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EPITOME OF THE
WEEK’S EVENTS
Id a Condensed Form ttie Happenings of
Ml Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK’S NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
European War
North, west and northwest of Lutsk
vicious encounters between the Ger
man and Russians are ensuing con
tinually, “so fast they follow.”
In Galicia engagements are of con
stant duration.
In Bukowina the Russians continue
to drive the Austrians west and south
west.
The Russians officially announce
that up to June 15 172,484 prisoners
had been captured from the Germans
and Austrians.
Germany claims success for the Ger
man arms on the north part of the
Russian front in Dvinsk, Smorgon
and Dubatowka sectors.
The Russians have crossed the Ser
eth rivef southwest of Czernowitz and
now occupy the towns of Zadova ana
Stroginetz and Gliboka. News from
Pertograd is to the effect that the
Teutonic army operating in this re
gion has been cut in two.
An element of uncertainty as to the
situation between the Pripet river
and the Galician frontier has arisen,
owing to the divergent reports of the
Russian and German war offices.
Both the Russians and Germans
claim victory southeast of Lokatchi,
south of Kiselin.
The officers and crew of the Amer
ican steamer Seaconent, which went
ashore on the Scroby sands following
an exterior explosion, have reported
at the American consulate in London.
They reaffirmed that the steamer sus
tained her damage as the result of an
explosion from without, but were un
able to say whether a mine or sub
marine was responsible.
Having captured Czernowitz, the
Russians are well on their way from
that city pursuing and driving the
Austrians before them toward the Ser
«th river and the Carpathian moun
tain passes.
The Russians are generally on the
offensive in Galicia and Volhynia.
Mexican News
Mrs. Luz Torres Villa, wife of Fran
cisco Villa, is in the hands of the au
thorities at El Paso, Texas. She is
accompanied by her sister and her
sister’s child, about five years old,
and a German nurse. Mrs. Villa said
she was en rout© to Chihuahua to look
for her husband.
When General Gonzales confirmed
the news of the battle, he immediate
ly placed all the blame on the Ameri
can commander, charging that the
Americans fired the first shot, stating
they were at a courier presenting a
request that the Americans retire.
The Mexican command was con
cealed in ambush, and Gen. Felix Go
mez, who was killed in the encounter,
gave the signal for the Mexicans to
open fire on the Americans.
Seventeen American soldiers are
held prisoners in Chihuahua by Gen
eral Trevino. These are the men
captured at Carrizal.
Geronimo Lerma, a Mexican sus
pected of assaulting with a large knife
Mrs. W. U. Kuykendall, while she
slept, at Brownwood, Texas, was
taken by a posse and immediately
shot to death.
Forty thousand United States sol
diers are already on the border.
The army patroling the internation
al line is prepared to resist any ag
gression the Mexican government
forces may take.
Warships have been rushed to Ma
zatlan and Salina Cruz.
Virtually the entire mobile strength
of the National Guard of all the states
and the District of Columbia was or
dered mustered into the federal serv
ice by President Wilson.
When the National Guard is mus
tered into service, practically one hun
dred thousand men will be added to
the numbor already under arms.
General Funston, commanding the
border forces, will designate the time
and place for movements of Guards
men to the international line as the
occasion shall require.
The state troops, Secretary of War
Baker says, will be used only for bor
der duty, and no additional move into
Mexico is at this time contemplated.
Secretary Daniels of the navy de
partment has ordered additional war
vessels into Mexican waters on both
coasts with instructions to protect the
lives of Americans.
Telegrams calling for the militia
were sent to the governors of all
states except the three whose Guards
men have already been mustered in.
At the war, navy and state depart
ments the press is informed that no
new advices have been received from
the de facto government of Mexico,
but the information that
tensior is increasing steadily.
A l-tal of 1,148 companies will be
mustered into the federal army as a
result of President Wilson’s call, and
each company must contain not less
than 65 men, so the number of men
who will be mustered into the service
cannot be less than 85,000.
Two major generals and twenty-one
brigadier generals will be sent west
to aid General Funston.
