The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-15
MAY BRING PEACE
Mexican Factions Show DispO-
sitiOn to Get Together.
Action of United States Has
Created Much Alarm.
MAKE COMMON CAUSE.
Both Sides Say Intervention
Would Mean War.
Would Unite at Once to Fight
Common Enemy.
MAKE COMMON CAUSE.

COmm mon Enemy.
New York, March 15.-Before Senior
De La Barra. the Mexican ambassa-
dor. departed for Washington. he gave
out here the proofs of an article which
appears today in the Independent, on
''the situation in Mexico urging all
his coutrymen, regardless of "all di-
visions of party. all differences be-
tween men, to recall the sacred in
terests of our country" and ito work
together for the progress of true de-
mocracy and the best Improvement of
the motherland.'
The ambassador wrote this appeal
after his conference with Senor
Limantour, the Mexican minister of
finance, and he considered 1t so i'm
portant that at the very last moment
! he had it printed.
Insurrecto leaders to whom the
paragraph was shown said they con-
Sidered it an invitation to come into
camp, and its issuance makes more
noticeable a trend of events that has
en- discovered for the last three
days.
After the first shock of surprise in
the United States and of alarm and dis
trust in Mexico caused by the dispatch
of 10000 American troops to the 'front.'
ier, there began on the one side a
series of formal diplomatic exchanges
other a series of carefully weighed in
terviews and authorized publications in
the daily press. Underneath this cur
rent ran a deeper tide of sympathy be-
tween countrymen who might be at
odds but We're still countrymen.
Intervention means war;, said Sc
nor Limantour in so many words.
Intervention? answered DR.. f.
Vasquez Gomez, the insurrecto agent
at Washington who has been here for
the last three days. 1.-The moment there
is Intervention there will cease to be
an insurrection. Both sides will make
common cause against a common enc
N.Y.
streams of tendency were flowing to
a junction. On one side there was
disposition on the part of the insur-
rectos to open negotiations with the
representatives of the Mexican admin
istration here; on the other there was
a growing understanding between the
Mexican government and the United
States. Virtually Senior Limantour is
willing to have it understood that If
the United States will take care of
smuggling, his government will take
care of the insurrection-
DiaZ Discusses the Situation.
Los Angeles. March 15.-Charles A.
Garfield, the millionaire oil operator,
returned from Mexico City yesterday
and brought first hand information
concerning the health of President
Diaz.
Last Wednesday Mr. Canfield, ac-
companied by E. L. Doheny and DIR.
Norman Bridge, prominent residents
of this city, had an interview with
Diaz in the palace at Mexico City and
found him in excellent health In the
opinion of DR.. Bridge. the Mexican
president is in better health now than
at any previous time in the last few
years In their conversation with Diaz
Mr. Garfield and his assistants, who
have extensive holdings in Mexico,
learned his attitude toward the revo-
luton In commenting upon the sit
uation according to Mr.. Garfield,
President DiaZ said:
'I do not consider that the pres
ent disturbance in Mexico is as seri-
Gus or as widespread as other out
country. In fact, I consider that it is
not nearly as serious as some previous
difficulties have been.
''It is a fact that there are bands
of briganCs who have escaped arrest
by making their way into the noun
tains. but they will be suppressed. The
fact that the disturbers have sought
the recesses in the mountain Gus coun-
try has made the time required in
quelling them seem little longer.
However, the federal government Will
prevail.
While in Mexico City, Mr.. Garfield
and his companions attended the avi-
alton meet there and saw President
Diaz and his official family at the
grounds. The Mexican party took keen
interest in the spectacular flights.
Rebels Burn Two More Bridges.
Ell Paso, March 15-Maii advices to
the Herald state that the rebels
burned two more bridges Sunday on
the Mexican National road.
The town of Topia, where the Stand
dard Oil has heavy holdings, is sur
rounded by insurgents
shooting Across the Line.
Calexico, Cal, March 15-Firing
from the American side of the inter
national line. Mexican customs officers
at Algodones today sent a volley into
the insurrectos. the latter replying by
firing across the line into the Ameri-
can town of Andrade. No one was
wounded. SO far as is known
Smuggling Must Stop.
Ell Paso, March 15.-''Smuggling of
arms and ammunition across the Mex
lean frontier from Ell Paso must
cease"
This in substance is the order re-
ceived by federal officers here today.
1t is supposed to have emanated from
washington on the representation of
the Mexican government that Ell Paso
has been the chief point from which help
has D6en sent " Lie lAlSuIT0CLOS and
the place in which the revolution has
been planned and fostered. The new
vigilance is believed to mean that any
movement of any supplies gathered
here will cause close scrutiny.
The assertions of Minister Limantour
that hereafter Americans caught fight
| ing with the insurgents will not be
shown any special mercy has caused
CONSERVATION here. Fifteen Americans
captured at CaSas Grandes are still in
1 sof1 Of hat TlTo Ifr1er -
The Mexican authorities say 1t is i'm
possible that they were shot as bandits.
The insurrecto junta however, still in
sists that it has reports from Madero