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SIXTEEN
EL PASO MORNING TIMES-
SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1911.
Our “Other’
War With
Mexico
When the United States Troops Crossed the Mexican
Frontier Sixty-Six Y^ears Ago—A War by Execu-
tive Order, Without the Consent of Congress, When
a Force of Mexicans Attached Our Troops After
They Had Entered the Territory Claimed by Both
Countries.
i
I* history rep> atirfg Itself*
Back In 1845 the Untied States or-
dered troop* to Texas because of the
Attitude of Mexico.
Notv, alxty-atx year* later, United
•tales troop* ok .In are mobilized near
the Mexican frontier.
dn 1846 the troop* entered territory
that was claimed by both the United
State* and Mexico—entered by execu-
tive order, without the consent of con-
gress. A Mexican fore. attacked
them, and the president at dnoc sent
word to congress that war existed "by i
»ct of Mexico herself," Congress, rec- 1
ognlzlng the fact, then backed up the
executive by exercising It* constitu-
tional right to declare war.
Evidently It is within the power of .
the president as commander-in-chief j
of the army, to bring about a situa-
tion that may compel congress to ac- I
quiesce.
| 1824, Ignorant that he had been ont-
I lawed by the republican government,
i Me was arrested on landing, tried and
I shot to death.
Santa Anna, who began, the revo- 1
lutlon against Iturbide. probably may j |
be set down as the most Insistent
revolutionist of all time, so far as
Mexico is concerned. After over I
throwing Iturbide In 1822 he was lit-
tle heard of until 1*28, when he again
took the field for his former brother 11
In revolt. Guerrero, with the result
that the latter displaced Pedraza at 11
from Delaware and the other from | for the writing of two remarkable President The following year he was
Massachusetts, voted "no.
The war was bitterly opposed by
the anll-slaverly party In New Eng-
land on the ground that It was un-
dertaken to gain more slave terri-
tory. Their attitude found literary
expression in Lowell's Biglow Pa-
pers.” For example:
Thrash away, you'll hev to rattle
on them kittle-drums o'yourti—
’Taint a knowln* kind o’ cattle
That I* ketched with mouldy corn;
Put In stiff, you flfer feller.
Let folks tee how spry you be—-
Guess you'll toot till you are yeller
‘fore you git ahold o' me.
loiter historians generally agree,
however, that this feeling was con-
fined to a small group. A* was In-
dicated hy the promptness with which
congress acted, the war generally
poems, Whittier’s
'Angels of Buena i th,> ehlef factor In the final expulsion
from Mexico of Spanish forces.
In rapid succession he rose against
his twice confederate .Guerrero, and
against that worthy’s successor. Bus
tamante, whose place Santa Anna
handed over to Pedraza, whom he had
once pushed fro£j the presidency.
The next year Santa Anna got the
Vista” is familiar, beginning;
I Speak nil tell us. our Xlmena, look-
ing northward, far away,
; O'er the ramp of the Invaders, o’er
the Mexican array,
Who Is posing? Who is winning? Are
they far. or come they near?
Look abroad and tell us, sister, j _ _T
w hither rolls the storm we hear. ; pecaidency for himself partly by force
,.n th. Mil*, „f Anrnuh.rfl still arms and left his vice president
to administer the affairs of stats.
"Down the hills of Angostura, still
the storm of battle rolls.
Don’t Miss the Event On
APRIL SECOND
Blood Is flowing, men are dying: God J'rhI,e t1*
have mercy on their souls!" hacienda.
Who Is losing? Who Is winning?
“Over hill and over plain.
I see but smoke of cannon clouding
through the mountain rain.”
Still better known are Theodore
O’Hara's fine lines', written after the
new* was received—and Incidentally,
his
An Invasion of Mexican terrllory i Irritation with Mexico and because
Ought again result In war. of the feeling that the United States
But history repeat* itself onljMwhen would tut lt:< desired territory at last,
the conditions are Identical, and they The popular view Is expressed In th>
never arc Identical. The situation lead- | stanza In a war poem of the day,
lng up to the mobilization is abso- j "To Arms," by Park Benjamin:
was popular, both on account of the ; it waa more than a month after the
battle before the outcome was known
lutey different today from what It
was when the aggressive and intense
Polk became president in 1845,
At that time the Mexican domain
thrust Itself up Into the United Stutes.
