Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — SPEEDERS LASSOED ON MEXICAN BORDER [ARTICLE]

SPEEDERS LASSOED ON MEXICAN BORDER

1 ■■ y \ 0 Deputy Sheriffs Drop Lariat Over Shoulders of Driver Who Is Traveling Too Fast. Mercedes, Tex., July 24.—They have a good way of regulating the traffic and stopping speeders down in this country. As soon as the soldiers camp was established at Llano Grande

every automobile in three counties was put imho jitney service between the camp and Mercedes, with the result that there is a great deal of speeding because the faster the jitneys can make the trip the more money there is in it. Consequently a number of persons have been hurt, one of them being Harry C. Campbell, of Battery B, Lafayette, who is in the hospital at San Antonio. The common council passed an ordinance taxing each jitney SIOO and regulating the speed to eight miles. The jitney owners who Eve in this country can the SIOO at the rate of 50c a day. All outsiders must come through in a lump. Each morning Bill Budhy, whose badge of city marshal is a big Colt swung to his hip, stands at a comer with a book in his hand, collects the 50 cents before the jitney can start on a day’s business. Two deputy sheriffs, oadh with revolvers and repeating rifles, ride up and down the streets regulating the traffic inside the town, and when a machine does not Stop on their order they lasso the machine, and occasionally, when there is no top to interfere, they drop the lariat over the driver's shoulders. That always brings a halt. A general inspection of camp was held Sunday afternoon and Company

M, Walter Myers, captain, was accorded the highest grade in the First regiment. As the more important sanitary work is finished, the Indiana soldiers are taking time to do some landscape gardening along -their company -street. Details -are sent out to the back country and various forms of ornamental desert plants like the cucumber cactus and the Spanish needle are planted along the main drives and at the cross streets. The members -of Co. A, First regiment, are especially ambitious and have erected an arch of plants over the entrance to their street. Lieutenant Stratton, of Company A, signal corps, has invented a filter for the water he uses. It consists of a desert water bag, an empty keg and an infantry cartridge case filled with sand and charcoal. It makes the Rio Grande water pure and cool. Company I, Third regiment, has a short -story writer, Private Charles N. Sims. Private Sims joined the army to get local color for a series of short Stories. WeM, he is getting local color all right, a great deal of it on his nose from the sun. His Delphi friends would not recognize him now.