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EG PASO, Texas, June 6.—How a
young West Point cadet, who failed
in mathematics and resigned from
the academy, became a brigadier
general, made a fortune by inventing
the Mills cartridge belt and became
known as "the grand old man of El
Paso," is told in a book just published
by Brigadier General Anson Mills, re
tired, for private circulation as gifts
to his friends throughout the United
States. The book is entitled “My
Story,” and is the memoirs of General
Mills’ long career in the army and in
public life. It will not be offered for
sale and each copy was autographed
by the author.
As a boy the author worked at a
loom when clothing was made by
hand. He applied the knowledge he
! learned tending the crude loom to the
j problem of furnishing the Arterican
i soldier an ammunition carrier which
would be more comfortable and eon
I venient than the old leather cartridge
; box. The Mills belt was finally adopt
ed by the United States army it the
| beginning of the Spanish-Atiterican j
war, was later used by both Boqrs and J
British in South Africa and by many
armies of the world. The American
army uses the Mills belt and iquip
ment, although General Mills retired
from the company manufacturing
these belts in 1905.
The book also furnishes the first
permanent record of El Paso’s early
history when this city was a frentier
! town. General Mills, as the surveyor
who laid out the little border town,
tells how the name of Franklin was
changed by him to El Paso (The Pass)
because of the pass in the mountain
chain near here through which the
j Rio Grande flowed to the gulf. His
experiences in the wild fomtier set-1
tlernent, as told in his memoirs, are
stirring.
The author’s story also Includes
much of the early history of the Civil j
war as it is related to the Southwest.!
After casting the only vote foiled
here against the withdrawal of Texas
from the Union, General Mills was
forced to leave the harder and Was
reinstated with his class and glVei
a commission in the army at the 111
ginning of the civil war. He wl
promoted until he held the rank f
brigadier general at the time of hjjj
retirement..
After the close of the war Generl
Mills was stationed in the West. Tfej
pursuit and capture of old Geronini,
the Apache leader; the Indian figts
of the old West and revolution^'
events in Mexico are related by le
author in a personar way, as he pr
ticipated in many of these stirrflg
events of the frontier days, "
As American commissioner on .he
international boundary commissionlor
adjudicating disputes arising over he
boundary line between Mexico and he
United States; as General Nelson A.
Miles^ companion on a trip thro:gh
Europe and as the personal frieiu of
national and international charucers
in Washington, GeneraT Mills obsered
keenly national and international af
fairs and includes many of his )er
sonal observations in his publisiei
memoirs.
FfiR-RERGHING SHI.
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TOKIO, June 8.—The suicHi' of
Norikichi Oshikawa, president of the
government iron foundary at Yawata,
has resulted in the arrest of more
than one hundred persons, including
prominent officials and business men.
It is stated that seven others
hanged themselves while their con
duct was under examination. The
homes and offices of many railway
and mining company officials have
' been searched. Oshikawa's manage
ment of the iron foundary has been
? investigated by a court and the Japan
Times says it has revealed “one of the
worst scandals tliathas ever occurred
in Japan,” It is alleged that Oshikawa
accepted a gift or 10,000 yen for a
favorable contract granted to a ship
building concern. He formerly was
minister of the department of Agri
culture.
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