There was a widespread feeling that
this nation ought to acquire the terri-
tory to give It an unbroken aouthern
sweep from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic. The unsettled conditions In Mex-
ico had given rise to numerous claims
on the part of American citizens,
v.hlch had been approved by arbitra-
tion, but which Mexico had been un-
able to pay. Finally Mexiro had been
particularly disagreeable about Texas.
The Lone Star state had won Its in-
dependence, and after several years of
uncertainty had been annexed to the
United States, where it evidently be-
longed. Before annexation Mexico
had declared that It would regard the
absorption of Texasvhy the United
Plates as an act of war. When an-
nexation was consummated Mexico
had broken off diplomatic relations
with this government-
Polk assumed office at this Junc-
ture. The first "dark horse" In a
presidential campaign, his character
bad been much misjudged. His vio-
lent political enemies, called him a
weakling and a liar. But his diary,
which has been made accessible In
recent years, shows that he was an
earnest and high minded man, of
great force and character.
The president believed he could buy
the Mexican territory that geograph-
ically ought to belong to the United
States. He appointed a special com-
missioner, John Slidell, to negotiate,
Awake! Arise, ye men of might!
The glorious hour Is nigh:
Your eagle pauses In his flight,
And scream* hls battle cry.
From north to south from east t
west
Send back an answering cheer,
In Washington:
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tatoo:
No more on life’s parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the d6ad.
The hext-month after Buena Vista.
Fcott landed near Vera Cruz with
I twelve thousand men. After a siege
And say farewell to peace and rest, of a few days he captured the caatle
And banish doubt and fear.
There had been a dispute of long
standing between Texas and Mexico
over the boundary line. Early In
1 846 General Zachary Taylor with a
small force had been sent into this
disputed territory, and In April one
of hls detachments was attacked by
the Mexicans.
With the declaration of war, re-
inforcements were hurried to Tay-
lor, who crossed the Rio Grande
with about seven thousand men. The
Mexicans made a stubborn resistance,
but Taylor advancing southward, won
victory after victory, the most Im-
portant being the capture of Monte-
rey.
Meanwhile the administration had
found difficulty In getting the gen-
era! to propose a plan of campaign.
The president and his advisers felt
lhat Taylor lacked initiative. So
when he finally suggested that no
campaign ought to he planned against
the city of Mexico from the north,
It was decided to put General Win-
field Hcott In command of an expe-
dition to operate from Vera Cruz,
about 225 miles from the .Mexican
capital.
Taylor was stripped of part of hls
j command to re-enforce Hcott, and
Santa .Anna, learning of the move.
and he believed that the United States j determined to annihilate the invad
ought to be willing to pay forty mil- j |ng force In the north, by over-
lion dollars. latter lie authorized an whelming numbers.
Mr
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offer of twenty-five millions, with
the United States assuming the pay-
ment of the claims on which Mexico
had defaulted Interest.
The Mexican president refused to
receive Slidell, and Folk felt that Die
time for patience was at an end. At
a Saturday cabinet meeting In May,
1846, he announced that he would
send a war message to Congress on
Monday, urging a declaration on the
ground of Mexico's failure to pay the
claims and its refusal to negotiate.
All the members except George Ban-
croft. secretary of the navy, voted
‘‘yes."
That night Folk got word that Tay-
lor’s forces on the Utb Grande had
been attacked. Ho he spent Sunday
revising the message. When It went
to congress on Monday, action was
urged chiefly on the ground' that
"Mexico hail taken the initiative In
bringing on war.
