The Oregon daily journal., January 21, 1914, Page 3, Image 3

THE: OREGON r DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY .EVENING, JANUARY 21; 1914;
BATTLE OF ITAMPICO
GOOD DEAL OF JOKE,
SAYS NEWS WRITER
Real News Is Bottled Up as
'' Tight as Possible by Mex
ican Authorities.
lit n Miim that a i-nrrexpomleiit In tfm
City nt Mexico flniU opportunity to miiuksIp I
V-opy" or ni.muncrlpt out of t)io country Ml- I
Inn the triif-h a bun I the internment- To be-i
cnatrht In tlilx act would tiring dire and ;
.dimxrroiw -oneju-M, tlje fount of which
would be nrrf-Rt and xitili(n from Mexico. (
In Hip following; article n Mxl' City cor- J
r(H)ii(l.iit tcte mute InxWIo l-fnil of the
Hat Me of Tanipl.-o. and tolli of the attitude i
- ot the Hm-rta ndinliiliHtrulLou towards foreign 1
CrrejiiiliMiiH. I
City of Mexico, Jan. 21. Foreign J
carrr-HponrlentH in; Mexico have been!
threatened with deportation as "pernio-'
ious foreigners" an provided in article',
63 "of the CufiBtitution of the United
States of Mexico, Jf they do not mend i
their ways ami desist from sending out !
false ikwm, as it is alleged they have 1
been doing.- Au a matter of fact, the
foreign ; correspondents now in Mexico
have bern at great pains to secure and
send out the truth, the whole truth
nnd nothing but the truth, and that is
Just whir re the shoe pinches.
It i well understood among the cor
respondents that any news of rebel
successes, of financial near-panic of
tmxinesn depression, of federal losses,
of anything not wholly favorable to
the government, will be denied by the
government, ami, conneriuently, branded
as "false news." So any correspondent
caught sending out such facts is liable
to be adjudged a "pemscious foreigner"
and sent out "f t lie country for the
county's good.
. Correcpondenis Have Two Courses.
The truer the news he sends the
more t:itigorous it Ih considered, unless
it should happen to be favorable to
the government and true the same
time, a combination rather difficult to
obtain from day to day. If the corres
pondents were content to follow the
lead of tin- local newspapers and use
only micli reports of the civil war as
are given out officially in the capital,
all would be welt,' but unfortunately
the. correspondents fire correspondents,
anil not press a cents for the Mexican
government, and their business is to
pet at the truth and t.-ll it to the
world, no matter who approves or dis
. approves.
A striking example of the difference
between-, the-' news as officially pro
vided by the Mexican soverninent and
the real new; that is, the truth is
that of the attack of the Carrancistas
Tampico in December, that was
on
done there and the final withdrawal of
, the rebels. The official reports, for
publication in the pineal press and for
the- use of foreign correspondents, told
in detail how several thousand Car
ranelstas attacked the city from the
1Hh to the 13t'i of December, fought
like demons trying to take it. and fin
ally were repulsed by the well directed
artillery fire 'P the batteries in the
city, assisted by the cannonading from
:the gunboats. It told how the panic
stricken reh. Is skedaddled towards the
north, closely pursued by the federal
.Hvalry and how- when nlahf fell De
cember 13, fully ljsiui rebels lay dead
filing the route of their fjlght.
Great Flock of Buzzards.
One account, seiit out by a gullible
correspondent, stated that "the buz- little Texas Mexican jumped on his
cards whh h Inhabit the .Mexican coast horse and trotted to the station. He
and which for generations have been reached there just as the train was
protect erl ' by law.; floated today over pulling in. He pointed his rifls at the
'the. battlefields in numbers so great engineer and told him to stop,
as to present the . appearance jt- low-; "The engineer stopped and started
lying black clouds;" Which prompted to back the train, but the little rebel
another, correspondent to remark that , wouldn't have that. He made the en
the iow-lving" wus all riijht. but he ' gineer stop the engine and ge out of
drubteo the buzzards andthe btac-k . the cab. By that time all the passett
olouds. for as a matter of fact, it is gers were piling out of the train and
known that the buzzards won't ! getting away as fast they they could
At.,, !vlc!ins nnd vnu can hardlv i
blame them.
