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Show Got What Was Coming To Him IT seams that the man Williams or Stanley or whatever might be his name, who was to found a great model, socialistic repubic in Lower California, was cut a little short in his expectations. He recruited his band of patriots; ho fitted them out with care; if there was anything any-thing on any of the ranches1 in his path that his command wanted that he did not steal, it was because be-cause it escaped his notice; when all was ready he attacked a large body of Mexican veterans on ithe theory probably that they would not fight, but a few rounds from machine guns and a few volleys from magazine rifles changed his calculations. calcula-tions. Most of his thieves were killed and when he decir A that the enemy was working over Industrial In-dustrial Workers' hours, and "struck" out for safer quai'ters, a shell followed him and exploded . . in the little bunch of fugitives of which he was B one, and a fragment of the shell struck him in H the only really vital place in his system in the M jaw and finally did him up. It is impossible for M us to feel the grief over this event which it M seems we ought. He went to war with a coua- M try with wihioh our country is at peace; he stole M his outfit, and his high purpose, while shouting M for industrial freedom, was with stolen material fl to steal a section of country upon which he might M in future live without industry, and live as he M had so long lived, on the labor of others. And M somehow we cannot be sorry for the outcome. M |