Congress promptly met the presi-
dent's wishes, and a bill was hurried
through appropriating ten million
dollars for expenses, and authorizing
the president to call for fifty thou-
sand volunteers. The chief opposition
came in the senate, but at the close
of the debate only two senators, -one
With twenty thousand men Santa
Anna pushed north against Taylor,
who had, five thousand. Taylor fell
back to the pass of Angostura, a
narrow defile In the mountains di-
Yecll.v in front of the hacienda of
Buena Vista, and there awaited the
coming of the enemy.
On the morning of Washington’s
birthday Santa Anna halted two miles
from Taylor's line and sent a dispatch
calling for hls surrender. "You are
surrounded," he wrote, "by twenty
thousand men and cannot avoid be-
ing cut lo pieces. I wish to save you
this disaster and summon you to sur-
render."
“Old Bough and Ready,” as hls
men called him, replied at once. “I
decline to accede to your request."
Santa Anna worked out an elabor-
ate battle plan, involving an attack
by the Mexicans in three columns,
with a force In the rear to cut off
Taylor’s retreat.
The battle began at sunrise and
lasted all day, At limes it looked as
If the Americans would be over-
whelmed. But they had the advan-
tage of the ground and of the artil-
| lerv. Repeatedly the American bat-
teries swept the attacking lines from
the flnkl. On one occasion the arri-
val of Jefferson Davis, later the
president of the Confederacy, with his
regiment of Mississippi infantry, sav-
ed the day.
The roster df officers foreshadowed
the greater conflict of the Civil war.
! f'herman, Thomas, Bragw Reynolds,
were In command of batteries.
D was a bloody day. The Ameri-
: cans lost nearly a fifthw of their en-
| tire force In killed and wounded. The
I Mexican loss was twenty-five hund-
red. That night Taylor’s army slept
on Its arms, expecting to renew the
j fight In the morning. But Santa
Anna retreated before dawn and left
the Americans In possession of the
field.
Buena Vista made Taylor the next
president. Also It was the occasion
and town, and a little later started
on hls march along the highway to
the capital of the Aztecs, over tho
route that Cortez and hls little band
had traversed Just 328 yearR before.
The march wa* a repetition of Tay-
lor'* brilliant campaign In the north.
Hcott stormed the heights of Cerro
Gordo, occupied Jatapa, Perote and
Puebla, and on August 10 the City
of Mexico was In sight.
Polk repeatedly tried for peace
during the progress of the war, hut
all hls overture* were rejected. Santa
Anna intimated that for a consldera-
of *10.000 he might he able to end
the fighting. He got the money from
Hcott but was unable to carry out hls
agreement.
Polk announced lhat he would
"conquer a peace,” and the campaign
went on. To capture the capital
Hcott decided that It was necessary
to storm the Castle of Chapultepec,
which stood on a rock rising one
hundred and fifty feet from the plain.
The taking of the castle by Pil-
low’s corjyhand was one of the most
gallant exploits of the war. Hls men
rushed the hill without waiting for
the scaling ladders, There was a de-
lay at the summit until the ladders
could be brought, and then the sol-
dier* scaled the high walls and took
the fort.
Scott now- occupied the City of
Mexico, and raised the American flag
over the halls of the Montezuma*.
Meanwhile an expedition under
Col. Stephen W. Kearney had set out
from Fort Leavenworth In June. 1846.
over the Manta Fe trail. It paused
at Bent’s Fort at the crossing of the
Arkansas river, and then proceeded
to Ne* Mexico. After taking Santa
Fe Kearney started for California.
Before he could reach there John
C. Fremont, the pathfinder', had co-
operated with the disaffected Ameri-
can settler* in establishing a "Bear
State Republic.” But with the new;*
of the declaration of war the bear
flag was hauled down and the star*
and stripes substituted for It. Com-
modore Stockton, who was on the
coast with a fleet, co-operated with
Fremont.
Mexico at last was ready to sue
for peace. A peace commissioner, N.
P. Trial, had accompanied Scott, pre-
pared to make terms. His conduct
had displeased the administration and
he had been recalled. Polk feeling
that In view of tho prnlongatfon of
the war severer terms must be ex-
acted than those at first contem-
plated.