The border is in a fever of excite
ment. American and Carranza troops
fought a sanguinary battle on the
Sano Domingo ranch, near the town
of Carrizal. Nearly a score of the
American troops were killed, and the
Mexicans lost more than forty. Seven
teen Americans are reported to have
been captured.
The scene of the first battle of the
impending clash between Mexico and
the United States was just nine miles
southwest of Villa Ahumada, the Mex
ican field headquarters in northern
Chihuahua, and the clash occurred
only a few hours after President Wil
son’s note warning Carranza that the
"gravest consequences” would follow
an attack upon the Americans.
General Gonzales, commanding the
Mexican troops at Juarez, held the
news of the battle in abeyance for
some reason, and it was an American
returning to the border from the In
terior who brought the first news of
the battle Carrizal across the border.
A dispatch from El Paso, Texas.,
states that approximately a thousand
half-starved Mexican peons crossed
the river from Juarez into the United
States seeking work.
A dispatch from Douglas, Ariz., an
nounces that Americans are leaving
Nacozari, Sonoro, Mexico; at least
110 Americans, with a sprinkling of
foreigners, have left.
General Calles, at Nacozari, Sonoro,
has issued a circular calling on all
citizens to respect the rights and safe
ty of foreigners.
The governor of Texas has issued
a manifesto in which he urged abso
lute obedience to laws of the state,
and guarantees protection to any one
who will report the names of Mexi
cans engaged in fomenting trouble.
General Funston has requested the
war department to send him first the
militia of New York, Pennsylvania
and Illinois.
General Funston, it is stated at the
war department in Washington, will
be allowed to pick the National
Guardsmen for service on the border.
Domestic
After being ill only a few hours.
United States Senator Edwin C. Bur
leigh died at his home in Augusta,
Maine. His wife died a month ago
in Washington.
New York bankers are arranging to
extend $100,000,000 credit to the re
public of France, it is authoritatively
reported.
In the maneuvers off Cape Ann the
torpedo boat destroyer McDougal was
damaged and forced to head for the
Boston navy yard for docking and re
pairs.
Washington
A bill for a big government war mu
nitions plant was introduced in the
house, and it will be brought up m
the senate shortly. The measure
leaves the selection of the site to the
president, but stipulates that it must
be chosen with a view to safety from
attack by foreign powers.
The state department is in receipt
of a note from the Greek government
protesting vigorously against inter
ference by the entente allies with the
maritime trade of Greece. The note
asserts that “traditional principles”
have been violated, and that Greece
has so far been unable to obtain any
official explanation.
The American note rejecting Car
ranza’s demand for the withdrawal of
United States troops from Mexico
and rebuking the Carranza govern
ment for the discourteous tone and
temper of its last communication, has
gone forward.
Contempt charges against H. Snow
den Marshall, United States district
attorney at New York, because of his
criticism of a house subcommittee,
were sustained in the house by a
vote of 208 to 85, and the sergeant
at-arms was ordered to take him into
custody and bring him before the
bar of the house.
The government seeks 62,344 horses
and mules for use on the border. Or
ders to advertise in Kansas City pa
pers fer that number have been sent
from Washington.
News from Vera Cruz is to the ef
fect that notwithstanding the alarm
felt there and the fact that American
families went on board a battleship,
perfect order is maintained.
The National Guard of Georgia,
Florida and Tennessee have been or
dered to prepare for mobilization at
Macon, Jacksonville and Nashville, re
spectively.
Recruits are applying for admis
sion in the National Guard at a rapid
rate, and there is every indication
that all the regiments will have their
full quota of men long before all that
want to join have been mustered in.
Official reports received in Wash
ington show that a flame of popular
feeling against the United States is
being kindled throughout Mexico, and
seemingly with the consent of Carran
za, as in many cases the acts are
those of authorized agents.
Sonora military authorities, it is
stated in Tucson, Ariz., have seized
the Southern Pacific of Mexico sys
tem and cut ail telegraph wires at the
border. Eighteen carloads of Mexi
can families have been sent south.
The National Guard of Alabama,
North Carolina and South Carolina
have been ordered to prepare for mob
ilization at Montgomery, Lexington
and Morehead City, respectively.
