t.A nT?A!OW EVENING OBSERVER
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AMERICAN NEGRO TROOPS GOING TO THE FIGHT AT CAUENTES
Hera rathe negro pf the Tenth United States cavalry, who .under" Colonel W. C." Brown, killed thirty Villistas in the flgfct at Aguas Cal-ientes-
This photog. aph shows them cheering on the way to the fight. Beneath is a company of United States tioopa .in their trenches at Casas
Grande, showing (how they are pie-pared for any attacK that may come from Carranza troops. ,,
! We are menaced on all side. Cim.
KAFFIR BOYS
Leonard Wood.
There ought never to be another
presidential nominating convention,
Woodrow Wilson. , ..
BALAXY
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WILD-EYED SOUTH AMERICAN
LADS WILL SING
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916
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Chautauqua's Music End .Will Have
Unique Number This Year . . ?
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When the 1916 chautuuqua session
is held here in June and July, a dis
tinctly unique feature will be head
lined in the musical department. ' It
is the Kaffir Boy choir.. Concerning
this iitt.r;ict.inn the hooking .hureuu
has written to IW. 0. McMillan, sec-'
the company wonderfully ; high. Hj
says:
The story of Balmer and his won
derful singing Kaffir Boys reuds like
the strangest tale of fiction. 'It is a
story of hardships and sufferings,
and after that, long years of patient
toil on the part of BiJmer, to edu
cate the peopls he had learned to love
and admire. .
Balmer was a young baritone of
great renown. He was known all
,cver England and at one time was
said to be the greatest baritone in
London. But at the height . of his
career, just when he was becoming re
cognized as a great artist, his health
foiled. To recuperate, he went to
South Africa, there to live among the
Kaffirs, the Hottentots and the people
of Masbona. -
After many years of life in this dis
tant, land and many narrow escapes
from death, Balmer gained the con
fidence of the people and began to
leach them to read and write. He
helped them make their laws and to
maintain order and was soon as highly
respected among thsse people as any
king or potentate.
He found the Kaffirs the most in
teresting people of all the South Af
rican peoples. They are a race of
people witn nigner uieais tnan any 01
the otnar blacks 01 tne Aincan ren
jnsula. They ure straight and erect
in build and many of them are very
handsome.
iBalmer found that many of the boys
able voice; only 'lacking the rudiments
' of a musical education. Balmer de
termined to teach some of these young
1 Kaffirs to sing. What he has accom
plished is almost unbelievable, and
when you hear and see these little
Kaffir fellows on the Chautauqua
platform you will marvel at their
beautiful music, their wonderful
grace of action and their smiles you
will remember for many a day.
They sing songs in their own dia
lects but most of the program is rend
ered in English. War songs, songs
of the hunt and the feats of the Kaf
firs are but a few of the long list the
Kaffirs sing. Mr. Balmer sings bass
and the boys sing soprano, tenor, and
alto, thus forming an almost com
pletely balanced choir.
It has required two years to se
cure the Kaffir Boy Choir under con
tract for tha western Chautauquas.
If we should tell you how much money
it has cost to secure them for the peo
ple of the West you would realize how
popular they are and in what constant
demand. At any . rate, .. they , have
cost the managers of the western
Chautauquas a lot of real money.
When you have seen them and heard
them, you too will say it is the great
est attraction ' thnt has ever been
brought to the West under any management.
Talk about the Kaffirs everywhere
you go. Tell everyone about them,
Your friends will thank you many
times for telling them of the merits
of this uniaue organization. Make
this your slogan: "The Kaffirs are
coming to the Chautauqua."
The 1916 Chautauqua Program is
the greatest ever because:
. It will cost thirty per cent more
It is covering a greater range of
activities than ever before.
Practically all attractions are of na
tional or international importance.
It has been enlarged and strength
ened over any previous program.
Every musician is an artist, long
experienced in Chautauqua entertain
ment. New and efficient methods of man
agement have been devised to make
Chautauqua more enjoyable for you.
This is the great year for the
Chautauqua on the Pacific Coast-
Notice Of Sheriff's Sale
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to
all concerned, that under and by virtue
of an execution and order of sale is
sued out of the Circuit Court of the
Rtajj nf (irnrrcm. for the County of
Union, bearing date the 14th day of
April, 1916, in that certain suit inerem
pending wherein Delilah Collvor is
mlnintiff and R. H. Betty and Effie
May Betty are defendants, command
l Knle of the herein
after described -Droperty, and make
thafrmn Vin Slim tit $600.00 !WmCl'
pal, $72.00 interest, $75.00 attorney s
fee, and the costs and disbursements
of this suit, taxed at $16.00, and for
accruing costs.