But In disobedience lo orders Trist
stayed and negotiated the treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo by which Mexico
gave up the vast territory of New
Mexico and California, Including the
divisions now- known as Nevada, Ari-
zona and Utah. The United States
paid Mexico fifteen million dollars for
the half a million square miles and
assumed the claims of American citi-
zens against Mexico.
There was opposition to the treaty
In the cabinet. Buchanan, secretary
of state, desired to take the whole of
Mexico east of the Sierra Navada
mountains, and Polk himself felt that
the terms were too lenient.
But the president made np hls mind
Against strong advice from party
leaders that the war would better end
on the terms arranged. He submit-
ted the ireaty to the senate and 11
was ratified.
Mexico Is having another revolt.
The purport of this statement may
not be at once apparent unless one
recoMcets that this mercuric nation
one day wore the undisputed title to
! the motherhood of uprisings and revo-
lutions. Nowadays one is tn the ha-
! bit of associating nananas with these
outbreak*. The puhllc mind con-
caption "Revolts and Revolutions in
Mexico."
Iturbide, Santa Anna, Juarez, one
remembers them but vaguely, yet in
their time no figure* eclipsed them
In fascination. Maximilian and Car-
lotta to the average man their names
are vague whispers of dead ghosts,
but their story Is of the most roman
tic-tragic fahric of history. For a
celves "of revoit' as^'the''peculiar iSK j of«ve of‘a^«a °°.i V '**
! tutlon of those nations which bask ________0 , on. t.h*t car'
; tutlon of those nation* which ba*k ried ,h_m _.h' . „
far south under the tropical / sun, j continent lay w ith their rise *or °fa!L
changing presidents with moon phase. ; And then the wave broke itself on the
and anvernmen,. «t.h ,h* season*. | and lhey ,hp ** lt8'lr °" th®
: and governments with
Seldom, unless one Is pretty con-
I versant with history, does one asso-
ciate Mexico with the thought of this
sort of thing, yet. In it* day," the na-
tion of Cortez was hotter than all
modern imitators. Probably
lotus eaters of
fate, went down to madkess and to
death. I
Though he can hardly be called
the first of Mexican revolutionists,
this | Hurbide wa* surely the earliest lead-
in 1820-21 it
! change is partly due to the Won hand ; er of revolt, in 1820-21 it was he
of that stern, whiteboard Diaz, who who led the force. ,h„. ............
—when the truth is known—appears h„»i„ „* ‘,.Bt u <?rwow;d«J
to have had sufficient trouble him- ruthles.lv taken frnm^u *•*** ha<1 ?°
himself stepped to the j ?he from ^ntezuma. »•
presidential chair through the smoke j hTmslu^mpero?'and'^e^ined'”™*
, ot revolution. Before his time every 1 prente in the
season had its uprising. Men rose
and fell between the dark of the
moon and the dusk of the suu. And
; it wa* not all comedy. One looks
upon the bloodless battle* and opera-
bouffe tactics of today and i* wont
to laugh. But there wa* a different
past—glorious and gory, romantic.
I and tragic—written more or leas deii-
i My in
troubled state of hls
nation for eighteen months. Then
he found himself deserted by those
who so shortly fcjfore had been h|*
best ^lieutenant*—Santa Anna. Guer-
rero and Bravo, the next generation
of revolutionists—and yielded the
throne, reti-lng from Mexico on a
pension of 125.000.
Iturbide lived abroad for a couple
retired to The ease of
In 1835 he suppressed a
revolt against hi* power. The next
year he led the army which fought
the revolutionists In Texas and took
the Alamo, hut he was In turn de- j
tested and taken prisoner at San Ja-
cinto by Sam Houston, and sent to
the United States after he had pledg-
ed himself to secure the independence
of Texas.!
In 1827 he returned to Mexico,
which had removed him from the
presidency In hls absence, but In
1828 he was again at the head of the
army and defended Vera Cruz against
a French fleet, losing a leg in the
combat. This exploit won him Im-
mense popularity, but It took two
years of plotting before he succeed-
ed In having himself made president,
with dictatorial powers. In 1841,
however, he was overthrown m a rev-
olution led by Paredes.
