EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, March 16, 1916

* Hunt for Pancho Villa expedition 
* Post Columbus, New Mexico raid
* United States soldiers pursue Mexican bandit

The front page has a banner headline: "TROOPS MEET NO OPPOSITION" with subhead. Also a three-column engraving of General Frederick Funston. (see images) Nice for display. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper. Rare as such.
Complete with 14 pages, small library stamp within the masthead, a little irregular along the spine, generally nice.

background: Major General Frederick Funston, serving as the Commander of the Southern Department, was the strategic architect of the American response to Pancho Villa’s aggression, famously advocating for an immediate and aggressive pursuit into Mexican territory. Despite his diminutive physical stature, Funston was a titan of military administration who coordinated the massive logistical undertaking of mobilizing over 100,000 National Guard troops to secure the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, all while providing the operational directives to General Pershing in the field. His role was pivotal in balancing the volatile diplomatic tensions with the Mexican government against the domestic outcry for justice, and he remained the primary link between the battlefield in Chihuahua and the War Department in Washington. Funston was widely considered the premier candidate to lead American forces into the impending theater of World War I; however, his sudden death from a heart attack in February 1917—occurring just as the Punitive Expedition was withdrawing—fundamentally altered the course of military history, as it necessitated the elevation of John J. Pershing to lead the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.