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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
j IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
v v County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etcliings.
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Ehrhardt, April 4.?Last Saturday
morning when the merchants came
v 1 out to open their stores they found
a reminder that it was the first of
April?"April fool." Signs were
changed, push carts, banana drums,
boxes, fruit stands, old buggies, etc.,
were piled at the front door. It required
the youngsters some time to
do this "April fool's" work Friday
( night but gave them a good laugh
and the guilty parties could easily be
found by the smile they wore Saturday
morning.
. Mrs. L. P. McMillan, of Bamberg,
visited her mother, Mrs. F. G. Lemacks,
last Wednesday.
Mrs. J. M. Smith, of Bamberg, was
a guest at her friend's, Mrs. J. L.
(bopeland's, last Wednesday.
A game of ball is scheduled for
our diamond Thursday afternoon
i with the Carlisle school team. This
game will end the series of the three
games that they were to play; also
will decide the winner of the best
"two out of three," as so far each
has won a game.
?Mr. and Mrs. Willie King, of
Rowesville, passed through town last
Sunday afternoon in their car, en
route home from a visit in Colleton
county. Stopping only a few minutes
with relatives thev Dursued their
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journey.
Mr. T. W. Davis and son, Willie,
m left .Sunday for their post of duty
W with the DuPont Powder company,
at City Point, Va. It is remembered
that they were called home a few
days ago on account of Mrs. Davis
being very ill. They have the service
of a trained nurse.
Mr. Raymond Bolen, of Bamberg,
visited in town Sunday. No trouble
?jufct a little feminine attraction.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Copeland, Mrs.
J. P. Griffin, Mr. Chas. Henery, Dr.
I , J. J. Farrell, Mr. and. Mrs. J. F.
Chassereau, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Dannelly
and Prof. S. C. Paysinger, motored
up to Augusta, Oa., Sunday to
view the ruined city. They announce
that the place looks very bare.
A much needed rain fell Monday
morning. Crops, gardens and ail
vegetables were suffering very much
from the dry, windy weather of the
oast few weeks.
, The following merchants have
agreed to close their stores at 6
o'clock from April 10th to August
18th, except on Saturdays! S. W.
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LUpemuu, o. 1U. iyo.um/nj ^ w.,
hardt Hdw. Co., H. Karesh, 0. E.
[ Kearse, M. Leinwand, J. M. Kirkland
& Co., Chas. Ehrhardt & Son. This
is a good move for the clerks. It will
give them some time for outdoor ex%
. ercise.
St. John's Items.
St. John's, April 3.?Mrs. Lee Hyatt
and little son, of Round, S. C.,
are visiting their mother, Mrs. J. W.
Kinard.
Miss Eva Williams, of Springfield,
who has been teaching the St. John's
school, left for her home last Thursday.
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The school building caught on fiye
Wednesday and was completely destroyed.
The school furniture was
all that was saved. No insurance
was carried. There is some talk of
a new building, which will be erected
on the property that is owned by the
school, which is almost adjoining the
same site.
The farmers of this section are
busy planting corn. A few patches
y of cotton can be seen planted. Think
there will be but few when all are
planted. We are glad to say our farmers
are taking more interest in
grain and feed crops than heretofore.
The chain gang is doing some good
work on the new road from Mount
Pleasant toward M. O. Kinard's
place. It taps the Barnwell and Walterboro
.public road.
Miss Edith Hiers entertained a
large crowd of quilters Saturday.
sue gave mem m return a large turkey,
well prepared?for the writer
was present to see it all and that is
not all. MUTT.
Oak Grove Xews.
Oak Grove, April 3.?We have
been having some nice rain. It will
make everybody get to work on their
farms. All the farmers were wishing
for rain so they could get to
planting.
