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VOLUME XLIX-NO. 80.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1914 —SIXTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
COUNTY USE OF THE | MODERN THEATER
P. & S. HOSPITAL' Fl
General Carranza Leads Troops
Into Death Trap at Monclova
Residents in Vicinity
stitution File Suit in
enfy-Third Court.
of In- i Sidney H. Weis Soon to Be-
Sev-| sin Work On City's New-
est Building.
[0 HEAR M WEDNESDAY
I.aw Only Provides for Hospital
\*'hen the County Has None,
Bexar County Has Three, Is
the Allegation Made by the
Plaintiffs.
Determined that the Physicians and
Surgeons' Hospifal shall not be used
as a conntv hospital, Charles H. I-lor-
ian and others, residents in the vicinity
of the P. & S. Hospital, yesterday aft-
ernoon resorted to legal means in their
opposition, whet! they filed suit in the
Seventy-third District Court against
Bexar County and the Commissioners'
Court to restrain them from maintain-
ing, equipping or conducting the Physi-
cians and Surgeons' Hospital as a
county institution. A temporary in-
junction is prayed for, with the appli-
cation that the write be made perma-
nent uoon final hearing. Judge W. P.
Ezell has set the hearing for a tem-
porary order for 9:30 o'clock next
Wednesday morning.
Mr. Florlan nlso petitions that the Is-
man<T ol" hosplUl liouds t" the ninuunt of
f 126.OOO 1)0 held unconstitutional. It Is
alleged tliat. the tan- providing or giving
the county power to erect and equip a
countv hospital provides that this may be
done,' and done only when there is no
ether countv hospital in that county;
wbcrea*, Bexar County has three county
hospitals, the Joint C'ity and County Hos-
pital, the County Poor Farm, used as an
Institution for the treatment of the sick,
lontlmied on Page Two.
GETS I SHEAR LEASE
GENERAL JESUS CARRANZA, with General Castro led 1,400 Con-
stitutionalists into Monclova, where much looting and damage w as done
before the Federal troops, sixty miles to the south, were able to reach the
terrorized town The Constitutionalists were driven out at the point of
the bayonet and literally shot to pieces at San liuena Ventura, nine miles
away. The defeat and serious wounding of General Castro, one of the
worst setbacks Carranzi's cause has received, is just leaking out as Amer-
icans are reaching the border.
ENGLISH TROOPS
Construction Will Begin in Sixty
Days on Structure That Will
Embrace the Newest of Every-
thing — Advocates a Better
Lighting System Also.
San Antonio's real skyscraper and
its newest theater will be on Alamo
Plaza.
Sidney H. Weis will be the builder.
The ground wnere the Grand Opera
House building and the San Antonio
Club now stand has been leased by Mr
Weis from Mrs. Matil A. Thompson
Maginnis, David Nease and Miss Eu-
genia Maginnis 'or a term of ninety-
nine years.
Construction will begin within the
next 60 days, or immediately following
the close of the current season at the
Grand.
Xtr. Wets last night said the deal had
progressed as far as I be leasing of the
ground, lint, thai t.lie plans for the erec-
tion of the building had not yet been
definitely completed. However, he said the
structure would be mdoern in every de-
tail ami Intimated that it would embrace
the erection of a thoroughly modem thea-
ter with every convenience, that could be
afforded Its patrons, and that the upper
stories ol the building would be given
over to high-class offices.
FIFTEEN STORIES.
He went no further than confirm the
improvement on the site and woutd not
say that the construction would temporal'
liv, or in the early season of 1914-1916.
necessitate his finding some other place ,
foc.iji? 4BH«»tatton of attraction* tutfU
Continued on Page Three.
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ilESlS CARKANZA
General Redistribution of the
Forces in Ireland Is Be-
gun.
WELL ORGANIZED
Their Army of 110,000 composed
of Men in the Flower of Their
Age and All of Excellent
Physique — 80,000 Rifles Dis-
tributed to Selected Men.