General Arzamendi, one of the fed
eral commanders at -Tampico, said
lrfter that the reports placing the num
ber of rebels kiled In the attack at
more than 1 0'lO were not exasperated,
n-i he saw piles of.uO and more rebel
corpses In many places on the battle
field and that at least U.00 were
v oundeil. These statements were made
fof the newspapers and were published I
with big headlines here.
Tell, a Different Story.
From several .American who were
within the rebel liines, during the bat
tle, but who took nopart in the en
gagement, and had no' interest in It ex
cept as spectators, another story is
obtained. These Americans are con- j
nected with various oil companies In j
Tampico and may be considered im
partial witnesses. Their stories were
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.iiiimni immiimwi i.imii ,1 nrmrm iw'inrnni' v' ' fr .Z.m.$-3
Oscar Strauss, correspondent of El Impartial, a daily newspaper of Mexico City, has oeen executed by
the Zapatistas, to whom he was sent for news of the revolution they have maintained in two states
not far from the capital of the country. Strauss was the Becond newspaper man to be shot by
the Zapatistas.
obtained at different times and agreed
wonderfuly well.
According to these men, who were on
the ground and saw all that went on,
not more than 500 Carranelstas were
ensaffed in ttie attack on Tampico from
start to finish. Their losses for the
three days were seven men killed and
43 wounded. The federal losses were
83 killed and 211 wounded.
"T was at one of the oil refineries
in Dona Cecilia on the morning of De
comber 10 when the attack began," said
one of the oil men to the writer. "Two
hundred and fifty cavalrymen rode out
of Tampico that morning and stopped
at the refinery to eat their breakfast.
It was about 9 o'clock, when they were
eating, and they were about half
through breakfast, when two of their
men who had been sent out to watch
for rebels ame back on the dead run,
shouting that the rebels were coming.
The two men never stopped a moment,
but dashed on toward Tampico. In
stantly those 250 cavalrymen were
going for their horses and mounting,
and as fast as they mounted they went
off helter-skelter for Tampico. In less
than two minutes not one was left at
the refinery. -
Little Band of Rebels.
"Fifteen minutes later 20 Carranels
tas, under General Castro, came riding
in. They had their carbines resting
over the pommels of their saddles and
were looking about keenly for federals.
but they were not in any formation.
They simply straggled in. When they
reached the refinery they asked if any
federals were about. We told them
that the federals had gone to Tampico.
So they dismounted and ate their
breakfast, using some of t the food
which the federals had left behind in
their haste to get away.
"While they were eating, they heard
i the whistle of a locomotive and saw a
: train loaded with refugees coming from
La Varra to Tampico. General Castro
called to one of his men, a little fellow
about five feet tall, a dried-up little
Mexican who, I learned later, was
from Texas and told him to go over
tn th station and stop the train. The
satinii was about 500 feet away. The
in every direction. There
nine
federal volunteer guards on that train.
'but they left their rifles and cartridge
j belts and their uniform caps in the
I cars and got away with the passengers
j as fast as they could. The conductor
and other trainmen escaped, too.
j Finally General Castro sent two orf
I three other men over to the station
land they got on the train and made
the engineer run it into the yards.
Then they held him for runner use.
Later on they employed him in helping
to shift cars In the yards and make
up trains.
"When the rebels left Dona Cecilia,
December 13, they took seven locomo
tives, six tank cars of fuel oil, four
tank cars of water, four cars of dyna
mite, three cars of black powder, three
of corn, one of shoes, and a good many
passenger coaches and empty freight
cars. They had picKea up aoout iuuu
peons in Dona Cecilia and the neigh
borhood and made them go out and re
pair the track for 30 kilometers. Then
they brought the men back and turned
! them loose.
Shell Do Little Damage.
"I saw the cannonading from the
artillery and the Mexican gunboats. It
kept up for three days, but in all that
time not one shell landed near enough
to the rebels to do any damage. Several
I t-hclls from the Mexican gunboats fell
in the federal trenches, however, and
i killed and wounded the 'volunters' who
i were lying there, In some instances
i chained together to keep them from
running away.