Miss Sallie Garter has returned
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PASSED BY THE HOUSE. |
Burnett Bill, Goes Through by Vote
of 308 to 87. S
Washington, March 30.?The Burnett
immigration bill, with its literacv
test and Asiatic exclusion provisions
unchanged, passed the house
today, 308 to 87. It now goes to the
senate, wherle favorable action is re
garded as assured.
The literacy test, about which the p
fight against the bill has centred, ^
was sustained, 284 to 107. This provision
brought vetoes of similar immigration
bills by President Cleveland,
Taft and Wilson.
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Representative Burnett, chairman
of the immigration committee, predieted
tonight there was sufficient
strength to repass the bill over another
veto. The president has not a
indicated his purpose to the house 1
V
leaders.
Both record votes on the literacy e
test and on the passage of the bill
were without regard to party lines. c
Majority Leader Kitchin voted for c
the literacy test and for the bill. Mi- s
nority Leader Mann voted against the *
literacy test and then for the bill.
The Humphrey reciprocal exclu- o
sion amendment, aimed at retaliation r
on British Columbia because of its c
exclusion of skilled and unskilled la- \
bor from this and other foreign
countries, was modified today on dis- ^
covery that it operated against Rus- csian
immigration. It was made ap- j
plicable only to a "contiguous" for- a
eien country. Representative Ben
nett, of New York, read to the house .
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a telegram from Louis Marshall, of .
New York, pointing out that the
y
amendment as originally adopted
would exclude Russian Jews, because
Russia has forbidden American Jews
to enter her domain. c
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The literacy test as adopted would K
exclude all aliens over 16, physically ^
capable of reading, who cannot read s
English or some other language, ex- c
cept certain relatives of persons already
in this country and ' certain I
classes of religious refugees. t
Asiatic exclusion provisions speci- s
fically bar Hindus. Pacific coast i
members were satisfied with these *
provisions, who also give legislative
recognition to the existing so-called e
"gentlemen's agreement," with Japan \
for the exclusion of Japanese labor- \
ers. t
The bill extends and strengthens i
laws regarding smuggling and har- t
boring of inadmissible aliens, increases
penalties imposed on steam- ;
ship companies for illegal acts in con- j
nection with immigrant traffic, re- ]
quir'es ship companies to repay passage
expenses tax from four to eight <
dollars, and imposes restrictions de- t
sieriAri to nrevent alien seamen who
leave their ships from remaining in j
this country. t
from a pleasant visit to relatives in *
Colleton county. ^
Mrs. D. E. Fender, of Ehrhardt, *
spent part of last week with her sis- *
ter, Mrs. L. W.v Copeland. i
Miss Treasia Smith spent last 1
Thursday night with Mr. and Mrs. L. t
H. Carter and family. t
Mrs. Rose Hoffman spent last Sun- s
day with her sister, Mrs. George McMillan.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hunter and rj
Miss Lucy Carter, of Bamberg, spent
last Sunday with Mrs. A. W. Rentz.
Miss Lonie Copeland spent last
Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. L. r
H. Carter and family. c
We hear of a wedding bell ring- \
ing in our neighborhood now soon.
Miss Clara Copeland was unable to c
teach her school last Monday and Mr. I
Williams Copeiana tooK ner piace. i
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Clayton t
spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Clayton. f
We are very sorry to hear of Mrs. q
Joe Fender's illness. We hope she a
will be out again soon. s
Mr. Ren Felder dined with Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Carter last Sunday.
Branchville Breezes. S
Branchville, April 1.?Miss Gressett,
of St. George, is the guest of
Mrs. Earl Smoak. o
Mrs. Jones, of Augusta, and Mrs. o
Sollee Byrd, of Savannah, are visitors I
at Mrs. Carrie Byrd's. t
Willie Watson and daughter, Miss v
Alma, of Sellers, attended the wed- a
ding of Miss Nettie Berry and Pratt a
Watson, Tuesday. p
Mrs. Haramon gave a reception on fi
Monday evening in honor of her sis- e
ter Miss Nettie Berry, whose n\ar- a
riage took place on Tuesday morn- c
ing. t
Mrs. Islar and Mrs. Hutto, of Au- fi
gusta and Charleston, were guests of r
Mrs. Carrie Byrd last week. F
Mrs. Dick Williams spent last week t
in Orangeburg with her mother, Mrs. t
Franklin. d
N THE PALMETTO STATE
OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
tate News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraplis About
Men and Happenings.