After desultory fighting In an at-
tempt to regain the reins of ptywer
he was taken prisoner In 1845 and
banished. The following year, how-
ever, he was recalled to defend the
country against the United States, lie
lost and was again banished, only to
be again recalled. In 1853 he made
himself president for life with the
title "Serene Highness.” The dream
lasted a year, when another revolu-
tion sent him to Cuba, but not until
after fifteen months’ fighting.
In 1864 Marshal Bazaine, com-
manding the Invading French, had to
drive him out again. Still unsated.
he returned In 1867 and was once
more defeated and exiled. Finally In
1876 he went back for the last time,
but hls star had run Its course and
set. He died, poor and deserted.
Of Juarez, one needs few details.
He began hls career In the little
state of Oaxaca, where he figured In
revolution and counter revolution un-
til the state finally regained Its sov-
ereignty and made him one of the
ruling triumvirate. Santa Anna felt
the sting of hls revolutionary capgr
city several times, and finally banish-
ed him In 1853. Juarez, however, re-
turned In 1855 in time to help Al-
varado put the one-legged dlctatoi
Into exile. Hi 1858 a revolution
made him president. He was, how-
eveh soon driven out of the country
-by the conservatives and clericals.
He returned to Vera Cruz and set
up a rival government, which act was
the signal for a civil war, which ter-
minated In 1861 with the defeat of
all hls enemies and hls return to
complete control. The French drove
him from hls seat In 1863 and set
Maximilian up as emperor the fol-
lowing year. He was re-elected pres-
ident in 1867, only to be In turn the
victim of revolts led by Porflrlo Diaz
In 1871-72. In the midst of the tur-
moil Juarez died and his one-time
lieutenant and later opponent took
the seat.
But among these half humorous
characters who fdbght hack and forth
around the presidential chair, like a
tribe of mischievous school children,
for half a century, with 411 tlielr lu-
dicrous pomposity and shallow re-
sults. stand two truly tragic features,
Maximilian and hls mad empress,
Carlotla, victims of the cold ambi-
tion of an adventurer king, the pride
of a woman, the weakness of a man,
and the need of a great nation. Few
episodes of history are so full of ro-
mance. poetry and tragedy as that
which has to (heal with their brief
and poignant affair In Mexico.
Marie Carlotta. daughter of the first
Leopold of Belgium, and younger sis-
ter of the late royal galllvanter. was
a spirited and gifted girl of 17 when
she met and married Maximilian,
archduke of Austria and younger
brother of the present Hapsburg em-
peror. She was. despite her statis-
tical youth, a woman of considerable
mental attainments, strong, ambitious,
romantic. To her the tall blonde, va-
cillating Hapsburg was an ideal hero
and their wedded life was a glorious
dream until that spring morning
when the first emiasarles of Napo-
leon III, came to beckon the dilet-
tante prince to the Imperial seat of
Mexico.
At their famous caatle Miramar, by
the Adriatic, near Trieste, ' a spot
where nature appears to have con-
spired with man to /ender all things
overripe with loveliness and sensuous
delight, they had lived years of tre-
acle mooning. Maximilian held the
sinecure post as governor of the Ven-
etian province. In reality what took
hls time, was dreaming by the blue
seas, composing verse* and little
travel sketches in hls gardens and
j terraces and whiling away the sun-
drowsed hours with hls beautiful
young princess.
Into this Idyll came the emissaries
of the French emperor, pleading
with Maximilian to take the throne
which Bazaine stood ready to erect In
the ancient land of the Aztecs. The
Anetrlan demurred and was deaf to
all entreaty. Mexico was not yet con-
quered and the throne appeared any-
thing but stable. But Carlotta was
ambitious and Bazaine was able.
