Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-27

| NlDldlloIl Oh lile laws.
Under advice from the attorney gen
erals office. Gov Campbell advised
| the sheriff that the federal authorities
alone have Jurisdiction and Instructed
him to keep hands off.
The attack on Los Vacos today Is sep
arate and distinct from the affair at
Viesca yesterday. The towns are more
than 100 miles distant from each other
and the assaults were at least "a hours
apart.
TWO ATTACKS MADE.
San Antonio, Texas, June 27.-Ac-
cording to a dispatch to the Express
from Del Rio, two attacks were made
on the town of Las Vacos, Mexico,
across the border from Del Rio by
bandits yesterday, but, anticipating
such an attack, the troops were in
readiness and the raiders We're re-
pulsed Desultory firing continued all
day, however, and several hundred
shots were fired across the river at
persons on the American side. One
man, Nester Lopez. of Del Rio, is
known to have been killed and Capt
Herrez, in command Of the Mexican
troops, and Bassile Ramirez. a United
States citizen, wounded. As to further
casualties, nothing can be ascertained.
Reinforcements have been dispatched
from C. P. Daz, the military base for
that section OF the republic, which Is
less than a days journey from Las
Nacos
At C. r. Diaz no disorder exists and
the authorities there do not anticipate
recurrence of the outbreak They
attach no political significance to the
attack and regard the matter as
wholly the work of bandits Neither
do they connect it with the attack on
Viesca on Thursday.
Late yesterday. communication,
which had been Interrupted earlier in
the day with Del Rio, was restored
and the mayor of that town reported
everything then quiet.
Another message from Eagle Pass
also reported that the attack had
been repulsed and that n number of
the raiders were making their way
into Texas. The border Is being close
ly patrolled by custom officers and
rangers, as we'll as the sheriff and his
deputies.
Las Yacos is small town in the
state of Coahuila, few miles up the
Rio Grande from Iiminez. the scene
of the principal events Of the revolt
way connections and is in rather des-
olate section of the country.
HARD TO GET DETAILS.
city Of Mexico. June 2s.-Repeated
efforts TO obtain official confirmation
of the attack on the border town OF
Las Vacos by bandits have met with
failure.
The office of the secretary of the
interior has remained closed during
the night. and at the residence of
Minister Corral, no visitors are being
received. The secretary of the interior
refused statement regarding the at
fair.
Dispatches from various points in
northern Mexico show that section to
be in state OF ferment During all
last night. armed men. many of them
being Americans, occupied the Blan-
60 de Naceonale, and the Banco de
London. and Mexico.
The dispatches still characterize the
raiders as bandits but 1t Is believed
here that they are half criminal ag-
gregations of political malcontents
whose main purpose Is to loot under
tho guise of insurrection. 1t il said
that they have secured but $4,000
thus far.
The government says that the raid
ers do not number more than so
armed men, but other reports place
their total number as larger The
railroads in COahuila, injured by the
bandits have been repaired and trains
are now carrying troops to that region.
Troops have arrived in the City OF
Torreon and viii spread over the
northern country to form n network
for the capture Of the maurauders Re-
ports of impending trouble in the state
OF Neuvo Leon cannot he confirmed at
this hour.
STORIES DIsCREDITBD.
city OF Mexico. June 26.--wid stories
concerning a formidable and serious
revolutionary outbreak IN the northern
part Of Mexico were wholly discredit-
ed today by telegaphic reports re-
ceived frlm Coy. Cardenas of the state
Of Coahuila.
According to advices which were re-
celve1 by Vice President Corral today.
one OF the boldest bandit raids ever al
tempted in the republic OF Mexico was
successfully carried out when the town
of Ylesoa was assaulted and looted
yesterday,
The bandits. numbering 50, all Of
whom were armed and mounted, swept
down upon the town without warning.
A feeble resistance was made by tho
police OF the place. but after three Of
them were killed and three more
Wounded, the maraudsrH practically