Many citizens of Lexington whose
roperty was destroyed in the great 1
ire in that town last week are makng
preparations to rebuild at once.
Walter B. Sullivaft, publisher of
he Columbia Record has severed his
onnection with that paper and has
ought* a morning paper in North
Carolina.
The Farmers' Mutual Protection
.ssociation of Sumter, Clarendon and
-<ee counties, has been commissioned (
>y the secretary of State to do a geniral
fire insurance business.
John Ray Fortner, an eight-year>ld
boy of Greenville, died last week
>f lockjaw which developed from a
plinter which the little fellow stuck
n his foot several days ago.
Sally May Hill, a 5-year-old child
f Timmonsville, died Friday of burns
eceived a few days ago when her
Nothing caught fire from grass which
v*as being burned off the garden.
Several hundred head of cattle
vere sold in Greenwood Friday unler
the auspices of the South Caroina
farm demonstration work. The
tverage price was 9 cents a pound.
Francis J. Pelzer, the richest man
n South Carolina, died at his home
n Charleston Friday in the 90th
rear of his age. He owned a string
>f cotton mills in South Carolina.
Practically all of the stock of liluor
which remained in the several
State dispensaries when the business
vas discontinued January 1, has been
K)ld at an average price of 50 per
lent, of the real value.
The jury in the case of W. Grover
lollingsworth, of Abbeville, against
;he Seaboard Air Line railway who
lued for $40,000 damages for alleged
njuries sustained in a wreck, returnid
a verdict for the railroad.
J. O. Smith, an alleged safe crack-'
ir who is believed to be the man
vanted in Greenville in connection
vith the robbery of several safes in
hat city recently has been arrested
n Lynchburg, Va., and brought back
o Greenville.
The Carolina mills, of Greenville,
vhich recently went into bankruptcy
las been reorganized and named the
3oinsett mills, Aug.\W. Smith, of
Spartanburg has been elected presilent
of the mill, the authorized capial
stock of which is $600,000.
L. H. Bringlowe, keeper of the
VIorris Island lighthouse, reported
o the Sixth district headquarters
donday that he discovered ten
vhales varying in length from 15 to
10 feet, cast up on the beach at the
lorth end of Folly's island. This
s an unusual happening as it is
nany years since whales have come
his far south. No information as
o the species of the whales was
ivailable.
TO CHECK RISE IN GASOLINE.
Pwo Measures Are Offered in National
House.
Washington, March 29.?Two
neasures looking to putting a check
>n the rise in the price of 'gasoline
vere offered in congress today.
Amendment to the federal trade
:ommission law was proposed by
lepreeentative Steenerson, of Minlesota.
His bill would require cerain
dealers in petroleum, gasoline,
[erosene and fuel oil to post prices,
ile th'-em with the commission, reluire
them to be just and reasonable
md empower the commission to precribe
just and maximum prices.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.
Supposed to Have Been Playing With
Matches.
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Bennettsville, April 3.?Little Vila
Frazier, the 4-year-old daughter
if Mr. and Mrs. Odell Frazier, of
Florence, was burned to death here
his afternoon. The little girl, who
tras visiting her grandparents, Mr. :
nd Mrs. J. M. Genes, left the house 1
nd went to an outbuilding on the
remises. No one knows how the
ire started, but when it was discovred
by some neighbors it had made :
;reat headway. No one knew the
hild was in the burning building un- i
il the body was discovered in tne ;
ire. She had been playing with
aatches this morning and it is sup-'
iosed that she ignited one of the outbuildings
and that a quantity of i
room straw between her and the
ioor caught on fire. i
BI? BKMAXI) FOR I5ABIKS.