TORREON
IS BESEIGED
BY VILLA
Constitutionalist. Army Advances
Outskirts of City and Places
Big Guns in Position.
to
artillery supply is large
Army of 12,000 Men Has 40 Field Pieces and
Probably 2,000 Rounds of Ammunition to the
Man—Federals Retreat Behind Fortifications
Without Resisting Constitutionalists' Advance.
"How It Feels to Be a
President," by ££?. Wilson
Nation's Chief Executive Describes to National
Press Club the Perplexities and the Sen-
sations of One Holding Down His Job.
WASHINGTON, 1>. C.. March "-'0 —
Woodrow Wilson unbosomed himself to
members of the National Press Club of
Washington today, telling them in a franl;
conversation.il way how he felt as Pres-
ident of the United States, how difficult
it was for him to imagine himself as the
chief Executive with the formal amenities
of the position and how he had struggled
to bo 8^ JLreo as the ordinary individual
vttbout Iii* restraints of his office.
It was nil Intimate picture of \\ oodrow
Wilson the man, drawn by himself ou the
occasion of the "House Warming' at t.i*>
i less Club's new iiuarters. The Presi-
dent did not. intend to have his remarks
reported hut later, al the request of the
club, (ho uuUfciial speech was made public.
Il follows:
XHVKK RECOGNIZES SEI.F.
"I was Just thinking of my sense of
confusion of identity some times when I
INDEX OF THE NEWS
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
San Antonio and vicinity: Cloudy, prob
ably rain today and Sunday.
Th» Sin Antonio Express Is the only
paper in Southwast Texas carrying the
full day and night wire service of the
Associated Pre**, everywhere recog-
Mred as the greatest news gathering
organization In the world.
TEW APPEAL
FOR RANGERS
CITIZENS OF COMBES. CAMERON
COUNTY, SEND PETITION TO
GOVERNOR.
FORCE WILL BE INCREASED
lead Articles about myself. I never have
lead an urtlclo ubout myself in which i
recognized myself and I have coiue to
have the impression that I must be koiu-j
kind of a fraud, because I think a great
many of these articles are "written In ab-
solutely good faith.
"T tremble to think of the variety and
fnlteness in the impressions I make—and
it is being borne in on mo so that It may
charge my very disposition—that I am
;i cold and removed person wbo has a
thinking machine inside which he adjusts
to tJie circumstances, which lie does not
allow to be mev**d by any winds of af-
fection or emotion of any Kind but turns
like a cold searchlight on anylhiuc: that Is
presented to his attention aud makes it
work. I am not aware of having any de-
tachable apparatus inside of me. On the
contrary, if 1 Mere to interpret myself. I
would say that my constant embarrass-
ment is to strain the emotions that are
Inside of me.
"You may not believe it. but I sonic- me p .
times feel like an extinct volcano and if I.Murder and robbery ar«i being committed
the lava does not seem to spill over, it is J freely; thefts of all kinds are being per
because you are not high enough to see | pet rated day and night; horses, mules,
The Express Austin Buresu.
AUSTIN, Tex.. March 20.—Appeal for
protection for life and property was to-
day received by Governor ColQuitt fiom
the citizens of Combes, Cameron County.
The petition was signed by forty-two
citizens and in it the statement is made
that murder and jobbery are being com-
mitted freely and thefts of all kinds aro
being perpetrated day and night. 1 he
Governor was urged to seud Rangers to
Cameron County at once.
CONDITIONS ARB BAD.
The petition, dated Combes, March 15,
follows: «
•We, the undersigned citizens and resi
dents of Cameron Counly. Texas, beg to
advise you that the conditions now exist
ing in "our county lu the mutter of 11011-
enforcement of law ana order, make It
necessary for us to appeal to you as Gov-
ernor ot all the people of our State for
the protection of our lives and property.
HE ID KILLED
PASSENGERS 1 ROM MONCLOVA
BRING REPORT OF EXECUTION
FOLLOWING DEFEAT.
GEN. CASTRO IS WOUNDED
rA6F. I—Villa has suns trained on Tor-
reon.
Criftis in Ulster grows more serious.
