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\ Loup Qty Northwestern A LIVE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A LIVE TOWN VOLUME XXXV. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1916 NUMBER 13 TELLS ABOUT MEXICO The following letter which was re ceived recently by W. S. Waite, of Loup City, from a friend and former business associate, regarding the mur der of his brother, William H. Waite, and the disposal of his assassins and (the general condition of affairs in Mexico will undoubtedly be of con siderable interests to the readers of The Northwestern who were ac quainted with the murdered man. “Conditions in the country are worse in some ways than when we left last June, although there is not much fighting going on just now in this part. The financial condition is simply awful, and no prospects of im A mediate settlement. “Am banking on Roosevelt becom (ing our next president, predicted more than two years ago that he would be “it” next, and I hope that ffg I was not mistaken. The U. S. has >" reached a point where she needs a real man at the helm, for there will be some real work for us to do dur ing the next few years unless extra ordinarily good judgment is used, certainly much better than Wilson has demonstrated that he is capable of. With Roosevelt at the head, we would not have had war with Mexico as we are absolutely certain now to have sooner or later, no matter who is elected. The "poor down trodden peon” would have been far better off than he is today. Many thousand lives of Mexicans and Americans would have been saved, and untold millions of dollars worth of property | also saved. With all this mess caused by the meddling and interference of Wilson, he still has the effrontery to state publicly that the U. S. has not interferred in Mexico, and will not. The man evidently believes the aver age American is an idiot, which he would be if he believed such rank falsehood. "I do not remember whether or not I told you that the men we felt cer tain were implicated in the murder of your brother had all been killed. I think that I did, but gave no details, which I now can do. It seems rather remarkable the way they were put out, and in a way confirms my suspi > cions of their having done the other. “The three, Caciano Hernandez, the old mozo of mine, Gomez and Molina had been allied with different gangs, including the regular army, but later were with a gang of rather more pronounced bandits than usual. It seems that Dario Reyes, Dr. Halls man at la Guadalupe, had been com pelled to pay two hundred pesos to the leader of this gang. Dario was a brother-in-law to Cristobal Aguirre, the Tizamar butcher, and these two were, I felt certain, the instigators of the other three in the other and I also think that these were the ones who supplied the money to buy off the judge when we had Caciano in jail. Once they were into it they simply had to get Caciano out of jail or he would have exposed them. “Now to come to the final turn. The leader of this gang heard or suspected that Cristobal and Dario had hired these other three to kill him. He went or sent some men to Cristobal's house asking for him. When Cristo bal came out, they simply accused him of trying to have the leader put out of the way and shot him down. Dario they took prisoner and started for their headquarters, but left him hanging to a limb on the road to Acayuean, some distance out from San Juan. The other two were with a portion of the gang which made its headquarters at Tizamar; these were Caciano and Gomez. They were tied up to a post over night, and during the night a fandango was given be fore them to celebrate the coming event. Next morning a portion of the gang mounted their horses, and drove these two before them along the road to the river. The mounted ones had a good time riding against the vic tims, who, of course had. their hands tied behind them , knocking them down, trampling them with the horses, etc., and when they reached the river threw them in as they were, tied. The other one, Molina, had his head split open with a machete at Rives Station (now called Burro), where the trains used to stop for supper coming down from Cordova. My bookkeeper here saw him there on the station platform and knew who it was. All of this took place within a couple of weeks. The man, who has been on my place all through, is a relative of the leader of the gang, and my bookkeeper was there and at Buenavista all along, so I feel cer tain that the above is about as ac curate as anything one can get in the way of information in Mexico these days. To tell you the truth, I am glad, on my own account, as tvell as your brother’s, that they have met their ends. If I had ever come within their reach they would probably have made SPRING MILLINERY EASTER HATS See our splendid display of spring millinery for Easter. It is a marvelous collection of the new 1916 creations, embracing the very latest designs from home and abroad. Every age and every taste and desire can be easily and quickly satisfied here, and the prices this season are very attractive. 