A few months later when the of-
fer wa* repeated. Mexico was practi-
cally In the hands of the French, and
the desire to sit on an Imperial throne
burned but the more fiercely In the
breast of the grand duchess. In the
end her husband yielded to the call
of Bazaine. Neither he nor hls wife
fully realized that Napoleon had In
mind a gigantic scheme for the eon-
queat of Latin America and Its col-
onising as a French-Spanlah empire
In the New World under hi* suze-
rainty. -4)
One afternoon tn May. 1844. the t ed was Impossible,
man of war bearing the new emper-
or and hls young wife landed In
Vera Cruz. The progress to the cap-
ital city was a triumphal march and
the final arrival there a scene of un-
rivaled splendor. Maximilian began
at once a policy of conciliation by
which he hoped to bring all faction*
to hi* st*nd*rd. The cleric*]*, -who
hoped he would restore the relation*
of church »nd state abrogated by Jua-
An event will occur which will be one of the greatest
events in the history of the Southwest. Make your
plans now to be in El Paso on \
Sunday, April 2
and you’ll see an event that is going down in the history
of the sporting circles as being one of the greatest of all
such events. April 2 is the day.
Watch the Times for Particulars as to
the Event, Time and Place
supporters. In the end they saw that
he did not intend to outrage the lib-
erals by restoring t*/e (treat wealth
of lands they once had held and they
prolnptly deserted him.
In vain did Maximilian adopt the
grandson of the former Emperor Itur-
bide In the hope of arousing Mexican
patriotism. ,The props were falling.
Bazaine and the veteran French
forces remained between him and the
collapse of hls empire, and. With
some reinforcements which seemed
forthcoming from France, Austria and
the Papal states, there was still ev-
ery hope of restoring Mexico to sub-
mission.
Alas! These things were qever to
be. The middle of 1865 saw the con-
clusion of the civil war In the United
States and left th^ Federal govern
ment face to fShe' with the gigantic
problem of mustering out 1.000,000
men. The smoothness with which
that work was accomplished leaves
for the present outlook no hint of
tho tremendous and perilous problem
it presented at the time.
Here were these hordes of young
men who had left the school and the
plow to take up the musket and saber.
They had no vocations; many had no
homes or ties. The end of the war
meant only that they must hunt the
wherewithal of livelihood.
To the statesmen of the day there
loomejl the peril that some ambi-
tious general might conceive of the
scheme of turning upon his govern-
ment and making-hlmseif'dictator or
king. With a vast army of enthusi-
astic soldiers, wanting nothing so
much as more war and' victory-, this
was no idle fear. Secretary Seward
actually cast about for some plan by
which at 'least a part ot the troops
might bo employed.
The position of the European na-
tions lr. the Civil war. the transparent
ambition of Napoleon to establish
himself In America and hls boast that
he would put an end to the spread of
republican Ideas In the new world fur-
nished the pretext for a diplomatic
note to France, which practically de-
manded the withdrawal of her troops
from Mexico. Napoleon was no roo..
He looked at the million veterans and
the great navy which might have de-
feated the combined sea forces of the
world In that day. Then he looked
at the rising war cloud on the Prus-
sian frontier and decided that his
Ame'rican venture was more than he
could support. He forthwith ordered
Bazaine home with hls forcea
In the midst of Maximilian's vex*
tlons came this frightful blow. Hia
loyal wife and empress could not be-
poleon’s court Maximilian was being
slowly driven to bay by Juarez and
hls generals. He had refused to
leave when the last French detach-
ment sailed, ^ylng that he would re-
main and share the fate of hls sup-
porters. Vainly he tried to save the
day by recruiting such adventurers
as left the lost cause and came
through Texas and across the border.
Hls little 10,000 men were cut off by
disease, desertion and battle.
At Queretago, a* May was ushered
in—the month that marked hls third
year in Mexico—he took his last
stand, in a vain attempt to defend the
town against the revolutionary force
under General Escobedo. When the
defense seemed hopeless the broken
emperor’s courier brought him the
word that hls empress had died In
France. He no longer cared—at least
she would be spared the knowledge
of hls end. That mgnt hls leaders
advised him to make hls way through
the lines and escape. Once more he
declined to assume a fate better than
that of hls Mexican friends.
