MEXICAN BANDIT OUTWITS
TROOPS SENT AGAINST HIM
AND THEY SUFFER LOSS.
USES MANY SUBTERFUGES. |
—
Noted Outlaw Is Subject of Many j
Wild Tales of Adventure and Many
People Implicitly Credit Him W ith
Bearing Charmed Life.
JUAREZ, Mexico, April 16.—Fran
cisco Villa continues to play his fox- ;
like tricks on the Mexican federal
troops as he did when he was “ran
cho’' Villa, the bandit, and rode the
Sierra Madre mountains of western
Chihuahua like a Mexican Robin
Hood.
American mining men who ran the
gauntlet of Villa’s lines and reached
the border here on a passenger train,
the windows of which were shot out
by Villa’s men, told the first connect
ed story of Villa’s operations around
Canutillo, Durango, just over the
Chihuahua state line, against the fed
eral column which pursued him from
Jiminez with its 100 mounted dare
devils.
After the fight at Laguna de Esta
cada, Chihuahua, Villa led his men
southwest toward the Rio Florido
where he had hidden while General
Pershing was pursuing him. There
are bubbling hot springs on the Rio
Florido where Villa likes to bathe and
soak the rheumatism and saddle sore
ness out of his limbs after a hard
campaign. But. before he could en
joy his private baths in the Durango
river, General Eduardo Hernandez
and General Francisco Gonzales closed
in on him with two cavalry columns.
Pretend to Flee.
Pretending to flee before these ad
vancing columns, Villa and his men
dashed through the little mountain
town of Canutillo with the federal
cavalrymen pursuing them a few
hours later. Villa’s little army disap
peared over the ridge of a sandhill in
the evening sun. The federals went
into camp on a butte overlooking the
town, intending to resume the pursuit
at daybreak. It was a moonlight
night and few sentries were posted,
a custom not uncommon in Mexico.
Instead of continuing his flight Vil
la halted behind the first ridge, had all
of his men leave their hats in a pile,
wheeled his column and rode back to
ward Canutillo. Scouts reported the
location of the federal camp, plainly
visible in the moonlight. Whispered
orders were given that no one but
those wearing hats should be fired
upon. The attack then began. With
a war whoop which was as terrifying
as the famous rebel yell, the Villa
column swept down upon the camp,
shooting from the saddle at every
man who could be seen. In the con
fusion which followed the surprise
night attack the federal soldiers kill
ed many of their own men, mistaking
them for Villa’s men. After a sharp
encounter Villa rode through Canutil
lo once more, leaving a small detach
ment there to hold the town against
the federals.
Plays Old Trick.
There again he played one of his
old tricks. He had these men hide in
the adobe houses where they cut loop
holes facing the side from which the
federal attack was expected. These
Villa men also made all of the civili
ans crowd into these houses and give
vivas for Villa to make the enemy be
lieve the Villa force was many times
larger than it really was. The small
Villa band succeeded in holding off
the federals until Villa could lead his
main column in a circle and strike
the federal column from the rear.
Again the government troops were
slaughtered, the mining men said, and
many were made prisoners and later
executed.
These are only two of Villa’s bag
of tricks. Another favorite one is to
send his men against the enemy, then
have them retire in apparent disorder
until they reach a canyon or other
place easily fortified by Villa. The
pursuers are led into this trap and
they are subjected to a sweeping fire
from the rocks and are usually anni
hilated. This piece of native strategy
was used against the federals at. San
Andres, Chihuahua, again at Rosario,
Durango, and at Pederanales, Chihua
hua.
Sends False Messages.
Villa has frequently forced federal
telegraph operators to send mislead
ing messages directing troop trains to
proceed to a point where a trap was
laid for them This was done at La
guna. Chihuahua, and a paymaster
general and all of his guard killed.
Villa always carries a telegraph oper
ator with him to see that his orders
are carried out and that he is not
tricked, lie has even called federal
generals on the long distance tele
phone or sent them messages telling
them to befare of Villa and claiming
to be the local federal commander in
the district from which the messages
were sent.
Because of these tricks, learned as
a bandid in the mountains, Villa has
become the subject of many wild tales
of adventure in northern Mexico,
where he is credited with bearing a
charmed life.