1916 is a Year of New Styles We have them here—the latest, the best, the most striking and pleasing of all styles. The modest and tasty designs for aged ladies, the fashionable creations for the dashing devotees of styles, or the practical hat for street wear and for children, every thing is provided for in this collection. The Leading Millinery Store MRS. R. N. PRICHARD I UMITED YVE ST AM D. .BY BART. an attempt to get even with me. These are rather sordid details to put into a letter, but I felt that you would be interested to know how this came about and was carried out, and why it only served to confirm my previous suspicions of them. So far as the sordidjness is concerned, it is nothing to us down here. We are so ac customed to such things and even wrorse, that we expect almost any thing. “A very large percentage of the “patriots” so called, of this country are of the above class, some a little better, some a little worse, and a small percentage of comparatively do cent men. But these last are weak in the upper story or they would not be in the gang; weak or crooked and out for what they can steal quietly. You can see why the blood of all we Americans and other foreigners and educated, decent Mexicans boils when we think of Wilson’s so-called Mexican policy which has made all this possible. As soon as the U. S. puts this country in order, we can expect to be able-to do something with our prop erties, but not before, within any re asonable length of time. “During fights some time ago, prac tically all of Achotal and Juanita were burned, including the stations, and now the government is attempting to clean up and is'reconcentrating the people in the towns, and has burned all of Tizamar, los Quemados, Aguaca tillo, and several other villages. The people’s houses on my place were burned, and all of the wire stolen from that little place of mine beyond Tizamar. Ramon Diaz got permission for my man to remain on El Pro greso, also for about a half dozen of the Tizamar families to go there. “Have written him to see if he can i get a family or two to go onto your place, and hope that in this way we' can hold things from going back too much, until we can do something. 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ERWIN Trombone Soloist at Tabernacle Meet ings, Beginning March 19. have a fine plan for working the places, if we ever get the chance. “In my above reference to the “pat riots,”! failed to mention that it is only a very small percentage of the total population which has taken part in all this “muss”, but they have gained the upper hand the decent ele ment is'unarmed, disorganised and scared. The Mexicans are not really a fighting people nor a trouble seek ing people. The country is cursed with a lot of unprincipalled dema gogues and such an immense amount of ignorance that they find easy traveling. The common people have such a wonderful knack of believing the wrong fellow and consequently ar riving at wrong conclusions. It is a shame to think of all the trouble they have been led into by these agitators. The agitator can of course promise them anything and everything, just as Madero and Carranza and all the rest have been doing. An honest man can’t offer so much, consequently in their ignorance they follow the wrong man.” * THE CHURCHES. St. Josephat’s Catholic Church. Every Saturday evening at 7:30 Rosary devotion. Services on Sundays as follows: Morning service at 10:30, Mass, and the usual Polish sermon, except the ast Sunday of each month, when the English sermon is given instead of hd Polish. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend all our services, and es pecially the English services. VIEWS OF ROAD BOSS Loup City, Neb., March 11.—Editor of the Northwestern: In your paper of March 2nd, was an article on peo ple and the road problem, which I think was pretty good and seemed to have been written solely with the view of making better roads, which we surely need in this county, and which will take a long time and lots of money to make them good. In the first place, for making good roads we should not be afraid to offer all possible assistance w£ can to the official wliq has that part of the county business to look after. While it is true that we pay taxes for the making and maintenance of roads, it is the duty of every citizen to do his part to help boost the work along. In the meantime we will have to ad mit that we have not got as good material for making solid roads for all kinds of weather; namely, gravel and small rocks, as some countries have; but, in the absence of this ma terial. we must make the best we can from what we have to work with. Now, when we get our roads graded so we can use the road drag on them after each rain and oftener if necessary to keep them smooth and little ruts filled, the maintain ing of them will be cheap compared with what it costs to make them, as the small grader and drag will be the most necessary tools to use. some people may think that I am a crank on dragging the roads but my experience teaches me that I can give the people more satisfaction and pleasure in riding over such roads than the same amount of money spent in any other way. I have two pieces of road in my district, one on each mail route that have had noth ing done to them since last fall un til the other day I went over them with