Little Stranger on Doorsteps Much
Sought in Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, April 1.?Babies are
wanted in Spartanburg; this fact has
been brought out very decidedly here
today in the great demand upon
Mayor Floyd for a little girl, one
month old, found early Wednesday
night on the doorstep of a North
Church street home and turned over
to the mayor for care. ine ntue
creature was Sent by the mayor tc
the city hospital, where it remained
during the night in the care of the
nurses, to awake today a most sought
for bit of humanity. The morning
paper announced the finding of the
infant and before 6 o'clock the
mayor's residence telephone began tc
ring and in less than half an hour a
dozen applications from persons wishing
to adopt the child had been received.
Thursday afternoon Mayor Floyc
stated that h,e had given the child tc
Mrs. Hug^i Dillard, of North Churct
street, and that the little one hac
been taken to the Dillard home.
The baby was found on the froni
steps of the home of W. P. Wingo, bj
John Caldwell, assistant city en
gineer, who had gone to Mr. Wingo'<
home to see him on a matter of busi
ness. There is no idea as to th(
identity of the little foundling anc
the mayor says there will be nt
further investigation as to its formei
home.
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SAPP SUCCEEDS DOMIXICK.
Appointed Assistant Attorney Gen
eral by Peeples. '
Columbia, March 30.?Claude N
Sapp, of Lancaster, was this after
noon appointed assistant attorne:
general and instructed to report fo
duty Monday. Announcement of th<
appointment was made by Attorne:
General Peeples. Mr. Sapp succeed;
Mr. F. H. Dominick, of Newberry
who resigned and returned to hi;
home in Newberry two weeks ago.
The new assistant attorney g'enera
is a native of Lancaster, a graduati
of Wofford college and of the law de
partment of the University of Soutl
Carolina, and a former member o
the house of representatives fron
Lancaster county. He is well know]
throughout the State, and it is be
lieved his appointment will meet witl
general satisfaction.
Attorney General Peeples has beei
conducting the office alone since Mi
Dominick's resignation.
LEVER SEED BILL IS PASSED.
Authorize Census Director to Collec
and Publish Statistics.
Washington, March 29.?Th
Lever bill authorizing the census di
rector to collect and publish monthl;
statistics of cotton seed and cottoi
seed products, was passed by th
house late today, after an all-day de
bate, and now will go to the senate.
Chairman Helm, of the censu
committee, gave notice that he wouh
call up next week the Helfin bill
directing the bureau to collect am
publish statistics of cotton consume*
in the manufacture of explosives dur
ing 1915 and quarterly thereafter.
In reporting the Lever bill, Repre
sentative Aswell, of Louisiana, sai<
it was drafted after a conference
with the census director and that i
would afford an opportunity of mak
ing free application of the law o
supply and demand.
"The census bureau now provide
for collection of statistics from al
the oil mills regarding the quantit:
of cotton seed crushed and linter*
obtained," he said. "This bill, how
ever, provides for amplification o
these statistics and makes manda
tory the publishing of them at stat
ed periods. The additional expens<
probably will be about $10,000, witl
less annually after the first year."
TO TEST ANTI-COMPACT LAW.
This Step Decided On By Committee
Named at Recent Conference.
Columbia, March 30.?Th-e constitutionality
of the anti-compact law
which caused the withdrawal of the
fire insurance companies from Soutl:
Carolina, will be tested before the supreme
court immediately. This action
was decided on at a meeting
here today of the committee of business
men named at the recent Statewide
conference on this subject. The
committee was instructed to emplo\
attorneys to bring the suit testing
Hie* snt arirl tlio nhflirmfl.n \V?S ail
thorized to name county chairmen
who are to call meetings in each
county of business men, farmers and
members of the legislature to consider
the situation.
