender, but turn o'n his side and use his broken arm for a pistol rest while he continued to fire on the Americans until a bullet in the head ended his life. When the rooms entered their searching party these women gave no fcigna of their grief. with the army .45 ONE faultpistol, with which nearly were killed at the Ojos Yillbtas sixty Azuies fight, May o, was developed during that action. It was the tendency of the pistol to jam with dust so that the mechanism would not The work automatically. fight effectiveness and the deadly proved new this of killing power pistol, stamping it as the best shooting pistol the army has tried.- The dust particles, which caused a few of the pistols to jam, sifted into the holsters while the men were on the march. Some sort of dustproof cover has been suggested to avert this trouble. Lieut. A. M. Graham of San Francisco and Denver, who led the cavalry charge in this fight, and whose horse jumped a half o?ned gate while Villistas were still running through the opening, said that he has carried his pistol in a sock during the dusty Mexican marches. This kept it free from dust, but made the draw slow, Lieut. A. P. Lord of Rockland, Me., who rode with Grahnm at the head of the eharge, found his pistol jammed when he tried to open fire. He pounded it against something solid, the jar restoring the weapon to running order immediately. After the fight Lieutenant Ixrd discovered that the solid object which he had knee. pounded was his aft MARKED difference between Villista strongholds and other towns in southern Chihuahua is repotted by officers who have made the campaigns close oh Villa's trail. In the solid Villista districts there were evidence of prosperity. The there declared Villa that people protected them, taking what lie needed from them with considerable sense of - aje A - Vy A-3- 'v -,. ( I ' r3 - fx - U r " v w i - t f ; . Uy-y;- ' Y iS:'.:vf::K:?::f:.::::;;::x3l! Y - v I 4- 'V'"'- - '" - YYf vi . : v j t Y x4 ftvi y: - r- 'Y'-Y- - i ? Y iY;;', S: . -- ytTi X Jfel V S?Y - y-- y, A - V - V, IW ... " ,T , 9 i Corporal Richard Tannous of the Thirteenth cavalry, who was wounded in the fight at Parral. With a squad of men Tannons was passing unobtrusively through the Mexican town when a volley of shots fired by Mexicans passed them. The Americans beat a hasty retreat, but the firing continued and Tannous was shot through the arm. discrimination. The towns of mixed plaints of harsh treatment by Carpolitics, peopled by both Villa and ranza soldiers. Carranza partisans, were all on the verge of misery. The Villistas in HP HE ppwer plant of the field wire-lestation at this headquarters such places reported that Villa was in the habit of protecting them, but was doubled today, inaugurating one of plundering the Carranzista sym- of the first of the military improvements suggested by the Mexican pathizers. The sending of naval They complained that Carranza campaign. wireless messages on both eoasts of commands plundered both Villistas and Carranzistas without discrimina- North America, can be read nightly tion always taking care, however, to by the station here, but this station announce that they were seizing on account of lack of sufficient usually has been unable to property "in the name of the gov- power, as' far as Columbus send even at ernment." Carranzista sympathizers themselves complained that' petty of- night. better for Daylight conditions-arficers exercised altogether too wide so most of wireless that operations, a latitude in securing supplies on the have the been here handled messages repromises of the government to the day. during pay. is said that several changes in At the small town of Cienegas, theIt methods handling the signal near Satevo, an Associated Press cor- business in of the field have been respondent saw one of these forays worked out during the two months' by a small Carranza command. The in Mexico. Division of latown was well stripped. Afterward experience one of the suggestions. In the an old Mexican complained to some bor is advance on Villa's heels, a sin-- , American troops, who happened to be rapid signal company sometimes was passing, asking them for protection gle strung out over a length of 400 and exclaiming: miles, so that each man instead of do"Villa takes what I have to eat. ing merely the portion of the work But these people have taken all I in which he was most expert, became have to eat. and my donkey besides, a jack of all trades, from stringing and even took my riata (Mexican wires over mountains to copying hair rope lasso.) They left me no telegraphic or wireless messages. The tools." signal corps men met the emergency Outside of this territory of at best well, but it was pointed out that for doubtful allegiance to the Carranza real warfare valuable lessons had government, there have not been com been learned. ss auto truck car Curtlss biplane to border; General carrying troops Pershing. The forces of General Pershing in Mexico are being constantly augmented and strengthened in every way. Eight Curtiss biplanes of the R-type, 160 horsepower, have just joined the punitive expedition. Four" wore will be ordered and as soon as they arrive they wilt replace the less powerful machines now in use. The lower photograph illustrates a novel means of transporting troops to the border. The car loaded with fighting men is an auto truck mounted on wheels specially adapted for running on railway tracks. - Y-- " - v . , IvY Y 2 " , :. m. ? ; .' e . lX ACil 'liil ' R-- 2; 1- , - ' - v-- . . - - !Y 4 : -' -- oi . v ;Y ' iVYv 1 . ' Yti Y V- - i' tk .viv ,ts V VVV. ".'V" x- - ( ,Hv-v- I Z - 'Y v s ', I i YY ' m Y'i,l . -- ".JO rr-.. s fx I ' This picture shows American soldier boys having their feet inspected desert- - Every trooper has learned by this time the importance of keeping his feet in prime condition. Phots was taken at U. S. headquarters near San Antonio, Msic. 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