TO QUIT OFRCE
FOREIGN MINISTER CZERNIN
RESIGNS ANI) RESIGNATION
ACCEPTED BY EMPEROR.
ANGERED GERMAN OFFICIALS.
Cabinet Officer’s Policy Was to Bring
About End of Present World War
on Basis of No Annexations and No
Indemnities.
AMSTERDAM, Holland. April 15.
Count V. zu Chudenitz Czernin, for
eign minister of Austria-Hungary, re
signed his position today and his res
ignation has been accepted by Empe
ror Charles, of Austria-Hungary, ac
cording to dispatches received in Am
sterdam from Vienna. Count Czer
nin. however, will continue to con
duct the affairs of the foreign office
until his successor is appointed.
Count Czernin’s resignation is be
lieved to be the result of the futile
peace appeal recently made in a let
ter addressed to a prominent French
man and signed by Emperor Charles.
Opposed by Germany.
Germany is declared to be the in
fluence responsible for the retirement
of the count, who has repeatedly an
gered the Teuton powers by his at
tempts to bring peace.
Count Czernin, who was born in
1857, comes of an old Bohemian Czech
family. He entered the diplomatic
service, and at the outbreak of the
war was Austrian minister to Rou
mania. When his attempts to pre
vent Roumania from entering the war
proved futile, he returned to Austria,
and in December, 1016, was made
minister of foreign affairs and pres
ident to the joint council of minis
ters.
Advocate of Peace.
Of late his efforts have been direct
ed to bringing about a peace based on
no annexations and no indemnities,
working in alliance with the center
party in Germany and its leader,
Mathias Erzberger. He is also the
advocate of better treatment for the
Slavic nationalities within the empire.
His projects have aroused the fear
and hostility of the Pan-Germans,
who claim that he is Interfering with
the scheme of middle Europe.
BOMBS FOUND NEAR
ATTORNEY’S HOME
ITALIANS SUSPECTED OF TRY
ING TO SEEK REVENGE ON
PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 16.—
Two bombs today were found near the
residence of District Attorney W. A.
Zabel. It is believed they were placed
there in revenge for his prosecution of
eleven Italians, who were recently
convicted of rioting last September
and sentenced to long terms in prison.
FIRST SPOUSE AND THREE CHILDREN OF WELL
KNOWN OFFICIAL ARE SAID TO EE LIVING IN NEW
BRUNSWICK WHERE HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE
BEEN BORN AND BROUGHT UP.
REGISTERED IN VICTORIA, B. C, IN 1889
Investigation Into Life of Veteran Alaskan Is Declared to Have
Been Made by Special Agent of Department of Interior
and Old Time Northerner, It Is Averred, Failed to Make
Explanations to Federal Authorities When He Was Re
quested to Do So—Democratic Friends Issue Statement
Regarding Affair.
JUNEAU, Alaska, April 16.—The
Daily Empire, of Juneau, openly
charges that Governor J. F. A. Storng
is not and never has been a citizen of
the United States. It says that he
was not born in Kentucky as he pro
fesses to have been and that the story
of his having been a major in the
army of a South American country is
mere moonshine. The Empire declares
that he was born in Thorntown, New
Brunswick; that he was educated in
the normal school at Fredrickton, New
Brunswick; that he taught school sev
eral years, and that he conducted a
store at Wickham, New Brunswick,
two or three years.
The Juneau paper says that the
governor’s first wife was a Miss Nes
bitt of Fredrickton, and that they are
the parents of three children, two
daughters and a son.
The two daughters, it is averred,
reside in Fredrickton where the elder,
Janey Strong, teaches school and the
younger, Bessie Strong, cares for her
invalid mother and keeps house for her
sister and herself. The son, Robert
Strong, according to the Empire,
works in lumber camps and is no help
to his mother. .
Failed in Business.
Governor Strong is said to have
failed in busines in 1887 or 1888 ami
to have left for the west. He is de
clared to have been in Butte, Tacoma,
Victoria, B. C., Fairhaven, Wash., and
Seattle.