VILLA'S ARMY DEFEATED
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MOKE THAN THIRTY MEXICANS
WERE KILLED.
Four Americans Injured, None Killed.?Villa
Reported Not in Fight
> Himself.
San Antonio, Texas, March 31.?
Thirty of Villa's soldiers killed, four
American troopers wounded, none
seriously, and more than 450 of the
fugitive band dispersed after a runi
ning fight that extended over ten
| miles, is the summary of the first en'
gagement between forces of the
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| American punitive expedition and
Francisco Villa.
Col. George O. Dodd surprised 500
L of Villa's men at Guerrero March 29,
and with a smaller force, comprising
detachments of the 7th and 10th cavj
airy, began the attack that ended five
hours later, when the Villa force had
) been chased into th:e hills northeast
^ of Guerrero and broken into small
bands.
Gen. Eliseo Hernandez was among
the Villa followers killed. A man
named Lopez, who was wounded, is
believed to be Pablo Lopez, who com3
manded the bandits that killed nearlv
a score of Americans at Santa
" Ysabel and who erroneously was reported
killed in the fight at Colum*
bus, N. M. The number of Mexicans
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wound-ed was not stated in official
advices.
Pershing's Report.
Gen. Pershing's report reached
Uen. runston toaay. vma was nui
with the defeated force and Col.
Dodd was believed to be forcing his
* cavalry to its utmost to run him
down before he could reconcentrate
y his scattered men. It was reported
to army headquarters here that Vil"
la was wounded; had one of his legs
broken and one of his hips badly
s bruised. The character of his re'
porhed injuries suggested that pers
haps he had been injured in falling
from his horse rather than by a gunshot,
as had been unofficially reported.
Col. Dodd attacked the Mexicans
1 at 6 o'clock, according to Gen. Pershing's
report, but whether in the
1 forenoon or in th?e afternoon was not
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stated. Here it was regarded as
probable that it was in the morning,
1 for the action which followed was a
cross-country chase that could not
1 well have been made after dark.
Villa's Whereabouts.
Just where Villa was during the
fight no one here knows, but he was
reliably reported to have been near*
by and prevented from being in the
engagement only by his injuries.
Staff officers here believe there is
e no doubt that Col. Dodd'sv army,
~ strengthened by men sent forward by
i
y Gen. Pershing, have begun a driving
11 hunt for the wounded bandit. It will
e be no surprise now to Gen. Funston
^ and his staff to receive a report at
any time telling of his captur.e. News
s of another battle soon is not expect^
ed, however, as the blow administer'?
ed by Col. . Dodd, it was believed,
* would serve to deter Villa's men from
* sp?eedy reconcentration.
News of the punishment inflicted
upon Villa's men was received with
" manifestations of delight at Gen.
* Funston's headquarters, and an echo
e of the manner in which it was re*
ceived at the war department came
in the form of a message of congratu*
lation to Gen. Funston from Secretary
Walker.
s Divide the Credit.
1 Army men here were disposed to
ir
divide the credit for the action be5
tween Gen. Pershing and Col. Dodd.
~ Gen. Pershing is in charge of all operations
and doubtless directed the
movements that culminated in the
surprise attack, but Col. Dodd's cavalry
aroused the admiration of of1
ficers at headquarters by the splendid
riding they did.
The man hunt now has been norrowed
down to the region immediates
ly west of Chihuahua, along the
Northwestern railway, in the region
about the headwaters of the Santa
- Maria river, in the opinion of many
, army officers here.
Into the part of Mexico, three hundred
miles from the border, Gen.
Pershing has sent various columns
of his punitive force. His use of
one hundred and forty miles of the
Northwestern railroad south of Casus
- Grandes has enabled him to move
* forward mien and supplies to a point
r a short distance north of Guerrero,
; and where a fair trail extends to the
south. Other troops that have been
i moving down the Santa Maria valley
i are in position to reinforce Col. Dodd
I and all detachments could b;e brought
together at any point in that district
without serious impairment of the
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD.
