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HOLMES, MRS. E. W , killed by a shell during the bombardment
of-Mexico City in February, this year.
WARD, FRANK, shot in back by bandits in his home near Yago,
Tepic Territory, April 9, 1913.
HOWARD, JOHN S. H., United States customs inspector, assas
sinated on Mexican soil, near Eagle Pass, Texas, February
10, 1913.
UNIDENTIFIED PRISONER, who was in Deputy Howard's cus-
tody.
SOTO, BABLO, merchant of Naoo, Arizona, killed by stray bullet
during conflict between Federals and rebels on March 24,
1913.
BUSHNELL, L., mounted policeman, killed in Naco, Arizona,
March 24, 1913, by a stray bullet fired by rebels.
HORACE, FRANK, kilDd by bandits in Coalcoman, State of Mich-
eacam, in March, this year.
RUSSELL, HERBERT L., manager of American Vice Consul
McCaughan s ranch near City of Durango, murdered by rebels
September 29, 1912. Consul Theodore C. Hamm cabled a re-
port to the Department of State.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT, policeman of Phoenix, Arizona, killed by
Mexican bandits who crossed the line to attend a celebration
of Mexican Independence Day in Phoenix on September 16,
1912.
PRICE. SCOTT, bystander, killed when bandits Were firing on
Williams.
MATHESON, N., an aged and crippled Mormon, killed while flee
ing from Colonia Morelos, Sonora, on September 16, 1912, when
bandits were looting the town.
M'KINZIE, —, an American resident, executed near Agua
Prieta in September, 1912, becanse the rebels suspected he had
given information to Federal troops.
WAITE, W H., manager of the Esmeraldes plantation, at Ocho-
tal, Vera Cruz, killed in April, 1912, when he refused to pay
money demanded by bandits. He was beheaded.
FOUNTAIN, ALBERT, captured by Orozco, the rebel leader, in
April, 1912, and assassinated. Described to the Department
of State by a United States Consul as “a cold-blooded murder.”
HARVEY, J. D., American Mormon, killed at Colonia Diaz May 3,
1912, by bandits.
STRAUSS, H. L., formerly a correspondent for the New York
Herald, killed!, with 34 other non-combatants when Zapatists
held up a train August 11, 1912, near Cuantla, Morelos.
HERTLING, JOHN, Douglas, Arizona, a German American citizen,
hanged near Nogales by rebels under Orozco in July, 1912.
SCHUBERT, GUIDO, Douglas, Arizona, a friend of Hertling,
hanged at the same time.
STEVENS, JOSHUA, an American settler of Colonial Pacheco,
murdered by rebel soldiers while protecting his two daughters
from assault. Press dispatches described his murder as the
fifth in that American colony.
KANE, THOMAS G., conductor on a Guanajuato railroad, shot)
through head when bandits wrecked a train at Silao and killed
many passengers, on April 10, 1912.
SEFFER, PEHR OLSSON, formerly a professor in the University
of California, killed by rebels on April 29, 1911, together with
three of his servants, near Cuernavaca. ’
CAMP, JOHN, killed near the United States Immigration Station
in El Paso, Texas, May 9, 1911, when the rebels attacked
Juarez.'
FERGUSON, R. H., of San Francisco, a member of Troop F, Third
United States Cavalry, killed by bullet fired over the border.
GARCIA, ANTONIO, killed in El Paso, May 9, 1911, by stray rebel
bullet. ,
TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN, killed May 9, 1911, in El Paso, by
stray bullets fired by Federals and rebels.
CLARKE, DR. R. C„ Taylorsville, Ill., shot dead in Mexico City,
May 27, 1911, by a partisan of General Diaz.
LOCKHART. JOHN R., Scott's City, Mo., mining engineer, killed
by bandits in Durranneo, in November, 1911.
MEREDITH, R. N„ Troy, Ohio, struck by bullet in the Porter Ho
tel during the bombardment in Mexico City in February.
GRIFFITH, MRS. PERCY, legs shot off during bombardment of
Mexico City.
THOMAS, A. E., murdered by bandits while protecting wife and
seven children near Nogales, Sonora, March 10, 1912.
HUNTINGTON, ROBERT, railroad switchman, shot without cause
near Agua Prieta, April 13, 1911.