THEREFORE, on Tuesday, the 16th
day of May, 1916, at 2 o'clock P. M.
at the front door of the Court House
at La Grande, Union County, Oregon
I will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
described lands, described in said de
cree, to-wit: ' ,
mil. iu xtr nt 1ns one and
two, and the north eight feet of Lots
three and four in Block nine, Honan s
Addition to La Uranae. ud wr
ty, Oregon, together with all the right,
title and interest of said defendants,
.R. H. Betty and Effie May Betty in
and to said premises.
Dated at La Grande, Oregon, this
14th day of Am
cm :t TTnim Pmrntv. Oregon.
Daily Observer-April 15, 22, 29 May
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TENTH CAVALRY , ' . ' VVf f " . VJ f
VILLA KII6 QFALL F1ENDQM I k4iWir h-a- li
if,- 1 ?AAJsSr'l
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"Tho Ventilo Back," an ex
elusive feature of
OUTRAGE AGANST SISTER HE
LOVED TO BLAME
His family Sinned Against, His Career
Becomes Bloody Gruesome
Peon farmer boy hoarder of un
known wealth: outlawed bandit soldier
hero; devoted husband, barbarous bit;- .
aroist; just freoJhanded leader cruel :
and vindicative dictator; cool and '
clever (political adveratuiior (ravin :
and Jlnnlt.hiratv min1-mi. ul,.atiril '
statesmen ignorant malefactor.
Such a man is Francisco Villa, "The
Tiger," as seen by his friends and by
his enemies.
Real History Mystery
We in La Grande, far remote from
the scenes of his terrorisms, scarce
ly iippreci'Jte the nature of the brute
man. We hear only of him through
press and magazine. The Observer
has compiled a brief story of his life,-1 . . . - .-, .. . ' , .
tntihtnrv ini.iQD ...n....!... i... : . ... . . plnim 1 0 000 npRnR rowanl. Oncn-
, R D,'mu,, ' ctn.nvt, roo or ieai iroin anyunc wuu wo i - V i j : 1 u u Moving
th mwr. no n- tf nnA ,.nr,,u, . i a ,i i lv ho con-ted nnd married the shop , Mexico,
ent. It follows that only the more jways with tftiem he was generous and
important events of his career can be i onen-handod , a free-giver and a kind
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IN TRENCHES AT GASAS GRAUCES
i i I i in iiWi iii r ii ..mJ
man.
In the foothills of the
mountains
the entire Uncle Sam Army who has
climes,
Really Modern Robin Hood
Rivalling Robin Hood , in the var
ied careor of his life, but lacking the
polish of that famed Old English fi
gure Francisco Villa was a character
albout whom (there has .been more
written, perhaps, than about any oth
er Mexican-of his generation; a' man
wfhoae naimo will go down in history
as that of one of the most picture
sque and widily known, though little
known, mon of intrigueidden Mex- te'SV
' ... , . . , .. visions A pretty senorita, the bello
Valla's personal histoiiy and life f town, was the sales-woman.
have been as much a mooted question 1jn atj you bought our
as nus ueeii uie rigni, anu wrong 01 ds ,, ghe to thc officer, "We
his cause. His bn-Uhi is shrouded in r,;j ti,b Tiirer' would come
the
bloody fights .between Villa' and the
rurales, of time plundering raids of
"The Tiger" on unsuspecting towns,
and they feared him. , '
One night the magistrates and
soldiers announced a dance, and pla,ns
were announced for a royal merry
making. An hour before tho dance started a
powerful, black-mustached man, clad
in the full uniform of an officer,
strode into the small general store ana
doubt place, time ancestry,
Mexico's "man or moon nas been
were afraid
and irob us."
I The officer laughed, then invited
her to dance. They danced through-
claimed as brother of a negro, as a
II ,, . i 1 C 1 i
squaw man, as a imu-ureeo ta . ,v " . ,,. t 4.1,.
MTican-Negro Mood, as half-breed of , l ?&&a&?j
Mexican-Indian Mood, aud as a ful!-?yl;
fledged Mexncan of pure Spanish ex
traction,
The Revernod Alfred Young, a Ne-i
gro minister of (Baltimore, claimed
Villa was his bi other. His hair was
dhiort and "kinky" like that of the
African; his check bones high and
prominent like those of the Indian;
his complexion that of the Mexican;
his temperament that of tlhe Castil
ian. 1 .(-."'"
Durango His Birthplace
Perhaps the most direct line upon
Villa's birth comes from the Mexican
state of Durango, south of Chihuahua.
It was in these mountain footJhills
that Francisco Villa was born in
1876, the son of a peon farmer ac
cording to best reports. While he
was a child his parents moved to the
state of Chihuahua, one scene 01 tne
greatest activities of Villa s life a
state thnt tremibled with lear at his
name, yet whose people benefited by
his generosity. . ,
fwlhile Villa was in his early teens
his parents died and left in his charge
an older sister, a bccutnui, tiarK-
eyed senorita whom Villa loved.