the drag and found them in good condition with exceptions of little low places where water could not cross the road and so had to settle there. One of these pieces of1 road was dragged four times last summer and the other was graded lightly and dragged five times with two harrowings with a common har row, also. Let us all cooperate and work to gether with one end in view—that of better roads, and please bear in mind the nearer you travel to the center of a road the easier it is to maintain that road with the drag. The time is not very far distant when, in my opinion, a law will be passed making it more compulsory on the road overseer to drag the roads than at present. If anyone is doubtful as to the difference between a road that is dragged and one that is not let him ask the mail man, who travels the road nearly every week day during the year, and it he does not favor dragged roads it would not change my opinion in that respect, as I have pieces of road that cannot be dragged satisfactorily and there is considerable more trouble to keep them in shape, and I will venture to say the parties who travel them are dissatisfied. Hoping these few remarks will be ; a boost for dragging the roads when they need it, and then more drag ging. Yours respectfully C. S. MORRISON, Overseer District No. 12. INJURED BY EXPLOSION. A letter received by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Conger since the dynamite explosion two weeks ago at Maple wood, a superb of St. Louis, Missouri, tells of the narrow escape of Mrs. Conger's sister, Mrs. Richard Jordan and her two children. Mrs. Jordan had been sitting at the window rock ing her year old baby. When it feil asleep she arose and laid it down on the bed and at that instant the explo sion came, blowing in every window in the house and all the pictures from the walls. The letter states that if Mrs. Jordan had not moved when she did probably i.u? baby would have been killed as the in-rusli of glass and window frames were so great; as it was, the baby was cut over the eye and Mrs. Jordan was cut on the arm by flying glass. A little four year old girl was uninjured but badly frightened. When Mr. Jordan arrived from his work done in St. Louis, he was also very much frightened to see houses destroyed and other damage done so near to his home. But they are more than thankful that the injuries were no worse. Not a house within three blocks of the explosion could be oc cupied that night, making over two hundred people homeless. Horses For Sale. Four head of good, young work horses. Inquire of George F. Doug las. Phone 7503. 13-2* Daily sells for less. UltUtttwg ©jmrittg Mrs. Mayhew is expecting a lot of new Pat tern Hats the last or the week. Call Friday and Saturday. A Great Opportunity Spring Suits I still have a few beautiful new spring suits left from the New York consignment of March 1 st, which I will close out on Friday and Saturday of this week and next. Do not lose this op portunity, as the suits will go for from $12.50 to $18.00 and they are worth from $16.50 to $25.00. Call ana see for yourselves. A VIVID WRITER. A splendid war correspondent was lost to the journalistic world when a Larkins. Pa., young man enlisted in the United States marine corps. Shortly after enlistment the Larkins hoy found himself in Haiti -with the marine corps expeditionary force, and. in a letter to Sergeant Frank Stubbe of the local recruiting station, he wrote, concerning the occupation of that Carribean isle by the force of sea soldiers, “a mutinous, riotous seditious and tumultuously violent party of Ca cos barred our way to Haut de Cap. Their heedlessness, rashness, and pre cipitancy led them to attack our party, but they certainly found it a dismal, forlorn, and piteous task, for we dis posed of them with neatness and dis patch.” “Our only loss in that battle was the correspondent’s ‘I", was Sergeant Stubbe’s comment. TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION AND STUDY CENTER WORK. There will be no regular teachers’ examinations heid on March 17th and 18th. On Saturday, April 15th will oc cur a special examination in all sub jects, one day only. Friday’s ques tions will be given on Saturday fore noon and Saturday’s questions will be given on Saturday afternoon. Study Center Work. The next meeting for study center work will be held on Saturday, April Sth. Prof. Martin of our State Normal will talk from 12:15 to 2:00 P. M. In his talks Mr. Martin discusses vital questions in reguard to training and teaching children. These talks are for both parents and teachers and cannot fail to stimulate, aid and inspire all. Teacher, you owe it to yourself and to your pupils to attend this meeting. L. H. CURRIER, County Superintendent. Daily sells for less. You Need Not Be A Banker To Wear HIGH ART CLOTHES We have models this spring especially adapted to those conservative gentlemen who, while particular about their dress, do not desire some of the extreme fashions that are popular this current season. The “Diredor” stands foremost among these models as one that will stamp the wearer with prosperity and that luxurious conservatism usually found in the custom tailor’s finest product. IT PAYS TO TRADE WITH GUS LORENTZ