On the night of May 14. hls most
trusted friend, Colonel Lopez, betrayed
him to the enemy, who secretly en-
tered the town and secured the em-
peror. Even-then he might have sav-
ed his life. So lovable and gentle
was hls nature, so fine the regard
.of even hls enemies, that hls Imme-
diate captors offered him an oppor-
tuhity to slip away In clvilidn garb.
Even then he declined the opportunity
to live, lest his escape compronzise
a too generous foe.
It wa* hardly dawn, hot and ruddy,
on the morning of July 19, when three
men were led up the Hill of the
Bells at Queretaro. In the center-,
walked the straight, tall presence of
the defeated emperor. With their
backs to the white monastery wall
they waited. Each declined to be
blindfolded or bound. The emperor
turned and spoke a few words each
to Generals Mlramon and Mejlo, who
had been captured with him. and
stepped from the line to make one
last request.
Readiness was signified. The cor-
poral closed hi* eyes as he pronounc-
ed the doom. Seven rifles sputtered
red; the white smoke hung lazily and
djifted. By the chapel wall. Just as
the matin bells broke out, lay be-
tween the bodies of hls generals, he
who had been emperor of Mexico.
For forty-five years the unfortu-
nate Carlotta has been in an Insane
ward in the great Belgian palace of
Laejken. on the edge of Brussels. Her
modk court has been held every day.
as In the glorious tlmi* when she
LOCAL NEWS NOTES
FROM SOLOMONVILLE.
eipeciol to The Times.
Solomonvllle, Arlz., March 25—Gej.
Barney was at the court house today
on business. Mr. Barney lives -at
Thatcher, some 12 miles west (>f Solo-
monvllle. He reported all the farm-
ers busy and' the promise of an early,
heavy harvest.
G. A. Rhoads and J. Adkins of the
Solomon Commercial Co., returned on
Tuesday evening from a trip up the
river. The young men had been at
the ranch of Jesus Baca, putting in
a gasollrte pump.
Mr. J/ C. Epley accompanied his
sister-in-law. Mrs. O. S. Woods to -Saf-
ford on Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Howard Parks and iher sister,
Miss Mamie /Polley, drove to Saf-
ford shopping on Wednesday after-
noon.
Read the answers to the Gold con-
test puzzle in the Bazaar ad today.
Y'ou'll enjoy reading them whether
you send In an answer or not. If
you have not sent your solution In for
this puzzle the ones today will give
you a tip.
A GENTLE REMINDER OF SPRING
TIME. Ladles, have you looked over
your furniture before houseeleanlng?
If not, do *o and let us know, for we
are the people who do furniture re-
pairing, upholstering, etc.
THE UNEEDA REPAIR WORKS CO.
318 8. Stanton. —
lieve that such treachery was to be restored the bath of Montezuma and
dealt. Embarking at Vera Cru*. she
made her w»y to Pari*. There the
daughter of the proud house of Co-
burg tearfully prostrated herself be-
fore the adventurer and his empress,
begging that her husband be not de-
serted in his need. Napoleon laughed
and shook his head. What she ask-
rebuilt Chapultepec. Little does she
dream that her old gardener still
keeps and tends the bed of violets
she planted under one of the east
wing* of this ancient house of king*;
little does her tortured mind feel the
mockery of It all a* she says to one
make-believe courtier and another- *
•T can not find him new. His j
PIANOS
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IX. Almost mad.Vshe Insisted on j upon hi* return."
t InMho Vatican and fpon his return—
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PIANO TUNING
see you
time’, archive* under the | 0f years, only to return to Mexico in ^ answer* fora ttoe°S^ most lojil
staying over night ln^the Vatican, and !
when they bore her out at length the
next day and took her to a cloister
near by. her life’s tragedy had passed
the climax—a wife at 17. an empress
at 24. a mad woman at 26.
Of the fate that awaited her hus-
band she never knew. While she was
on the sea* making her way to l 'r
More Interesting Than Easter clothe* i
is your health and you can always i
have good health If you drink El Paso ‘
Cotton and rubber hose at
Usris Hardware Co.
DUNN’S MUSIC
STORE
406 San AntoMo Street
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