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' BATTLE WITH MEXICANS
TWO CAVALRY TROOPS ALMOST
ANNIHILATED.
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Negro Troopers Decoyed by Mexicans,
Surrounded and Fired on Witli
Machine Guns.
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-San Antonio, June 23.?The two <
troops of the 1 Oth -cavalry under ;
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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