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Official Organ Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY 19, 1916
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OBREGON A VERY FAMOUS
MAN'IN THE EYES OF
THIS WRITER |
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Havana, July 17.—Mexico has
an army of 250,000 infantry and
4,000 cavalry, all trained men.
This army has sufficient ammuni
tion. The government has $15,-
000,000 in its treasury. Its leaders
can view with” equanimity any
foreign intervention.
These statements are made by
an English . war correspondent
who went to Mexico City when
hostilities between Mexico and
the United States appeared to be
only a matter of a few hours.
He has ipvestigated the Mexican
situation, has interviewed the
Minister of War, Obregon, bank
ers and business men. In a dis
patch transmitted by this corres
pondent today he reveals that the
Mexican army has now an avia
tion corps commanded by Colonel
Salinas, and that the Mexican ar
my is improving daily.
He quotes General ORlregon as
follows on the recent crisis with
the United States:
“I received orders from the
first chief (Carranza) to make
preparations for the protection of
the border from prowling bandits.
I have taken such necessary steps
as far as possible, and will con
tiif¥e to do so. His order still
istands. 1f the United States does
the sanre the end of all differences
is 11 sight. "
We are adequately armed and
provisioned to L'ump\cl obedience
in a short time from the bandits
and evil wishers of the Govern
ment who are causing the internal
trouble and desire intervention,
They are enemies of Mexico.
“It is untrue that during the
crisis. we invited Villa, Zapata
and other bandits to join us
against the common enemy. An
edict was issued to all Mexicans
to flock to the standard, but that
excluded those who placed them
selves outside the pale of the law.
“I have no doubt we can control
the internal trouble and guaran
tee the safety of foreigners in out
lying places. Mines and other in
dustries can proceed under our
supetrvision. Foreign capital is in
any case insured.
“We have men and money. If
the present standing army is in
sufficient we will increase it to
such an extent that it will be im
possible for brigandage to be
profitable.”
Commenting on the interview
the correspondent says:
“Obregon impressed me. He
talked like Kitchener after we
took Pretoria. He talked like
Kitchener when he only ruled
Africa. Obregon is the strong
Itan of Mexico.”
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THE LEADER ENTERPRISE
TAKES FIRST. TOLL
FROM GA. SOLDIERS
PRIVATE KEY OF AUGUSTA
WAS INSTANTLY KILL
ED BY STROKE -
‘Macon, Ga., July 18.—Camp
Harris had its fatality yesterday
afternoon, shortly past 2 o’clock,
when Private Andrew Key, a sen
try of Company D, First infantry,
was struck and instantly killed by
lightning. Private T. F. Schau
fele, clerk of the machine gun
company of the Second infantry,
was stunned by the same bolt,
which descended while the two
sentinels were talking in front of
the Salvation Army tent. Schau
fele quickly recovered, but more
than an hour’s energetic work
failed to save the life of key.
The tragedy cast a gloom over
the camp and its suddenness was
the theme of conversation among
the soldiers during the afternoon
and evening. The flash of light
ning came from a storm cloud
that had hovered over the camp
and vicinity since noon. It was
preceded and followed by a de
luge of rain. While the results
were more disastrous in the tak
ing of a human life, the storm it
self was not as severe as one or
two others that have swept the
camp.
Privates Key and Schaufele had
been on duty about an hour when
the fatality occurred. The latter,
who comes from Dublin and is a
son of Mrs. W. T. Schaufele, of
that place, was pafrolling a post
on the Second’s regimental street,
just across from and below the
commissary tent. His duty was
to warn all pedestrians away from
the isolation camp of Company
H, where Private George Ford is
suffering from measles.
WILL BE “MARRIEQ TO
~
JOLDIER BY WAL
< L _ Wil
When Private Louis Bausemer
of Company H, First New Jersey
Infantry, was called to border
duty at Douglas, Ariz., his fian
cee, Miss Ethel H. Sergent, was
heart-broken until she found 2
way to overcome the difficuity
and marry the man of her choice.
She is going to be married by
mail; and the wedding contract,
drawn up by her lawyer, is now
speeding southward, where it will
be signed by the lucky goldier and
sent back to Newark. Then Miss
Sergent will be a legal wife. And
when the boys come marching
home, she can marry again in the
regular way.
The signed marriage certificate
is recognized as legal and binding
and takes the place of the mar
riage license as a record for the
registrar of vital statistics.
Old Newspapers for sale at the
Leader-Enterprise Office in large
bundles at one nickel each.
