Rebel Planned To Assassinate Mexican President On New Year's Day ASSOCIATED PRESS EL PASO, TEXAS, Leasea Wire DAT AHB MIGHT RKI'ORJS. Wednesday Evening, WBATHE KIIKKCAST. 31, 1913-- 'Pages ed December 12 Increased cloudiness; Thura-unsettl- ET JbitlLlJ ERA.LD TWO SBUTIONS TODAY. UNITED STATES ARMY WLL POTTER IS VICTIM 0 LULL IN FIGHT RETURN FIRE IF OJINAGA BURGLAR FEDERALS FIRE LNE Professional Burglar Forces Entrance and Gets $400 in OJINAGA TO ' AT . Ji Loot. D. C. Dec 31. Apprehension ej$sts herein official circles regarding conditions at Ojinaga, WASHINGTON, between federal refugee soldiers 4tom Chihuahua and their rebel pursuers is expected. T. A. JONES HAS , The force of United States soldiers, urtleiyMajor McNan.ee at Presidio, Texas, it is learned from high war department officials, has been ordered by Ac wrtleparrn.tent to warn the combatants not to fire across LINEN DUSTER LEFT the border into American territory, and back up the warning lj$s time by force. burglars, . armed Should the warnings be disregarded, Major McNamWV been ordered to return their fire with fire, and, if PROFESSIONAL "Jimmy" gained AWAIT CANNON necessary, to make a general' attack on the offenders aw&kree them beyond the international line. an entrance to the residence of These orders have been issued by the war departo enVi3&h a full realization that such an attack by American H, a Potter, 700 Prospect avenue, Tues- , i troops on the Mexicans might be taken as a practical declaration of war between the countries. day night. In the haul, which consist- part Jewelry, At the department it was said from Developments anxiously ed for the most of the war that no official news had come presidio. are burglars secured a gold chain valued REBELS DELAY FIGHTING TO CONSERVE AMMUNlTtON waited by the officials. at $160. The total loss was estimated at $400. A rear window of the resi- dence was pried open. At the time the Rebels Find the Federals Unwilling to Run at First Shot Town Too Strongly Forti- AZAS IS occupants of the home were absent at Fed- TERR FOX, KING TROOPS TAKE the theater. fied to Capitulate to Small Arms Charge Rebel Artillery to Hammer the Leave Htm a iilnen Duster. T. A. Jones, wearing a linen duster eral Garrison When it Comes Up Death List Not Heaoy So Far. over a pair of trousers and a shirt, went TO BE GIVEN to the detectives' office Wednesday AND BARNES ARMS FROM morning to report the visiOof burglars at his home. 3132 Rivera street, Tues- RESIDIO, Texas, Dec 3 1 . Rebels and federals have spent the last day of the old year testing oa their arax, day night. The burglars took all the clothes of Mr. Jones, besides four following 24 hours of fighting. The lull is only for th purpose of getting the rebel artillery into posibos, bow-eve- r, HIS LIBERTY dresses and $10 in cash. A pistol and a PROMOTED THE STRIKERS pair of field glasses also were taken., and its arrival k expected at any moment It is understood that as soon as it reaches Gen. Ortega, it Groeery Store Robbed. will be unlimbered and thrown into action for the final, desperate assault upon the federal fortifications ef Ojisttfa. Burglars entered the store at 500 Gen. Gfaao Be New Gov- Assis- South Stanton street Tuesday night The fighting yesterday 'and the night before proved to the rebels that they could not take the town without artil- to Eugene Fox Beconfes Search Is Made in Colorado and carried away eight buckets of lard, lery, an oil stove, some coffee and eight unless by tremendously heavy loss, so the decision to await the arrival of the artillery was readied. The advance ernor of Chihuahua Villa MaiagAr small sacks of flour. guard of rebels opened the battle before their artillery came op, believing that they were strong enough tb take the towa tant Traffic El Strike Region; All Tents Shopper Loses Purchases, with, small arms alone, the by spies, to Coin Own Money. Paso & Are Entered. Mrs. W, R. Bradford, of Las Cruces, counting much on stories supplied 'their that the federal soldiers were ready Is Southwestrn. N. M., who was here Tuesday tp da her desert at the first fire. The rebels' found the federals too strongly fortified to be driven with small arms fire; ther shopping, returned to her home without ol a silk dress and fur neckpiece which also found the federals unwilling