Having accomplished its object, the
dispersing of Mexican bandits who
raided Texas ranches and attacked a
detachment of the twenty-sixth infan
try east of San Benito, Texas, and up
on promises of the Mexicans at Mata
moras that they would run down and
punish the outlaws, the fourth Ameri
can punitive expedition has with
drawn from Mexico to Brownsville,
Texas.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
STRENGTH OF THE NATIONAL GUARD
States and Territories.
i-Ar?zona 23 433 153 2 - 745 2.931
6 Connecticut h £ o'-n ii 33
7 Delaware 8 33 2 ’i‘ *-8*
£££“£« ° f C ° ,Umbla 32 m 142 2,015 2,157
if IS? i is £ as as
8 « U fp
14-1 c ura 7* 447 m 5,808 6,334
} r
34 Z SS
17 Ktuituckv *>«> *2* 3,6«>5 1,77 b
19—MaJn« ana » | 66 l.m
i I il if if
26—Montana i."" U 36 il 3 ’m7
2S—Nevada (a) i”;”’ 1 - 538
29—New Hatripshhe ji "77 “91 ”j \aL
-1 i f if
34-North Dakota £ 5? „ - 9 4
36— Ohio 95 4 ?o .2 753 8 >»
36—Oklahoma 21 54 ~s i’iioo HSI
38— Pennsylvania 127 665 79> 10057 10SOT
39 Rhode Island 12 §2 '£ ,’SX tyJK
M South Carolina 24 128 152 1516 I'gqo
41-South Dakota 10 61 71 973 mi
* 134 106 3,185 3,381
45—Vermont I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” 12 67 79 756 gf?
48-West Virginia 16 109 lie i't93 I’onS
50—Wyoming 6 29 35 590 625
IS No'i-iiniiidmiliiu'il-NlViSf- ““ “5 55 55 7555
Condition of the National
Guard in the Various
States.
According to the latest war depart
ment records, the condition of the Na
tional Guard is as follows::
Alabama —Medical department, good ;
field artillery, poor; infantry, fair and
good.
Arizona —Medical department, good;
infantry, fair and good.
Arkansas —First Infantry Companies
B, D, F and K, poor; others good or
very good. Second Infantry Compa
nies C and K, poor; others good or
fair.
California Medical department,
good; cavalry, fair; field artillery, very
good; coast artillery, good and fair;
Infantry, fair or poor by company.
Colorado—Medical department, good;
corps of engineers, fair; cavalry, good ;
field artillery, poor; Infantry, good and
poor by companies.
Connecticut Medical department,
very good; cavalry, good and excel
lent; field artillery, very good; coast
artillery, good and very good by com
panies ; Infantry, excellent and very
good.
District of Columbia —Medical de
partment, excellent; signal corps, fair;
infnntry, fair, good and excellent by
companies.
Georgia—Medical department, fair;
infantry, fair and poor by companies;
cavalry, good; field artillery, very
good; coast artillery, good and poor
by companies.
Idaho —Infantry very good and good.
Illinois —Medical department, very
good; engineer corps, fair; cavalry, ex
cellent and very good; field artillery,
very good and good; infantry, very
good and fair by companies; Seventh
and Eighth Infantry, Chicago, excellent
and very good.
Indiana —Medical department, fair;
field artillery, fair; infantry, good and
very good by companies.
lowa —Medical department, fair;
CALL TO ARMS FOR NATION’S DEFENSE
The cull to the militia of all the states was contained in the following state
ment of Secretary of War Baker addressed to the governors of the states:
“Having in view the possibility of further aggression upon the territory
of the United States and the necessity for the proper protection of that fron
tier, the president has thought proper to exercise the authority vested in him
by the Constitution and the laws and call out the organized militia and the
National Guard necessary for that purpose.
“I am in consequence, instructed by the president to call into the service of
the United States through you. the following units of the organized militia
and the National Guard of the state of which the president
directs shall be assembled at the state mobilization point (or at
the place to be designated to you by the commanding general, eastern depart
ment), for muster Into the service of the United States.