Injunction asked to prevent county
using P. and S. Hospital.
IWi.tt S— Resignation of Char*# O Shaugh-
n*ssy is rumored.
Other Mexican news.
TAfiF ft—Club news.
Church news.
ragf, •—Editorial*.
I\\GF. a—Loral society.
FAOF »—Woman's page.
r.lf.F. 10—Bronchos will pi.iv, Carr School
team today if weather pernfit*.
t>rsistent opposition of weather causes
harness matinee to he postponed.
Washington American* relying on vet«
for jheir rae<» this year.
Big four expected to defend polo cup
again this yenr.
General local :ind wire *port news.
s.-.n Antonio Hayne Club wins debating
«Stampionship.
1.V—TiO*al and general markets
r.lQt; 1«—Fiesta Association appeals to
manufacturer*, jobbers and merchants to
participate in big civic parade.
representative Kennedy *aya he will
into the basin and see the caldron boil.
Because truly gentlemen, in the position
which I now occupy there Is a sort. I do
not know how else to express it than to
say. passionate sense of being connected
with my fellow men in a peculiar relation-
ship of responsibility. Not merely toe
responsibility of Office, but God knows
there are euough things in this world that
need to be corrected.
RESPONSIBILITY APPALLS.
"1 ha\e mixed, first and last, with alt
sorts and conditions of men —there are
mighty few Kinds of meu that have to bo
♦.'escribed to me and there are mighty few
kinds of experiences that have to be de-
scribed to ine*-and when 1 think of the
rumber of men who'are looking to me. as
thf representative of a party, witti th«
hope for all varieties of salvation from tin*
things il.ey are struggling in the midst of.
it. makes me iremble.
"It makes me tremble not only with a
sense of my own inadequacy and weakness
but as If I were shaken by the very things
that are shaking them. And If I seem »ir-
evinspect, it Is because I am so diligently
trjing not to make my colossal blunders.
I* you just calculated the number ot
blunders a fellow can make in twenty-
four hours If he is uot careful and if lie
does not listen more than he talk*, yor
v.ould 6ee something of the feeling that I
ha%e.
"I was amused the other day at a re-
mark Senator Newlands made. f had
read to him the trust message T was to
deliver to Congress some ten days l»cfore
I delivered it and I never stop 'doctoring'
things of that kind until the day I have
to deliver them.
"When he heard it read to *'ongrcs«
he said. 'I think it was better than when
you read it to me.' I ^id. 'Senator, there
Is one thing which I do not think von
understand. I not only use all the brains
have, bin all I '-an borrow, and 1 have
cattle and all kinds of stock are being
stolen from enclosed pastures, the open
range and the streets of our towns.
Houses are being entered aud robbed;
vehicles of all kinds, saddles. harness
and all kinds of farming implements are
being stolen from our barns and fields.
At practically all places in the county
where Mexicans of the common class
gather for their ninuseinent. whiskey, beer
and mescal are being sold openly without
State, county or Federal licenses.
•Otilv some time ago, at Sebastian, this
county. .1. H. Rowel 1. who owned and
conducted a mercantile business, was mur-
dered and robbed of some $."»00 in his
store, anil his dead body carried some i»00
yards into a woods pasture, where it was
not found by a searching party for more
than forty-eight hours after the murder
was committed Just a short time before,
Antonio Montolvo. a Mexican citizen, was
murdered and robbed of several hundred . ——— ---- _ - A , m. ...
dollars and hi* boots and saddle, while l "netted them out of town. The fighting
on his way home from Lyford. this conn I beican on the outsikirtsi, tfeo f ederals
tv His body, like that of the murdered Constitutionalists to San Buena
Sebastian, was carried far into a woods ! Ventura, nine
Passengers on the train reaching Piedras
Negras Wednesday morning and arriving
yesterday in San Autonio bring the first
description of, one of the bloodiest and
most sauguinary battles of the war In
Mexico, and the rumored killing of four
American combatants, amplifying the mea-
ger reports that have come from Monclova,
where on Sunday Genera* Castro's Con-
stitutionalist troops were, cut to pieces by
the Federals under Colonel JOseote and
his famous Forty-second Regiment from
the City of Mexico.
