tbert Hubbard One of The Herald's Well Known Exclusive Contributors ASSOCIATED PRESS EL PASO, TEXAS, Leased Wire Tuesday Evening, DAY AXD WIGHT REPORTS. WEATHHR ftlUKCAST. December 2, 1913 12 Page TWO SECTIONS TO DAT. m ERTA MUST QUIT THE JOB ALS FLEE WITH SAYS WILSON President Declares Mexican Provisional President the Only Cloud Upon the Horizon of the United States .Villa's Chief of Staff and IN CASH; and That He Must Be Removed Urges! Several Friends Come to $5,000,000 Steps to Prevent Private Monopoly, El Paso Side. and Rural Credit for Farmers. VILLA SAYS THEY GOT, HIS MONEY WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec 2. "There is but one cloud upon our has shown itself to the south of us, and hangs over N. MEDINA, chief of staff of CHIHUAHUA DESERTED Mexico. There can be no certain prospect of peace in America until Gen. JUAN Pancho Villa, is in the EI county Huerta has surrendered his usurped authority in Mexico; until it is understood jail, charged with bringing stolen property over the value such will on all hands, indeed, that pretended governments not be countenanced of $50 Into the state. The complaint or dealt with by the government of the United States." was fijed in the court of justice of Five million pesos, or more than $2,000,000 gold, the property of Gen. Luis Terrazas, aged Chihuahua multi- This is the way president Woodrow Wilson deals with the Mexican the peace E. B. McClintock Tuesday situation, in his message to congress, read in person before that body today. morning, following which Medina was millionaire, is 'being carried overland from the city, of Chihuahua to the American border by a federal army of 1500 transferred from the city jail by dep Continuing, he says: uty constable J. W. Brown, to the men under Gen. Salvador1 Mercado, who evacuated the staate capital Sunday morning and struck out for the border "We are the friends of constitutional government in America; we are county jail. t village of Ojinaga, according to word received Monday afternoon by Gen. Pancho Villa, at The aged gen- more than its friends, we are its champions; because in no other way can our In the complaint signed ty city de- Juarez. neighbors, whom would wish in every to proof friend- tective Fred Delgado. it Is charged that eral and relatives, who have been virtual prisoners in capital for six months, are with the federals, it is reported. to we way make of our the defendant had taken $7000 gold, many the ship, work out their own development in peace alid liberty. Mexico has no and $14,000 Mexican money, the per- News of the evacuation and flight of the Huerta troops reached. Wn. villa property "Villa. Medina de- Gen. Villa to maintain City broken sonal of in the form of a telegram from Maclovio Herrera at Ahnmafa, on government. The attempt one at the of Mexico has clares that the charges are false and the Mexican Central railway, 83 miles south of Juarez. down, and mere military despotism has been set up which has hardly were trumped up by enemies. have honor to report to yon couriers a Medina was arrested at 604 Upson Herrera's telegram read: "I the that more than the semblance of national authority. It originated in the usurpation avenue Monday night at 7:45 o'clock arriving here from the south report that the enemy has evacuated the state by chief of detectives Jesse C. Stan-s- el capital and is retreating along the road that leads to Ojinaga. The evacuation of Victoriano Huerta, who, after a brief attempt to play the part of constitu- Detectives N. Wood and O. W. took place Sunday morning. I am informed that the strength of the enemy is tional president, has at last cast aside even the pretense of legal right and de- Smith were with Stansel. The money only 1500 men." claimed to have been takn has not been To Occupy Capital. ' clared higiself dictator. located. a y On receipt of this me3sager Gen. Villa vices of such an occupation. The tele which Medina was arrested-b- Stansel on "As a consequence, a condition of affairs now exists in Mexico a cotnplaint charging him with a viola- ordered Herrera, who commands the graph wires between Chihuahua City the elementary rights neutrality laws. rebel army advance guard of 3590 men, and the point where Villa's advance has made it doubtful whether even most and fundamental tion of the to 'continue his march south and take guard under Hernandez is located ar either of her own people or of the citizens of other countries resident within Villa Causes Arrest. possession of the capital. By Tuesday said to be cut in several places and