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(OUIXIVA. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH :!1, 1!M(i.
VILLA BOTH LOVED AND HATED.
Francisco Villa, though a bandit, is admitted to be brave,
and is both feared by his enemies and loved by his followers.
Many believe it was ids ambition to be president of Mexico. In
any event tins Columbus raid saw an end to his reign in Mexi
co, having finally aroused the American troops.
Villa was born a fighter, and is said’ to be absolutely fear
less. The one vice he would not tolerate was drunkenness, and
more than once his firing squad has enforced his demands in
’.his direction, leaving the dead against some wall as an ex
ample. The man was generous to the poor, and whilst a bandit
levied tributes upon the rich ranchers and distributed it
amongst the peons, and therefore never lacked friends. He
seems to be a man of many moods and impulses, both generous
and cruel. It is apparent that he holds life very lightly,.even
ids own, and never hesitated to lead his troops in the hottest
actions.
Sketching what is most interesting about \ ilia rather than
what perhaps is the most veracious, there is the romantic story
of how he turned bandit. Born in 1S(>M, in the little mining
town of Las Nieves, in the state of Durango, he remained there
until the death of his father. Then, as a protector of his
mother and sister, lie became a cowboy in western Chihuahua.
From their parents, who were peons of northern Mexico (some •
accounts sav of a very good family), the children had inherited
Spanish and Indian blood and traits. The story is that when
a regiment of Forfirio Diaz’ soldiers once visited the town,
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elopement without miming**. 'I’ll*'most melodramatic accounts
>av tlml \'i 11;i gn I loped after tin* elopers, caught them ami nr I
rang*<i their nuiriiage. Then lie told his newly acquired!
brother in law t<> -dgu his own death certificate, dig his own
grave and lie beside it. Villa shot the bridegroom and rolled
him into the grave. 1‘resident Diaz, hearing of his officer’s
death, set a price *>n Villa’s head. Whatever the exact truth,
something of this sort occurred.
Villa escaped to the mountains and became a bandit. His
leal name had been Doreteo ( M ango, lint as a bandit lie became
known as Francisco and “I’audio’ \ ilia. He gathered to
gether a number of desperate men of the northern mountain
country, and within a few months his mime was the terror of
Ihc region, lie was Robin Hood incarnate. He and his band
subsisted by robbery and pillage on the Chihuahua mountains.
According to the more generous estimates of \ ilia’s life
at this time his outlawry was rather in the form of guerilla
warfare than actual brigandage, for the purpose of satisfying
his revenge upon tin* dictator, Diaz.. At the outbreak ot the
Madero revolt against Diaz in 1010, Villa, unasked, east his lot
with the Madero forces, and rendered such valuable aid that
Madero was forced to recognize the peon commander. When
Madero sent General Huerto into the north to combat with
Orozco’s rebellion, Villa and Huerta came to a clash. They
were much alike. Kadi contemptuous to the other. Huerta
had Villa arrested and condemned to death by a military court
for insubordination, but Madero’s debt to Villa saved him from
this extreme penalty. He was taken to Mexico City as a prison
er, readily escaped, and pushed his way north again, seeking
refuge across the Texas border.
Villa’s rise to power dates from the day—a little less than
two years ago—when he started across tin* Rio Grande with
two companions, six “borrowed” horses, $7 in money and a 1
meager supply ot beans, coffee and sugar. Less than a year
later he was head of a well-equipped army of nearly 20,000
men, whom he had personally gathered together largely in his
own home region, a war chest of several million dollars, which
In* had accumulated by tin* seizure of rich estates, and' a full
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which lie had seized from the* federal forces. His military tac
1 ics continued to he those of a raider, hut they were eminently
successful. From Juarez in the north to Torreon in the south
lie had control of more than half of Mexico.
And there was doubt abroad that this military genius,
credited with the ambition to become president of Mexico, could'
even read or write. Villa himself is said to have owned that
be learned to write his name while in prison in Mexico City. It
was said he could read slowly, but that an ordinan newspaper
paragraph was about all he could master at one time.
His development, however, is such that his friends today
maintain that Villa’s greatness can in no wise be measured' by
what he was five years ago, or even a year ago. On the other
hand, the anti -Villa estimates declare that it is only the “co
hesive power of loot” which has held Villa’s great army to
gether. He is openly the hater of Spaniards, which politically
is a strong issue with his peon followers.
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Those “friends” of Justice Hughes who would have* him
president-, may not he considered' such good friends after all,
when the comfortable supreme bench is compared with the
anxious seat at the V liite House.
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Great Britain is trying to coerce women to continue one
style of clothing throughout the war, thus conducting herself
as though sin* doesn’t care what happens.
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Carranza is getting his alibi ready.
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