Fourteen hundred Constitutionalist cav-
alry under Generals Castro and Jesus Car-
ran/.a descended upon Monclova early Sat-
urday. according to the reports of the
nasseng^rs on the train passing through
there Monday. The only resistance of-
tereil was by KK) young men. members of
some of the best families in Monclova.
who had equipped themselves with rifles
aud drilled as a home guard. The lads—
thev were little more—were nearly all
killed after fighting with remarkable brav-
ery. The Constitutionalists came in from
th" direction of Nuevo Laredo, and nearly
nil were well mounted. They spent the
day in looting the town. Their loss was
inconsiderable aud Monclova was at their
mercy. The stores were looted and sacked
and every one met ou the streets was
held up. Homes were broken into and
girls from ten years up to thirteen, but
not over that sge, were mistreated. The
Federal commander reported that 1*J5
children were Injured, and that, undoubt-
edly many deaths will result. Thirteen
box cars were loaded with loot, the at-
tacking party taking mostly beans, corn,
flour, supplies and money. The cars were
cut out ready to be hauled, and 297 other
freight cars, ninety of w^?eti w*te loaded,
several with live stock, were set on fire.
Twelve locomotives were burned and the
station was also looted ,»nd set on fire.
The Constitutionalists arrived early In
the morning, and word was sent to Colonel
Kscoto* who with his regiment was sixty
mites to the south. lie entrained and
reached Monclova about 3 o'clock Satur-
day afternoon. The Federals took the
Constitutionalists by surprise and bay-
LONDON, March 20.—"War in Ul-
ster" is the startling headline sensa-
tional London newspapers arc display-
ing in the blackest type. ,
The government today began to dis-
pose of its regular troops in Ireland so
they may be in position to deal with
'any situation th.it arises. The army
council some lime ago considered the
possibility of hoir.e rul: strife and in-
structed L.icutenant Gener.il Sir Ar-
thur Henry Fitzrov Paget, who com-
mands the Irish g»rrisons, to take
necessary precautions to maintain or-
der and safeguard property. A gen-
eral redistribution of force; in Ireland
therefore was begun today.
Two regiments were sent from the South
to reinforce the l ister garrisons, while the
troops lu Ulster were moved to new sta
tlona in conformity with the custom that in
the event of trouble soldiers will uot have
to encounter people with whom they had
formed friendships.
IRISH 11 NCRUJTS SENT TO ENGLAND.
Some Irish recruits were sent from the
Armagh recruiting station to lOugland.
The possibilities of a collision between
British soldiers aud Ulster volunteers re-
sulting from the superheated political feel-
ing- are recognized, but leaders on both
sides are trying to exert, a pacific in
Uuence. John Redmond, Nationalist leader
PwHftiuent. today telegraphed National-
IMtf Wrwjfash an urgent appeal to'aban-
don A- piratic arranged for Sunday in Xion-
douderry, which it was thought likely
would result in rioting. Sir Edward Car-
son. the l ister leader, and members of the
Ulster council, Invoked calmness on the
part of the volunteers.
Four cabinet ministers spoke of the Uls-
ter situation at different meetings tonight,
.lohn Burns, president, of the local gov-
ernment board, in au address, said :
"Home rule is a question mainly for
Ireland itself. Three fourths of the people
there have demanded it persistently for
years and we have no right to listen to the
demand for more concessions or yield to
clamor.''
"We have no more desire to yield to law
less lawyers than to lawless laborers,"
Thomas McKinnon Wood, Secretary of
State for Scotland, said. "YVc jvill carry
home rule by agreement If we posslbly*can,
but without It if we must."
Augustin Birrell. chief secretary for Ire-
land, In his speech, declared the govern-
ment's proposals gave Ulster freedom from
coercion for six years and that the scheme
of Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the op-
position In Parliament, meant Immediate
coerciou if a referendum went against
Ulster.
