Western cyclone., 1886-11-25
AN ELEGANT SCHEME.

A New Rep elic to be Formed of the States
of Sonora, Durango and Chihuahua-Ed-
itOr Cutting One of the Leaders-The
New Government to be "Socialist1c"
Republic.
ST. LOUIS, November ia special from
Dallas, Texas, says: 1t appears that fill
clustering expedition proposed to invade
Mexico and establish new republic, to be
composed of the present states of Chihua-
hua, Sonora and Durango, is no myth. The
emissaries of the movement arrived in Dal-
las yesterday. One of them has just given
out some points as to the true inWardness
of the daring scheme. He says the fll5us-
tering movement was on foot before the
Cutting case was heard of, but Cutting is one
of the leaders. The executive committee con-
sists of twelve people, three located at Ell Paso
two travelling working up the scheme by
secret agency, and the remainder are some
wealthy men in New York, Chicago, Salt
Lake City and the City of Mexico. Three
of the executive committee are Roman
Catholic priests. One of the latter Is now
on his way to Rome to confer with the pope.
His holiness, it is said, has long desired
some cOnvulsiOn in Mexico, which might
give an opportunity for the re establishment
there of the Catholic church, and the cOnspi-
ratOrs look with great confidence to him for
aid. New York and Chicago capitalists are
is to be socialistic republic, held in check
by a strong military power. Great induce
ments are to be offered to unemployed
WOrkingmen of the United States to emi-
CRATE thither. Cutting, the only man
who is personally publicly known or sus-
pected in connection with the affair, IS re-
ceiving bushel of letters a day from all
parts of the country. Nearly all these let
ters tender personal service, and the writer's
of many of them say they can each raise
from one to five companies armed and
equipped. The Yaqui Indians, who have
for five years past held at bay the military
powers of Mexico, have been approached to
become active allies of this movement, and
their chiefs are eager to take part. Comb
Dental agents are to be appointed In the
principal cities of Texas and throughout
the country. Ten thousand men have al
ready been pledged, and the leaders Of the
movement say they could, if necessary,
throw an army of 100000 men across the
Rio Grande.
ALBUQUERQUE, n. NJ, November 13.-An
investigation of the matter has proved that
there is no truth in the rumOr that Cutting
was collecting recruits for an invasion of
Mexico. The foreman of the Democrat has
letter from Cutting in which the writer
applies for position as a cOmpOsitor, Civ
ing as a reason his desire to get away from
Ell Paso.
tiemen consisting of Colonel W. Sanford, OF
Tom Green county; Texas; Rod Hume, OF
Deming, New Mexico, and Chris O'Connor,
of Sau Simon, Arizona, accompanied by
two other gentlemen somewhat noted IN
Texas politics, but do not wish their names
mentioned, arrived here to-day and are
heavily laden with a grand scheme to organ
ize new republic. They are commissioners
from the socialistic republic of the Rio
Graude, about which there has been much
comment in the newspapers of late. They
state their object to be to take advantage
of the excitement produced on the
Mexican border by the Cutting
incident, and to invade the
three northwestern states Of Mexico and lower
California, conquer then and establish what
they call "Sociabstic Republic" They
will leave for Chicago tomorrow to submit
their scheme to prominent and leading cat
tlemen in attendance on the convention.
It doesn't seem likely that the subject Will
be brought directly before the convention,
but one of the commissioners said some
strong lobbying would be done: Colonel
Sanford is aswealthy cattleman, MAJOR DAVIS
is a large sheep raiser, Mr.. Hume Is rich
freighter and stage owner, Mr.. O'Connor
has been prominent in mining enterprises
in Arizona, and the two other Texas men
are respectively an ex-state senator and an
ex-district Judge. All of them declare that
they are in dead earnest, and seem to have
great faith in their project.