Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-04-13
LOST TRACK
OF MADERO
Supposed to be Recruiting
Near Casas Grandes and
Waiting for Cannon
He Is SHORT OF AMMUNITION
Force of Thousand Insurrectos
Seems Intent Upon Attack
ing Aqua Prieta.

thousand or more insurrectOs of the
joint command of Juan Cabral and
Antonio Garcia, who occupied the
town of Arizpe several days ago, are
moving northward toward the border
The Mexican officials here believe
that they are intent upon another at
tack upon Aqua Prieta, opposite
Douglas, Arizona. The insurrectos
are reported to be short of ammuni-
ton. About 1000 federals are in this
vicinity with headquarters at Canaan.
ca. The insurrectos will march north
ward, and did not come within sight
OF Cananea and did not surround the
city as first reported,
Waiting for Cannon.
Ell Paso, April 13.-Juarez can hear
nothing from Madero's army, which
is supposed to be south of here in the
region of Casas Grande. 1t is report
ed that the army is to recruit in Casas
Grandes and await the arrival of can
non before coming to attack Juarez.
The AeropIane in War.
San Antonio, Texas, April 13-Since
the arrival of Glenn Curtiss with his
bi-plane built specially for army sig
nal service and accommodating. one of
the big features Of army mobilization
here is the flying machine department
interest being keen in the contest car
ried on between the Wright and Cur
tiss machines. The constant try-out
of the flying machines at the military
camp has much of the appearance OF
an aviation meet. The recent flight
CT the Wright machine Of 116 miles,
carrying two passengers, and the re-
markable work in carrying a message
from General Carter's headquarters to
the maneuver grounds at Leon Springs
going around the north end at a range
out of firing distance from the sup
posed army that lay between General
Carriers command and reinforce
ments at Leon Springs, has stimulated
the Curtiss people to make an unusual
effort in demonstrating that this air
craft is quite as useful as a Wright
machine. Both Curtiss and those in
charge of the Wright machine appear
to give little attention to atmospheric
but make flights in all
kinds of weather regardless of the
speed of the wind A gale of thirty
five or forty miles an hour has no
terrOrs for either of them, and they
tempt the choppy winds of the Texas
plains and do all kinds of air maneu-
vers under almost any conditions At
present, the flying machine is the big
card at the army camp and those
them are demonstrating
10 Uncle Sam that these air craft will
be not only useful in the signal serv-
ice and for scouting duties but can do
effective work in the matter of land
ing explosives where they will do the
greatest damage to an opposing army.
While it has been asserted that field
pieces have been invented which can
put a flying machine out of service,
both the Wright and Curtiss aviators
maintain that they can go at such a
high altitude and at such rapid speed
that it will be next to impossible for
guns stationed on the ground to do
them any harm. 1t is understood
that demonstration of one flying
machine opening fire on another
while in flight will be made in the
near future and that real battle in
the air will take place
Machine Guns at Hachita.
Ten more machine guns are report
ed to be cached near Hachita, Grant
county to be taken across the border
into Chihuahua by the insurrectos for
the use of the artillery division of the
Madero army. These machine guns
are thought to be part of the ship
ment which was received billed to
the American Mining company, a ficti-
tious company, and taken across the
line last week.
Sixty soldiers of Company !, of the
United States signal corps, passed
through Ell Paso on special troop
train en- route to San Antonio. from
Hachita. The company will join the
troops now stationed at San Antonio.
The train was made up of IA cars,
two tourist cars in which the soldiers
travelled, six stock cars, four flat cars,
one happa pe car and one frai oht nar