Sir John Allsebrook Simon, attorney gen
eral, Said the government proposed to go
steadily on. adding:
"Whatever happens we will see that law
and order are unflinchingly observed in
Ulster.'*
ULSTER!TES WFLL ORGANIZED,
lu view of the partisan claims regarding
the number of men. the organisation and
equipment of the Ulster volunteers, state-
ments by Colonel Dacourt, military corre-
spondent of the London Times, and H. W.
Nevinson, a prominent Liberal writer of
the Nation, who have been touring Ulster
an} important.
Colonel l>a«-ourt says the 110,000 men
enrolled are in the flower of their r.ge and
of excellent physique. Decentralization has
been the system of organIzatiotv Each
county forms a separate unit, 'niere are
sixty-five battalions, of which eighteen are
lu Belfast. The volunteers have 400 motor
cars, L'OO motorcycles and a complete sys-
tem of communication. Eighty thousand
rifles, according to Colonel Dacourt, have
been distributed to selected men so that
wholesale seizures of the weapons would
be Impossible.
Mr. Nevinson estimates that between 60,-
CONST1TUIIONALISTS' FRONT, Yl:RMO. Durango, March 20.—
The Constitutionalist army today advanced to the outskirts of Torreon and
the big guns wsr©'placed in position, preparatory to an attack on thte city.
General Villa stated that he expected to capti-rc the Federal stronghold'
within a week.
Villa's arniy, numbering 12,000 men. has mors th.n forty field piccet
and a large supply of ammunition, probably 2,000 rounds to the man. The
Constitutionalists have been moving to their base by train, disembarking at
Bcrined|illo ani Mapimi. , ;
From these points and from Yermo the march over the desert was be-
gun. the Federak advance guards retreating without opposition behind
their fortifications at Torreon. They toro up the railroad and destroyed
the bridges as they retired and the Constitutionalists followed over the
long waste of desert, some riding horses and others plodding through the
sand.
Today Genet a! Villa, tfho is at this place receiving his reports from
his various subordinate generals fcy courier and by wireless, announced that
his men were in position and that shelling of the Federal trenches vould
begin without unnecessary delay.
The khakl-elad members of Villa's army
occupied the environs of Torreon without
opposition, ^'becl;
ltiK nt
ItllLU'nmwil n»'i . | ,
ing and dragging Held pieces into
tion to shell the Federal trenches, 0
every point where the Federal commander,
eral Refugio Velasco, expects attack.
Gen
FEDERAL ARMY NUMBERS 9,000 MEN.
Velasco's army is estimated at 9.000 men.
South and soulnwust of the city nls poalr
tion is regarded as almost impregnable
bv reason of the mountains through which
only three passes run. and these have been
rendered almost impassable by fortifies
tlons and barbed wire entanglements, lu
other directions the city is readied through
the desert and high bills.
Villa's progress has been slow becaufta
It was necessary to repair railroad tracks
and bridges. Early today, however, tbs
road was open from Yermo, where tha
Continued on Page Tat.
AH
Texan Escapes Execution
After Two Nights' Torture
Charles Ballard Lured From Carrizo Springs,
Bound and Dragged by Mexican Band—Flees
in Rio Grande Amid Fusillade of Bullets.
Continued on Page Two.
Special Telegram to The Express.
CARRIZO SPRINGS. Tex., March
20.—Charles Ballard, 20 years old, has
been brought hire, cut. bruised and
otherwise tortured, after one of the
most harrowing experiences and thrill-
ing escapes of border annals.
-The young American was lured by
Mexicans at night to a lonely thicket,
his arms tied behind his back, a noose
thrown about his neck and half
dragged for many miles through cacti
and othei thorny plants.
All the while Ballard's captors in-
sulted and tormented him, never fail-
ing to conclude (heir jeers with sug-
gestive remarks >,f the fate that would
befall him when once he was on Mex-1
ican soil.
Finally after two nights and a day of
torment the Texan succeded iu severing
the bonds about his wrist, as the meu
who, he says, were Mexican Federal sol-
diers, were dragging hi macross the Rio
Grande, slashed the rope from hla throat,
dived into the water aud swam to the
American shore smld a fusillade of bul-
lets.