While in Victoria, it is charged, his
name was on the voters’ list and the
Empire prints what it avers is a fac
smile of a declaration made by Gover
nor Strong in Victoria in which he de
| dares he is a British subject, this
j declaration is said to have been made
| in 1889. Governor Strong, according
j to the Empire, located in Fairhaven
I in 1890.
Affidavits of the person who de
clares he searched the records state
that Governor Strong never declared
| his intention to became a citizen of the
I United States alter 1889.
The Empire prints as proof of its
| articles the statements of a score of
witnesses from Puget Sound and New
Brunswick, including the alleged for
mer wife and brother and neighbors in
j New Brunswick of Governor Strong.
Wife Lives at Fredrickton.
j The Empire says that the former
; wife lives at Fredrickton and that she
recognized photographs of the gover
; nor of Alaska as those of her husband
and that others in New Brunswick
' recognized his photographs.
All New Brunswick relatives and
friends of Governor Strong, says the
Empire, knew he was engaged in
newspaper work at Fairhaven in the
early nineties, and hundreds of Alas
kans and residents of Washington
state know the Fairhaven newspaper
man is governor of Alaska. ,
The Empire alleges that E. E.
: Paine, special agent of the interior de
I partment, checked the information re
! garding the governor and verified the
j testimony.
Paine found many persons in New
! Brunswick who recognized photo
graphs of Governor Strong. It says
that the interior department asked
Governor Strong to answer the
charges and that he completely failed
to meet them.
KENAI COMMISSIONER WAS KILLED
AFTER HE HAD SLAIN ANOTHER MAN
T I? () u B L E s T A R T E I) OVER
SCHOOL ELECTION DISPUTE
AM) JURIST WAS FATALLY j
SHOT BY BYSTANDER WHO
TRIED TO DISARM HIM.
C. A. Magill, United States commis
sioner and school teacher at Kenai,
shot P. Ryan during the course of a
violent quarrel arising over the recent
school election at Kenai and in turn
was shot and killed by Charles Ivoats
when the latter tried to disarm the
commissioner, according to a telegram
received today by Deputy United
States Marshal Clarence W. Mossman
from Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans, of
Seward.
After Magill had shot Ryan, Koats,
a bystander, in endeavoring to disarm
Magill, shot and killed him.
Deputy United States Marshal Wil
liam Harrington is on his way to Ke
nai from Seldovia.
ATTACK ON GOVERNOR CHARACTERIZED
AS OUTRAGEOUS BY HIS FRIENDS
JUNEAU, April 16.—The campaign '
| committee of William Maloney, demo- :
i cratic candidate for the nomination for
j delegate to congress, today issued the
! following statement in regard to the
! charges made by the Juneau Empire
that Governor J. F. A. Strong, who
will soon be succeeded by Thomas
Riggs, Jr., is not a citizen of the
United States and that he has a for
mer wife and three children living in
New Brunswick:
“The outrageous attack of John W.
Troy, editor of the Alaska Daily Em
pire, upon Governor Strong whose po
litical career terminated when his suc
cessor Thomas Riggs, jr., was appoint
ed, does not in any way affect the is- j
sues involved in the candidacy of j
William Maloney for delegate to con
gress.
“We are advised that in 1913 evi- i
dence similar to that which has now
been published was collected with a
view to defeating the original appoint
ment of Governor Strong and most of
the so-called leaders of the democratic
party were at that time familiar with
the alleged facts.
Long Alaskan Residence.
“J. F. A. Strong has lived in Alaska
for twenty years and for the last five
years he has been governor. We have
yet to hear any adverse criticism of
his public and private conduct during
that time. When the duty devolved
upon him of rendering a decision in
the canvassing board case, he knew
that if he did his duty he would be
bitterly attacked and that an attempt
would be made to drive him from of
fice in disgrace, but notwithstanding
this knowledge, he placed his obliga
tion to the public above private con
sideration, and rendered the only just
judgment that could have been given
under the circumstances.
New Leadership Needed.
“If Governor Strong’s citizenship
was honestly questioned, the fact
should have been made known months
ago by a public request for his remov
al. The method of procedure followed
in this, as in many other cases, by the
men who would control the democratic
party in Alaska, fully justifies the
present effort to effect a change of
leadership. The attempt to assassin
ate politically and personally a man
already retired from office, will not,
we believe appeal to the spirit of fair
play inherent in Alaskans. We expect
them to register their protest by vot
ing against the machine candidate,
Charles A. Sulzer, on April 30.
ytlILL REACH
I LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN WILL
CONTINUE FOR PERIOD OF
THREE WEEKS MORE.
| CORDOVA GETS HONOR FLAG.