EDWARDS, J. C„ native of Virginia, shot to death while acc*l
dentally within the rebel lines near Agua Prieta, April 13,1911.
OROWE, EDWARD, killed by Mexicans shooting across United
States border at Douglas, Arizona, April 12, 1911.
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Loot Defenseless Citu
Her* ar« some specific Instances,
details of which arc in the hands of
the official# of ths Department of
State* the accuracy of which have not
been ehallpngedl
Durimy the 24 hour# of officially
sanctioned freedom accorded to ths
rebel troops by General Tomam Ur
bina ofitr the capture of Durango* on
June Iftt hundred* of women and girls
were outragedi, Americans were mill
ing- an American neighbor named
Marsh up by the neck and binding
him hand and foot, four of these sav
ages, in the presence of the dying
Ward and the tortured Marsh, ill-
treated Mrs. Ward. Then, from the
roof of the looted home, an American
flag was torn down, spit upon and
trailed In the dust.
Huerta to Kill Amerioan*.
Through T. D. Edwards, American
Consul in Jus re#, the State Depart
ment wm advised on July 22 of
tlireata to kill all the Americans, In
cluding women and children, In the
Madera settlement In retaliation for
the death of two of the rebel bandits,
Mexican Federal# in the State of
Durango, according to pres advices
on August 15, were shooting ail pris
oners taken, regardless of national
ity, O. V. Seifert, a mining man, was
quoted as authority for this Infor
mation.
From Taiupn o Washington has re
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Frederick Upham Adams Shows
Why ‘Liberty’ in Mexico Must
Be a Farce.
reived an official report that early
this month Matthew Gourd, an Amer
ican farmer, lashed to a tree, was
compelled to witness the most das
tardly outrages upon his two daugh
ters, 17 and 30 years of age, by ban
dits.
Since Francisco I. Madero, Presi
dent of Mexico, was assasMinated aft-,
or he had been deposed from office 1
through betrayal of his trusted aide,
General Vlctoriano Huerta, now the
Provisional President, murder and
pillage* have prevailed from the
Hlo Grande to Guatemala, and the
Washington authorities, through the
Embassy In Mexico City and the
consular officers In the several States,
ha* been fully advised os to these
outrages.
Shot by Stray Bullets.
United States citizens w'ho were on
this side of the border In Texas and
Arizona have been shot down by
stray bullets from the rifles of Fed
eral and rebel troops engaged In con
flict on Mexican soil.
Statistics compiled from consular
reports from Mexico show that the
lives of 20,000 Americans are Im
periled by the southern republic;
that the $1,057,770,000 of American
investments south of the Rio' Grande
have depreciated approximately 50
per cent, and that Americans and
American corporations have suffered
a property loss of $160,000,000.
As far back as April 21 Senator
Mark Smith, of Arizona, presented a
resolution in the United States Sen
ate, calling upon Present Wilson
und Secretary Bryan for this infor
mation:
How many Americans have been
killed in Mexico or wounded or driven
from that country, what damages
Americans have suffered, what claims
have been presented and what action
has been taken by this Government
toward enforcing them, what citizens
have been held for ransom and what
redress has been offered or de
manded ?*’
Resolutions Are Buried.
Senator Smith’s resolution, like
similar ones offered by Senator Poin
dexter. of Washington, and Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania, have been
buried away in the pigeonholes of
the desk of Senator Augustus O. Ba
con, of Georgia, chairman of the Sen-
ate Corymittee on Foreign Relations.
These three United States Senators
have been Ur Id up to the American
t>ublic as “jingo statesmen.”
The Sunday American has repeat
edly requested the State Department
to make public the official advices re
ceived from Mexico. These requests
have been ignored or denied.
Washington dispatches of August 6
gave a detailed account of the report
submitted to Secretary of State Bry
an by M. A. Leach, of San Francisco,
who was in Durango in June, when
that city was sacked and burned and
American citizeua subjected to the
most outrageous indignities. Repre
sentative Julius Kahn, of California,
accompanied Mr. Leach to the State
Department
Leach Describes Atrocities.
