Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-16
rRv Associated Press l

Ell PASO, Tex, Oct. 15.-President
Diaz of Mexico arrived at Ciudad
Juarez, across the river from Ell Paso'
today. He will not cross the RIO
Crande river into the United States
until tomorrow, when he will meet
President Taft.
Governor Campbell of Texas, with
his staff, arrived today.
Record-breaking time was made IN
moving the Third cavalry, the Ninth
infantry and three batteries of artil-
lery from San Antonio to Ell Paso Tor
the Taft-Diaz meeting. The southern
Pacific special train carrying the SOL
diers made the run of 625 niles in
nineteen hours, or five hours less than
the time of the Sunset Limited pas
senger train.
The troops will police Ell Paso dur
ing the meeting of the presidents
Secret service men now in this city
deny that a plot has been discovered
to assassinate either President Taft or
President Diaz.
1t is a fact that numerous anony-
nous letters have been received at
local newspaper offices, the Mexican
consulate and by other Mexican Off
cials declaring that bombs are ready
for Diaz."
One of these letters, it is understood,
was sent to the Chicago Journal. The
authorities here. however, apparently
do not take these letters seriously, as
they have been floating about Ell Paso
ever since the revolutionary dis
turbances here a year ago.
Local newspaper men have avoided
reference to them lately, in accordance
to the promise made to the local pres
idential committee, SO as not to put
ideas Of assassination into anarchistic
minds.
Report Bomb Found
It is reported that a bomb was
found early this week in the lower
part of Ell Paso, but the report was
not confirmed, and the reported find
ing of bomb in Juarez also was dis
credited.
Chief John e. Wilkle of the United
States secret service has characterized
the stories of plots against Presidents
Taft and Diaz as rot"
Chief Wilkie ran down a hundred
clews today and found nothing at the
bottom of any. A large number of
MeXicans have been arrested as sus-
poets, but no Importance attaches to
their arrest.
Chief Wilkie intimated that if there
was any danger to either of the presi-
dents they would not be brought to
Ell Paso or Juarez. Preparations for
the meeting of the presidents are
going forward.
Mexico and the United States are
searching for Alexander Berkman, the
anarchist who is said to have been
seen on the streets here today.
Berkman was released recently from
the penitentiary for the shooting of
Henry C. Frick.
Welcome Is Fervent
The festivities attendant on Presi-
dent Diaz' reception We're inaugurated
on the arrival of his special train to-
day.
The Mexican chief executive was
accompanied by two of the members
of his cabinet, Gov. Enrique c. Creel
of Chihuahua, and his personal staff
His greeting at the Mexican terminus
of the road was most enthusiastic
When the train rolled into the station
a salute of twenty-one guns was fired
and three of the best bands in the re-
public burst forth with the strains
of the national anthem.
AS soon as the train stopped, the
municipal authorities formally well
coined the president, pledging him
their loyalty as the hero of peace. The
president made a brief reply in which
he said that so long as he was the
chief executive of the country, tram
quillity would not be disturbed.
Later in the afternoon the president
laid the corner stone of the proposed
monument to the Mexican patriot and
former president, Juarez.
Public Reception
In the evening a public reception
was held at the custom house and
many American and Mexican notables
were presented to the president
Juarez is decorated in honor of the
visit and tonight a number of tri-
umphal arches scintillate with hum
dreds of incandescent lights.
thousands of Americans took part
in the celebration on the Mexican
side. President Diaz expects to leave