to run at the first shot AltL BANK BILLS HIS ASSISTANTS RECENT KILLINGS she had purchased. Mrs. Bradford was in a store on Mesa avenue and placed The loss in fife so far has not been heavy. '. ARE CALLED IN the box containing: the articles on a - Fighting practically ceased yesterday afternoon when messengers arrived in Ortega's camp. These BOTH ELEVATED CAUSE OF SEARCH counter. When she returned to the Messages, k spot box was. missing, is now learned, informed him that the artillery was being moved with very great difficulty and to conserve bis ammtBH-- Her, Dec SL Luis the CHIHUAHUA, UGENE FOX general freil t and Colo.. Dec 3L A tent- - Police Chief Issues "Warning. tton until die heavy guns could be brought up. The rebels moved in closer to Ojinaga during the night and occaeteaal Jr., in an Interview to-te- nt In order to avoid an epidemic of bur- passenger agent of Aso S; search for Are arms was yesterday, said he expected de- r the Ell T- glaries and thefts, police chief I. N. exchange of shots occurred between the rebels and the federals, as the rebel cordon drew in around the federaT de re- railroad, begun at the strikers' tent colony Davis warns occupants of all residences tails would be completed for his Southwestern habeen morning direc- fenders of the town. asl-sUn- t at Ludlow this at the to employ extra precautions in guard- lease shortly, and that permission would promoted to the position of tion of Gen. John Chase, who declares ing their homes Wednesday night. The be granted him to leave for El Paso general traffic manager in citaSe ol he has information that the strikers chief says that no Occupant should The Bail Expected Soon. with his family within a few days. was opinion ex- "and such other duta K as have been secretly arming themselves leave his home unoccupied. It the of military Stories as to the bad condition of his solicitation during past weeks. The kill- special warning is given to perts today Ojinaga are unfounded. . He is feeling may be assigned to him." He the three autolsts that the battle of health willlave ing o. "Kid" Morgan, a nei-- member keep close watch on their extra tires would be decided 34 and looking welL headquarters at 72 West AcUut.s sflJet, of the colony yesterday by George and have their tool boxes well locked. within hours; that Gen. Manuel Chao will be named Chicago, i iprjssenuSve Shepherd negro No packages should be left in the ma- the federal army was fasttbeing driven governor, to take office about January and will be the Wilson, another strik- to a retreat and tnat their only rhanee VILLA COMES TO there of A. X Brown, the general tl er; the discovery that both were armed, chine unguarded. 10, while Gen. Villa takes the, field and heavy firing of the camp Extra policemen will be put to work of escaping merciless extermination south. fie manager, who is now making l.s north should the rebels pour in on them, was frtllnwi hv an flttsio.lr nnfln n. military Wednesday night on South El Paso a precipitate flight Federals are reported by "constitu- rlptAll spnt to investiemte. are ! Street into United States tionalists" to be at Santa Clara station, headquarters in El Paso reearded territory. Succeeding- Mr Fox as crenel as proof that the strikers have The were run- eight kilometers south of Bermejillo, weapons in possession. Capt. federals reported to be or 25 kilometers north of Torreon. their Woman Wants To Sell J ning short of ammunition, while the ' Lindefelt with a mounted detachment rebels, by the frequency pf their fire, VISIT HIS WIFE The state treasurer has made a call j deposit of all bank bills with this morning resumed search for the ' appear to have ample supplies 'of it. for the two mounteu men wno urea upon nis Husband For $1000; He The tactics of narrowing semi- - him, for which he will exchange the yest'-J-i- their No troops late 7c el?! vith the federals in the center. new state issue. bank bills are to A detachs of 4t soldiers irom ,, ,,Willirxt Ti R "ZM1 be accepted in .payment of any ac- Xj&Oibw bmhjp, uu,.'