Portions of Mr. Leach’s report to
the State Department, as vouchsafed
for by Representative Kahn, follows:
"Living aa I have for the last three
years in the State of Chihuahua and
in Durango, the hotbed of the trou
ble, I have been forced to go through
many trying experiences and to wit
ness many revolting spectacles. The
worst, however, that I have ever seen
was what took place in the city of
Durango after Its capture on June 18
by the forces of Tomas Urbina, Ca-
liztro Contreras, Domingo and Ma
riano Arrieta and Orestes Perada,
numbering in all some 4,200 so-called
Maderistas.
“No sooner had these men entered
the city than they began breaking in
to all the cantinas (saloons), drink
ing such liquor as they found there,
after which the wholesale sacking
and looting of the entire city began.
Not a single store escaped 1 eing com
pletely sacked. The largest store,
‘La Suiza’ (German), the Fabrica De-
Francia and Francla Maritima
(French), and the Durango Clothing
Company (American) were burned
after being sacked, and many others,
entailing property loss of more than
10,000,000 pesos.
Prisoners Turned Loose. •
“All prisoners from jails and the
State penitentiary, some 400 in num
ber, were turned loose and all crim
inal and land records were burned.
Not content with this, all houses were
entered and much loot taken and
damage done. Scores of Mexican
people w’ere shot down ana dragged
through the streets of the city during
the eight days 1 remained there after
the city was captured. (Durango
was captured June 18.)
“Rogers 1’aimer, an Englishman,
25 years of age. employed by the con
struction department. National Rail
ways, was killed because he failed to
open a safe to which he did not have
the combination.
Two Wounded by Bomb.
"Carlos von Brandis, a wealthy
mining man. and L. W. Elder, owner
of a large hacienda, both Americans,
were severely wounded by a bomb
used to force the door of the Mc
Donald Institute, where many of the
foreigners had assembled by pre-
arrangement for their mutual protec
tion.
“All inside, some 150 in number,
w'ere then lined up against the wall
and threatened with execution unless
a certain sum of money was imme
diately raised and all horses, arms
and ammunition were delivered The
foreigners were forced to do as told
to save their lives.
“H. W. Stepp, a civil engineer, an
American, was shot through one leg
because he failed to pay over the sum
of 500 pesos, which he did not have.’’
Men Put to Torture as
Troops Illtreat Women
The greatest difficulty ha* been
experienced in compiling a list of
American women and girls who were
111 treated because of the unwilling
ness of relatives to even allow an of
ficial record to be made of the facts.
A few of the isolated cases follow:
WARD, MRS. FRANK -Attacked by
four rebel soldiers near Yago, on
April 9, w’hlle her husband, who
was shot in the back, wus dying.
GOURD. MISS, 30 years old—Attack
ed by bandits about August 1. after
her father, Matthew' Gourd, an
American farmer residing near
Tampico, had been lashed to a tree.
GOURD, Miss, 11 years old— Treated
In the same manner as her sister.
Scores of t>ther American women,
whose names were withheld in the
news dispatches.
SHAY, MRS.—Horsewhipped by ban
dits in the presence of her hus
band, an American rancher, at their
home near Sunburn, north of Santa
Lucretia, until Mr. Shay paid the
bandits $800.
ROMNEY, MRS. MILES A., wife of
an American fanner—Ill treated by
twelve rebels at her home near Co-
loifia, south of Juarez, on October
3, 1912. She was rescued by Fed
eral troops.
SAQBY, MRS. D, U—Robbed of
clothing and money near Culican on
March 26, 1912, and left to face star
vation in desert while trying to
make her way to the border.
WHATLEY, Mrs. A. H.—Illtreated by
Mexicans near Parral and com
pelled to pay $200, all the money
she had, to prevent children from
being murdered before her eyes,
July 14, 1912.
THREE AMERICAN WOMEN, de
scribed as Mrs. Deniwilero, Mrs.
Jackson and M rs. Bush ness, roughly
handled by rebels at Noviato in
March, 1912.
MACFARLIN, shot through the arm
by bandits.
BENTLEY, S. A., beaten by soldiers
in Juarez jail May 1, 1912, and
strung up by ropes because he was
suspected of being a spy.
RICHARDS, C. W., of El Paso, a com-*
panion of Bentley, met w'ith same
brutal treatment.
BAKER, JOHN, private Twenty-sec
ond Infantry, shot by rebels, Juarez,
May 6, 1912, while patrolling bor
der.
