Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-29
UPRISING IN OLD MEXICO
Looting of Border Towns Becomes
International Incident.
BANDITS CROSS TO UNITED STATES
Vice President Says AFFAIR Has No
Political SiEnificance--Oppo,ite
View Taken In Older
CitIes.

CITY OF MEXICO, June 2-The upris-
tngs in the northern part OF this republic
have now become the subject Of interna-
tlonal correspondence. Communications
from the Minister Of foreign affairs were
sent to the State department at Washing
ton today. This condition arose out Of the
fact that the raiders who shot up the town
Of Las Vacas yesterday are now on Texas
soil and claiming protection OF the United
States. In an interview granted the cores
pendent Of the Associated Fress, Vice Pres
dent Corral declared that the government
had succeeded in unraveling the conspir-
acy which prompted the recent attacks on
the towns of Viesca and Las Vacas in
which a number of lives we're lost, consid-
cradle property destroyed and $4,000 in
cash by ]looters.
This whole trouble has been caused"
declared the vice president, by three IT.
responsible agitators and anarchists who
are at present residing IN the United
states. These men, Enrique Flores Ma
gon of Los Angeles, Cal, Thomas Sarrabia
of San Antonio, Texas, who goes by the
name Of Thomas T. La Brada, and Antonio
P. Arauje of Austin, Texas, recently APP
pealed to certain of the criminal and ignor-
ant element of the border states of Mexico,
melting them to raid certain designated
towns for the purpose of robbing the banks
and government offices under the plea that
funds could be thus raised for the cause Of
an alleged revolution"
Plot Was Extensive.
1T was planned to make a concerted at
tack on Ciudad JuaTez, the Mexican border
town opposite El Paso, Texas; on Ciudad
Perfirio Diaz, opposite Eagle Pass, Texas:
on Las Vacas, across the Rio Grande from
Del Rio, and on Viesca and a couple of
other interior villages. The plan was to
rob the banks and offices.
The Mexican consul at FL Paso got
wind Of the affair and informed the NUM-
cipal authorities with the result that the
would-be raiders are now languishing in
that city.
"In all other places with the exception OF
Viesca and Las Yacas, the plans mis-
carried. In the attack on the latter place
fifteen men were killed but no money was
secured. TIT commander of the Mexican
forces was shot twice in the arm. All
of the raiders Immediately fled back into
Texas when repulsed.
las to the Viesca bandits, their true
character was shown when after securing
the 10000 from the branch Of the bank or
Neuvo Leon they fled with the money.
Inc MeAlCdn troops are now pursuing
them in the wilds of Durango.
"The outcome Of the Viesca affair will
be simple. These poor ignorant men with
out a leader will be hunted down in the
wilds of Durango by Mexican troops.
"The Las Vacas affair unfortunately
presents not so simple a solution as the
raiders are now in Texas and most OF
them claim protection on the plea that
their offense was CT a political nature
and therefore non extraditable. Some of
the participants too, claim to be citizens
of the United States. According to a re-
port received by the consulate today, both
respective governments will take up the
entire matter. Everything is quiet at
present and the government does not think
a shadow of a chance for further trouble
exists
RevOIutiOnists March on TOrreon.
Ell PASO, Tex, June 2I-Thomas S. La
conservative daily Mexican newspaper OF
Chihuahua, in its issue of this morning.
which reached here tonight, has a story
that an army of strength variously esti-
mated from 400 to 1000 men is marching on
T~orreon, one of the richest cities in the
state of Coahuila.
The story, after reviewing the attack on
VIesca, tells of repeated attempts to rob
the pay train Of the Mexican Central and
says the country around Torreon. which
is so closely settled that there are stations
about every four kilometres, is swarming
with armed men, who appear at the rail-
road stations with guns and cartridge belts.
"These same reports" says FL Correo,
SAY that three bridges on the railroad be-
tween Parras and Torreon have been
burned, probably with the object Of imped-
ing the passage OF troops into Torreon. The
incendiaries also probably selected Torreon
for invasion because they considered it a
rich city to loot.
Among the reports that we have heard
Is one which says that about 1000 armed
men, nearly all OF whom are Inhabitants
OF ranches, are said to have passed Hornos,
In the state Of Coahuila. on the Coahuila
& Pacific, about siYty-five kilometres from
Torreon.
Whether the movement is directed
against the government Of Coahuila or
against the federal government no one is
able TO say. 1t is generally supposed that
the movement is not against the state, but
against the federal government"
Insurgents Capture JImIneE.
Ell PAso, Tex, June S.-Thomas S. La
brada, leader Of the Mexican junta at Aus
tin, received kilograms today that the
revolutionists had in addition to assault
upon Las Vacas, captured Jiminez, a town
of 1900 inhabitants in Coahuila, and that
Cuidad Porfiro Diaz, a small town across
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