The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-06-07
.FORTY-TWO KILLED
IN MEXICAN TOWN
ONLY SIX AMERICANS SLAIN AT
cANANEA.
CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Combatants Are Disarnled Irres sect
i've of Nationality and Quiet u
Restored Through Mill
tary Activity.
scripps-McRae Telegram.

Scripps-McRae Telegram.
Bisbee, Arlz., June 4.-The situation
at Cananea is again normal. The
American volunteers who went across
the line at Naco with Gov. Ysbsl, Of
Sonora, on Saturday morning, re-
turned to Bisbee at five o'clock Sun
day morning. Their services were no
longer needed, although their pres
ence there during Saturday before The
arrival of Col. Kosterlisky with Mexi-
can rurales held the situation in check
The town is now under martial law
and Col. Kosterlisky is disarming
Americans and Mexicans alike. A tel
ephone message to the Review says
not a single shot has been. fired since
Saturday afternoon at six o'clock. Col.
Kosterlisky, Gov. Ysabel and governor
general Of Sonora, assisted by Gen.
Torres, are all on the ground, and Col.
Greene makes the statement that the
trouble is over.
1 A conservative estimate Of the num-
Der killed in the two days fighting is
| Sc Mexicans and six Americans.
l concern at mexico.
j Mexico City. June 4.-There has
been no public excitement here over
the Cananea riot. though much con-
Germ was shown by American resi-
dents lest the trouble might spread
through the unwise action of the peo-
pie Of Cananea.
There was some censure expressed
to Consul Galbraith for what APP
peared to be his one-sided attitude
and 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 aggressors.
The statement of Col. Greene that
the riot had its cause in soeialistic
organization among the Mexican la
borers is ridiculed, as Mexican la
borers have nowhere any socialistic
organizations.
There was general sentiment OF
relief that the matter was in the
hands of two friendly governments,
and Ambassador Thompson's prudent
and conciliatory conduct was praised.
Americans Start Trouble.
A stat nent made by Luis E. Tor
res, commander of the military zone
in Sonora, indicates that the Ameri-
cans opened fire on the strikers in the
lumber yard at the mines, which pro-
voked the stoning that resulted in the
death of the brothers Metcalf Then,
as reported, Americans in automobiles
and on horseback passed through the
streets of the town shooting into pri-
vate residences and killing Is Mexi-
cans and wounding several people, in
GLIDING a child who was leaving
school. The Mexicans Immediately
got their pistols to be in readiness for
further trouble.
The morning papers content them
selves with. printing the news quite
impartially.
Praise for Governments.
The Mexican Herald says: TT Is
most fortunate that in such junctures
as this strike and riot at Cananea that
the governments at Washington and
this city are so sincerely animated by
desire to avoid making a bad matter
worse by harsh language and mutual
determinations. The conduct of the
Mexican government and the Roose-
welt administration has been charac-
terized by admirable self-restraint
and by an eyinced friendliness which
is gratifying to all serious and we'll
disposed people on both sides of the
boundary line. II is quite inevitable
now that Mexican and American labor
is so often mingled in many places,
especially near the border, that trou-
bles such as that which has stirred
the two countries should arise. There
will be in the future much need of
tact and diplomacy on the part of the
local Mexican authorities and Ameri-
can corporation managers as well as
private employers. Very fortunately
in the United States there is a well
based confidence in the uprightness
and frmness of President Diaz, who is
able to sift testimony and arrive at a
right decision"
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