. aw orawtng inr on an sides except SfcC Bflsffibr ViLLA is in called on TrTnuiad morning i tte-morgi- ' went to this Hjwara pursuea ay n counts under penalty after January arrange- - tne river, was dad Juarez. He arrived thereCT'fMtofyilU Cabrera Am- - ' to assist in the search for He wlll hc te S!t WHh Yoa Men.ui urcega s reoei xorces tooay. - Villa is now treating with an troops "Of bj orient a Wednesday mornins 11 ochxfc is heft: ftam HermosiBo. Whether he ments. Two cavalry and Hj t-- Mm rpi-- ii A Decisive Acttdn. at erican for the purchase of ma- - hi,v. writ ; here everal companies of Infantry sur- 1n viM tt- -. Today's fight incr was expected to de ( on a special ' train from Chihuahua, oc has an. official mission from Cairanza chinery for the coinage of silver anl rhundMr. I is . camp a machine S J cide definitely gold. and Boston. Mass. Dec. 31.- am whether the Huerta companied by Raoul Madero, brother of Bdtnowa. The American has set the prlc; dj'te -"I i government is to retai n a foothold in , nrpsiripnt- - A. .BfenavideB. Mrs. Villa, who makes- - her home in currency, de- " v. ,- I in& to my $1000 the Luis of $5000 United States ij-lc- - sell husband for cash." rlii i i uuuj a ccmwu icv ' M A the far north or whether the and-M- El Paso, arrived in Juarez shortly livered. Villa is trying to arrange to .fc r,vVUD,- nnt- ,. x.An rebels his private secretary, j. Rodolfo alter i cluding were discov- were to supreme ymyiBMBiL JSfc Ufe&Ato aSBSBSBBHM m several rifles, Mass., to Mary gain command of it. her husband reached his headquarters. pay salary Miss E. Chandler. Miss Fierro, superintendent. rent the plant and him a or , Whatever way the waged, military train operate it. 9 fjr s ed and confiscated. Tne members Chandler has made the public. battle it was signifi- Hssband and wife embraced when they to -- APnn Federa-- . letter certain no would "My visit to Juarez has no on now open fi , SET' HbbbbV commitee of the Colorado The husband, William Bedell, is that surrender be met in the parlor of the residence The single American store of Labor, now investigating said ; considered, for Gen. Villa, at Chihua- - cance. wanted to be with my family Is arranging to close its doors within '1! to be willing enough to be "sold." nua, I Callc Lerdo. where Villa will make ai Ss:r' HsWK rees of alleged outrages perpetrated The letter, naa saia that ne would execute on New Year's day, so I ordered a spe- headquarters while in Juares. The a few days. bjr the militia in the strike zone are at after explaining that all federal volunteers, whether they up general, apparently, was hungry, Fraudulent money la in circulation Mrs. Bedell had seen Miss Chandler's surrendered or not. nqw cial train made and left Chihuahua far on . ijsai mmm wsmsaam i.tw low witnessing the search of the name in the newspapers, continued: and that the last night," said Villa Wednesday morn- Mrs. ViHa immediately saw to it that a large scale and there are fe.v iKraHi teits you federals had nothing to surrender. ' food was served for him and be disap- see persons who do not have at least one to identity of "I where need a husband to United States cavalrymen on the bor- ing. peared ten-doll- ar tfforts learn the the take care your property from view for an hour. or more bills. nen who stretched a barbed wire of ahd to be der patrol considered what they would No Hews From Ojinaga. a father to your baby. My husband do 4000 al- aei$ss the road at the tent colony last is a man, if the federal soldiers and As usual, the rebel leader was reticent ssBttuuESsflGH Cuth-berls- working tired of supporting most a dozen generals W tt SSSSuuuuuuuB night which resulted in corporal a family on pay. money should come in when questions concerning - the move- MILITIA SENT TO his horse small I want a disorderly rush across the river. Ma1. 20 FEDERALS ARE being thrown under to open a boarding house. He will be t McNamee, commanding patrol had ments of his armies were put to him. PREVENT VIOLENCE anckinjured, have been without success. content to with you and to the KHiTrED 13$ i tend the his men. numbering 1000. "I have no news from Oiinaea and am BATTLE HHsfi Lioiis Tikas, alleged leader of the col- baby. As me, have my less than Baltimore, Md., Dec 1. Under or- uM;i ony! was and Questioned con- - for I'd rather posted at the points along the river depending, more or less, on hp from, arrested cat." hanjc where was sol- ders governor Goldsborough, a ceriine: the Affair but was later re it thought refugee to furnish me with information as to ! Xlae