Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1913 — KICK OF MITCHELL SIX OUTCLASSES MAUD [ARTICLE]

KICK OF MITCHELL SIX OUTCLASSES MAUD

Jack Walker Suffers Broken Arm and Three Ribs—Says I. N. G~' Could Drive Mex Into Sea. Tombstone, Ariz. (/ Oct. 4, 1913. Rensselaer Republican, Gentlemen: I guess you will think that I am having a good deal of .trouble in lighting when I ask you to please change Hie address of niy Republican from Tucson here. I have been located in Tucson all summer, but returned here and resumed my court work last week. When I went away, there was a change of judges here and the state being overwhelmingly democratic at this tirhe, there was no question but what a 1 democratic judge would be appointed upon the resignation of the former judge for whom I worked, and so without waiting for the appointment to be made, I resigned -and went to Tucson and took charge of my store there: some two or three weeks after which the appointment being made, regardless of the fact that the appointee was a democrat, he immediately called me on the phone and insisted upon my ’ returning, and later I consented to do so, inasmuch as I could leave my store in good hands there, and it would be conducted as successfully as if I would give my personal attention to, it. I have been having some tough luck this summer, and while I am now able to work, have only been so in the last ten days. I have a big Mitchell Six car, and while it is equipped with a self-starter, on this morning in question, the starter failed to work and I attempted to start it with the old armstrong method, and while I have heard a good deal of the strength of the proverbial mule kick, I want to say, if it is any worse than the kick of a half tamed automobile, I want none in mine, for when the dust of battle had cleared away I found that the large bone in my right arm was broken at the wrist, and three ribs on my left side were “busted,” seemingly more or less beyond repair, but they have now worked out in pretty good shape,, and my arm is getting along nicely. I am not able to use it as well as I would like to, but consider myself very fortunate that I am able to use it at all, and the doctors in the hospital assure me that I will have no bad after effects.

There is nothing unusual doing in the Mexican situation along the border. Yesterday morning, at su arise, th ey took the postmaster of Agua Prieta, which is just across the line from Douglas, two hours ride below here, and put him up against an adobe wall and shot him, but outside of a few minor incidents of this kind we wouldn’t know a revolution was going on in our sister Republic. Of course, the papers are filled every day with the great things that are being done along the border of Mexico, but I am sure that I could take the Indiana National Guard and run the entire soldiery of Mexico into the gulf, and they would be glad of the opportunity of getting there. War with them seems to be getting behind an adobe wall, poking a hole through, and shooting everybody in sight, including women, children and burros. They would not know what it was to get out In a real battle formation and fight. The famous battle of Naco, Sonora, which is directly across from Nhco, Arizona, (and only 25 miles from here) was fought, won and lost with a total loss of about forty, and appeared in the press all over the country as a wonderful battle. I talked to many people who witnessed this fighting, and they told me that at no time during said battle there was more than a dozen people in sight to shoot at. I did not come east this summer, as I have been nursing my numerous breaks all summer, but next summer Mrs. Walker and I intend coming east overland in our, ear, and will be glad to give you a story when we get there, providing we ever do. With best personal regards to yourselves and to all the bunch in Rensselaer, I. pm, ..Very truly yours, JOHN W. WALKER.