"Organizations to be accepted Into the federal service should have the
minimum peace strength now prescribed for organized militia. The maximum
strength at which organizations will be accepted and to which they should be
raised as soon as possible is prescribed in section No. 2, “Tables of Organiza
tion,” United States army.
“In case any regiment, battalion or squadron, now recognized as such,
contains an insufficient number of organizations to enable it to conform to
muster to regulur army organization tables, the organizations necessary to
complete such units may be moved to mobilization camp and there inspected
under orders of the department commander to determine fitness for recognition
as organized by the war department.
"Qircular 19, division ol militia affairs. 1914, prescribes the organizations
desired from each state as part of the local tactical division, and only these
organizations will be accepted into service."
Militia Below Peace Strength.
Records of the division of militia
affairs of the war department show
that the National Guard of the coun
try lacks 22,000 men of the number re
quired to bring it up to its supposed
peace strength of 151.000. It is short
by 186,000 men of Its full war strength
of 315,000.
Of the 12 divisions existing on pa
per, only two. the Sixth New York and
the Seventh Pennsylvania, have a divi
sional headquarters organized.
Total commissioned
and enlisted
Enlisted men
Total commissioned..
Regimental and com
pany officers
Clencral and general
staff officers
field artillery, good; infantry, fair
and very good by companies.
Kansas—Medical department, very
good; field artillery, fair; infantry,
very good and good by companies.
Kentucky Medical department,
fair; Infantry, fair and good to ex
cellent by companies.
Louisiana Medical department,
very good; cavalry, good; field artil
lery, fair; infantry, good, fair and
poor by companies.
Muine —Medical department, fair;
coast artillery corps, fair and good ; in
fantry, good.
Maryland—Medical department, very
good; infantry, very good and fair by
companies.
Massachusetts —Medical department,
excellent; cavalry, very good; field ar
tillery, excellent; coast artillery, good
and very good; infantry, good and
very good by companies.
Michigan Medical department,
poor; engineers’ corps, fair; signal
corps, good; cavalry, good; field artil
lery, poor; infantry, good and very
good.
Minnesota Medical department,
fair; field artillery, very good; in
fantry, good and very good by com
panies.
Mississippi Medical department,
poor; Infantry, fair and poor by
companies.
Missouri —Medical department, good :
cavalry, very good; artillery, excel
lent ; infantry, very good and fair by
companies.
Montana —Medical department very
good; infantry, excellent and good.
Nebraska —Medical department, very
good ; infantry, excellent, good and fair
by companies.
New Hampshire—Medical depart
ment, fair; cavalry, fair; field artil
lery, good; coast artillery, poor; in
fantry, excellent and very good.
New Jersey—Medical department,
very good; cavalry, good; artillery,
very good; infantry, fair to good.
New Mexico —Medical department,
good; artillery, excellent; Infantry,
very good and good.
Or the 36 brigades, on paper, mak
ing up these divisions only 28 have
their headquarters organized. Due to
the troops of many of the brigades
and most of the divisions being from
different states, and the war depart
ment having no regular officers to
spare, there is no one available for
these staffs.
For the 127 regiments of infantry
and cavalry there should be 635 ma
chine guns. At last reports a few
weeks ago there were but 172 in the
possession of the various regiments.
Events Leading to
Mexican Crisis in
Brief Chronology
The following Brief chronology con
stitutes the highlights in the politl
enl history of Mexico, starting with
the Madero revolution against Presi
den Porfirio Diaz, November 13, 1910,
culminating in the present crisis, as
follows:
1910.
NOV. 23—Francisco I. Madero pro
claims himself provisional president,
and two days later Diaz resigns,
sailing with his family for Europe
May 31.
1912.
OCT. IB —Second revolution started un
der General Felix Diaz. Two weeks
later he Is captured by federal
troops and uprising apparently
crushed.
1913.
FEB. 21—Third revolution takes place
and V'ictorlano Huerta proclaimed
provisional president. Gustavo Ma
dero executed.
FEB. 21—Fourth revolution, this time
ngalnst Huerta, started by Carran
za, governor of Coahulla.
OCT., IS—Huerta proclaims himself
dictator and abrogates constitution.
1914.