"The rebels under General Castro
only executed one man. He was Chief
cf Police Alcala of Dona Cecilia. He
had been very active in arresting rebel
sympathizers and so when the rebels
carne they took him and executed him
as a warning to others. General Cas
tro sent that same little dried up
Texas Mexican to take the chief of
police. The little rebel went to the
chief's house and found It locked. The
chief was rolled up in a mattress. The
! little rebel had to beat him over the
head with the handle of a six shooter,
! for the chief made a little resistance,
but he was taken easily enough. That
night he was shot on the plaza.
He Might Come Back.
"When General Castro told me De
cember 13 that he was going away
with his men, I was surprised.
" 'Why, what is the matterr I asked.
You haven't been defeated, have your
" -No.' he said, 'we haven't even nad
a real fight: but we have all we camel
l or. and so we are going away. We
n-.ay come back again before a long j
time and take the City, if we want it; j
, but that depends on orders from. Car- j
I ranza.' : j
t "Two messengers came to General
Castro while the shooting was going
i on. They were sent by Admiral
i Fletcher with a letter. The letter
I quoted a clause from The Hague arbi
tration tribunal agreement that 24
! hours' notice -must be given before a
'city may be bombarded,-according to
civilized warfare. It also Baid that
' there must be neutral ground where
! the non-combatants could gather in
safety, and suggested that the main
plaza of Tampico and a radius of tws
blocks from It be considered such
ground. It further said that foreign
property must be respected and not
fired upon.
Orders Only I"irm.
"General Castro had the letter trans
lated, although he can read English.
Then he answered It, saying that as
the United States did not recognize the
revolution, he did not feel bound by
rules of civilized warfare, and would
use his own judgment what to do. He
added, however, that Carranza had
given instructions to respect foreign
property as much as possible, and that
he would respect those orders."
After a story like the above, told
in plain, direct fashion by an impartial
witness, and backed up by others who
were on the ground, it is pretty hard
to picture that battlefield strewn with
a thousand rebel corpses and with
"low lying black clouds of vultures
hovering over it."
AVERAGE OF NINETY TO
ESCAPE 0. A. C. EXAMS
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis. Or., Jan. 21. The college coun
cil of the Oregon Agricultural college
has passed a regulation ruling that all
students receiving an average of 90
per cent in any course for a semester
may be excused from the final exami
nation in that study. The regulation
was submitted for approval by the
student affairs .committee, of which
Dean George W. ! Pea yy is the head.
Chefs Furnish "Feed."
Hood River, Or., Jan. 21. About 153
members of the -Knights of Pythias
lodge gathered in their hall last night
to observe "H(3me Coming Night" by
the rendition of a literary program ap
propriate to the occasion, concluding
the evening's festivities with a ban
quet arranged by Chef Andrew Kern,
assisted by a committee of local chefs.
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WANTS ENGINEERING
Objects to Removal of Civil
Course From Agricultural
College.
(Special to The Journal.)
Hood River, Or.. Jan. 21. The sev
eral granges of the Hood River valley
were the guests' of the Pine Grove
grange Saturday in an all-day meeting
at which a literary program was given
and a chicken dinner served. Officers
of the local grange were installed at
the gathering.
The subject of a cooperative electric
light and power plant for the valley
was discussed, and a committee of
three members was appointed to confer
with like committees of the other
granges relative to tne matter and au
thorized to take such action as would
be necessary to assist the Farmers' Ir
rigation company in the organization
of the cooperative plant.
The matter of the attempt to re
move the civil engineering course from
the Oregon Agricultural colege was up
for consideration and precipitated a
debate that lasted- for several hours
and culminated In the adoption of the
following resolutions:
"Whereas, Our state board of higher
curricula has been reported by the pub
lic press as favoring the withdrawal
of the course of civil engineering from
the Oregon Agricultural college, and,
"Whereas, We deem it the most
beneficial course to the farmers of
any of the four engineering courses
now being taught in either the Ore
gon Agricultural college or the Uni
versity of Oregon, and,
"Whereas, We deplore this attempt
to cripple our most Important state
educational institution, thereby adding
duplication in a more expensive form
than any previous arrangement, and
causing Just criticism to be placed
upon our state board of higher cur
ricula: therefore be It
"Resolved, That we, the members of
the Pine Grove grange. No. 356, are
opposed to this proposed plan whereby
our Oregon Agricultural college is to
be robbed of one of Its most neces
sary and beneficial departments. And
bo it further
"Resolved, That our secretary be in-
i structed to present a copy of these
resolutions to our state board of high
er curricula and to the public press."