Hefceln Are Alse Killed South et company of the national guard has diers would come. progress gone stsllllBBtt sffloFw 4889flHluluuiuV99 leased. May Crow to TTfeKeil the of the fight there.'' he said. to Chestertown, where the Kent Tlfc military commission will re- Surgeons Sprinkle States. "Of course, is hard to foretell realtor t Iftteve Laretle. county grand jury in- inves-tig- Sin, The sudden visitatioa of a whole di- it the has returned an convene in Trinidad Monday to a army exact of the combat there, Laredo, Tex., Dec SI. Twenty fed- dictment against Norman Mable and recent incidents growing out of Grating, on vision of a foreign on United result but I James Faraway, negroes, for killing the strike. After Body States soil in the capacity of refugees believe our forces will usher in the new erals were killed, and many wounded James R. Coleman, a farmer, last Tues- WBBmSS-JKB- i would be.an incident without many year bv taking possession of the town," in three engagement with "Constitu- day night. Both negroes had confessed, km of Man Burned inJtye precedents as to what welcome the vis- he said. robbery being motive. The TJ. S. itors should receive. It is understood tionalists' at Rodriguez Monday, 4 their EUGENE FOX. MDERS ASK AID Expects to Take Torreon. guardsmen are to protect the negroes Baltimore, Md., 31. that the attitude the United States miles south of Monterey, according te asrainst nnaslble nuib violence. Chief - Dec. Tweatv wouia assume has been considered by No information regarding the situa- IN SETTLING- STRIKE square inches of skin procured- - from i arm ,7 federal reports today. A special train judge Constabel, at Chestertown, has j freight atrent. William C Barnes has volunteers at the nttiiai On the plea that the tion at 'Torreon, where a federal army . Rockefeller Institute refugees' were danger, . tney carrying many wounded federals me gnuu jvry u - immcu lives in ' of 5000 men is surrounded o nail sides insiruciea.. A1 1 -- 1 inveu-, ' sent to whkob were grated today upon body of . uj. cue M jXLuuuciyIf ""Garnett King becomes general pas edcrn is l'resiuent the probably' would be afforded the asv reached TJuevo Laredo this morning. g&ce inc Biunmug juii By Fed-- Harry Stablbr, Who was-bufne- by "Constitutionalist" forces, could be night by a mob in an endeavor to lynch senger agent, succeeding Mr. Fox in Counsel For Western te a Are lum usual in such cases. Rebel agents jwy they lost nine kilted i crauoa ok jiiHcm, following an explosion. The skin had on hand, army secured from Villa. Treetty soon there fighting negroes. that department. - I the other officers are and several wounded in the the liimet Mich- - Dec. 31. Federal In- been kept in a glass receptacle at a not unmindful of the possibility J will be no federals in Torreon, either," a victory. The appointments of Mr. Fox and telition amended Erdman temperature which that and claim Mr. Barnes become effective Thursday, under the - maintains what is should events necessitate retreat hv was an tnax ne wouia say in regard to A demand for the surrender of Nuevo ROAD BOND. INCOME January as been asked as a means of set- Known to surgeons as latent me. I either federals or rebels, it might be the war in section. Laredo to "Constitutionalists' was lr but that of Mr. King is hot copper by During operation was Mexico, to- that effective until February 1. the miners strike the the the skm into the interior of probably Villa has not announced length made today. Two bodies of rebels TO BE EXEMPT era Federation ef Miaers. A tel- - warmed to the same .temperature as ward the state of .Coahnila. This state the were moving on city an HELD Mr. Fox, who becomes assistant o possi-o- f experi- of time he will stay in Juarez. is the for attack. attorney-general- calHng attention to the that of the patient. Only one contains vast areas of desert without It Austin, Tex., Dec. 31. The 's the general traffic manager, has been such action was today sent ment of thls kind has 'been successful. water or food which a retreating army, the general belief that one of his main department today forwarded with the Southwestern since Its con- resident Wilson by O. N. Hilton, except in extreme instances, would not reasons for coming to the border was JfTRM LACKS ORIMHtS TO PAT in- sys- n, to