BAGBY, D. L., assaulted and robbed
near Culican while endeavoring to
escape to border with wife and chil
dren. Escaped by payment of $700,
March 26, 1912.
STEVENS, CASS, American miner,
stoned and driven from Culican for
appealing to Governor for protec
tion, March 27, 1912.
SKELTON, “JACK," American miner,
captured and tortured near Culican
for reporting thefts by bandits,
March 27. 1912.
HAMBLETON, JAMES W., attacked
and wounded at Parral after being
compelled to pay $6,000 to save his
life.
RUTHERFORD. FOREST, assistant
superintendent Copper Queen Smel
ter Company, wounded when rebels
shot across border at Douglas, Ariz.,
April. 1911. v
ARMSTRONG, BEN, wounded at
Douglas, April. 1911.
DICKSON, A. R., wounded at Doug
las. April 13. 1911.
LENNON, CARLOS, wounded at
Douglas, April 13. 1911.
COLE. GENEVIEVE, shot in her
home at Douglas by Mexicans, April
13. 1911.
SOUTHERLAND. SIDNEY, reporter
for The Mexican Herald, shot in leg
when General Felix Diaz was bom-
bardipg the city.
LASAN, THOMAS, wounded at the
same time and manner as Souther
land.
GREENFIELD, MRS., struck by shell
during the bombardment.
M’CRESSON, DR. R. H., Lincoln,
Nebr., linger shot off during the ten
days’ battle.
JOHNSON, MARK, Madison. Wis.,
shot through shoulder in Mexico
City battle.
RAMSEY, F. L., Galveston. Texas,
shot by stray bullet during bom
bardment.
BLAND. ALLIS, printer, hit by stray
bullet in Mexico City.
MARSH, , beaten by bandits near
Yago on April 9.
HOPKINS, A. A., Deputy United
States Marshal, shot in knee while
enforcing neutrality laws at Naco,
Ariz.. March 15.
CHARLOT, ROBERT, wounded while
watching battle across the border
from Naco. Ariz., March 24.
PARKS. JOHN, ear cut off by bandit-
VON BRANDIS, CARLOS, mining
engineer, shot at Durango, June 18,
oy rebels.
STEPP, H. W. t shot through leg at
Durango, June 18. by rebels.
GILMORE. SILAS F., struck by three
bullets during the bombardment of
Mexico City in February.
ROBERTS. FRED, wounded during
the bombardment.
ROBERTS, MISS BERTHA daughter
of Fred, wounded during bombard
ment.
UM FLEET. ALLEN A., private Troop
G, Fifth Cavalry, U. S. A., seriously
wounded by a rebel bullet while
patrolinx border at Nogalea, Aria.,
on Mgich I4 m
By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.
All the troubles which now distract
Mexico and which have disgraced her
for the past three years in the eyes
of the world trace their cause to a
revolting lust for graft. The masses
of the Mexican people are as honest
as the average of mankind, but those
whq[ aspire to political or military
rank make slight pretense of disguis
ing the fact that they consider a pub
lic office as an opportunity for public
plunder.
Political and military officials have
stolen from Mexico hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, and have escaped
with their vast peculations to Franoe.
Spain and other foreign countries.
One political favorite of Porflrio Diaz
amassed $100,000,000 or more, and
managed to convert much of it into
gold and send it abroad beford the
aged despot was deposed.
The Mexican army is held intact by
graft. When Madero appealed in vain
to his people he was compelled to fall
back on an army officered by as
despicable a coterie of mercenaries
as ever disgraced a nation. Certain
of these officers betrayed their Coun
try by methods which make the trea
son of Benedict Arnold appear almost
exemplary.
Ruse to Secure Recruits.
President Madero was the com-
mander-in-chief of a standing army
in excess of 60,000 men. Many of the
privates had been recruited from the
jails, and when the Jail supply failed
all sorts of expedients were used to
arrest new victims.
One jefe politico under Diaz in his
latter days was notified by an offi
cial of the army that his district was
short in its quota of enlisted men.
The jefe replied that the peons in his
district absolutely refused to commit
any breach of order warranting their
arrest and a sentence to a term in the
army. He was sternly notified that he
must furnish 100 men within 48 hours
or hand in his resignation.
