New-York tribune., 1908-07-02
MEXICAN PLOT Barred
REPOLUTION MISC4RRIED.
he6ets Attacked Prematmely :
Ameracan Backing Suspected.
LBy Telegraph to The Tribune. !

10y telegraph TO The Tribune
San Antonio, Tex. July Mexican officials
nave thrown aside all pretence that the fighting
In North Mexico is due to bandit raids. and have
appealed to United States Marshal Noite for
more practical aid. Tonight the officials of the
S"cledad Benevolencia, an alleged Mexican fra
ternal order. were raided by deputy marshals.
Manuel Re1idcn and Julian Cruz. both prcrl:
nent Mexicans and officers of the order. wee
rested and their papers confiscated.
1t is learned that the office of the fraternal
order was the headquarters OF the revolutionary
party in Texas. Plans for the attack on Las
Nacas were found and instructions had been
issued TO many points on the border command
ing general attack on Cfudad Porfirio Diaz
Juarez. Nueva Laredo, Matamoras and many
other Mexican cities. The attack was set for
July l. and it is evident that tie insurgents
who captured Viesca, in the state Of Coahua.
and attacked Las Vacas acted premGturely.
Had the insurgents followed the plans OF their
leaders and made a simultaneous attack
dozen cities of North Mexico. the Dia zgovern-
ment might have been forced 20 withdraw from
several border states.
Twelve insurgents were captured by the
rales this morning. fifteen miles from Las Vacas
and peremptorily executed. Reports of small
skrmishes along the border from Ciudad Por
firo Diaz to FL Paso arc being received hourly.
Federal officers here admit that a number of
prominent American business men and capital
lists are suspected of having supplied funds and
equipment to the insurgents, and it is probable
that sensational developments will follow. A
millionaire stockman and mine owner. who is
known to he in dsfavor with the DiaZ govern
ment is said to he implicated in the plot
Del Rio Tex. July 1.-The Mexican revoiutionists
this part of the international border are IN
desperate straits TO keep out of the clutches OF
the armed forces which beating the chaparra
for them.
on the Mexican side the regiment OF federal cav
airy and several companies of infantry have beeh
augmented by the arrival of two hundred rural-S
The rIraIes expert trailers and no sooner had
they started on scout up the river to-day IMAM
they ran into a fresh trail of revolutionsts
They followed the band through the thick uncer-
brush for some distance and came upon them IN
camp. A fight took place. in which it is said sew
eral revoIutiOnists were killed The remnant OF
the band fed across the river into Texas. and are
being pursued this side by detachment or the
Sd United States Cavalry and a posse of deputy
marshals.
The United States troops have taken a number OF
persons into custody since they arrived here yes
terday. Most of the Mexicans who were captured
We're able to satisfy the officers of their inno
cence and released.
FL Paso Tex. July Quiet prevailed last night
at Juarez. Mexico. opposite Ell Paso. which it had
been reported would be attacked by revolutionists.
Troops from Fort Bliss, now at manoeuVres at
Leon Springs. Tex, being hurried back to this
city.
A dispatch from Chihuahua says the band which
attacked Palomas yesterday has moved south
toward Ascension. where fifty soldiers have
marched out meet It.
Washington, July 1.-Of1cials OF the adnlnlsra-
tion familiar with conditions in Mexico. and also
tba members of the Mexican Embassy, predict an
early subsistence of the present insurrectlonary
movement They base this belief mainly on the
stems taken by the government of Mexico 10 stamp
cut the insurrection and the activities eXerted by
the United States in enforcing neutrality along the