W. H. Osbornet commissioner of solidation with the Northeastern jrea--- find fnviting. Working BOND INTKRJBST ternal revenue at Washington, D. C, tem. At that time, he was traveling of counsel ior tne western WALDO NO ' southeast, the to be as near as possible to a source MEXICAN DVB as a sequel to a talk late last LOFGER federals would be attracted to Monter- of information could supply him a brief argument sustaining the freight and passenger agent of the, uens-solicit- or rey. that London, England. Dec. II. Glyn between him and John a. in Nuevo Leon state. with contention that income from bonds Northeastern at El Paso and Garnett' of the department of IS HEAD OF POLICE Vslng Federal Ammunition. news of the fighting at Ojinaga. Mills, Currie & QT, the English bank- issued by road and drainage districts King was traveling freight and pas- who is here in an attempt to The rebels assert that the very am- Carranza's Agent Calls. ers have not yet received instructions in Texas Is not subject to taxation un- senger agent at El Paso for the South- controversy. Cemrai.iBioner For Four Year In New munition which they are using to fight to pay the coupons due today obi the western. Mr. the Luis Cabrera, intimate friend of 3 5 percent Mexicaa'tnter-nation- al der the federal income tax law. This Fox was made general ,m, chief counsellor the Western! York Walks Out and Mnyor Ap- Huerta's army was captured from or percent and question will turn on whether or not agent for the new system in California points McKay As Successor. left behind by the federals when the Venustiano Carranza, and one of Ma-- bonds. Mr. King iron of Miners, today expected road districts and drainage districts and became general agent in ace witnesses who would estab- - New York, Dec 31. Rhinelander latter evacuated Chihuahua city five are political subdivisions within the EI Paso for the system. ldentity of the man who Waldo, for nearlyv four years police meaning of the federal income tax Later, when A. N. Brown became fire" at the Christmas eve commissioner of New York, today Though whipped and maimed inthe law. traffic manager of the road Mr. Fox tin, causing a panic which re-- of headquarters In first rebej onslaught, which drove their was made general freight and passen- walked out neie. out posy to cover, and though some of NEW POLICY TOWARD 72 persons. mayor ger agent and Mr. King was made as the death oi a letter to Kline, he said: their ipbunded, with deserters iumped MEN AND WOMEN DIE r. "It appears to be the djste of the UND'S sistant to fox. Later Mr. Barnes ap-po- nit into the river and waded waist deep to CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT IS AWAITED was incoming administration not to the. AJaerican side, TENEMENT? made assistant general freight TELiGrRAPHERS are a commissioner, but to have an the federals have IN FIEE agent and Mr. King became assistant me, putraftVa plucky fight "heatest insuper- New York, Dec. 31. Eight persons, passenger in- IrO- - acting commissioner appointed by able odds. general agent only, the BE EMPLOYED department. "1 five men and three? women were killed crease hi business making the division remain m charge of the Y T in a tenement bouse fire at 96 Monroe of work necessary. will not be a party to this, plan." were ' without hospttal facilities. MEXICO MA RESUL street, dis- Strike , crted. Restoration of "Pele-- Mayor Kline settled the poKce situ- - J to that) the wounfledfd were where in the crowded east side A few months ago Mr. King was graplapustrumentji Replaced By by left trict, today. Fifteen persons were in- sent to St. Louis as general agent in ation for the time being appointing mey naa iaiien, siretcnea on tne mils jured, four seriously, by jumping from Tefinhones Is ComineaceA Douglas I. McKay police commlsomM among the cacti and mesquite. D. C, Dec. SI. Miss., to with 'president Wilson. that section. He will return to Ell Pto SprlngflBd, Mo, Dec 31, Restora- noon. McKay ad ' It confer fire escapes. in a few weeks to take up his new nfEiy at Commissioner Five Thousand Rebels Encaged. suggested in official circles He Is .expected, to be in conference The on ground floor, tion of of the telegraph instru- contended that the formal withdraw! About 5080 rebels are encased, but WASH president'' on