ao According to detective Stansel, Villa night, according to Gen. Villa, the cav- direct communication with the capital her territory can long be successfully safeguarded, andwhich threatens, if long telephoned him at 5:30 o'clock Mon- - i alry column under Herrera will have is possible. The railway between Juar- day afternoon and Requested mm to 85 ez and is fairly good, continued, to imperil the interests. of peace, order, and tolerable life in the lands come to Juarez. "Through an inter- arrived at Moctezuma, miles north Chihuahua in me of Chihuahua. condition, only three burned bridges immediately to the south of us. preter," said Stansel, "Villa told Federals Flee and Leave the Capital to Rebels, "Will you send a force out to Inter- having been discovered by the advance that Juan Medina had skipped out with State the guard on to Villa, Ahumada. "Even if the usurper had succeeded in his purposes, in despite of the con- something like $14,000, gold. He said cept the Federals?" was the question its inarch Impossible to According to Advices From asked Villa Tuesday morning. "I do Salasar's and Cnmveo's Movements. stitution of the republic and the rights of its people, he would have set up .that It was ascertain the Received the not think it wise to disclose my mili- exact amount, as every paper which tary you say Gens. Marcelo Caraveo and Tnez Sal- nothing but a precarious and hateful power, which could have lasted but a had been kept by Medina in his office Front by Villa Mercado Reported to plans, but can that the azar, who each commanded a, division had either been destroyed or had in Huertistas will probably not reach the of the federal army which, was de- little while, and whose eventual downfall would have left the country in a some way disappeared. Medina, Villa border without a fight," Villa replied. Have Gone To Ojinaja. "I have no way knowing the exact feated last week by Villa's men at deplorable condition than ever. But he has not succeeded. He has for- said, had received the money in the of Tierra Blanca. 22 miles south of Jua- more nature of hospital funds. It had been location of the federal column today, rez, never returned to Chihuahua with feited the respect and the moral support even of those who were at one time sent to Juarez from Sonora. and was but I judge that they are not more their troops, but struck out for the intended to be expended in taking care By TIIOS. W. STEEP, ASSOCIATED PRESS COR. than 75 miles from Chihuahua, as they Guerrero district of western Chihuahua willing to see him succeed. Little by little he has been completely isolated. wounded and sick rebel sol-'dle- rs. will not be able to move fast, ham- of the, pered by provision refugee and are heading for the Sierra Madre By a little every day his power and prestige are crumbling and the collapse is than endure starvation, rebel advance , guard at Ahumada. trains and with 500 or 800 men. according to re- "The missing money. Villa told me. RATHER troops evacu- where we have established telegraphic noncombatants," he continued. ports current among currency, ranging $20 have Ojinaga is 180 miles rebel officers in not far away. was "all in in ated Chihuahua city, which communication. I have transmitted the about northeast Jaurez. If this is true, the Huerta bills to $100 bills. There were one or has details to Gen. Carranza, the head of the of Chihuahua and is near the boundary ac- "We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful 30 followers are in for a hard time, two $1,000 bills in the lot. been under siege for weeks, according revolution. line miles south of Marfa, Texas. It cording to the rebels, because CoL Julio waiting. And then, when the end comes, we shall hope to see constitutional "When I arrived at the house on to advices received last night by Gen. "It is my purpose now to send a force takes four or five days to ride from the Acosta, with 800 "Constitutionalists" Upson avenue, Medina was there. Sev- Francisco Villa, the rebel leader. The to intercept Mercado, who is fleeing to capital to the border. is operating in the western portion of crder restored m distressed Mexico by the concert and energy of such of her eral Mexicans were there and there evacuation leaves the city open to pos- Ojinaga, and also to capture Orozco and Federlco Moye Acting Governor. were four or five women in the house." Salazar. The main rebel body proba- the state. When last heard from. leaders prefer the liberty of their people to their own ambitions." session by the rebels ederico Moye, a jronaioatU .