Women Are Given Credit for Greatly
Aiding Success of Great Financial
Drive Having Brought in Many
Subscriptions.
_
Liberty loan bonds to the amount of
$100,000 will have been subscribed by
; residents in the Anchorage district
before the close of business today, ac
i cording to the statements of those in
charge of the Liberty loan drive here.
During the first week of the sale
which ended Saturday night, bonds to
the value of $98,150 had been purchas
ed by residents in Anchorage and
along the main and branch lines of
the government railroad.
The Liberty loan campaign will j
continue for three weeks from last
Saturday.
Cordova Wins Flag.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 15.
—Cordova, Alaska, today was award
ed an honor flag for having subscribed
her quota to the third liberty loan. She
is the third Alaska city to win an !
honor flag, the other two being An
chorage and Ketchikan.
Two hundred and five honor flags j
have been awarded in the twelfth fed
! eral reserve bank district, and claims
have been submitted for fifty others.
This district, which includes the Pa
; citic coast states and Alaska, leads
all other districts in the number of
honor flags. There is no slowing up
in the twelfth district in its enthus
I
, iastic support of the great war loan.
At the close of the first week. Sat
urday night, of the Liberty loan cam
paign, the twelfth district was mil
lions ahead of its schedule in the mat
ter of subscriptions. San Francisco
so far has subscribed $25,000,000 and
Oregon nearly $20,000,000.
Women have greatly aided in mak
ing the bond sale campaign a success.
They are credited with having brought
in millions of dollars in subscriptions.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
The English language has nearly
three times the number of words of
either the Spanish or French language.
English has the largest vocabulary of
all the languages in its makeup. It is
also the richest of all the languages in
synonyms, which is one of the reasons
why foreigners find learning it so dif
ficult.—Indianapolis News.
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FILED FOR LID
EIGHT FORMAL REQUESTS ARE
MADE IN JANUARY AND FEB
RUARY FOR HOMESTEADS.
THREE OTHERS ARE ALLOWED.
Notice Is Given That On and After
May 2 Entries Will Be Allowed in
Chugach National Forest Reserve.
During the months of January and
February this year, according to the
announcement here today of the land
and industrial department of the
Alaskan Engineering commission,
there were eight applications filed in
the United States land office at Ju
neau for homesteads embracing 917.55
acres of land along the government
railroad. In addition to these filings,
three applications received in previous
months were allowed.
>
.bred Nelson, in February relin
quished his homestead on the north
half of section 8, township 16 north,
range 2 west, Seward meridian, three
miles northeast of Knik.
One homestead on the Matanuska
branch of the government railroad,
relinquished in February, was imme
diately filed upon by two persons.
Locations Are Amended.
Three homestead locations were
amended by the homesteaders relin
quishing portions of their land and
taking other land contiguous to their
original entries.
Two registers’ final certificates were
issued to Charles Ulanky, of Knik,
and George Nylen, of Matanuska.
The United States land office at
Juneau, says an i«*nouncement of ^
the land and industrial department,
has given notice that a plat of town
ship 15 north, range 2 west, Seward
Meridian, will be filed in that office on
May 22, 1918, and that on and after
the second day of May, 1918, the Reg
ister and Receiver will receive, under
the provisions of the circular of May
22, 1914, applications and filings for
lands situated in sections 21 to 29,
and 33 to 36, both inclusive.
Within Forest Reserve.
Applicants are advised that all of
the lands within said township are lo
cated within the limits of the Chugach ,
National forest, and that they are not
subject to entry or filing except un
der the provisions of the forest
homestead law, to-wit: The Act of
June 11, 1906, and under the usual f
listing by the department of agricul
ture prior to entry in this office. Set
tlers who were residents upon any of
said lands prior to January 1, 1906,
and who have continued to reside on
the lands described, may rfiake entry
under the general homestead laws.
Job Printing of Distinction at t he
Times office.
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