Ballard, a machinist, once lived In Car-
pa stnre, covered with brush and cactus
and left to rot, same not having b#en
found by relatives and a searching party
for thirty days after his disappearance.
THIEVES CONSTANTLY OPERATING.
"Fully 4i0 per cont of the American
farmers of tills county, and |»erhaps as
many of the better class of Meximn farm
crs and ranchers have sustained losses
from thieves who are constantly operating
in this county.
It is positively true that the county
miles away. Here the
heavy fighting took place. Machine gun
firing Inflicted heavy los*. The Consti-
tutionalist loss wh« UY2 killed. General
< astro tvns wounded: his sword nnd or-
ders were Uikcu from him. hut the Fed
eral commander refused to allow his men
to put the prisoner to death. There were
three bullet wounds, it i* reported, in his
body. General Jesus •Carranza es« aped.
P»cforo the steady onrush of the seasoned
vetera hs of the Forty-second Rfgiment.
the Constitutionalists dispersed, carrying
their wounded with them. The Federals,
running short of ammunition, returned to
hlne
and preciuct officers of this county have
proven unable to suppress the wrimes or t Monclova, carrying with them two machine
to apprehend the criminals. We eonfi- i guns. 000 rifles nnd revolvers, all the
dently believe that a small company of i Con stitution n list flags and many -words, i
State Rangers «-entrslly located in this ; There were also *everul . or»» of prisoner*. .
•-ountv. as in the pa«t. «-an do more good • among them it is *;iid. four \nn ri< an«
' in suppressing the lawlessness that now . who hore <-oramK-Mou* in tIk i o istitu- .
! exist* than all the peace officers in the tbuwlKt army and were manning the ms ,
1 conntv .-otnbined | chine guns.
* "We respoctfnllv ask that von <onsider A militsr.v train w;:* ;:»r«*d out aftej-
borrowed a lot siuce I read It to you I .-ommnnb ation a<- an appenl f..r i the «*onstitutionaliMs. «'o»one| l.-. otn *<y
first.' Rangers to b<> pl»«-ed in this countr f„r , >»e was going to c>,enninatc the coru-
COLLECTS BORROW ABLE BRAINS I the protection of our people snd their ♦ mand. As the nnssoagrr frnin left for t &e
-- • -• north, sounds of continued firing told that 1
Hiafawuv League the ifrsf division i limitation of Knowledge
» ha»nl»er of < «»mi«crce complete its | the emotion of the thin
bud ret I *up|»o«c I must be •<•»)
t btef l4»u«n-ier advocate* wpt^iai traf
fit |*>liceaitB. j Coatia«*4 1'ag* Tbna
c^psity. A.^ ^t»l- FN LA RGB UOIMT
U so gr*nt |h>I^A liorernor Cobjititt ha* instru«-ted « ap-
e kind of « ma«Jr f tain .fohn R. ll<ag*e-. '-oaiuiMuding Co A.
ttsilasH «a ract
report - H
«» . persisted "»d tbry are,
inclined t«« it i« tin* troth. It i
* ics said i lie fonr y*\»D? American*. «f- j
CnUMH rage Tse
A Hero Hitherto Unsung Proves
San Antonio's Good Samaritan.
Read of Him in Sunday's Express
He's the friend of the sick, the poor and helpless. He's poor in
purae but rich in good deeds. His crowning act of kindness is to offer
his life that another might live.
The mechanical cow pony ig Texas' latest contribution to progress.
It is the death blow to th'.> picturesqueness of the old cattle trail.
"Famous Loves of Famous Americans" deals with Benedict Arnold.
»ho for the love of Margaret Shipper) betrayed his country.
The Tom Sawyers of San Antonio, son.< of Confederate and Union
''oldiers. who waged a fierce warfare while their fathers were fighting
in the »ar between the States are recalled by the passing of old land-
mark. the scenes of their youthful battles.
Anne Rittenhouse writes direct from Paris of the latest Spring
fashions.
