The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-06-05
MEXICAN TROOPS
SHOOT RIOTERS
WOrknen Disarmed at the Greene
Copper Mines.
AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS RETURN
No Settlement OF Mine Wages Diff
Guilty Socialism Not the Cause
Of Riot Race Hatred Promi-
nent

rent.
Bisbec, Ar.z.-The American voun-
teers who went across the Mexican
line at Naco with Governor YsabeI
Of Sonora have returned to Bisbee.
Their services were no longer needed,
although their presence there before
the arrival Of Colonel Kosterlisky with
Mexican rurales held the Mexican min
ers in check.
The town is now under martial law
and Colonel Kosterlisky is disarming
Americans and ffexicans alike. Col
Onel Kosterlisky and Governor ISABEL,
assisted by General Torres, are on the
ground, and Colonel Greene, chief
owner of the Cananea copper mines,
makes the statement that the trouble
is over A conservative estimate of
the number killed in the two days
fighting is thirty-six Mexicans and six
Americans.
Every street in Cananea was pa
trolied by Mexican soldiers, rurales
and the volunteers who left Naco. Col
Onel Kosterlisky arrived in Cananea
with twenty-five rurales and as many
more regular Mexican soldiers, riding
across the country from Magdalena,
the military headquarters. Colonel w,
C. Greene had command of the volun-
teers from here, while Colonel Roster
lisky commanded the Mexican forces.
Governor isabel proclaimed martial
law, relieving the civil authorities
from any responsibility for the present.
There has been no attempt to reach
any solution of the wage scale at Ca
nanea. The Mexicans have been re-
ceiving So a day, Mexican, equal to
S1.50 gold The wage scale was the
cause of the trouble in the camp. Men
reaching here say that the Mexicans
declared that they would not return to
work for less than So a day silver.
Mexico City There has been no
public excitement here over the Ca
nanea riot, though much concern was
shown by Americans lest the trouble
might spread through unwise action
in Cananea. Consular Agent Galbraith
has been criticised for what seemed a
Qne-sided attitude and for his call for
aid from his Government. That more
Mexicans were killed and wounded
than Americans is thought to show
that the latter were possibly the ag-
gressors. The statement of Colonel
Greene that the riot had its cause in
a Socialistic organization among the
Mexican laborers is ridiculed as Mexi-
can laborers have nowhere any Social
istic organizations.
A statement by Luis e. Torres, COM
mander of the military zone in Sonora.
is TO the effect that the Americans
opened fire on the strikers in the
lumber yard at the mines, provoking
the stoning that resulted in the death
of George and William Metcaf Then,
il is reported, Americans in automo-
biles and on horseback passed through
the streets of the town, shooting into
private houses and killing fifteen Mex
leans and wounding several persons,
including a child who was leaving
school The Mexicans Immediately OBJ
tained pistols TO be in readiness for
further trouble.
The Mexican Herald says: 1T is
most fortunate that in such junctures
as this the Governments at Washing
ton and this city are SO sincerely ami
mated by desire to avoid making
matters worse by harsh language and
mutual recrimination. The conduct of
the Mexican Government and the
Roosevelt Administration has been
characterized by admirable self-re-
straint and by an evinced friendliness
which is gratifying to all serious and
well-disposed people on both sides of
the boundary line"