Ne'w TeaVa day, fire started the duties. ments by Louis 'Irttntw with the cutting off escape by the stairway. It Mr. reSved the St and nt hia rpslcnaHnn oe dfrnntv 'ImH much of their firing has been without that some new announcement if no unforeseen delay occbm. Twenty-si- x Barnes has been with the South- San Frajufico railroad when telephones TVia.... local hna,3 r tVia el anoHmMlVf. f 0T Decause position, is supposed to have been of incendiary western for nine years, serving first were anticipation ivsm iinA ui w? ..i uvua. yriect, of their below of the United States; policy toward hours 3hould.suffio for the trip. origin. as chief freight fhsWed in of a Waldo resigned, but mayor Kline de- he village, but they constantly gained Mexico may follow John Und's personal Mr Lind is reported ''Trom Veracrua rate clerk, and until strike of e telegraphers employed on cided to remove doubt bj givinff "'ground and last night appeared to be his present promotion, . as , all report to President Wilson at Pass to have welcomed the summon from assistant the syste was started today as a McKay reaco. or victory. . - - - .' GERMAN CONSUL KUCK ON general freight agent. He came here a formal appointment. wituio Christian, Miss. . . the .president .to confer with him at years ago result of the settlement reached in The federals withdrew within the Secretary of state Bryan, who is capital," he HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON nine from Dallas, where he St. Louis gwsterday by the represen- buildings and fortifications in the vil- the "winter for has often had served 12 years in the freight de- Ql NEGRO TO BE HANGED lage, back from his holiday vacation, would expressed a desire for "a few minutes Otto Kuck, German partment tatives Ae Telegraphers' union and where thev opearted what guns not discuss Lind's forthcoming con- presi- the consul at of the Texas and Pacific. the recei S of. the railroad. ADMITS SECOND MURDER they had from btVind the high walls direct conversation" 'with the Chihuahua, arrived here, Monday with After a month In the El Paso office Railroa --otticmls said hereafter the of an adobe) horse corral built like a ference with the president, or the dent. Mr. Lind expects to return to his family and left' for Washing- of G. H. & g. , mys- -. reasons which prompted the president's Veracru within, ive days. has say. the A., Mr. Barnes went movemen of tsains would be regu- Sacramento. Cal Dec. aijThe stockade. They also directed their fire four or ton. German residents of El Paso wnn tne southwestern and has been lated pairvfcy tstephone and partly tery surrounding the murder o C. a from he custom house, which stands envoy to Mexico in seeking an inter- President Wilson, it Is understood, Consul Kuck has been in charge of with that road ever since. Mr. Barnes by telegr ph.-- Pendeil, a l.os Angeles diamond bro- on an elevation midway between the view with his chief. He said he 3id instructed Mr. Lind to; proceed to Pass. German affairs in Chihuahua during Is a native of Georgia, but has lived ker is cleared the confession of Burr village and a, plain. not know whether or not Mr. Lind Christian for a conference because, the recent trouble and his trip to in Texas since a small lad. L Harris, a joung negro, who is under Gallant Federal Fleht. would come to Washington. being free from routine, he can con- Washington is to confer with the Ger- Mr. King is a Texas boy, a native of DYNAMITE WRECKS sentence to be hanged February 13 for Across this plain, three miles wide, the Mr. Lind sailed Tuesday evening on centrate his mind on the Mexican man minister there. He kept his pres- Austin, 'and his parents reside there the murder of Mrs. Rebecca Gay, a gallant little federal garrison in the the cruiser Chester for Pass Christian, question. ence in El Paso a secret and few of his He is a brother of Florian King, super- FEDERAL TRAIN Christian Science practitioner. The custom house 'swept a hail of bullets negro Pen-de- friends Knew that he was in El Paso intendent of the . western division of Veracruz, Mex Dee. 31. A federal admits he killed and ll to check a, large force of rebels, who, if until after he had left for Washington. the Southwestern system. troop trajz was blown up dyna- in the latter's office last June. they gained