Mantle of Elizabeth Hlackwell, pioneer feminist, falls upon Mme.
Jeanne Schmall of Paris. «ho is a leader in fashion as well as in
suffrage.
Marcnret Downing writes interestingly of the French tabor Com-
missioner. a woman of nohlc hirth who is demoting her life to working
folk and no* ia studying conditions in America.
A San Antonio boy is aboard the American man-o'-war that will
be the last to pass around Cape Horn.
Then there are the regular Sunday features: l.illian Russell's bcautv
secret". Marion Harland\ homohold hints: the latest in embroidering,
".port, fraternal and dramatic re»ic*« and the irresistahle comics for
the kiddies.
BALLARD'S EXPERIENCE.
BRIEFED.
Lured t„ Ulo Grande, hU wrists
bound lirfiinii his btch, a noose ptaerf
aoout liit neck and dragged all ntlkt
through (licrn and tblektta.
tortured by the itatement at tas
captors' leader ha would be executed
when they croseed into Mexico.
suffer, from wonnde and eu.praea a
day In the thlckete.
Journey reattmed second night wW1»
hi. Injuries unattended and nsrain
dragged through cacti and meequlta.
Manages to unloo.e hie bonds and
est ropa about his neck as Mexicans
drag hint Into rl»cr. DUe» and escapsa
(us'lade or bulleti.
Hides In octe until enemlee brLlere
he hat been shot and drowned.
Stumbles, alter harrowing experience.
Into ranch house and Is taken bom*
sufferine from hla vtoands.
it
rlio Springs, but recently be had been
stopping with his brother at Kagle Pass.
Th« youuff machiutst frequently rowed
in Ills brotner's boat up and down tha
rivci- near iisgle Pasa.
Ballard, on one of these excursions on
the river recently, observed soius mounted
Mexl"iil)S on the other side of the Rt»
Grande. Americans on this side of to*
river asked who the horsemen were.
"They'll) bnridlts." lie 1" >ald to hava
ropUtil In a bplrlt of mischief. "That fel-
low In front if the wan who murderef
; Venture, tne Texas rancher."
llallnril heard uothlnc more of tha
J mrsu-rloiiK horsemen uutiJ Wednesday
lilfcot r.'h»n a Mexican bfrollod Into Cir-
! rlfo Springs siul a«^ed to be dlr*'cted ta
the machinist's home, KS.ving he was em-
ployed on a nearby raii h.
Arriving at th^ home of Hailard s aunt.
Mrs. J. P. McCarley, wber« the yonng
Texan was slopping, the Mexican told him
he wished htm to repair a windmill on
the ranch. , „ _ _ ,
"Wait till I get tny tools, said Bal-
lard. "and I'll go with vou."
The Mexican assured liim the necesaary
tools were at the ranch.
Tbe iso walked out of town together.
About a mile farther on a windmill wae
submitted against the inuaky horizon. Bal-
lard's conipanii-n whistled and four arm-
ed inen leaded from tbe sbadowa of a
mesqulte thioket. The machinist's bands
were tied behind hla back and ooe of tha
men threw the noose of a rope over Bal-
lard's neik.
TEI.LS HIM OF HIS FATE.
When the Texan demanded tbe reason
for this treatment the leader ef tbe party
answered gruffly:
"We'll mi
spies.
on you bow we treat tiriMge
spies. Walt tlil we get you acrosa
river I" _
Tills with n irer as the leader showed
his teetli and made a choking, surglla*
sound and drawing hi» hand jtrimly and
suggestively across hla eaptirea throat.
Horse, were led out of the tblcket sad
Ballard's raptor* w-an-W him. bat ovet-
loxked a email penknife the Texan ni(lis
in a hip |H>,fc(.t. The meswuger who -
enticed Itallsrd feom town, tied Ibe
• ■nd of | rope n.»e>e about the voun* ra
ne< W to the horn of hip saddle and
trader of tbe hand with a cisr-e «rd
th» Texan to tr« al«n« wltl> Ibem.
Tbe trail ef the cars- an to tha l
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