The jefe politico returned to his
quiet village in deep distress. The
peon inhabitants were so apprehen
sive of arrest that they hardly ven
tured out of doors. The Jefe had an
inspiration.
Peons Throng to Bonfire.
That evening his subordinates col
lected the materials for a huge bon
fire near the plaza- When it wis dark
the pile was lighted. The lire bells
sounded the alarm. Fires are rare
and a great treat to the peons in
towns built mainly of adobe and
other non-combustible materials.
The mounting blaze lit u;> the vil
lage, The church bells increased their
clamor. The unsuspecting peons
rushed to the plaza, danced joyously
about the fire, but their ardor was
checked when the soldiers of the jefe
politico descended on them and ar
rested 120 of their number.
On the following morning a right
eous judge convicted them of the
crime of disorderly Conduct and sen
tenced each and all of them to serve
five years in the regular army.
Soldier's Lot a Little Better.
Once in the army a private can ob
tain release only by desertion or
death. Poor as is the original mate
rial it has been posisble by years of
training to w'hip much of it into
shape, and the lot of the average peon
is better in the army than elsewhere.
This army of 60,000 men was well
equipped .with modern weapons and
all of the military accessories re
quired in waging campaigns against
revolutionary and bandit forces. Tne
officers had had years of experience
under Diaz.
The problem ahead of this army
was to suppress the "revolutionary’
forces under Orozco, Zapata and the
lesser military adventurers and open
brigands. The total armed strength
of all of these forces warn less than
15,000 men. most of them poorly
armed and inad equately financed.
Ten thousand American troops could
have stamped out the last embers of
revolt and brigandage in two months,
and the pick of the same number of
Madero’s army probably could have
accomplished the same results save
for one reason—graft.
Fight Only for Money.
“I have 60.000 men.” Madero said
sadly, “but what do they fight for?
Money. They care not for whom they
fight so long as they are paid."
-This revolting farce had its fitting
elirfiax when Felix Diaz was released
by traitors and began his fight against
Madero in Mexico City. Had the
officers of the army been loyal to
Madero. they could have batterel
down the arsenal and captured and
executed Diaz within 24 hours.
If the United States consents to
keep its hands off Mexico and can
persuade the great foreign powers to
do the same, it wdll be an easv matter
to w'rite the history of Mexico in ad
vance for the next generation. Huerta
will eventually be overthrown by Car
ranza or some other aggressive “rev
olutionist.”
Rebels Will Levy Tribute.
Zapata, Salazar, Salgado, Oritz,
Sanchez, Samano and other unsuc
cessful aspirants for the presidential
chair wifi decline to recognize the new
government, and will continue to oc
cupy their districts and levy tribute
on such foolish Americans, Germans,
English and other foreigners who dare
to remain in the hope of saving the
wrecks of their properties.
Huerta will be permitted to escape
abroad with w’hat he can cash in.
Carranza will try to float a new loai,
and. if successful, most of it will be
absorbed by his army favorites in
their comic opera w arfare against the
old favorite “revolutionists” and such
new candidates as ill make a bid
for popular support.
Lawlessness Will Spread.
The contagion of anarchy wil!
spread to all parts of Central Amer
ica, and the wonderfully rich section
between the Rio Grande and the Pan
ama Canal will be given over to un
restricted lawlessness.
The last guilty American will take
a last lingering look at the ashes of
his criminal Mexican possessions and
return to his native country, which
loves peace so well that it shuts its
eyes and closes its ears to the mur
derous strife across the Texas border.
Just why we should restrain Cuba
from indulging in a similar bent is a
matter I can not fathom, unless it oe
that our advocates of peace at any
price are not afraid of Cuba and are
in deadly terror of Mexico.
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"WELL—AND WHAT OF IT?"
Copyright,1913. Inter national New# Service.
HUERTA SURE
ID FI, JUST
LIKE MADERO
Harrison as Governor of
the Philippines an Unfit
Appointment j
We have waited several days to See if any valid reason or ex-
planation could be given for President Wilson s appointment of
Francis Burton Harrison to be Governor-General of the Philip
pines.
No other foreign post under the government rails for higher
qualities of character and capacity, executive skill and experience
than that of Governor of eight million Filipinos.