THRICE-A-WEEK
POLICE DYNAMITE HOUSE
AND KILL NEGRO ‘
AND WIFE
Chicago, July 18.—A negro re
ligious fanatic becoming violent
ly insane today shot four persons
to death, wounded three and was
himself killed with his wife after
150 police had dynamited the
house in which he was barricaded.
Hundreds of shots were ex
changed between the crazed slay
er, H. J. Mclntyre, and the police,
who besieged his flat, in a two
story brick structure at 320 North
Irving avenue.
After three charges of dynamite
had been exploded and an at
tempt made to fire the structure
with gasoline, Mclntyre and his
wife, who were armed with pow
erful rifles were killed. The potlice
were held at bay for more than an
hour.
Negro’s Wife Aids
Meclntyre’s wife is supposed to
have assisted him at least to the
extent of re-loading his weapons,
as a cartridge belt was found
around her waist similar to the
one ‘worn by her husband. Her
head was blown off by the explo
sion of dynamite.
The dead:
STUART DEAN, policeman.
MRS.. ' JOSEPHINE OVER
MEYER. .
EDWARD KNOX, negro.
ALFRED MATHEWS, negro.
M. W. McINTYRE, negro, the
crazed man.
MATTIE McINTYRE, wife of
the slayer.
The injured include two police
men and Knox’s wife. X
The explosions blew the rear
porch and part of the kitchen in
to the alley and when the police
were able to enter the building it
was a wreck. They found an ex
planation ef Mclntyre’s deed in-a
note in which he left scrawled in
lead pencil on a soiled piece of
wrapping paper.
Necte That Was Found
“The Almighty God has made
me a prophet until all nations and
also my wife, Hattie Mclntvre,”
ran the note. s
“You shall know that the Lord
has sent me to gather unto the
Lord the remnant of the Adonic
seed.
“The Lord has made me the sa
viour of all Africans of America
and now 1 shall recommend all
that are worthy unto my Heaven
ly Father, the great God of all
creation. The Lord khas given me
a spirit to judge the quick and the
dead.
“I must die in this land that I
may carry my reports to Al
mighty God concerning the land
of the United States.”
Baby Osborne in “Little Sun
shine” at the Grand Friday.—
“Bring the children.”
And Press
GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT
PLANTS ARE COVERED
WITH WATER
Asheville, N. C., July 18.-—ll
deaths; property loss estimated at
$10,000,000; the destruction of
sixty homes; 400 people home
less; twenty-five manufacturing
and industrial plants partially de
stroyed, and the complete paraly
sis of all railroad traffic in and out
of the city, except on the Murphy
division, are the net results of the
disastrous flood which swept the
French Broad valley from sun
rise yesterday until 1 o’clock this
morning.
[Leaving a trail of disaster and
ruin in their wake as they recede,
the waters of the French Broad
and Swannahona rivers are rapid
ly returning to their normal lev
els, and it is stated tonight by
ofiicials gaugers that both rivers
will e inside their banks within
the next twenty-four hours.
)
TEARS OLD, 15 CHARGE
DELUGE OF COMPLAINTS
BEEN RECEIVED BY
CONGRESS
Washington, July 18-—~A flood
of complaints of the conditions
ander which the militiamen cali
ed out for Mexican service are
working has deluged members of
Congress. The agitation threat
ens to precipitate another scan
dal similar to that of the “enbalm
ed beef” scandal of Spanish-Am
erican War days. :
Kvery mail brings letters com
plaining of the quality of food,
shelter and equipment furnished
the citizen soldiery. Many mem
bers of Congress have sought to
secure information as to these
complaints by formal application
to the War f);cpm'tmcnt. Unless
satisfactory explanations are soon
forthcoming, various members
threaten to force an investigation
by a congressional committee.
Some of the complaints declare
that the men on the border are
gating meat that was put in the
tins ten or fifteen years ago. -Oth
ers assert that meat has been is
sued in tins that have been in
storage so long that they have
rusted to pieces.
The House is now awaiting a
reply from Secretary of War Ba
ker to a resolution passed a week
ago demanding information as to
the transportation, food ‘and
equipment of the militia.
Representative Moore, of Penn
sylvania, declares that unless the
War Department’s reply disprov
es the charges he will press his
resolution for an investigation.
FITZGERALD BOYS WILL
REMAIN AT CAMP HAR
RIS UNTIL PROPERLY ‘
EQUIPPED «‘
On ag’'in, l
Oft ag’in,
Finnegan !
