Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-02-17
FORMER TAILOR
LED REBELS
Knight of the Needle Takes
Two Towns Not Far
From Torreon
KILLED MAYOR IN CHURCH
American Smelling Company
Had to Put up for Bandit
lnsurrectoS.

El Paso. Feb. 17.-After ~ hours
of inactivity, following his arrival
from Chihuahua, General Navarro
marched out from Juarez this morn
ing with five hundred infanUymen,
two hundred cavalry and two field
pieces going east in the direction of
Guadalupe where Madero, Gonzales
and other insurrecto chiefs re locat-
ed. They should reach Madero's To-
cation in about five hours. Navarro
himself remained in Juarez.
A Tailor Led Rebels.
Ell Paso, Feb. 17.-Mail adviccs say
the insurrectos captured Velardena
yesterday installing the school
teacher as jefe politico and demand
ing $4,000 from the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company, receiving
$500. A former tailor who had been
imprisoned for taxes, led the insur-
rectos. Prior to taking Velardena,
which is near Torreon the insurrec-
tos captured Cuencame, where they
killed the jefe politico and others who
took refuge in the church for defense
The insurrectos also captured the
arms and horses of the RGrales.
Insurrectos Believe in Prohibition.
Guadalupe, Mexico, Feb. 17-There
is at least one prohibition town in
Mexico. 1t is Guadalupe, about Sc
miles southeast of FL Paso. along the
banks of the Rio Grande 1t was not
always a temperance town, but ten
days ago the insurrectos, under the
leadership of Cap. Preciliano Silva,
marched into the town $50 strong and
took it from the small force of 80 fis-
cal guards in control at that time.
In taking the town not shot was
fired. Jose A. Rey, the jefe politico,
departed for some safer place, leaving
behind him goods and chattels in a
house which was later converted into
quarters for Capt, L. Gutierrez de La,
"a and his men.
Three days ago De Lara arrived
from El Paso. There was a saloon
with a pool table and a polished bar
De Lara, himself a total abstainer
recognized the need of temperance at
such times. He destroyed the bottles
containing the liquor, opened the spi
gots of the barrels containing the
mescal and thus was destroyed all the
liquor.
i No drinking is allowed in the town
Some cognac was saved for medicinal
purposes, but this is under special
guard and none of the men may touch
it. In this they are obedient
though there is no salute and no par
ticular mark of respect shown to the
/ authorities They are always addres
sed as comrades but their orders are
obeyed to the letter.
The little adobe saloon which in the
days when the federals were in con
troll, was a most attractive meeting
place, resembled an American saloor
after Carrie Nation had paid visit
with her hatchet.
Making the Best of 1t.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE occupa
ton of Juarez by federal troops unde
Navarro spelled victory not defeat fo
; the revolutionists, in the opinion 0
Gustav Madero, brother of Francisco
|. Madero, provisional president, whit
is confidential agent at Washington
for the revolutionists. He credit
: Orozco, commander of the insured
tos, with a deep-laid plan of militar.
strategy drawn from the study of tn
Confederate movements in northern
Virginia during the Civil War ant
declared Navarro fell into the tral
F. when he marched to the relief O
Juarez "Orozco's real purpose wa
to draw away from Chihuahua, tn
state capital, the entire federal fore
located there" said Madero. "Toda
Orozco is on his way southwar
stronger than ever. There he will col
troll all railway communication be
, tween Navarro and the capital.
will now be impossible for Navarro O
Rabago to get any more men unies
e some are permitted to come throug
United States territory" o.
1t Hurts Business.
Eagle Pass, Feb. 1.-THE vigilanc
of Mexican officials at Ciudad Porfiri
l Diaz is causing complaints among th
: Americans on this side of the rive
1 who declare business is interfere
e with because of the care with whic
t travellers are examined.
0 Red Cross Aid.
s Washington, Feb. 17-The Re
Cross today telegraphed a thousan
dollars to General Bliss for the r
= lief of the wounded and sick of tn
n contending Mexican forces in the v
u cinity of Mexicali.
It