What are these simple, saddle-colored souls to think and say
when we offer Mr. Harrison as the American Exhibit A? Where
there should be force we give them weakness. Where there should
be courage we give them timidity. Where there should be intelli
gence we give them mediocrity. Where there should be indepen
dence we give them a hand-picked product of the Tammany ma
chine. Where there should be a man of iniative and sagacity we
give them a merest messenger boy of money.
Who and what is Mr. Harrison? Bom in New York, he grew
up to ask and obtain admission to the bar. More familiar with
drawing rooms than courthouses, he has been eminently the sort of S
lawyer of whom, when they fall ill or leave town, the papers chron
icle the interruption to their social engagements without saying
anything about their practice.
Tammany usually sends to Congress either obedient dummies (
or very rich men. Mr. Harrison has been both.
A young lawyer, without many clients, but excellent cotillion
qualities and tine Virginia family, he married the California heiress,
Miss Crocker, who dowered him with great wealth. He became a
generous campaign contributor.
Tammany loves gold and sent him to Congress. By mere lapse
of time he has become second to Underwood in seniority on the
Ways and Means Committee. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, the
President’s friend, is third. There is talk of sending Underwood to
the Senate, which would make Harrison next in line for the leader
ship of the House. Is President Wilson sending him to the Philip
pines to save the House or to remove one obstacle in Mitchell Palm
er’s path? This would explain the appointment. It would be al
together laughable if it were not altogether lamentable.
President Wilson is supposed not to like Boss Murphy and
Tammany Hall. His Philippine preference for Mr. Harrison in no
wise supports this assumption. Since he took oath as a Represen
tative, Mr. Harrison has been docile to the Murphy order—tame to
the Murphy touch.
When in 1909 the House was in rebellion against the tyranny
of Speaker Cannon, Boss Murphy—for a consideration—came to
the rescue of that threatened .despot. Boss Murphy ‘ ‘ ordered ” Mr. '
Harrison to desert the Democrats and run to the aid and comfort
of the common enemy. Mr. Harrison ran. Thus do bosses vote their
dummies in aid of the criminal Standard Oil or Sugar or Tobacco.
Not poltitcs, but bib business, rules when criminal privilege is to be *
saved.
Mr. Harrison was eagerly willing. He turned traitor at a
Murphy nod, and, abandoning his post as a doorkeeper in the House
of the Lord, raced across to the tents of the ungodly.
Mr. Harrison’s vote against Democratic principles was and is
the only act to lift its head above the dead and desert level of his
House career.
If one except his being barred from the Whito House by the
particular Mr. Taft, that Cannon vote constitutes Mr. Harrison’s
entire Congressional record.
What powers, working through Mr. Wilson, have secured this
senseless promotion of Mr. Harrison? No question in a decade has
so wrung the withers of political Washington. The public wasn’t
clamoring for it. No Philippine interest asked it. Why, then, was
so much weakness required at the head of Filipino affairs.
True, the Philippines are a sugar preserve, just as they’re a fa
vorite hunting ground of tobacco. Also, the robbers, for obvious
causes, prefer the Polled Angus breed of governor. Was it a to
bacco hint or a sugar hunch that has so boosted Mr. Harrison?
As against this come others who declare that the bug beneath
the chip of the Harrison appointment is a bug, not of tariff, but of
social hue. They whisper of blue room, red room reasons, and in
form one that, having in view the gentleman’s feelings, Mr. Har
rison is sent to Manila only to get him out of Washington. ,
To put an end to this conflict of harrowing surmise, Mr. Wil*
son should take mankind into his confidence and give in full his
Filipino reasons for the Harrison hopes within him. A White
House silence at this crisis would be unfair to sugar, tobacco, the
railroads, the Filipinos, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Harrison ,
and society—to say nothing of the public at large.
Satin
Evening
Slippers Si
~ Sc
$3.50 values, $1.95. S£
Mail orders given e
careful attention. SE
Over 600 pairs of fresh, new stock received Saturday.
All sizes and widths.
Beautiful rose Pompon to match color.
Cuban heels, as pictured above, in black, white, pink, 5;
blue and red.
Misses’ low heels in black, white, pink and blue. Jr?
Rich’s Economy Basement