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f; ' BATTLE WITH MEXICANS TWO CAVALRY TROOPS ALMOST ANNIHILATED. m~ : % ! Negro Troopers Decoyed by Mexicans, Surrounded and Fired on Witli Machine Guns. 1 ?? -San Antonio, June 23.?The two < troops of the 1 Oth -cavalry under ; ? ? - * ? Capt. Charles T. t*oya pracucaiiy were wiped out by the attack of < Mexican forces under Gen. Felix Gomez at Carrizal June 21, according to indications given in fragmen- : tary reports received by Gen. Fun- 1 ston from Gen. Pershing tonight. Gen. Pershing's message stated 1 that seven survivors in all, including jKNT . -V those who arrived last night, have 1 reached the main column. All were f? > enlisted men. According to the stories of the survivors, as outlined in Gen. Pershing's > report, a mounted force of Mexicans made a charge from the flank of the i American troops at the conclusion of a parley between Capt. Boyd and Gen. Gomez, at the same time that ( a machine gun opened fire from the ' front as Gen. Gomez reached his 1 lines. 1 Capt. Boyd had ordered his men to 1 mint, as the machine gun open I-?L . ed fire, and the combined effect -of I the'Mexican charge, the machine gun < fire and the rifle fire from the Mexi- ; can garrison of Carrizal, which had almost surrounded the little Ameri- 1 can force under cover of the parley 1 Bought by Gen. Gomez to discuss whether Capt. Boyd should be allow- > I. ed to pass through the town, stam- h peded the horses. < |^No details were made known to 4 Gen. Pershing as to whether the 1 Mexican charge was checked. ( With their mounts gone, caught Without means of escape, ringed about on three sides with the Are of 1 ah overwhelming force, the fate of 1 L the little detachment is believed by i officers here to have been sealed. It 1 is feared that only the most stupen- 1 dons luck, backed by desperate valor, 1 could have extricated Capt. Boyd's men from the trap. * Xhe reports from Mexican forces 1 placed thfe number of killed, includ- < I tog two officers, at from twelve to 1 forty. It is reported that seventeen 1 wOre taken captive into Chihuahua < City. J ancpntftri nprrpntaerp of wound- 1 ?5 ed to those killed in modern warfare < would place the wounded at from ? ^ thirty-five to forty at the lowest esti. mate. The strength of the two \ troops, C and K, is not known here, 8fc"'\ but it is estimated that they could ??';- * not have exceeded 130 meji, allow^ing for those sick and on detached service. With only survivors reported as arriving at the main column, ife the number of those accounted for, at least specifically, is pitifully small. g|^ The report from Gen. Pershing. |||: stated that the stories of the survivIp : ors were confused and did not conB|? form in all details with the report made from the first arrivals from the battlefield. Gen. Pershing reported W there was a scene of wild confusion fe when the Mexicans opened and their |-| cavalry charged. s The stragglers apparently were cut off in an effort- of ?fe v Capt. Boyd to extricate his men . from the jaws of the trap which was ^ closing on his command, or fled be|? fore the outcome of the battle could |?- be learned. B&v Gen. Pershing, according to his report, had received no word from the v two battalions of the 11th cavalry |p;f I which he had sent to rescue the remnants of Capt. Boyd's expedition. He KK stated that he had taken no measures to support the squadrons of the Gen. Funston said tonight that he had received no orders regarding a fe;; report that Gen. Bell had crossed the ||t; border at El Paso and that no confirmation had been received of ru mors of reported bandit raids near 1 Hachita, N. M., and Brownsville. c Woman's Alphabet. c j I will be? i Amiable always. c Beautiful as possible. t Charitable to everybody. t Dutiful to myself. s Earnest in the right thing. a Friendly in disposition. c llpH Generous to all need. ^ v Hopeful in spite of everything. v s ? \ Intelligent, but not pedantic. c Joyful as a bird. Kind even in thought. Long suffering with the stupid. Merry for the sake of others. Kits' _ Necessary to a few. c ^ . . Optimistic though the skies fall. 1 Prudent in my pleasures. i Quixotic rather than hard. p * Readj* to own up. 1 Self-respecting to the right limit. True to my best. I Unselfish short of martyrdom. . 