Kenny Lovea mis sister
This very devotion to his sister led
Valla into open conflict with the pow
er then in control of Mexico. Rural
es, the roving armed policemen of
Mexico, were wont to carry away for
the magistrates of the government
tny protty woman who declined their
attentions.
Villa returned home one day from
his plow to find hiis sister gone and in
that imoment of discovery was bom
Mexnco's fury, "Pnncho, The Tiger."
Villa at once attacked the magis
trate of the town. Ho seized his re
volver, mounted a swift horse and,
compelling a priest to ride with him
started in pursuit All day and ell
nlight they irode, and at 4 o'clock one
morning, almost a week later they
caught up with the party.
Made to Marry The Girl
At the point of Villa's revolver the
priest performed the marriage cere
mony, the Magistrate signed his own
death warrant, and in less than five
minutes the magistrate was dead and
Villa rode for the mountains of Chi
huahua, a fugitive from justice.
Thus began She career of the man
who caused more trouble for two
governments than any other one man
in history. He was outlawed, and a
price was placed on his head.
Kindred spirits flocked to has ban
ner, and for eighteen years they de
fied the rurales, raiding, pillaging,
murdering.plundering.
Peons Were Spared
Villa's rifles carried 48 notches,
trordiess obituaries of rurales who
sought to capture him and win the re
ward. But his friends of these days
stoutly assert that never did Villa
Durinp ttie last dMice he chid-
ed her of bar fear for Villa.
"What would you do if Villa, were
to come here now?" he asked,
"I would die of fear," she answered
with a shudder. . .
'I have a secret to tell you," he
said, and whispered in her ear;
"I am Villa." " A
Brazenlv Villa danced tihiroughout
the night with the very rurales who
were seeking him, dead or alive, to
girl.
Then Came Mndero
good fortune came.
Tton
revolted and Villa and his followers,
1,800 strong,, placed themselves under
Madero's command. Many are the
tales that are told of his work in that
irevolution. He came to the front
like a true leader of men strong,
forceful, resourceful, daring. He nev
er sent a soldier where he would not
go himself Always (he was in tho
thick of the fight.
- His powerful 'sorrel chargers Villa
had a passion for sorrel horses al
ways carried him at the hend of tihe
column. ... He captured Juaircz by
strategy seizing a Federal troop
train and all telegraph operators
along the line and entering the town
before the defenders had discovered
his ruse.
Was Cruel to His Wife
From outlaw to general in seven
montta, Villa became the popular
hero with tho rovoluntary class. His
enemies he lined up and shot, fre
quently with his own hand. . Intrigues
worked around Ihim, and caused his
estrangement from' his . wife. . His
cruelty to her was terrifying, it is said
He tortured enomieB until they paid
tribute, end then shared his tribute
witihi the soldiers who worshipped him.
His officers he ruled by fear, his
men by . fellowship, daring ond gen
erosity. With the ascension of Huer
ta and Hie death of Mndoro the old
banditry began again,, nnd Villa was
again an outlaw., He swore death
to Huerta, and was the horo of the
'revolution that swept Huerta out of
FVnllv Promised But Broken
fnrranMl. nominilllv Condor of tllO
Ma.lom revolution, was lost sight of in Villa's
oruiuanb leuuur&iuy . w,a "
And, to Carranza, tCio man he has
fought bitterly for a year, Villa swore
fenlty less than two years ago.
In the spring 01 ami us law;
as August of that year, Villa disa
vowed any 'desire to rule Mexico and
J..U..1. l. .1,1 n.l,ra Vi!d Mfn rt
Carranza, that he would leave Mexico
if Carranza so desired 'rut an sept
ember of that year Inc broke loose
again, and carried on a warfare that
thrived in his native state of Chihua
hua, culmbiating in tho raid of Colum
bus. ' How groat Villa's strength in north
ern Mexico was is a matter of con
jecture. He was feared, worshipped;
hated, loved; villificd. At Chihuahua
city he maintained a beautiful Villa,
where his wife resided. The place
was exquisitely furnished, richly
equipped.
His wife has been reported at San
Francisco, El Pnso, San Diego, Chi
huahua City. Whether it is the same
wife, or different wives, no one seems
to know, as no one knows - the true
history of this many-sided man of
Mexico, Francfeco Villa, ; "Pancho,
The Tiger." ; : '
This war began in secret diplomacy.
It will end in secret conferences by
diplomats. Jane Addams.
I do not pretend to guess exactly
what role religion will play in the fu
ture. Norman Hapgood.
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