Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-30
TWO HUNDRED NATIONAL GUARD
OFFICERS WILL BE SENT
BY WAR DEPT.
QUOTA FOR EACH STATE
insurrecto Chief Urges Leader Madero
to Strike Decisive Blow-Says
U. S. Will Act by
May 1.

Washington, d. G. - Apportioned
among the states and territories &C.
cording to the numerical strength, 200
National guard officers will be sent
by the war department to San Antonio,
Tex, and 35 to San Diego, Cal, on
April S for two weeks instruction
with the modified regulars.
The department expects to send
total of 1000 militia officers to the
maneuvers at federal expense.
The number of militia officers from
each state and territory authorized by
the department to join the regular
troops on April follows:
At San Antonio: Alabama, s; Ar
kansas, 3; Connecticut, s.; Delaware,
i; District of Columbia, 3; Florida, Q;
Georgia, S; Illinois, IL; Indiana, 4;
Iowa, 5; Kansas, 3; Kentucky, 8;
Louisiana, 3; Maine, 3; Maryland, 4;
Massachusetts, IL; Michigan, 5; Min
nesota, 5; Mississippi, 8; Missouri, 6;
Nebraska, 2; New Hampshire, 2; New
Jersey, 8; New York, 80; North Caro-
lima, i; North Dakota, /; Ohio, IL;
Oklahoma, 2; Pennsylvania, 1S; Rhode
Island, Q; South Carolina, 4; South
Dakota, 2; Tennessee, 5; Texas, 5;
Vermont, 2; Virginia, S; West Viz
ginia, 3; Wisconsin, 6.
At San Diego: California, 10; Ari-
iona, 2; Colorado, 3; IDAHO 9; Mon
tana, 2; New Mexico. 3; Oregon, s;
Utah, 3; Washington, 4; Wyoming, 2.
officers of the First regiment of
Infantry, Minnesota National guard,
| WHO aIe likely 10 be the first ones &c
go to the Texas maneuvers are: Col
onel c. McReeve, Major Earl D. Luce,
Captain A. x. Schall and Captain A. j.
Stobbard of Minneapolis and Major
Oscar Setback of Red Wing. Lieu
tenant Colonel Corriston will not go
as his presence is needed to command
the regiment during the absence of
Colonel McReeve Major Lambert, COM
handing officer of the field artillery,
will be the first artilleryman to go to
San Antonio. "5 sss
Over 100 Minnesota officers have re-
| quested to accompany the regulars in
| their war maneuvers and many more
would like to go were it not that civil
ian business affairs interfere
War Cloud is Looking Larger.
San Antonio, Texas. With the
new demand for six or seven thousand
recruits, the issuance of an order by
General Carter making provisions for
sudden move should it be required.
and statement by DR.. c. F. Caricristi,
one of the dominant figures in the
| Mexican revolutionary junta, that the
United States would intervene in
Mexico unless there was a definite
show of tranquility by May /, the re-
Gently diminished war cloud looked
large.
DR.. Caricristi felt sure enough of his
facts to embody them in a report to
Francisco l. Madero, the revolutionary
leader, who at the last report was
within 80 miles of the city of Chihua-
hua.
q, DIR. Caricristi urged the insurrecto
! chief to achieve decisive victory at
all costs by May 1, for, he wrote,
President Taft will not wait longer
than that for quiet to be restored, bust
ness resumed and traffic over the rail-
roads to be secured.
DIR. Caricristi is one of the directing
minds of the revolutionary junta. is a
lawyer, a physician and world travel
er, probably their best trained diplom-
atist. The letter is not an order. for
Madero is the supreme leader, but
is in the nature of a report on the
meaning of the mobilization of Am.
erican troops at Fort San Houston.
Most of DR.. Caricristi's investigating
was done at Washington, although he
has been on the ground at Ell Paso
and Laredo, and is at present in this
city. An linking of something unus-
ual afoot reached him some time be-
fore the famous Paris interview with
Jose Yves Limantour, the Mexican
minister of finance, and he proceeded
at once to Washington. In an inter-
view, he said:
/ OF course, a complete federal tri-
umph IN Chihuahua, the restoration of
communication and other business,
likewise would avoid Intervention. But
l do know absolutely that President
Taft is determined that order shall be
restored and that quickly, by one side
or the other in Mexico, with the alter.
native of intervention
In my report to Senior Madero ]
point out the necessity of capturing
and holding the state of Chihuahua.
Ii this can be accomplished, l am con.
WINGED the revolutionists will be recog.
nized as belligerents by the United
States and other governments
IL FLY TWO MILES IN AERO.