2 VftHonf fm? fho ahaont V l?u V Willing to believe the best. r Xemplary in conduct. Young and fresh in heart. Zealous to make the best of life. HAD ALL KINDS OF TIME. There Was Much Confusion in United States Before 1883. Prior to 12 o'clock noon Sunday, November 19, 1883, the United States was ail in confusion in regard to time. There were 53 separate and distinct standards in use throughout the country. Indianapolis, for in. . ! -l-_ 3 -3 _ TTTt. stance, naa tnree sianaaras. wueu advertising the time of departure of a train it was necessary for the railroad company to explain its standard. Indianapolis standard time was 16 minutes faster than what is now standard Central time, Chicago's standard was 9 minutes faster and Cincinnati's standard was 22 minutes faster. Traveling men anxious to observe punctuality in their engagements formed the habit of changing their watches every time they changed their location. The railroad companies had waited in vain for the government to take some definite action.' On January 13, 1848, the British government adopted a standard time schedule which rectified the trouble in the British islands. At that time an endeavor was made to enlist the cooperation of the United States, but the authorities anticipated an unusual amount of confusion, and the project came to naught. In 1883 the railroads decided to take the initiative. They divided the country into five zones?international, eastern, central, mountain and western or pacific?and decided that they would make their schedules on the basis of these five standards, which were an hour apart. They also talked seriously of changing railroad clock dials to embrace 24 consecutively numbered hours, but at a conference held in March, 1884, after the new time schedule had gone into effect, the innovation was abandoned. But the project reached a point where more than 400 applications for i patent on the new dial were filed at the patent office, thus moving the government to announce that in the fifteenth century a Frenchman had built a clock of this design, consequently the idea was public property. It was decided to make the change all over the country at the same time, and November 19, 1883, was decided on as a convenient date. There were some protests from cities in which the change involved a considerable change in clocks. In Detroit, for instance, it was necessary to make a change of 32 minutes. But the decision was applauded by a large majority. For years it had been the custom of telegraph operators to close their Instruments at three minutes before aoon in order to have the wires clear for the time dispatch from the naval observatory at Washington. This fima wqc nVtnacvn +n malrck fho nhanCO VV u?0 VUVWVU VV JLJ V"V V**Mf*4Q v* and at the appointed hour the Indianapolis telegraphers set their clocks and watches back 16 minutes. On the previous Thursday the Indianapolis jewelers had held a meeting and decided to conform to the new standard, and it was also decided to change the court house clock accordingly. On the Saturday previous to -he change the Indianapolis Journal printed the following editorial paragraph, showing how the change ^as welcomed here and frowned upon in some other cities: "Very wisely the local time in Iniianapolis will change tomorrow at loon to conform to the standard railroad time. To have done otherwise would^have been to involve the city n endless confusion. As a rule, , iverv city has taken steps to harnonize the time so as not to be both- . >red with 'standard' and 'local' time. . Some pig-headed people in Cincinnati jropose to point it out, but if the >eople of that provincial village can . itand it their nonsense need not disurb any one living out in the world, where he comes in contact with, the narch of events." , Fearing legal complications Super- , ntendent of Police Robbins issued orders that the saloons were to ob- , terve the old time, and the street , :ar company refused to conform to , >ublic opinion for some time, incur- ] ing severe criticism. But on Mon- , lay morning the 6 o'clock gun at he arsenal was fired under the new { ime schedule, and on Tuesday the , school clocks were changed. Many ; tppeared torbe confused as to why the ] docks were being tampered with, but < vithin a week the relief from the old . system was apparent, all clocks were changed and life went along as usual. . ?Indianapolis News. ^ On Duty. Young George sat on the top rail )f a fence kicking his heels against a ower rail. Along came young Hen J "Let's go down to the creek and lave a swim," suggested Henry. "Can't," said George. "I've been >ut out here to mind Aunt Sallie's 1 ind Aunt Hattie's children." Henry looked around wonderingly. rhere were no children in sight. "Where are they?" he asked. "Blamed if I know," said George. ?Louisville Courier-Journal. I THE LIFE OF A SHIP. Some Vessels Built Over Century Ago Still