PROSPECTORS NEVER
TOO OLD TO HOPE
Gold Hill, Or.. Jan. 21. Gentle but
persistent rains, with heavy snow in
the hills, have swollen the tributary
i creeks and streams of Rogue river
J and brought into operation r radically
every placer mine in the Gold Hill dis
trict. Since the last of December the
various mines of Sardine, Galla, Foots
creek and the numerous smaller
streams have been continually worked.
The Black Channel, one of the largest
of local placer properties, situated on
Foots creek, is working double shift,
and Superintendent Ben Harrison con
fidently anticipates one of the largest
j cleanups of recent years.
Though sufficient rain has fallen to
keep the creeks at a working mark,
prospectors along the river bars say
that the Rogue must rise still higher
to deposit gold-bearing gravel in quan
tities to pay for the working. The
usual winter influx of aged argonauts,
prospectors of the good, old golden
days of placer mining, is scattered
along the river, with pick and pan,
striving for a grubstake and - still
looking forward to "striking it rich."
KELSO PLANT TAKES
WATER OFF SMELTS
Kelso, Wash., Jan. 21. The big
building erected hero in 1907 by the
Cowlitz Fruitgrowers' association has
been leased for a term of years by
the Northwest Deaquating company,
and at an expense of nearly J 10,000 has
been reconstructed for the evaporation
of smelt. It is now in active opera
tion and several thousand pounds of
the little fish are run through its dry
ers each day. Two shifts are keeping
it busy day and night, and its full ca
pacity of 10 tons per day is expected
to be reached in a short time. The
plant began Its operations on potatoes,
and w-hen the smelt season closes will
continue in that line, and later will
take up the drying of other vegetables
and fruits. It is hoped that this plant
will provide a constant market for the
small farmer and fruitgrower of the
Cowlitz valley.
George W. Jones Dead.
- Pendleton, Or., Jan. 21. George W.
Jones, a well-known McKay creek
farmer, died Monday at his home, eight
miles south of this city, of kidney and
bowel trouble. He was 66 years old
and was the eldest son of the late
Madison Jones, a pioneer resident. Mr,
Jones is survived by a wife, several
children and several brothers and sis
ters. A Use common sense tuy Supertc
coal. ton. Main 154: A-1541. (Adv.)
ROYALTY ALARMED BY
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Promise of New Demonstra
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ening King's Guard,
(United Pns Leased Wire.)
London, Jan. 21. Rumors were cur
rent today that an unprecedented suf
fragette demonstration was being ar
ranged by leaders of the militant group
and inasmuch as threats have be-in
made that a deputation would soon
make an attempt to see King George,
going "prepared for any emergency,"
it was conjectured that his majesty
might be involved.
The royal family was constantly
guarded with more than usual care ana
it was understood that several of the
women most prominently Identified
with the militant suffragette move
ment were under surveillance.
Scotland Yard agents were under
stood to be trying to find evidence in
dicating a conspiracy such as would
warrant them in crippling the proposed
display by arresting its principal back
ers. FORT KLAMATH ALSO
HAS LIQUOR TROUBLES
Salem, Or.. Jan. 21. Governor West I
is in receipt of a letter from the ord---r
of the Women of Woodcraft of Fort ,
Klamath In which it Is stated that th-j j
law prohibiting saloons outside of in- I
corporated towns, except in bona fide
hotels having accommodation for 50 or
more persons, is being violated there.
The governor advised the county offi
cials and requested that they take '
violated.
Banquet at The Dalles.
The Dalles. Or.. Jan. 21. Prepa.e
tions are under way for a fruit grow
er's banquet which Is to be served at
the Masonic Temple tonight. The
banquet is an annual affair, and as a
special feature this year experts from
the Oregon Agricultural college will
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