Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-18
Confident OF
PEACE BEFORE
The DAY ENDS
Reports From Both Mexico
City and Juarez Roseate;;
Federals Concede Demand
OF the Rebels.
BLANKET PROPOSAL
WILL BE SUBMITTED

All Ins urrecto Demands
Will Be Telegraphed To.
day to Capital for Ratifi.
cation ;Armistice Follows
Mexico City, May 17.-PresIdent
Diaz at meeting Of his cabinet
OF ministers definitely offered to
resign the presidency Of Mexico
before the end Of the present
month.
Mexico City, May 17.-lf the
hopes Of Pres. Diaz's nnInisters.-
are realized, an armistice will be
announced before the end Of the
lay. Foreign Minister de Ia
5arra declares that negotiations
between the government and the
rebels doubtless will reach
definite result at today's cabinet
meeting and this In his belief will
mean peace.
Finance Minister Limantour was
not quite so sanguine as his COL
leagues In the ministry this morn s
Ing. He said that the government
had the greatest desire to con-
4 cIude peace agreement but, he
4 said, among the demands of the
rebels are some contrary to the
dignity Of the government and the
opposition" Nevertheless senor
Llmaftour hoped that peace would
be arraqned. Should the present
citations fail II 10 regarded !:
I here % not unlikely that the city
will be cut of soon from the out
side world.
Juarez, Mex, May 17.-In response
to request from the Mexican govern
ment Provisional President Francisco
l. iMadero, Jr., and his cabinet gathered
at / O'Clock today to formulate final
peace agreement which is to be sub
mitted by telegraph by Judge Carbajal
today to President Diaz and his cab
met.
"A change in the procedure of the
negotiations has been made but 1t will
hasten rather than delay the restnra-
tion Of peace In Mexico. At first 1t
was thought that as soon as an agree
ment was reached on the principal
contentious, the naming of three cab
iEet portfolios and fourteen governor
ships, an armistice for the entire coun-
try would be proclaimed Immediately.
There is particular mutual acceptance
now Of the principal points but instead
of point by point ratification 1t has
been decided to have rebels submit
their program in full for blanket rati-
fication by the government.
The ratification will be cofncident
with the announcement Of an armis-
tice. The beginning in Juarez of the
agreement itself in few days by
Judge Carbajal and the representative
or representatives who the insurrectos
may name will end the armistice and
q normal condition Of peace will be
recognized as existent. The insur-
recto chiefs here will telegraph or
send couriers to their constituents in
various parts of the republic and it is
believed that within a week all ar
will have been laid down
in the republic.
It is reported here that President
Diaz is slightly ill from an abcess OF
the jaw and may not be able to con-
fer with his cabinet advisers until to-
morning.
Will Fight to Hold Garrison.
Eagle Pass, Tex, May 17.-Rein-
forced by 100 federal cavalrymen, who
came in during the night, the federal
garrison at Cuidad, Porfiiro Diaz,
across the river from this place. Is to-
day prepared to fight if the two bands
Of rebels reported within twelve
miles Of the town attack them. Re-
fuges streamed into Eagle Pass and
now there are 1000 of them there.
The Mexican cavalrymen who gal
lcped in front of Las Vegas early to-
day declared Ciudad, Porfrio Diaz,
should not fall to the rebels without a
battle. Col. Pena, commander of the
federal garrison who yesterday said
that he would abandon the city, an
this morning that with the
reinforcements he would make fight.
Yaqul River Town Captured.
Guaymas, Mex, May 17.-Major
Luis Medina Barron and his Aqua
Prieta federals reinforced with 800
Yaqui Indians infantry, attacked and
captured Bachum, on the Yaqui river
Yesterday The extent of the casual
ties in the fight are not known.
Insurrecto Leaders Confer.
Juarez, Mexico, May 17.-Provis-
|onal President Francisco |. Madero
Jr., and DR.. Yasquez Gomez, his chief
peace commissioner, were in confer
ence today concerning the signing of
! peace agreement Judge Carbajal,
L was expected would transmit about
noon the formal acceptance by the
Mexican government OF the peace con-
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