Seaworthy. The war has disinterred a plenty of old hulks that we thought had Dassed awav for good?hulks philo sophic, chiefly. Lastly come two old sailing ships, the one built in 1776 and the other in 1786, patched up and put overboard in Denmark to reap the high carrying rates of a submarine age. This feat sounds like robbing the graveyards, and it is unusual enough in the merchant trade. But it is not exactly amazing as ships go, and these hoary old Danish bottoms can undoubtedly give a good account of themselves. It is hard to say just what the record is for long-lived ships. A few years ago the oldest vessel afloat was said to be another Danish vessel, a small sloop named the Constance, laid down in no less distant year than 1723. Next in point of honor stands the Victory. Laid down in 1759, she was not past middle age when Nelson commanded her at Trafalgar in 1805. And she is still afloat at Portsmouth, flying the flag of the commander in chief of the British navy, even if the Changing science of war has made her unwanted in the North sea. A recent Lloyds Register gave one merchantman built in 1819, two in the 20's and twelve between 1830 and 1840. According to American records, we are not so fond of our old ships on this side of the Atlantic. The fate 1? v AT, ? I ua.1 ueariy ueien cue v^uuoinuuvu years ago comes to warships, yachts and merchantmen rather early in life. On the records of the navy department the oldest ships that appear are the Constellation and the Constitution, both laid down in 1797. Next in line is the Portsmouth, built in 1843. The old America, built in 1851 and still as sweet a. craft as ever, can head the list of yachts. On the roster of merchantmen there are plenty of boats from the 60's, a fair showing from the 50's, but almost nothing earlier. The schooner Catherine, of Ellsworth, Me., is set down to 1833, and the schooner Joyce Rebecca was built at New London, Conn., in 1837. There may be older craft off the record, yet still minding the helm as well as ever. For steam vessels, the old Nantasket, of Boston Bay fame, built in 1857, was only lately doing service on the Hudson upder another name.. Of course, these old-time wooden craft have all been repaired and repaired until it is hard to say to just ^ -LI ?1 1 J wnai year mey snuum uc aouiucu. Nobody ever thinks of letting a boat go to pieces like the one-hoss shay. It is usually a change in fashion, in model, that eventually lands a sailing craft on the mud bank to await whatever last trump there is for boats that have done thpir best. Those two old Danish coasters of the eighteenth century will look as obsolete as last year's automobiles when they put out to sea. They are both old enough to have heard the guns of Nelson?one might even remember the work of John Paul Jones. Let us hope it is not their fate to be catapulted into the hereafter on the nose of a Von Tirpitz torpedo. ALL TO GO TO BORDER. Orders Issued to Hasten Mobilization. Many Ready to Move. Washington, June 23.?While the war department was telegraphing orders over the country today bearing a r>all fnr haste in the mnMlizaHnn of the National Guard, congress took vigorous and far-reaching action in the Mexican crisis. The secretary of war cast aside red tape and authorized that all State soldiers he rushed to the border at the earliest possible moment. The house, by a vote of 332 to 2, authorized the president to draft into the service of the United States alt Guardsmen who subscribe to the new oath for that service. The entire army of 100,000 men summoned by President Wilson's call will be placed directly at Gen. Fun3ton's disposal,' and tonight militiamen are straining every nerve to get ready. The resolution adopted in the house declares that an emergency sailing for the use of troops in addition to regulars now exists. In effect the measure gives legislative power of President Wilson's call on State soldiers, and provides for their use in or out of the United States, ft also furnishes new machinery with which to hasten the strengthening of the border guard. The senate probably will pass the resolution tomorrow. How About the Bill? The taxi whirled along, nearly knocking over a public building. Then it swerved again as it passed within i i. __ a _ . i . ^ i. ml. _ cne ace or a policeman s 1001. i ne occupant threw her head out of the window and cried out: "Be careful, driver, this is the first time I have ever ridden in a taxi." "All right, madam," replied the driver, "this is the first time I have ever driven one."?Boston Journal. 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