Three East Passenger Trains on New
Jersey Central Hun Together.
Cleveland, March 29.?Federal
and State investigations were begun
today into the wreck on the New
York Central at Amherst, Ohio, early
today, when two sections of the Chicago-Pittsburg
limited came together
in a rear-end collision, killing at
least thirty persons and injuring forty
or more. The Twentieth Century
limited, traveling westward, crashed
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into the wreckage.
The accident, which occurred before
daylight, was one of the most
disastrous in the history of the New
York Central road. The two sections
of the Chicago-Pittsburg limited, No.
86, are said to have been proceeding
eastward at a rapid rate when the
second section crushed into the first.
The Twentieth CJentury limited,
proceeding in an opposite direction
on a parallel track, ploughed into
the debris. The heavy coaches and
engines of No. 86 were toppled over
and tbe tangled steel and woodwork
was piled thirty feet in the air. Two
cars of the Chicago-Pittsburg train 7 ;
were demolished and fourteen were
derailed.
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Tuberculosis is the chief cause of
the condemnation of meat by the
United States inspectors.
Seventy per cent, of the American
people use electricity in some form
every .day.
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lines of communication.
Optimism displayed at Gen. Funston's
headquarters was not overconfidence,
however. It was realized
that Villa, although wounded, remained
to be captured and that the
loss of thirty men was not altogether
a new experience for him. The optimism
was based upon the belief
that at last he was definitely located
and that his wounded condition
would make it more difficult for him ^ ,
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Pershing his congratulations when ,
Gen. Pershing entered Mexico, and
assured him that the job was his to
do in his own way. His way of doing
it has proved satisfactory to his
superior officer so far.
ANOTHER FIGHT WITH VILLA.' f
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Between 30 and 40 Bandits Reported
Slain.
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San Antonio, Texas, April 4.?Surprised
during their siesta, one of the
groups of Villa's forces driven from
Guerrero, was defeated Saturday by
a squadron of the 10th cavalry, under
Col. W. C. Brown, according to
information obtained by Gen. Pershing
and forwarded to Gen. Funston
today. In this, the second engagement,
the American troops have had
with Villa's men, the bandits' losses
were estimated at from thirty to forty
killed. No mention of American
loss was made.
News of the reported engagement,
fought at the village of Aguas Calientes,
twenty-five miles southeast of
Bachinaba, was brought by friendly *
Mexicans to a point near\ -itublo,
where a detachrjrent of the 10th cavalry,
under command of Major Evans,
halted yesterday. At the time Gen.
Pershing sent his dispatch to Gen.
Funston he had not received an official
report from Col. Brown, and
the expeditionary commander pointed
out that reports of the encounter
lacked confirmation. Credence in the
news was ndicated, however, by the
fact that he transmitted it to army
headquarters here.
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Surprised at Noon.
According to the version of the
Mexicans who arrived at Major /
Evans's headquarters, Col. Brown
surprised and attacked the wandering
bandits at noon while they were lying
about the village, many asleep and
all of their horses grazing. , Other
than the number reported killed and
the fact that the American forces
captured a number of horses, Major
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HiVans s iniormanis were wiuiuui uetails
of the encounter.
A previous report from Major
Evans stated that Col. Brown was
pursuing the Villa band through the
town of San Antonio.
There was much interest at headquarters
her^ in the fight, but it was
realized, it was said, that such minor
fights may take place frequently,
their effect being to destroy the
morale of Villa's forces, sap their
strength, and thus indirectly aid in
the effort to capture the outlaw chieftain.
There are known to be other bands
operating in that same part of Mexico
and a part of the American forces
must remain to deal with them while
another part pushes on in the pursuit
of the fugitive chief. '
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