Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-30
President De La Barra
Sends for Leader in Late
Instruction; Ultimatum
Sent to Coahuilla by Both
GEN. DIAZ SECRETLY
LEAVES THE CAPITAL
Former President Steals
Out Of City at Early Hour
and It is Thought He Will
Go to Spain.

Juarez, Mex, May 27.-Francisco |
| Madero, Jr., today received telegram
| from President De La Barra, urging
him to come to Mexico City as soon as
possible. He inquired also if DR.. Vas
quez Gomez had started for the CAPT
tai and the probable time of his ar
rival. DR.. Gomez already is enroute tc
Mexico City. President De La Balra
also stated he had wired Gov. Vale OF
Coahuilla suggesting that he re
quest the legislature of the
state Of Coahuilla to proceed at
once to elect Vencuzino Carranza as
provisional governor. Senior Madero
earlier today had been advised that
the legislature of Coahuilla still re-
fused to name Carranza. suggesting
Oscar Cara. and declaring the en-
voys would be sent to Juarez to dis
cuss the matter if Senior Madero de-
sired. The latter replied that Carranza
was his choice and demanded that he
be named for the place or an advance
on Satillo, the capital would be or
dered Compliance with the wishes OF
the president and Senior Madero IS
now expected.
CoahuiIIa Legislature Gives In.
At 10 o'clock this morning a mes
sage was received from the secretary
of legislature at Coahuilla at Satillo,
stating that this body was disposed
to name Carranza and begging that
no attack on the town be made, and
few minutes later the following mott
fication was received from the legis-
lature:
Legislature has just named as gov
ernor Of. the state of Coahuilla,
Venustiano Carranza, who has already
been notified We beg of you to give
orders Immediately suspending the at
tack on this city and ordering, for the
sake of convenience and good order
the peaceful entrance of the insur-
rectos. A special committee has been
appointed to see your chiefs to trans
nit your orders and tell them of the
naming of Carranza."
Senior Madero was visibly pleased
at the action of the Coahuilla legis-
lature declaring it an index of the
course Of legislatures in other states.
Alfredo Robes Dominguez, special
representative of Madero at Mexico
City today wired his chief here sug-
costing Sept. "a for the primary cleo
tons, Oct. 8 for election day and Nov.
2 or 3 as the date for the new presi-
dent to take office. Senior Madero
his acceptance.
Already messages have been re-
ceived by Senior Madero from various
parts Of Mexico, along his line of
travel to Mexico City, asking what
time he will pass through certain
towns as public ovations are being
planned
Wednesday night via San Antonio and
Laredo.
Senior Madero spent the morning at
the customs house, until today the pro-
visional capitol of the republic. He
dictated several letters to the steno-
graphers there addressed to the in
surrecto sentry on guard and took an
automobile ride through the town.
Employment For lnsurrectos.
An owner of a large railroad and
lumber syndicate in Chihuahua cabled
from London today to his agent here
to employ as many of the discharged
.insurrectos as wanted jobs, whether
there was work enough for all or not,
pointing out the necessity of getting
employment for those who might
create trouble if they remained idle.
He suggested, too, that If the duty on
corn and beans were removed by the
government he would arrange to have
the railroad with which he is connect
ed transport to the interior and sell
them to the inhabitants at cost.
Diaz Leaves Mexico City.
Mexico City, Mex, May 27.-Por-
firio Diaz, to whom for thirty years
the people of Mexico have paid def
erence, left the capital secretly yes
terday morning. Only few friends
whom he trusted followed him to the
train He was bound for Vera Cruz
to take ship for Spain. In the distance
he could hear the voices of cela-
brants, who we're proclaiming the new
president, Francisco Leon De La Barra
and shouting Viva Madero.'
The secrecy of ,Diaz's departure was
due less to apprehension of popular
outburst here than desire to reach
Vera Cruz without the fact being
known to marauding bands along the
route.
Travel between here and the seaport
usually is over the Mexican railroad,
a standard guage line with modern
equipments. Rails along this route,
however, frequently have been re-
moved of late by bandidts, who We're
determined that Diaz. for reasons best
known to, themselves, should not
leave the capital. They are reported
to have harbored the idea that Diaz
would follow the precedent of other
Latin-American presidents and carry
the national funds with him.
Use Government Road.
There is another railroad to the
coast, narrow gauge affair owned by
the government. Taking it for grant