Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-03
Had Heard Serious Reports From Cananea, and Took
 in Americans.
NO ARMED INVASION
 MADE BY ARlZ0NANS.
BiSbee Volunteers Are Made Subject of Sonora Cover nor's Recent Report to His Superiors at City of Mexico,

| Governor Yzabal of Sonora has sent
 the following selfexplanatory report
 to the minister of the interior and lyice-president of the republic, Hon.
 Ramon Corral:
 "To the Minister of Interior: Re
 serving for later date a general and | comprehensive report of the disturb. ances which have occurred at this town (Cananea), for the information of the president of the republic, have the honor now to state to you
 that the accounts published by the | press as to the entry of American | troops into the national territory are
 inexact and destitute Of all founda- ton.
 The alarming reports which were
 spread on the 1st inst. in regard to
 the happenings at Cananea led to the
 gathering at Naco. 6 town on the | American side close to the frontier, of many individuals of American na- tionality. bu: all of them private per | sons who did not belong to the army | of the United States or even to the ir- regular fc-ce5 of the nation.
 "on my arrival at Nac8 Arizona, be.
 tween and : o'clock in the morning
 of the 2nd inst. l met this group of Americans, some of whom were | armed with rifles and carbines and all
 of them decently dressed in civilian attire. Several of them were intro
 duced to me as physicians. lawyers or oeicnging to other professions, or as
 employees of the companies operating at Douglas and Bisbee. Not only from the appearance of the ,roup, of
 which could judge by my own eyes, | but from all the reports which I re | ceiyed, was convinced that the party did not constitute a military force, but only a group of private persons | yho did not belong either to the Amer icaU army or militia and in those dress and armament there was no : uniformity; that they wore no insignia nor any badge that could invest them {, with a military character, ard that | they were without leaders or any | species of organization. In fact Il fy | were nothing but a group of private individuals attracted either 5y curios- ! ivy or by the natural alarm which the ! disturbances had caused in the Vicin. ity or desirous of repairing to Can.
 anea because they had interests or ! relatives there and wanted to inform
 themselves personally as 70 the oc- | currence5.
 | Tn truth the reports which had | reached me prior to thas tine were
 extremely alarming and the further
 announcements which I received at
 Naco by telephone were still :ore so,
 It was said that the situation was aw- fui:- that forty-five persons were
 known to have been killed; that the ! strikers were trying to blow I'D tie buildings of the company With iyla. mite: that the entire police force of Cananea and many An1eficans had
 been massacred by the rfotsrs and that half of the town was in flames. When the train in which I had ar l rived at Naco ard in which l con-
 tinued my journey started a portion of the Americans who had there as- l sembled and who. as I have sail. were
 private individuals who could in no way be considered as a military force, boarded 1t, being entitled to enter
 the country as mere ordinary travel CTS. When we arrived at Cananea perceived that it was not desirable to allow these Americans to eneer the
 town, for their presence might have
 led to further disorders; I, therefore
 spoke with them and told them to re turn to American territory, which they willingly agreed to do. going
 back in the same train and without navEsg had the emallest share in the occurrences.
 As this report will show you, it is not true that American forces have
 invaded the national territory or that such invasion was perpetrated by the Arizona militia or the so-called rang CTS or any volunteer organization:
 much less true Is 1t that my govern ment gave permission for the pas sage of foreign troops across. the bor- der
 q entreat you to submit this re-