that leeway, would have with Harris described the Pendeil mur- an mite 170 mites southeast .of der in ,unobtiucted march toward the Mexicotod'City, on the mjtin lfhe of the detail He said he entered Pen- very heart of th village. It proved to DESER TERS SA Y NO PAY deil s off lee and said he wlsho,l tn hnw be a little Alamo out there in the ob- mteroceaotc railway. ecting the a diamond. When Pendeil turned, Har- scurity of desert, federal capital wjth ast. him the for as the day wISZBZt ris hit on the head with a lead wore on the sputtering fire from the pipe covered with paper and rags. rifle holes in the mud walls diminished UNEARTH PLOT TO W0ULF RESTRIC 0E "He groaned after "he went down," until it. ceasea aitogetner. The ammu- FOR OJINAGA FEDERALS D0CTA1NE TO MERICA Harris continued. "I dragged him into nition had given out. A handful of a rear room and wrapped his head in, a federal soldiers, one of them hugging AtWita, Ga., Dec. pillow from a lounge riction of so he would make a bright brass bugle, trundled across ARFA. Dec. 31 moiit-- j t 1 xico no noise." Texas, Three which was sent to Ojinaga and the mile and a half which separated ago pay old Cental America. mMVnesttc by John Harris said he leisurely selected what them from their comrades. - That move federal soldiers, deserters from weeks to off tne ers. J3.&YS xtauunona. RnMKU fore one gems he wanted and escaped. These he gave the rebels another lead. M Gen. Orosco's army at Ojinaga, only enough to pa put "f then MURDER HUERTA of e sectional meet"T?"nf (he Ameri buried in the country. i No Firing Over Border. arrived in Marfa last night and, after small sum and hundreds of them d eajr Association for the AcUancement of That there was no firing Across the paying auto fare only two had enough 'iot get a cent. Science Mr. HammnnH r)imoniAi.raii MISS ROBERTSON CONSCIOUS border, was due chiefly to the fact pnoney left to get a bed with for the In speaking of h- - Settle Morida. subject as - hi-- , te one affectincr the welfare AND REPORTED I3IPROVING that Ojinaga stands back from the night, the other one having to sit up said thete nu- been J'irt CITY, Of the nation and one not to be han- There was no fighting close to and do without something to eat kill, d on th. f ide H. Mex Dec. 31. An alleged plot to river . assassinate provisional dled by partisans" Miss Edna Robertson, who was in- the bank. The commanders of each All of were in ( ne s w h ', Neglect three them the fisrht - MEXICO Huerta during the new year's reception was of foreign trade b I'nit-(e- d jured in an auto accident Sunday night. promised Maj s the t 11 .0 frustrated by the the side McXamee that the between Ortega rebel troops and the ' it States, he said. h?s been 1up is reported to be much Improved and . I Id arrest today of two Mexicans in a house of the suburban town Campo to the range of fire would be directed away federals Mondi One of the three H of fact that the home market has been in- will recover. Stie is now conscious ti' ,1 f ll ,. U Oj Morido. satiable. from the river, if possible. talked freeK and. thiough an inter- at and has shown a gradual improvement preter, said he was working "1 -' nuirh "No political for the "s The secret police are said to have discovered that the plotters haa planned to doctrine should be Per- since Monday. RESIGNS WITH RAILROAD. National Lines of Mexico railroad as Moiidiy battle a enter the home of Gen. mitted to jeopardize the intej.X of Pressley Bittirk. who' was drivins H Q. Saddler has resigned his po- of h. r iv Is creatH o-- i Huerta at the same time as the officials - brakomin out Chihuahua when and others had the American market b adopting- asrt-n- t arranged to come offer a the auto in which Miss Robertson wa3 sition as livestn. k for the St. was preyed inlo the fed. il armi m lis and their new year's greetings. The policy which would make our count be-nt- ' assassination was then possible dumpinp: ground for v injur, d, hai postponed his return to Louis & San Fran, isco railroad to ll months ni th.u dm. h. a to have taken place. a the su, . K . . 1 plus products of our great tn ntu k Mintir academv omf afooi.m J with the CI Paso Lie-- ' he h ts n. r. , 11 trade rivals. Miss Rot rf-- s c mp!i ti r col er j stock Commission company. f. It 1 il g. it I - u Jt V