The above “rhymelet” s¢ems to
adequately express the state of
affairs at Camp Harris in regard
to the Georgia boys leaving for
the Mexican border. Nobody
appears to know anything definite
about when the boys will entrain
for the boundary line. The Sec
ond regiment will be the first to
leave, and as the litzgerald boys
belong to the First regiment, it
may be some time yet before “our
boys™ will leave for the “front.”
All troops at the mobilization
camp will be well equipped before
they leave, as they would have to
undergo so many unnecessary
discomforts if they were sent to
the border with the presefft in
adequate equipment.
As Del Rio ig thought to be the
destination of the Fitzgerald com
pany, along with other (ivm';';'iui
troops, a. few fac¥s concerning
that town would be of interest
to local people we believe.
Del Rio, on the Rio Grande, is
a comparatively small town, lo
cated some fifty miles northeast
of Eagle Pass, and its population
is composed of about two-thirds
Mexicans and one-third Ameri
cans. A short distance mnorth
west of Del Rio is an old military
reservation, and it is believed this
E\\'ill be "the headquarters of Brig.
| Gen. Walter A. Harris' and * his
'st;afi' of the Georgia brigade. If
this be the case, the headquarters
)'».'vill be amply accommodated and
will be spared much of the trouble
incident to locating in the field.
. Eagle Pass, where the troops
from Maryland are stationed, is
some forty or fifty miles north-
L east of Del Rio. and it is probable
(that the Georgia and Maryland
: ops will ju:“‘ at some I‘;li!i\\‘:l'\'
?‘s':ini. the soldiers from another
i;-i,;n being on the right of the
hovs.
| At Spofford, .f‘.,'!-l south of Fort
Clark, the railroad running from
San Antonio to Del Rio branches
and a line connects the main stem
with [fagle Pass.
$30,000,000 IS DAILY COST
OF WAR IN BRITAIN
London, July 17.—There has
been an enormous increase in the
war expenditure of the British
Government, and, unless imme
diate action is taken by Parlia
ment, the borrowing power of the
government will have been ex
hausted by Thursday.
Reginald McKenna, Chancel
lor, of the Exchequer, stated in
the House of Commons today
that the daily expenditures of the
Government now are $30,000,000.
Mondayv
Wednesday
Friday
VOL. XXI, NO. 87
‘DELAYED JUSTICE TO FAR
| MER, HE TELLS CON
’ GRESS LEADERS 5
Washington, July 17.—1 n the
presence of a dozen Senators and
Representatives, President Wil
son today signed the rural credits
bill, giving to the farmers of the
| country, for the first time, a law
lunder which they caa borrow
|money from the goverament.
i “I can not go through the sim
iple ceremony of signing this
!wilhnut expressing the feeling 1
thave in signing it,” the President
ls;xi«l just before he affixed his
rsignuturc. “It 1s a feeling of pro
|found satisfaction not only, but
qu real gratitude that we have
'complclc(l this piece of legislation
|\‘\'hicll I hope will be immensely
| beneficial to the farmers of the
country.
l “The farmers, it seems to me,
thave occupied hitherto a singular
!Imsitinn of disadvantage. They
thave not had the same freedom to
!g‘ct credit on their real assets that
lothers have had who were in
'manufacturing and cognmercial
'enterprises, and, while they sus
| tained our life, they did not in the
| same degree with some others
[share in the benefit of that life.
| Therefore, this bill, along with
|the very liberal provisions of the
| Federal reserve act, puts them on
an equality with all-others whao
have genuine assets, and makes
ithe great credit of the country
tavailable to them. SR
| “Ome can not rmt feel that this
lis delayed justice to them, and
!czm not but feel that it is a very
igratifying thing to play any part
(in doing this act of justice. I look
1{1'“1'\\':11'(1 to the benefits of - this
lhiH not ‘with extravagant expec
{tations, but with confident exp~--
rtation that it will be of very = le
‘reaching benefit. and, in-idental
lv. it will be of benefit to the in
vesting community, for I can im
dgine no more satisfactory and
solid investments thaa this sys
tem will afford those who have
money to use.”
Chihuahua City, Mexico, July
IB.—Several scattered groups of
Villa followers have eluded the
cordon of government troops
which surrounded them in the
Rio Florido bottoms and have
reassembled at Tanajas and Las
liscobas, on the road to Ojinaga
and are making their way north
with the object of making another
raid on the American border ac
cording to advices sent to Gen.
Jacinto Trevino today.