The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-28


 City of Mexico, June 27.-The up risings in the northern part of this re- public have now become the subject of international correspondence, and communications from Minister of For eign Affairs Mariscal were sent to the state department at Washington today. This condition arose out of the fact that the raiders who shot up the town of Las Yaeas yesterday are .now on Texas soil and claiming the protec- tion of the United States.
 In an interview granted the corres- pendent of the Associated Press to- night, Vice President Corral declared that the government had succeeded In unraveling the conspiracy which prompted the recent attacks on the towns of Viesca and Las Vacas, in which number of lives were lost, considerable property destroyed an $2o,Ooo in cash secured by the looters.
 Cause of Trouble.
 This whole trouble has been caused" declared the vice president "by threo irresponsible agitators and anarchists who are at present residing in the United States. The men, Enrique Flores Magon of Los Angeles, Cal: Thomas Sarabia of San Antonio, Tex. who goes by the name of Thomas T. Labrada, and Ontonio P. Araujo of Austin, Tex recently appealed to cer- tain of the criminal and ignorant ele- ment of the border states of Mexico, melting them to raid certain designated towns for the purpose of robbing banks and government offices under the plea that funds could be thus raised for the cause of an alleged revolutic...
 Tt was planned to make concerted attack on Cuidad Juarez, the Mexican border town opposite Fl Paso, on Cuidad Porfiro Diaz, opposite Eagle Pass Tex, 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.
 Raiders In JalI
 The Mexican consul at El Paso got wind of the affair and informed the municipal authorities with the result that the would-be raiders are now languishing in jail in that city.
 Tn all other places with the excep- ton of Viesca and Las yacas the plans miscarriage. In the attack on the latter place 10 men were killed. but no money was secured. The commander of the Mexican forces was shot twice in the arm.
 All of the raiders immediately fled back into Texas when repulsed
 'As to the Viesca bandits. their true character was shown when after secur- ing the s20oo0 from the branch of the Bank of Nuevo Leon. they fled with the money. The Mexican troops are now pursuing them in the wilds of Dur ango.
 Ignorant Men.
 "The government places absolutely no political significance or irnportance in these recent happenings for the reason that not one of the participants is a rep- resentative citizen Where they were not of the criminal class they were the poorest and most ignorant representa- tives of the lower classes who have been preyed upon by the designing charlata,s in the United States.
 '"rhe outcome of the Vesca affair will be simple. These poor, ignorant men. without leader, will be hunted down in the wilds of Durango by Mexican troops. ''The Las Vacas affair unfortunatelv 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 of political nature. and therefore non-extraditable
 Some of the participants, too, claim to be citizens of the United States. Acord- ing to a report received by the consul ate today, both respective governments will take up the entire matter Every thing Is quiet at present, and the govern ment does not think shadow of a chance for any further trouble exists