APRIL 9 —Paymaster and seven sailors
arrested in Tampico by Mexican sol
diers. Though released a few hours
later. Rear Admiral Mayo demanded
an apology, punishment of the Mex
ican officer in charge and a salute
of twenty-one guns. This was the
APRIL 21 —United States marines oc
cupy customhouse at Vera Cruz
and take charge of city.
JUNE 24—Peace protocol signed by
“A B C” mediators at Niagara Falls,
Ontario.
JULY 15 —General Huerta resigns as
provisional president.
AUG. 14 —Carranza, by agreement with
General Obregon and General Itur
bide, named provisional president,
to succeed Francesco Carbajal, who
held office one month after Huerta’s
resignation. ,
NOV. 11 —The outbreak of hostilities
between Carranza and Villa takes
place.
1915.
JAN. 5 to MARCH s—Sporadic fight
ing between Villa and Carranza
forces.
Oct. 19—United States formallly rec
ognizes Carranza de facto govern
ment. Wild jubilation in Mexico
City.
1916.
JAN. I—Villa atrocities against Amer
icans become daily.
JAN. 13 —Fifty Americans massacred
by Villistas near Chihuahua City.
JAN. 15 —Fight between American
troops and Mexican soldiers near
Fort Hancock, fifty-three miles east
of El Paso.
JAN. 17 —Villa orders his troops to
shoot ail Americans on sight.
JAN. 23—Eight Americans hanged by
Villa's orders at Carnejutla, Mexico.
FEB. 18 —Official report made to Sec
retary of State Lansing disclosed
that total American murders in Mex
ico numbered 146 in three years.
MARCH I—Sporadicl—Sporadic raids by Villistas
across border become almost dally.
MARCH 9 —Columbus raid by 1,500
Mexican rebels under Villa. Seven
teen Americans slain.
MARCH 19—American troops under
command of Colonel Dodd enter Mex
ico as vanguard of General Per
shing’s punitive expedition.
FORCES OF UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO NOW IN FIELD
ALONG BORDER.
Douglas 2,500
Columbus 2,500
El Paso 3,500
Rio Grande 1,500
Presidio 1,000
Laredo 10,000
Brownsville 9,000
San Antonio 4,500
Total 34,500
These men are stretched along a
front of 1,800 miles. This makes the
line average 19 men to the mile.
IN MEXICO.
Namiquipa 3,500
Babricora 1,500
San Miguel 500
Madera 500
Galena 1,000
Casas Grandes 3,000
Corralitos 1,500
Ascension 500
Total 12,000
These men are stretched along a
front of 250 miles. This makes the
line average 48 men to the mile.
AGAINST THIS FORCE CARRANZA
HAS.
In Sonora under Calles 12,000
In Chihuahua facing Pershing. .40,000
At other points along border 15,000
Total 67,000
The ordnance department had only 77
available. There were 67 others In
the sea-coast defenses, but they were
needed there.
Transportation is of the utmost Im
portance in any field operation and
this will be particularly true in Mexi
co. Yet the Sixth New York division
is the only one with complete regi
mental and divisional wagon trains.
The Seventh Pennsylvania has com
plete regimental trains but needs 115
wagons to complete the divisional
trains.
PAINS IN SIDE
AND BACK
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One Exception.
‘‘A man who is any kind of a man
should always have convictions to his
credit.”
“But suppose he is state’s attorney
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Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
Signature of
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Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Judging, by Conditions.
“Sin, my dear pupils,” said Deacon
Barnes to his Sunday school class, “Is
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And the bright boy in the class re
marked that that was probably the
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“Yes,” said the deacon, “but it
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FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Bid of These
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clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
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Aiv.
Cautious Definition.
“Pa, what is a figure of speech?"
“H’m! Where’s your mother?”
"She’s gone In next door.”
“Well, then, a figure of speech, my
son, is a woman.”
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Old people who are feeble, and yuunger
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Blox—Do you think Doctor Third
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Knox—Sure. They are just the
same now as he used then.
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Resinol is not an experiment. It is
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The bayonets used at the battle of
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For proud flesh use Hanford's Bal
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Poverty enables a man to save a let
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