Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-08-17

than 2O,0O0 Mexican laborers, self styled patriots, who are employed in and near Los Angeles as laborers on railroads, canals and irrigation works, and in this city as section hands or street sweepers.
 The object of the organization is the overthrow of the Diaz government, the assassination of President Diaz, of President Roosevelt, and the turning of Mexico into dictatorship with Ricardo Flores Magon as the head, with the in- fuential members of the local junta as his advisers.
 Advocates Assassination
 In La Revolucion the killing of Presi- dent Diaz and of President Roosevelt is advocated. They are condemned in the language of the junta because they have entered into a conspiracy to op- press the Mexican laborers in this coun. try and to rob them of their just dues as wage earners. Attention is called in the infammatory addresses printed in La Revolucion to the fact that Mexican laborers are employed as section hands at $l per day, while Americans are given from sl.75 to $2.25 per day for the same work.
 President Diaz is denounced as murderer and despoiler of homes, and President Roosevelt is accused of ineendiary language, of being in con spiraey with President Diaz to perpet. uate the Diaz government and to op- press the Mexican residents of this country and keep them in practical state of peonage.
 The attention of the department of justice at Washington has been called to La Revolucion, and the United States attorney for southern California has been instructed to inquire into the exist ence of the so-called junta and the propagandists of the new liberal party looking to the suppression by law of the publication and the arrest and pros eeution, if found necessary, of the mem bers of the junta who are responsible for its issue.
 The Mexican liberty league has been organized in this city for more than a year. Its inception was from the brain of Ricardo Magon, who is wanted in Mexico for treason and other high crimes against the government. With his brother, Enrique, he attempted five years ago to organize revolutionary party at Juarez to wrest by force of arms the control of the governemnt from President Diaz and his supporters.
 Escapes from Mexico
 He was indicted for treason and through the treaehery of two Mexican officials was informed of the fact in advance of the report to the govern ment, and made his escape to this country.
 For months he lived in Los Angeles under an assumed name and was finally discovered here by Detectives Talaman- tes and Rico of the local police force, but again he escaped the clutches of the law and went from this city to Butte, Mont.
 From there Detective Talamantes traced him successively to St. Paul, Chicago, New York and New Orleans. From the latter city he went to Calves ton and from there to Fl Paso, where for weeks he directed the work of the revolutionary junta in this country. He is now believed to be in northern Cali fornia.
 In January last Modesto Diaz was arrested by Detectives Talamantes and Ricardo at the request of the Mexican government, and was held on suspicion for several days while they were inves- tigating his record.
 The fact was developed that Diaz was the head of the local junta and that he was the personal agent and representa- tive of Magon. Nothing, however, could be fastened on him that would warrant his extradition to Mexico and he was released.
 A short time after this the first copy of La Revolucion was issued It con tained many incendiary articles di- rected against the Mexican and the American governments. President Roosevelt was denounced as dictator of the Diaz type and his assassination was advocated. Other issues followed in regular order, each of which became more infiammatory.
 Membership Large
 Mexican residents of the United States, and particularly of southern Cal ifornia, were called upon to contribute to the funds of the junta to carry on the work of the revolutionary party. Little by little the work was extended and through the publication of the rev olutionary paper a party was built up which is now numbered at 10000, scattered through the entire section south of the Tehachapi and extending into Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
 Detectives Talamantes and Rico have a list of the names of men who are supposed to be connected with the